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

I just found it on eMusic for £0.84 (!) so yeah, will definitely give it a go.

masuko record is ~lovely~

any music tailor made for me this year?

just kidding. I don't want people to recommend indie shit

juno's singles list is interesting and good.

really special tracks dot this list, like those from cosmin-TRG; factory-floor; ital; and auntie flo.

Phew! Just now finished listening to all the tracks in Lex's Top 120 that I hadn't previously heard (shamefully enough this was about 80 of 'em)

Lots and lots of good stuff as to be expected, but I especially loved Vibe Kartel 'Colouring Book', Aisha Davis 'My Loving', Tiffany Evans 'Won't Find Me' and Lloyd 'Private Dancer' which reminded me very much of Scritti Politti for some reason.

The track that absolutely blew me away however, and ensured that I had a smile on my face for all of yesterday afternoon, was the fantastic Cherry V 'I'm In Love'

Thx for the tunes Lex!

So, Ned and Adrien, I am holding each of you personally responsible if the Active Child and Cold Cave albums, respectively, suck. ;)

In all seriousness, the write ups you guys did for those two inspired me to pick up on some stuff I skipped over this past year.

Too kind! And that album of course does not suck but I would say that. (Those interested can check my list via the blog as desired .)

Massive list of ambient and experimental from Fluid Radio

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/12/50-for-2011/

1: Paul Jebanasam – Music For The Church Of St. John The Baptist
2: Lawrence English – The Peregrine
3: Willamette – Echo Park
4: Humble Bee / The, E And I – The Indescribable Brightness Shone / Projected Images
5: Daniel Thomas Freeman – The Beauty of Doubting Yourself
6: Petrels – Haeligewielle
7: Grouper – AIA Dream Loss/Alien Observer
8: Daniel W J Mackenzie – Teeth Sleep Under Winking Black Eyelid
9: Talvihorros – Descent into Delta
10: Jasper TX – The Black Sun Transmissions
11: Hallock Hill – The Union
12: Danny Paul Grody – In Search Of Light
13: Tape Loop Orchestra – Maybe I Told A Small Lie
14: Bitchin Bajas – Water Wrackets
15: Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Luminaries & Synastry
16: AR – Wolf Notes
17: Steven Hess & Christopher McFall – The Inescapable Fox
18: bvdub & Ian Hawgood – The Truth Hurts
19: The Haxan Cloak – The Haxan Cloak
20: Félicia Atkinson – The Driver
21: Jon Porras – Undercurrent
22: The Boats – The Ballad of the Eagle
23: Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
24: Mountains – Air Museum
25: Fabio Orsi – Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul
26: The Humble Bee – The Royal Game
27: Richard Moult – Celestial King For A Year
28: A Winged Victory For The Sullen – S/T
29: Kyle Bobby Dunn – Ways Of Meaning
30: Illuha – Shizuku
31: Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiere
32: Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place
33: Efrim Manuel Menuck – Plays High Gospel
34: Deaf Center – Owl Splinters
35: Nils Frahm – Felt
36: Isnaj Dui – Circle Of Sleep
37: Antonymes – The Licence to Interpret Dreams
38: Nicholas Szczepanik – Please Stop Loving Me
39: Jacaszek – Glimmer
40: Machinefabriek & Gareth Davis – Grower
41: Offthesky – The Beautiful Nowhere
42: Isidore Ducasse: S/T
43: Farewell Poetry – Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
44: Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
45: The A. Lords – S/T
46: Simon Scott – Bunny
47: Christina Vantzou – No 1
48: Damian Valles – Skeleton Taxa
49: Natural Snow Buildings – Waves of the Random Sea
50: Hakobune – I Discover I’m Missing

Still need to hear that Lawrence English album, just release the thing online already

Similar lists also up on these two sites:

http://mapsadaisical.wordpress.com/#!/page/1

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2011/12/the-2011-review/

The track that absolutely blew me away however, and ensured that I had a smile on my face for all of yesterday afternoon, was the fantastic Cherry V 'I'm In Love'

check her mixtape out! it's really very good - http://www.facebook.com/CherriV (plus elsewhere on the internet probably)

(v glad you liked the tunes!)

i've never heard wu lyf, but i do know that yuck and girls are among the worst music i've heard, like, ever

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Permalink

Lex, you're a critic whom I love reading more than most - due mainly because you open my ears to pop-r&b (pathetic as it may be to rely on criticism to listen to pop-music) - but if you think Girls and Yuck is some of the worst music you've ever heard, then please remove the shit from your ears. Give me a break with the hyperbole; these are at least competent ripoffs of their antecedents!

the idea of lex listening to wu lyf, girls and yuck gives me so much joy

haven't heard the others but Girls is definitely a plausible candidate for worst shit you've ever heard from any angle

j0rdan just mentioned the Patrick Stump record on another thread, was happy to finally see it on a list itt even if it was popjustice, my #2 of the year

It's a fantastic album.

the Lucas Santtana mentioned above is now legit top tenning it for me. dude is thrillingly "disrespectful" to whatever Brazilian music is supposed to be, in the same way that all great Brazilian music ever has also been. also no one here would have reason to hate the 2011 album from mundo livre s/a, which is excellently grounded in manguebeat and other subgenres but still strikes out on its own and is hilarious.

haven't heard the others but Girls is definitely a plausible candidate for worst shit you've ever heard from any angle

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Saturday, December 24, 2011 9:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^

haven't heard the others but Girls is definitely a plausible candidate for worst shit you've ever heard from any angle

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), S

Explain how they're worse than Pearl Jam who you like.

