It's really sweet how the Guardian still persists in caring about The Horrors after pretty much everyone else lost interest.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
Going through the Quietus list from the bottom up. So far the most arresting discovery has been Re-TROS, who purvey a particularly vivid & mathy Chinese techno-punk
That Horrors song does nil for me
Pigs x7 are peak Quietus sure but I think two of them are also in Richard Dawson's backing band
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
I love that Horrors song tbh
― Simon H., Monday, 4 December 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
quietus generally where i get all my late year finds; excited to explore that
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 4 December 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
I love the Quietus lists as well. So many things I've not heard of AND good blurbs.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
95: Rose Dougall - Stellular
this is great btw
― President Keyes, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
Really excited by the opening track but didn't think it held up after that. Might return to it though
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Bumped another thread for the MHYSA album, which is p interesting too - a bit sad that on another weird r&b tip the Harriet Brown album from their half-year list has vanished
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
Man the Re-TROS is great! Dance-rock you can turn to when you realise how bori[remainder of post redacted]
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
I've never heard of Chino Amobi, but it sounds absolutely fantastic, and like the most Wire thing ever.
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
Anyone has the Wire list online?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Wire list in full:
1. Chino Amobi - Paradiso2. Richard Dawson - Peasant3. Klein - Tommy4. Jlin - Black Origami5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid6. Jana Rush - Pariah7. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality8. Pan Daijing - Lock9. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die10. Circuit des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo11. Actress - AZD12. Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar13. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async14. Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand15. Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt16. Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements17. Ellen Arkbro - For Organ and Brass18. Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy19. Diamanda Galas - All the Way20. Mhysa - Fantasii21. Children of Alice - Children of Alice22. Strange U - LP #408023. Phew - Voice Hardcore24. The Bug vs Earth - Concrete Desert25. Áine O'Dwyer - Gallarais26. Juana Molina - Halo27. Saicobab - Sab Se Purani Bab28. Golden Teacher - No Luscious LIfe29. Brooklyn Raga Machine - Terry Riley In C30. Sote - Sacred Horror In Design31. Laurel Halo - Dust32. Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run33. Akio Suzuki & John Butcher - Immediate Landscapes34. Circle - Terminal35. Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds36. Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness37. Sadaf - Shell38. Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure39. Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File40. Karen Gwyer - Rembo41. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.42. Once and Future Band - Once and Future Band43. Gnod - Just Say No To the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine44. Pancrace - Pancrace45. Lil B - Black Ken46. John Maus - Screen Memories47. Roscoe Mitchell - Bells For the South Side48. Carla dal Forno - The Garden49. Mahmoud Gania - Colours of the Night50. Gosheven - Leaper
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
thx
― sleeve, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
Is the Tyler album any cop or is it just Wire madness talking?
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
A lot of people like it. It's no Culture though, that's for sure. Actually, I'm really surprised at how little Migos there are on these lists.
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Feels like these lists are pretty short on rap music in general tbh
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Everyone in the comments section for the Guardian list needs to have their internet privileges revoked ASAP
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
The Joshua Abrams record is really good.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
smh @ the three rap albums being Tyler, Kendrick and Lil B
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
Keep meaning to hear that Sote record and the Mhysa one too
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
Sote is good yeah.
That Amobi record had best be great if Wire are to claim a 'know what's up' from me ;)
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
xpost Fader seem to have lumped Migos in with K*d*k Bl**k & X*XT****C**N, probably not the only ones
― drab daddy (mahica), Monday, 4 December 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
Wait, why? What story am I missing?
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
I don't have an answer for you Fred, but I like this detail from their wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migos#2016-2017:_Continued_legal_issues
On July 7, 2017, Takeoff was asked to leave a flight from Atlanta to Des Moines, Iowa, after he reportedly refused to move his bag from the floor to an overhead storage bin prior to takeoff.[53]
― how's life, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
Yeah, they have had a lot of legal issues, but there's some distance from that and to X*XT**etc, I would have thought.
