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35 RÖYKSOPP FT. SUSANNE SUNDFØR “Never Ever” [259 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]https://youtu.be/JDBzeM6KLlQ
― gr8080, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
ha here's something i voted for
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
I find the arrangements pretty beige as well, like the songwriting could well be amazing but the music is so bland
― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:24 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm this song is on its face basically unobjectionable, but serving up another watered down version of Roy Orbison feels p inessential in 2016. I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around how conservative indie/rock is now, and nostalgia for the late 80s /early 90s version of 50s music is partic baffling. that space rock song on the first day too: my roommate in the 90s had literally hundreds of albums like that and it was fairly derivative then. maybe I'm kidding myself but I feel like Bardo Pond at least had a little more grit
― rob, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:39 (seven years ago) link
To be fair to Tuomas, I initially thought Angel Olsen was "one of those Olsen sisters" too. I think because I knew there was a third, more 'credible' Olsen sister out there somewhere.
xpost lol, which is more ILxbaity: Röyksopp ft Susanne Sundfør or a Robyn GAS remix?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around how conservative indie/rock is now
You're not listening to the right indie rock.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
the synth tones in this are basically irresistible to me
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
junior boys ft miguel coming 2017
― nxd, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Looks like St Etienne didn't release anything this year xp to emil.y
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
in case anyone wanted to go there there's an 18-minute dub of this song https://youtu.be/4iX8tZTv0yg
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I wanted to like the Angel Olsen record, but it sort of felt like every song had the same verse melody
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
the college station I advise has every Olsen song from the new album and it drives me mad
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
*on rotation, I should say
Royksopp still around? oh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Like somebody said earlier in the year, Never Ever sounds exactly like what you'd expect a collaboration between Röyksopp and Susanne Sundfør to sound like. It was my number two.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
completely missed this onelove the outtro
― nxd, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's great, easily their best thing since "Monument"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
really love the last two tracks
― ufo, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
whole song is like these ecstatic colorful geometries crashing around you
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link
ime
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Disappointed that this wasn't a cover of the All Saints song... It's quite okay, but I do wonder when when ILM EOY lists will stop to be populated with 1980s-sounding dance pop, feels like this has been going for 10 years or more? There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Cannot restate 'you're not listening to the right indie rock' enough. Also, if there are literally hundreds of albums like that Comet Control song, um, can I please hear them? I mean, I've heard as much 90's space rock as anyone should, and this feels more glorious than p much all of it, but maybe I missed a few hundred albums here and there?
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
That last one really reminds me of how much I dislike shopping (haven't been since Primark in Southport almost 3 years ago)
― saer, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
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34 RADIOHEAD “Daydreaming” [260 points, 9 votes]https://youtu.be/TTAU7lLDZYU
― gr8080, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
imo this song is a 4/10 but the video is 9/10
― gr8080, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Radiohead still exists?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
one of the prettiest radiohead songs for sure
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
I expect a lot of complaints about moaning but this really is a lovely song, restrained in ways I didn't know they were really capable of
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
I do wonder when when ILM EOY lists will stop to be populated with 1980s-sounding dance pop, feels like this has been going for 10 years or more? There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?
― Tuomas
Thanks for letting us know. There hasn't actually been that much 80s-sounding dance pop this year.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
This is the best on the album imo. Not amazing, but not bad either
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
lmao a bunch of radiohead trax are gonna place
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
or at least this and "true love waits"
There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?
yeah like that alex anwandter track that's two places above it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
This is the best song on the album by far. I actually quite like it. Rest of the album's a bit of a dirge but this is worth hearing
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
don't think true love waits was nominated, just this and burn the witch?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson)
thank you -- was gonna say. And Rokysopp. And several of yesterday's selections.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:10 AM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh thank goodness
i like the album but i briefly got a "half of that vampire weekend album placed in the tracks poll" vibe
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
That Royksopp song is awful and a terrible use of a great singer.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
i think this board has mellowed on radiohead considerably anyway, though maybe the albums poll will prove me wrong
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
That Royksopp song is awful and a terrible use of a great singer
I didn't care for this when it showed up in the nominations playlist, but listening now and pretending it isn't Susanne Sundfør is making it much more palatable.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
FUCK RADIOHEAD
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
would be surprised if the Radiohead album didn't Top 10 at least, even if it didn't place particularly high it probably got on the most ballots
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
I got about 40 seconds into that and went and put on Paramore's Daydreaming instead.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Going by the results of the Pitchfork top 30 albums poll, I think the album will probably be right up there.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Same with the Mercury Music Prize poll.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:15 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
gross dude, they're kind of old and weedy
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:13 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the decline of ilx is REAL
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
Lol, aaw. Not a bad idea
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
p sure they've always done very well on ILX polls? how would this signal a decline? xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:58 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm sure you and emil.y are right about that and I'm sorry for writing off the entire "genre." idk what a better shorthand would be, acclaimed indie? the random indie that crosses my radar? as a lapsed indie listener, I remain surprised at how lots of it these days has turned into a kind of ritualized folk music, reproducing the same touchstones over and over
I wasn't really exaggerating about "hundreds of albums"--dude bought 10-20 records per week and while his tastes weren't entirely narrow, he did buy anything that could even remotely be described as space rock. those bands have all dissolved in my memory into a stew of astronomical references. idk, have you heard 7% Solution's first album?
― rob, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link