It's just retro rock that borrows from various eras. Maybe not amazing, but I am not clear why you think it is a candidate for the worst.

girls is worse than pearl jam who some dude likes

if you think Girls and Yuck is some of the worst music you've ever heard, then please remove the shit from your ears. Give me a break with the hyperbole; these are at least competent ripoffs of their antecedents!

their antecedents were shit as well!

i am not the only critic who thinks that about yuck: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2988

but I am not clear why you think it is a candidate for the worst

Because these people love hyperbole more than they love their own lives.

Lex, your tracks list is mostly shit. I still think you are useful to me for uncovering new developments I'm not likely to run across on my own.

dude is thrillingly "disrespectful" to whatever Brazilian music is supposed to be, in the same way that all great Brazilian music ever has also been.

This is vague enough that challenging it is probably a mistake, but I don't like it. Why can't Brazilian music spend some of its time simply being good Brazilian music (of whatever genre it is)? This makes it sound as though the best Brazilian music is always questioning the nature of Brazilian music and pushing against the boundaries and whatnot, and I don't buy that. I willingly admit you know way more about Brazilian music than I do, but most of my favorite Brazilian music isn't obviously iconoclastic. (Maybe some of it was more iconoclastic at the time than I realize). I wouldn't particularly accuse you of that, but I think that for a lot of I listened to the Santtana album after seeing it on various lists, but I'll stick with Maria Rita's amazing, rather traditional (more jazz than contemporary pop) MPB album from this year. (And I listened to about three or four other new Brazilian albums this year, which is more than usual.)

Girls album actually sounds interesting but what I'm hearing about Yuck is "like Teenage Fanclub but with pretty melodies which makes me think that the hypesters are not on the level...

Lex, your tracks list is mostly shit.

your taste is mostly shit

I'm trying to understand Lex's taste in rock--it seems to be mainly wispy rock with female vocals (new PJ Harvey) but I also think you like Tom Waits. The "worst" hyperbole stuff from you is so over the top that I think it hurts the much more nicely written praise of r'n'b singers and such that I generally agree with you on.

You don't like Yuck or its predecessors so which rock oldtimer acts do you like-- waht do you think of the Velvet Underground, Public Image Ltd., Ramones, Beatles, Johnny Burnette Trio...?

Lex, your tracks list is mostly shit.

your taste is mostly shit

lex, I'd be very surprised if you know much about my taste in music, especially since a lot of it is focused on areas you don't bother with.

y'all are so dumb

kmt

"Another Suburbanite", you really want to argue on christmas day with lex about the velvet underground, public image ltd., ramones, beatles and the johnny burnette trio? life is too short, homie. it really is.

occidental rudipherous, if your music taste is focused on areas that lex doesn't bother with, then it probably is shit. i mean, just to be fair.

Who is v-shasty?

dick clark

Fair and balanced rap fan.

x-post to Tuomas. You're probably right. Ok, I will move on to Brazilian music--

Rudiph:

I like the Maria Rita also. Another Brazilian album I liked this year is
. Romulo Froes- Um Labirinto em Cada Pé (A Labyrinth in Each Foot) (livrariacultura.com). Thank you to the ilx poster who mentioned this on a Brazilian thread on regular ilx. It's available for free download, just google him and that album

occidental rudipherous, if your music taste is focused on areas that lex doesn't bother with, then it probably is shit. i mean, just to be fair.

surely life is too short for this desperate shit also

v-shasty: Tuomas-obsessed, so probably Noise Board riff-raff.

waht do you think of the Velvet Underground

i like the nico album but suspect what i like about it most is nico. by "like" i don't mean "enough to want to listen to on a regular basis"

Public Image Ltd.

never heard

Ramones

um i don't think so. my editor once tried to get me into them by telling me miley cyrus was the modern day equivalent but the thing is i like demi lovato more than miley cyrus

Beatles

HATE HATE HATE WITH A MILLION KNIVES I HATE THEM. merry xmas!

Johnny Burnette Trio...?

whodin?

Public Image Ltd.

never heard

Lol.

v-shasty: Tuomas-obsessed, so probably Noise Board riff-raff.

― Occidental Rudipherous, Sunday, December 25, 2011 10:38 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

or maybe just riff raff

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/65490376/RiFF+RAFF+SODMG+1abdbe75e5b0809c4d2b45d4841754.png

it seems to be mainly wispy rock with female vocals (new PJ Harvey)

hey i like old pj harvey too. "long snake moan" ain't wispy

Shasty otm. Lining up to 'set Lex straight' is one of ILX's most tiresome holiday/year-end traditions.

Awesome he likes the VU & Nico album though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw

(Oops, tried to dis-embed that, actually.)

I'm just annoying myself now. Will try to find other things to do.

god damn it Rudipherous and everyone I thought this was gonna be fun. forgot about how everyone has to get all angrified all the time.

so I guess there is no point in talking about the long tension in Brazil between those who righteously represent the old guard and the concept of "canibalismo," no point in talking about how Maria Rita's mother was one of the greatest synthesists in Brazilian music, no point at all in talking about how Tropicalia was a huge revolution in Braz. music that itself still has to be revolted against in order to keep things fresh, etc., all that stuff. never mind.

by the way the best salsa I heard this year was from Victor Waill. You could tell me who's better out there now if you wanted to. But isn't ANYONE here tired of ad hominem attacks? JESUS CRISTO

i've heard it's his birthday

Not true, actually.

According to astro-theme.com, it was actually Feb. 28