This is Listcore 011

December 2021 update: Migrated the Albums to Get back to 10thumbs' Bandcamp Wishlist (where they can more easily be browsed in-store via the app) and instead will list the Good Enough to Relisten albums here, above the  Missed the Cut selections.

LC 011: Year 1 Stats

Total albums added to Listcore 011: 1,658

Still to hear	781	47%
Albums to get, have gotten, LC 001	130/12/5	9%
Relistenable	486	29%
Missed the cut	244	15%

Good Enough to Re-listen:

Albums in bold are due for a relisten sooner than later.

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10 String Symphony – Weight Of The World
’68 – Two Parts Viper / solid rock + some indie

A-C

Admiral – 7/13/18 demos / denver indie/emo
Adolescents – S/T / old school, holds up
Aesop Rock – Skelethon / what you’d expect
The Afghan Whigs – Up In It
Airstream Futures – Le Feu Et Le Sable / Pleasant Tilt-ish pop punk
Alarms & Controls – Clovis Points LP / Good if a little uneven on Dischord
Algiers – There Is No Year / only 3 songs
Antekirta – S/T / solid if unspectacular HC
Antioch Arrow – Gems of Masochism / good snazzy, just not my thing at 10 am.
Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers – Bone Soldiers / ex-Constantines whose voice is better than it is there
David Bazan – Care / good
Beach Bunny – Honeymoon / good high energy w/ female vox
Beach Slang (Quiet Slang) – Everything Matters But No One is Listening / acoustic versions of 1st 2 albums
Beans – Someday this Will All Be Ash / fine hip hop
BELLS≥ – Solutions, Silence, or Affirmations / Zac B from Jawbox; instrumental
Bertos – Chamuco Le Cuenta Los Pasos / reminds of mid90s GNV beer-punk
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me / good indie power pop
BIB – A Band in Hardcore / heavy and spazzy in a good way
Big Joanie – Sistahs / UK Black feminist punk
Richard J. Birkin – A Lullaby Hum For Tired Streets / good mellow stuff
Myke Bogan – Joe Fontana / ok hip hop
Moses Boyd – Dark Matter / no notes 🙁
Alan Braufman – Valley of Search / partial album fo jazz
Brasilia – S/T /
Chris Brokaw – End of the Night / Good instrumental (was CB in Codiene?)
Calexico – The Thread that Keeps Us / good but less intriguinig that Shins-like
Calexico and Iron & Wine – Years to Burn / not as good as the first collab
Caspian – Live at Old South Church
Ceramicats – III / fun old person gainesville indie rock
Channels – Backpfeifengesicht b/w Airstrip One / 2 new songs 12 years after full length
C.H.E.W. – In Due Time 7” / decent HC
Clear Channel – Hell / good bass driven punk
Cloakroom – Further Out / intersting enough to listen to other albums
Cloakroom – Time Well / eh.. fine
Coma Regalia – There’s Still Time / good old school screams
Control Top – Covert Contracts / good snotty punk from PHI
Crash Of Rhinos – Distal / BC recommended punk
Crimpshrine – Duct Tape Soup / Missed out on the box; historic
Crimpshrine – The Sound of a New World Being Born /Missed out on the box; historic
Jeff Cunningham – The Poems Stuck in My Teeth / pre-Bridge & Tunnel solo record

D-G

Dakota Suite – Signal Hill / one great song, mellow
Dark Thoughts – At Work / power pop in the vein of Title Tracks
Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want / hyped, good
Dead Feeling – nu.wav / Gvill post-punk
Deadenders – Carolina House / TLH punk w/ Cody D
Denzel Curry – Unlocked Instrumentals
Decades/Failures – G00DBY3 / decent post-punk on Dead Tank
Dessa – Chime / Interesting pop stuff on Ryhmesayers
Dibia$e – Baker’s Dozen / good hiphop
DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Magnificent / Good old school hip hop
Do Nothing – Zero Dollar Bill / Ted Leo-is
Dos – Justamente Tres / Mike Watt and Kira from Black Flag
Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day / Title track is a slammer
Droughts – Stay Behind / decent post HC
Dumb – Club Nites / Strokes or pavement like
Edsel – The Everlasting Belt Co. / solid indi rock
Elliott – U.S. Songs / late 90s found on Rev Records rabbit hole
EL-P – Fantastic Damage
EL-P – I’ll Sleep When Your’e Dead
Enemy Radio – Loud is Not Enough / Public Enemy w/o Flava Flav?
Evidence – Cats & Dogs / pretty darn good hip hop
Exhalants – S/T /Texas loud rock a la The Blind Shake
The Expert – Dynamic Drift / DJ shadow like compositions
Fela Kuti – Gentleman / good taste, explore more
Craig Finn – I Need A New War / what you’d expect from a Craig Finn record, not as fully realized as We all Want the Same Things
forests – Sun Eat Moon Grave Party / twinkly emo outta Singapore
The Fragiles – S/T / David Settle mellow pop
This Frontier Needs Heroes – *Hooky* / good enough to tkae a listen to more
Levi Fuller & the Library – Such Bad Things Happen / good indie rock, listen to others releases?
Futuro – Os Segredos Do Espaço e Tempo / similar to Downtown Boys ; good, quick
Galaxie 500 – This is Our Music / historic? reminds me of Freedom Coalition days
Gauche – A People’s History of Gauche / good post punk on Merge; some is liek latter day Sleater-Kinney
José González – and the Brite Lites at Svenska Grammofonstudion
Gorilla Biscuits – Start Today / added for historic value, relisten?
Jared Grabb – Masters / ex-Scout’s Honor and great artwork
Grails – Burning Off Impurities / jazzy > the solid rock I expected
Grammer – Awesome Knifes / good not great
GUTS – Lucky All Over / debut by Sam Jones’ ~83rd band

