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    Non-Japanese

    Shabazz Palaces - Black Up *

    The Weeknd - House Of Balloons (& Echoes Of Silence) *

    Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    IceAge - New Brigade

    Emika - Emika *

    Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation *

    Holy Other - With U EP

    Clams Casino - Instrumentals (& Rainforest EP)

    J*DaVeY - New Designer Drug *

    Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

    Zomby - Dedication

    A$AP Rocky - Live Love A$AP

    The Kills - Blood Pressures

    Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde

    Japanese

    実験台モルモット - 箱庭の音樂会

    女王蜂 - 孔雀

    101A - 4 *

    Dir en Grey - DUM SPIRO SPERO

    Maria Hato - The Latter Half of Aloha

    Droog - Love Songs

    XA-VAT - 艶℃

    Goth-Trad - Babylon Fall EP *

    As far as a winner is concerned, it should be The Weeknd's album:

    The Weeknd - House Of Balloons

    Abel Tesfaye's mixtape trilogy started with this release - already containing all the things that helped The Weeknd to make it's way to the top albums of this year: especially Abel's fragile, smooth voice, his incredible falsettos, which he can turn into the voice of a self-confident man's voice, full of love and lust in both cases. (Check out his version of Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana on the third mixtape.) The Weeknd, and his producers/helpmates (like Illangelo) could show a new way to r'n'b, while still keeping the very core of it; I think it isn't too much to say, that Abel's project was one of the leaderships of the so-called "hipster r'n'b" project (think of acts like Drake, How To Dress Well) - seriously, who thought that sampling a Beach Boys song (Master Of None in "Loft Music"), or a Siouxsie And The Banshees song (Happy House in House Of Balloons / Glass Table Girls) could turn out to be a great idea? Abel sings about parties - to be more specific, the dark side of the parties, love for money, the drugs, the emptiness.

    Not to mention, that from the 'nothing' (Abel has a pre-band, called "The Noise"), without revealing his identity for a long time, Abel could set up a very special world, with it's own style (from the use of xoxo to the covers), and make it to the mainstream - he was featured on Drake's new album (and Drake was featured on Abel's second mixtape, in "The Zone"), he was featured on the offical Lady Gaga remix album, his song was used during an advertisement - and next year, he will do his first world tour. From this year's very strong free mixtape scene (just think about A$AP Rocky's LiveLoveA$AP, Danny Brown's XXX, Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra and so on), The Weeknd could rise out.

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    Non-Japanese

    Shabazz Palaces - Black Up *

    The Weeknd - House Of Balloons *

    Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    IceAge - New Brigade

    Emika - Emika *

    Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation *

    Holy Other - With U EP

    Clams Casino - Instrumentals (& Rainforest EP)

    J*DaVeY - New Designer Drug *

    Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

    Zomby - Dedication

    A$AP Rocky - Live Love A$AP

    The Killers - Blood Pressures

    Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde

    Japanese

    実験台モルモット - 箱庭の音樂会

    女王蜂 - 孔雀

    101A - 4 *

    Dir en Grey - DUM SPIRO SPERO

    Maria Hato - The Latter Half of Aloha

    Droog - Love Songs

    XA-VAT - 艶℃

    Goth-Trad - Babylon Fall EP *

    It seems, that I haven't listened to as much japanese music as I did last year; or at least I haven't found too many outstanding releases. I marked the albums/EPs I _really_ like with a *.

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    Sweet! My week is filled with essays that I need to write, and I really enjoy listening to Autechre, so it is the perfect time for me to revisit their classical albums. As for Sick Of It All, I liked the songs that I've heard from them, but never bothered listening to a full album - guess it should change now. Going to give some spins to this week's albums, and come back with my thoughts about them.

  11. Posted

    I just think.. look at western rock/metal bands. Most of them are from America and even if they're pretty unknown, they play in much more cities and countries than vk bands. Since they're going from really far, I think a promoter should try to bring the band in the most places he/she can. This is just my opinion... I know the prices are high, but still, I think some promoters simply don't want to move themselves.

    It's just my two cents, but I think, alternative/metal music is more widespread in Europe/America, so even though a band isn't that good, they have a bigger chance of getting a well-known name with tours ending with success. I mean it has a longer history in european countries than vk does. Of course many promoters noticed, that there is a big potential in vk, but it still has a way to go, before it will gets THAT popular. The number of people who doesn't know vk is still biger than those who know it.

    I think that it's great that they come to Europe, or at least, they play at closer venues. I don't want to start a rage fest, but I would kill if some of my of my favourite bands would go play at places this close to me. Yes, I agree that they could bring them to more places - but I think that they have a limited amount of money that could be spent to organise this tour, and with that much money, the best tour they could set up was this. ^^"

    And honestly, would you feel better if the tour was named something like 'bla bla artistic name created with a random generator' instead of EU tour?

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    I'm a bit disappointed that some of you aren't describing the albums you're listing - I'm sure a lot of us would like to know WHY you all chose the albums you did.

    While music does speak for itself, you all are giving me absolutely no incentive to even go download these albums. People like me, who aren't avid VK fans, need convincing - and simply listing an album and posting artwork isn't gonna cut it.

    Also, what do you think about a 'Top 10 Non-VK Albums' topic? Top 10 Indie Albums maybe a too narrow spectrum for many users to list ten _really_ good albums/favourites, but if the only limitation is that it shouldn't be VK, I think many user could contribute. Thoughts?

    (And maybe we should state in the opening post, that you should write at least about 3-4 sentences about the listed albums, so it won't be just a 'lists-only' topic.)

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