Here I go with another bitching post. I know these oppinions won’t appeal to many people out there but I kindly ask them not to read it and get upset, just download the songs they are fond of. Many of the records of 2009 are brilliant, there are some good ones, mediocres and there are really bad ones. This post is dedicated to this last category.

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

I hate this album very much. This is like if The Knife played world music. I’ve tried to listen to a couple of their previous albums and I didn’t succeed but it never annoyed me this much. Of course, the hype is part of it but there are some traits inherent in the music like the vocals and the super-irritating manner of singing, the various instruments combined in an awfully intellectual way, the whole ‘we are very NYC but deeply sensitive and indie and we don’t wanna be popular we just open up a bit’-attitude that kill me. And it’s not like I’m coming from an Ed Banger direction or something, I listen to music like this but this is just an amazing example how to gather together everything that can suck: R’n'B + Björk anyone? No thanks. Dirty Projectors might create an exciting new whatever but I for one don’t need to be excited this way. Why can’t they play some untraditional lo-fi rock music? Or something that feels real?

Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise [mediafire] // [ysi]

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Oh yeah, Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest is another instance of a band that gained an underground hero status via mediums like Pitchfork. I never liked them. However, I tried to listen to the album without prejudice and I didn’t succeed. I had to tell myself I was right from the beginning. I can’t like something that makes you overthink an otherwise simple folk-tradition. Folk, remember, nomen est omen. Now, Grizzly Bear is pop, ok, they have nice acoustic indie stuff, I bet the lyrics are moving and interesting, etc but one just can’t ignore all the mannerism that dominates the sound. It’s utterly powerless and therefore a failure. You can propose that this is art or art pop or whatever but still, something’s missing. Something is lost between the jingles, circus drums, ‘aaahhh-ahhhh’s and the struggle for being ‘proper’. There are much better way to engage in intellectual activities than this record but I’ll definetly mention it if I’m gonna write a 100 page book on the metaphysics and tragedy of folk pop.

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks [mediafire] // [ysi]

Tiga - Ciao!

Every dance-freaks favourite Canadian gay-guy, Tiga, is back with Ciao! to light up the dancefloor, discoballs of 2k9. Utter failure. The album is full of heavy moments, sexyness, fashion-allusions (might be popular on the catwalks this year) and other meaningless glamorous projections. So empty and pointless. Despite that Soulwax polished it up a bit, it still feels outdated which is especially embarassing when it comes to this highlife-fashion-blabla atmosphere. Tiga’s electro is unable to compensate for this. There are no really banging tunes neither nice soft ones in the La Roux or Little Boots way. There are many annoying experimental noise-parts instead which might work on a dancefloor full of people on different kinds of drugs but nearly everything works there, doesn’t it? I’m not saying this album is the worst album ever but it’s definetly worse than Sexor and I’ll never listen to it at home and I seriously doubt that it’ll force any moves out of me in a club. Ps. very-very bad album title and Sex O’Clock? WTF?

Tiga - Luxury [mediafire] // [ysi]

Wavves - Wavvves

Back to the indie-division, Wavves is a relatively new band and one of the ‘hottest’ upcoming bands. On the other hand, the music again falls under the irritatingly over-thought label. I love noise, seriously, but this version that this 22-year old ‘genius’ developed makes me wanna jump out on the window. Ironic art and uncomprehensible music-structures, yeah. Great. What should I do with it? Study it for the rest of my life? Or stand in the crowd at a gig, perfectly still while watching how the process of artistic creation happens live? Btw about live, I felt myself totally justified when I read about the events of the Barcelona show. Sure, I know the explanation, he is too young for success, drugs and playing before thousands of people. Who cares? Wavves’ music is very slow-paced, so slow paced that I am…pardon…’so bored’ I could die. The suffering over-effected vocals and distorted guitars don’t add anything to the effect either, this is again an instance of powerless songcraft that tries to hard to be something special.

Wavves - So Bored [mediafire] // [ysi]

And don’t get me started on the new Placebo…