Best sounding recording of all time (from the last five years)

[Ramshackles]

Originally Posted by ribot

My favorites (by the way incredible fresh good albums, great performances)

Santogold: You'll Find a Way (Switch and Sinden Remix)
ultra cool, noisy!, fat, yet cleanish check it!

William Fitzsimmons, The sparrow....:Just Not Each Other
so beautiful, voice is so nice recorded and mixed

Micachu , Jewellery: Curly Teeth
very nice low fi sounds, garageske, punkish electro

Beat Circus, Boy from Black Mountain: Judgment Day
"modern vintage", clever, great instrumentation

Deathspell Omega, Paracletus: Epiklesis I
Quite dense

Brian Blade, Mama Rosa: Mercy Angel
subtle and warm

Wintersleep, welcome to the nightsky: early in the morning
incredible voice ambience

Stars, Set Yourself On Fire, The Big Fight
Indie modern R&B

The National, Boxer: Mistaken For Strangers
cool modern joy division

Flying Lotus, Los Angeles: Camel
best groove, sonic flaws excellency

The xx, same: Fantasy, Basic Space

Rickie Lee Jones, The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard: Nobody Knows My Name
Oldschool, great guitar sounds

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset,The Bairns: Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
great recording

Nils Wogram's Root 70, On 52nd 1/4 Street The Gift
Great jazz recording

Bat for Lashes, Two Suns, Siren Song
Incredible ballad, great buildup, this noise is soooooooooooo good


So much more
Kai

Wow, thanks for introducing to me to at least 3 awesome new (to me) bands! Wintersleep

[robertshaw]

[tenderboy]

Gojira would definitively be on my List as welk.

Also "heliocentric" by "the ocean"

[ericstadium]

Originally Posted by paynebabes

The vinyl version of Consolers of the Lonely by the Raconteurs.

+1 for Continuum too (but mainly because I'm a MASSIVE John Mayer fan)

This is probably one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years, let alone 5. I was talking with Vance Powell at AES this fall and he told me Jack White absolutely hates the mastering job, vinyl or CD. Go figure.

[Halloween]

Deftones. Thread Closed.

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[ribot]

Originally Posted by Ramshackles

Wow, thanks for introducing to me to at least 3 awesome new (to me) bands! Wintersleep

How about:

E.S.T , Leucocyte: I. Ab Initio
Great dark European jazz, almost in a dark neurosis way, clear, yet fat, 3 people!

Dead Science, Frost Giant: Blood Tuning
Like the ghost of buckley, great haunting, great instrumentation, best cover, great production

Xiu Xiu, Fabulous Muscles: Nieces Pieces (Boat Knife Version)
with slint spiderland my favorite indie album, best lyrics, unbelievable deep, strong, visionary, humiliating, personal, political, incredible sounds, it does not get better than this, sorry 7 years "old" check his rendition of Rhianna :-)

Mount Kimbie, Crooks & Lovers: Mayor
crunchy, destroys the dancefloor

Scuba, Triangulation Electronic: Before
chill out in its best form

Nathan Michel, The Beast: Cricket
Overlooked Beach Boys meets deconstruction, sterile clean, warm, flaws,

Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will: Rano Pano
doodle sack meets grinding electro and rock, great feel, sounds, a hymn!

Lali Puna, faking the books: Left Handed
the hook is heaven, the band radiohead got their new direction from

Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest : Ready, Able
Incredible vocals and arrangements, grows

Death from Above 1979, You're a Woman: Turn It Out
Modern Punk, great feel

Oxbow, Songs for the French: Coal King
My favorite live act, nothing comes close, Blues of the 23. Century, best tempo!

Shearwater, Rook: The Snow Leopard
great song, raw....

Cannot really divide between good sounding and great songs/expressions :-)
Some songs may be a bit older than 5 years...sorry

Greetings
Kai

[analogexplosions]

I've been amazed by anything Randall Dunn has recorded in the past several years. Everything is a aural orgasm.

Examples include his work with Wolves in the Throne Room, Earth, Sunn 0))), Kinski, and lots more.

[JamieOxford]

Not sure which I'd say is the best, and I'm probably skewing them a little towards the music side of things too but they are fantastic albums:

Karnivool - Sound Awake (2009)
The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing (2010)
The Pineapple Thief - Little Man 2009 Reissue (I haven't heard the original)

Anything Steven Wilson goes near - I'm a big of The Incident (2009) and Fear of a Blank Planet (2007) by Porcupine Tree as well as his solo stuff. Grace For Drowning (2011) is definitely worth a listen. I'm looking forward to investing in a surround sound set-up just so I can listen to these three albums in surround.

I agree with Massive Attack's Heligoland and Tool's 10,000 Days but they weren't the first that came to mind.

Bon Iver's self titled album is very good too. The first half of the album is better than the second in my opinion but it's still a great record.

[JamieOxford]

Deftones. Thread Closed.

This one too

[wiretoy]

Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid.

Everyone should own a pair of iPod headphones for reference.

P.S. I work for the evil Apple, we are taking-over, and i receive commission for every pair sold.

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