FACT's 20 albums for 2011

hahaha, nevermind i was confusing blake with woon. not into that.

it's too bad that backlash against the james blake record is going to overshadow the really brilliant stuff on his eps.

as far as records that will a) actually come out, and b) probably be interesting & good, i'm checking for forest swords and untold.

The more I hear Instra:mental the more I'm hyped for an album. If there is anything half as cool as the late night sleezy electro funk as this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of0PL0xp17A

I'm going to be happy.

JAM CITY - TBH

Isolee's is the only one whose album I'll probably buy when it comes out. But Kode & Ape, Aphex, Villalobos, Untold, and Panda Bear are enticing.

Now for snarkiness:

If James Blake's EP's were brilliant, and his album is horrible, I absolutely dread to hear what his album sounds like.

I'm not going to bother with Jam City, because I absolutely abhor everything to do with Night Slugs; however I really love that Endgames Remix.

also totally uninterested in david lynch making music. would there be the same hype if sofia coppola suddenly said she was going to release an album? or would there be mockery instead?

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:21 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

love that you had to pull an imaginary example out of your ass to demonstrate THE GENDER INEQUALITY OF THE CRUEL WORLD WE LIVE IN

because I absolutely abhor everything to do with Night Slugs

how do you really feel about them

This is a great list, and there are obviously numerous promising options, but I'm going with Chromatics. Their debut wasn't so much under-rated as it was under-heard.

Save for that endgames remix, nothing I've heard from them has interested me in the least, stuff like Wut etc just sounds tedious to me. But of course that's just me.

sure, i was just kidding, people have their tastes, it's just funny that someone could "abhor" a label like they stole your candy or something

Could be awesome = Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX, Dam-Funk & Nite Jewel, Isolee, Jamie Woon, Portishead, maybe Villalobos

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:22 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

isolee album is awesome

oh dang new isolee album — gonna have to check this out

nite funk should be dank too obv

okay lol at the isolee cover art

first track sounds great so far

is he playing the bass? either way it sounds sorta... clumsy

KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE - wack
PANDA BEAR - could be okay
DR DRE - wack
RICARDO VILLALOBOS - wack
GIL-SCOTT HERON & JAMIE SMITH - wack
APHEX TWIN - wack
BURIAL vs MASSIVE ATTACK - wack
TORO Y MOI - wack
MATTHEW HERBERT - ONE wack
JAM CITY - FTW
CHROMATICS - wack
DAVID LYNCH - wack
INSTRA:MENTAL - could be okay
DAM-FUNK & NITE JEWEL - wack
ISOLEE - wack
JAMIE WOON - wack
UNTOLD - will probably be good
FOREST SWORDS - wack
JAMES BLAKE - wack
PORTISHEAD - probably will be wack

also looking fwd to new ... Zomby (if he sorts his shit out) ..

WTF happened to zomby, anyway?

perhaps there might be hype about david lynch making music because everything he's ever done has shown a huge feeling for records, just saying.

heard the isolée single on beats in space before xmas and despite him seeming to do shitty remixes and stuff for the last few years it is really brilliant. love it.

what's the single?

Paloma Triste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHXeNcEooI

^ this one's pretty nice

giving this isolée album another try. really not feeling it. it's nice enough but i'm not hearing any particularly exciting ideas here.

at any given point it's either clumsy or boring

I really like "Hold On". I'll bet this wld sound excellent on headphones; last one definitely did

at any given point it's either clumsy or boring

the few tracks i've heard might as well have been produced back in the beau mot plage era. i mean sure, listen to it, but not getting hyped

allowed myself a brief, naive shiver of excitement over new Aphex - probably will either not happen or be disappointing, and I have felt no need to listen to Drukqs since like 2002, but some of the Analords are still jamz, so the potential is still there

Forest Swords is a much safer bet for "I will dig this" tho

isolée

there's plenty of good thing on drukqs

i love drukqs

most interested to hear burial's remix disc, but then i would be.

Voted Isolee - but it's a horrible list considering Fact's reputation. Around half of the list are scarcely viable options (as albums anyway), either musicians vaguely mentioning that they might get round to releasing an album in the future, remix albums, or in Villalobos case a double 12" (which for him is the equivalent of a 7"). Jamie Woon second on the list, his recent freebie has also really impressed me.