Instrumental or Ambient / Good for background

2 Mello – Mindstreaming, Vol. 1 / enjoyable hip-hop beats
El Jazzy Chavo – Lower Class Jazz / beats
Richmond Fontaine – Don’t Skip Out On Me / southwestern sound via Portland
Helios – Eingya / Had 2 tracks downloaded at some point that were engaging, but full album doesn’t hold the weight enough to get
Lowercase Noises – Migratory Patterns / good slow, background intst.
William Tyler – Lost Colony / Alt-country instrumental

LC 001

<a href=”https://munsterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/12-in-a-room”>12 In A Room by Marc Jonson</a>
<a href=”https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-two-records”>The First Two Records by Bikini Kill</a><a href=”https://cubtheband.bandcamp.com/album/box-of-hair”>Box of Hair by Cub</a><a href=”https://pavement.bandcamp.com/album/brighten-the-corners”>Brighten the Corners by Pavement</a>

Missed the Cut

A-L

!!! – I’m Sick of This | fine 7″
1994! – Fuck It | NYHC + math; vocals sound underwater
24-Carat Black – Gone: the Promises of Yesterday | good Neo-soul, but just 1x listen
Abolitionist – The Formative Years (2010-2014) | punk
Aesop Rock – Music from the game Freedom Fighter | just 3 songs + some instrumentals
Algiers – Live in Atlanta: The Last Show on Earth, 14 March 2020 | OK, but only for completists
Amerigo Gazaway – Endless Summer Nights | too easy listening
The Anime Club – (Japan Demo) | generic pop-punk
Andrew Bryant – Magnolia State |
Andrew Bryant – Sentimental Noises | well done but not engaging enough
Angry Gods – The Clearing | ex-Scout’s Honor, death metal
Armand Hammar – Paraffin | good hip hop… not enough
Roy Ayers – Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings | well done, just not my jazz thing
Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City | Not as good as earlier stuff, a tad boring.
Bedsweater – Bitter Demos | folky emo
Black is Just a Dark White – First strike 7″ | proggy
Blessed – Salt | not bad, jut not very engaging
Cayetana – not what we meant by NEW KIND OF NORMAL demos & unreleased songs | love the band, but these were rough demos, released post-breakup in the panedimc
Vic Chestnutt – Silver Lake | respect. but doesn’t hit
Code of the Jaguar – Jag Ex Machina | ok indie rock, not my thing
Deathfix – S/T | well done, but not my thing: 60s pop on Dischord
Dianogah – Dianogah Demo | Good but not necessary for me; off DuPage County Hardcore BC page
Disq – Disq I | Poppy indie rock that wasn’t my thing
Dntel – Human Voice | 1/2 of Postal Service but too avant electronic for me
Tica Douglas – Lo | good & well done, just not my thing (no longer on BC?)
Amen Dunes – Freedom | well done moody UK pop, but not my thing
Eluvium – Pianoworks |
Evidence – Squirrel Tape Instrumentals, Vol. 1 | Just beats, but good enough to add other Evidence albums
Fear Not Ourselves Alone – You in the Heart of Everyone / reminds of Imadethismistake but doesn’t land; trans-centric
The Fights – Off Your Horse – not enough heart; not enough alt- with the country
Frank Force – Entroducing Originals: Part One | The clips that DJ Shadow used for Entroducing; not as engaging as the final version
Jake Xeres Fussell – In the Natural World | thought it was a Lars ripoff, learned its a trad arrangement
Giant Haystacks – Blunt Instrument | Vocals are too English-y even though from Bay Area
Gorgeous – Egg | quirky pop; right on borderline of not making it
Greys – Age Hasn’t Spoiled You | Not as engaged noise rock as I remembered their first album from my V89 days.
Grouper – Ruins | well done but too quiet/sparse for relisten
Guerilla Toss – What Would the Odd Do? | decent dancy punk
Sarah Harmer – Are You Gone | Good indie pop; dueted with Bry Webb somewhere?
Husbandry – A Port in the Storm | a little too nu-metally fo r me
I MARC 4 – G.L.P. 1004 | from batch add of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)
Jamie 3:26 – Jamie 3:26 presents A Taste of Chicago | house music that’s not my thing
jinsang – solitude. | beats, not enough to relish
Juiceboxxx – It’s Easy To Feel Like A Nobody When You’re Living In The City | much better than i expected, but not something I’d listen to again
Damien Jurado & Richard Swift – Other People’s Songs Vol. 1 | too 60s pop, not a fan of Swift I think.
Kassa Overall – I THINK I’M GOOD | well done and groovy just not my thing
Knxwledge –1988 | 2 min beats/ sounds… needs an editor IMO

