I much prefer Natural Information Society in terms of that general tranced-out zone--Mandatory Reality was their strongest album yet IMO, with the opening 65 minutes/first two pieces on it truly psyching me out as a longer Feldman piece might
― Wallet Youth (Craig D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
75 dollar bill are great live! also fun on tape but i haven't listened to I Was Real yet.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
I'm surprised that each Sunn album got a separate slot in the top 50; I voted for them collectively. (Jaimie Branch was my #1.) I wish I liked that Zonal record more. Maybe if Moor Mother was on the whole thing, instead of just the first half. Or maybe if she wasn't riffing on Billy fucking Corgan.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I love Natural Information Society but Ive been hesitant to spend the $14 without hearing it or w/e
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
75 Dollar Bill afaict seem to be a cheerier version of Beak>?
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to 75 Dollar Bill right now and I'm hearing "if Sunburned Hand of the Man were really into North African desert blues". I'm...kinda into it and might buy it on Bandcamp to have something to listen to while doing laundry tomorrow.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
'i was real' is pretty good so far
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
39. Big Stick - LP
wait what? big stick are back?
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Amanda Petrucish list in the New Yorker
FKA twigs, “MAGDALENE”
Mdou Moctar, “Ilana (The Creator)”
75 Dollar Bill, “I Was Real”
Sharon Van Etten, “Remind Me Tomorrow”
Bon Iver, “i, i”
Big Thief, “Two Hands”
Purple Mountains, “Purple Mountains”
Burna Boy, “African Giant”
Lana Del Rey, “Norman Fucking Rockwell!”
Thom Yorke, “Anima”
Jake Xerxes Fussell, “Out of Sight”
Maggie Rogers, “Heard It in a Past Life”
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
That’s Petrusich. Glad she listed Burna Boy and Mdou Moctar
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
god, i am such a mark for ted gioia, i know there are people around here who hate him but he reps for music i don't see _anybody_ else mentioning and a lot of it is excellent
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
I hate a lot of his stupid opinion pieces but I admire his approach to his year-end list and there are often at least a few things I wind up checking out.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
holy shit is "spirit lady" right up my alley, it's like the 17 minute version of eddy grant's "everybody dance" crossed with andy hofle's "arcade ambience"
and there is nobody i trust more than him to recommend me bagpipe music
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
I don't know if I'll ever understand 75 Dollar Bill
this surprises me. I could listen to Rick Brown play for hours
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
whiney is your 75 dollar bill issue that they wear their influence on their sleeve and you'd rather just hear bombino or somethin'?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
No, they’re just not sticking w me for whatever reason.
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
Listened to the 75 Dollar Bill album this morning while doing laundry, and I’m into it. It’s basically “Endless Boogie covering Tony Conrad & Faust” (the title track is, anyway) and that was a very pleasant surprise.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
I'd never heard of 75 Dollar Bill until about ten seconds ago and here they are on two back-to-back lists.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 December 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
Getting a slight Rangda vibe from that 75 Dollar Bill rec, which is fine by me.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
This is some really solid cultural appropriation.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
i remember the name (it's a memorable name) because they were big on wfmu the last time i was listening semi-regularly. didn't get what people heard in them then and don't get it now, honestly... i've heard enough instrumental psychedelic jams that i tend to be picky about them!