It's not like there wasn't enough actually confirmed albums to mention - such as:

Nicholas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
Mungolian Jet Set - Schlongs
Discodeine - Discodeine
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures

"There's something about Kode9 that brings out the chinstroking bore even in writers I usually like reading."

well thats cos they all try and compete with his own writing as theyre writing about him. sort of odd. as in, you dont see writers trying to write like novelists when they interview them.

Untold and Moritz

What's Jam City?

dam-funk & nite jewel, panda bear, and portishead i guess

It's gotta be the new DRE man. He takes a decade to drop an album and they are always great.

But i guess everybody up in this thread forgot about him...

oh man that list is terrible

terrible for me at least

well idk, maybe I'll like a few things from it

~makes peace with that list~

prob gonna hafta vote portishead tho

dude get the isolée album and expiate

but yuh there's a lot of waste there too

i'll spotify it when it arrives there

WELL SPENT SLOTH

I am betting at least two of these never happen.

wouldn't be so sure — I have it on good authority that the What the Hell Even Is All This Garbage? record is nearing completion

Apparently David Lynch has already released a single? Is it any good?

I agree with Ronan here I think, I'd trust him to nail the atmosphere even if he doesn't have the tunes.

also totally uninterested in david lynch making music. would there be the same hype if sofia coppola suddenly said she was going to release an album? or would there be mockery instead?

Not an exact parallel as they're actresses but Scarlett Johanssen and Charlotte Gainsbourg have both had well-received records so why not Sofia Coppola, if the music was good?

if we're talking about albums from non-musicians in 2011, easily my most anticipated is kim kardashian's

actually the kim kardash opus is probably my most anticipated full stop

the david lynch single was kinda boring btw

if we're talking about albums from non-musicians in 2011, easily my most anticipated is kim kardashian's

Posts very much in character. Hope there's a duet with Justin Bieber where they pretend to be a couple and she sounds like she would rather be anywhere else in the world.

dude terius is producing it!

TERIUS

and KIM KARDASHIAN

it is going to be INCREDIBLE

Crit Theory just makes me go "okay... wha?" - is that the idea? It may as well be in Russian for all I can understand it.

i'm still looking forward to the next forest swords record

So do you guys have a problem with people saying "this album's best heard on big speakers" or "this is dark-room headphone music"? Just asking. I agree if someone started using crit-theory to deconstruct an album, they'd need extremely good grounds to pass the bullshitometer.

no, those are perfectly acceptable

I don't resent Actress any more than I resent a sit-up fwiw

So do you guys have a problem with people saying "this album's best heard on big speakers" or "this is dark-room headphone music"?

I'd hope anyone would have some idea of how to talk to me about something, and can tell difference between talking to me and talking at me.

ie

f someone started using crit-theory to deconstruct an album, they'd need extremely good grounds to pass the bullshitometer.

it doesnt matter how good or bad their grounds are - if someone started down this track when talking to me about a record, then they're talking at me not to me

I think it's mostly "know your audience." Some of the best speakers/conversationalists I know are great at packing in information by giving a quick summary of salient points to the point where even if you're familiar, it's not annoying to hear again.

If you're immediately referencing a philosophical concept I may or may not know and are attempting to engage with me about an album on that standpoint, it's kind of a failure of communication, or you're a dick for implying I need to know these concepts to enjoy music.

ahh well no, you seem quite understanding xxp

thing is I picked up the Actress album less as a result of nakh's thread (although it was interesting), or anything else I read, but on the merch table after seeing him play live

which was just one unsmiley dude w/ his hood up doing raw semi-generative on-the-fly techno on a small table of kit - the more I think about that the more bringing crit theory on board seems like abject madness

this is where I reiterate for the 50th time that I want kodwo eshun to write more on music

Am I wrong in thinking that it misses the entire thrust and point of critical theory to employ it in the service of explaining *why* one enjoys a piece of art?

haha yeah, it seems like you are more explaining why you like critical theory than why you like music

Am I wrong in thinking that it misses the entire thrust and point of critical theory to employ it in the service of explaining *why* one enjoys a piece of art?

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:46 (1 minute ago)

sure

actress is just particularly amenable to that post-grime theory blog tendency

'wack'

this rustie clip is pretty exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8C1RmVJ1xE