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
Hadn't listened to Marnie Stern in many months and am enjoying revisiting it. I still like the Palma Violets album, and the Mosquito seems to be underrated. Sure it's not as good as It's Blitz, but it beats the hell out of a lot of other boring indie crap I see on most these lists. Nice to see Merchandise's Totale Nite EP on NME list too.
I wasn't a fan of the first Arctic Monkeys album, but liked all their albums after. This piece actually got me finally appreciating some of the songs on the debut more - http://www.popmatters.com/post/175769-the-top-ten-arctic-monkeys-songs/. It also shows they had really strong songs on each their albums, though I do think the latest is best.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
― j., Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:28 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
IDIB are sort of like Revolutionary War reenactors or something where their whole goal is to completely nail this aesthetic of a very specific slice of an era
I wouldn't stress their ambitions too much
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I get the Haim. It sounds like grade Z Stacy Q to me.
Stacey Q did freestyle.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Guess this wasn't posted.
NME - Top 50 Tracks of 20131. Daft Punk - 'Get Lucky'2. Arcade Fire - 'Reflektor'3. Arctic Monkeys - 'Do I Wanna Know?'4. Disclosure feat AlunaGeorge - 'White Noise'5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Sacrilege'6. Courtney Barnett - 'Avant Gardener'7. Pond - 'Xanman'8. Foals - 'My Number'9. Lorde - 'Royals'10. Kanye West - 'Black Skinhead'11. Merchandise - 'Anxiety's Door'12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Jubilee Street'13. Haim - 'Falling'14. David Bowie - 'Where Are We Now?'15. Drenge -'Bloodsports'16. Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Smooth Sailin''17. Pulp Vs Soulwax - 'After You'18. Kanye West - 'I Am A God'19. Queens Of The Stone Age - 'If I Had A Tail'20. A$AP Rocky - 'Wild For The Night'21. Savages - 'She Will'22. Kanye West - 'Bound 2'23. Jagwar Ma - 'The Throw'24. Vampire Weekend - 'Ya Hey'25. Laura Marling - 'Master Hunter'26. Primal Scream - '2013'27. Childhood - 'Solemn Skies'28. Jon Hopkins - 'Open Eye Signal'29. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Wanna Be Yours'30. Chvrches - 'Recover'31. Vampire Weekend - 'Diane Young'32. Arctic Monkeys - 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'33. Factory Floor - 'Fall Back'34. Phoenix - 'Entertainment'35. Wolf Alice - 'Fluffy'36. Kanye West - New Slaves37. Foals - 'Bad Habit'38. MIA - 'Bring The Noize'39. Katy B - '5AM'40. Kelis - 'Jerk Ribs'41. Big Sean - 'Control'42. King Krule - 'Easy Easy'43. Temples - 'Colours To Life'44. Parquet Courts - 'Stoned And Starving'45. Chance The Rapper - 'Juice'46. James Blake - 'Retrograde'47. The Cribs - 'Leather Jacket Love Song'48. Telegram - 'Follow'49. Pixies - 'Indie Cindy'50. Fat White Family's 'Is It Raining In Your Mouth?
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
i enjoyed seeing lorde at 50 on complex's list
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
ooh, "Jerk Ribs"
― maciej recognizing trill, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
I love about half of After Dark 2, mainly "Dancing In The Dark" and the Chromatics tracks.
― ☞ (brimstead), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Had forgotten about Jerk Ribs. Went back and listened to it and I might even like it more than I did in the spring.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
34 TINASHE | Black Water
Saw this on Fact's mixtape list too. It's great. Looks like ILM had some interest in her in 2012 but nothing this year. Bit of a stretch but if you found Kelela too cold or wimpy, you might like this a lot more.
― rob, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
That Caitlin Rose album is very nice, about the only one I have checked out on the strength of testimony from people on this this thread so far.
Not seen many classical/jazz/avante garde type lists but Zorn has been on fire this year, Gloria Coates/Kreutzer Quartet have "At Midnight" on tzadik which is great, the Aaron Parks album is sweet and percussionist Kuniko Kato did a beautiful recording of Reich/Arvo Part on Cantus.
looking at that quietus list; there is no way their no. 100 Shitfucker - Sucks Cocks In Hell (Hells Headbangers) isn't better than their no.1 Grumbling Fur - Glynnaestra (Thrill Jockey)".
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
and by a considerable margin
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
4 voters in the Quietus poll, as Doran-of-this-very-Parish is quick to point out at the top of the run-down. As he says it certainly makes for an interesting selection.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
my top 5 tzadik releases if ur interested dsp:1. Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy2. Barbez - Bella Ciao3. John Zorn - Filmworks XXV—City Of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond The Infinite4. Pat Metheny - Tap: The Book of Angels v.205. Jon Madof - Zion80
― Mordy , Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
I've been wanting to check out that Pat Metheny one
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link