Off that Norman list...
Underrated: Rashad Becker, M. Geddes Gengras, Vision FortuneOverrated: Tropic of Cancer, Forest Swords, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
― space bl00ps (NickB), Monday, 25 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Not as far as I'm aware. They don't sound anything like Joanna Gruesome, though!
They do a bit imo! Ok, a cross between VF and 90s altrock or something.
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
I think the main motivation behind the Sleaford Mods LP from this year was to have some of their stuff put on vinyl
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
that parquet courts... was that this year? was Lescop this year? I would consider voting / nomming these but i'm unsure as to whether they really are 2013 albums.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Joanna Gruesome is the worst band name since the Dandy Warhols, good album or not.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
Like to bring your attention to "Salvia Plath" upthread
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
I thought people would be more into Windhand too, speaking of dark/heavy female vocals.
― sweat pea (La Lechera)
I like the debut more. They tried to stretch out a bit on Soma and it didn't work for me at all.
Speaking of female vocals and an odd heaviness, the new SubRosa is a stunner. More people should check them out.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
xpost Kurt Vile... oh wait, that's actually his name I think?
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
I'd say more people should hear the Frankie Rose and Wax Idols albums but, based on the reaction to Savages, the number of people who really dig post-punk/gothy female musicians in 2013 is pretty low.
I saw Frankie Rose live once at a Chickfactor zine event and at least then, she sounded more twee pop than post-punk or gothy. Not that she wowed me enough anyway to wanna check out her latest album. Savages seemed to quickly draw an audience of US supporters here but also, as implied, drew a sizeable amount of folks not interested in their postpunk 2013 sound
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
A bunch of us here think very highly of Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, though I have to admit I don't love it as much as I had hoped, based on their debut. It is, frankly, a prog rock concept album; and I wish it were less of one. But there's a lot of great music packed into it. And it tends toward prog metal.
But as far as outliers, at least on ILM's list, I think it could take people by surprise.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
I like the YT//ST more than their debut, but it's got a bit too much filler. The high points though? Wow.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I caught some of the Bardo Pond Pharoah Sanders cover and I need to check that album out some evening.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
curmudgeon, this is where the new Frankie Rose album kicks into high gear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iztk0ajEq00
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 25 November 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
This weekend I picked up Musgrave, Paramore, and Carcass albums. My listening is getting very ILMy.
― jmm, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
i like the new frankie rose but liked interstellar quite a bit more tbh
― balls, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
ha I'm the exact opposite; I appreciated Interstellar but never really got into whereas the new one was almost an instant "OKAY YES MORE MORE MORE MORE THX"
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
DJP otm, that was my same experience
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
Bassekou Kouyaté isn't getting any love yet. He did the best song this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qs7L0VF7KY
― jmm, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
I caught some of the Bardo Pond Pharoah Sanders cover and I need to check that album out some evening.― _Rudipherous_, Monday, November 25, 2013 3:44 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, November 25, 2013 3:44 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah man - i'd only heard them on some ancient matador comp before but that track is all kinds
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, November 25, 2013 3:12 PM (2 hours ago)
Ha, yeah, punning band names are often rubbish. I've got to the stage with these guys that I've almost forgotten it's a reference, though. The album is really good, but it's totally a proper indie record, so why bother trying to rep for something that ilx has its ears completely closed to?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, November 25, 2013 3:43 PM (2 hours ago)
This actually has a chance at being my #1, even though I'm not a massive fan of the slow songs. They work in context, though, and I like its prog conceptness (of course I do). And yeah, the high points are amaaaaazing.
― emil.y, Monday, 25 November 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
that parquet courts... was that this year?
the full-length was last year. they also put out an EP this year.
― the haxan 5 (get bent), Monday, 25 November 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
and i'm not feeling the new yt // st as much as the last one, but it's still in my personal top 40 of the year.
― the haxan 5 (get bent), Monday, 25 November 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Parquet Courts' UK release was this year. Hence UK polls featuring it.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 25 November 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
x-post- re : Bassekou Kouyaté isn't getting any love yet.
Some of us here on the "world" music thread like him; the afropop worldwide website folks like him, and Pareles and Ratliff at the NY Times seem to like him. But on the other hand, Rokia Traore seemed to be the only African choice so far from some others; and afrobeatz and Singles Jukebox folks prefer African music with programmed beats.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, I know that he's liked on the world thread. I just meant that Jama Ko's been absent so far on published EOY lists. Christgau loves it too.
― jmm, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 04:05 (ten years ago) link
The full-length was also reissued on What's Your Rupture in 2013. (It was originally on the lead singer's own label.)
