but I do feel that a lot of year-end round-ups are quite interchangeable in their breadth of listening, and while it's nice for people who've largely heard those albums to be validated over & over again, it's a little frustrating that there's so much amazing stuff out there getting next to no exposure
― veneer timber (imago), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
some of it's exquisitely detailed
This poncey nonsense is a consequence of me writing while i was rushing out the door but what i meant is i love the stratified depths of sound and the sometimes dizzying effects he creates from these. I won't lie though, mostly I love Tim Hecker cos it's gorgeous but powerful music to sit around feeling morose to, so maybe it's a temperament thing?
― diego floorplan (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
I know it's basically a christmas catalogue for tarts but I do love the end of year lists that Boomkat do, discovered so much good stuff through those.
― diego floorplan (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
so glad to see alasdair roberts on the wire list!!
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
a timely reminder that i need to listen to that one. how does in rank in the roberts oeuvre?
― diego floorplan (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.party-ideas-by-a-pro.com/image-files/alice-in-wonderland-party-jam-tarts.jpg
― i am curious #yolo (wins), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
it's among the more flowery of his albums (compared to the solo/straight ahead ballad stuff) -- lots of guests, different instruments and arrangements on every song -- but there are lots of really good songs and an incest ballad that really takes the cake. it is one of those albums that creates and lives in its own little universe. this will probably make sense to anyone who likes him and not much sense to everyone else.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
made sense to me apart from the incest cake thing
― test listicles (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
but i love it!!
this is brother seed, the aforementioned balladhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVme8xe7NNo
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
i meant that it was really good! it takes the cake!
always get that confused with taking the biscuit tbh
― test listicles (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
what has this to do with the tart catalogue
― i am curious #yolo (wins), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
there's a hierarchy of baked comestibles i suppose. cakes at one end, biscuits at the other. i think this is wrong, but this is how it seems. jam tarts somewhere in the middle.
― test listicles (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
still think night is advancing is best ali roberts
― =(3 Ɛ)= (cozen), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
i do like the chord progression on that song LL, nice overall sound too!
― test listicles (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
I liked the Alasdair Roberts, but I think Spoils is the best thing he's ever done. That album was just about perfect
― Dan S, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
The Wire Rewind 2013: Avant RockMarisa Anderson - MercuryBastard Noise / Brutal Truth - The Axiom Of Post InhumanityRichard Dawson - The Glass TrunkEx-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars ThreeMike Gangloff - Poplar HollowGrumbling Fur - GlynnaestraSteve Gunn - Time OffMaster Musicians Of Bukkake - Far WestPaul Metzger - TombeauxMidday Veil - The CurrentMonarch - OmensMountains - Centralia StudioCian Nugent And The Cosmos - Born With The CaulPolvo - SiberiaAlasdair Roberts And Friends - A Wonder Working Stone
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Finally some Polvo!
