That comment from flopson a few years back about listening to tUnE-yArDs is like accidentally walking into a room where someone is vigorously masturbating has never really left me I'm afraid :/
― MikoMcha, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
nicki (or more accurately, young money as a "movement") almost always rubs me the wrong way but i still gotta give lookin ass a few more listens before i dismiss this outright. it didn't do much for me at all when i first heard it and I much prefer the hot stylez version
5&6 is prob my fave on the album but i think 'in conflict' deserves acclaim as a complete statement more so than chopping it up into pieces. in any case, this is gorgeous
i voted for water fountain though i'm not generally so taken with 'nikki nack'. 'WhoKill' and 'birdbrains' had a stridency and vitality 'nikki' is missing, though there's enough quality on here to not dismiss it entirely (Time of Dark, Wait for a Minute, Left Behind and Rocking Chair are other standouts). Nikki sounds like an artist trying to decide what they want to say next, which is fine. I'm into merrill for the long haul. Water Fountain is pretty massive tho; prob the best white girl struggle track of the year.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
I lump Tune-Yards in with Fiery Furnaces and Planningtorock - woozy electronic indie which I admire for its originality, but find just too abstruse to listen to for more than a couple of tracks.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
I had a bunch of anonymous deep house on my ballot fwiw.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
'in conflict' deserves acclaim as a complete statement more so than chopping it up into pieces. in any case, this is gorgeous
Yes!
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
^looool xps to mikomcha
this is bad sry, graceland for the '10s. also haha dl it is nooothing like fiery furnaces, spot of female vocalist lumping mebbe
― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Cool start imo! Also, great graphics idea!― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 19, 2015 8:21 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag PostPermalink
thanks! i learned from the pro ;-)
― gr8080, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
xxpost
Can't disagree with that statement, though Owen was one of three (I think?) artists that I voted for in both the albums and tracks categories.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
merrill and company's optics and first blush sound are very theater kid / upstate bobo... which she is! But she's also a very intelligent and thoughtful composer with a great voice. So i get why people dismiss her out of hand and on a cursory listen but it makes me sad all the same.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
That comment from flopson a few years back about listening to tUnE-yArDs is like accidentally walking into a room where someone is vigorously masturbating has never really left me I'm afraid :/ --MikoMcha
LOL. i actually like this track, assuming it's the one in an iphone commercial?
― flopson, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xsg1fr0.jpg
74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua" [210 points, 6 votes]http://youtu.be/VO5BOLIV2S4
― gr8080, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for the first country songs to appear and inspire teeth gnashing
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
xpost
Yes!! @ this placing, but now that it did...too low!
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
yay batucada!one of my favourite tracks of 2014 :)
― nxd, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
gonna maintain a dignified silence thru the country section, although iirc kacey musgraves last year was q good so maybe i'll say nice things, who knows
this ninos stuff is r cool
― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Nice! Voted for this one.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
didn't vote for this bit voted for the album, the whole thing is incredible.
― gr8080, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
batucada? sounds like my kind of bag. not heard this yet though.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Will maintain a dignified silence thru the country section because it is unlikely that I'll have heard most of them!
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
also these dudes have no press photos I could find lol
ooh, what is this?
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
re: tune-yards
corny
― The Reverend, Monday, January 19, 2015 9:23 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I can't even argue w/ this! I always found her so precious and quirky and incredibly grating and even though this whole album sounds like children's nursery rhymes or something and even though "Why Must We Dine On The Tots" is appalling and cringeworthy, I really liked the album in spite of all of this.
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
incredibly addictive brazilian drum-orientated piece of brilliance
― nxd, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
brazilliance
Never seen the video before, feeling a bit crazy watching this!
― MikoMcha, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
yh this is pretty good
lol nobody called out my 'graceland for the 10's' comment, probably too asinine tbh, tune-yards not one for incorporating actual tribal/outernational musicians for probable cost purposes, just their sound :P
whoa and now this ninos track hits overdrive
― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
this is jammin'
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
i am very into this ninos du brasil track that i'd never even heard of before. can imagine it dropping at 4am in a techno set and blowing my mind
tune-yards - not as messy as what i recall of her first album but still intolerably ~quirky, infantilised etc
― lex pretend, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
"infantilised"!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Hoo, I wish I'd have voted for this track.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
At work so I can't hear this Brasil track and really wishing I could.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
All the Tune-Yards songs I've heard put me in mind of a really irritating, in-your-face kids TV presenter, there's a kind of non-stop yammering to it all.
Looking forward to the Brazilian one though.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
lol nobody called out my 'graceland for the 10's' comment, probably too asinine tbh
this sombra track is pretty hot.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
ninos track only gets rly rly good in the last minute but it is worth 5 minutes working up to it
― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
sorry for making you sad forks
― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
There's a bit of a Liquid Liquid thing going on with this track, obviously.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
the whole album is like equal parts minimal techno & carnival percussion with a dash of no-wave skronk here and there
this track is like my 4th favorite one on it too
― gr8080, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
these guys are italian btw
― ogmor, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
nicki song makes me feel too embarrassed to listen to more than 20 seconds.
― Mordy, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Sure Arto Lindsay is proud. xps
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
sounds liek the best thing ever made tbqh
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
xp whoops - got thrown by their name and genre ha
― nxd, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
it's okay imago; i'm coping.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
italliance doesn't work as well :(
Build up is always worth it, no point in a cheap payoff.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
spoken like a tru bobbins-head :)
― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, 19 January 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Hmmm... on further consultation with my vote, I must have dropped Ninos Du Brasil off my tracks list. Glad others weren't so foolish.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 19 January 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
*downloads Novos Mistérios*
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 19 January 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/lCSlSap.jpg
73 KING "Mister Chameleon" [212 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/OF4fOjIrqaM
― gr8080, Monday, 19 January 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Niiice
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 January 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
That's just the heavy metal cookie monster growl. I mean, maybe he was influenced by that but it's in a lot of other music (not so much synth pop though)
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 25 September 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link