hahaha
P.A.S.S.I.O.N. got him in a jam again
This Objekt track would be fantastic if the beat would commit to something
I don’t know if this version of “Sicko Cell” on Spotify is the same one they picked but, if it is, GOOD JOB FACT, this gets really really creepy and tense once the beat drops out; it does a good job of making me want to hear the entire mix I pulled it out of.
This XXXY song is kind of generic but simply having a driving house beat puts it above most of the other tracks FACT picked, lol
did you like the blawan track dan?
Suburbanite: You might be overestimating the magazine’s “wide range of coverage” — it’s mostly just me writing about pop records, someone else profiling local indie bands, and a classical critic. Aventura’s probably “pop” enough to fall inside my purview (i.e., you could write about it as a pop thing, without any big background in Latin/Caribbean music), but I rarely feel like I have time to do that sort of thing justice; I’d want to take a while to really learn what I’m talking about! It’d be great if we had a regular freelancer with the background to cover that stuff quickly. (Also, I should get better at pitching.)
i felt sure the wire top ten would include the grouper recs
Blawan wasn’t on Spotify so I haven’t tracked it down yet.
Has anyone mentioned Anthony David as yet?
Bleep’s top ten albums:
1. Byetone—SyMeta (raster-noton)
2. Rustie—Glass Swords (Warp)
3. John Maus—We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Upset The Rhythm)
4. patten—GLAQJO XAACSSO (No Pain In Pop)
5. Martyn—Ghost People (Brainfeeder)
6. Peaking Lights—936 (WW / NNF)
7. Surgeon—Breaking The Frame (Dynamic Tension Records)
8. Roll The Dice—In Dust (The Leaf Label)
9. Nicolas Jaar—Space is Only Noise (Circus Company)
10. Roly Porter—Aftertime (Subtext)
http://bleep.com/?page=podcast&module=EOY
Buy
x-post to Nabisco—what’s pop sometimes depends on how it is pitched and who is your editor I guess.
hmm this Blawan track is basically just a Brandy remix; it’s good but not really killing me (tho headphones might be letting me down again)
again though, the presence of an actual beat elevates it above most of the other selections on the list
I have a top ten to write and I one have 9 records—AND I’m worried that one won’t even count. Argh.
Sorry—“only have”.
in my experience at different publications, writers have a much bigger hand in coverage than editors. yes, sometimes you’re assigned a story, but much more often you make a strong case for something new’s inclusion
That Bleep top ten is decent, would be interested to hear the record at #1.
Also Dan you’d better do this when the RA list turns up rather than wasting your 2011 dance listening on this FACT list.
byetone are p good iirc
still surprised to see a noton record at #1 of anything
On first listen I though the Byetone would be top ten of the year for me but I dunno, it didn’t hit me as hard on subsequent listens. Still great though. Needs to be played very loud.
Also Dan you’d better do this when the RA list turns up rather than wasting your 2011 dance listening on this FACT list.
lol, I honestly thought the FACT list would tie into my sensibilities; this really says more about how little I actually pay attention to FACT than anything else
Byetoncé
Three women in the Wire to ten: Eliane Radigue, Laurel Halo and half of Hype Williams iirc
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and cindytalk
Cindytalk weren’t even in the top 10, anyway. Which is what we were considering.
SPIN top 40 rap albums list, starring blurbs by at least three goons: http://bit.ly/amilliondollars
when did fact become a parody of themselves?
it is kind of hilarious to see pubs that at the beginning of the year would’ve been CLAMORING to have an odd future release to put in their top 10 just quietly shuffling goblin in the middle of their lists
lots of stuff i haven’t heard in that spin list, must investigate
yeah very useful list for sure
I don’t know if it’s that have become a parody of themselves, more that their brief has become easier to parody now that it’s so familiar and entrenched.
Probably part of the life cycle of every publication with a really clear aesthetic.
yeah lots i haven’t heard in the spin list, good blurbs for the most part too. though most of the rap albums/mixtapes i was most excited by weren’t ther ;_;
nice to see the serengeti album on the spin list (albeit at the bottom of the list)—one of my favorite underrated albums of the year
also re: the spin list: is it weird that they frame death grips as zach hill’s project? i thought he just played drums on some of the stuff but wasn’t really the creative force behind it, but also i don’t really know much about how they operate so i could be wrong.
i don’t normally point to specific pieces of my writing on here but i’m making an exception to point out that I totally used the best possible quote for my Gunplay blurb
Am I missing out on Das Racist? I have been ignoring them for a couple years now.
they aren’t necessarily going to be everyone’s type of thing but they have gone some way past “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” on their album this year
setting the bar high there
they aren’t necessarily going to be everyone’s type of thing
Lex, if you suddenly start digging Das Racist I will shocked, amazed and somewhat baffled!
i would be surprised if scotty magee liked das racist
Checked a few jams out, no go for me.
