put this on while you do your dishes and you will scrub the coffee mugs with an inappropriate level of unbridled passion
Awesome record.
Hey Z S since you already dig the J barwick and Peaking Lights album, you could probably do worse than to check out the Belong album from this year; its on Spotify. It’s imo a really solid dreampop/drone album
oh, glad you reminded me of that! i actually had downloaded it earlier this year and loved it (certain tracks more than others, but i definitely had a few key favorites), and then when my computer melted down a few months ago, i lost everything and forgot to redownload it.
Yeah, that entire Psychic Paramount record is so great.
cltrl-F “hatchback” = :(
destroyer v v underrepresented thus far as well
there’s always the ilm eoy poll. Maybe the first ever rock winner?
ugggh that Deer Tick record that has popped up a few times is such shit.
Some decent breakout lists from Exclaim (CA) EOY 2011
http://exclaim.ca/Features/YearInReview
Top Pop Rock
1. Bon Iver : Bon Iver, Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
2. St. Vincent : Strange Mercy (4AD)
3. Feist : Metals (Arts and Crafts)
4. M83 : Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute)
5. Destroyer : Kaputt (Merge)
6. Braids : Native Speaker (Flemish Eye)
7. Austra : Feel it Break (Domino)
8. PJ Harvey : Let England Shake (Island)
9. Timber Timbre : Creep On Creepin’ On (Arts & Crafts)
10. Sandro Perri : Impossible Spaces (Constellation)
11. Wild Flag (Merge)
12. Shotgun Jimmie : Transistor Sister (You’ve Changed)
13. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart : Belong (Slumberland)
