Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up

lol king of limbs influences #1 result is sick mahfy

what sort of influences do raiohead cite these days?

Penderecki and ye old englische dubsteppe.

what makes it very unadolescent is her commitment to an "objective stance" throughout

I've seen random internet chuckleheads denounce it for both glorifying and criticising war, which kinda suggests she's done her job

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke told BBC that he has always been infatuated with the music of Neil Young and has even been told some of his music sounds like the legendary singer songwriter.

I really cannot get over how much better than the FACT list the RA list is; even the overlapping tracks sound better on the RA list.

is there a good reason why Fleet Foxes shouldn't fill me with an almost irresistible urge to kill

I don't even really want to open this can of worms, but I really like the new album. They've really expanded on what they did with their over-hyped first album and I think there are some really interesting moments. Some songs put me in the mind of the first Midlake album, while other hit on a CSNY vibe that works for me. I can totally see why this wouldn't be up most peoples alley, but otoh it kind of annoys me to see it so frequently lumped in (by both detractors and people that love them!!) with shit like Mumford or Noah and the Whale.

there is a reason why they get lumped in with shit like Mumford tho

I mean, I recognize that they are talented and I actually think they have very, very good singing voices; I just want to start punching until my fists are nubs whenever I hear their music

i guess one reason is that it's possible not to listen to them

what is the best way to convey how little indie music you have heard without seeming tuomish or otherwise obnoxious

oh dan, while you're here you may not have seen this in the knifelike thread, but fatima al qadiri's latest ep is currently blowing my mind, and i think you might be into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpgtuWQ2vUc

http://soundcloud.com/fatima-al-qadiri/sets/genre-specific-xperieince

there is a reason why they get lumped in with shit like Mumford tho

I mean, I recognize that they are talented and I actually think they have very, very good singing voices; I just want to start punching until my fists are nubs whenever I hear their music

― OH NOES, Friday, December 16, 2011

good grief, man. fleet foxes are not supposed to inspire rage; they are supposed to make you think of golden voices carried along gentle breezes, which make you recognize the vast univ . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

there is a reason why they get lumped in with shit like Mumford tho

I don't know, I think this betrays how little you've actually heard. The thing is, the singles that get all the buzz are actually usually my LEAST favorite of their songs. I think they actually have very little in common with Mumford.

I mean, whatever, this is a losing battle here and I don't really care enough to invest more time in it - but the kneejerk comparisons to Mumford & Sons are lazy and wrong.

from the little i've heard of each, M&S seem very british and fleet foxes seem very american

appropos of nothing, but one of my law partners loves mumford & sons, or whatever their name is.

Fleet Foxes are annoying due to excessive mimsiness whereas the Mumfords are annoying due to clumpy pig-on-a-string beery idiocy.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke told BBC that he has always been infatuated with the music of Neil Young and has even been told some of his music sounds like the legendary singer songwriter.

Watching him go from saying stuff like this, to rubbing up against Massive Attack at OccupyLSX, TY just strikes me as one of those dudes who spends his entire life trying to get the Sixth Form boys to really ~really~ like him, whether those Sixth Form Boys are Aphex Twin or Fleet Foxes. It's kinda pathetic but also quite quite endearing. And makes me quite glad that he has the band he has, who make sure that "Penderecki and ye old englische dubsteppe" overwhelm tendencies that would otherwise turn him into Primal Scream, basically.

^^^^^^massive amounts of projection may have gone into the making of this post.

TY FOR THAT LINK, LEX

Fleet Foxes album is great

I got 4 songs into the Fleet Foxes album before the creaky voice did for me. Which is really sad because I genuinely genuinely love Shape Note harmonies, which are all over their record. But just... I can't.

Lol Lex, Badu's concerns are straight cultural studies dept. At a state university...

Also, it's unfortunate that Kitty Empire thought it necessary to include Childish Gambino in her top 10 list

^^^ like this is totally valid criticism of the Fleet Foxes record imho. I guess I just feel like there's a lot of this kneejerk "ugh harmonies and beards and folk" dismissal of them. I think they are doing a lot more interesting things with folk than, I don't know, that terrible Decemberists record (and I actually used to like them too).

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The Fatima Al Qadiri EP is indeed supergreat, I've been pushing it on the Outloud room.

How is Kitty Empire the name of a real person and not a villainous movie heiress?

or paradise on earth

cuz british music journalists with wite ppl names magically acquire better ones

Yeah it's not her real name, also the title of a Big Black song.

