let's keep it in here, folks.
Jlin - if I wanted to hear a quantized sample of a CD skipping, I'd listen to an Oval CD from 1999
Caretaker - this is just a bunch of thrift store record samples
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
Oh yay I can post here AND in 'vent your bullshit'! Maybe the latter can be non-2017-specific though
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
yes this is just to keep your attention during the EOY poll, submitted with love
Bjork - I found this slow, gloomy, and unengaging. her mix that she did for Mixmag (?) was great, though.
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
*warms up FPing finger*
― all this youthless booty (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
happy to help!
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
this is a safe space
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
;-)
― all this youthless booty (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
otm, I've never understood the hype.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
Angel olsens new one gets seriously dire in the second half. Love her but hate to say it's a bummer record
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
i'll just get this out of the way: most of the 2017 music is bad
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
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
I don't really know Jessie Ware all that well, but the first thing I noticed about Pearls is that the bass line is very similar to This Is What They Say by Carly Rae Jepsen (off of Dedicated Side B), and that's definitely a better song.
― peace, man, Friday, 10 February 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
no shade but "Jessie Ware song sounds a lot like X" is basically the first step of listening to any of her tracks
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
ldr sux
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
I've never been able to get into an Angel Bat Dawid record.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
same, despite my affection for almost everything on that label. To be fair, I almost always have hang-ups with vocals on any jazz record made after 1955
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 31 March 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
I think it's that the execution doesn't measure up to the high concepts for me
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
more like boregenius
(am I doing this right??)
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
this record wouldn’t be hyped by any of the sensible posters on ilm but god sleep token fucking sucks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 May 2023 00:50 (ten months ago) link
at least something occasionally happens in a coldplay song. oooooh! punked u all etc
― imago, Monday, 11 September 2023 22:19 (seven months ago) link
(have already more than said my bit about this album on RYM but being mentioned in the thread is too much to resist lol)
― imago, Monday, 11 September 2023 22:20 (seven months ago) link
i was afraid you were going to dis my dick ... what a relief
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 05:18 (seven months ago) link
i listened to a few tracks and put on Juliana Hatfield instead
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:35 (seven months ago) link
Did you make it to track 5 at least(??)
― my brain goes aahhhh (morrisp), Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:42 (seven months ago) link
I’ll give it another shot
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:47 (seven months ago) link
okay but what album is this
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:50 (seven months ago) link
well it’s sort of fun to not say, part of the charm of this thread, but … it’s guts. there’s something extremely instagram about that record in its protools cyborg try-hard optimized vocal tic thing. I only wish I caught 90s vibes. defiantly non slacker energy
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 13:35 (seven months ago) link
that was obvious lol, now front up and say it on the thread, I'm lonely
― imago, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 13:43 (seven months ago) link
oh this ariana grande got some teeth, don't it.
(beats aren't even good?!)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
Please join the two (2) of us in the main thread, we could use the company!!
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:11 (one month ago) link
i... (big sigh)... don't wanna be the asshole in there. i'm sorry. i don't have any real thoughts anyway; it's sza-lite. no thanks.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:32 (one month ago) link
(but ty for the invite!)
SZA-lite is an interesting take, IMO!
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:45 (one month ago) link
not heard it yet but why is vampire weekend still such ilmcore, why must everyone agonise and theorise and give it so much energy, there is so much other music
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:16 (two weeks ago) link
it's like they're the rory gilmore of music or something. a+ comparison lj well done
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:17 (two weeks ago) link
it's an interesting album because it is full of great ideas but ends up being pretty bad in spite of that, they forgot to write actual songs
― ufo, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:17 (two weeks ago) link
your consistent defence of interesting songwriting is always cheering, but by the same token, how great is a great idea if the execution is lame
ffs i'm going to have to listen myself and become part of the problem lol
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:23 (two weeks ago) link
Everyone I know is over the moon aboit the Cindy Lee album, and I am just like “huh? we went through this in the mid 2000s!”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 April 2024 11:18 (three days ago) link
that was 20 years ago tho
― brimstead, Sunday, 21 April 2024 15:43 (three days ago) link
I saw someone on twitter call this album a "non-problematic Ariel Pink," and while I acknowledge that this is a reductive criticism, it is now all I can hear
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 April 2024 16:34 (three days ago) link
to engage w/the discourse i got about three hours into the new Taylor Swift album and tapped out, i think i was only on track nine.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:35 (yesterday) link
BNM for an album I find almost impressively irritating:https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/still-house-plants-if-i-dont-make-it-i-love-u/
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 04:59 (yesterday) link
(I do find myself wondering what ILM poster imago thinks of it; which may be a sign I need a long sabbatical…)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:02 (yesterday) link
I'll check it out right away!!
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:41 (yesterday) link
Initially quite liked it, wearing off now
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 06:42 (yesterday) link
yeah it's a sort of slow-burn annoyance, creeps up on you and rewires you to its idiosyncrasies lol
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 07:53 (yesterday) link
my unhealthy provincials aversion to london accents makes its a bit of a struggle
― devvvine, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 08:30 (yesterday) link
fantastic band imo. new one is like tirzah fronting this heat. incredible expressive voice, band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:46 (yesterday) link
lacks the focused intensity of tirzah or the swelling momentum of this heat imo - the brew is compelling but ultimately a bit too static
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:49 (yesterday) link
if anything the best moments are when it seems to fall apart, lose momentum and submit to entropy - i guess that's a vibe that works for a few tracks but over a whole album it gets a little stale
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:50 (yesterday) link
Well that's all part of improvisation, I think they just write the intros and then take it from there. I personally love the sound they have so it's all good to me.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:59 (yesterday) link
btw imago while you're here, plz go listen to the clarissa connelly album ok? :)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:00 (yesterday) link
haha okay okay
i am catching up with some recent folk atm in fact! that OXN is pretty good eh
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:02 (yesterday) link
(now onto harry gorski-brown, which is v promising at first contact)
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:04 (yesterday) link
band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:10 (yesterday) link
oh I'd semi-forgotten about that whole era of bands but that is a good shout
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:38 (yesterday) link
"whole era of splattery noise bands" i meant to type
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:40 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) link