14. Beirut : The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
15. Girls : Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
16. Bill Callahan : Apocalypse (Drag City)
17. Yuck (Fat Possum)
18. Rich Aucoin : We’re All Dying To Live (Sonic)
19. Tom Waits : Bad As Me (Anti-)
20. Battles : Gloss Drop (Warp)
21. Ty Segall : Goodbye Bread (Drag City)
22. Lykke Li : Wounded Rhymes (LL)
23. Adele : 21 (Columbia)
24. Handsome Furs : Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
25. Cults (Columbia)
26. EMA : Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions)
27. Dog Day : Deformer (Fun Dog)
28. Kurt Vile : Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
29. Wilco The Whole Love (dbpm)
30. The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing (Paper Bag)
Top Metal
1. KEN : Mode Venerable (Profound Lore)
2. Mastodon : The Hunter (Reprise)
3. Fuck the Facts : Die Miserable (Relapse)
4. Wolves In The Throne : Room Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
5. Today is the Day : Pain is a Warning (Black Market Activities)
6. Liturgy : Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
7. Hammers of Misfortune : 17th Street (Metal Blade)
8. Opeth : Heritage (Roadrunner)
9. Imbroglio : Sleep Deprivation (The Path Less Traveled)
10. Brutal Truth : End Time (Relapse)
11. Graf Orlock : Doombox (Vitriol)
12. Black Tusk : Set the Dial (Relapse)
13. Helms Alee Weatherhead (Hydra Head)
14. Prurient : Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
15. The Atlas Moth An : Ache for the Distance (Profound Lore)
16. Flourishing : The Sum of All Fossils (The Path Less Traveled)
17. Retox : Ugly Animals (Ipecac)
18. Tombs : Path of Totality (Relapse)
Top Hip-Hop
1. Kanye West : My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella)
2. Jay-Z and Kanye West : Watch The Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
3. Shabazz Palaces : Black Up (Sub Pop)
4. D-Sisive Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye (Urbnet)
5. Big K.R.I.T. : Return of 4eva (mixtape)
6. Kendrick Lamar : Section 80 (Top Dawg Entertainment)
7. Danny Brown XXX (Fools Gold)
8. Tyler, the Creator: Goblin (XL)
9. Talib Kweli :Gutter Rainbows (Blacksmith)
10. Phonte : Charity Starts at Home (The Foreign Exchange)
11. Lil B : I’m Gay (I’m Happy) (mixtape)
12. Childish Gambino : EP (mixtape)
13. ASAP Rocky : LiveLoveA$AP (mixtape)
14. Nicki Minaj : Pink Friday (Cash Money/Universal)
15. Stalley : Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music)
16. G-Side The One…. Cohesive (mixtape)
Top Punk
1. Fucked Up : David Comes to Life (Matador)
2. OFF! : The First Four EPs (Vice)
3. Iceage : New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?)
4. Bomb The Music Industry! : Vacation (Quote Unquote)
5. Junior Battles : Idle Ages (Paper + Plastick)
6. B-Lines (Deranged)
7. Obits : Moody, Standard and Poor (Sub Pop)
8. The Wonder : Years Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing (No Sleep)
9. Cloud Nothings (Carpark)
10. Polar Bear Club : Clash Battle Guilt Pride (Bridge Nine)
11. Lemuria Pebble (Bridge Nine)
12. The Brains : Drunk Not Dead (Stomp)
13. Crusades : The Sun Is Down and the Night Is Riding In (It’s Alive)
14. Bridge and Tunnel : Rebuilding Year (No Idea)
Top Folk-Country
1. The Decemberists : The King Is Dead (Capitol)
2. Dan Mangan : Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)
3. Laura Marling: A Creature I Don’t Know (Domino)
4. One Hundred Dollars : Songs of Man (Outside)
5. Snailhouse : Sentimental Gentleman (White Whale)
6. Gillian Welch : The Harrow & the Harvest (Acony)
7. Richard Buckner : Our Blood (Merge)
8. The Deep Dark Woods : The Place I Left Behind (Six Shooter)
9. Daniel Romano : Sleep Beneath the Willow (You’ve Changed)
10. The Barr Brothers (Secret City)
11. Sunparlour Players : Us Little Devils (Outside)
12. Nick Lowe : The Old Magic (Yep Roc)
13. Ryan Adams : Ashes & Fire (Pax-Am)
14. The Jayhawks : Mockingbird Time (Rounder)
15. Hayes Carll: KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (Lost Highway)
16. Jenn Grant : Honeymoon Punch (Six Shooter)
Top World & Soul
1. The Weeknd : House of Balloons (OVO)
2. tUnE-yArDs : WhoKill (4AD)
3. Raphael Saadiq : Stone Rollin’ (Columbia)
4. Frank Ocean : Nostalgia, ULTRA (Def Jam)
5. Charles Bradley : No Time For Dreaming (Dunham)
6. Toro Y Moi : Underneath the Pine (Carpark)
7. The Stepkids (Stones Throw)
8. Mayer Hawthorne : How Do You Do? (Universal Republic)
9. Cee Lo Green : The Lady Killer (Elektra)
10. Aline Morales : Flores Tambores E Amores (Independent)
11. Beyonce : 4 (Columbia)
12. Seun Kuti : From Africa with Fury: Rise (Knitting Factory)
13. Jill Scott : Light Of the Sun (Warner)
14. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX : We’re New Here (XL)
15. Jazzy Jeff & Ayah : Back For More (Independent)
16. Jahdan Blakkamoore : Babylon Nightmare (Lustre Kings)
Top Dance & Electronic
1. James Blake (Atlas)
2. Nicolas Jaar : Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company)
3. SBTRKT (Young Turks)
4. Oneohtrix Point Never : Replica (Software)
5. Rustie : Glass Swords (Warp)
6. Amon Tobin : Isam (Ninja Tune)
7. The Field : Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
8. Little Dragon : Ritual Union (Peacefrog)
9. Gang Gang Dance : Eye Contact (4AD)
10. Africa Hitech : 93 Million Miles (Warp)
11. Katy B : On A Mission (Rinse)
12. Hudson Mohawke : Satin Panthers (Warp)
13. Junior Boys : It’s All True (Domino)
14. Zomby : Dedication (4AD)
15. Babe Rainbow : Endless Path (Warp)
16. Ford & Lopatin : Channel Pressure (Software)
17. Jamie Woon : Mirrorwriting (Polydor)
18. Miracle Fortress : Was I The Wave? (Secret City)
19. Azari & III (Turbo)
20. Toddla T : Watch Me Dance (Ninja Tune)
most of those are garbage
i’m glad the weeknd is being singled out for the ‘world & soul’ album of the year
it’s canadian so
also, is there an actual honest to goodness country album on “folk-country”
yeah those lists are pretty pathetic
4. D-Sisive Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye (Urbnet)
wtf is this
Kinda pissed that the Sunny Sweeney album didn’t make it onto the American Songwriters list tbh.
