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).

(xpost)

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.

what’s wrong with seriousness

I would argue that “seriousness” is the least of Fleet Foxes’ problems

unfortunately the argument would end there because everything about them short-circuits my ability to form coherent arguments and takes me straight to “thank god I live in a world where I never, ever, ever, ever, EVER have to hear these guys, even by accident”

Also I am happy that Dan is loving the 2011 techno bobbins but dude don’t miss out on the Oliver $, it is a thing of glory.

O_O

HOLY SHIT re: OLIVER $

YES MOTHERFUCKER I AM HAVING A GOOD TIME

You would not believe how well that goes off on dancefloors. Actually you would, it’s obvious, but still...

Loving Chunklet’s “analysis” of Greg Kot’s top 20 of 2011 list: http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&id=709

Mmm, seems terribly unfunny to me tbh

That is really laboured and not funny in the slightest.

that’s Chunklet for you

you can’t do “snarky know-it-all” and then go “I don’t know who Raphael Saadiq is”

idk i get some p good lols out of imagining what that dudes band sounds like

i bet theyre really good and wear plaid shirts when they play shows

ayo dan thank you for compiling the ra list into a spotify thing

really enjoying this

ra list is amazing, but still kinda baffled that the consensus tiger & woods track on these EOY lists was originally released in 2010 and is probably my least favorite thing on the album (tho the fact that it got on the p4k list is still kinda cool, idk)

god damn i am loving this morhposis record

NPR Listeners Pick Their Favorite Albums of 2011:

1. Bon Iver—Bon Iver

2. Fleet Foxes—Helplessness Blues

3. Adele—21

4. The Decemberists—The King Is Dead

5. Radiohead—The King Of Limbs

6. The Black Keys—El Camino

7. Wilco—Whole Love

8. Florence + The Machine—Ceremonials

9. Beirut—The Rip Tide

11. M83—Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

12. Feist—Metals

13. Iron & Wine—Kiss Each Other Clean

14. tUnE-yArDs—w h o k i l l

15. St. Vincent—Strange Mercy

16. The Civil Wars—Barton Hollow

17. Death Cab For Cutie—Codes And Keys

18. Tom Waits—Bad As Me

19. My Morning Jacket—Circuital

20. Bright Eyes—The People’s Key

21. Jay-Z/Kanye West—Watch the Throne

22. Coldplay—Mylo Xyloto

23. PJ Harvey—Let England Shake

24. Cults—Cults

25. James Blake—James Blake

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143717007/listeners-pick-their-favorite-albums-of-2011

lol @ npr voters getting that black keys album in there literally A WEEK after it’s out. “we’re on it, top ten, no hesitation.”

only a joke organization would vote bon iver #1

i would love it actually if the republican caucus entered a bill to cease NPR’s funding due to its listeners not voting the fleet foxes album as the best of 2011

BIFFA top three there, alright

only a joke organization would vote bon iver #1

like p4k?

42. Miguel Campbell—Something Special
29. Oliver $—Doin’ Ya Thang
28. Maceo Plex—Can’t Leave You
27. Danny Daze feat. Louisahhh—Your Everything
24. Osunlade—Envision (Ame Remix)
19. Scuba—Adrenalin
12. Benoit & Sergio—Walk & Talk
11. Noir & Haze—Around (Solomon Vox Mix)
06. Steffi feat. Virginia—Yours
05. Todd Terje—Ragysh
04. Todd Terje—Snooze 4 Love
02. Omar-S—Here’s Your Trance, Now Dance!!

i fw all of these from the RA list. surprised not to see jamie jone’s remix of ‘hungry for the power’ on there. and yeah again, i wish RA would not cover post-dubstep etc. feel like they have diluted their brand a bit.

Are we all in agreement to ban BIFFA from the ILx list this year?

lol @ npr voters getting that black keys album in there literally A WEEK after it’s out. “we’re on it, top ten, no hesitation.”

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Saturday, December 17, 2011 5:09 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

Lol at using the official release date as the criteria for this.

did it leak ages ago?

Top Jazz Albums of 2011

Shaun Brady

1. BB&C The Veil (Cryptogramophone) This sprawling, fangs-bared live set reunites three longtime compatriots — saxophonist Tim Berne, guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Jim Black — for a ferocious trio date. Berne’s scything alto, Cline’s extraterrestrial eruptions and Black’s scrapyard barrage meld into an intensely inventive whole.

2. Samuel Blaser Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue) A quantum leap beyond so much trite jazz-classical fusion, Swiss trombonist Blaser, ably abetted by undersung keyboard wizard Russ Lossing, bassist Thomas Morgan and late drum legend Paul Motian, vividly transforms the music of Monteverdi and other Italian composers of the Baroque and Renaissance into airy, cerebral beauty.

3. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM) Always an intriguing collaborative presence, Taborn’s solo piano debut is a work of unusual mystery, provocative depth and intellectual clarity.

4. Matthew Shipp Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear) To celebrate his 50th birthday, Shipp offers a monumental two-disc survey of his iconoclastic artistry, one solo, the second with his latest trio.

5. Steve Coleman & Five Elements The Mancy of Sound (Pi) Coleman’s acolytes have overtaken the jazz world of late, but the saxophonist/composer proves again that he continues to evolve. His latest forefronts Jen Shyu’s abstract vocalese as an integral element of Coleman’s singular pieces.

6. David S. Ware Organica (Solo Saxophones, Volume 2) (Aum Fidelity) The second in a series of solo releases documenting the sax titan’s return to public performance following a kidney transplant, Organica consists of two stunning concerts featuring his ever-muscular tenor and the debut of a sinuous sopranino. Proof positive of not only Ware’s vitality but the irrepressible force of his creative mind.

7. Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform) The great AACM trumpeter/composer revisits and reconceives Miles Davis’ ’70s electric period on a double-disc set, backed by an ensemble of young all-stars who offer a fresh and combustible take on funk-rock-jazz fusion.

8. Darius Jones Trio Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (Aum Fidelity) Unlike so many of his hyper-intellectualized peers, young saxophonist Jones draws from the gut rather than the head, unleashing torrents of brawny sound from his alto. That’s not to suggest he’s any less forward-thinking, however, as this envelope-shoving second volume in his musical autobiography, centered on his rural Virginia upbringing, shows.

9. Rez Abbasi’s Invocation Suno Suno (Enja) The Pakistani-born guitarist delves into his heritage with a suite of compositions inspired by Qawwali music that never feels like a forced hybrid. It doesn’t hurt that Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer, both of whom know something about interweaving cross-cultural influences, are also on hand.

1. Curtis Macdonald Community Immunity (Greenleaf) The young Canadian saxophonist’s debut is a showcase for his angular, tension-filled compositions. A sharp first step, full of surprises and, especially, promise.

http://www.citypaper.net/music/2011-12-15-top-jazz-albums-of-2011.html

This thread makes me so glad I shut down all websites so you guys can’t relentlessly mock my preferences. Also, I kind of want to make a top 100 list so everyone can relentlessly mock my preferences, because my taste is best yada yada so on etc.

Hmmmmm

CIBULOID LIST YOUR TOP 100 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

Please do, Cibuloid. I actually did a search for a list from you, assuming you are who I’m sure you are.

No promises I won’t take any pot-shots though.

Thank u for shutting down all websites

More draconian than SOPA.

CIBA

Okay, who is Cibuloid?

^^^

m@tt clbula aka haikunym im guessing

holy crap you guys are so wrong. my name is J*m D*R*g*t*s. this other son of a b you’re talking about hasn’t written anything in a year and anyway doesn’t get paid for his opinions LIKE I DO.

o_O surprise surprise lol

A- plot twist

I don’t understand why Kate Bush made only one top ten. I believe it to be an absolute work of high art. It’s without question the best album i heard in 2011. Idiot Press.

The Elton John track is shit. That’s why.

it fell in my estimation slightly after being spellbinding initially, because really there aren’t that many reasons to carry on listening after the first three songs (as incredible as they are)

cibuloid should obviously REPLACE all existing top 100 lists w/his own

Are we all in agreement to ban BIFFA from the ILx list this year?

yes! sadly someone already nominated Fucking Drake, no repeat of ilx’s triumph in roundly ignoring his first album to the extent of not even nominating the stupid thing

What is BIFFA?

Bon

Iver

Fleet

Foxes

Adele

It’s kind of dumb to ban albums from the nomination process just because you think they’re boring or whatever; that is why we have a vote.

Kate Bush has been on two top 10s posted itt, plus #11 on another, and lower on like three others. if that’s the most critically neglected album you loved this year then boo fucking hoo.

plus people will be too scared to vote for them as they will be outed and mocked and shot in front of their families by jeremy clarkson

xp

anyway I just looked and both Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes had already been nominated, so I just nominated Adele

anyway I just looked and both Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes had already been nominated, so I just nominated Adele

― OH NOES,

lol, dan

you wont go as far as voting for them will you?

Only posting the top 40, full list here:

Juno top 100 tracks

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2011/12/09/best-of-2011-top-100-trackseps/

1 Cosmin TRG—A Universal Crush EP

2 Omar S—Here’s Your Trance Now Dance

3 Julio Bashmore—The Battle For Middle You EP

4 Floating Points—Shadows EP

5 FaltyDL—Mean Streets EP

6 Four Tet—Pyramid/Locked

7 Factory Floor—R.E.A.L. L.O.V.E.

8 Levon Vincent—Man Or Mistress EP

9 Mosca—Bax/Done Me Wrong

10 Blondes—Lover/Hater

11 Virgo Four—It’s A Crime (Caribou Remix)

12 Jacques Greene—Another Girl

13 Blawan—Gettin Me Down

14 Ital—Ital’s Theme

15 Shackleton—Deadman

16 FunkinEven—Roland’s Jam

17 Vakula—Picture Of You

18 Objekt—Objekt 1

19 Dexter—Great Northern Diver

20 Steve Summers—In The Mode For Love EP

21 Caribou/Daphni—Ye Ye

22 Todd Terje—Ragysh EP

23 John Swing—Rollin

24 John Talabot—Families EP

25 Timothy J. Fairplay—Cleopatra Loves The Acid

26 John Heckle—The Fourth Dimension EP

27 Heatsick—Dream Tennis

28 Auntie Flo—Oh My Days!

29 Joy O—Jels/Wade In

30 Kevin Reynolds—Liaisons EP

31 Mike Dehnert—Bricolage EP

32 Braille—The Year 3000

33 Gerry Read—We Are

34 Dam Mantle—We EP

35 Vessel—Nylon Sunset EP

36 Chairman Kato—Science & Romance

37 Burial—Street Halo EP

38 Untold—Little Things Like That

39 Instra:mental—Thomp

40 Tropic Of Cancer—Be Brave

please lets not do “BIFFA” or any other acronym this time/ever again

GAPDY was classic but it is a little forced to try to recapture that magic

I think BIFFA’s a better acronym just for the link to the esteemed waste management company. The magic of GAPDY passed me over.

I def was being less than serious about banning albums from the countdownand obv believe that people shd vote for whichever albums they want

Also am actually think about checking out the FF album more fully due to a couple ppl in here saying it is better than expected