severe yes but i don't think it's sterile at all, the griminess is one of the best things about the record
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
mewithoutyou - don't fear the reaper 2
hell yeah
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
*devil horns*
lol
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
i like house music but have no idea how to listen to something like this critically
This is how I feel about Afropop. It all sounds great, no idea how discerning fans figure out what’s better than what
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
yeah same with that but at least that's outside of my wheelhouse whereas i listen to a fair amount of dance music and still don't know what to do with it
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
really love that fabiana palladino track - the guitar outro especially rules.toni braxton track is a nice discovery too. as far as indie goes, i feel like i understand the appeal of parquet courts less than ever and the soccer mommy track is very boring. rbcf track is pleasant but not really anything more.
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever remind me a little of The Go-Betweens
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
The momentum and jangle but not the tunes.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
well I guess I agree, nothing since can really compare to The Go-Betweens
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link
― ufo, Monday, January 28, 2019 10:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agreed, the Palladino track reminds me vaguely of that Eugene song Living in your Love because of the outro. Not that the songs are alike, I just love how the outro sneaks up on you and suddenly you end the song just giddy and have to replay it, then spend the whole next listen trying not to fast forward to the outro again. I like the Toni Braxton one as well, it's not stuck with me the first couple times I heard it but maybe I was more open to it this time. Love me some Wizkid of course too. Kali Uchis was cool I'll need to re-listen to it.
I've not listened to Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever before, but its almost good, would be interested to hear what they do in the future.
I think I might one day like the Helena Hauff song, will have to listen to it again.
The biggest shock for me was that mewithoutYou song, a new don't fear the reaper sounds great to me, excellent track. Do they do heavier shit? Or is this basically the way they always sound?
― Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
lol if my flippant comparison stuck somehow
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
would be interested to hear what they do in the future
It's possible you'd be interested in what they did before this album, since this album is a minor letdown.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link
for some reason i thought they were new? i am way out of touch, thanks, I'll check out their older stuff.
― Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
Hm, I'm trying to work out what I think of the mewithoutyou song. I like it, and the aesthetic is up my alley, but I want it to take off more than I feel like it does; either for the guitarist to let it rip a little more in the solo or for the drummer to tap into some Jimmy Chamberlain propulsion. Tuomas's comments sort of make up for it all, though.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
i can appreciate "julia" somewhat but it's not really my thing i think
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 06:14 (five years ago) link
kali uchs - it's okred velvet - funny how every in the last couple years every k-pop song has trap drums. this songs rly goodlaura jean - mehandrew wk - really suckshelena hauff - i probably overrated this album slightly at the time, but it's fun to listen to someone make bangin rudimentary techno on some old pos hardwarenice for what - great sample. btw i was just thinking today, was scorpion drake's new jersey? i feel like there's arguments to be made for any of his last 3koze - i kinda hated his album from this year but this one's good. i mean so simple right, how can u go wrongmgmt - ok this poll kind of sucks lol... yall...rolling blackouts coaster - pretty nice. this album bored me really badly, maybe i'll check out the eps... kinda lazy thoparquet courts - great opener to the best rock album of the year, by my fav band. i've started becoming so cranky and bored by music for a lot of the last couple years and it felt improbable that i'd crush so hard on a band as i did after this album prompted me to get back into them (had checked out after the first couple albums out of laziness, despite liking them). the basslines are sooo goodtwin sister - my other fav band. see them live if you can imo. she's totally transfixing as frontperson, and the rest of the band are v cute, you wish you were friends with them irl. i really regret not nominating 'tops and bottoms' from the album, which was my fav off the album. i love the sade worship stuff but i also love when they branch out into their dubbier dark techno side like 'out of the dark' off the last album. thought they should've explored that side a bit moresticky - really great. that vocal's wild. love how the drums come in and cut against the guitar. poll's picking up steam... fingers crossedyour dog - soccer mommy >>>>>>> snail mail. sheryl crowe-core shimmer - it's alrighttony braxton - d0pe.. controversial opinion (not rly): the mainstream r&b on these polls is better than the shimmery 80s influenced slowmo vaguely dancey indie pop that always takes up 1/3 of itmewithoutyou - there's usually one or two brad albums per year i listen to once and it doesn't really click at first and then i go back to it a year later and realize i was wrong and it rips... not sure if this will be the case with this one. it's cool tho, kinda emo deathrockwizkid - this guy's been killing it for like 4 years now? still not getting his due imo. afrobeats production is so much cooler and more hi-def than american pop production has been the last decade
― flopson, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
i don't get the "soccer mommy >>> snail mail" opinions, i don't really like either but snail mail has one really nice song in "heat wave" at least which i'd guess is probably yet to show
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
I played these this morning bloody hell this is thin gruel
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up70: MGMT – “When You Die”69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”
these all sound a photocopy of a photograph of a memory of watching a tv show in a doctors waiting room. tough to even think of anything to say about this pallid schlock
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
sounds exactly like its title. Cyborgs are joyless unfriendly dicks and the sooner people admit it the better
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
i like this fellows memes where he's wearing a coat
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
great title, unlistenable garbage
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
if it was instrumental it would be bearable
― saer, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:57 (five years ago) link
Sorry about being so negative, i will say this there weren't that many that were actively painful!