Xp no idea lol
lol exclaim! is the absolute worst, despite being free i somehow always regret picking up a copy
lol at how you can tell the metal list was typed up by someone who has never heard of any of the bands or albums
Rumba (FI) EOY 2011
Finnish songs
1. Regina: Jos et sä soita
2. Rubik: Laws of Gravity
3. The New Tigers: Pocketful of Sand
4. Regina: Unessa
5. Regina: Haluan sinut
6. Mirel Wagner: No Death
7. Burning Hearts: Into the Wilderness
8. Rubik: World Around You
9. Sansa: Boys (Summertime Love)
10. Chisu: Kohtalon oma
11. Suvi Isotalo: Kaikki sanat
12. Matti Johannes Koivu: 80-luvun lapset
13. Yona: Toisen oma
14. Regina: Lepään aalloilla
15. Black Twig: Lake Song
16. 22-Pistepirkko: UFO Girl
17. Chisu: Sabotage
18. Stella: Kutsumattomat vieraat jääkää kotiin
19. Regina: Mustavalkeaa
20. Rubik: Storm in a Glass of Water
21. Freeman: Tuhatjalkainen
22. Supo: Se tulee olemaan helppoo
23. Shine 2009: So Free
24. Jätkäjätkät: Uusi moottoritie
25. Von Hertzen Brothers: Miracle
I’ve heard of one of those bands, go me
seriously...y’all know how every EOY list is made? it really is as simple as just balloting writers. no publication can be bothered to rig or fix the results, or craft a list that “espouses” a “hivemind” or “worldview”.
― lex pretend, Saturday, December 3, 2011 3:25 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is so cute^^
― HUSTLA DA =:3 (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, December 3, 2011 6:49 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
the thing is that because of the vvv few ‘notorious’ (used relatively obv) examples of that kind of manipulation, you get rafts of messageboard blowhards thinking they have some sort of ‘industry understanding’ and that every single publication anywhere crafts its polls to reflect a personal brand
whereas in fact most of them don’t even have enough of a defined brand to make it in anyway worthwhile, and even if they did what would flipping around two ho-hum indie records on a list of 40 or whatever actually tell anyone
That the magazine wants to ‘keep in’ with Noel rather than Liam?
Quietus list has gone up:
http://thequietus.com/articles/07520-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2011
Really need to hear the Cut Hands record.
GORILLA VS. BEAR | Albums of 2011
30 Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise
29 Andy Stott | Passed Me By
28 The Weeknd | House of Balloons
27 Clams Casino | Instrumentals
26 Schoolboy Q | Setbacks
25 Elite Gymnastics | Ruin 1 + 2
24 Run DMT | Dreaming
23 Burial | Street Halo
22 Mina Tindle | Mina Tindle
21 Young Galaxy | Shapeshifting
20 Toro y Moi | Freaking Out
19 Pure X | Pleasure
18 Ford & Lopatin | Channel Pressure
17 Washed Out | Within and Without
16 Darkside | Darkside
15 Holy Other | With U
14 The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
13 Grouper | A I A
12 Sleep ∞ Over | Forever
11 The Sandwitches | Mrs. Jones’ Cookies
10 Puro Instinct | Headbangers in Ecstasy
09 Julianna Barwick | The Magic Place
08 Real Estate | Days
07 araabMUZIK | Electronic Dream
06 Korallreven | An Album By Korallreven
05 A$AP Rocky | LIVELOVEA$AP
04 White Denim | D
03 Panda Bear | Tomboy
02 Peaking Lights | 936
01 Shabazz Palaces | Black Up
as much as i absolutely ADORE a couple of sleep over tracks, there’s no way that album is top fifteen material.
Funny so many places are rating Shabazz Palaces and not Death Grips, IMO.
They’re totally different though
That Panda Bear album’s really good. Miles better than Merriweather or pretty much any AC album since Feels.
NN: Maybe so—I’ve only really scraped the surface of those but they both fall into the undie-hop (or whatever it is) category afaik and the Death Grips sounds so much more interesting to these ears.
undie-hop
please tell me this is a typo. there’s a genre called undie-hop now?
;_;
oh, err.. i think it’s an old term that used to get applied to people like Cannibal Ox to mean “underground hiphop”. Backpacker hiphop was another, more derogatory term. i know shit all about hiphop on the whole, so i could be talking bull...
Well the Shabazz album is a lot less confrontational than the Death Grips so it doesn’t surprise me that it’s found a wider audience and I suppose coming out on Sub Pop hasn’t hurt it’s profile either. It’s a great record though so who cares really?
