Boring quiet first review of 2009 for an album that came out last year.

So yeah there's lots to talk about and not a whole lot of time. First I definetally want to throw together another list of albums to check out from last year. Ten is never really enough especially this year when there was a lot of great material released. So yeah I'll try and put some more suggestions together in the next few days. There's also great stuff comming out for 2009. I'll try and make a list of things for people to keep an eye out. Animal Collectives new album is AMAZING. I'll give a review later but I want to listen to it some more.

So yeah let's start the first new year's post with an album i didn't really checkout till the begining of this year. Mount Eerie's ''Lost Wisdom". This is a tiny litttle album, 10 songs in 23 minutes. If you aren't familiar with Mount Eerie they are really just one guy: Phil Elverum. Elverum used to make music under the moniker of The Microphones and their album The Glow pt. 2 is a phenominal piece of work. On ''Lost Wisdom" Elverum teams up with Julie Doiron who has some great albums in her own discography. Elverum sound is always about space. These are very low fi, no production accoustic works. It sounds like it was recorded in an abandoned house. The ambient sounds of the space that these songs were recorded in are always present and this makes the sound incrediblly intimate. Doiron is an amazing addition to the sound. Her harmonies and shaky voice really add to the pallet of the album. Pallet wow what the fuck does that mean. My favorite song on here is 'Voice in Headphones'...50 indie cred points if you can tell me what the backround chorus is from...no looking it up either it took me three listens to figure it out, and it's awsome. This is a really great quiet piece of accoustic music. If you like Sun Kill Moon, Jana Hunter, Iron and Wine i Highly recomend checking out this album. And if you like this one go look up The Glow pt. 2 by The Microphones. Anyway yeahy there you go. I'll write some more stuff later in the week, but I'm sharing one computer with 4 family members right now and it's worse then sharing the bathroom at a frat house. Anyway have fun fuckers.