Stridulum EP probably gets more votes than this one...
― skip, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
The idea that nine people on this board might sincerely like that Rihanna album is being foolishly dismissed here.
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
zola jesus is p terrible you guys
― Lamp, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I managed to not hear much Zola Jesus solo last year (heard a few collaborations), so let's give this a go...
Hmm, gothy.
― emil.y, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a similar sense of frustration with pop voters who rubberstamp shoddy/uneven albums simply because they happen to include few beloved tracks?
it would if it wasn't as low as #75!
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
We housed everything with the Stridulum II nomination (since it includes all of Stridulum and most of the Valusia EP).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprised to see the album here but not Night in the tracks poll. It feels like I only need one Zola Jesus song to get the whole idea.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Zola Jesus cover is <3 - Have no idea what this will sound like but I'm excited. Is their name a dedication to 'Franco?
― sammy bagels (a hoy hoy), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't vote for the Zola Jesus cos some of it wasn't really all that, but some of the tracks are just fine by me:
Sea Talk
I Can't Stand
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow...sounds like the rest of ILM was as meh toward her as I am.
― skip, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
If pop fans hadn't voted for Rihanna, I bet Sylvester Anfang II would be #75 with a bullet. Or not.
― emil.y, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, thought Zola Jesus had a bigger following than that. She strikes me as a singer who really needs to work with some decent electronic producers - amazing voice, decent songwriting, really boring samey generic synth backing.
― Matt DC, Monday, January 31, 2011 8:47 AM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark
glad to see zola jesus place. her thread never got a lot of attention, so i didn't think that she had much of a chance. i'm conflicted about the "decent electronic producers" suggestion, because, yeah, i wouldn't be surprised and it could certainly help her rope in fans. but i genuinely love her early recordings, when that huge voice is just buried in a lo-fi ambient-industrial cloud.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, January 31, 2011 8:50 AM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah, that's the way i figured it'd go.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Tbh, I thought Surm was the only one who was huge on that Rihanna album.
― smanging pumpkins (The Reverend), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
it's hard to be creative when you're happy. not even joking.
wait for real? Just you, or, like, everyone ever?
― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:46 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
Just personal experience. And I guess it fits the desperate/starving artist stereotype too.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
From what I heard of Zola Jesus, I wasn't sold. I'm on the fence about the minimal synth revival. Sometimes it works, sometimes it sounds like an excuse to sing lazily over a bad Yamaha rhythm.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"is there a similar sense of frustration with pop voters who rubberstamp shoddy/uneven albums simply because they happen to include few beloved tracks?"
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, January 31, 2011 8:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
wasn't directing that at the rihanna album specifically, just at the discussion about it. it's a general question.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
terrible LJ posts itt
― *kl0p* (deej), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
wait haha wasn't zola jesus a massive DiS favourite
splains a lot, listening to it now. DARKCHILLWITCHWAVEHOUSESTEPTHING
deej if it's any consolation I think you're one of the worst ILM posters full stop, nsb
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite liked the first two tracks on the Zola Jesus album, got bored and stopped halfway through the third.
― emil.y, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
zola jesus really reminded me of ladyhawke voice-wise
it's hard to be creative when you're happy is probably very true for some people and not at all for others - the end.
― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't think you could really file Zola Jesus under 'lazy singing' dog latin.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTv6148txrI/AAAAAAAAAX8/-iwFvF5saG8/thirdeyefoundation.jpg
73. THIRD EYE FOUNDATION — The Dark (246 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)P&J: 497thPitchfork: DNPSpotify: listen
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly so surprised that anyone has time for that rihanna album...it's so lazy and tossed-together and inadequate. kind of like "hello pop listeners! you can forget that Angry Rihanna ever existed! there is only Happy Rihanna!" except it's way too forced and heavy-handed to actually succeed in the same way that her old sunny reggae stuff did. i guess "only girl (in the world)" is, er, really catchy?― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, January 31, 2011 10:33 AM (18 minutes ago)
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, January 31, 2011 10:33 AM (18 minutes ago)
lex embarrasingly otm ^^
that zola jesus comp is great, i love both stridulum and valusia, and "sea talk" ended up squeaking into the bottom part of my tracks list
lol does this stand for "no suggest ban"?? classic!
― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, what? What year is this?
― emil.y, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM
btw this was the one I was talking about, should never have doubted you, ILX
my #1
why are you calling out our resident utd fan lj?
― sammy bagels (a hoy hoy), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol that wasn't to you emil.y
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, January 31, 2011 8:52 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
in my personal experience, the opposite is true. when i'm miserable, it's very hard to do anything, much less create. hell, it's even hard to make art when i'm merely content. art, ime, only really works when i'm excited by and engaged with life. that can happen in the midst of difficult circumstances, but there has to be a core of joyful engagement with life and with other people.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, what is nsb?
I was a little unfair on ZJ - Sea Talk is also fantastic.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:56 (1 minute ago) Bookmark
Ain't actually heard the album, this was a cut on a compilation of similar stuff. I think ZJ contribution was one of the highlights though, so I will get hold of the album.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor correctly interpreted nsb
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, I'm happy now. Thought that one wouldn't place, am sated.
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
'Closure' is the single track I'd recommend btw
lol oh yeah it would be nbs if i was correk
― sammy bagels (a hoy hoy), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― emil.y, Monday, 31 January 2011 16:57 (1 minute ago) Bookmark
Haha! My thoughts when I saw 3EF too.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
This TEF album sounds pretty awesome so far but I have to stop listening as someone I know is on Come Dine With Me RIGHT NOW OMG.
― emil.y, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Semtex was good
― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― acoleuthic, Monday, January 31, 2011 10:55 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
seems a lil harsh dude
― *kl0p* (deej), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know who Third Eye Foundation are but for a minute I was thinking it was that band that did Semi Charmed Life.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i think trying to rejigger the poll results so rihanna doesnt make it is lame, is all
― *kl0p* (deej), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
rejagger
"Closure" reminds me of that Venetian Snares track where he samples the Bartok string quartet.
― skip, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ok sry deej but plz quit it with the whole interpersonal attax postingstyle, it's rly dismaying :(
here is what i said about the ALBUM OF THE YEAR (above)
lol
yeah srsly, at first I was all 'this is some neat dark electro' and then halfway thru part 2 I was basically reduced to 'my god this is the end of days'― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:05 (1 month ago)
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:05 (1 month ago)
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
nsb = furnace abbrev
― smanging pumpkins (The Reverend), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to "if you treat us all like terrorists..."
nice. are the strings meant to sound this muddy? love the cycling droning horn noise, sounds like it was sculpted out of a muezzin's call or something.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean Elgar cello concerto.
― skip, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
its an interpersonal attack 2 say that trying to electioneer rihanna out of the results is lame?
― *kl0p* (deej), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
whats the diff between 'persona' & 'interpersonal'
― *kl0p* (deej), Monday, 31 January 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
As I said, I was worried my #1 would be obscured by an album that by common consent is a step backwards and has no #1 votes...but now it's turned up so soon after, have made my peace with Rihanna and her fans tbh
― acoleuthic, Monday, 31 January 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link