Recent re-issue of Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder.
Anything by Nicolaas Jaar. |
Yes @boxer12 have recently picked all those albums up as of late. Recommended from my Best Vinyl Pressings thread. Great records indeed! |
Knoll,
That is a great album / +1.
Not sure if you have "Boys and girls" from Bryan or not, but would recommend that as well. Also, probably goes without saying but "Avalon" from Roxy Music is absolutely superb. |
Bryan Ferry- Avonmore (BMG)
Really nice album.
Merry Christmas!!!! |
Christine and the Queens’s “Christine and the Queens”(both French and English versions), White Demin’s “Performance “, Grapetooth’s “Grapetooth” and Michael Rault’s “it’s a new Day Tonight” and “Living Daylight “. All new artists with great albums and futures! 🖖✌️ |
J.J.Cale Troubadour (AP, QRP)
Wow, love this album. Never heard of these guys before but pulled the string on a recommendation from the Gon. |
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Roky Erickson and the Aliens - The Evil One 2013 Light In The Attic reissue. |
dead can dance - spirit chaser mofi |
“Starcrawlers” amazing new artist! Definitely worth the spin! |
Glen Hansard "Between Two Shores"
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Dashboard Confessional’s “Crooked Shadows”. 10yrs in the making. My second favorite of theirs. My favorite is “Alter The Ending”. Both definitely worth the spin! |
Does "New favorite VINYL album" mean a vinyl album of "new" music, or just an album newly released on LP, even if the music was recorded long ago? If the latter, Mobile Fidelity has finally released a new LP pressing of a great album from the early 70's, "Planet Waves" by Bob Dylan with The Band. It's great musically, and has a very unprocessed (no electronic reverb, etc.) "direct" sound that I love. The original Asylum LP was pretty good, and though I have yet to hear this new MF LP, it was mastered from the original tapes and should sound even better. I'm ordering it this week. |
Lynn Stanley - Interludes |
Jenny Lewis's "the Voyager" and "Rabbit Fur Coat"albums. Aditionally Courtney Barrnett's "sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit.". Two great relatively recent female artists. Three great albums. ***** in my book!
I'm just say'in ✌️🖖 |
Bad Lieutenant's "Never Cry Another Tear". Bought this album a while back by accident. Few months ago got around to listening to it. I can't stop! If you like pop this is it. Better then any Joy Division or New Order album that I ever heard. Absolute winner. Buy the vinyl double album version. You will be thrilled you did. Sides 1 and 2 right out of the gate. Sides 3 and 4, two spins or so and you are hooked. |
The BLACK KEYS's "EL CAMINO", The DECEMBERISTS's "LONG LIVE THE KING", WILCO"S "HOLE LOT of LOVE" and maybe the best album of the year, in my opinion, Robbie Roberts's "HOW TO BE CLAIRVOYANT". |
Dear friends: Maybe is already in the thread.
I never been a Keith Jarrett's fan but his ECM pressing double album : The Kóln Concert is IMHO a must to have/hear, just splendid!
Regards and enjoy the music,
R. |
Some will disagree without a doubt, but Stockfisch records have always sounded great to me. The latest In the Groove series by Allan Taylor and Sara K are no exception. The Sara K takes top honors for me but I've always liked her. Her Waterfalls LP is now available again too. Check these out. I doubt you'll be disappointed. |
Greg Allman - Low Country Blues *****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz24oE2GDaU |
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues is sublime in both music and sound quality. |
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Intégrale des oeuvres pour clevecin (Complete works for keyboard, i.e. harpsichord)
par Scott Ross au chateau d'Assas (perf. by Scott Ross at his home in Assas, FR)
STIL discothèque 2107 S 75 (4 LPs)
I acquired this box set around 1987. I cannot possibly overstate how fantastic this is, compositionally, performance-wise and from a sound quality standpoint. |
I'll add Tune-yards "Whokill" to recent faves. The Givers new album "In Light" was a nice surprise as well. |
Patti Smith's "Outside Society". Excellent sound quality, nice package. Not a gatefold but cool record sleeves, liner notes and song explinations. Oh, and GREAT music! |
The new (came out last week) Muddy Waters "Soul Singer" remaster from Quality Records, 200g 45 RPM. Wow!!!