Wasn’t shooting the messenger DL :)
Here’s ours for people who don’t actually want to visit the site:
1. PJ Harvey Let England Shake
2. Azari & III Azari & III
3. Tim Hecker Ravedeath 1972
4. The Haxan Cloak The Haxan Cloak
5. Perc Wicker & Steel
6. Cut Hands Afro Noise
7. Katy B On A Mission
8. Wild Beasts Smother
9. Death Grips Ex Military
10. Prurient Bermuda Drain
11. Årabrot Solar Anus
12. Laurel Halo Hour Logic
13. Sandwell District Feed Forward
14. John Maus We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
15. Cold Cave Cherish The Light Years
16. Alexander Tucker Dorwytch
17. Pinch & Shackleton Pinch & Shackleton
18. Mastodon The Hunter
19. Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
20. Cornershop The Double O Groove
21. John Foxx & The Maths Interplay
22. My Disco Little Joy
23. Frank Ocean Nostalgia/Ultra
24. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats Blood Lust
25. Hype Williams One Nation
26. Leyland Kirby Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
27. EMA Past Life Martyred Saints
28. Yob Atma
29. Destroyer Kaputt
30. Roly Porter Aftertime
31. Battles Gloss Drop
32. The Fall Ersatz GB
33. Zun Zun Egui Katang
34. Fucked Up David Comes To Life
35. Snowman Absence
36. Clams Casino Instrumentals
37. Obake Obake
38. Elzhi Elmatic
39. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells Everything Is Getting Older
40. The Master Musicians Of Bukkake Totem Three
41. Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts
42. Wolves In The Throne Room Celestial Lineage
43. British Sea Power Valhalla Dancehall
44. Bjork Biophilia
45. Skull Defekts ft. Daniel Higgs Peer Amid
46. Maria Minerva Cabaret Cixous
47. Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
48. Byetone Symeta
49. Amebix Sonic Mass
50. Liturgy Aesthetica
I just finished reading through the Quietus. I’ve been on vacation without web this past week, so I’ve got some catching up to do. Glad to see this thread in the sandbox.
With the Quietus post on my FnB FB page I wrote:
‘One of the best lists you’ll see from any publication, web or print. It’s interesting that PJ Harvey topped it. I can’t complain, she’s one of my favorite artists, but while the uniqueness of her album is an accomplishment, I can’t pretend to like her choices such as substituting a twee little-girl voice for her normally thunderous pipes. The switch-up to autoharp and saxophone may keep some people interested, but the music is too demure for my tastes. Nice to see Mastodon and Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats. It’s strange that Quietus never got on board for White Denim or TVOTR, but it makes their lists all the more unique, with about a dozen albums I still need to check out.’
Strange is probably not the right word, nor surprised. TVOTR’s domination of previous polls makes them clearly not cool to like anymore, heh. That’s alright, as long as they kept expanding their audience, I would hope. Not sure that they did though.
Funny so many places are rating Shabazz Palaces and not Death Grips, IMO.
― dog latin, Monday, December 5, 2011 7:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
i’d actually heard of shabazz palaces before last week fwiw
not sure that this is the place to ask this but is the new miranda lambert worth hearing? i haven’t heard anything about it, or even really realized there was a new one until i saw it on the american songwriter list.
yes it is. especially “mama’s broken heart” and “dear diamond”. mordy did you hear the pistol annies album too?
four the record might well be the worst album title by an artist i like of 2011 though.
I don’t see what’s so great about TVOTR—they seem like the middle-ground or the centre-point or the culmination between a whole load of acts who grew popular around the time—everything from Oneida to Wilco to Animal Collective. As such I see why they might be popular as a “default” US alterna-band as viewed by those not really invested in that kind of music, but they’re just so boring.
What are White Denim like? I don’t like the name...
I’m not a massive TVOTR fan (I just bought Dear Science last week) but I stumbled across them doing an outdoor live show in Boston a few years ago and they were captivating, sonically and visually (ie, it was odd and exciting to see close to a thousand people in a plaza watching a mostly black group playing Radioheadish music).
I like TVOTR for the songs, not for what ground or point they supposedly represent. I don’t think they sound like any of those other bands.
White Denim change a bit every album, but they are kind of what I wished Meat Puppets would have evolved into in the late 80s. Chaotically psychedelic guitar riffery, occasional sweet melodies, vocals the evolve and improve every record.
dear science is awes
I did hear they’re great live, yeah. But I dunno, I’ve tried listenign to TVOTR and I struggle to get through a whole song. They make me itchy.
not sure that this is the place to ask this but is the new miranda lambert worth hearing? i haven’t heard anything about it, or even really realized there was a new one until i saw it on the american songwriter list.
