Sidmani & Tanooki
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
Don't say it three times or he'll appear.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
toumani & sidiki is probably my #1 album from this year
Listening to this atm. I realize the incredible amount of talent on display here, but I also feel like it's restaurant music?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
i've admittedly been in easy listening mode this year
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, that was mean. They're probably amazing to see perform.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
ha, i thought it was apt
― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
:)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
I like "The Birds of St. Marks" a lot. One of those songs he wrote when he was like 18.
― timellison, Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
I probably wouldn't have been as in to the Toumani&Sidiki record if I hadn't seen them first & gotten a sense of the interplay between them, the way the rhythms shift especially. The album with Ali Farka Toure often felt structured around & anchored down by the guitar but the pieces on this really take off, with those bouncy basslines underneath & they generate a lot of space, it's probably the airiest album I've ever heard. the tunes from the album were significantly expanded & perhaps just a little more patiently paced when I saw them played, which I absolutely recommend if you've got the faintest interest
― ogmor, Thursday, 4 December 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year.
1 Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 A Long Way To The Beginning (Knitting Factory)
I haven't heard the album, but they put on a good show at Bonnaroo. Having seen both Femi and Seun, I'd say Seun got the charisma gene.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Fasterlouder
1 Kimbra - The Golden Echo2 St. Vincent - St. Vincent3 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream4 Remi - Raw x Infinity5 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days6 Chet Faker - Built On Glass7 FKA Twigs - LP18 Run The Jewels - RTJ29 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness10 The Smith Street Band - Throw Me In The River11 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!12 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata13 Fishing - Shy Glow14 Sun Kil Moon - Benji15 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste16 Total Control - Typical System17 Royal Blood - Royal Blood18 Taylor Swift - 198919 Perfume Genius - Too Bright20 Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else21 Ariel Pink - Pom Pom22 Caribou - Our Love23 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizzard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz24 Glass Animals - ZABA25 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues26 Kelis - Food27 Blank Realm - Grassed In28 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal29 Beck - Morning Phase30 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence31 #1 Dads - About Face32 Alt-J - This Is All Yours33 DZ Deathrays - Black Rat34 TV On The Radio - Seeds35 Flight Facilities - Down To Earth36 Caitlin Park - The Sleeper37 Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun38 Angus and Julia Stone - Angus and Julia Stone39 The Black Keys - Turn Blue40 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There41 The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes42 Augie March - Havens Dumb43 Alvvays - Alvvays44 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold45 Shihad - Fvey46 Hozier - Hozier47 Jack White - Lazaretto48 Ball Park Music - Puddinghead49 Peep Tempel - Tales50 Dan Sultan - Blackbird
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Friday, 5 December 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year
1 Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack …Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire (Singlespeed)2 Brötzmann Adasiewicz Edwards Noble Mental Shake (Otoroku)3 AMM Place Sub. V. (Matchless)4 Matt Bauder And Day In Pictures Nightshades (Clean Feed)5 Rob Mazurek Mother Ode (Corbett Vs. Dempsey)6 Russ Johnson Meeting Point (Relay)7 Cymerman Wooley Parker World Of Objects (5049)8 Steve Lehman Octet Mise En Abîme (Pi)9 Keir Neuringer Ceremonies Of The Air (New Atlantis)10 Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance Palace Of Wind (New Amsterdam)
Posted in BEST OF 2014 |
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 December 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Next batch of Guardian best albums:
10. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead8. Beck - Morning Phase7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 26. Trouble in Paradise - La Roux
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
is that la roux album any good? i've seen it on a few polls and don't feel too keen on them on the basis of the few older tracks i've heard
― nxd, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
That La Roux album's surprisingly good and very different from the debut but I'm astonished that it's that high. Presumably it's St Vincent, TWOD, FKA, Aphex and Caribou in the Top 5.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:04 (nine years ago) link
yet again only one of these lists has anything from my top 20 records and i assure all and sundry that this is not intentional but wtf. perhaps only liking stuff that everyone else hates is some sort of talent i dunno
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:05 (nine years ago) link
Predicted Guardian top 5: Aphex Twin, Caribou, St. Vincent, Beyonce, FKA Twigs
― nashwan, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link
on course for my votes to have zero impact on the guardian list apart from t-swift! literally not even listening to the same music as everyone else there.