Also enjoying the Complete Riverside Recordings of Bill Evans, 180g 45 RPM set. I bought at the same time. Best I've ever heard these recordings. "Waltz For Debby" is just killer. |
If you are a fan of Jesse Sykes (I just got my copy of Marble Son) you may wish to consider Nicole Atkin's newest LP " Mondo Amore." I like side B the most. It is similar to "Neptune City" if you are already a fan of Nicole. |
John Hiatt, Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns. He's been on a roll with his last few albums, but this one is closest in importance to the seminal period that produced Bring the Family, Stolen Moments, and Slow Turning. "When New York Had Her Heart Broke" is a perfect hymn to 9-11, straight-forward, wonderfully crafted, and unexploitative. Like every bit of this album, it's free of the bluesman affectations that occasionally weaken Hiatt albums. He's on his third wind as an artist-- one of the precious few bridges to the '70s who remains seriously relevant. Excellent New West production on three sides of a double LP. |
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Marble Son. The double LP comes with a CD, but without the vinyl you'll never know how wwll she does like a young Marianne Faithful backing wicked psychedelic R&R. Among the year's best. |
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues: this is a weird album reminiscent of Simon and Garfunkel and My Morning Jacket, but very compelling - it really grabbed me on just the first listen. It's recorded well, too. |
Lately I've been enjoying an album quite immensely, that I have had since the 80s. However, I am just getting back into vinyl this year after a long hiatus.
Matthew Locke
Incidental Music to The Tempest
The Academy of Ancient Music
L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca) DSLO 507, 1977
I can't tell you how fantastic this is. Awesome performances and excellent sound and recording quality. Plus the angelic, pure voice of a young Emma Kirkby.
And now it's even better with the Naim NAP 250-2 I just bought. :-) |
The Cars Move Like This. It is just plain FUN even without Ben. |
Warren Haynes "Man In Motion" |
Someday my prince will come. Miles Davis analogue productions.
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Yello "Touch"
Not much in common with their earlier work which I also like. This has been a crowd favorite for the last couple of months in my room. |
06-10-11: Dwette
Vince Guaraldi Trio, "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus" 180 gram 45RPM
This is excellent
Yessss I totally agree, how I could forget this splendid album?
although I've never heard the 180GM 45 RPM version |
The new album by Warren Haynes, "Man in Motion" is terrific.
The guy can play guitar. |
Mab33, Unfortunately the first disk of the Thurston Moore double LP has a hard-to-track bump on the lead-in track on both sides of the pressing. Was this your problem as well? In other respects the pressing and SQ are fine. |
I have this one a little while now, but Jamie Cullum's new Pursuit album on 45 RPM vinyl is very good and not too expensive ($25)...I was playing it just this weekend after I put Stillpoints under my Technics SP-10/Basis Vector/Denon DL301 combo... |
Vince Guaraldi Trio, "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus" 180 gram 45RPM
This is excellent. |
Dgarretson - re Thurston Moore's new album - how is disc one for you? My copy is a fairly poor pressing. Disc two is near perfect though. Tried to return it, but the second copy had the same issue with disc one.
Beck's influence is all over the album making it the most commercial thing from Thurston Moore I've ever heard. It does sound a bit like Sonic Youth doing their take on Sea of Change:-). I dig it regardless:-).
Gonna try and spin MMJ's new one tonight! |
I am thoroughly enjoying Robbie Robertson's new one - "How To Be Clairvoyant" and Tomothy B Schmitt's "Expando". |
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My Morning Jacket Circuital. A big step forward for MMJ. A kaleidescope that starts out echoing Savoy Brown, Tommy-era Who and darker 90's bands like Morphine and Acetone and one wild White Stripes femalisation in Horehound mode, then gradually softens toward Neil Young electric melodicism and even a few bubblegum & doo-wop inflections. There are some great brass arrangements in spots. It shouldn't cohere, but it does and creatively so. IMO the year's most interesting rock, with exceptional SQ on 2x 45 rpm. |
Thurston Moore's Demolished Thoughts has great synergy with Beck as producer. Sounds like unplugged Sonic Youth with Beck in Mutations/Sea Change mode, channeling Nick Drake. |
Sorry, it's Elizabeth Vajagic Nostagia/Pain above. |
Kind of a gothic/folk record from the Current 93 school. Really sad but stunningly beautiful and the sound is killer. |
Good question....from Koegz above.
Have you heard Hugh Masekela album, "Hope"?
Its a Jazz album. Listen to the track: "Coal Train".
I have a small LP collection of just over 1100 records (mostly Jazz), and I go through them and label the best sounding ones. I have many great sounding records, but Hugh Masekela "Hope" is the one I remember rhe most. I bought it new from Elusivedisc.com. I first heard this LP at an audio show in Tokyo two years ago, and I never came across a used one, so I bought it new. |
The new Fleet Foxes album Helplessness Blues - great tunes, absorbing guitar work, and excellent sound (although they could have backed off on the reverb a bit). |
Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" on 200 gr vinyl. Sounds fantastic! |
Original Harmony vinyl copy of this I picked up for 25 cents used: Mitch Memories |
