FACT's 20 albums for 2011

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

That's a pre-emptive entry on the "albums that oughtta get 10.0" thread, right? Kim Kardashian is less obviously a terrible human being than Paris so I'm sort of anticipating this. Hoping Terius veers more into riotous Electrik Red/Basic Instinct territory rather than breathy sex ballads though.

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

there's two, one dumb "electropop" song and one drony/ambient track that'd one expect from him

That's a pre-emptive entry on the "albums that oughtta get 10.0" thread, right?

Several major publications are already reserving their number one spot for 2011 for it.

don't really see the need for albums but out of these...uh the villalobos might be good (is it the ECM stuff?) the isolee is...a grower but a bit of a disappointment at same time...not sure yet (do love one of the tracks on there tho) - each time i'm going to play it i end up playing the christopher rau lp instead

instra:mental could be good - no idea bout these at all, but was really into 'lets talk' last year

don't really see the need for albums

love this kind of fronting, very 'now' to boot

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.

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Funnily enough, they are doing "Oliver's Army"

oh good grief.

wow, i finally listened to the james blake album expecting to dislike it based on all the trashing its getting here, and....i kinda like it! i can see why people might get really evangelical about this in a talk talk way sorta, though its way more monochrome than those talk talk records and probably more similar to something like bon iver in tone and scope. definitely not dubstep in any way though imo

i wouldn't go that far, even 'limit to your love' is 140 bpm with bass that's pretty clearly influenced by dubstep

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dammit forgot to vote for burial.

there's a lot of potential on this list. but like every year, much of it will disappoint, and great stuff will surface that is totally unanticipated.

YAY!

promise?

yes. i give you my word.

you can trust me on this. i've never been wrong.

How is this panning out?

terius produced kim kardashian. it was incredible.

lol

30 albums still to look forward to in 2011

ACTRESS - GHETTOVILLE (WERK DISCS)
APPARAT - THE DEVIL'S WALK (MUTE)
ATLAS SOUND - PARALLAX (4AD)
BJORK - BIOPHILIA (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
COOLY G - TITLE TBC (HYPERDUB)
DAVID LYNCH - CRAZY CLOWN TIME (SUNDAY BEST)
DJ SHADOW - THE LESS YOU KNOW THE BETTER (ISLAND)
DRAKE - TAKE CARE (YOUNG MONEY / UNIVERSAL MOTOWN)
THE-DREAM - L.IV (DIARY OF A MADMAN) (DEF JAM)
THE DRUMS - PORTAMENTO (MOSHI MOSHI / ISLAND)
FEIST - METALS (POLYDOR)
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - TITLE TBC (ISLAND)
JOKER - THE VISION (4AD)
JUSTICE - AUDIO, VIDEO, DISCO (ED BANGER)
KUEDO - SEVERANT (PLANET MU)
LEYLAND KIRBY - EAGER TO TEAR APART THE STARS (HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS)
L-VIS 1990 - NEON DREAMS (PMR)
LA VAMPIRES & MARIA MINERVA - TITLE TBC (NOT NOT FUN)
MARTYN - GHOST PEOPLE (BRAINFEEDER)
MATTHEW HERBERT - ONE PIG (ACCIDENTAL)
MODESELEKTOR - MONKEYTOWN (MONKEYTOWN)
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - REPLICA (SOFTWARE)
RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS (WARP)
SANTIGOLD - TITLE TBC (WARNER)
SULLY - CARRIER (KEYSOUND)
THEO PARRISH - UGLY EDITS (SOUND SIGNATURE)
TOM WAITS - BAD AS ME (ANTI/EPITAPH)
WATER BORDERS - HARBORED MANTRAS (TRI ANGLE)
THE WEEKND- ECHOES OF SILENCE (SELF-RELEASED)
ZOLA JESUS - CONATUS (SOUTERRAIN TRANMISSIONS)

Thoughts on these?

fuck Drake, IMO