metal: the shitty indie it's OK to like
― Fotherington Thomas, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
FACT mag 10-1http://www.factmag.com/2011/11/30/50-best-albums-of-2011-50-41/5/ 10: FRANK OCEAN - NOSTALGIA, ULTRA. (SELF-RELEASED)09: LV & JOSHUA IDEHEN - ROUTES (KEYSOUND)08: JULIANNA BARWICK - THE MAGIC PLACE (ASTHMATIC KITTY)07: DRAKE - TAKE CARE (CASH MONEY / UNIVERSAL)06: JAMES FERRARO - FAR SIDE VIRTUAL (HIPPOS IN TANKS)05: ARAABMUZIK - ELECTRONIC DREAM (DUKE)04: PRURIENT - BERMUDA DRAIN (HYDRA HEAD)03: CLAMS CASINO - INSTRUMENTALS (SELF-RELEASED / TYPE)02: RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS (WARP)01: THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS (SELF-RELEASED)
― the gas-cramp dilla (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
Ouch, that's a bad top ten
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I'm not nuts about some of those
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
They really love the Drake/Weeknd axis over there
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol y'all got trolled by FACT
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
haha are FACT delibrately trolling ILX?
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
xp
i love that araabmuzik album though
Yeah that FACT list was super interesting until the top ten, then, ugh.
I <3 los kramupsinos! dn.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
this Rustie album is... okay? not the second-best album of the year tho
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
why wouldn't you put 'the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot of R'n'B' at #1?? Lol.
Juliana Barwick album is nice though, so I can't complain...
― iagree (henrietta lacks), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Julianna Barwick and Clams Casino will be on my albums ballot...of the rest, 50% I haven't heard and 50% meh.
― sean doily, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
"This is AraabMUZIK’s electronic dream, and if you don’t like it then you’re quite frankly having a nightmare."
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Drake and the Weeknd. Clammy Clams will be on my ballot, though. And the James Ferraro is pretty good (would need to hear it more before I decide whether it's good enough for a ballot place, though).
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol FACT, i still love you.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
never got round to listening to the prurient what with horrible memories of the cold cave album still fresh in my head
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
This isn’t to say it’s an r’n'b album for indie kids
and yet the only other r&b album on the list is frank ocean lmao
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
i fuck with the top 10 of that Q tracks list, improbably
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
(i like most of that fact top 10 including the weeknd)
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
also the fact top 10 is, uh, okay
i like 'house of balloons', but not that much
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
despite lex's best protest in march, it was not a big year for r&b full lengths, so i'm not surprised that stuff like the weeknd and frank ocean have filled the void a bit
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
i get that fact likes to stay well within the tumblrverse but it is slightly weird putting frank ocean in your top 10 and not even giving a nod to like, beyonce (or did i miss this?)
but on other hand it means they don't cover kanye/jay which is nice.
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
FACT should be, like, way more into lloyd than they are tho imo
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
yah otm
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
not even on some lex AYO CHECK OUT MARSHA AMRBOSIOUS, THIS SHIT IS SO MUCH BETTER but i'm surprised that they aren't checking for fun party songs w/ good beats all done by a single producer
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
MBDTF was FACT's number two album of last year and they gave WTT a pretty good review iirc
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
for some reason i keep thinking MBDTF was released this year duh
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking "jesus, every song on this Araabmuzik album sounds exactly the same", then I looked at Spotify; I'd made it to track 2
now I'm just bemused that FACT ranked what sounds like an overlong dubsteppy Junkie-XL album the 5th-best album of the year
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
OK, so v-shasty isn't Steve Shasta.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
i like the araabmuzik a lot -- it's cool to vibe too, idk -- it's def pretty same-y but i like when he does the laser tag keyboard thing and a lot of the samples are p cool
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
4. Mayer Hawthorne : How Do You Do?
From the Filter list--is this more than just retro blue-eyed soul? Haven't heard it yet...
― Another Suburbanite, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
it's not BAD (I like Junkie-XL!), it's just... not what I was expecting
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's not his crazy MPC thing
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
from FACT, files this under "don't use wikipedia as a source"
The production values on Take Care really were staggering, and made even more impressive by the fact that whether it was Lex Luger, Just Blaze or Jamie xx
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
from FACT, file this under "people comparing 'take care' to the wrong kanye west album"
More than anything, this album was Drake’s College Dropout
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
No, but imho I think its really, really well done retro blue-eyed soul. I usually cringe at this shit, but my brother in law does some promo for Hawthorne and pushed the album on me and I found myself really liking it.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
alright, i take back anything nice i ever said
Like Outkast’s Stankonia before it, House of Balloons also appears to have brought everyone together this year
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
despite lex's best protest in march, it was not a big year for r&b full lengths
yet three of my top 10 are r&b, plus a further five in my top 30?
and the anthony hamilton isn't out yet either
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry lex, I am still staring in shock at the quote v-nasty posted otherwise I'd ask which 3 R&B albums you're repping (I'm guessing Marsha is one of them? She was on the Soul Train Music Awards last weekend and sounded really, really sick ;_;)
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
poor love.
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
beyoncé, dawn richard, nikkiya, meshell ndegéocello, marsha ambrosius, goapele, raphael saadiq, diddy dirty money (r&b remix mixtape)
i'm not even that into the lloyd album compared with his past work (but it's still better than the weeknd/ocean OBV)
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
co-singing that goapele
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
i rep for trey songz anticipation 2
― sisilafami, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
the musiq soulchild album was pretty good too, and the cherri v mixtape was excellent
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
and the anthony david album! this song is one of the best songs of the year full stop, amazing stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__khgIzMyaM
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah Musiq Soulchild, I played that album maybe three times and then forgot I owned it
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sure, ‘NY is Killing Me’ became annoyingly inescapable,
i've never heard this
― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
I love the Marsha Ambrosius record; it's held up well all year.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
― lex pretend, Friday, December 2, 2011 9:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is what i'm talking about in terms of a 'big' year for r&b, beyonce aside. saadiq and maybe ambrosius are household names, but the rest of them are kinda the FACT list for r&b heads
― v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i just came to the marsha album recently. 'far away'!!
of that FACT top 10, clams and araabmuzik will make my EOY list (the latter top ten, probably), still haven't listened to the rustie or prurient albums, FO and barwick didn't leave much of an impression on me, sort of avoiding weeknd/drake, haven't heard of the other two
― silvana mangano, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link