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
i wish drag city stuff were easier to hear but this is the way they want it, so w/ethere is a goofy song that uses the "red river valley" melody too, the whole album is unpredictable and never boring. people like different things from him -- i'm pretty much happy to listen to whatever he puts out (although i didn't love that one album with the irish lady...forget what it's called)
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
The Wire Rewind 2013: Critical Beats01. Joey Anderson - From One Mind To The Other02. Julio Bashmore versus Kowton - Mirror Song03. Beneath - Beliz/Strike A Pose04. Coki - Bedouins05. DJ Rashad - I Don't Give A Fuck06. Joe - Punters Step Out/Club Sacred07. Kromestar - Rhythm On My Mind08. letthemusicplay featuring Kate Tempest - Out Town09. Glacher Lustwerk - Tape2210. DJ Nigga Fox - O Meu Estilo11. Pangaea - Viaduct12. Theo Parrish - Day Like This13. Pev & Asusu - Surge/Remnants14. Special Request - Mindwash15. Tessala - Nancy's Pantry
The Wire Rewind 2013: Electronica01. Autechre - Exai02. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety03. AyGeeTee - Fools04. Bass Clef - Acid Tracts05. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol 106. Blondes - Swisher07. Anthony Child - The Space Between People And Things08. Donaty Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask09. Mark Fell - N-Dimensional Analysis10. FKA Twigs - EP211. Laurel Halo - Chance Of Rain12. Huerco S - Colonial Patterns13. Jam City - Special Trash Offcuts Memories14. Oneothrix Point Never - R Plus Seven15. Yearning Kru - Cracked Lacquer/Vanadium
The Wire Rewind 2013: Hip-Hop01. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap02. Chief Keef - Go to Jail03. Drake - Nothing Was the Same04. Future - SH!T05. Kevin Gates - Stranger Than Fiction06. Ka - The Night's Gambit07. Migos - Young Rich Niggas08. Quelle Chris - Ghost at the Finish Line09. Rocko feat. Future & Rick Ross - UOENO10. Starlito - Funerals & Court Dates11. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris12. Underachievers - Indigoism13. Kanye West - Yeezus14. YG - Just Re'd Up 215. Young Thug - 1017 Thug
The Wire Rewind 2013: Jazz & Improv01. Sophie Agnel / John Edwards / Steve Noble - Meteo02. John Butcher / Thomas Lehn / John Tilbury - Exta03. The Convergence Quartet - Slow And Steady04. Decoy & Joe McPhee - Spontaneous Combustion05. Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura / Andrea Neumann / Ivan Placký - Messier Objects06. Huntsville - Past Increasing Future Receding07. Sarah Hughes - Accidents Of Matter And Space08. ist - Berlin09. Graham Lambkin & Keith Rowe - Making A10. Sebastian Lexer & Grundik Kasyansky - The Fog11. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra featuring Roscoe Mitchell - Matter Anti-Matter12. The Remote Viewers - Crimeways13. Matthieu Ruhlmann - This Star Teaches Bending14. Seaven Teares - Power Ballads15. Nate Wooley & Seymour Wright - About Trumpet And Saxophone
The Wire Rewind 2013: Modern Composition01. Elizabeth Brown - Mirage02. John Cage - The Works For Organ03. Shih-Hui Chen - Returning Sounds04. Anders Dahl & Skogen - Rows05. Hywel Davies - Descent/End Canon/Cold In The Earth06. Luc Ferrari/Brunhild Ferrari - Luc Ferrari/Brunhild Ferrari07. Michael Finnissy - History Of Photography In Sound08. Lars Petter Hagen - Orchestral Works09. Bryn Harrison - Vessels10. Klaus Lang - Organ Works Vol 111. R Murray Schafer - String Quartets 8–1212. Johannes Schöllhorn - Clouds And Sky13. Ernstalbrecht Stiebler - Ton In Ton14. Yoshi Wada - Singing In Unison15. Zwerm - Underwater Princess Waltz
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
The Ex-Easter Island Head album is nice, coming from somewhere between gamelan and Rhys Chatham.
