2015 End-of-Year Music Polls & Critics' Lists

11. Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night
good looking out for the classics mojo!

16. D'Angelo - Black Messiah
hmmm

Julia Holter just got booked to play the arts centre near my house in Feb, capacity of the biggest room available is probably 200. her music has Crossover Potential for sure but let's not get carried away

eh i'm fine w/ d'angelo being on some 2015 lists, the album was released after most places published their 2014 lists

Alabama Shakes only making #40 on a Mojo list suggests their album is either terrible or actually really good in ways I wouldn't have anticipated.

I found it incredibly forgettable - the only reason I even remembered it existed is that one of the songs has popped up in a commercial recently.

Some nice surprises on that Picadilly list. The Linkwood album is really good!

I'm not much into the Steven Wilson or Beardfish, but I have gotten turned on to some new prog, and thanks to the RYM lists, I learned that I like The Dear Hunter way more than Deerhunter! Gazpacho and Anekdoten albums are pretty great if you're not allergic to mellotrons or Nordic dread. Goes great paired with a nice barrel-aged stout or Hammerheart's Sköll och Hati, smoked chocolate stout. Skål, heathens!

Honestly, I forgot Blur released an album.

lol @ New Order and Blur being so high in that list

will be even more lols when New Order win the ilx eoy poll

Mojo Magazine - Top 50 Albums

15. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important

Release date was early November 2014.

Gazpacho are kinda dweeby ("This CD may destroy the universe") but I like them too. They don't overload their songs, it's more about atmosphere.

the hip-hop representation in these lists is very sad. not that the kendrick lamar album isn't great, but it's painfully obvious how much work it (and a couple of inevitable others) is doing as Not Like That Other Rap Music

the fake courtney barnett album titles were one of the lowest points of ilx not just this thread but it really is a spectacularly bad album title (the album itself is fine)

still, would definitely listen in to a conversation between her and earl sweatshirt about their album titles

definitely, though tbf the whole point of year end lists is to highlight examples of Not Like That Other (x) Music

the hip-hop representation in these lists is very sad. not that the kendrick lamar album isn't great, but it's painfully obvious how much work it (and a couple of inevitable others) is doing as Not Like That Other Rap Music

most of That Other Rap Music is arguably terrible

Courtney Barnett's voice is one of the most unpleasant sounding things I've heard this year, just this horrible nasal drone.

definitely, though tbf the whole point of year end lists is to highlight examples of Not Like That Other (x) Music

This is transparently not true in the case of much of the guitar music in, eg, the Mojo list.

that's because Mojo is really incredibly boring

i don't mind courtney barnett's voice, it's just laconic sullen detachment. sheryl crow x aimee mann isn't a very exciting vocal mode but it's not unpleasant either. the album sort of falls down in places because when she's not as insightful as she thinks she is there's nowhere for her songs to hide really

Gazpacho are kinda dweeby ("This CD may destroy the universe") but I like them too. They don't overload their songs, it's more about atmosphere.
― jmm

Ha ha, yeah. I wrote about that, the CD includes a code at the end that generates a random number that could theoretically, with the Quantum Zeno effect, destroy the universe. The fact that they may not be joking is kind of great. Plus biblical demons, Norwegian folklore about religion and trolls turning to stone, and instrumentation that includes a 10,000 year-old Skåra stone.

Also regarding Komara, it is a good palate-cleansing jolt of avant jazz prog. Worth checking out for those who may also like Shining, Author-Punisher, Zu, Pinkish Black.

(i think after attempting some grimes songs this week i'd be happy with any vocal mode that isn't insufferably cutesy)

the hip-hop representation in these lists is very sad. not that the kendrick lamar album isn't great, but it's painfully obvious how much work it (and a couple of inevitable others) is doing as Not Like That Other Rap Music

― lex pretend, Friday, November 20, 2015 9:47 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea TPAB was obviously going to be the token rap album in otherwise non-rap lists but i didn't think it was gonna be this bad

also makes d40's "FU if future & young thug are the only rap u listen to" comment in the future/thug thread even weirder, bc clearly kendrick is occupying that role more than anybody else

ehhhhhh not really; if i read him correctly (which is a totally open question) deej was saying that moreso for the vox populi than the critical sphere
i don't think there's any doubt that the majority of genreblind year end lists will be putting pimp a butterfly in the top ten and that barter and ds2 are gonna be outliers at best

there's def a sphere of try-hard rap critics that applies to as well...

I promise you, you will see at least one Pazz and Jop ballot that is >50% Young Thug and Future tapes and the writer then bragging about his/her decision on Twitter

oh no doubt
i mean, not no doubt
you know what i mean

the highest placing rap albums on Pazz & Jop the last 3 years were Kendrick, Kanye, Run The Jewels, Chance The Rapper and Azealia Banks. the 'Not Like That Other Rap Music' contingent rules as much as it ever has, no matter what dent someone like Future makes.

People let me tell you: Colleen Green's dynamite album I Want To Grow Up is getting hosed on these year-end lists.

like shining plenty (though was not too taken with their latest album), but pinkish black just leaves me cold. with atkins and ferguson both dead there's nothing left in it for me. :( glad great tyrant's records are finally making it out, though!

tal national's "zoy zoy" way too slept on.

i'm preparing now to seethe for two months about the lack of year end critical love for Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan

28 of that Mojo top 50 consists of artists named after a lead/solo male, from Kendrick to Kamasi via Father John Misty.

i'm preparing now to seethe for two months about the lack of year end critical love for Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan

dawn will get some, way more than last time, but on the basis of how much dust she was unjustifiably paid throughout the year, it's hard to imagine jazime getting any of her rightful due at all

*jazmine

had to google what "paid dust" means, first time i've heard that

kmt and pmd rn

Pretty sure jazz fans have rap fans beat in the "token album" complaint dept.

i'm preparing now to seethe for two months about the lack of year end critical love for Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan

― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu)

I'd add Susanne Sundfør to that list. It's going to be a long wait for the ILM end of year list.

xp yea that kamasi album is placing in way more polls than i thought it would've

No Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, no darn credibility I say.

deafheaven the critics token metal pick again then?

grateful dead - 30 trips around the sun is the tokin' pick

So if I understand correctly, it's dissing Courtney Barnett season.

I wonder if Earl Sweatshirt releasing his album so early in the year (march I think) will work against him, was my favorite non-TPAB hip hop record this year.

dawn will get some, way more than last time, but on the basis of how much dust she was unjustifiably paid throughout the year, it's hard to imagine jazime getting any of her rightful due at all

― lex pretend, Friday, November 20, 2015 3:54 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This would be a damn shame as I've been hoping that Reality Show would become one of those albums that finally gets its due once the kind of people who only learn about new music from reading year-end lists would finally discover that way (the way many will discover Courtney Barnett, whose album I also like a lot).

the earl record was good

people moaning about how there's only one token rap album in the mojo list is a low point for ilx

deafheaven the critics token metal pick again then?

Well Pallbearer haven't released anything this year so yeah

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