Caretaker's not hyped though. It's got a steady following, but that's something else iirc.
Anyway I can't get enough of it.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
no defences of albums itt imo
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
I've said this elsewhere I'm sure but the Julien Baker love-in is an album late; the new one is flat and mostly a disappointment
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
Where's the fun in that? xp
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
OK fine
but no holds barred. except like actual bigotry
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
KING KRULE is kind of boring.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
oh yeah I can't take his voice for a second
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
Not as boring as The National though
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
That Big Thief album is boring as well. A charisma vacuum.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
:o you're dead to me
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
I do like the Big Thief album a lot :(
LCD Soundsystem should be banned on the basis of that atrocious album cover alone. The music stinks, is completely irrelevant up to the point of self-charicture, and seeing critics hailing this has-been baffles me.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
*caricature
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
thoroughly agree with every dis so far btw*. sleeve ur emperor palpatine
*not heard the bjork or big thief yet
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Guided By Voices - the songs are twice as long and half as good (tbh I dunno how hyped this really was, but let's open the thread up to all contenders regardless of hype level/EOY standings)
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
I tried listening to the War on Drugs album once and I had to check the album wasn't starting over at some point. Still can't remember any of the songs in there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
@Moka, same here. It's drab.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
Lorde is the new Carly Rae Jepsen - "pop" music that non-professionals spit out after a single taste, but which critics will continue to ride for forever.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
Xp that is sort of the point with WoD - it's aural valium for the inhibited and the terminally nostalgic.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Me included.
Sounds like WoD do The Caretaker better than The Caretaker does!
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
I can't really diss it because I don't hate it at all but Yaeji seems overrated as hell to me. There's just not much going on musically and lyrically... every song seems she runs out of ideas and she just resorts to repeating words in the same monotonic voice.
Again, I don't hate it but I don't see what's so special about it either or why she's making it into so many EOY best songs lists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Ok I'm done taking those out of my chest... I think... those are the ones frustrating me about their roaring approval.
Well, those an Bodak Yellow heh
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
i rate the yaeji EPs (2 isn't as good imo) but found it pretty easy to get burned out on her stuff. Not much replay value as there's not a whole lot of depth, ya
laurel halo album was a disappointment for me, way too esoteric and weird for weird sake
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
Xxp Kirby has a concept, though. Granduciel is walking in socks over cold coals.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
I still don't really get what everyone liked so much about Black Beatles. I don't hate it, just does nothing much for me.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
I think this is the first Laurel Halo album I like mainly on the strength of Moontalk alone but yes... it's way too dependent on its own quirks and weirdness.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
moontalk is an amazing song! yeah
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
moka check out the king felix stuff if you haven't heard it, "spring" by king felix and her halo album "king felix"
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
I did not know about that project. Listening to spring now and it sounds amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
:) sweet
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
the Fever Ray album was really disappointing to me
― ufo, Friday, 15 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
why? show your work :)
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
Sleaford Mods - this guy used to sound angry, now he just sounds bored (I do like most of the previous records)
― sleeve, Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
Fever Ray was also so-so for me. I like the knife and the first fever ray album a lot, so I thought for sure this would be one of my favorite albums of the year but alas it ended being one of the most dissapointing ones for me. It’s just so hard to sit through... even harder than ‘shaking the habitual’ and that’s saying something.
I can get past the hamfisted lyrics (either way lyrics has never been her strong point), but the textures and production are sort of uninteresting too, the middle of the album is specially boring or annoying and contains some of her worst songs ever (“this country” really wtf is up with that).
I don’t know... I guess it’s just alright in small doses but I don’t want ‘just alright’ from her.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link
Ok maybe the production isn’t uninteresting... but it’s too harsh and irritating more often than not. I get that maybe that was her intent with this particular album but I’m not a masochist, sorry.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah, my love for the first Fever Ray album is immense, this one is not bAd exactly, just very disappointing
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 16 December 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
yeah I agree with all of that Moka
the production mostly feels like lesser retreads of Silent Shout and the Fever Ray s/t, and the songwriting lacks the memorable melodies. the lyrics are a step down too - Silent Shout especially could be quite evocative but they're more hamfisted here and the BDSM subject matter of some of it is completely uninteresting to me
― ufo, Saturday, 16 December 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
heh this = lack of money > money
King Krule was the overrated hype of the year for me. Could barely get through that mess 3 times.
So I will probably dig his next record :P
― Ludo, Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Fever ray album is fucking great, just took time to grow on me. I mean it's not that different texturally fromThe debut it's just more hyper kinetic arrangement wise. Give it some time, mustn't hurry
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
Lyrics aren't her strong point?? When I grow up and seven would put that theory to the test, memorable imo
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
think dude had a pretty decent office job for a fair while before the band blew up so I'm not sure this is a big factor. latest album hasn't really landed for me like the previous ones though, could be a law of diminishing returns thing but I had (have) no issue with their complete lack of progression so idk
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
You’re right I take it back, heartbeats alone is one of the few sweet songs they have and it has some beautiful lines in there. The debut also has some stunning imagery... I’m just way too frustrated with this album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
moka, all good bud :)
i found the album hard to parse for quite a while tbh
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
This thread is tonic
Charly bliss - musical equivalent of doing lines of pixie stix
(Sandy) Alex g - i guess at a certain point all music / art will become a sort of lightly branded tabula rasa content for us to project upon
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
'Reclaims the avant-garde' is probably a worse line than anything in that 'overpraise' thread. It's nearly time for my hitpiece
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Oh yea, the avant-garde has been reclaimed by some Berklee kid with an expensive synth set-up, a cloying lyrical sensibility and no songwriting skill to speak of! But it all sounds so burbly. Oo goo this be thee musick of thee spheres!
