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
Pitchfork - Best album covers of 2014:http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9556-the-best-album-covers-of-2014/1/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
definitely not a fan of the swans or sbtrkt ones
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Pink Floyd and Neil Young are for the Grampa Rockers!
as a grampa I concur
― sleeve, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm not either, but it appears they put a little bit more effort into that list this year which I'm grateful for. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
nice little write ups too
― nxd, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
yeah the swans album artwork sucks no matter which way i look at it.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Burning Ambulance Best Metal Albums of 2014:
25. Torch Runner, Endless Nothing24. Baring Teeth, Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins23. Cretin, Stranger22. AEvangelist, Writhes In The Murk21. Mastodon, Once More 'Round The Sun20. Machine Head, Bloodstone & Diamonds19. Decapitated, Blood Mantra18. Monarch, Sabbracadaver17. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Enfant Terrible16. Emmure, Eternal Enemies15. Crown The Empire, The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways14. Behemoth, The Satanist13. Ringworm, Hammer Of The Witch12. Obituary, Inked In Blood11. Vader, Tibi Et Igni10. Cannibal Corpse, A Skeletal Domain9. Incantation, Dirges Of Elysium8. Body Count, Manslaughter7. Cavalera Conspiracy, Pandemonium6. Opeth, Pale Communion5. GridLink, Longhena4. Exmortus, Slave To The Sword3. Rigor Mortis, Slaves To The Grave2. Job For A Cowboy, Sun Eater1. Judas Priest, Redeemer Of Souls
Burning Ambulance Best Jazz Albums Of 2014:
25. Vinnie Sperrazza, Apocryphal24. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principle and Live In Lisbon23. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues22. Eric Revis, In Memory Of Things Yet Seen21. Matthew Shipp Trio, Root Of Things20. Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill and The Great Lakes Suites19. The Cookers, Time And Time Again18. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom17. Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic16. Matt Brewer, Mythology15. Rudy Royston, 30314. Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Prehistoric Jazz Vol. 1 & 213. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Erta Ale12. William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas, Live At The Vilnius Jazz Festival11. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten10. Donald Edwards, Evolution Of An Influenced Mind9. Eric Wyatt, Borough Of Kings8. Tom Tallitsch, Ride7. Mark Lomax Trio, Isis & Osiris6. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature5. Mike DiRubbo, Threshold4. Brian Charette, The Question That Drives Us3. Steve Lehman Octet, Mise en Abîme2. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn1. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
love how pharmakon always makes the cut on those covers lists
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
it's a good cover imo
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
it absolutely is. and a p good album at that
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I still love Walking With Elephants but I haven't been overexposed to it. It really does feel like this year's ubiquitous tune with an impact way outside quotidian bobbins territory.
That Ben Klock remix of Josh Wink is immense.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
got to 6 in the charts so yes
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
and on the latest NOW! comp
― Jeff W, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Albums, per metacritic:
1. St. Vincent - s/t2. Run the Jewels - RTJ23. Perfume Genius - Too Bright4. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence5. Mac Demarco - Salad Days6. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!7. Ty Segall - Manipulator8. Beck - Morning Phase9. FKA Twigs - LP110. Eric Church - The Outsiders
not a terrible list aside from that narcoleptic beck record & the overrated mac demarco
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard Salad Days yet but I love "2".
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
he's fine, like not bad at all, but he's hella overpraised imo. only listened to both his records in full once but def liked 2 better than salad days
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
I know we rightly criticise the tedious lionisation of boomer acts but really the critical edifice that's been set up to ensure that Pavement and Yo La Tengo are never allowed to go out of fashion is so much lamer. Which is my way of saying the Mac Demarco album is terrible.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Mac Demarco sounds like Pavement and Yo La Tengo?!
― emil.y, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
He's got strong songs, and him and his band are great musicians- one of those rare indie groups that show you can actually be indie-cool and technically proficient at the same time! You know, tight playing, tuned guitars, minimal glaring mistakes in the studio recording... the stuff that is opposite of the purposeful-DIY-sound approach.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
i personally have never, ever, ever understood the appeal of yo la tengo. pavement is like, i understand how influential it is & some of it i genuinely enjoy but pavement also gave us speedy ortiz, who are fucking trash.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
He does sound a bit like Pavement on occasion but his main constituency appears to be people nostalgic for early 90s Matador.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Btw, my exclamatory remark was not meant as a "no, he doesn't" - I've literally never heard a note of his work. I don't know what I was expecting him to sound like, really. I haven't thought about him much.
― emil.y, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Is it really "so much lamer" though Matt?
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
He doesn't sound like Pavement or Yo La Tengo to answer that question.
i like pavement a lot. ylt i can take or leave, but i don't really see the point in a lot of the newer acts. i liked the first parquet courts quite a lot but sunbathing animal was a drag.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I've literally never heard a note of his work. I don't know what I was expecting him to sound like, really.
Same for me. Pavement was not what I'd expected someone to say, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
sloth what of Yo La Tengo have you spent any time with?
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
considering stephen malkmus's album appeared in the lower reaches of only Uncut and American Songwriter magazines, maybe Pavement's endurance is overestimated?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Recent solo Malkmus is far from the tone of Pavement though.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
The issue is not really whether he sounds like either.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
evan i have heard fade, i am not afraid of you... and i can hear the heart beating as one. again this is more an issue of me thinking something is *shrug* rather than actively bad.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Gotcha- so... guitar indie in general?
xpost
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
mac demarco sounds like a sad ariel pink
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Wow I played some of those ones in the djmag chart, really horrible!
― saer, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Hey sloth I'd recommend giving Painful a go start to finish and see if you like that better.
― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
We clown on Popmatters sometimes, but I really like their metal list. With some great contributions from at least one, that I'm aware of, ilxor.
15. Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels14. Babymetal - Babymetal13. Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer12. Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem11. Ghost Bridage - IV: One With the Storm10. Panopticon - Roads to the North9. Mournful Congregation - Concrescence of the Sophia8. Behemoth - The Satanist7. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire6. Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls5. Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere4. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend3. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden2. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata1. Opeth - Pale Communion
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
the YOB album truly is as good as advertised
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Ugh The Outsiders. Is EW playing catchup?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
i feel bad that Eric Church is getting dumped on so much in this thread. the album is not as hit-packed as its predecessor and has some goofy lyrics but i really love the arrangements/production and overall vibe.
― Bro With Extensive Taint (some dude), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm assuming that I will be just as bored by the new Eric Church album as I was by the first one?
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link