2011 - Very disapointing so far?

And 2010 was also a good year.

Currently listening to the Unexpect album that dropped yesterday (free streaming through their bandcamp)

I've only listened to four albums frtom 2011 and I can say most of them are pretty good.

Grails: pretty good and very enjoyable
Magic Pie: It took me a wile to digest it, but it is a very solid and enjoyable album.
Fen: It's pretty average/bad IMO. It's too cold and apathetic, but maybe I need to give it more tries.
Phideaux: terrific album!


Wobbler's I have listened on the internet and I'll probably not buy it.

Saperlipopette! wrote: seb2112 wrote: Aheulchatistas, Wobbler, Battles, and now Cheer-Accident, every record I was expecting so far this year was nothing but disapointing! Anything left to come out this year that I should get my hopes up for? Just discover something old instead. Why waste time being dissapointed about brand new mediocre crap, when there's tons of unheard mastepieces out there from all times?

Thats exactly what I'm doing, I only got into fusion last year so I'm still discovering some of the maserpieces of the 70's.

Yeah, except for Phieaux' album, I don't think there were many impressive albums so far.

seb2112 wrote: sleeper wrote: 2011 is looking like a very good year actually. Fen's Epoch is a masterpiece and the best thing released this year so far, but Altar of Plagues, Between the Buried and Me, Credo, Enslaved, Grails, Grayceon, Hiromi, Mastodon, Moonsorrow, Obscura, Paatos, Pendragon, Phideaux, Protest the Hero, The Tangent, Tartar Lamb, Ulver, Unexpect, and Virus have all released excellent EP's, studio or live albums, and the albums from Pallas and VdGG are decent as well, though I wasnt expecting them to really impress me anyway. Plus, I just got the new King Crimson ProjeKt and My Dying Bride albums in teh post this morning and I'm still to listen to the new Karda Estra.Wobbler's Rites at Dawn has been the only disappointment so far this year, which when you consider the amount of music I've bought from the first 5 months thats quite impressive. I thought Virus' new album come out late 2010, but you're right its a 2011 release. It's easily album of the year so far for me, such a good album, it really delivered on the potential that the black flux had shown on the better tracks

I found The BlackFlux pretty lackluster to be honest but The Agent that Shapes the Desert takes the same style and really develops some very interesting music out of it.

The Cars still exist?

God damn it, people, calling Walter a troll completely defeats the purpose of "don't feed the trolls." If nobody ever responded to his shtick he would stop doing it! But people on PA don't understand how the internet works. 

Triceratopsoil wrote: The Cars still exist?

They reformed in 2010 after breaking up in 1988, so I guess "still" isn't quite the right word to use. This video was released back in February, I guess you should pay more attention.

Maybe it's the problem: there had been a lot of interesting records these last years, coming from veterans or newcomers, and one can feel numbed by this "flood" of releases.

Maybe, and I say "maybe", when you heard about new albums by Yes, VdGG, King Crimson (Fripp, you don't fool anyone, your new band IS King Crimson), Opeth, Zombi, etc... you begin to feel unimpressed, because the "exceptional" becomes the norm.