I loved her song w/ Ikonika but was really kinda bored by the Jessy Lanza album. Should i go back and try again?
― karajan up the khyber (NickB), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
Is that James Holden album any good?
yes, it's amazing
same, and no; plenty better r&b 2013 releases for your attention
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
jessy lanza is alright but there are at least three or four other albums doing the same thing this year but better. love that donato dozzy ALOT but feel weird about it being that high on a best albums list. i'd say kudos on no disclosure but i'd have it over daniel avery or jon hopkins tbh. no the knife either.
― balls, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
Nils frahm has been my default comedown album in December; I like it best when it sounds like the music for a 2- or 3-part drama on ITV1 or BBC1
― deeja entendu (wins), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that Nils Frahm album is lovely but I think I prefer the synthier or more abstract tracks to the straightforward piano pieces.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Glad to see that Segue album place so highly as well, so lush!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Glad to see the Dozzy/Bee Mask album there, too, that's very high for me.
― toby, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Old improves the more I listen to it but I feel lame about voting for it on any level (it's nowhere close to top 10 let alone top 20) because seriously - SERIOUSLY - Danny needs to be dissuaded from making more records like this. W/ XXX it was novel , with Old it grew rote, a third time? No way.
By "this" I mean meta rap concept albums that indict the audience. XXX did this in a way that felt new, exciting, etc - Old complicated things and threw in addl sonic ideas. I mean, I bought the record, don't regret it, still am impressed with the guy, but PLEASR DONT DO THIS AGAIN
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Really enjoying that James Holden record right now. Decided to check it out.
― Evan, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
The thing with Old is that whatever it offered me, I find both Acid Rap and Doris offered it way better.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
The 11-20 positions on the Pitchfork's list is a series of great albums, in my humble opinion. Probably much better than the top 10 itself.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
agreed
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
I need to give Acid Rap a third listen and try to grasp the appeal - it's just eluding me.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
i found the Pitchfork top-10 baffling.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
Pitchfork's list is sad & embarrassing.
― nakamura, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
I was sorta surprised that Juicy J and 2Chainz didn't make it
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
The Chris Forsyth album reminds me a bit of Voice of the Seven Thunders.
― MV, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:27 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm at this stage too. don't hate it just don't really get it
(ditto paramore)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Simon Reynolds' lists are up: http://blissout.blogspot.com/
― Dan S, Thursday, 19 December 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
You're either down with his voice or you're forever on the fence. It took me a long while to get over his babytalk.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 December 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
i thought noz lightweight killed it in his pitchfork blurb of the album
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 19 December 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
for their year end list
Yeah, I loved that blurb.
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 December 2013 05:39 (ten years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, December 19, 2013 5:14 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's not really his voice that's the issue - don't love it but don't hate it. more like what rtc said at the time, he doesn't make me care enough about what he's saying to get build up an affinity for the voice
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 December 2013 08:28 (ten years ago) link
chance and paramore (and kelela) are certainly the 2013 albums i WISH i loved, that i've spent a lot of time trying to love, that a lot of people w/similar taste to me seem to love, and they're all stuck at the three-star "this is alright i guess?" level
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 December 2013 08:30 (ten years ago) link
Fastnbulbous, those are some great lists you have on your site! (Bit late reply, but it's a lot to take in.) Thanks to your write-up I'm really enjoying Beastmilk at the moment - for some reason I never expected a band with such a name to be post punk. Also nice to see Motorpsycho up there, although I haven't really liked anything they made in this century.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 19 December 2013 09:21 (ten years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/14145-best-hip-hop-albums-review-2013
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 19 December 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link
That Floorplan record could well be a last minute entry into my EOY. It's always so frustrating compiling these lists because I discover probably about 20% of my annual music listening in the Dec/Jan period thanks to everyone else's recommendations and don't really have an opinion about a lot of stuff til March the following year. My 2012 top 5 contained at least two records I hadn't heard until December.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
John Grant at #2 in the Guardian. Really wanted that to beat Kanye to #1 because seriously who wants to read another Yeezus thinkpiece at this stage.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 December 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
lol, Yeezus is one of my least played rap albums this year.
