Smoko should've been a minute long. Fake it if you don't know what you're doing.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
at least it sounds like they're having fun doing it.
Was pretty horrible to listen to but can't argue with this. The vocals on most of the tracks in the rundown sound like they were done by paintings of dead people
― saer, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:58 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
I personally hope that the Chats had no fun at all recording their terrible song!
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
I like its simultaneous embrace and satire of Australian bogan culture. We haven't had a song do that as effectively since Chris Franklin's parody of Meredith Brooks with 'Bloke' in 2000.
― triggercut, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
Ha, I'll readily admit that would be completely lost on me. I have to say we're not doing too badly as there have only been two songs so far I've had a strong negative reaction to. Matt DC's other point is interesting though, I know my own ballots (albums especially) were quite heavy on my comfort-zone genres this year.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
amazingly enough I largely agree with Matt! although we'd best not bring Mitski up again
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Strong negative reactions are good not bad! It's a sign the music is worth caring about one way or another. So much of this list is just different flavours of wishy-washy, like Xeroxes of the already Xeroxy bands that appeared at the end of the last season of Twin Peaks.
(I'm happy to exclude Mitski from that fwiw, even if I don't like her music it at least has personality and feels like it has a point to it).
Is that Autechre track worth investing an hour in? Skipping through it it sounded like it was just an hour's worth of ambient drift?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
hop along were high enough on my albums ballot that i decided not to vote for them here (also because all those songs are incredible), delighted it placed though!
― devvvine, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
It basically is that so I guess it comes down to whether that would interest you - I think it's a beautiful piece although there are lots of other tracks from the Autechre set I like more (xpost).
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
I've already got a fridge to listen to if I'm in the mood for drone thankyouverymuch! At least there's not been too much (c)rap so far!!!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
ogmor in a radge mood today. promises much
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
So much of this list is just different flavours of wishy-washy, like Xeroxes of the already Xeroxy bands that appeared at the end of the last season of Twin Peaks.
This is the thing for me - if I'm listening to a few tracks that sound like that I can really love them, they can take me into a space that's both comforting and eerie, the disaffectedness is really appealing. But then if I'm listening to a whole big list of things that sound like that and are also supposed to be the best tracks of the year then it's underwhelming as hell. I guess all I'm saying is that I understand why people vote for tracks like this (and I voted for some myself) but in the end it winds up a big pile of "meh".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I heard 'Smoko' and was underwhelmed by it earlier this year, but in the context of this list it really is a blessed relief. They are human people, goofing the fuck off, making a track that sounds alive.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
Hrm, stoked All End made it, but now I wonder if my ballot was counted. I believe I had a mixed songs ballot with All End being #1. Can someone confirm? Maybe I shuffled it around the top 5 at the last minute...― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:24 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:24 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have "All End" as your #3
― seandalai, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
more like bæll end amirite
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
what do you think Autechre call their genitals?
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
haha!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
so here's another one that has, as far as I can see, no discussion on ILX at all... of course, it's awfully hard to search, so show me where the party's at
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rrV9G8r.jpg
44: Peach – “Silky” – 202 points – 7 votesvideo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
amazing tune!
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
xp though a search did lead me to this choice matt post:Simon Reynolds is a gobshite
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
belated note: "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" sounds to me like "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
oh this is on midland's label?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
Love this one, that snaky dual synth line just ended up stuck in my head for ages and it made my ballot at the last minute.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
i talked about this one on ilx but only briefly and prob only i. year-end threads
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
only in*
anyway, totally bangs
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
I'm generally not seeking out anything like this during the year, so I'm thankful to get the introduction in the EOY rollout. This is delightful.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
(not that I'll likely ever hear it again after Friday)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
― Matt DC, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 5:37 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
“all.end” works a little better in the context of the nts sessions as a finale of totally exploded sound (which is why i didn’t vote for it despite spending a lot of time with it). but yeah, it’s worth spending time with
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
Silky is one of those tracks that in the hands of a different producer could have been something enjoyable but ultimately forgettable and (yes) probably wishy-washy but she's taken real care to craft a particular sound that feels unique. I don't think I've heard anything that sounds quite like that tiny-xylophone-in-a-bottle refrain anywhere else. Something about it's propulsion and the care of the sound design reminds me of peak-Booka Shade as well.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
Hadn't heard this before. This is good.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
The Peach track, that is
Love this! Matt DC OTM about the sound design.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
this is nice enough but why am i getting the urge to sing popcorn by hot butter over the top of it
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Because 'Popcorn' is one of the greatest songs of all time and this is also good?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
love the neil cicierega mix with 'bodies'
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
it's always nice to come across tracks like this during EOY season, i don't really keep up with this sort of thing but there's always a few gems like this to enjoy
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
yeah that wasn't necessarily a knock! :D xxp
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cJmwBEV.jpg
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow” – 202 points – 7 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Beach House
a flash in the pan― Stephen Bush, Saturday, November 18, 2006
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25111
“Lemon Glow” has dripping, reverberating guitar and a portentous vocal. It’s high drama of the Siouxsie and the Banshees gothic rock mode, but, in the hands of Beach House, is less theatrical and more unsettling. A stubbornly recurring loop oozes underneath Victoria Legrand’s dissipating vocal. For all its intensity, the song is striking for its lack of affect and its willful refusal of clarity or definition. This is staring-at-the-wall-when-you-can’t-feel-anything music. The percussive finale is not a crescendo but a doubling-down. – Jonathan Bradley
Does the Dead Sara title fakeout: not lemon Pledge, like you’d expect, but more citrus incense: a thick haze, reverbed well past the uncanny valley and sickly-claustrophobic, like breathing the air inside a weighted duvet. It isn’t enjoyable, necessarily, but carries more genuine atmosphere than I thought Beach House, the epitome of background music, was capable of. - Katherine St Asaph
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
i loved this album but this track felt pretty weak/odd as a lead single and i only enjoyed it in context of the album, surprised to see it show up
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
This act has long since gazed itself to death.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
So far most tracks strike me as adult and urbane.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
They could use some deathgaze, come to think of it.
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
I wanna hear a 2 chainz remix of this
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
Peach: Bangs indeed, much more my kind of electronic than miss Hauf or Talabomachin. It's really about the first part and that sample for me though.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
For a second I thought that was the same Stephen Bush that is now the Political Editor of the New Statesman and much cited on the UK politics threads but I think not. Stranger things have happened.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
ha ha - Beach Trap House
I don't think I've heard anything that sounds quite like that tiny-xylophone-in-a-bottle refrain anywhere else.
It reminds me of Vitalic's 'Fanfares' a bit but, different agenda tho it may have, can't say it compares favourably with that myself.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
I like this Beach House song but I tend to think of them as an albums act
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link