― saer, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:58 (five years ago) link
Yes but did you like the Wizkid?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 10:05 (five years ago) link
Aw <3
xp
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday,
I would quite like this as an instrumental! but the vocals are no good for me, why is he so morose. Sounds like he's wasting a sunny Saturday afternoon sat at a desk in front of a mountain of paperwork or dealing with some car insurance problems. I get it, bureaucracy is a pain, I had to transfer out Kane from my fantasy football team when he got injured but sometimes you just have to deal with these things head on
― saer, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
Sounds like he's wasting a sunny Saturday afternoon sat at a desk in front of a mountain of paperwork or dealing with some car insurance problems.― saer, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:57 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That should have been the blurb for Soco.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
Wizkid's vocals are the best part! It's all about how relaxed he sounds, imo.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
*is (- grrrrrrrr)
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
The only thing that could have made Soco even better than it is would be if the other vocalists on it sounded as relaxed and carefree as Wizkid does.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
Having gone through the playlist from yesterday the only song I actively dislike is the Andrew WK one, it just has a sort of sports stadium sound/quality to it that I find really off-putting.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
I have to admit, I'm not in LOVE with Soco. Wizkid's an absolute afrobeats darling but the only song I really like with him on it is Ma Lo, but that's mostly cos of Tiwa Savage.
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
I'm fucking gutted I missed the voting thread. Maybe not enough BIG CAPITALS in the thread title this year? It's not like I've strayed far from ILM. Anyway, I only know the Wizkid and Parquet Courts songs so far. Weird choice for PQs - a good opener and Black Flag homage but nowhere near the best track on that album.
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
But it was a single, and had a fun video, and fuck Tom Brady
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, January 28, 2019 10:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
check out the most recent album imo, but the answer is: 1. yes (and lighter shit too) 2. not really, “julia” is one of their few songs that is both gentle and aggressive, but if you like it you’ll probably like their other stuff
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
you didn't ask for it but i'm giving it to you anyway
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”: this is cute enough, kind of a slightly more boisterous big sister to that dreamy version of 'rock your baby' that emerson kitamura put out this year76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”: i like this quite a bit tbh75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”: for the sake of your own health, eat less beige food people 74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”: sounds like something from quiet riot: the musical73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”: really nice electro that's a lot more warm and tactile than i expected - some satisfyingly moist and splashy synth sounds in there; probably should've listened to the album tbh 72: Drake – “Nice for What”: hey i didn't hate this! well not that much anyhow 71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up": i loved this when i first heard it but it only gets more boring with each subsequent play. gorgeous loop but he takes forever to go absolutely nowhere with it70: MGMT – “When You Die”: have never heard anything else by these chuckleheads apart from that one fucking song, so i was pleasantly surprised by this. i like the music a lot more than i like the singing though 69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”: not terrible but the chorus is really annoying. it makes me sad that blank realm got so roundly ignored while they were around, cos i think they made a better fist of this sort of fidgetty clean-ish hypno-jangle68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”: yeah, i'd like to see if these lads could still do it against 'theme from sparta fc' on a wet tuesday night in stoke67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”: i feel like a freelance food writer who's just been assigned a review of ten different off-brand porridges66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”: solid enough but could do without the comedy vocal effects65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”: don't mind the singer but this is all a bit mimsy and forgettable. needs more loud64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”: eh, this is lame like haim. her voice just makes me wish Laura Groves would hurry up and make another album63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live: haha, this sounds fucking amazing in the context of the rest of this list 62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”: getting a cormac mccarthy vibe from that title, song sounds a bit like katatonia? hated the video, like the director was trying to shoot a netflix pilot for some terrible post-stranger things throwback bullshit (but maybe that's all music videos these days i dunno?)61: Wizkid – “Soco”: don't hate it but wish i could say i liked it more, i'm sorry
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
i'd also recommend anyone curious about mewithout you check out the ep that accompanied the album they put out last year (both are named untitled), totally different side of them
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
yeah parquet courts were definitely going for a Fall thing, sans bite
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
Voted for: Kali Uchis, Red Velvet, Toni BraxtonVoted for the B-side instead: DJ Koze (and NIckB OTM about the A-side)Best discovery: Mr Twin Sister (was put off by their name until now; listened to half the album last night and that was rather good too)
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
Love how for most of the year everyone's being nice about music they like in cosy self-contained threads, then in January we all come together to tell everyone else the music they like is boring and shit.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
:D
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
I'm restraining myself so far tbf - but as soon as y'all lay into something I REALLY like then no holds will be barred. Only Acting will probably be a sparkpoint
sans bite
Things I still find amusing although I'm no longer 14: 'bite' (pronounced like 'beet') means 'penis' in French.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
You assume I didn't know that ;)
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
Boringly the only thing from yesterday I actively hate is the Drake track, which I haven't listened to. Soccer Mommy was dull, not awful, just dull. Everything else was very good and you should all congratulate yourselves for voting for it.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
My comment wasn't necessarily meant for the author of those lines. ;)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
(tbf, I knew it meant SOMETHING but I figured I'd leave the translingual pun to the gods - and how they delivered!)
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
sounds like something from quiet riot: the musical
lol, it's true. nickb also otm re: long as I live as well, my fav of what I hadn't heard
pick up is like a 10 second snippet from some avalanches mix left to loop maddeningly, simmering in its own yearning. it's both too long and wldn't be as good if it was shorter
the breakdown in nice for what is proper hectic and plays against drake's simpering softness
― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
imo soccer mommy has a command of melody and economy that most other songwriters in her field do not have, i'm not sure "your dog" is wholly representative of that though. i was surprised johnny fever likes "skin" the most bc i have referred to it as her taylor swift song
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
'Dick' is a more appropriate translation tbf but I enjoying scanning it as 'sans penis'.
2xp
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
I like almost everything that's placed so far, imagine hating so much music damn
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Wait, this isn't Rolling Worst Music of 2018?
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
i was surprised johnny fever likes "skin" the most bc i have referred to it as her taylor swift song
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:28 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually i'd like to walk this back a little on revisit. something about her voice and the way she lingers on detail reminds me of swift regardless
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link