Aireene Espiritu - Back Where I BelongBobby Avey - Inhuman WildernessSri Hanuraga - To The UniverseGreg Ward - Touch My Beloved's ThoughtObjekt - Kern, Vol 3Jeff Parker - The New BreedAxel Erotic - In Love With
― calzino, Sunday, 31 July 2016 09:28 (seven years ago) link
I forgot this one.
Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family - Beginning of a Memory
― calzino, Sunday, 31 July 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
iLe - Canibal
(Ironic alt latino sombrero tip to curmudgeon.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 5 August 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link
Feels like I've heard loads of good music this year, but there are only a few clear standouts so far:
BONAFIDE CLASSICS:Radiohead - A Moon Shaped PoolAutechre - Elseq 1-5Brian Eno - The Ship
GREAT - NEED TO LISTEN TO MORE:Yemi Alade - Mama Africa The Diary of an African WomanYoung Thug - Slime Season 3King - We Are KingKaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EarsFloorplan - VictoriousKanye West - The Life of Pablo
PROBABLY GOOD BUT NOT LISTENED TO ENOUGH TIMES:Prince Rama - Xtreme NowForteresse - Themes Pour La RebellionPolica - United CrushersPr0files - Jurassic TechnologyPaul Jebanasam - ContinuumRoly Porter - Third Law
I'm sure I've missed a few big ones out...
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Marit Larsen - Joni Was RightAurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A FriendMr. Fingers - Outer AcidDMX Krew - You Exist
"Joni Was Right" must have primed me, because I seriously read the last artist as DMX Knew.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 7 August 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
My list.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
Whyyyy do you guys like 1975!? Everytime I try to like them they just sound like an INXS tribute band and I don't even like INXS that much. What am I missing!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 7 August 2016 08:52 (seven years ago) link
I think if they were actually more like INXS, I'd find a reason to like them. But because they mostly sound like Duran Duran, I cannot.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 August 2016 12:55 (seven years ago) link
cuz their moves are so raw
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link
rolling and woefully incomplete best-of-2016: https://open.spotify.com/user/1239159458/playlist/2nTGXT3XMyWYVg7W4bcQwj
subtitle: at some point I should probably listen to something other than sviib
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 7 August 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Album:
iLe - iLevitable
This is PG13 (Ileana Cabra) from Calle 13, the younger sister. She's been singing on their albums since the beginning. I'd be curious to hear other people's impressions but I don't think I have anything to say to entice people to listen. Wish I knew Spanish. Will be saying that on my deathbed.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
Definitely not reggaeton.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Xpost: wait rudi you don't speak spanish!? I assumed you did because you're a big fan of latin music!
ILE sounds really good! Closest popular comparison I can think of is Natalia Lafourcade. there's some really nice instrumentation in some of those songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
I don't. So pathetic. All these years of listening to so much music in Spanish (mostly salsa though) and so little has sunk in.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
there's some really nice instrumentation in some of those songs.
I feel that the instrumentation tends to fall short most of the time. It's polished, but somehow lacking. I still like the album but I'm a but ambivalent about it. I think her vocals and songwriting are the strongest parts.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Vocals are somewhat unique from what is normally used in the genre. They're the definite highlight of course, just pointing out some of the instrumentation sounded good on first listen hahaha but yes there's nothing particularly outstanding in that matter.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 August 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
I hope you at least have learned how to dance salsa! I like the genre but it has never made sense to me as home listening. You need to listen to it while moving.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 August 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, learning to salsa is what got me started listening to salsa. I am not dancing these days due to chronic health problems which I'm still trying to resolve. I think it's fine as home listening, especially classic salsa, though I mostly listen in the car these days. Good driving music.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 8 August 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
For me, the absolute cream of this year's albums so far is something like
all-time brilliance
Jute Gyte - Perdurance
superlative
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone Mitski - Puberty 2Autechre - Elseq 1-5King - We Are King Oranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäKa - Honor Killed The SamuraiComet Control - Center Of The Maze The Display Team - Drones The Drones - Display Team Feelin' Kinda Free
very, very good
Teen - Love YesSuede - Night Thoughts Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room Skepta - KonnichiwaEsperanza Spalding - Emily's D+EvolutionWorking For A Nuclear Free City - What Do People Do All Day?Saqqara Mastabas - Libras Xenia Rubinos - Black Stars Teleman - Brilliant Sanity Kel Valhaal - New Introductory Lectures On Transcendental Qabala
more or less in that order, but there's loads bubbling under, probably some I've forgotten, and plenty coming to blast the above asunder
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Playlist updated for August.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 26 August 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
here's a list I've been making of 2016 singles I like:
Hazel English - Never Going HomeThe Raveonettes - Where Are You Wild HorsesAmason - AirportCobalt - Hunt the BuffaloAngel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss MeM83/Mai Lan/Animal Collective - Go
There's plenty more but that's all I've managed to put in a spotify playlist I made for such things.