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
It's this story: https://pitchfork.com/news/71471-migos-not-cool-with-support-of-ilovemakonnens-homosexuality-thats-wack-bro/
Fader's list did include Slide (the Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean collab) but then the blurb sounds kind of taunting:
It sucks that we had to wait until 2017 to get a disco song about buying Picassos and smoking weed before gay sex, but I’m glad “Slide” is finally here. Calvin Harris managed to pull off three impressive tricks: he turned Migos into disco divas, somehow got Frank Ocean to make a radio-friendly song, and made a ’70s-inspired pop track that sounds completely new.
― drab daddy (mahica), Monday, 4 December 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/gunfire-erupts-migos-beat-sean-kingston-nevada-event-article-1.2978956
what the
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Monday, 4 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
On July 7, 2017, Takeoff was asked to leave a flight from Atlanta to Des Moines, Iowa, after he reportedly refused to move his bag from the floor to an overhead storage bin prior to takeoff.
how can takeoff do anything at all prior to takeoff? that seems like it would be a physical impossibility.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
def surprised by lack of migos (as a group or individuals) on the fader's lists. blue cheese, slippery, motorsport, you said, and no complaints all have a claim for inclusion
― ||||||||, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
they were in the RS top 10, just saying
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
16. Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements
I discovered this on Bandcamp last week when I was listening to Bottle Tree, who are on the same Chicago based International Anthem label. Interesting stuff.https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible-entanglementshttps://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/bottle-tree
19. Diamanda Galas - All the Way
She was intense at Roadburn last year, her set was a stripped down evil folk blues.
42. Once and Future Band - Once and Future Band
I was excited for this prog pop project early in the year but sort of forgot about it. Will re-listen.
43. Gnod - Just Say No To the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
I get why PigsX7 and Gnod are Quietus/Wire approved, just arty and political enough. Both are fine, but there are over a hundred albums that do that thing in a more fun and satisfying way.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 4 December 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
9. Diamanda Galas - All the WayShe was intense at Roadburn last year, her set was a stripped down evil folk blues.
Diamanda Galas, intense?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
Cheeky. Put that album on casually and it might seem unlistenable. But I enjoyed the live show, perhaps because after a variety of blackened death metal, sludge, prog and hardcore, it was a good change of pace. Or maybe it was all the secondhand smoke.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
The version of "O Death" on All The Way is one of the best things she ever done
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
I mean it's really really next-level even for her
Recorded live at Mars Volta ATP in 2008 I think?
Anyway https://diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/track/o-death
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
So far the most arresting discovery has been Re-TROS, who purvey a particularly vivid & mathy Chinese techno-punk
This is nice, though I don't particularly hear "mathy" or even "techno-punk". "Pigs in the River" sounds a bit like The Specials "Ghost Town" as performed by Depeche Mode.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
i heard diamanda do 'o death' live at the end of last year(?) and it sorta opened her up to me as an artist so yeah, i agree
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 01:45 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that track is a bit of an outlier I think! Hailing Drums is a dance-rock beast and possibly one of the tracks of the year
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 07:07 (six years ago) link
Liked what I heard of Once & Future Band as well. This decade didn't know it needed its own Jellyfish!
