I'll take all of that you got.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, as I meant earlier, AP is right to consider challenging consensus right up to the point where he's being an empathy-bereft asshole & talking stupid macho nonsense about beta males & women as prey. Comes across not as intelligent consideration but deeply stupid posturing. Will have a hard time listening to him now.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
forks you the real mvp (of spotify curation)
― indie fuxxor albums i have secretly spotified (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
"A Song For Our Grandfathers" a very good song from Singles.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Just now giving the Mark Barrott. Will have to file this away for when I buy some binoculars and go bird watching.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Just now giving the Mark Barrott a listen.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
― campreverb, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:36 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Also idg ppl saying the Az. Banks album was surprising. It sounds like all her other music? I think it was the last thing I shaved from my ballot for Arca, who I'm guessing isn't going to make it now. :(
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
― gr8080, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:37 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i love that one. i get why "Seasons" has kinda gone above and beyond the album's rep but any number of songs on the album are just as good.
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
or, Kitchen Person otm
a song for our grandfathers is tremendous, love the lyrics
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
This Future Islands album is really good. Even though not a single other song was nominated for the tracks list almost every song on there is great.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:35 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I can't be the only one who went the whole year without knowing that people liked anything other than Seasons. Was surprised to see the album so high on so many lists...still need to check it out.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
What was surprising to me wasn't the album itself, it's that I hated/didn't care about all of AB's other music but did like BWET. I only listened once so I don't know why.
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure Arca will place, we're in the underwhelming-but-with-large-audience bit of the list now.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
― call all destroyer
Yes! Beautiful song.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
I wanted to love the Babyface/Toni album but I really hate the production on that album. The sound of the record gives them none of the nuance the deserve.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
one flight later and catching up in a different city
azealia banks - my last vote; if i was making my ballot today theo parrish would kick her out. i appreciated that, after all the antics and such, she made an album that was so idiosyncratically her, and also a better version of her than anything she'd previously done. there's a nonchalance to this album that by rights shouldn't exist - grabbing all these fun housey/garagey beats and doing her thing pretty casually over them. oddly for someone with so much, er, personality online, she takes back seat to a lot of the beats, though her voice as pure instrument is pretty cool. "desperado" and "heavy metal and reflective" and "miss amor" are highlights
toni braxton & babyface - YASSSSSS one of my favourite albums of the year. "i wish" as previously mentioned is a real highlight, "roller coaster" has such a gorgeous melody, "heart attack" really works as the token disco track...production and vocals so rich and generous, i feel like the wizened middle-aged divorce album is a very under-represented thing
andy stott - i was besotted with his last album but this never made it beyond pleasant background music for me
the soft pink truth - i do not know this album
ariel pink - fuck are you thinking of voting for this cunt? i find nothing to praise about his contrarianism, i couldn't give a shit how playful or wacky you think he's boring and his music is so terrible
jessie ware - of the two "sophomore slump albums by fêted female singers to emerge from the british dance scene" i found this really was a disappointment, compared to katy b's which was merely a botch job of the sequencing etc. "tough love", "kind of..." and "champagne kisses" are the keepers, peak jessie ware, but the rest of it sags in between those highs - little outright terrible (except "say you love me" obv, what a hideous song) but a lot that's just adequate. playing it back to back with devotion does it no favours at all
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
I think I like Tough Love more than Devotion, honestly.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feeling this after about three tracks, excellent tunes but it's a drag sonically
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
I think I might too sometimes. xp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:45 AM Bookmark
I feel like "Where Did We Go Wrong?" is the one track they manage to get this right.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
i'd be genuinely interested in your thoughts on the soft pink truth album, lex.
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
this Dean Blunt guy spends a lot of time on his song titles huh?
― campreverb, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I think the SPT album is something lex might not ultimately like, but will give a lot to chew on.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yUIO31S.jpg
29 POPCAAN Where We Come From [435 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes]
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
i like this guy ^
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
'The System' was my #2 track of the whole year, but nothing else from the album really grabbed and shook me like that one.
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
everything is mice
― rob, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
loved the singles from this, need to dig in to the rest
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
dog latin, did you try "Evil"?
― rob, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
i will now
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
personally i like that the album is almost more pillowy and upscale than old school Babyface, to like a Bacharach degree. but yeah this song definitely cuts through the album and does more with less.
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Popcaan! My #1 vote... <3 ILM so much right now.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Stumbled across Everything is Nice on the tracks poll and thought it was pretty amazing. Glad of the reminder to revisit now!
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
I have really no idea what rev dislikes about the toni/babyface production - it's one of the greatest appeals about it to me. Just really creamy and lush. I don't hear how it's any different to prime toni/babyface material either.
Ughhhhh future islands.
Popcaan album was alright but smh at an album entirely devoid of bangers being the crossover; I didn't go back to it much bc I preferredto be ddancing to j capri or vybz kartel or tifa, dancehall-wise
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Jessie Ware album is gorgeous. "Say You Love Me" is the best song on it. Anyone who says otherwise is condemned to eternal wrongness.
― The Reverend
we agree on one point, the most important one.
what i love abt tough love is how she's just so confident on this vocally. she doesn't make a single wrong move imo.
i just bought tickets to her show in L.A. too. 8)
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
i want to listen to the babyface/braxton album based on the cover alone
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
ariel pink - fuck are you thinking of voting for this cunt?
generally if I find music at all interesting I'm willing to ignore dumb or ignorant shit the artist says outside their music. (see also: AZB, who I voted for, unlike AP.) this is partially based on the fact that if I were intereviewed on a quasi-regular basis or had a popular twitter acct I would probably eventually say something dumb because I'm an idiot. things they've done - when that arises - a trickier matter.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Love, Marriage & Divorce has possibly my favorite cover art of the year, definitely top 3
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
I will never ever understand or support the UK notion that it's OK to use "c-nt" as an insult
it's really not.
― WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
lol tell that to Azealia
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm a bad bitch, I'm a cunt
Time to get on another plane!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Geography, it's a killer. It wasn't too long ago we learned that "spaz" is a terrible word over there.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
sp-z, Johnny Fever. Be sensitive.
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
xp "One More Time" is Ariel Pink's best song and possibly was also his first song. Guess it was all downhill from age 12. I wonder if he still hated women back in 1987.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pBwrQ6L.jpg
28 DJ QUIK The Midnight Life [455 points, 18 votes]
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
woah did not expect to see this
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
There's no depth to it, it's all surface. Everything is at 10 most of the record. It's so LOUD in a way that doesn't suit the material and is really wearying to me.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Including "I Wish"?
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
xxxpsdisablist slurs should be beyond the pale everywhere imo, usual suspect wading in ...yawn
― xelab, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link