did anyone else love "confess" as much as me or am i alone on this one?
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
i am currently cobbling together ARMOR ON with YouTubes.
have never purchased anything from iTunes and won't be starting now; is there another way to acquire this, non-pirate style? was there a physical release. (sorry, lazy question)
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
[but anyway while i hated the rhetoric about "a change in r&b" that surrounded orange crush when it came out
mmm it hasn't gone away
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure Armor On was only officially released digitally, no CD -- Amazon has it on MP3 but no physical media.
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
is there another way to acquire this, non-pirate style? was there a physical release. (sorry, lazy question)
no, no (and yes, lol). it was self-released.
to answer another question, goldenheart is the album to which armor on serves as prelude; it was due out in october but because of armor on's success she got a last-min physical distribution deal so it's been put back to january so they can make the CDs or whatever you do. the album itself is done and kinda mindblowingly good.
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
it is still difficult to acquire pirate style, hence why i haven't.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
i love everyone's enthusiasm for i am curious orange, and i put on that album every few weeks bc everyone's investment in it is certainly interesting enough to me to want to figure it out for myself, and then twenty minutes later i forget that it's on.
aka "this year's kid a."
Yeah, that sort of sums up my experience with it, tho I haven't tried super hard. It sounds fine when it's on, and I love "Super Rich Kids." Maybe the whole album will click with me at some point, but right now it mostly fades away for me.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
huh. well, maybe i can acquire it some other way-style.
looking fwd to the album now. FIDLAR is out that day, too. good day.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I appreciate Frank Ocean's talent but so often he wanders off and starts singing about the most innane stuff in his pretty voice and it cheapens whatever he's trying to do. Yes, you can sing.. it still sounds dumb as hell when you sing stuff that you'd find in someone's facebook status update.
It's a nice album and it has grown on me for sure, but I really could not stand to listen to the whole thing when it first dropped in the summer. Super Rich Kids is great, Pink Matter with Andre 3000 is nice and Pyramids is a pretty good song but I have to admit I still don't quite understand the levels of praise that song alone has garnered
― everythingsgross, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
last time I listened to Channel Orange the song that really caught me was "Crack Rock"--the "crooked cop, dead cop" digression was more out-of-nowhere and poignant than you'd expect if you were just letting the album flow past you in the background
― that's the way to choke a jiving spirit (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
Goldenheart is a straight up appalling title.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/MK_Golden_Heart.jpg
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
Goat album and the Sharon Van Etten are the standouts from stuff I hadn't heard before they started appearing on year end lists. Looking back at the Van Etten thread and it seems her earlier albums are more enthused about than 'Tramp' but I'm not really feeling them tbh.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking more of the spectre of swordfighting fantasy thematic nerdery which I'm 95% sure Dawn will avoid but she's got form with this kind of thing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
why on earth would you think she'd avoid that
warhammer r&b is the next big thing
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
I heard a Game of Thrones reference in an afrobeats track the other day and a small part of me died.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
i guess GoT references are the new Star Wars references
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
lord stark toyotaaa
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
A playa always pays his debts
― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
In your face like a can of mace, your grace
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
don't hate the playa, hate the Game (of Thrones)
― Neil S, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
Chris Carter just RTed the list of Dublin record shop Elastic Witch so I figured I'd share it here. Bit more of my kind of thing included, I guess.
LIARS - WIXIW (Mute)SUN ARAW, M. GEDDES GENGRES & THE CONGOS - ICON GIVE THANK (rvng intl.)JULIA HOLTER - Ekstasis (rvng intl.)VESSEL - Order Of Noise (triangle)WHITE CAR - EVERYDAY GRACE (hippos in tanks)GRIMES - Oblivion (4ad)GRIZZLY BEAR - SHIELDS (warp)SWANS - THE SEER (young god)OWENSIE - CITIZENS (out on a limb)CHROMATICS - KILL FOR LOVE (italians do it better)FLYING LOTUS - UNTIL THE QUIET COMES (warp)JOHN TALABOT - FIN (permanent vacation)ARIEL PINK - MATURE THEMES (4ad)SCOTT WALKER - BISH BOSCH (4ad)DIIV - OSHIN (captured tracks)PEAKING LIGHTS - LUCIFER (weird world) MOUSE ON MARS - PARASTROPHICS (monkeytown)HOLLY HERNDON - MOVEMENT (rvng itnl.)PYE CORNER AUDIO - SLEEP GAMES (ghostbox)KATIE KIM - COVER AND FLOOD (flaming june)GOAT - WORLD MUSIC (stranded rekords)SUNKEN FOAL - FRIDAY SYNDROME VOL. 1 (countersunk)ITAL - HIVE MIND - (planet mu)DAPHNI - JIAOLONG (jiaolong)CARTER TUTTI VOID - TRANSVERSE (mute)BEAK> - » (invada)SEA PINKS - FREAK WAVES (c/f records)UMBERTO - THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND SCREAMS (rock action)VOICES FROM THE LAKE - VOICES FROM THE LAKE (prologue)
Compilations/Collections:VARIOUS ARTISTS - STRANGE PASSION, EXPLORATIONS IN IRISH POST PUNK 1980-1983 (cache cache)VARIOUS ARTISTS - PERSONAL SPACE, ELECTRONIC SOUL 1974-1984 (chocolate industries)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
which, say 3, of those would you recommend the most emil.y?