Definitely worth hearing, but it’s a minor record. She saved her best songwriting for the Pistol Annies project.
haven’t heard Pistol Annies either. i’ll have to check out both
pistol annies is my #4 album of the year. just a brilliant, brilliant record, so concise but every word and note is necessary.
what are they like?
Imagine the Trio project (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harrirs, and Linda Ronstadt) with sharp self-written songs about rural working class life.
this year’s finest recession album too
The White Denim album really is excellent, so much going on in each song.
also, is there an actual honest to goodness country album on “folk-country”
― v-shasty, Sunday, December 4, 2011
Just alt-country— but of course I am sure they would foolishly insist that this is the real stuff, and that Toby Keith and Miranda Lambert are not.
Mordy you shd def check out the Sunny Sweeney album too, although the first three songs are the most worth hearing imo
the gorilla vs bear schmo being super into ASAP rocky is pretty hilarious
I like White Denim. I usually hate garage rock and they manage to do interesting stuff within the genre but even so it’s not end of year stuff.
TVOTR... What happened to them? I thought they were going to be awesome when I first heard them in 2003. The Young Liars EP was bad ass, like an anticon thing with tunes and good singing but it’s been a case of diminishing returns ever since. I always want them to come good but everything’s a bit too tasteful. The Wilco comparison is a good one. They’re obviously a good band with talented members etc but I can’t imagine ever thinking, ‘Man, I can’t wait to get home so I can listen to the new TVOTR album...’
I think there’s a really good point for PJH’s singing style on the new album but that’s probably a different discussion for a different day.
“tasteful” is the word. they do what they do and they do it well, but i’ve never noticed them going above and beyond their remit. i’d def like to be proven wrong.
not sure that this is the place to ask this but is the new miranda lambert worth hearing?
Very worth hearing. I’m afraid I am once more having to accept that I just don’t like country though, despite all Miranda Lambert’s talent.
especially “mama’s broken heart” and “dear diamond”.
I agree with this. “Mama’s Broken Heart” really jumped out at me last time I listened. I must not have been paying close attention the first time(s) I heard it.
four the record might well be the worst album title by an artist i like of 2011 though.
Haha.
what does Lambert do differently from other country artists?
I LISTEN TO EVERYTHING BUT RAP AND COUNTRY
Good list Doran
Alfred, was that to me? I don’t know. Like I said, last time I listened to Four the Record, even though I think it’s good and that Lambert is super-talented, I still ended up feeling that even the country I find most accessible isn’t something I can click with in a big way. Maybe Crazy Ex-Girlfriend just caught me at a good time? I haven’t listened to enough country to attempt to answer why I like Miranda Lambert more than most (but I have tried some other in the “If you like ML, you might like this” category, and haven’t taken to them). The way Crazy Ex-Girlfriend straddles the line between country and classic rock probably helped, but I’m sure there’s a lot of other country that does that. (Also, I mostly don’t even listen to classic rock, so how is that an explanation for liking the album? But maybe it hits a residual classic rock spot in me.)
Seems a bit more leftfield list for Quietus than in 2010, and that’s appreciated.
And yes, pomplamau5, you need to hear the Cut Hands. Its more a companion to something like the Konono nº1 albums than dancefloor fare.
Good list Doran
― oPal, Monday, December 5, 2011 11:39 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
Except lol Clams Casino smh
Ah, shut it, Clams Casino = awesome.
Particularly heartening for me to see a second placing for Zun Zun Egui, but a bit disheartening that Kogumaza haven’t made it into a single year-end list at all. Boo.
Rudiphrous I def feel like lots of new country shows a classic rock inflence. 70s AOR has totally become an element of their heartland idyll
And the FACT tracks begin:
http://www.factmag.com/2011/12/05/50-best-tracks-of-2011-50-41/
50: OSSIE ‘TARANTULA’ (LIGHTWORKS)
49: MR. BEATNICK ‘SYNTHETES’ (DON’T BE AFRAID)
48: PUSHA T ‘ALONE IN VEGAS’ (from FEAR OF GOD, MIXTAPE)
47: PAUL WOOLFORD & PSYCATRON ‘STOLEN’ (HOTFLUSH)
46: MARK ERNESTUS MEETS BBC ‘MARK ERNESTUS MEETS BBC’ (VERSION) (HONEST JON’S)
45: AUTRE NE VEUT ‘SWEETHEART’ (from BODY, HIPPOS IN TANKS)
44: PHOTEK ‘CLOSER’ (PINCH REMIX) (TECTONIC)
43: LEVON VINCENT ‘IMPRESSIONS OF A RAINSTORM’ (NOVEL SOUND)
42: E.R.P. ‘LUNAR RUINS’ (HARBOUR CITY SORROW)
41: CREEP feat. NINA SKY ‘YOU’ (YOUNG TURKS)
Wait, Photek is still a thing?
