I've listened to bits of the Swallow The Sun, but not sure I'll ever get through all two and a half hours plus. Guess they got to hear the Baroness somehow -- I haven't heard that promos were even out yet. No Christian Mistress, Magic Circle, Ufomammut, Elder, Avatarium. I'm not feeling bad about letting my subscription lapse.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:20 PM
I have a stream of the Baroness album. It's good, but I don't feel like I've had enough time with it to put it on my year-end list. I've heard 14 of those 40 albums in all.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:24 PM
34. Ghost - Meliora23. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls12. Satan - Atom by Atom5. Lucifer - Lucifer I2. Tribulation - The Children of the Night
These would be on my list.
― jmm, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:32 PM
Yeah there's some good stuff on the list.
And here's this for reference:
Rough Trade's Top 100 Albums of 20151. Bjork - Vulnicura2. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear3. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit4. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People5. Max Richter - From Sleep6. Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool7. Kamasi Washington - The Epic8. Royal Headache - High9. Romare - Projections10. Jamie XX - In Colour11. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure12. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell13. Tame Impala - Currents14. Nadine Shah - Fast Food15. Wand - Golem16. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly17. Django Django - Born Under Saturn18. Tobias Jesso Jr - Goon19. Georgia - S/T20. Palma Violets - Danger in the Club21. Calexico - Edge of the Sun22. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass23. FFS (Franz Ferdinand + Sparks) - FFS24. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space25. Floating Points - Elaenia26. Bop English - Constant Bop27. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green28. Beach House - Depression Cherry29. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets30. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness31. Alabama Shakes - Sound and COlor32. Trevor Jackson - Format33. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter34. Shopping - Why Choose35. Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile36. Mac DeMarco - Another One37. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows38. Foals - What Went Down39. New Order - Music Complete40. Viet Cong - Viet Cong41. Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes42. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs43. Ibeyi - Ibeyi44. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood45. Fuzz - II46. Liam Hayes - Slurrup47. Death and Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are48. Colleen - Captain of None49. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie50. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier51. The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD52. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress53. Lianne La Havas - Blood54. Public Enemy - Man Plans God Laughs55. Mercury Rev - The Light In You56. Adele - 2557. Joanna Newsom - Divers58. Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture59. Leftfield - Alternative Light Source60. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love61. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special62. Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite63. Fraser A Gorman - Slow Hum64. C Duncan - Architect65. The Districts - A Flourish And A Spoil66. The Unthanks - Mount The Air67. Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs68. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin' down...69. Stealing Sheep - Not Real70. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa71. Public Image Ltd - What The World Needs Now72. Drenge - Undertow73. Holly Herndon - Platform74. Follakzoid - III75. Death Grips - The Powers That B76. METZ - II77. Spit and Shine - Everybody's A Fuckin Expert78. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon79. Destroyer - Poison Season80. Andrew Combs - All These Dreams81. Hills - Frid82. Grimes - Art Angels83. Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp84. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl85. Shamir - Ratchet86. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free87. Ought - Sun Coming Down88. Sauna Youth - Distractions89. Nils Frahm - Solo90. The Fireworks - Switch Me On91. Leon Bridges - Coming Home92. Bully - Feels Like93. Low - Ones and Sixes94. Arca - Mutant95. Girlpool - Before the World Was Big96. Laura Marling - Short Movie97. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love98. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again99. Ryan Adams - 1989100. Protomartyr - The Agen
I was surprised to see Bop English at #26. It's pretty good -- White Denim frontman James Petralli's solo project. https://bopenglish.bandcamp.com/album/constant-bop
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:37 PM
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
better than flaming GC
The 405's Alternative Mercury Prize awarded to Little Simz's A Curious Tale of Trials + Personshttp://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/the-405-alternative-mercury-prize-goes-to-little-simz-144
― djmartian, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
40 records on that Decibel list and no VHOL?
― alpine static, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link
hardly heard any of those Decibel albums and the only one I thought was an unqualified tick.jpg was #40, Cruciamentum
I wouldn't mind but I already keep scolding myself for how much cool shit I bypass because I'm catching up on (predominantly) metal promos
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
I take it the Mercury Rev album is boring?
