The Flashbulb - Arboreal

Benn Jordan's sound has certainly evolved since Soundtrack to a Vacant Life. Though I'm hesitant to call Arboreal his magnum opus for the sole reason that I only own the two aforementioned albums, it's not a huge stretch of the imagination. Jordan combines pensive/ambient electronics with rugged and intricate beats to form a real work of art here. The instrumentation is less varied than on Soundtrack and I particularly missed the folky acoustics of tracks like "Steel for Pappa," but what Jordan loses from Soundtrack in transition to Arboreal he regains twofold through the sheer power and subtlety of his soundscapes. For sure one of the best yet of 2010.

link to the album here CLICK ME

Steve Reich- Different Trains

Steve Reich>everyone

Seriously get this and be elite.

letlive. - Fake History

letlive. is a frankenstein's monster of glassjaw and coheed and shouting. 2010's definitive post hardcore release so far.

feel free to argue this

Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

Death/doom band that did one too many hits, found some stoner influences and wrote the best DM keyboard parts this side of Nocturnus.

Dig the art and the tunes.

Witches Tits.

Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains - Love Songs for the Apocalypse

so you know how against me is the go-to thing people think of when folk-punk is mentioned? yeah this should be it.

note i found this rec on 'effort is hard,' which is now linked up in the seahorse party. you should check it out. the lighthouse grows

Madvillain- Madvillainy

Creativity, it's a known fact that grass increases creativity from eight, to eleven times. In fact, everyone finds that they're more creative stoned, than straight. So remember!
M-A-R-I-J-U... A-J-U-A-N-A
Mari-...juana, Marijuana

The Illest Villains

Cassino - Sounds of Salvation

Step 1: Get
Step 2: Love
Step 3: Hug your mother and thank her for everything she's done

we watch the world leave it doesn't look back

aloha - Home Acres

really fun experimental indie pop. featuring the drummer dood from passion pit

happy happy joy joy

Converge- Jane Doe

Yesterday I was listening to this album in my car when I ran over a building. It crumbled in my wrath.

NO LOVE. NO HOPE.

Teen Daze

Just some sweet beatz and a cool vid

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

Psychedelic black metal...more spacey than bleak and done damn well.

The Praying Mantis of the Theater of Latter-day Saints

Steve Reich- Music For 18 Musicians

the most beautiful trance you'll ever be in

womp womp womp

Lantlôs - Lantlôs

Awesome black metal with enough shoegaze influence to keep the whiners happy and enough blastbeats to keep the corpsepainted churchburners icy and bleak.

oh by the way this is a side project from Neige of Alcest and Amesoeurs. Some of you might know who they are.

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors

You know I love me some 80s sounding synth pop any day, get your freak on

feel the love

True - Still Life

Dudes from Croatia make an awesome death metal record, throw in some crust influence, add a traditional Croatian instrument called a tambura, call it the same thing as an Opeth record. What could go wrong?

A lot I guess but I like this album so fuck you.

Far - At Night We Live

I'm on such a punky punk kick lately. good thing this is more than just that

i'm such a sucker for dissonance, maybe because it's the biggest word in my vocabulary