if a bit Drive soundtrack.
Johnny Jewel did a bunch of work for the original draft of the Drive soundtrack fwiw
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
love 'kill for love', but i just voted for the full album
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Expected "Pretty Wicked Things" to place a lot higher, my favourite Dawn Richards song no contest. Dramatically the best.Plus glitches are cool.
― antoni, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I went for "86"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jCLcLy1.png?1
(TIE) 75. ALUNAGEORGE "You Know You Like It" [188 points, 7 votes]
Spotify / Youtube
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
I did not check out any of the non-Armor On singles before sending my ballot in but I can see voting for PWT, that was sweet
― flag posts in the dust (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
i really like that song and alunageorge in general, it turns out
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
relistening and i still don't feel alunageorge, it's so weak and timid, esp following so soon after how fierce/cathartic/at the top of your head "pretty wicked things" is
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
ha xp :/
hmmm i like this. i had only heard one other alunageorge song before. i don't remember what it was called but i think it was pretty boring.
― teledyldonix, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for it. I love the way that song moves. Not usually my type of thing - I think I credit Spotify for exposing it to me.
― beard papa, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
The vocal on Pretty Wicked Things sound so *weary*, like Dawn's really slogging her way through the track, whereas I like the insouciance of the AlunaGeorge vocal, it's way better than Your Drums, Your Love.
British vocalists, enough with the fucking mockney though.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
AlunaGeorge is okay imo, but this track is definitely in its own league in their catalogue so far.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, this Chromatics song is really blah. Nice pick, ILM.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
I tried several times to get into the Chromatics album, but 'blah' is the best way I can describe it, too.
― beard papa, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that vocal is british as fuck
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely a step up from Aluna's prior band My Toys Like Me, which I like as well (at least the debut LP). I went with "Your Drums, Your Love", and unreleased/unnominated track "Disobey" is my favorite so far.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
YKYLI is def my favourite AlunaGeorge track, would have been in my top 50.
― questino (seandalai), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
not feeling nu-chromatics
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Kill for Love sounds kinda like the fifth best song on Psychocandy
― flag posts in the dust (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
The Chromatics album was the most puzzling (to me) regular feature of EOTY lists - I feel like I've been hearing this kind of stuff for years now, and done better. Love the Dawn and Aluna songs though.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
dawn conveys effort and struggle without sounding effortful
alunageorge convey nothing, really, apart from something it's easy to ignore
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Nu-Chromatics is all about atmosphere, rather than actual songs (although to some extent they always were). If it catches you in the right mood, it works well.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
As someone who should by all accounts love the idea of J&MC produced by New Order, I pretty underwhelmed by the Chromatics.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
fifth best song on Psychocandy
pshhhh they wish
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
when i listened to the chromatics song i was like, oh, here's a hitherto unnoticed strand of lana del rey's dna (otherwise they sound as they did last time i paid attention to them; it's not an objectionable song though)
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, songs are pretty weak. When they get a decent song such as 'Hey Hey My My' then it works really well otherwise it's just a drag.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
FWIW if that's what nu-Chromatics are like in general they are better than old Chromatics but I can't say I'm in a rush to check out the album.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
xp Hmm, I hear so much effort in Dawn's stuff - it's why, PWT aside, I find it hard to love. AG are playful and slinky. But they're gunning for such different things that comparison's not very helpful.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NuaEDHq.png?1
74. ANDRES "New For U" [190 points, 6 votes]
Youtube
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
i liked cold hazy robo-punk chromatics better
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
effort is turned into drama by DR which is why her central conceits are so effective, Alunageorge vocals sound way too wan to support the adventurousness of the production; i'm with Lex here xp
― flag posts in the dust (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
hey lex, OT but did u check out that artist i bumped your C/D thread w/?
― Mordy, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
The intro's the best part of the Chromatics song.
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
never got into the years-long chromatics record but i really like "kill for love," that pinging, oscillating synth that opens and closes the track, the thudding simplicity of the drum programming, both of which leap out at me and sort of transform the otherwise unremarkable haze.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
"New for U" was #1 in the FACT and Resident Advisor EOY lists btw. Not really a standout for me, iirc people say it works well in a club?
― questino (seandalai), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
got round to d/lding but not listening yet
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
"Nu" Chromatics isn't drastically different from anything they've made in the last 7 years or so. I guess you're either into what they do or you're not.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I would like this Andres track better in the context of a really good mix
― beard papa, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
BEST TRACK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO FACTMAG AND RESIDENT ADVISOR Andres - "New For U" is only #74 in our poll??!? That sounds about right.
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
i need to stop making the mistake of reading youtube comments (in this case ppl arguing over whether this is "really" the best dance track of the year)
― teledyldonix, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Don't get the appeal of 'New For U' at all.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
could only previously get with alunageorge via a particularly insistent remix of "your drums, your love" but i'm enjoying "you know you like it," mostly for the springing bass that helps shape the rest of the track (mostly clouds imo)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 21 January 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
i remain pretty thoroughly unmoved by "new for u" but it's cool that other people like it a lot
New For U isn't even the best dance track of the year but come on those strings are so gorgeous. I've never actually heard it on a dancefloor but I can well imagine the rooms full of loved-up grinning it would provoke.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
This Andrés track isn't so bad.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Chromatics is the sort of aesthetic wash that I find pleasant on the ears, but it's not got enough about it to make it stand out in any way.
― emil.y, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't vote for it (didn't fully come around to it til very recently) but I really hope "Au Seve" beats this. "New For U" is alright tho.
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
"au seve" will surely place? so much better
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
I never think about inspector norse but i still like it whenever it pops up on shuffle every once in a while. pew... pew... pew... pew pew
― Roz, Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
I miss 2012 so much.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 7 August 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
Inspector Norse is amazing btw.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 7 August 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
still mad adorn lost
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Friday, 7 August 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
♡
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 8 August 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
Consolation in that I think "Adorn" still sounds like one of the five best songs of the decade
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 8 August 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link