― pandemic, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that is a decent list. That Sun Araw, Geddes Gengras & the Congos record is some kind of high-water mark in stoned sounds. I can't really think of much to compare it to, it's like a fucked-up dub reggae version of Skip Spence's Oar. So beautiful!
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
^^^I haven't heard all that much new stuff this year, but that Sun Araw is up there with Swans for my favorite thing.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
whenever i see that title i start singing: "bish bosch i was taking a bOth long about a saturday night..."
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
whenever i see the name sun araw i start singing rolf harris's sun arise in my head.
Yeah, that is a decent list. That Sun Araw, Geddes Gengras & the Congos record is some kind of high-water mark in stoned sounds. I can't really think of much to compare it to, it's like a fucked-up dub reggae version of Skip Spence's Oar. So beautiful!― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:29 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:29 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was disappointed to be honest. Maybe I should give it another go but Sun Araw's sound gets really boring for me after a while.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
the flylo record is aging well for me, i hear new things in it every time i put it on.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Guess it took me a little time to really warm to the Sun Araw, think you have just got to let go of the edge and just float around in it for a while. And the Congos sound amazing on it, so otherworldly. The really deep bass voice especially, that sounds majestic among all those discombobulated electronics.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Still need to hear Voices From The Lake, that record has been on my list for months and months.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
It's okay, I didn't really understand the rapturous reception it got, but I'm not very good with non-melodic techno that isn't danceable. The textures were fantastic but it didn't really engage beyond that.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
i'll give it another go Nick
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, Heart of the Congos is one of my alltime favourite records in any genre, so I should really.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Matt DC - have you heard Ital yet? I'm curious to know whether you like that one or not.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to it once and wasn't really feeling it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
mmm... i'm having trouble with it. i figured it's better if i pretend it's not supposed to be dance music at all.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Pye Corner Audio have been doing some good stuff this year. The Beak> album is absolutely great (though I still haven't managed to track down a vinyl copy yet). I love the Julia Holter (though not as much as Tragedy, which I couldn't get hold of but thought was sublime). Sun Araw & the Congos I agree with Nick on, though it didn't take me too long to warm to - "float around in it" is spot on.
Need to listen to more: Carter Tutti Void (but what I've heard is great), Scott (will be getting this ASAP, 'Epizootics!' is awesome), only heard the one Goat track so far but it rules, new Mouse on Mars I have yet to hear.
I seem to recall the bit of the Umberto record I heard was disappointing, but I liked their one before so much that I should probably give it another go.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna have to wait till Xmas till I hear Bish Bosch, but yeah Epizootics! is crazy good - "My neighbour was frightened by Hawaiians"
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Cranky ol me likes the Congos without guests much better, and I find Holter too ethereal.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
That Holly Herndon album is pretty interesting. Need to listen to it more, it was only up on spotify for two days before it got taken down again, but iirc it was an unusual mix of slightly industrial-sounding techno and more academic-leaning art experiments, lots of processed voice and mouth sounds and stuff. Getting lots of comparisons to Laurel Halo which I can sort of see as she seems to have a foot in both those worlds too.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
A fair few things on the Elastic Witch list are also likely to make my EOY ballot: Julia Holter, Sun Araw et al., Grimes, Chromatics, Talabot. On the other hand I thought the Daphni and Umberto albums were let-downs relative to expectations and my love affair with Peaking Lights, uh, peaked some time ago. Pye Corner Audio/Holly Herndon/Goat/Diiv/Beak> are solid but others do similar better imo. Still want to hear Flying Lotus, Voices From The Lake and obviously Scott.
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Norman Records top 50: http://www.normanrecords.com/top-fifty.php
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, that Norman list reminds me I need to listen to the Andy Stott more. And good to see Divorce in there, even if they are in the latter reaches.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, finally someone rates Motorpsycho's The Death Defying Unicorn (#36)! Cool list! Only complaint is listing the not-amazing Om album at #3 while overlooking the likes of Ufomammut.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
The Om album is the best thing they have done in a long long time.
― ɷ, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
NME top 50
Tame Impala - Lonerism Grimes - Visions Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Crystal Castles - III Alt-J - An Awesome Wave The Maccabees - Given To The Wild Pond - Beard Wives Denim The Cribs -In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg Jack White - Blunderbuss Django Django - Django Django David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant DIIV - Oshin The XX - Coexist Sharon Van Etten - Tramp Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber Grizzly Bear - Shields Tribes - Baby Toy - Toy Howler - America Give Up Cat Power - Sun Beach House - Bloom Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge Merchandise - Children Of Desire Ariel Pink - Mature Themes Spector - Enjoy It While It Lasts Jessie Ware - Devotion Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light Mac DeMarco - 2 Breton - Other People's Problems Kanye West - Cruel Summer Graham Coxon - A+E Hot Chip - In Our Heads Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man Metz - Metz The Vaccines - Come Of Age Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour TEED - Trouble Liars - WIXIW Polica - Give You The Ghost Ty Segall - Twins Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks Ratking - Wiki93 Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, MAAd City Lana Del Rey - Born To Die Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe John Talabot - Fin The 2 Bears - Be Strong Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes Purity Ring - Shrines
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
NME best tracks of 2012 Spotify playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/nme.com/playlist/0E9FpJ4eISNe2HtMo5WBgO
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
lol Cruel Summer over Kendrick, even in a year when it's not hard to get token rap picks right they find a way to fuck up
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
lol i was just gonna say
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link