Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

(also it's hilarious to frame your argument as "people listing FKA twigs have no imagination when it comes to R&B; where's the Beyonce?")

lol true

so funny that "habits" is on quite a few 2014 lists but everyone was like UM WUT when i tried to pass that song around all 2013!

i don't necessarily think the mark of a good or interesting list is agreeing with all the picks

the top three on the paste list are an abortion

Norway's biggest and 3rd biggest newspaper - Norwegian albums of the year:

Aftenposten:
1. Emilie Nicolas: Like I'm a warrior
2. Todd Terje: It's album time
3. Highasakite: Silent treatment
4. Motorpsycho: Behind the sun
5. Thea Hjelmeland: Solar plexus
6. Store P: Regnmannen
7. Torgeir Waldemar: Torgeir Waldemar
8. Sandra Kolstad: Zero gravity state of mind
9. Ida Jenshus: Let it go
10. The Dogs: The tears are voodoo

Dagbladet:
1. Highasakite, «Silent treatment»
2. Emilie Nicolas, «Like I’m a Warrior»
3. Ida Jenshus, «Let it go»
4. Kaja Gunnufsen, «Faen Kaja»
5. Röyksopp & Robyn, «Do it Again»
6. Store P, «Regnmannen»
7. In the Country & Frida Ånnevik, «Skogenes sang»
8. Silja Sol, «På Hjertet»
9. Jenny Hval & Susanna, «Meshes of Voice»
10. Todd Terje, «It’s Album Time»

Tove Lo still seems to have the same profile in 2014 as she did in 2013 imo, except there's an album to go along with the singles now.

Emilie Nicolas, «Like I’m a Warrior»

I just happened across this album over the tgiving holiday weekend. I'd had "Pstereo" in my Spotify best of the year list for a long time, but I didn't know there was a full LP. Unfortunately, except for one other song, it's pretty boring. :(

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TeqXUzaZ3c0/UzsavUd7YYI/AAAAAAAAAv8/SM01eQ_OkDI/s1600/901621_253611454810172_537879534_o.jpg

Det er sterke retro-vibber over garasjerocken til oslobandet The Dogs

xxxxxp nobody's saying you HAVE to like bey if you like twigs (though i'm hard pressed to think of anyone i've spoken to, gothy dude into R&B or otherwise, who is familiar with twigs and doesn't). FKATs points about the incipient racism of amalgamating all black singer/songwriters as R&B performers aside; her music and bey's album from this year are at least tangentially musically related
i'll cop that bey is maybe not the most apt choice of comparison (though recent repeat listening of haunted is illuminating the connections) but she's among the ten biggest performing artists in the world, you'd think they might have noticed her work or ANYONE else's working that currently zeitgeisty 'radiohead quiet storm' sound
more to the point, there's a host of other voices in the same/adjoining lanes that appear to be getting sidelined regardless (or more likely because of) popularity in favor of the more indie leaning choice
what i'm reacting to is musical tokenism and maybe a bit of the universal bey snubbing in the early ballots.

(also it's hilarious to frame your argument as "people listing FKA twigs have no imagination when it comes to R&B; where's the Beyonce?")

i like Ages and Ages, but am too lazy to go find, copy and paste the shrug guy emoticon

Indie leaning magazine/website favors indie leaning music from genres outside the main indie continuum. News at 11.

xpost (to me): that said, they've never released anything that comes anywhere close to "Archie, Marry Me"

xp hey if i don't tilt at a windmill or two i lose my grumpy old hipster credentials for 2015

wait, i just realized call all destroyer called "Archie, Marry Me" an abortion!

wow destroyer you weren't fuckin kidding

Emilie Nicolas, «Like I’m a Warrior»

I just happened across this album over the tgiving holiday weekend. I'd had "Pstereo" in my Spotify best of the year list for a long time, but I didn't know there was a full LP. Unfortunately, except for one other song, it's pretty boring. :(

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:06 PM (3 minutes ago)

Nobody Knows is great, Grow Up also sounds good to me, the repetition works really well as a check on the song becoming trite nostalgia. Haven't really sat down with the album otherwise.

alvvays is OK i guess but idk how it superseded a lot of stuff on that list (or off it!) this ages & ages song is kinda wack

really dreading sylvan esso given the zings upthread

That Sylvan Esso thing is atrocious.

I like Alvvays, though they have better songs than that one. Now I'm listening to Ages and Ages and I might actually hate it more than the Sylvan Esso one. Eesh.

what. the. fuck. is. this.

I refuse to visit paste again. Which horrid Ages and Ages song did they pick?

"Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)"

destroyer, so otm when describing esso as a more annoying tuneyards, a thing i didn't think was possible. does she have the cultural appropriation tourism issue garbus has or nah?

Thanks JF off to make myself puke in my mouth.

Made it a minute in. That's some dire shit.

Didn't really care much for the Sylvan Esso song that Paste gave number 1 to, but I don't mind the other song I've heard of hers, "Coffee".

i'm excited to check out the Textura list & Raymond's noise list

― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:54 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you sir

I liked the FKA Twigs album a lot, though I need to spend more time with it - it's one of those things where I need to be in the right mood (same with Beyonce's album, actually).

Here are a bunch of the things from the Textura list:

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6oD6W0OgTAIDPUAcT5EtWv

gracias

count me as another of the "ANOTHER WORLD" adventurers with like 50% of that textura list
This steel hammer album is instantaneously awesome

you guys, hate Sylvan Esso and Ages and Ages as much as you like, I get it, but that Alvvays album is AMAZING, top to bottom

27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)

^ this is really lovely FYI

okay, i have to reiterate how beautiful the first track on this Julia Wolfe album is and everyone with a passing interest in reich should play it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGVEiO8bwtI

Cosmopolitan - The 20 Best Albums of 2014
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a33585/best-albums-of-2014/

1. Taylor Swift, 1989
2. Ariana Grande, My Everything
3. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste
4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum
5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold
6. Tinashe, Aquarius
7. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence
8. Kelis, Food
9. Lykke Li, I Never Learn
10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition
11. One Direction, Four
12. Ex Hex, Rips
13. Jessie Ware, Tough Love
14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
15. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness
16. Dolly Parton, Blue Smoke
17. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager
18. FKA twigs, LP1
19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright
20. St. Vincent, St. Vincent

pleased to see love for dolly and azealia and tinashe and miranda

best list so far by miles!

yeah p solid. wouldn't rank taylor that high above everything for 1989, tho, not with tinashe and miranda lambert and lykke and bey that far behind her

Even though there are a few things on there I hate or at least don't care about, I think I agree.

i love that ilx hivemind taste intersects most closely w/ cosmo

(if it was red, different story, i'd understand a top 5 placement)

yeah look at us wusses ugh amirite

Least amount of dudes yet

despite the numbering, the cosmo list does say "in no particular order"

no i don't really associate cosmo w/ wussiness but maybe if i were being uncharitable a kind of rote superficiality? idk anything about their music crit nb and i like plenty of artists on that list just that i've seen a cosmo cover before in my life

whoever built that list is gonna be fun to hang out with

nahhhh

Is that a list just by Eliza Thompson or did they poll the Cosmo staff? Just curious.