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
The La Roux album is much less harsh than their debut. Her voice is still quite shrill but it's not presented in such a harsh, confrontational way and the music is much more disco than synth-pop this time around. It's certainly more listenable than the debut but I'm bewildered to see it so high on any list.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
no bad thing, lex.
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:31 (nine years ago) link
37. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata25. Actress - Ghettoville24. Banks - Goddess20. Owen Pallett - In Conflict19. Jhene Aiko - Souled Out15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
^^guardian albums i have heard and was varying shades of lukewarm-to-unenthusiastic about
40. Tricky - Adrian Thaws14. Future Islands - Singles13. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down10. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead
^^guardian albums i was uninterested in hearing based on the lead single(s)
34. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge29. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom28. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots27. Kindness - Otherness18. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager8. Beck - Morning Phase6. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
^^guardian albums i was uninterested in hearing based on these being terrible fucking artists whose past form is absolutely hideous and life is too short
my only thumbs up are for taylor and tinashe
if RMRM is right about the top 5, fka twigs is the only possible further thumbs up even though it's like my #25 album of the year and st vincent/caribou will join the heard-and-was-unenthusiastic-about pile
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure EOY will align a lot more with your tastes though.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:36 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile on the next planet across...
Loudwire - 20 Best Rock Songs of 2014http://loudwire.com/best-rock-songs-of-2014/
20. Three Days Grace 'Painkiller'19. Linkin Park featuring Daron Malakian 'Rebellion'18. Bring Me the Horizon 'Drown'17. Body Count 'Talk S--t, Get Shot'16. Against Me! 'True Trans Soul Rebel'15. Slash 'World on Fire'14. Emigrate featuring Frank Delle 'Eat You Alive'13. A Day to Remember 'End of Me'12. Kyng 'Electric Halo'11. Black Label Society 'My Dying Time'10. Starset 'Telescope'9. The Pretty Reckless 'Heaven Knows'8. The Virginmarys 'Just a Ride'7. Sixx: A.M. 'Stars'6. Royal Blood 'Figure It Out'5. Nothing More 'This Is the Time (Ballast)'4. Hellyeah 'Moth'3. Foo Fighters 'Something From Nothing'2. Islander 'Coconut Dracula'1. Chevelle 'Take Out the Gunman'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:36 (nine years ago) link
of the many albums on my list that haven't cropped up in this thread at all yet, the one i'm most shocked by is toni braxton & babyface.
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
sexist garbage from the standard:http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/the-best-albums-of-2014-a-christmas-shopping-guide-for-musiclovers-9905463.html
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
One thing I like about the ILX poll Lex is that it's the only place where you get to be consensus guy.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
can't wait to buy the alt-j album for all my rocking intellectual family members
― nxd, Friday, 5 December 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link
love the way it's divided up into 'rap fans', 'indie kids', 'intellectuals' and 'girls'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
DJ Mag Singles: http://djmag.com/node/51427
1. Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants2. Patrick Topping - Forget3. Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Tale of Us & Mano Le Tough Remix)4. Sailor & I - Turn Around (Âme Remix)5. Floating Points - King Bromeliad6. Josh Wink - Are You There? (Ben Klock Remix)7. Seven Davis Jnr - One (Live Edit)8. Lauer - Hershel9. Leon Vynehall - Butterflies10. Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing On
"The next 20"Fracture - Loving TouchPatricia - Drip Dawn (JTC's I-94 Lick)Marquis Hawkes - Can't Find A ReasonTito Wun - The Way U Do It (Jacques Renault Remix)Josh Wink - Talking To YouJimmy Chambers - You Can't Fight ItBicep - Lyk LykRockwell - IneedUTrumpet & Badman - Str8 Jugglin'Point G - The AlarmDamiano Von Erckert - Diamonds & GirlsNoir & Hayze - Angel (Ripperton Remix)Wayne Snow - Red RunnerHotel Lauer - QDSebo K - AvalancheDjrum - DAM (Akkord Remix)Jitterbug - Sweet ToothCaribou - Our LoveGenius of Time - Juno JamMidland - Duster
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
Everything I've heard in that DJ Mag top ten has been banging (Ten Walls, Patrick Topping, Wink/Klock/Lauer/Oliver $) except the Tale of Us Caribou mix which somehow manages to be even drippier than the original.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Boggling at that Standard article. Nothing says intellectualism like Alt-J.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
Juno Plus -- Top 30 Albums of 2014