― Frobisher, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
kvelertak sounds more than ever like a blackened thin lizzy on this one and it's making me happyhttps://youtu.be/2LsqLO7h3E8
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 September 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link
Jimmy Eat World - Sure and CertainBeach Slang - Spin the DialTwist - Can't Wait
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
Have been enjoying
Flava D - Fabriclive 88
in the car, but I do generally skip all the rapping (I guess those are grime or bassline tracks then).
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
Good for driving along Zuni after dark.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
favorites so far:
Autechre - Elseq 1-5Aphex Twin - Cheetah epMarc Baron - Un salon au fond d'un lacAngharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji - ffansïon | fanciesRadiohead - A Poon Shaped Mule
still haven't heard many new releases
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 29 September 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
I should put in a good word for Bobby Kapp/Matthew Shipp's Cactus. At the very least, I keep returning to it.
(I don't feel that strongly about any new albums this year. Even Ilevitable, which has some truly great tracks, slumps in the middle for me. Every album I've listened to and liked still bugs me a little, or is consistent but not special enough, like the Miramar album.)
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 29 September 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
I keep returning to it.
For the last week and a half or so. The test of time.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 29 September 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
New Nicolas Jaar album is pretty good.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Adding the following songs:
Nicolas Jaar - NoDevendra Banhart - Saturday NightNxWorries - Lyk DisAngel Olsen - SisterThe Modernist - The Price of LoveNOIA - Nostalgia del futuro
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
Spotify's web player isn't cooperating, so you'll have to find links for this short addenda to my March and July lists yourselves. Sorry.
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death (bandcamp) Confessional as K. Hersh, more convincing than C. WolfeГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ (bandcamp) 1979 post-punk from Moscow65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (youtube Gazy post-rock from an unfinished gameBlack Merlin - Hipnotik Tradisi (clips at soundcloud) Humid ambient immersed in BaliMetá Metá - MM3 (Mano Légua on YouTube) Adding sax pulls Brazilians further no wave. I'd start with earlier releases.Sote - Hardcore Sounds from Tehran (bandcamp) Laptop techno with academic cred
― Institute for Secular Eschatology (Sanpaku), Sunday, 2 October 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
bandcamp is quickly becoming my "discover new music" destination. every couple weeks i just go there, click on all the genre buttons to see the most popular stuff for every genre, and listen to the ones that have interesting covers. Works better than you would think- all kinds of stuff there that gets zero hype anywhere else.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 3 October 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
TOP 10 ALBUMS 2016 / as of Oct. 2016
Anderson.Paak - MalibuBADBADNOTGOOD - IVIdris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All AfricansMetá Metá - MM3Moderat - IIINicolas Jaar - SirensNoname - TelefoneRadiohead - A Moon Shaped PoolShura - Nothing's RealXenia Rubinos - Black Stars
Runner-ups / further listens required:
Angel Olsen - My WomanChance the Rapper - Coloring BookDavid Bowie - BlackstarDrugdealer - The End of ComedyKedr Livanskiy - January SunKING - We are KingMitski - Puberty 2Sofi Tukker - Soft AnimalsTwo Feet - First StepsWeyes Blood - Front Row Seat to EarthWhitney - Light Upon the Lake
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 10 October 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
I should probably also add Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith to my listening list since it's one of the albums that appears the most on this thread.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 10 October 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
8 mentions for it vs say 6 for the Radiohead one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 10 October 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
Really loving this - whatever genre it is (yt comment describes as 'psychotropic steel trap' I don't know what any of those words mean)Sporting Life feat. Evy Jane - Court Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwbNAQAQHBI
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
Also the Asusu - Sendak / Hallucinator single is fire. Particularly Sendak, sounds like a chainsaw splitting basslines.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:55 (seven years ago) link
have been enjoying the kelsey lu album 'church' lately. it's vocals + cello + pedals, so i guess colleen would be the easy comparison to make. it has that same mix of airiness and tension, but there's more of an emphasis on vocal expression rather than hypnotic rhythms.