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
Never heard of Chino Amobi before but that record sounds awesome on paper.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
i've listened to it about 10 times in a row today and yesterday
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
Crack Magazine:https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-100-51/https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-50-1/
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link
ha i've tried a few times and that one keeps breaking my browser
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
got it now, that mono no aware album is so so goodalso the album carrying my favourite song of the year placed nicely too :)
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link
this is a nice list toohttp://mutantstandard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/top-10-albums-of-2017.html
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
^^^that looks very interesting and has loads of stuff that isn't elsewhere
lack of orange milk on any list is predictable i guess but a bit sad, i'm sure you'll agree
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
I always discover a lot of great stuff from the Anti Gravity Bunny lists. Here's the first:
Top 10 (Not Drone Or Metal) - http://www.antigravitybunny.com/?p=11320
10. CHLOÉ – Endless Revisions (LUMIÈRE NOIRE)9. GWENDOLEN OSMOND – The Mermaid (WAS IST DAS?)8. JOSHUA SABIN – Terminus Drift (SUBTEXT)7. HARVESTMAN – Music For Megaliths (NEUROT)6. ANDREW WEATHERS ENSEMBLE – Build A Mountain Where Our Bodies Fall (FULL SPECTRUM)5. UPPER WILDS – Guitar Module (THRILL JOCKEY)4. LE FRUIT VERT – Paon Perdu (THREE:FOUR)3. KELLY LEE OWENS – Kelly Lee Owens (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND)2. DIET CIG – Swear I’m Good At This (FRENCHKISS)1. MIDWIFE – Like Author, Like Daughter (WHITED SEPULCHRE)
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
this is a nice list toohttp://mutantstandard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/top-10-albums-of-2017.html― nxd, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:47 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nxd, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:47 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So many album covers with human faces that it's like a class picture.
― how's life, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
xps yeh orange milk slayed it this yearshout out to plus100 too!
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
here's the whole of the Crack list in case you're struggling to view it:
100. Snoop Dogg - Neva Left99. Show Me the Body - Corpus I98. Future & Young Thug - Super Slimey97. Jakuzi - Fantezi Müzik96. CupcakKe - Queen Elizabitch95. MoStack - High Street Kid94. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet93. Masta Killa - Loyalty is Royalty92. Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man91. Tricky - Ununiform90. Tim Darcy - Saturday Night89. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club - Sketches of Brunswick East88. Special Request - Belief System87. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls86. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas - Square One85. Girlpool - Powerplant84. Pan Daijing - Lack 惊蛰83. 21 Savage - Issa Album82. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens81. Meek Mill - Wins & Losses80. Umfang - Symbolic Use of Light79. Various - New Gen78. The Big Moon - Love in the 4th Dimension77. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits76. Red Axes - The Beach Goths75. Bicep - Bicep74. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts73. DJ Manny - Greenlight72. Ulricka Spacek - Modern English Decoration71. 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music70. Steffi - World of the Walking State69. Patrick Cowley - Afternooners68. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle67. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid66. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory65. Laurel Halo - Dust64. Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City63. Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency62. Future - Hndrxx61. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism60. Hype Williams - Rainbow Edition59. DJ Sports - Modern Species58. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - MILANO57. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan56. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone55. Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness54. JASSS - Weightless53. Big Thief - Capacity52. DJ Lycox - Sonhos & Pesadelos51. Alvvays - Antisocialites50. John Maus - Screen Memories49. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats48. Pessimist - Pessimist47. Jana Rush - Pariah46. Mike Cooper - Raft45. Brockhampton - Saturation II44. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage43. Aldous Harding - Party42. Blue Iverson - Hotep41. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas40. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION39. GAS - Narkopop38. Hitmakerchinx - Shades and Monsters: FDM Classics37. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer36. Angel Olsen - Phases35. Omar Souleyman - To Syria, With Love34. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives33. Sevdaliza - ISON32. Actress - AZD31. SYD - Fin30. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket29. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel28. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel your Love27. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural26. Jay-Z - 4:4425. King Krule - The Ooz24. Bjork - Utopia23. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy22. IDLES - Brutalism21. Kelela - Take Me Apart20. Jlin - Black Origami19. Drake - More Life18. William Basinski - A Shadow In Time17. J Hus - Common Sense16. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage15. Migos - Culture14. Thundercat - Drunk13. Slowdive - Slowdive12. Perfume Genius - No Shape11. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia10. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream9. Richard Dawson - Peasant8. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda7. Various - Mono No Aware6. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.5. Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?4. SZA - Ctrl3. Fever Ray - Plunge2. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life1. Arca - Arca
https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-100-51/https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-50-1/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link