― djh, Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
― djh
It's Secret Migration levels of boring.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 19 November 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
it's like being waterboarded but with sap instead of water
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 November 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
no pissgrave no credibility
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 November 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Listened to the first tracks of Decibel's top five albums to "see what I'm missing" this year, then the first track of Lightning Bolt's new album, and how the former has been dubbed "Extremely Extreme" (Decibel's tagline) over the latter continues to elude me... feels like listening to a random selection of MOR (ie hard bop, here comes the bass solo!) contemporary jazz albums... but then again hasn't everything been done in Japanoise/noise rock/jazz rock as well since the 80s? Maybe viscerally I just respond more to the latter's driving rhythm, and blind myself to what makes metal lyrics "hit hard" for some.
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
Resident Music's list is the best of this lot. Not perfect, but I'll be surprised to see a better top 5 this year.
― Humean froth (Sanpaku), Friday, 20 November 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link
There are few current graves I would happily stripe, but I wouldn't want to make a scene of it.
― xelab, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
Top 20 from that Resident Music list:
20. Jamie xx - In Colour19. Wand - Golem18. Gaz Coombes - Matador17. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats - s/t16. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie15. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green14. Lonelady - Hinterland13. Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - I Declare Nothing12. Ghostpoet - Shredding Skin11. The Maccabees - Marks to Prove it10. Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia9. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh8. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last7. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile6. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness5. Mbogwana Star - From Kinshasa4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell3. Courtney Barnett - Everybody Poops2. Low - Ones & Sixes1. Algiers - s/t
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
oh god, are we really comparing five-album best of lists against each other now
when will the madness end
― rushomancy, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
Nice to see Songhoy Blues rate so highly on a list; I was worried they'd be overlooked. First track from new album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
Rate Your Music has fluid charts so things will change but here's the Top 100 of 2015 according to the utilitarian website as of right now, including archival and live releases:
1 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 2 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 3 Joanna Newsom - Divers 4 Swans - The Gate 5 Kamasi Washington - The Epic 6 Miles Davis - At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 7 Bob Dylan - The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 8 Toby Fox - Undertale Soundtrack 9 Yes - Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two 10 Mgła - Exercises in Futility 11 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 12 Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side of Tape 13 Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete 14 Ryan Adams - Live at Carnegie hall 15 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 16 Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness 17 The Rolling Stones - The Marquee Club Live in 1971 18 Leprous - The Congregation 19 Zierler - ESC 20 Max Richter - Sleep 21 Horrendous - Anareta 22 Elza - A mulher do fim do mundo 23 Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine 24 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 25 Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. 26 Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud 27 Satan - Atom by Atom 28 Deep Purple - Long Beach 1971 29 Avatarium - The Girl With the Raven Mask 30 Paradise Lost - The Plague Within 31 Gov't Mule - Sco-Mule 32 Viet Cong - Viet Cong 33 Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi 34 Björk - Vulnicura 35 Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction 36 Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was 37 Enslaved - In Times 38 Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls 39 Milo - So the Flies Don't Come 40 Jamie xx - In Colour 41 Autechre - AE_LIVE_KRAKOW_200914 42 Nickelus F - Trick Dice 43 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr 44 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs 45 Yes - Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two 46 Blues Pills - Blues Pills Live 47 Coil - Backwards 48 Mark Lanegan - Houston: Publishing Demos 2002 49 Caligula's Horse - Bloom 50 Vince Staples - Summertime '06 51 Enshine - Singularity 52 Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth 53 The Chills - Silver Bullets 54 Timbre - Sun & Moon 55 Elder - Lore 56 Beach House - Depression Cherry 57 Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds 58 Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear 59 Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards 60 Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last 61 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 62 Symphony X - Underworld 63 Gazpacho - Molok 64 Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields 65 Ghost - Meliora 66 Katatonia - Sanctitude 67 Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION 68 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls 69 Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment 70 Ricercar Consort - Musikalisches Opfer 71 Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School 72 Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper 73 Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style 74 Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone 75 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 76 Melechesh - Enki 77 Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat 78 Leviathan - Scar Sighted 79 Soilwork - The Ride Majestic 80 Van der Graaf Generator - After the Flood: Van der Graaf Generator at the BBC 1968-1977 81 Disasterpeace - It Follows 82 Floating Points - Elaenia 83 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Tower Theater, Philadelphia 1975 84 Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars 85 The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise 86 2814 - 新しい日の誕生 87 Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs 88 Deerhunter - Fading Frontier 89 Tame Impala - Currents 90 Gazpacho - Molok 91 Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere 92 Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu 93 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love 94 My Dying Bride - Feel the Misery 95 Clutch - Psychic Warfare 96 Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path 97 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' 98 Royal Headache - High 99 Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain100 Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 20 November 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
Love the eclecticism there, thanks.
