all end isn't my favorite kind of autechre but this is probably the best thing of this kind they've done. I had some good times letting it play very loud while doing chores at home this year.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
lmao the Spotify playlist is gonna be absolutely ruined
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
"Smoko" is basically this year's "Stoned and Starving" (#32 in 2013 poll). But I like "Stoned and Starving" better than both "Smoko" and the Parquet Courts on this year's track list. There is a kind of musical substance to it which "Smoko" lacks and where I think the real excitement of that Parquet Courts record comes from is the trick of making music that is somewhat substantial and also dumb-ass at the same time.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
"stoned and starving" is the single parquet courts song i've ever liked but i think making anything substantial would be against the chats' whole ethos
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/O3JuQox.jpg
51: Róisín Murphy – “Plaything” – 192 points – 7 votesvideo
RÓISÍN MURPHY
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25949
This isn’t instant — which isn’t a bad thing, because it absolutely bears repetitive listening — but bits grab at you instantly: the Hot Chip-esque hook, the glorious disco glitter of “I know I mean nothing to you, still I can’t bring myself to hate”. Róisín sounds as gorgeously warm as ever while the song is spiky pain. – Hazel Southwell
“Plaything” is an intelligent, immaculately crafted bit of music, combining the house immediacy of Overpowered with the slowly unspooling nature of Hairless Toys with her perennial theme of the exquisite agony of being played. If I’m not as partial to it as “All My Dreams,” it’s because I prefer danger in my music to exaltation — or, to play A-side/B-side, prefer “Let Me Know” to “Sunshine.” The anticipation before a bad decision is always better than the decision itself. – Katherine St Asaph
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
:)))))))))))
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
yesss
― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
PS I know I'm way behind but that picture of Andrew WK upthread looks like Bob from Twin Peaks and it freaks me out
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Smoko reminds me of the old Beastie Boys punk shit. hard not to like on some small level. or maybe its just the video I liked, I dunno
anyway I was wondering which Ae track was gonna place, I guess this one was pretty obvious though its not really what I listen to Ae for. better than anything by William Basinski and the like though
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
just because it's a particularly inspired image, i am compelled to shout out Moka again for the consistently excellent graphics
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
song rules, forgot to vote for it lol
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
roisin had a pretty good run this year didn't she
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
All End is a good single.
I like Smoko, esp the video. Which is oddly - seeing how it will have given Saer a heart attack - p much exactly the kind of footage our hero puts his own Asda Step tunes to.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
haha this sounds like AI writing a song specifically to place on the ILX poll
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
i know a lot of autechre types get all snooty about tim hecker but, wow that autechre track sounds exactly like tim hecker to me
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
"all end" and "smoko" so close together makes me smile
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
"Plaything" = best use of "fait accompli" in a pop song
― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
I love the dedication to getting Roisin in these lists year after year. It's what she deserves!
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
Truly!
I’m crying a lot,tiredness.I feel like I’m banging my head against the wall.I make good and surprising records,I kill myself to make visual,in which I prove it’s about ideas and soul because god forbid anyone should give me a budget.But I get indifference in the industry.— Roisin Murphy (@roisinmurphy) July 4, 2018
― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
production on the roisin is wonderful - so much fun listening to the various synth lines and then those drums just swing like hell. and then roisin bossing it on top, it's just fucking majestic
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
Plaything always makes cute babes dance extra hard
― davey, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
I couldn't decide which Róisín track to vote for, so I voted for none lol
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
I like that she is online pals with Limmy
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
i had trouble deciding between róisín tracks too but imo this is the one xp
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
so not only could i not find an ilx thread to the #50 song or artist, I couldn't even find mention of the song anywhere! Somebody want to show me where the discussion is happening?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pBo9Aj1.jpg
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten” – 192 points – 8 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Voted for Plaything although it could easily have been something from her ten years ago really. The tracks with Koze were both his and her best work last year.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
what the hell i come back from lunch and my fuckin number one placed in the 50s
geyser is indeed colossal i agree with me
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
also it isn't vote splitting if you vote for more thna one mitski song *guy tapping head dot jpg*
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
Haha yesssssss, this was almost in my top ten. Monstrous. Gets better every time I play it. Feels like a classic
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
poll is definitely a lot wilder today. this autechre means I might actually get some work done now too
― rob, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
(xp i admit, i assumed his HAD to be an LJ thing)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
what is THIS
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
my first place!
i think
― nxd, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
clearly this is lj's day
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
really can't remember whether i voted for this or not but i v much approve
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
oh I remember this record now. this stuff is cool
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
instant classic, a true testament to the 70s german scene
― nxd, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Didn't get much out of the album as a whole but this is def a highlight.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
i hast not heard this
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
it's appealingly creepy tho
who'd have thought the band featuring Professor Snape and Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun would be creepy
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
I could take or leave the rest of the album but this song is alchemy
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
haha
xp
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
rare moment when my taste intersects with imago's. it works better in the context of the album imo but i voted for it
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
It was a triumph for the time travel thread I think? tt alerted me to its excellence
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/REKeY4q.jpg
49: Hop Along – “How Simple” – 195 points – 5 votesvideo
hop along: bark your head off, dog
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25047
I feel like it’s almost a music critic rite-of-passage to describe Frances Quinlan’s voice — usually something like “Janis Joplin and [other artist] thrown into a blender,” but she sounds like the choppy, whirring blender itself. At this point, much like Sam Herring around the time Future Islands broke through, she’s not only established her voice, she’s manipulated it to switch between different modes. Herring has the Tom Jones / Tom Waits dichotomy, but Frances goes between typical scratchiness and a beautiful, rarely-deployed falsetto in the chorus. She’s definitely a focal point of the song, but also farther back in the mix than expected; Mark Quinlan’s steady drums are in the front. It seems like a strange choice, but towards the end, when the band is chanting “We will both find out / just not together,” the focus on rhythm suddenly makes sense. By the time the acoustic guitar comes in during that extended outro, the song reveals itself as the three-and-a-half-minute pop song it’s been the whole time. They snuck a minor masterpiece right under our noses. – Joshua Copperman
A lot of slacker indie rock from the ’90s provides a sort of headspace that reminds me of the frustrations I have with all my aspirations being thwarted by my own laziness or lack of ability. It can leave me paralyzed, wavering between embittered anger and complete numbness. “How Simple” fills me with those exact feelings. Even worse, I find many of the song’s parts incongruous and think the whole thing is poorly structured. And yet, hearing Quinlan repeat that one line — “Don’t worry, we will both find out, just not together” — snaps everything into place. More accurately, it leaves everything as is and posits that I needn’t stress out so much. I don’t know if I can, but that line makes me believe it’s possible. – Joshua Minsoo Kim
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
i came across die wilde jagd thanks to the ralf beck/offen music label connection
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
is roisin only getting one placement? for some reason felt like 'all my dreams' would be the consensus choice
was worried hop along would be a victim of vote-splitting. love this song, love this album, voted for a different track.
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link