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Never mind the numbers in front of the Wire lists: I see now that they are ordered alphabetically.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
alphabetizing inconsistencies in the crit beats list though tbh
― test listicles (NickB), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
Maybe 'Glacher' is Herr Lustwerk's first name? :)
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
its funny how out of place noz' lists look in wire
― flopson, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
I got my Pazz/Jop ballot earlier today.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Ex-Easter Island Head mallet guitars stuff at its best is some kind of headrush dance ecstasy. Based on minimalist composition.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
cannot fucking believe that the amazing album by The Ex & Brass Unbound is only in this thread as Quietus' #99 pick
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
The Wire Rewind 2013: Outer LimitsRobert Beatty - Sountracks For Takeshi MurataAnthony Child - The Space Between People And ThingsG*Park - SubRussell Haswekk & Yasunao Tone - Convulsive ThresholdRene Hell - Vanilla Call OptionPeter Kolovos - Black ColorsMain - AblationJar Moff - Financial GlamElse Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard - SvaevningerJoe Panzner & Greg Stuart - Dystonia DuosMichael Pisaro - Closed Categories In Cartesian WorldsToshiya Tsunoda - The Temple RecordingRobert Turman - Beyond PaintingJennifer Veillerobe - LuftlöcherBilly Roisz - Walking The Monkey
The Wire Rewind 2013: GlobalAbduvali Abdurashidov - Tajikistan Classical Music And SongsLili Boniche - AnthologieLena Hughes - Queen Of The Flat Top GuitarKakujo Iwasa - Kakuryu Saito - Japan: Satsuma BiwaOrchestra Super Mazembe - Mazembe @ 45 rpm Vol 1V/A - Cameroon: Flutes Of The Mandara MountainsV/A - Classical Celtic MusicV/A - Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern ChinaV/A - 100 Moons: Hindustani Vocal Art 1930-1955V/A - Stand Up People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964-1980
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
aw man i didn't know there was a new pisaro
― j., Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
yes, jon abbey had great things to say about it on IHM
― Dan S, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
A high proportion of releases passed the sonic Bechdel test this year (women writing their own material, talking about something other than a man).
― i am curious #yolo (wins), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Gorilla vs. Bear Tracks http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/12/10/gorilla-vs-bears-songs-of-2013/#more-336801
75 DAWN RICHARD – Judith74 SHLOHMO – Out Of Hand73 SOPHIE – Nothing More To Say72 BLACK HIPPY – U.O.E.N.O (remix)71 BLONDES – Elise
70 MOUNT KIMBIE – Made To Stray69 AIRBIRD & NAPOLIAN – In The Zone68 DRE GREEN & THE GTW – Neymar Night67 PRINCE INNOCENCE – Golden Hour66 VULGAR FASHION – Krystal Tearz65 MACK WILDS – Own It64 SUPREME CUTS – Envision63 BUSTA x Q-TIP – Thank You62 SAPPHIRE SLOWS – Can I Get Out Of This Silence? (Eyedress remix)61 TINASHE – Vulnerable
60 JON HOPKINS – Breathe This Air (feat. Purity Ring)59 MIKKY EKKO – Disappear58 SHINE 2009 – Older57 THE KNIFE – Raging Lung56 MILEY CYRUS – We Can’t Stop55 PURE X – Thousand Year Old Child54 SOKO – Monster Love (feat. Ariel Pink)53 DJ RASHAD – Show You How52 A$AP ROCKY – Fashion Killa51 GIRAFFAGE – All That Matters
50 KORELESS – Ivana49 CLAMS CASINO x DOOM – Bookfiend48 TOXIE – Newgate47 GEMS – Medusa46 THE STROKES – Call It Fate, Call It Karma45 FRYARS – On Your Own44 TEI SHI – M&Ms43 ANDROGYNOUS MIND – Knock On My Door42 DANNY BROWN – Lonely41 ARIEL PINK & JORGE ELBRECHT – Hang On To Life
40 LONDON GRAMMAR – Wasting My Young Years39 ANGEL OLSEN – Sweet Dreams38 MS MR – Fantasy37 SHLOHMO x JEREMIH – Bo Peep (Do U Right)36 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – New Town Burnout (Shabazz Palaces remix)35 YOUNG GALAXY – New Summer34 ARCADE FIRE – Afterlife33 BLUE HAWAII – Try To Be32 EMPRESS OF – Hat Trick31 FUTURE – Honest (Ryan Hemsworth post-rock tears bootleg)
30 A$AP FERG – Shabba (remix)29 AUTRE NE VEUT x FENNESZ – Alive28 EJECTA – Jeremiah (the Denier)27 DROOP-E – ‘N the Traffic (feat. Nite Jewel)26 JESSIE WARE – Imagine It Was Us25 ARIANA GRANDE – Piano24 SCHOOLBOY Q – Man of the Year23 HAERTS – All The Days22 JAMES BLAKE – Retrograde21 PHOSPHORESCENT – Song for Zula