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Monday, 24 October 2016 08:39 (seven years ago) link
playlist is updated; as in prior years, this one becomes a crazy thread dump of whatever's of interest to a strange collective so we end up with over 450 tracks and 38 hours of music to pick through. have at it and suggest what's missing!
ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 24 October 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
Pretty much cemented in place now that my two favorite albums of the year are
Noname - TelefoneKelsey Waldon - I've Got a Way
...then some other stuff that's not even close to being on that level. I'll sort it out in December.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Baby Queens' debut album came out yesterday, and it is pretty good. They're a five-piece R&B group produced by Cian Ciaran from Super Furry Animals. The first single, "Red Light", came out a few years ago; it's definitely one of the best tracks on the album, but there's a lot of other good stuff on here. I think they're the most promising group Cian has worked with; the lead vocalist, Vanity, has a great voice, and she sounds amazing on "Had My Heart."
Also really enjoying The Pattern Forms. I seem to like everything Jon Brooks touches. The Hintermass LP from earlier this year is also really good and seems to have been lost under the pile of great releases this year. Also a Jon Brooks project.
Baby Queens - Baby Queens https://open.spotify.com/album/0QgNBma8J1MLfK3dZmM6D9The Pattern Forms - The Pattern Forms https://open.spotify.com/album/2uP2fSxeSmTdtgm0iQQl3vHintermass - The Apple Tree https://open.spotify.com/album/4yJYBE0cThCRhp6EglBSN8
― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 29 October 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
A full list of albums here.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 October 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Really enjoying/appreciating all these recommendations.
― Evan R, Monday, 31 October 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Lj-wHYNwYaY
Papa M: “Bloom”
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
These have been in steady rotation this year:
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer MusicThe High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling TreesDeftones - GoreWhite Lung - ParadiseLone - LevitateBat For Lashes - The BrideBlood Orange - Freetown SoundDeerhoof - The MagicThe Avalanches - WildflowerLake Ruth - Actual EntityPye Corner Audio - StasisZomby - UltraKaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani - SunergyMr. Oizo - All WetMonolake - VLSI
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
a few additions since my last post:
Joyce Manor - "Cody"Interment - Scent of the BuriedHail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in BlueOccult Burial - Hideous Obscure
― o. nate, Sunday, 6 November 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
Euglossine - Canopy Stories
― ciderpress, Sunday, 6 November 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
TOP 10 SONGS 2016 as of Nov. will likely change drastically as I start digging EOY lists)
A.K. Paul - Landcruisin'Alsarah & The Nubatones - SoukuraAvalanches - If I Was a FolkstarKadhja Bonet - HoneycombMaggie Rogers - AlaskaNicolas Jaar - NoNoname - Diddy Bop Radiohead - The NumbersSporting Life - Court VisionWhitney - No Woman
― No longer active (Moka), Thursday, 17 November 2016 07:33 (seven years ago) link
John K. Samson - RequestsRae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane – Black BeatlesJapandroids - Near To The Wild Heart of Life
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 November 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
some tracks:
Kikagaku Moyo "Kogarashi" https://open.spotify.com/track/1dNVXjJxMvu8agaXXD80Q2CFCF "Sate Padang" https://open.spotify.com/track/10KLZOKmh3c7SKCmYLbpZPdvsn "Another One" https://open.spotify.com/track/72e5ilFtd3OoPFGzmQwja1The Weekend feat. Daft Punk "I Feel It Coming" https://open.spotify.com/track/2dMJG9mGhuRePUKPvWBteiYoung Thug & Travis Scott feat. Quavo "Pick Up The Phone" https://open.spotify.com/track/5NAMZI9lVhxNa6AZp3iQVHScHoolboy Q feat. SZA "Neva CHange" https://open.spotify.com/track/6tPDalwocS7zgeFpYi3xtr
― qop (crüt), Friday, 18 November 2016 06:43 (seven years ago) link