Took a couple of listens but I ended up liking this more than The Inheritors. Had it somewhere in my top 10
― i know kore-eda (or something), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
yeah you're all getting your heads exploded by Spinning Forest rn eh? well, the rest of the album somehow keeps the level up, dunno how
― imago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
The Clientele is a great band. I loved this album and forgot to vote for it perhaps because I apparently WASTED a vote on U2!
GR80!
― omar little, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
daft comparison time! the james holden album is kind of where caribou should have gone after 'andorra' instead of the yawnsome bollocks they've been serving up since
― imago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
"this sounds exactly like 00s Dan Snaith" is all I've been thinking through the first track
― rob, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Think The Clientele album as my #2 or #3. Excellent album.
Really enjoying the James Holden one.
Full album is on youtube here for those who don't spotify.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
holden album rules, narrowly missed my ballot
― nxd, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w8wZxoC.jpg
35 ST VINCENT "Masseduction" (306 points, 14 votes)spotify
― gr8080, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
see you all in half an hour
― imago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
that seems low
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
I agree
― Moodles, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
was hoping that St Vincent 'going pop' would help me to like her more but it was the opposite
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
too high
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
ufo otm
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
My #3
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
I was expecting St Vincent in the top 10 tbh. Mind you, I am completely terrible at the prediction game.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
i enjoyed this the first time i heard it but never felt the urge to go back to it after that
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
I liked this more than the other St Vincent albums I've heard but I'm not totally won over. A lot of the things that have been placing yesterday and today are things I've listened to once and thought 'yeah, this is alright'.
I'm giving the Holden album another try, thought it was totally unremarkable on first go.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Oh, I'm liking the Holden quite a bit.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
holden/snaith comparisons are otm
never got in to holden before and this is absolutely my bailiwick
― gr8080, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
I liked him better when he made dance music
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
eww dance music
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
^^^
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
This has been a great start to the day. Gaussian Curve is another one I discovered from the overlooked albums of the year thread. Such a beautiful album.
Delighted to see The Clientele make it, I'd given up hope of them placing. Some days I think it's the best thing they've ever done. The best reunion album this year by some distance.
I had a feeling St Vincent wasn't going to be as high as previous years. Her backlash seems to be in full swing now. I preferred the S/T album, but really not by much. Ignoring the David Byrne album, she's one of the most consistent artists going.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
Glad to see Blanck Mass and James Holden.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/xKKSahy.jpg
34 THE WAR ON DRUGS "A Deeper Understanding" (312 points, 9 votes, 3 first place votes)spotify
― gr8080, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
:(
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
As I said on the Holden thread, I think he's pretty much the only 00s dance producer who stepped away from the dancefloor and became more rather than less interesting.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
Destroyer also likely to appear, then, I guess.
see you in another half hour
― imago, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
3 first place votes!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
too high!
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
as a guy who liked Lost in the Dream, lemme just say that Deeper Understanding is bloated and unfocused, with 2.5 good songs left to languish in the 70 minutes of runtime
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
OK this Holden album is pretty good, don't know what I was thinking before (although yeah nothing on it is as great as his remix of 'The Sky Was Pink').
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
pretty high bar, that
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
The War on Drugs are a band that seem appealing in theory but in practice their albums are bloated and unmemorable unfortunately
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
What's the real number 34 gr8080?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
American Dream
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
I'm shocked, legit shocked, that AWOD has enough of an ILM fanbase.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
It's not THAT bad, is it?
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
they were top 10 in 2014 so this is about where i expected them to show up
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:15 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this record to me didn't even seem to have a "red eyes" to anchor it, it was just free-floating mediocrity
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
WOD is another joke entry, yes?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
another perennial feature of these rollouts is the realizations that there are a bunch of indie rock listeners around here
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Father John Misty isn't going to place is he?
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Just a bunch?
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
not really into the new sassy St Vincent. sounds like someone buying way too much into their own hype. an overblown album that plays with ideas of emotion while sounding tremendously flat. and i say this as someone who loved her stuff beforehand. this is her Merriweather Post Pavilion I guess
― Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
I liked one of the singles on this WOD album but I can't imagine ever getting through the whole album
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
my favorite post about war on drugs:
the music this draws from hits me in a deeply nostalgic place, really the sounds themselves and i enjoy this band as a child in many ways and therefore understand their ultimate dullness but like them in a way that i'm not inclined to interrogate.― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:09 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:09 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/THTEjQC.jpg
33 ALICE COLTRANE "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda" (318 points, 12 votes)spotify
― gr8080, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link