I've already got a fridge to listen to if I'm in the mood for drone thankyouverymuch! At least there's not been too much (c)rap so far!!!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
ogmor in a radge mood today. promises much
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
So much of this list is just different flavours of wishy-washy, like Xeroxes of the already Xeroxy bands that appeared at the end of the last season of Twin Peaks.
This is the thing for me - if I'm listening to a few tracks that sound like that I can really love them, they can take me into a space that's both comforting and eerie, the disaffectedness is really appealing. But then if I'm listening to a whole big list of things that sound like that and are also supposed to be the best tracks of the year then it's underwhelming as hell. I guess all I'm saying is that I understand why people vote for tracks like this (and I voted for some myself) but in the end it winds up a big pile of "meh".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I heard 'Smoko' and was underwhelmed by it earlier this year, but in the context of this list it really is a blessed relief. They are human people, goofing the fuck off, making a track that sounds alive.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
Hrm, stoked All End made it, but now I wonder if my ballot was counted. I believe I had a mixed songs ballot with All End being #1. Can someone confirm? Maybe I shuffled it around the top 5 at the last minute...― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:24 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:24 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have "All End" as your #3
― seandalai, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
more like bæll end amirite
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
what do you think Autechre call their genitals?
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
haha!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
so here's another one that has, as far as I can see, no discussion on ILX at all... of course, it's awfully hard to search, so show me where the party's at
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rrV9G8r.jpg
44: Peach – “Silky” – 202 points – 7 votesvideo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
amazing tune!
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
xp though a search did lead me to this choice matt post:Simon Reynolds is a gobshite
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
belated note: "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" sounds to me like "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
oh this is on midland's label?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
Love this one, that snaky dual synth line just ended up stuck in my head for ages and it made my ballot at the last minute.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
i talked about this one on ilx but only briefly and prob only i. year-end threads
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
only in*
anyway, totally bangs
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
I'm generally not seeking out anything like this during the year, so I'm thankful to get the introduction in the EOY rollout. This is delightful.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
(not that I'll likely ever hear it again after Friday)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
Is that Autechre track worth investing an hour in? Skipping through it it sounded like it was just an hour's worth of ambient drift?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 5:37 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
“all.end” works a little better in the context of the nts sessions as a finale of totally exploded sound (which is why i didn’t vote for it despite spending a lot of time with it). but yeah, it’s worth spending time with
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
Silky is one of those tracks that in the hands of a different producer could have been something enjoyable but ultimately forgettable and (yes) probably wishy-washy but she's taken real care to craft a particular sound that feels unique. I don't think I've heard anything that sounds quite like that tiny-xylophone-in-a-bottle refrain anywhere else. Something about it's propulsion and the care of the sound design reminds me of peak-Booka Shade as well.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
Hadn't heard this before. This is good.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
The Peach track, that is
Love this! Matt DC OTM about the sound design.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
this is nice enough but why am i getting the urge to sing popcorn by hot butter over the top of it
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Because 'Popcorn' is one of the greatest songs of all time and this is also good?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
love the neil cicierega mix with 'bodies'
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
it's always nice to come across tracks like this during EOY season, i don't really keep up with this sort of thing but there's always a few gems like this to enjoy
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
yeah that wasn't necessarily a knock! :D xxp
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cJmwBEV.jpg
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow” – 202 points – 7 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Beach House
a flash in the pan― Stephen Bush, Saturday, November 18, 2006
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25111
“Lemon Glow” has dripping, reverberating guitar and a portentous vocal. It’s high drama of the Siouxsie and the Banshees gothic rock mode, but, in the hands of Beach House, is less theatrical and more unsettling. A stubbornly recurring loop oozes underneath Victoria Legrand’s dissipating vocal. For all its intensity, the song is striking for its lack of affect and its willful refusal of clarity or definition. This is staring-at-the-wall-when-you-can’t-feel-anything music. The percussive finale is not a crescendo but a doubling-down. – Jonathan Bradley
Does the Dead Sara title fakeout: not lemon Pledge, like you’d expect, but more citrus incense: a thick haze, reverbed well past the uncanny valley and sickly-claustrophobic, like breathing the air inside a weighted duvet. It isn’t enjoyable, necessarily, but carries more genuine atmosphere than I thought Beach House, the epitome of background music, was capable of. - Katherine St Asaph
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
i loved this album but this track felt pretty weak/odd as a lead single and i only enjoyed it in context of the album, surprised to see it show up
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
This act has long since gazed itself to death.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
So far most tracks strike me as adult and urbane.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
They could use some deathgaze, come to think of it.
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
I wanna hear a 2 chainz remix of this
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
Peach: Bangs indeed, much more my kind of electronic than miss Hauf or Talabomachin. It's really about the first part and that sample for me though.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
For a second I thought that was the same Stephen Bush that is now the Political Editor of the New Statesman and much cited on the UK politics threads but I think not. Stranger things have happened.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
ha ha - Beach Trap House
I don't think I've heard anything that sounds quite like that tiny-xylophone-in-a-bottle refrain anywhere else.
It reminds me of Vitalic's 'Fanfares' a bit but, different agenda tho it may have, can't say it compares favourably with that myself.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
I like this Beach House song but I tend to think of them as an albums act
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Fanfares is all about the military snares and nothing without them deserves to be compared to it, favourably or otherwise, IMO.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
here's our third glittery and jittery and ostensibly undiscussed identical stranger to round out the early morning dance party
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xCOmeMr.jpg
42: Kasper Marott – “Keflavik” – 202 points – 9 votesvideo
oh another great dance track i only know because of EOY threads!
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
another vote for 2 Chainz over Lemon Glow here
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
cool tunethe sun is glittering off passing cars perfectly with this
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
I voted for this. Glad that other people also like it.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
I didn't expect a track named after the Reykjavik airport to be italo disco. It's cool.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
damn there was actualy some ILM discussion on lemon glow, but we had to go TSJ
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
I group this Kasper Marrott tune and 'Neutron Dance' together in my head but this one just sounds so much better on headphones or a big system. It's like a more euphoric update of 'Squance' by Plaid, or a signpost to a modern electrohouse that isn't awful.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link