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
i got them confused in my head with Two Dollar Guitar
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
Ha, I confused them with post-rock band The American Dollar for a while!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-2019-914750/
50. Moon Tooth - Crux49. Priests - The Seduction of Kansas48. Yola - Walk Through Fire47. Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding46. Burna Boy - African Giant45. Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats - Anger Management44. The Black Keys - "Let's Rock"43. Todd Snider - Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 342. Rapsody - Eve41. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life40. Juice WRLD - DEATH RACE FOR LOVE39. Beck - Hyperspace38. Summer Walker - Over It37. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains36. FKA twigs - MAGDALENE35. BROCKHAMPTON - GINGER34. Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima33. J Balvin & Bad Bunny - Oasis32. Sheer Mag - A Distant Call31. Megan Thee Stallion - Fever30. The National - I Am Easy to Find29. Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold28. Coldplay - Everyday Life27. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow26. Wilco - Ode to Joy25. Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!24. Tanya Tucker - While I'm Livin'22. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars21. Bon Iver - i,i20. Polo G - Die a Legend19. 100 gecs - 1000 gecs18. Young Thug - So Much Fun17. Big Thief - Two Hands16. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury15. Brittany Howard - Jaime14. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors13. Jenny Lewis - On the Line12. Tyler, the Creator - IGOR11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen10. The Highwomen - The Highwomen9. DaBaby - Baby On Baby8. Miranda Lambert - Wildcard7. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride6. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You5. Bad Bunny - X 100PRE4. Taylor Swift - Lover3. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!2. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?1. Ariana Grande - thank u, next
― monotony, Friday, 6 December 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
75 Dollar Bill’s I Was Real and Angel Bat Dawid’s Oracle are both really nice but I don't really feel like they’re the albums of the year
― Dan S, Friday, 6 December 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
re: the Morton Feldman/Philip Thomas "Morton Feldman Piano", I think Tilbury's "All Piano" box set from 1999 was definitive
― Dan S, Friday, 6 December 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
well, i like Rolling Stone's #1 better than most
also ... Moon Tooth!!
― alpine static, Friday, 6 December 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
Feldman's For Bunita Marcus is one of my favorite compositions of all time. I thought the Tilbury performance was perfect and am curious about Philip Thomas's version of it
― Dan S, Friday, 6 December 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
ended up ordering it from Another Timbre
― Dan S, Friday, 6 December 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
rolling stone caught in that boomer/zoomer dialectic like it's 2019
― imago, Friday, 6 December 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Wow RS list is like 45% female fronted acts
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
Jon Caramanica NY Times
2019 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. 100 gecs2. Bad Bunny3. Polo G/NBA YoungBoy4. Kim Petras5. Romeo Santos6. Lana7. Kalie Shorr8. Baby Keem/Guapdad 40009. Kanye10. 10k.Caash11. Ariana12. Summer Walker
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 December 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
RS list not the worst!
― Simon H., Friday, 6 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/arts/music/best-albums.html
Both Jon Pareles and Jon Caramanica listed here plus the jazz list too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
Some ppl here liked the Concrete Islands list last year, so here is the expanded 2019 edition.
https://concreteislands.com/concrete-islands-albums-of-the-year-2019/
Albums of the year:
50. Pictogram – Trace Elements (Miracle Pond)49. Alexander Tucker – Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey)48. Handspan – The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Outside)47. Drew Mulholland – Three Antennas in a Quarry (Buried Treasure)46. The Utopia Strong – The Utopia Strong (Rocket Recordings) 45. Grand Veymont – Grand Veymont (Outré)44. Dean Hurley – Anthology Resource Vol II: Philosophy of the Beyond (Sacred Bones)43. Dog in the Snow – Vanishing Lands (Bella Union)42. Vanishing Twin – The Age of Immunology (Fire)41. Rozi Plain – What a Boost (Memphis Industries)40. Loraine James – For You & I (Hyperdub) 39. The Slow Engineer – Where Comes the Dark? (Polytechnic Youth)38. Beirut – Gallipoli (4AD)37. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist (Thrill Jockey)36. Mark Fisher & Justin Barton – On Vanishing Land (Flatlines)35. Gabe Knox – ABC (Polytechnic Youth)34. Jonathan Sharp – Divided Time (Castles in Space)33. The Shining Levels – Music Inspired by the Novel: The Gallows Pole (Outré)32. Burd Ellen – Silver Came (self released)31. Special Interest – Spiraling (Anxious Music)30. The Heartwood Institute – Tomorrow’s People (Polytechnic Youth)29. Various – Weaponise Your Sound (Optimo Music / Weaponise Your Sound)28. The Detox Twins – Dead Horse Ghost (Polytechnic Youth)27. Carter Tutti Void – Triumverate (Conspiracy International)26. De Ambassade – Duistre Kamers (Knekelhuis)25. Penelope Trappes – Penelope Redeux (Houndstooth)24. Madder Rose – To Be Beautiful (Trome)23. Tomorrow Syndicate – Citizen Input (Polytechnic Youth)22. Listening Center – Retrieving (Polytechnic Youth)21. Clesse – Clesse ( Café Kaput)