Anyone placing bets on Sufjan vs Kendrick at P&J?
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
that RYM list is certainly VERY different to the Acclaimed music 2015 and almost certainly very different to most EOY lists lol.
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 20 November 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
i'm glad this thread's title was changed, this is the first time i've looked at it because i thought it really was about Gaz Coombes (not that there's anything wrong with that, i liked the 2nd Supergrass album a lot)
― some dude, Friday, 20 November 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
top 100 of 2015 according to the utilitarian website as of right now, including archival and live releases
Why would you include archival and live releases? You have to check those boxes to get those, and most polls do not include them. Gazpacho's Molok is a good album, but probably doesn't need to be listed twice.
Without the archival and live, it's better than most of the lists we'll see in the coming weeks. After Jason Isbell, here's what's in the list without the other crap:
84. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect85. Junkie XL - Mad Max: Fury Road 86. W.A.S.P. - Golgotha87. Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs 88. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows 89. Kamelot - Haven90. Low - Ones And Sixes91. Ought - Sun Coming Down 92. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down... 93. Laura Marling - Short Movie 94. Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours 95. Sacri Monti - Sacri Monti 96. Caspian - Dust and Disquiet 97. Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle 98. Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang 99. Arcturus - Arcturian 100. Fuzz - II
Christian Mistress - To Your Death just misses it at 101. Enforcer, High On Fire, Wand, I think I like the second 100 better!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 November 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Piccadiily Records (Manchester)Top 100: http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=751
1 - Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness2 - Horsebeach - II3 - Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last4 - Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit5 - Lonelady - Hinterland6 - Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf7 - Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell8 - Outfit - Slowness9 - Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - I Declare Nothing10 - Linkwood - Expressions11 - Romare - Projections12 - The Charlatans - Modern Nature13 - Blank Realm - Illegals In Heaven14 - Floating Points - Elaenia15 - Ruf Dug - Island16 - Dutch Uncles - O Shudder17 - Bambi Davidson - Brunswick18 - Toro Y Moi - What For?19 - Ryley Walker - Primrose Green20 - Föllakzoid - III21 - Ducktails - St. Catherine22 - Boof - The Hydrangeas Whisper23 - Colleen - Captain Of None24 - Beach House - Depression Cherry25 - Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...26 - Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun27 - D'angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah28 - Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home29 - Be (Garth Be) - H I P N O T O N Y30 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love31 - Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly32 - Tame Impala - Currents33 - Rozi Plain - Friend34 - Other Lives - Rituals35 - Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul36 - The Holydrug Couple - Moonlust37 - Jamie xx - In Colour38 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress39 - Mac Demarco - Another One40 - John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure41 - Moon B - Lifeworld42 - Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space43 - A Place To Bury Strangers - Transfixiation44 - The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet45 - Stealing Sheep - Not Real46 - Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes47 - Viet Cong - Viet Cong48 - Kamasi Washington - The Epic49 - Jose Padilla - So Many Colours50 - Low - Ones and Sixes
― mike t-diva, Friday, 20 November 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
i rely heavily on the rym lists, though i also filter out all the metal records when i run the top 100. i mean, i like metal, but rym _really_ likes metal. should probably filter out all the progressive rock records as well because i care nothing about steven wilson or beardfish, but even if i filter out metal, somebody will tell me about krallice or dodheimsgard. nobody is going to tell me about komara.
― rushomancy, Friday, 20 November 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
13 - Blank Realm - Illegals In Heaven
^ not really all that nuts about straight-up indie rock, but this album is really good in a classic flying nun sort of way
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:18 (eight years ago) link
Mojo Magazine - Top 50 Albums
1. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly3. New Order - Music Complete4. Tame Impala - Currents5. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs6. Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary7. Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile8. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa9. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets10. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell11. Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night12. Courtney Barnet - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit13. Low - Ones An Sixes14. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love15. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important16. D'Angelo - Black Messiah17. Hooton Tennis Club - Highest Point In Cliff Town18. Blur - The Magic Whip19. Joanna Newsom - Divers20. Dungen - Allas Sak21. Richard Thompson - Still22. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too23. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure24. Gaz Coombes - Matador25. Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern26. Wilco - Star Wars27. Leon Bridges - Coming Home28. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood29. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside30. Bill Fay - Who Is The Sender?31. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People32. Jamie XX - In Colour33. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday34. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free35. The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth36. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear37. Promised Land Sound - For Use And Delight38. Lonelady - Hinterland39. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart40. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color41. Kasami Washington - The Epic42. Boz Scaggs - A Fool To Care43. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special44. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green45. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness46. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon47. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier48. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock49. Ibeyi - Ibeyi50. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
Gaz Coombes beating off Boz Scaggs there
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
It's amazing to think that Julia Holter is now a huge huge alternative star with big billboard campaigns on the tube and stuff.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
I love that album but and enjoyed seeing her live last week but she isn't a "huge huge" anything, unless you're intending the word 'alternative' to completely negate the 'huge'.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 November 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
don't underestimate how targeted these campaigns are. oval space has a billboard on hackney road.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
Also they're probably anticipating a big sales bounce from 'Have You In My Wilderness' appearing at or near the top of a load of magazine lists (especially mags like Mojo whose readers still actually buy CDs). If you want to push an artist like that up a commercial level or two then now is exactly the time you want to be heavily marketing her.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 November 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
11. Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Nightgood looking out for the classics mojo!