― longneck, Thursday, 19 December 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
i just need to see a yeezus thinkpiece that acknowledges the wildly diverging quality between its two halves
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 December 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
Good luck on that when everyone's making it AOTY.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 December 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
xp ArchCarrier, thanks. Motorpsycho have such a huge catalog. I eventually heard most of their stuff, but keep returning to the most recent albums. I also belatedly finished making Spotify playlists for each of the 16 genre groups in the breakdown.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
It f'd up the # in the link: http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-13/#breakdown
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
Simon Reynolds still hates M.I.A.
food for puke M.I.A. "Come Walk With Me"Paris Hilton featuring Lil Wayne, "Good Time" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Ceiling Can't Hold Us"
"you fill me with... inertia" vaporwave nu-grimepost-step Julia HolterFloorplanHookworms
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Rock-A-Rolla Top 50 Albums Of 2013
01. Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light02. Deafheaven - Sunbather03. Tomahawk - Oddfellow04. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Souls: Folio A05. Corrections House - Last City Zero06. Cult Of Luna - Vertikal07. The Body - Christ, Redeemers08. Carcass - Surgical Steel09. The Ocean - Pelagial10. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest11. Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury12. Tim Hecker - Virgins13. Pelican - Forever Becoming14. Gnaw - Horrible Chamber15. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control16. Nails - Abandon All Life17. Palms - Palms18. Ensemble Pearl - Ensemble Pearl19. True Widow - Circumambulation20. Russian Circles - Memorial21. Mammifer & Circle - Enharmonic Intervals22. Beastmilk - Climax23. Survival - Survival24. Melvins - Tres Cabrones25. Black Sabbath - 1326. Coliseum - Sister Faith27. Vista Chino - Peace28. Kylesa - Ultraviolet29. Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty30. Clutch - Earth Rocker31. Mutation - Error 500 32. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork33. Shining - One One One34. Wooden Shjips - Back To Land35. Ulcerate - Vermis36. Teeth Of The Sea - Master37. Castevet - Obsian38. Autechre - Exai39. Red Fang - Whales And Leeches40. Kawabata Mokoto's Mainliner - Revelation Space41. Man's Gin - Rebellion Hymns42. Melt-Banana - Fetch43. Fire! - (Without Noticing)44. Vaura - The Missing45. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light46. Cathedral - The Last Spire47. Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo - Prince Avalanche OST48. Celeste - Animale(s)49. Arabrot - Arabrot50. Bardo Pond - Peace On Venus
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Always an interesting list, there's a few things I gotta check out, like Secret Chiefs 3 and Ensemble Pearl. Not sure what they see in Tomahawk. They must really miss Jesus Lizard. Would have guessed they'd have SubRosa, Pinkish Black, Author & Punisher, Domovoyd, Deveykus, Kayo Dot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Kvelertak, Vhöl, oVo, Sungod, Darkside and/or Locrian. But good list overall.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
not my fave rock-a-rolla list :/
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
That Deafheaven album is a scorcher.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
The Tomahawk album was abysmal.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Or is. Whichever.
rock a rolla is always my favorite list
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
one of these days I'm gonna move to England and do a hostile takeover of that mag
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Other than it's appearance on the Quietus list I was beginning to think I am the only person who rates Ensemble Pearl.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that album is awesome.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
44. Vaura - The Missing
YES
― jmm, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Mordy made me post thishttp://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/189459/top--middle-eastern-metal-albums-of-/http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/189455/top--jewish-albums-of-/
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Yeezus is #1 in the Guardian and the outrage below the line is beautiful.
― prolego, Friday, 20 December 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
shaypeshyfter20 December 2013 10:25am
This dribble from a guy with no black rap roots? An originator? Delusions of granduer, yes, paragon of rap? I need only point you back to it's roots in the form of The Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, Wu Tang Clan, NWA, et al. Don't get me started about Missy Elliott, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Dizzee Rascal, Tupac Shakur! All of whom existed before this cum stain declared there were "no black rappers before me".For the record I middle aged (51) and white. David C James shaypeshyfter20 December 2013 10:42am
I don't think you had to tell us you were middle-aged and white. It was pretty obvs.
lol irl
― prolego, Friday, 20 December 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
Akiba20 December 2013 7:59amRecommend68A rap album no.1? Oh dear oh dear.I find it rather tragic that the best pop music was written long before I was even born, in the 1960s. The 70s was pretty good too. By the time we reached the 80s, the decline was already in evidence, with most music being incredibly lightweight. The 90s was pretty much the end of music and everything after that has been white noise. How people talking over a background rhythm is now considered music is totally beyond me.I thought you were supposed to like the music you grew up with? Not I it seems, I like good music, which hasn't been made in many decades.
20 December 2013 7:59amRecommend68
A rap album no.1? Oh dear oh dear.
I find it rather tragic that the best pop music was written long before I was even born, in the 1960s. The 70s was pretty good too. By the time we reached the 80s, the decline was already in evidence, with most music being incredibly lightweight. The 90s was pretty much the end of music and everything after that has been white noise. How people talking over a background rhythm is now considered music is totally beyond me.
I thought you were supposed to like the music you grew up with? Not I it seems, I like good music, which hasn't been made in many decades.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 20 December 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link