i really dug high violet. with this one i was prepared for, and received, a letdown.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
their stuff is bathos for the most part
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
kinda surprised to see arctic monkeys near the top of everyone's lists, i haven't listened to them since their first record, are they doing anything more interesting now or just more of the same and people just happen to really be digging it this time around?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
They've only made one execrable album but this one, only marginally better than the last (good) one, benefitted from a couple of striking singles.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
It's one of my favorite albums of the year; its sustained mood, held up by the tentpoles that were its four or five utterly standout tracks, makes it one that I keep going back to. (There were a lot of good ideas floating around in 2013, but many of them sagged in full-album form—three of the albums in my current Top 10 are by relative alt-rock lifers, and I have to think that's because they know how to edit their own ideas in a way that younger bands just don't.)
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
I still think their first album is the only good one they've done. It at least has some energy to it. Everything since then has been overstuffed with mid-tempo rockers that just bore the heck out of me. I've really wanted to like their various albums including AM, but the plodding grind just fails to grab my attention.
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Kind of can't believe that nobody has listed the Paramore album, but I guess The National are just THAT MUCH MORE INTERESTING. (cough.)
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
flaws and such, Paramore's album is closing in on my #1 spot. When it's on, there's nothing better.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
It's my #2. (My #1 has yet to be mentioned in any of the lists reposted here.)
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Q: If Paramore has never clicked with me in the past, would this album change the game?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
I liked them well enough until I heard "Still Into You" and "Ain't It Fun" and away I went
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
I remember trying out "Still Into You" earlier in the year and it failing to make an impression, but sometimes the curiosity of not getting into something other people really like makes me want to try harder.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
re: The National, a friend just posted a link to their list on fb and commented "The next time I see a band excitedly talk about how Rolling Stone wrote about them, I will post a link to their top albums of 2013 and then we will both feel bad for a minute."
Possibly, sure. The old guitarist who co-wrote a lot of the old stuff and the other guitarist and bassist stepped up in a big way, and the whole thing has a much broader scope than the early albums. Xp
― deez the season (some dude), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
*Rolling Stone's list
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
The old guitarist left the band, I meant to say
― maura, Wednesday, December 4, 2013 7:02 AM (14 minutes ago)
can't say what either might sound like, so my apologies x2
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
NME's list overall is surprisingly old. Only one debut, only three artists under 30.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, December 4, 2013 1:06 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
surely this isn't correct.
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
what about bands that have three 22-year-olds and one 60 year old?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
i think that johnny marr has left the cribs now tbh
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
i like that national record a lot and it's definitely better than high violet (mostly because of the reinforced emphasis on groove i.e. their incredible drummer) but hoo boy @ its uniform placing here. alfred wrote a great review of it in spin though iirc
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
It's staggeringly competent, I'll give it that.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
that's how I feel about the Vampire Weekend album
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, totally. Lots of Solid B Albums this year.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
what's your #1 maura?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
marnie stern
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
she's just doing shit that nobody else is, and in this really impressive way that vaults over the heads of so many
i didn't hear it. everything she's done in the past has vaulted over my head, personally
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
I returned to that Marnie Stern album a ton this year. I think it would have gotten more critical love though if it hadn't been a step down from her previous album. That one was the high watermark.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
i don't think it's a step down at all, and i love the way that kid millions' drumming loosens things up just enough
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
had no idea he played on her new one, I really need to check it out
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I got the eponymous one a couple of years ago, and that totally vaulted over my head. I had no idea what I was meant to be getting from it at all.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Marnie's new one now and this is so much more to my liking than her previous ones. I think the edges are softer and the structures are more like traditional pop songs. Of course, it's entirely possible I'm misremembering what her previous albums sound like.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
i liked one of her albums from several years ago and liked it as an art-pop piece. will prob check this one.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
xp to monotony - I meant to say "in the NME Top 10"
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
I loved the first two Marnie albums so much -- partly because of their rough edges and rickety weirdness -- that the subsequent ones have seemed good-but-not-as-good to me. All a matter of what pushes your buttons, obviously, and regardless of which album is your fave, I think she's amazing.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Hm, I really liked the first MS record and sorted of faded back from the ones that followed. I liked her later live performances less, certainly. But I haven't heard this one at all.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Or basically, what tipsy mothra said.
I don't think her early LPs were as severe as they were often described, at least not once you adjusted to some of her tones. This Is It And I Am It was just awesome anthem after awesome anthem. But her self-titled LP is the one where she really opened up as a songwriter; that album just crushes me.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Chronicles of Marnia is sorta the easy-listening Marnie Stern album I didn't know I wanted but am glad to have
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
have you guys heard the Wire album? The best of their post-2008 run.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's really good, def in my top 20
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Can't vouch for the quality but at least this one's a bit different to the other indie lists so far...
Gorilla vs Bear - albumshttp://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/12/04/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2013/
40 LAUREL HALO | Chance of Rain39 LEE BANNON | Never/mind/the/darkness/of/it…38 CFCF | Outside37 YOUNG GALAXY | Ultramarine36 DEATH GRIPS | Government Plates35 SZA | S34 TINASHE | Black Water33 STILL CORNERS | Strange Pleasures32 EMPRESS OF | Systems31 TORO Y MOI | Anything In Return
30 3:33 | $.29 DJ RASHAD | Double Cup28 CLASSIXX | Hanging Gardens27 DARKSIDE | Psychic26 RICH HOMIE QUAN | Still Goin In / I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In25 CUUSHE | Butterfly Case24 ARIANA GRANDE | Yours Truly23 QUASIMOTO | Yessir Whatever22 DEAN BLUNT | The Redeemer21 HAERTS | Hemiplegia + remixes
20 KNX. | Anthology19 RECYCLE CULTURE | In Transit18 CHARLI XCX | True Romance17 THE KNIFE | Shaking the Habitual16 POSTILJONEN | Skyer15 VARIOUS | After Dark 214 WHITE DENIM | Corsicana Lemonade13 ARCA | &&&&&12 PURE BATHING CULTURE | Moon Tides11 GROUPER | The Man Who Died In His Boat
10 FKA TWIGS | EP209 JAI PAUL | leaked demos08 DIANA | Perpetual Surrender07 BLUE HAWAII | Untogether06 EJECTA | Dominae05 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER | R Plus Seven04 BURIAL | Truant / Rough Sleeper (2012)03 JULIANNA BARWICK | Nepenthe02 DANNY BROWN | Old01 AUTRE NE VEUT | Anxiety
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
ban autre ne veut
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Can't vouch for the quality
Think you can...
09 JAI PAUL | leaked demos
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
thats a pretty good list. the blue hawaii was super boring tho. can't wait for agor to release some of his techno stuff tho... shit's bangin
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
is that the first time the Grouper album has appeared?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Pure Bathing Culture <- wanna check this out based on name
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
was in a low placing on the Quietus list xp
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
GvsB typically sidesteps the indie blog trap by digging at least half a layer deeper than most of his colleagues.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link