20. Western Edges – Prowess (Sound in Silence)19. Jorja Chalmers – Human Again (Italians Do It Better)18. Kim Gordon – No Home Record (Matador)17. HTRK – Venus in Leo (Ghostly International)16. Cosey Fanni Tutti – TUTTI (Conspiracy International)15. Kinbrae – Landforms (Truant Recordings)14. Dalham – Heat Death (Castles in Space)13. Julie’s Haircut – In the Silence Electric (Rocket Recordings)12. The Home Current – Civilian Leather (Castles in Space)11. Pye Corner Audio – Hollow Earth (Ghost Box)10. Polypores – Flora (Castles in Space)09. Vic Mars – Inner Roads and Outer Paths (Clay Pipe Music)08. Patience – Dizzy Spells (Night School)07. Oliver Cherer – I Feel Nothing Most Days (Second Language)06. The Golden Filter – Autonomy (4GN3S)05. Moor Mother – Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes (Don Giovanni)04. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City)03. Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings (Ghost Box)02. Andrew Wasylyk – The Paralian (Athens of the North)01. Free Love – Extreme Dance Anthems (Optimo Music)
Archival releases:
12. Stereolab – Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (Duophonic / Warp) 11. Burial – Tunes 2011 to 2019 (Hyperdub)10. Rupa – Disco Jazz (Numero Group)9. Fad Gadget – The Best of Fad Gadget (Mute)8. Shakti – Verboden Dromen (Stroom)7. Algebra Suicide – Still Life (Dark Entries)6. Ela Orleans – Movies for Ears (Night School)5. A Certain Ratio – ACR:BOX (Mute)4. Various – The Daisy Age (Ace)3. Elisa Waut – Elisa Waut (Numero Group)2. Fernando Falcão – Memória das Águas / Barracas Barrocas (Optimo Music / Selva Discos)1. Patrick Cowley – Mechanical Fantasy Box (Dark Entries)
― Jeff W, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
I was shocked to see Moon Tooth there! top 10 album for sure!
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
yay @ spotting Lambert on the RS list top ten.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Love the Concrete Islands site/ethos so I'm not surprised to see the overlap with my own EOY list
― doug watson, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
I recognize only a sliver of it, but the Concrete Islands list looks good indeed.
― pomenitul, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
That RS list is great! Finally, a #1 that I can get behind! ;)
― Peloton-gifting husband (morrisp), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
no clipping = invalid
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
I keep getting Moon Tooth confused with Moon Hooch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLU3Rp1fZo
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Moon Hooch is more HoochyMoon Tooth, more ... Toothy
― alpine static, Saturday, 7 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Glad to see Ted Gioia list Mississippi’s Jimmy Duck Holmes on his album list. While not quite as raucous as Fat Possum label RL Burnside releases from the past, Holmes has a unique charm to his blues sound that work.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
I think the Burial 2011 to 2019 album is so beautifully sequenced. It is an an archival recording but I love all of these tracks and hearing them all together in this way makes this the album of the year for me
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
It's funny, just a few weeks before the compendium was announced, I'd realized all the recent EPs/12"s were on Bandcamp and boyght them all based on people repping them here. So I've gotten really used to them chronologically--I'll have to give it a shot as Burial himself has sequenced it...
― Soundslike, Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
I'm also agreeing with more stuff in the RS list than I thought I'd ever be. I'm not sure if that means a turnaround for Rolling Stone or for me. I suppose it might be part of growing older: get to 40, start thinking about your retirement savings, begin going to doctors more often and find yourself in agreement with RS and Mojo.
― cpl593H, Monday, 9 December 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
File this list under "weird": https://www.vulture.com/article/best-albums-2019.html.
I mean I can agree with some of these but Sturgill, Brittany Howard and Wilco on top?? It reminds me of that RS list from a couple years ago with U2 and the odds and ends Springsteen album at #1 and #2 respectively.
10. Griselda Records, W.W.C.D. 9. Sturgill Simpson, Sound & Fury 8. The Highwomen, The Highwomen 7. Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell 6. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Bandana 5. Brittany Howard, Jaime 4. FKA Twigs, Magdalene 3. Vampire Weekend, Father of the Bride 2. Solange, When I Get Home 1. Wilco, Ode to Joy
― cpl593H, Monday, 9 December 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
File that list under 'jaded rock critics trying to be hip and faceplanting'
― imago, Monday, 9 December 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
I didn't know Wilco released an album this year
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 9 December 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link