Amazing. I figured this was a bit of a sleeper after RYM downvoted it into oblivion.
I love this album so much.
― jmm, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
lol
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
yeah this feels like a Magic Eye album where you need to have some kind of gift to get it. I don't have the gift unfortunately, but wow at the diehard fanbase!
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
Really liked this one a lot! One of the metal albums I listened to most last year.
― Frobisher, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
Xps
I mostly miss ATP for the chance to freak out to stuff like Neptunian Maximalism - I'd love it in that context. I just don't have the (literal/head) space for this stuff at the moment.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
wow at the diehard fanbase!
Seriously. Nearly 20% of voters picked this as their #1.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
I think I low-balled this a bit with a #19 vote, but just glad to see a DM record this high and a debut (technically) at that!
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
I'm one of the Chosen Ones, my album of the year. Beautiful record.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
I love this album so much
my #1 by some distance
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
I recommend giving it time, for anyone curious. The songs have a way of sinking in.
Moody, dreamy, sorrowful, proggy, psychedelic. Gorgeously flowing guitar lines and beautiful, clear production. It's still rooted in death metal, but it's all about mood, melody, and emotion.
― jmm, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
it is funny how the albums with the most #1s arent in the top 2.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
same. an easy #1 choice. no album pulled me in quite like it
― gman59, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
jmm super otm
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
I was also a #1 voter for Sweven, and I still haven't listened to Morbus Chron.
― o. nate, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
I've listened to it at least three times. I could feel it opening up for a spell then it would take a turn for the bland. Some day, perhaps.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
My #1. I loved Morbus Chron and was all over this when it released. Probably listened to it every day for two months.
― beard papa, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
Imago is quiet
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
amazing album that was high on my list!
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I should check out Morbus Chron, at least. Sweven was my introduction to Robert Andersson.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
It's weird seeing the "fans also liked" for this on Spotify and not seeing Death or Atheist, which to me are the first bands I think of in comparison (Morbus Chron aside).
― beard papa, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
At this point I do think we should just end the poll and make https://townsquare.media/site/846/files/2020/06/Entombed-LHP-Album-Cover.jpg honorary winner of metal poll in memory of LG Petrov
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
Otherwise tr00 kvltists might get angry at the top 3
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
Oh do we have Double Finland :D
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
Might be too early to say this but Dismember > Entombed imo.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
Next up: something I didn't expect to see this high since Brad didn't vote.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Black Foxxes!
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
I haven't seen the ballots yet sowe dont know that
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
True, true.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
tied w Clandestine, and then Robert Andersson singing Stranger Aeons, yeah?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfB8P732Tw
xps (if embed, sry)
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
we dont even know if LJ & TTs ballots are identical or not
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
#3Poppy – I Disagree537 points, 11 votes, 5 #1 votes
https://www.loudandquiet.com/files/2020/01/poppy-i-disagree-artwork-1024x1024.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4LgpVx8efQT7SRXGRq5Tze
Since the very beginning, there has been a darkness buried in Poppy’s heart. It’s there in the earliest videos uploaded to her mysterious YouTube channel back in 2014, in which the character—portrayed by an actress and musician named Moriah Pereira—performed simple tasks against a white background, occasionally delivering surrealist monologues. Her very first video featured her eating cotton candy in a way that might feel familiar to fans of ASMR videos: Her lips smack, her throat rumbles, she makes satisfied “ahhs,” but something’s off about the whole thing. Audio and image are out of sync; nothing sounds quite like you expect it to.It was an unsettling beginning, and in the ensuing years, she’s only plunged further into uncomfortable territory. One of her early popular videos, for example, features her staring into the camera as she teaches the viewer how to load a handgun. In another, she makes explicit reference to one of 4chan’s most notoriously noxious message boards. Unlike a lot of people who have set about parodying the strangeness of influencer culture, she and her collaborators—chief among them the director and producer Titanic Sinclair—have seemed uniquely attuned to the surreal perversity that lurks in the shadowy underbelly of YouTube culture. It’s no surprise, perhaps, that some of the platform’s more unsavory figures have been outspoken fans of hers. She’s fluent in the lingua franca of the internet’s darkest parts.The music attributed to Poppy over the years hasn’t always mirrored this side of her work. Her first album was a collection of wheezy ambient compositions self-consciously designed to “help facilitate a full night of sleep” and made, she says, with guidance from doctors who study sleep at Washington University. She’s made several albums’ worth of sugary bangers for Diplo’s Mad Decent label and a sci-fi synth soundtrack to a graphic novel. But her new album I Disagree is her first to fully follow through on the upsetting qualities of her video works, adding the grim aesthetics and curdled riffing of nu-metal, grindcore, and industrial noise to the seasick melange of her music.