30. Vaghe Stelle – Sweet Sixteen (Astro: Dynamics)29. Kassem Mosse – Workshop 19 (Workshop)28. Lorenzo Senni – Superimpositions (Boomkat Editions)27. Population One – Theater Of A Confused Mind (Rush Hour Music)26. Perc – The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)25. Shit & Shine – Powder Horn (Diagonal)24. Beau Wanzer – Untitled (Self Released)23. Function & Vatican Shadow - Games Have Rules (Hospital Productions)22. Jo Johnson – Weaving (Further Records)21. Eric Holm - Andøya (Subtext)20. Alessandro Cortini – Sonno (Hospital Productions)19. Slackk – Palm Tree Fire (Local Action)18. Mr Mitch – Parallel Memories (Planet Mu)17. Ena – Binaural (Samurai Horo)16. Vessel – Punish, Honey (Tri Angle Records)15. Objekt - Flatland (PAN)14. Yamaneko – Pixel Wave Embrace (Local Action)13. Low Jack – Garifuna Versions (L.I.E.S.)12. Vril – Torus (Forum)11. Klara Lewis – Ett (Editions Mego)10. Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels (Modern Love)9. Arca – Xen (Mute)8. Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was The Golden Age (RVNG Intl)7. Ital – Endgame (Planet Mu)6. Neel – Phobos (Spectrum Spools)5. Mo Kolours - Mo Kolours (One Handed Music)4. Gesloten Cirkel – Submit X (Murder Capital)3. Shinichi Atobe – Butterfly Effect (DDS)2. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)1. Call Super – Suzi Ecto (Houndstooth)
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
It's cos Alt-J wear glasses and their name is a keyboard shortcut.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
oh, i like a bunch of those! totally recommend the vessel record to anyone who liked the holden album from last year xp
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
nice to see the electronic lists pop up.
1. Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants4. Sailor & I - Turn Around (Âme Remix)5. Floating Points - King Bromeliad9. Leon Vynehall - Butterflies10. Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing OnMarquis Hawkes - Can't Find A ReasonTrumpet & Badman - Str8 Jugglin'
YASSS to all of these singles. looking fwd to the dance trax lists bc i spent a lot of this year completely out of the loop
the juno plus albums is an odd mix of stuff i really loved - call super is a great choice for no 1 - and a lot of stuff i found really dry or relentless (objekt, millie & andrea, perc). was really disappointed by the slackk and stott albums too.
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
although i feel like even if the usual outlets were always going to be slow to pick up deep tech, they shouldn't be so slow that it's not popping up in these lists
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
loved stott, but i'm a fan and perhaps bias. never, ever understood the appeal of the perc disc.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
perc didn't do much for me either, but i'm liking the andy stott. both very grey albums in their own ways though, it's true
xps haha
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Hip hop heads, teen queens, soul sisters, indie kids, rocking intellectuals, modern mums. Hilariously patronizing, and they forgot music lovers.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's got to go in the worst music writing thread. every sentence is condescending to the max.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
stott's new one was kinda fine as background music, just disappointing after how revelatory luxury problems was
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
To be fair, if you scroll to the bottom, it also identifies "the dad dancers" (you may like Pink Floyd and Neil Young). Which makes it so much better and more even-handed.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
They need to rethink their demographic info. Many dads these days were born in the mid-80s, and some as recently as late 90s! So Dancing Dads would be more into, oh, The Juan Maclean. Pink Floyd and Neil Young are for the Grampa Rockers!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Pink Floyd and Neil Young are for the Grampa Rockers!― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 5, 2014
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 5, 2014
curse you, fastnbulbous.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
That Standard piece is really something else. Fuck.
And on the subject of awfulness, the comments under the Quietus list are well worth reading if you haven't already. Massive amounts of intentional and unintentional humour to be seen there.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
that ten walls track sounds so familiar. is it just an update of a previous tune he did?
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Dads like The Chromatics.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah it's a colliery band 'gotham'
never want to hear 'elephants' again in my lifetime but its omission on any worthwhile eoy would be inexcusable
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
chief keef is a dad
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah it's a colliery band 'gotham'never want to hear 'elephants' again in my lifetime but its omission on any worthwhile eoy would be inexcusable― r|t|c, Friday, December 5, 2014 3:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― r|t|c, Friday, December 5, 2014 3:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ah right thanks, i quite liked 'gotham' in a Plaid-goes-deep-house kind of way.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link