20 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – Chrome Country19 A$AP MOB – Trillmatic (feat. Method Man)18 CHVRCHES – Recover17 DISCLOSURE – Help Me Lose My Mind (feat. London Grammar)16 THE PREATURES – Is This How You Feel?15 ST. LUCIA – Elevate14 PUSHA T – Numbers on the Boards13 JULIANNA BARWICK – One Half12 JAI PAUL – track 15 (all night)11 WHITE DENIM – New Blue Feeling10 FKA Twigs-Water Me09 Kayne West-Black Skinheads08 MARIAH CAREY x MIGUEL | #beautiful07 GROUPER | Living Room06 DAFT PUNK | Doin’ it Right (feat. Panda Bear)05 SZA | Julia04 AUTRE NE VEUT | Counting03 SOPHIE | Bipp02 RICH HOMIE QUAN | Type of Way01 AUTRE NE VEUT | Play By Play
― monster_xero, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
gvb really likes Autre Ne Veut huh
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
It's a pretty fun list though
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
top 2 makes me feel some type of way
― flopson, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Playing through this list now. I like that Blue Hawaii track, which is new to me.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
I put a bunch of best-songs lists (Rolling Stone, Spin, NME, NPR, Paste, PopMatters, Complex, and Pretty Much Amazing) into a single Spotify playlist, deleting the dupes:http://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/7AhiUOmkHgiJIJGNOhSwZO
― Noblesse J. Blige (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
I know it's basically a christmas catalogue for tarts but I do love the end of year lists that Boomkat do, discovered so much good stuff through those.― diego floorplan (NickB), Wednesday, December 11, 2013
― diego floorplan (NickB), Wednesday, December 11, 2013
i get this; i've discovered some great stuff from boomkat, too. but they seem to love everything, which makes it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
noisey magazine's best tapes of 2013 (in no order, from what i can tell):
Siriusmo - EnthusiastTorky Tork - PR110Thundercat - ApocalypseJai Paul - Unreleased Album Aleph - 4th WaySweet Valley - SVHimuro Yoshiteru - Get MoneyTa-Ku - Songs To Break Up ToZomby - With LoveBoards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
PJ ballot submitted.
I'm having second thoughts about the MIA track I picked, but fuck it
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
The Wire seemed to take a turn towards covering more pop around '93, and I read every issue through the mid-90s. I've been listening to a playlist with albums from the list all day and I thought of this for the first time in ages: http://unhappyhipsters.com/
I'm already reminiscing wistfully back to yesterday when I got to hear fun, stupid music.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
which track did you pick, Raymond? (plz say Matangi, I am obsessed with that song)
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
Sorry Dan, I went with "Bring the Noize" - though now I'm second guessing my decision, thinking I should have gone with "Come Walk With Me."
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
Overall I was more certain/set in the albums I chose than the tracks.
All this talk of WIRE has me realizing that I've not purchased a copy in YEARS. Tend to browse in the store and put it back.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah come walk with me is my pick, too
― flopson, Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
V/A - Stand Up People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964-1980Orchestra Super Mazembe - Mazembe @ 45 rpm Vol 1
^ both fantastic
― Mordy , Thursday, 12 December 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
i remain baffled that on an album as strong as matangi anyone could highlight the lumbering "come walk with me" which is the only one i had to flat-out delete
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 December 2013 08:27 (ten years ago) link
I can't work out if The Wire has got noticeably more catholic in its tastes or whether other publications (chiefly FACT) have moved closer to it. Probably a combination of both because that Wire top 10 looks surprisingly safe.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 December 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link
dummy as well - a year or two ago dummy pretty much covered the same stuff as fact but its leaned a lot more towards the wire end of things now
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 December 2013 09:30 (ten years ago) link