Magnet—Best Of 2011: Electronic
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/07/best-of-2011-electronic/
1. AÉREA NEGROT Arabxilla (B-Pitch)
2. THUNDERCAT The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
3. MACHINEDRUM Room(s) (Planet µ)
4. DOG LEATHER Greezy Man And Stinky Man Meets Smutty Ranks On Tarantula Hill (Ehse)
5. WASHED OUT Within And Without (Sub Pop)
6. HUDSON MOHAWKE Satin Panthers (Warp)
7. PANDA BEAR Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
8. SBTRKT SBTRKT (Young Turks)
9. SEBASTIAN Total (Ed Banger)
10. JAMES BLAKE James Blake (Universal Republic)
Magnet—Best Of 2011: Noise
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/08/best-of-2011-noise/
1. CHRISTINA KUBISCH Magnetic Flights (Important)
2. TELECUT POWERS Zion Traveler (Baked Tapes)
3. PETER J. WOODS Songs For Nothing (After Music)
4. SKIN GRAFT Dystrophy (Hanson)
5. YELLOW TEARS The Cult Of Yellow Tears (Hospital)
6. PETE SWANSON I Don’t Rock At All (Three-Lobed)
7. BLOOD STEREO Tape Hiss For Brainwash (Feeding Tube)
8. WHITE SUNS Waking In The Reservoir (ugEXPLODE)
9. C. SPENCER YEH 1975 (Intransitive)
10. SIGHTINGS Future Accidents (Our Mouth)
that electronic list is terrible imo
Magnet—Best Of 2011: Hip Hop
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/04/best-of-2011-hip-hop/
1. CURREN$Y Weekend At Burnie’s (Warner Bros.)
2. STALLEY Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music) (SMC)
3. JAY-Z + KANYE WEST Watch The Throne (Def Jam)
4. SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up (Sub Pop)
5. MAIN ATTRAKIONZ 808s & Dark Grapes II (self-released)
6. BIG K.R.I.T. Return Of 4Eva (self-released)
7. RICK ROSS God Forgives, I Don’t (Maybach)
8. EVIDENCE Cats & Dogs (Rhymesayers)
9. TYLER, THE CREATOR Goblin (XL)
10. ACTION BRONSON Dr. Lecter (Fine Fabric Delegates)
More Magnet lists here:
got stalley. wtf people
i dare a human on this earth to tell me a stalley lyric off the top of their heads
i bet stalley doesnt remember his own lyrics
Arabxilla is a pretty weird #1. It has its moments but a bunch of it is unlistenable imo.
7. RICK ROSS God Forgives, I Don’t (Maybach)
lol so they made this list, what, 2 months ago assuming that this album was going to come out in december?
a lot of editors are really bad at their jobs
love love love arabxilla
i’m glad to see the thundercat album getting a couple nods
lol, I honestly thought the FACT list would tie into my sensibilities; this really says more about how little I actually pay attention to FACT than anything else
I think the problem with FACT is that it styles itself as being a dance music title whereas a lot of the music it covers either isn’t dance music at all or is bedroom music that appeals to people who like the idea of dance music more than actually dancing. There are honourable exceptions obviously but bar a handful of nights in London it doesn’t seem to have any connection to actual club culture.
Arabxilla is a pretty weird #1. It has its moments but a bunch of it is unlistenable imo.
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I couldn’t get into it as much as I wanted (that is to say I thought the concept and general vibe was great) but it’s neat to see it at no.1 on a mag’s list anyway
if that makes sense?
AÉREA NEGROT Arabxilla—I love this record. I think this is the most interesting No 1 I’ve seen yet. The rest of the list is kinda iffy tho.
I couldn’t listen to that album at all, and not just in a ‘meh’ way. I had a proper physical feelings of antipathy towards it. It’s certainly a bold number one. Also, I can’t fathom why they didn’t have Rustie on that list, but stuff like Hudson Mohawke instead.
i found arabxilla completely unlistenable too tbh :(
but at the same time it’s def a bold, unpredictable no 1 in a good way—far rather that than the sbtrkt, for example, which seems to be a “top 20 everywhere” token electronic album, which is tooooootes overrated
See that’s just me—I’d much rather the No1 that half the listeners found “completely unlistenable” and the other half were all “wheee, best! thing! evah!” than some blahblah consensus pick that no one could find anything particularly wrong with but no one was willing to go handbags at dawn over. (repeat to fade)
Fairly sure that’s accounting from the cross-the-board high placings for the Metronomy album as well. Which is kind of... not bad exactly but really is this it?
metronomy are so blahhh that i tend to fail to even take in their placing on EOY lists
Propose new rule: if you are not willing to get in a fistfight over your AOTY then you cannot make it No 1.