16. D'Angelo - Black Messiahhmmm
― niels, Friday, 20 November 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
Julia Holter just got booked to play the arts centre near my house in Feb, capacity of the biggest room available is probably 200. her music has Crossover Potential for sure but let's not get carried away
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 November 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
eh i'm fine w/ d'angelo being on some 2015 lists, the album was released after most places published their 2014 lists
― marcos, Friday, 20 November 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Alabama Shakes only making #40 on a Mojo list suggests their album is either terrible or actually really good in ways I wouldn't have anticipated.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 November 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
I found it incredibly forgettable - the only reason I even remembered it existed is that one of the songs has popped up in a commercial recently.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 20 November 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Some nice surprises on that Picadilly list. The Linkwood album is really good!
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm not much into the Steven Wilson or Beardfish, but I have gotten turned on to some new prog, and thanks to the RYM lists, I learned that I like The Dear Hunter way more than Deerhunter! Gazpacho and Anekdoten albums are pretty great if you're not allergic to mellotrons or Nordic dread. Goes great paired with a nice barrel-aged stout or Hammerheart's Sköll och Hati, smoked chocolate stout. Skål, heathens!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
Honestly, I forgot Blur released an album.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
lol @ New Order and Blur being so high in that list
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
will be even more lols when New Order win the ilx eoy poll
Mojo Magazine - Top 50 Albums15. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
15. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Release date was early November 2014.
― Position Position, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Gazpacho are kinda dweeby ("This CD may destroy the universe") but I like them too. They don't overload their songs, it's more about atmosphere.
― jmm, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
the hip-hop representation in these lists is very sad. not that the kendrick lamar album isn't great, but it's painfully obvious how much work it (and a couple of inevitable others) is doing as Not Like That Other Rap Music
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
the fake courtney barnett album titles were one of the lowest points of ilx not just this thread but it really is a spectacularly bad album title (the album itself is fine)
still, would definitely listen in to a conversation between her and earl sweatshirt about their album titles
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
definitely, though tbf the whole point of year end lists is to highlight examples of Not Like That Other (x) Music
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 20 November 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
most of That Other Rap Music is arguably terrible
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Courtney Barnett's voice is one of the most unpleasant sounding things I've heard this year, just this horrible nasal drone.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
This is transparently not true in the case of much of the guitar music in, eg, the Mojo list.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
that's because Mojo is really incredibly boring
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 20 November 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
i don't mind courtney barnett's voice, it's just laconic sullen detachment. sheryl crow x aimee mann isn't a very exciting vocal mode but it's not unpleasant either. the album sort of falls down in places because when she's not as insightful as she thinks she is there's nowhere for her songs to hide really
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
Gazpacho are kinda dweeby ("This CD may destroy the universe") but I like them too. They don't overload their songs, it's more about atmosphere.― jmm
Ha ha, yeah. I wrote about that, the CD includes a code at the end that generates a random number that could theoretically, with the Quantum Zeno effect, destroy the universe. The fact that they may not be joking is kind of great. Plus biblical demons, Norwegian folklore about religion and trolls turning to stone, and instrumentation that includes a 10,000 year-old Skåra stone.
Also regarding Komara, it is a good palate-cleansing jolt of avant jazz prog. Worth checking out for those who may also like Shining, Author-Punisher, Zu, Pinkish Black.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
(i think after attempting some grimes songs this week i'd be happy with any vocal mode that isn't insufferably cutesy)
― lex pretend, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link