My first vote to place! #16 on my ballot. Absolutely stunning record, heavy and gorgeous, nothing like Deafheaven because he can write melodies and songs. A brief read of the concept behind the artist is quite elucidating too.
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Bit underwhelmed by Workshop 19 - I only play the B3 off that one.
the 19th release on the workshop label, that is
workshops 1 and 6 are killer!
Lex pretend otmNot everyone listens to music in a basement
― strychnine, T
If it contributes towards general wellbeing its totally ok to play in the woods too
― saer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
kassem mosse! another of my votes. immaculately produced headrush techno, platonic ideal of what i want to stay up all night dancing to. yeah it's anonymous and has no use for you if you're not a clubber but this is not my or his problem― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:54 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:54 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha, I tried to get into this album late in December by listening to it with headphones on while falling asleep, and ... no.
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I say 'heavy' - it is - but it is not crushing - rather, monumental
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Haha I think it was #16 on my ballot as well
― YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
re Botanist
foliage for the spirit.
between this and the name and cover I risked a quick play.
oh no, a trojan horse:(
― saer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Ah, so it's lush dulcimer, not lush guitar?
― jmm, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
im enjoying this freddie gibbs and madlib, havent listened to anything madlib in so long but he is still good, his productions always have such a nice sound
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
xVI
― nxd, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
this album rules. I had it high up. I think FOOD just crept on to my ballot too.
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
saer ive played botanist in plug.dj before when you were in
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
I've heard some of it and it's quite interesting as a curiosity, but how does this differ from his other work?
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:31 AM (2 minutes ago)
black metal harshness dialed back on flora relative to past efforts. i'm glad to see it show up, though it wasn't one of the year's standout metal albums for me. prefer installments III and IV tbh.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
I was similarly misled, this cover is completely incorrect and should be changed by trading standards. it's true about madlib though
― ogmor, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
ogmor you're a plug regular too you have no excuse
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
― saer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm sorry, I should have qualified that this foliage was less that of deepest woodland and more heathered clearing... I'm sure there'll be something on here for you. Maybe.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
yessssz
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Found some footage of saerhttp://youtu.be/u8pZkDTKTNw
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Almost got distracted thinking about this album, but have sprung free from the foliage and just about made my train
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Kew Gardens metal also a description I will borrow
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
i prefer botanist when less about the astral blissout, more some creepy little wrigglers in the underbrush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IrJb2YMlV8
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
this is another album with a number, sadly.
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
I reckon VI is all about the astral creepy wrigglers blissing out in the undergrowth tbh
Latin numbers, too!
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
this album had better be triffic!
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=67116
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
'astral blissout' is really one of the highest modes music can achieve
― YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
xp i think you might want to expand to those of us that can't see board 77
― nxd, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
I probably wouldn't think to associate this with botany without the many cues, but I like the idea of black metal devoted to small organic forms rather than, what seems to be more typical, the sublime on a grander scale.
― jmm, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
it's a cool concept. like swamp thing meets hammered dulcimer meets black metal. i will def check this new album out.
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
kind of want him to team up with Konono No1 or something and have an electrified tuned percussion face-off
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Kassem Mosse and Botanist are both albums I've listened to once and enjoyed but not revisited yet. Hoping for some more metal to place but I don't think any of my atmospheric/prog-BM picks will make it.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
it would be quite a strange year if lots of metal placed, but it's not beyond the realms or reality. lots of high-profile releases as Cosmic Slop mentioned, but I don't know why it would happen this year necessarily and not previous years.
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I could see it happening due to there being fewer niche-consensus releases in other genres (if that's the case)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
The Wizard may show. Ruine is a glorious outside shot. Fever's given Botanist nearly an hour. Very mice of him.
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
while we're still on botanist, less blissfuly still:
deathcap, track II from botanist III
still probably more discernable as emotive post rock than black metal, even with "experimental" tag enhancement, but i love the bright, spiky tone of the (clearly) hammered dulcimer. much less fuzz besotted than on later albums. puts my mind to pinhead, or the final act of audition maybe.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
I could see Earth or Yob placing. ScottO))) and Swans are dead certs, although I don't think of them as bona fide metal records.
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
tbh i only expect scott 0))) now dog latin
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
These are great contendo, will check later :)
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
swans yeah tho not metal (despite being in metal poll)
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Maybe Fever has given us this long coz it's the only metal :D
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
totally enjoying having time to listen to this album in its entirety right now
― nxd, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/e54S2gh.jpg
56 STEVE GUNN Way Out Weather [286 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
would be nuts if none of the metal poll top ten didn't make it but possible
10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #18 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #16 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1
xp
nice!1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
oops the nice shoulda been for the steve gunn
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
this is a post-Fahey guitar guy, right?
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
xxxp Soft Pink Truth still a possibility (FALSE I know but still), there are plenty of Matmos/ ILM's very own D Daniel fans around aren't thera?
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
that'll def place, Neil.
― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
nice, enjoy thiks record a lot
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Never heard of Steve Gunn before but I like the album cover.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
SPT not really a metal album but will place quite high. Also incredible. Wonder if I'd like Steve Gunn...
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I'd prob be more stoked about Godflesh placing than any of the top 5. Though tbh I only voted for Earth and J Gyte. (Xp to CS)
I'm loving a lot of this bottom third though
― YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link