I am generally pro-Metronomy but I couldn’t get an aural hold on that album. Think it’s leftover goodwill from ignoring them before? Dunno.
I was reading about the Metronomy album and it sounded kind of interesting, in a conceptual way—but that said I really didn’t like the c2008/9 album they did at all. Utterly ghastly. Is this any better/different?
Propose new rule: if you are not willing to get in a fistfight over your AOTY then you cannot make it No 1.
would happily punch anyone dissing beyoncé so YES
I’m not sure I’m willing to get into a fistfight over an album about the horrors of war :/
if you are not willing to get in a fistfight over your AOTY
Last time I got *that* overboard with an album, it was “Voice of the 7 woods”
Good old Spotify means I can have-a-try of AÉREA NEGROT Arabxilla tonight.
xpost Neither could I really see myself taking off my watch to defend a concept record about the bleakness of a Scottish fishing village.
I would totally take it outside the baaaaah with my friend Oliviaaaaaaah over my AOTY so I’m fine with it.
FACT magazine tracks #10–1
http://www.factmag.com/2011/12/05/50-best-tracks-of-2011-50-41/5/
10: ITAL ‘CULTURE CLUBS’ (LOVERS ROCK)
09: ZOMBY ‘NATALIA’S SONG’ (4AD)
08: AZEALIA BANKS ’212′ (SELF-RELEASED)
07: ROCKWELL ‘ARIA’ (CRITICAL AUDIO)
06: JOHN MAUS ‘QUANTUM LEAP’ (UPSET THE RHYTHM)
05: S-X ‘WOOOO RIDDIM’ / DJ Q REMIX (BUTTERZ WHITE)
04: FRANK OCEAN ‘NOVACANE’ (from NOSTALGIA, ULTRA. SELF-RELEASED)
03: RUSTIE ‘ULTRA THIZZ’ (WARP)
02: MOSCA ‘BAX’ (NUMBERS)
01: TYLER, THE CREATOR ‘YONKERS’ (XL)
oh dear.
and kmt
“oh dear” and “kmt” and a massive fucking side-eye to the guardian’s top 10 so far too. what are my fellow critics LIKE :(
i would pay you to stop posting “kmt”
lol
set up a paypal account. Could make a fortune for a charity
gotta love how americans think kmt is just a thing i do rather than REALLY COMMON SLANG
alix & pip
kiss my taint
it is? I’ve only ever seen you say it tbf
xps
among whom is it common slang, though?
Why is it taking the Guardian so fucking long to roll out their top ten?
RA haven’t even started their 50 yet!
among whom is it common slang, though?
last time that was asked he said Jamaican women in London iirc
Haha wow there isn’t a single good record in the Graun’s top 10 so far.
yeah i was getting at how a) that’s part of why it’s obnoxious when he does it and b) that’s why nobody else on ilx ever says it.
kmt = caribbean diasporic slang that has become part of the lingua franca of british urban youth. i dunno, do your own research. tons of people i know use it
dunno if british is right lex. Seems like its a part of london only, certainly not used across the whole of the UK
I’ve only ever seen two people do it in real life: An enormous Jamaican dude outside a pub who insisted on telling me about how he once produced the Clash, and a skinny junkie kid who I think was looking to steal my wallet...
i’ve seen plenty of people from manchester and birmingham use it
It’s a bit like when Prince Harry says ‘BRAP!’
I would not have been mad at FACT if they had put Frank Ocean at #1
However, they put Tyler there instead, so hell yes I am mad at them
also everything I could find on Spotify has been added to the FACT playlist
i don’t care about tyler’s album but “yonkers” is a pretty undeniable “oh shit” banger of a track
don’t care, fuck Tyler
Meanwhile, Billboard speaks:
http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-year-end/hot-100-songs?year=2011
1 “Rolling In The Deep”—Adele
2 “Party Rock Anthem”—Lmfao Featuring Lauren Bennett & Goonrock
3 “Firework”—Katy Perry
4 “E.T.”—Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West
5 “Give Me Everything”—Pitbull Featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer
6 “Grenade”—Bruno Mars
7 “F**K You (Forget You)”—Cee Lo Green
8 “Super Bass”—Nicki Minaj
9 “Moves Like Jagger”—Maroon 5 Featuring Christina Aguilera
10 “Just Can’t Get Enough”—The Black Eyed Peas
don’t care, @fucktyler
“yonkers” beat is terrible, banger status denied
man i heard the “yonkers” beat as the bumper music on rap & r&b stations for months, get outta here
Yeah the “Yonkers” beat is fantastic, no matter what else you may think of Tyler.
i kind of think as a “banger” as something you can dance to, “yonkers” is too...dour