that Creep track is one of my favorite songs of the year
clams casino is garbage
also i really dg why hour logic is the one of the 5000 things laurel halo was involved in this year that people like/have heard
that photek song is p good!!
ILM (i forget what thread) is the answer to your xp question for me, what is better?
50: OSSIE ‘TARANTULA’ (LIGHTWORKS)
49: MR. BEATNICK ‘SYNTHETES’ (DON’T BE AFRAID)
43: LEVON VINCENT ‘IMPRESSIONS OF A RAINSTORM’ (NOVEL SOUND)
41: CREEP feat. NINA SKY ‘YOU’ (YOUNG TURKS)
^^massive cosigns, particularly “synthetes” and “you”
(thought levon v’s “man or mistress” was better but it might be yet to come)
i’m surprised not to see the brandt brauer frick album on these lists, am only belatedly discovering it but it’s fucking great
that’s... a really random rap song to coalesce around
http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/5KMVL4vKFAEHkuemnt5jFU
Figured I might as well start a Spotify playlist for the FACT tracks countdown
I like brandt brauer frick and Roll The Dice but they’re not quite EOY for me.
“Tarantula” and “Synthetes” come across as very mannered and polite, kind of like house music that wouldn’t offend your conservative older relatives; I’m not really feeling either of them. (This is kind of my problem with dance music in general these days; it’s either too anonymously mannered or too anonymously brash, with nothing actually sticking out as exciting.)
Pusha T is... okay? Again, kind of boring/unengaging, like I’m listening to it through a thick pane of glass that’s blocking me from making an emotional attachment to the music.
i don’t really think of “synthetes” as dancefloor-focused particularly—i just love the sweep of the strings
ha yeah that’s very close to what i was saying yesterday about how both kendrick lamar and pusha kind of try to project a personality in their words that never comes out in their voice (xpost)
dan might like this by mr beatnick and ahu, who’s an absolutely wonderful turkish singer (it’s from 2010)
I think my headphones are letting me down massively with “Mark Ernestus Meets BBC”
hadn’t heard the Ossie track before—its slightly reminiscent of Kerri Chandler’s bar-a-thym
lol lex that had no sound for me! Fortunately one of the related links had it; this is... okay? It’s a little like the Night Slugs reaction all over again; it’s all decent/well done but it doesn’t actually speak to me.
Like, this is basically downtempo Jill Scott record and I already have enough Jill Scott that I don’t really need something that just reminds me of her.
“Sweetheart” is already interesting me more because the vocals are on the weird side. It’s definitely my favorite of the songs I’ve played so far (obv not better than “You”)
I’m listening to something by Brandt Brauer Frick on Spotify right now and it’s great, but apparently from 2010? Is there something from 2011 I should know about?
lol I feel like calling this year the time when music stopped getting real, and started getting polite </realworldnerd>
o i c, they added “Ensemble” to the name for 2011 xp
The Brandt Brauer Frick’s 2010 You Make Me Real is assembled from samples & overdubs on a computer workstation. 2011’s Mr. Machine is largely studio live performance mostly reprising pieces from the debut by a 10 piece ensemble.
Have listened to the first, listening now to the latest...not sure which I prefer, but “Pretend” was phenomenal.
lol I feel like calling this year the time when music stopped getting real, and started getting polite </realworldnerd>
― OH NOES, Monday, December 5, 2011 1:38 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
haha sometimes it really is a waste that you’re not a critic
He’s a critic. He only does it for us, though, and doesn’t get paid.
We don’t get paid much either.
Feels treasonous to say but I don’t really get the big deal (among the tiny crowd who cares) about Ossie. All of his stuff sounds nice enough but hardly distinct from other polite funky. Seems related to the weird level of cred and respect afforded to DJ MA1, though. Like, this is the way to be down with trad house conservatism.
We don’t get paid much either.
what? this is outrageous.
:( I like MA1 a lot
tim you were the first person i know to start bigging up ossie