XLR8R's Best of 2011: Tracks
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2011/12/xlr8rs-best-2011-tracks-part-2

20. Holy Other "Feel Something" (Tri Angle)
19. Rustie "Ultra Thizz" (Warp)
18. Teeth "Shawty" (502)
17. Martyn "Masks" (Brainfeeder)
16. Omar-S "Here's Your Trance Now Dance" (FXHE)
15. Kingdom "Let You No" (Night Slugs)
14. xxxy "Ordinary Things" (Ten Thousand Yen)
13. Unknown "Sicko Cell" (SWAMP81)
12. Jacques Greene "Another Girl" (LuckyMe)
11. Classixx "Into the Valley (Julio Bashmore Remix)" (Green Label Sound)

10. Tycho "Hours" (Ghostly)
9. Virgo Four "It's a Crime (Caribou Remix)" (Rush Hour)
8. The Weeknd "The Morning"
7. SBTRKT "Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon)" (Young Turks)
6. Martyn "We Are You in the Future" (Brainfeeder)
5. Holy Other "Touch" (Tri Angle)
4. Mosca "Done Me Wrong" (Numbers)
3. Scuba "Adrenalin" (Hotflush)
2. M83 "Midnight City" (Mute)
1. Julio Bashmore "Battle for Middle You" (PMR)

OK, well, the idea of a music critic adopting a fanciful pseudonym is kind of eye-roll.

cuz british music journalists with wite ppl names magically acquire better ones

it doesn't really happen any more, i've noticed

i like having a wite ppl name b/c it tends to result in commenters and sundry other haters yell at me about being white, which amuses me greatly. one particular hater, formerly of this parish, was so pressed that he resorted to calling me "culturally white" lololololololololol

I like it - Johnny Cigarettes, K-Punk, Julie Burchill etc...

I thought it was about still being able to sign on the dole while drawing a teeny tiny paycheck from NME reviews that didn't even cover the drinks tab at yr average gig?

also about writing for rival publications when you weren't meant to? not sure

i can't think of a british single music journalist of ~my generation~ (and uh younger) who uses a pseudonym - there was miss amp but she's a bit older and doesn't do music writing any more?

can I go back to the RA singles list for a second, because I'm currently playing Storm Queen's "It Goes On" and basically everything I've heard on this list so far has been good to fantastic

Even now, as the UK's diplomatic links with Iran unravel

Isn't that nice and agentless?

PJ Harvey's vocals annoy me here (I don't remember what she sounds like elsewhere) and the songs are so-so as songs.

(I was never a fan of hers.)

I was, but i still prefer White Chalk over this album. Dunno why.

what little Storm Queen stuff I've heard sounded rad but my personal favourite thing is that it shares its name with an early 80s NWOBHM band from the Welsh valleys who were managed by Rod Liddle

extreme lifestyle = dj mencap?

if it wasn't clear already then it is now

yes

hi!

(when is the terrorizer issue with the top albums out?)

note to self: never pay attention to FACT ever again

xp start of Jan I guess?

ok cool.

this Guardian contributors list is very different to all the others

Dom Lawson

Albums

1. Machine Head – Unto The Locust
2. MOONWAGON – Night Dust
3. WOLFSBANE – Wolfsbane Save The World
4. OPETH – Heritage
5. NECROPHAGIA – Deathtrip 69
6. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – A Grounding In Numbers
7. STEVEN WILSON – Grace For Drowning
8. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – 17th Street
9. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Deconstruction
10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Ghost

Tracks

1. MACHINE HEAD – Darkness Within
2. WOLFSBANE – Live Before I Die
3. OPETH – The Devil's Orchard
4. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – Highly Strung
5. HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – The Grain
6. KORN feat. Skrillex – Get Up
7. MACHINE HEAD – Locust
8. NECROPHAGIA – Naturan Demonto
9. RIVAL SONS – All Over The Road
10. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – Juular

lol @ #3 album

He also seems to have picked most of his fave tracks from the albums he chose

CAPITAL LETTERS FTW!

Skrillex presumably doesn't get caps due to FALSE METAL.

I guess I just feel like there's a lot of this kneejerk "ugh harmonies and beards and folk" dismissal of them.

i love harmonies, but more the journey-type. if fleet foxes dump the pretense of seriousness and become a 70s yacht-rock act (but a self-aware 70s yacht-rock act), i think i'll love them.