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
I could and will go on
man, fuck you
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
TBH I fully encourage him to keep all this annoying shit in here this year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
many xps This Harry Gorski-Brown is great! If our job is to reduce everything, this is like Richard Dawson lobbing a molotov into a Wednesday-night folk club.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:45 (one month ago) link
well this exchange has managed to make me want to listen to Still House Plants so well done everyone
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link
I've not listened to a minute of Still House Plants but the conversation has made me think they sound like Life Without Buildings. I'll make like Colonel Poo and go see.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:50 (one month ago) link
really do not get the hype around the cindy lee album because it's never any better than ok? who possibly needed 2 hours of this?
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:26 (one month ago) link
entirely vibes no actual songs
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:29 (one month ago) link
The 2020 album is good
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:08 (one month ago) link
Vibes are doing well with Big Listener atm, you know this
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:09 (one month ago) link
the vibes are nothing special either though
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:12 (one month ago) link
I mean, I've put that one off indefinitely due to the length (and dark talk of 'no songs')
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:17 (one month ago) link
it's just two hours of very alright 'hypnagogic pop'. i guess pleasant enough background music but nothing more
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:19 (one month ago) link
'it's just vibes' critique seems crazy to me, it's a record full of well written pop songs with catchy hooks!
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:39 (one month ago) link
I do feel the complaint that the Cindy Lee album is “just vibes” but uhhh isn’t that all feted hypnogogic stuff
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:15 (one month ago) link
Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern begs to differ!
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:25 (one month ago) link
RYM also informs me that Blanche Blanche Blanche are 'Hypnagogic Pop' which I'm not completely sure about but they could write a song too yeah
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:27 (one month ago) link
also that one Surface To Air Missive side-project Dream Love. okay we're out of the realm of 'feted' at this stage
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:29 (one month ago) link
i mean ariel pink as much as i loathe to talk about him did write some very solid tunes back in his cassette days
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:28 (one month ago) link
that does remind me that the cindy lee album falls into a kinda uncanny valley with its retro reverb sound, there's this cold digital sound to it too
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:32 (one month ago) link
if Cindy Lee is not your thing, that's fine, but to say there's no actual songs there is actually insane
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:31 (one month ago) link
the “problem” with the cindy lee album is that the second half is miles better than the first, and it takes an hour to get there!
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
listening to the cindy lee now and enjoying it but the impeccable vibes are somewhat disrupted by listening on youtube and having tom brady pop up every 10 minutes to shill for hertz
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link
the official youtube upload is ad free, no?
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:17 (one month ago) link
I was getting ads so now I'm downloading it
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:24 (one month ago) link
i'm listening to the one linked by pitchfork and getting adsanyways this is very good
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:25 (one month ago) link
"this is too vibey" is the new "sounds dated"
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
what are the good songs on the cindy lee album? i listened to the whole thing twice and nothing really stood out at all
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 21:48 (one month ago) link
for a start: all i want is you, government cheque, wild one, stone faces, always dreaming, kingdom come
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link
"stone faces," "dracula," "government cheque," "if you hear me crying," "crime of passion"
tho none are as good as last year's "in a moment divine" with freak heat waves.
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:23 (one month ago) link
sorry, confused "crime of passion" (tho i do like that one) with "durham city limit"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:31 (one month ago) link
absolutely love government cheque. real stand out to me
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:01 (one month ago) link
Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to a band, and I get that "Why did I wait so long?" feeling. Today I finally got around to listening to Knocked Loose and instead I thought, "Ugh, really?" The riffs are just reheated Emmure, and the vocalist suuuuucks.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
Whatever one might think of "Diamond Jubilee", it's pretty awesome that we still have a cultural landscape where even though we're in a year with multiple releases by massive artists (Future, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kali Uchis), a relatively-unknown musician can find their way into the ranks of the 'hyped', to where friends of mine with very little interest in trad indie rock have asked me about the record.
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
I love the Still House Plants. I was patient and let the album rewire me.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 09:17 (one month ago) link
My attempt to listen to the Beyonce album did not last long. It was atrocious. The first song was just her making a bunch of awkward warbling noises for America. The second was a terribly overblown cover of Blackbird, which is possibly the Beatles's most precious and intimate song, the third had her complaining about how hard cooking, cleaning and earning $16 a day is. At that point I gave up on this billionaire. She seems to have forgotten Beyonce, the person who made great pop songs.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 29 April 2024 10:29 (one month ago) link
Kind of glad that some of the A-List artists released duds this year.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 29 April 2024 10:46 (one month ago) link
― a hoy hoy,
I treat it like a mixtape.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 12:30 (one month ago) link
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:42 (yesterday) link
TBH it's just the magic of the p4k BNM in action. I also have friends who would have never given it the time of day if it weren't for that.
― Evan, Monday, 29 April 2024 13:51 (one month ago) link
there have been a couple dozen bnms already this year, but this was the first 9+ bnm in years. which i guess still means something!
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 April 2024 13:55 (one month ago) link
you say that like ilx doesn't jump every time pitchfork says it
― imago, Monday, 29 April 2024 14:05 (one month ago) link
i guess i missed the rapturous posting about hovvdy and 1010benja
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 April 2024 14:07 (one month ago) link
naming your act well still has importance
― imago, Monday, 29 April 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link