L-Z

The Lawrence Arms – Skeleton Coast | just OK
Leunon – Goodbye Cycles | TLH indie pop
Loss Leader – Loss Leader | Decent emo revival but not enough; label shows promise though
The Lost Controls – Short Notice | indie. well done, but like a steak
Melvins – The Bootlicker | odd
Medhane – Own Pace | Hip hop that didn’t really hit for me
Metroplex – Decade Diary | Screamy Indie rock that was too samey
Moor Mother – Fetish Bones | ambitious but doesn’t quite land for me (maybe need a 2nd listen?)
Nervous Curtains – I Tried To Fight It But I Was Inside It | Anti-fascist synth punk… wish i liked it more.
No, It’s Fine – s/t | Fairly generic 3rd wave emo
Overhill Ln – Fum | weird: sounds like Elvis Costello demos on Casio
Pan Am – Ceux qui inventent n’ont jamais vécu | good post rock, but too much screechy discordance/noise
Pezzati – The First EP | Fine, just not really enough
Piss Test – 7 Songs 7 Inches | GNV rawk
Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava | 3 tracks of weird 60s folk rock (resissued on Drag City)
Perfect Strangers – Unlikely Partners | jangly pop
Pop. 1280 – Way Station | well done industrial and rad cover but not my bag
Privacy Issues – s/t | low-fi post-punk; good but not my thing for repeated listens
Psychic Temple – Plays Music for Airports | good but a one-timer; part of the Watt complete works
Pupils – s/t | more psychedelic NMH? on Discord
Rays – s/t | well done, Talking Heads/VU like
Red Arms – Critical State | Punk that i wanted to like but vox distracted too much
Rotten Blossom – Get Lict | generic but well done punk
RP Boo – I’ll Tell You What | Repeition (footwork?) is too much (though at times well done)
Charles Rouse – Two is One | good jzaz but not something I’d seek back out.
Say Sue Me – Where We Were Together | well done but pedestrian indie pop from S. Korea
Sensaround – heart/noise | too dischordant
Shudder to Think – Get Your Goat | Historic, but not enough for me; maybe takes multiple listens
Spiritual Camp – Television | Kinda Clash-ish, better album art
Sunny Side Up – s/t | well done jazz, fun album cover, just not my bagS
Swordman Kitala – Swordman Kitala: Remixes | just 2 songs of instrumental electronic
Tenement – Music Composed for the Motion Picture ‘Smother Me in Hugs’ | scattered and not like their album from V89
Franco Tonani – Confluenze | too frantic; from batch add of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)
The Vernon Spring – s/t | Ambient? Piano?
Vex Ruffin – Emilio | jazzy dancey but more background; well put together
Butch Walker – Afraid of Ghosts | RTRS Spike loves him; good but not enough for relsiten
Johanna Warren – Chaotic Good | Quiet singer-songwriter
Wignut Dishwashers Union – Burn the Earth Leave it Behind | Fine folk punk but not really essential
The World/Inferno Friendship Society – All Borders Are Porous To Cats
World Quake Band – Everything is on the one | 80s soul boogie
Worm Ouroboros – What Graceless Dawn | too plodding
Xylouris White – The Sisypheans | World-ish.. Guy Piciotto produced and Dirty Three member IIRC
Wylde Rattz – s/t | great supergroup lineup, boring music
Yall So Stupid – Originai 88.5FM Rhythm & Vibes (ATL) Promo via 1991 / one track, someone mentioned as ATL hip hop pioneers
Zeal and Ardor – Stranger Fruit | tu nu-metally

V/A, Comps and Splits

Raging Nathans / Dead Bars split | Just the RN side, just fine punk
V/A – Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine | Fun, but not totally engaging enough to register
V/A – Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover to Benefit Cat’s Cradle | another good, not great pandemic comp
V/A – Each Others’ Songs | End Up records artists covering each other
V/A – Funky Nation Vol 2 | Good but not memorable jazz
V/A – Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa | well done, just not something Id’ listen to again.
V/A – Mare Romantico | batch of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)

Incomplete

Bon Iver – S/T
S Carey – Hundred Acres
Your Food – Poke it with a Stick / 1 track of pretty good old Louisville indie rock