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
Jai Paul! that's another name that, back in June, you would've confidently assumed would be on most of these lists. although obviously the record being an unsanctioned and disavowed leak could've hurt its reach in the long run, but at the time that just seemed to intensify the critical praise.
― deez the season (some dude), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
didn't they also discover that those leaks weren't actually Jai Paul or am I misremembering?
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
nah they just said that he didn't intentionally leak the album himself -- they were his demos tho
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
"jasmine" is amazing, otherwise i don't get why people care about that guy at all
the evolution of gvb's taste is pretty hilarious + corny
is it still one guy and his taste has developed or is it some kind of baby stereogum thing now where they staffed up with some non-indie fuxx?
― deez the season (some dude), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
pure bathing culture was quite nice live, lots of layered harmonies, but i have yet to check out their record.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
God all these list blow. They're giving me dysentery.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
Well you'll probably appreciate the inclusion of Diarrhea Planet on this list then:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/23-best-rock-records-2013
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
"Guitars are still awesome. Here’s why."
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
The Cuushe and Still Corners albums are sweet.
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I get the Haim. It sounds like grade Z Stacy Q to me. What am I missing? And how come nobody is raving about After Dark 2?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
ejecta put out an album? is it actually worth checking out? i'm not willing to put much faith in gvsb rec's
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
xp after dark 2 is #15 on that list and there's no haim to be found
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Time Magazine - Top 10 Albumshttp://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/04/arts-and-entertainment/slide/top-10-albums/
1. Yeezus, Kanye West2. Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend3. mbv, My Bloody Valentine4. Who Is William Onyeabor?, William Onyeabor5. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, Neko Case6. Electricity by Candlelight, Alex Chilton7. Cut 4 Me, Kelela8. The Electric Lady, Janelle Monáe9. Mole City, Quasi10. Matangi, M.I.A.
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
And how come nobody is raving about After Dark 2?
Because it's a comp containing material that IDIB was leaking out track by track going back to fall 2012?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Not that such a thing makes it ineligible, but it maybe diluted its 2013 impact.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Kelela makes it into Time Magazine top 10?
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
Bryce Dessner's Kronos Quartet album is so much better than the National album, I can't even
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
i was all over idib dude's last album and invested a lot of time and energy listening to it and thinking about the lyrics and the music. but then i was convinced that it just had pretensions to seriousness and was weirdly grossly hollow, despite the music, and i couldn't bear to listen to it anymore.
so after dark 2 was a casualty of that i guess.
― j., Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I can't quite get a handle on how that happened.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
It's Douglas W's personal list basically
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah that made much more sense when I saw the byline
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Why on earth did you ever do the first thing that you did in that post xxxp
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
explains the Alex Chilton inclusion too! xp
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Neko Case is doing post-rock now?
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
bc 乒乓 it seemed like a very ambitious album and i wanted to understand it
― j., Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
these are definitely two things you can compare to each other
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
I don't love the KQ album, but I'm def more excited about that side of Dessner.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link