It was an unsettling beginning, and in the ensuing years, she’s only plunged further into uncomfortable territory. One of her early popular videos, for example, features her staring into the camera as she teaches the viewer how to load a handgun. In another, she makes explicit reference to one of 4chan’s most notoriously noxious message boards. Unlike a lot of people who have set about parodying the strangeness of influencer culture, she and her collaborators—chief among them the director and producer Titanic Sinclair—have seemed uniquely attuned to the surreal perversity that lurks in the shadowy underbelly of YouTube culture. It’s no surprise, perhaps, that some of the platform’s more unsavory figures have been outspoken fans of hers. She’s fluent in the lingua franca of the internet’s darkest parts.
The music attributed to Poppy over the years hasn’t always mirrored this side of her work. Her first album was a collection of wheezy ambient compositions self-consciously designed to “help facilitate a full night of sleep” and made, she says, with guidance from doctors who study sleep at Washington University. She’s made several albums’ worth of sugary bangers for Diplo’s Mad Decent label and a sci-fi synth soundtrack to a graphic novel. But her new album I Disagree is her first to fully follow through on the upsetting qualities of her video works, adding the grim aesthetics and curdled riffing of nu-metal, grindcore, and industrial noise to the seasick melange of her music.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/poppy-i-disagree/
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
I don't hate this but ehhhh.
People itt have been really good about not dragging the stuff they dislike so, in that same spirit, I'll just say that I'm glad some folks found something they like in Poppy.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
dammit, guess I'll have to actually listen to this to decide whether I should be mad right now.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
I'm starting to think my #2 is not going to place. *sniff*
― o. nate, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
well, this is a surprise
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
I expected p4k to be into it more.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
it made the general eoy poll didn't it?
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
Yep, #75.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
I smell shenanigans
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
maybe it's just pepe again
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Hah I didn't realize this was nominated I might have voted for it and bumped it up even more lol
― Frobisher, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Pom check yr email. Seandalai says we may have got a placing wrong
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
*heavy eyeroll*
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Ok, the real #3 is…
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
#3Poppy – I disagree537 points, 11 votes, 5 #1 votes
a bubblegum, popping on a human spiked collar, forever
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Ok enough trolling, Simon rightly saw through our feeble ruse.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
#3Kairon; IRSE! – Polysomn537 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0803105724_10.jpg
https://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/polysomn-2
There’s a particular quality to the best music that can only be described as a kind of ethereal comfort. Music where the sound seeps into your bones and around your skin, enveloping you like a cloud and allowing you to drift off into another world for a little while inside your head. It’s not common, no, but there are some records that do that for me, and no doubt for you too dear reader. When it happens, it’s a blissful thing. Kairon;IRSE! know all about this unnameable effect , and over the last decade or so they’ve mastered the knack of producing it.We last heard from these Finns on 2017’s tower of strength Ruination, a minor masterpiece showcasing a seamless blend of prog, shoegaze and possibly the greatest bass sound ever committed to tape. They took elements, you knew in your heart should fit together, even though no-one had really managed it, and finally made it work. It’s been a long wait to see where they’d land after that sprawling musical journey.Polysomn arrives with no small amount of anticipation to those already hitched firmly to the Kairon wagon. First single An Bat None indicated they weren’t going to steer us wrong, leaning perhaps in a more succinct direction but not compromising the ecstatic nature of their previous work. It’s safe to say that first taste wasn’t a fluke, and that Polysomn is another absolute beauty. Strangely though the song lengths are more concise, it’s perhaps not as instant as Ruination on first listen, coming across as a slightly more textural effort, but before you know it, you’re firmly sucked into its orbit. Once you’re in you won’t want to escape.
We last heard from these Finns on 2017’s tower of strength Ruination, a minor masterpiece showcasing a seamless blend of prog, shoegaze and possibly the greatest bass sound ever committed to tape. They took elements, you knew in your heart should fit together, even though no-one had really managed it, and finally made it work. It’s been a long wait to see where they’d land after that sprawling musical journey.
Polysomn arrives with no small amount of anticipation to those already hitched firmly to the Kairon wagon. First single An Bat None indicated they weren’t going to steer us wrong, leaning perhaps in a more succinct direction but not compromising the ecstatic nature of their previous work. It’s safe to say that first taste wasn’t a fluke, and that Polysomn is another absolute beauty. Strangely though the song lengths are more concise, it’s perhaps not as instant as Ruination on first listen, coming across as a slightly more textural effort, but before you know it, you’re firmly sucked into its orbit. Once you’re in you won’t want to escape.
https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/kairon-irse-polysomn/
Thank you. Hail Finland, hail Wastement
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link