Posted by Nolol on 7/26/2012, 9:47 am, in reply to "The 00's any recommendations?"
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Both of their albums are really good, especially their second one.
Sufjan Stevens is also a very good indie-baroque-folk turned electro-baroque-pop artist.
Iron & Wine makes lovely, Nick Drake-esque folk music, if you're into that kind of thing.
And, of course, I can't recommend 2011's The Color Spectrum by The Dear Hunter enough. If you haven't listened to it yet, you should. Everybody I've shown it to, including my real life music loving friends, has considered it at least a D/13 (I think - dave and Ken, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
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: Ok well I may have defended the 90's as it
: introduce me to rock music in general.
:
: However it was the 00's that drew me away
: from modern rock and made me look to the
: past for "new" music instead of
: the present.
:
: It was during the 00's when I listen to the
: radio and couldn't find many acts that I
: enjoyed and when I decided to search for
: recommendation for new music I look at stuff
: like Pitchforkmedia and Q magazine and look
: at albums of the year list. I don't think
: Pitchfork has ever introduced me to artist I
: have enjoyed before.
:
: I just felt music that was simultaneous
: melodic and catchy, has anthemic qualities,
: has complex arrangement and non-repetitive
: was something I could easily find in the
: past than the present.
:
: In any case the best albums of this decade
: were by older bands who originated in . The
: only great albums (D/13+ albums) were by
: older bands such as by Steve Hackett,
: Radiohead, Nick Cave/Grinderman instead of
: artist that originated from the 00's.
: Recently thanks to recommendation by George
: Starostin, I thought that Aliens's Luna
: album was the first band I've heard that
: originated from the noughties to released a
: D/13 album but then I realised that they are
: basically an offshoot of Beta Band a 90's
: group so I don't think that count.
:
: The bands I like from this decade are Arcade
: Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, The Strokes,
: The White Stripes, Gomez, Gorillaz,
: Coldplay, Death cabs but really at best they
: are a 1 to 2 star group for me.
:
: Now I'm not willing to dismiss the decade as
: I realised that just because I haven't heard
: any alltime great bands this decade doesn't
: mean an alltime great noughties band doesn't
: exist. So I'm hoping for some suggestions to
: artist to folllow up.
:
: Bare in mind I have a bias towards more
: "anthemic" or epic and an
: irrational love for dynamic music and an
: irrational hatred of repetitive music. I
: also haven't found a way to enjoy
: non-melodic music yet so probably avantgarde
: and rap/spoken words and instrumental
: electronic music is probably beyond me right
: now.
:
: Oh yeah, I'm welcome to albums from the 10's
: as well (best album so far this decade is
: Hackett's Beyond the Shrouded Horizon).
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