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 05:16 (ten years ago) link
MOJO’s Top 50 Albums Of 2013http://www.mojo4music.com/9206/mojo-top-50-albums-2013/
1. Bill Callahan – Dream River2. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories3. David Bowie – The Next Day4. Arctic Monkeys – AM5. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts6. Deerhunter - Monomania7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City8. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle - Perils From The Sea9. Nick Cave & The Badd Seeds - Push The Sky Away10. John Murry - The Graceless Age
― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
OH WOW, fantastic to see this in there:
34. Karen Gwyer - Needs Continuum
Amazing amazing album, like some sort of post-techno version of the drifting fogscapes of Motion Sickness of Time Travel or Grouper
― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 10:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-8FVm6EvA
^ so good
― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 10:52 (ten years ago) link
11. Phosphorescent - Muchacho12. Prefab Sprout - Crimson/Red13. My Bloody Valentine - m b v14. Holden - The Inheritors15. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork16. Factory Floor - Factory Floor17. Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love18. Arcade Fire - Reflektor19. Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon20. Pet Shop Boys - Electric21. Mavis Staples - One True Vine22. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle23. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris24. Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record25. James Blake - Overgrown26. Villagers - AwayLand27. Disclosure - Settle28. Manic Street Preachers - Rewind The Film29. Jon Hopkins - Immunity30. Primal Scream - More Light31. Elvis Costello And The Roots - Wise Up Ghost And Other Songs32. Glenn Jones - My Garden State33. Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail34. Karen Gwyer - Needs Continuum35. Midlake - Antiphon36. Low - The Invisible Way37. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum38. Kanye West - Yeezus39. Roy Harper - Man & Myth40. Black Sabbath - 1341. Goldfrapp - Tales Of Us42. Paul McCartney - New43. Haim - Days Are Gone44. Johnny Marr - The Messenger45. These New Puritans - Fields Of Reeds46. Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic47. Julia Holter - Loud City Song48. The Flaming Lips - The Terror49. Tim Hecker - Virgins50. Time Is A Mountain - Time Is A Mountain
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
That's surprisingly OK, bar all the old duffers.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
Both Phosphorescent and Foxygen in the Mojo 50, eh? It's fair to say I can ignore that list, then!
― zip-a-dee-doo-dah, motherfucker! (Turrican), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
xpost Yeah, very surprising.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
first rate ignoring by Turrican there
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
wonder what other lists roy harper will end up on this year
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
kenny wheeker
― malapopism (wins), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:01 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Mojo list is ok for rock, as long as you're not into r'n'b, rap, reggae, k-pop, Afropop, edm, country, etc. etc.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Not surprised by most of those omissions: there is dance music in there, they're never good on hip hop and R&B, and I'm not even sure what the big K-pop and Afropop albums are, but I am disappointed that Kacey Musgraves hasn't had any impact on the world of Mojo/Uncut/Q.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Laura Mvula is basically riding that one (admittedly awesome) song to acclaim, right? I remember the rest of the album as being monochromatic and dull.
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
i like that album a lot actually but never feel a need to return to it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
The Harvard Crimson Top 10 Albums of 2013http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/26/best-2013-albums-yeezus-arctic-timberlake-daft/?page=single
― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
^ one write-up contains the phrase "smooth, seductive underbelly"
3. "Pure Heroine," Lorde
As an American, I understand the harsh reality of never being able to be royal, but that’s not the only reason why I love Lorde. She is not just a one-hit wonder; Lorde’s debut "Pure Heroine" is the album that just keeps on givin’. Her voice is angelic and chilling all at the same time: the hypnotic beat against the backdrop of her soulful hymns feel like a rallying cry in "Glory and Gore" as she challenges, "You could try and take us / But we’re the gladiators." From her disdain for the vacuousness of modern pop in "Team" ("I’m kind of over gettin’ told to throw my hands up in the air / So there") to her soft and smoky runs in ¨Tennis Court," Lorde is only that much more impressive considering that she’s only 17. She is wise beyond her years, with an album that is so self-aware and sultry that it knocks on the doors of pop powerhouses like Ellie Goulding while teaching a good lesson to pop stars who grind for dollars like Miley Cyrus.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
As an American, I understand the harsh reality of never being able to be royalAs an American, I understand the harsh reality of never being able to be royal,As an American, I understand the harsh reality of never being able to be royal,As an American, I understand the harsh reality of never being able to be royal,As an American, I understand the harsh reality of never being able to be royal,
One might even call Chvrches’ instrumentation minimalist
what the fuck has happened to my school
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
they're grinding for dollars like Miley Cyrus
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
she works at the coffee shop too?
― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
self-aware and sultry
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
One of my old singing buddies used to be a photographer for the Crimson, I should forward this to him and get his opinion
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Kinda shocked to see Bill Callahan at #1 on the Mojo list, tbh, surprised he's gained that much traction with the older rock dudes. Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic album and I'm happy to see that placement, just unexpected.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link