yeah hard to pick a fav cos of that
― Spottie, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
LOL
I don't see why this is more necessary for 24tet music than for 12tet music tbh. A more trad classical music snob could surely say the same thing about a regular rock album with distorted guitars (and some do).― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sure I mean a set of attitudes could be carried across to other things and it wouldn't look so good, but you know that can be ok sometimes.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
I don't like half of the albums so far but it's a great poll so far. Lots of variation, the singles poll felt too homogenic for me this year.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
As penance for making all of you think about Jute Gyte, I solemnly swear that we shall listen to the entire Dumblonde album tonight
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
This Dumblonde album is amazing and too much fun. Only discovered it when going through the Spotify playlist a few weeks ago. The production is just incredible.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
well i'm very excited for that, lj
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
say what you want about ILX's "diversity for the sake of being diverse" schizophrenia but any forum with roughly equal love in their heart for f(x), Mbongwana Star, Tame Impala, Future, Tove Styrke, Jute Gyte, Stara Rzeka and Dumblonde is my kinda people.
― ulysses, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
dumblonde album is several fire emoji, the kind of thing you're not sure you like until you realize you like all of it
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tOzhU0D.jpg
43 LOW "Ones and Sixes" (346 points, 13 votes)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 46
this is a great run. imo this is the best low record since drums and guns
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
personal fav is 'waiting on you,' i think 'tender green life' is most representative, 'remember me' i found to be a v zeitgeist-adjacent entry point, 'you got me' for the more traditionalist dahnce heads
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
hey, something I voted for!
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
i'm not ready to listen to low again, too close to a certain period in my life, won't be able to help wondering if alan and mimi wear garments.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
great, great album
― nomar, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
so far Beast Mode is the only thing i've voted for (which is fine, really, it just means the 9 or so albums i know will make it are placing pretty high). it's nice to see it do this well, i've always felt kind of alone in preferring Beast Mode to 56 Nights and Monster.
― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
something wrong with the scores maybe?
45 - 388 pts44 - 388 pts43 - 346 pts
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
gave up on stara rzeka after hearing the first song just now. it's not for me maybe.
trying dumblonde now... this is sounding cute so far. hey i should give this low record a chance too. they're classified as, what, slowcore iirc?
― davey, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
i've always felt kind of alone in preferring Beast Mode to 56 Nights and Monster.
yea i'm in the same boat
― marcos, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
This Low album is fucking incredible
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah i just caught that myself.#45 stara rzeka should have 338 points, not 388. Which means it tied with dumblonde for points but they get the nod with more votes
― ulysses, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
I know this is not a very good attitude but I can't even imagine something called Dumblonde being anything but crap
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
Low: most underrated album of the year IMO
― monster_xero, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
this is probably the most stark and desolate Low album imo
― nomar, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
― ulysses
Yes, we might all disagree constantly unless you're hiding in the genre-specific threads but this is why I keep coming back here.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
I don't see why this is more necessary for 24tet music than for 12tet music tbh. A more trad classical music snob could surely say the same thing about a regular rock album with distorted guitars (and some do).
Yeah I mean distorted guitar chords have a tendency to turn into indistinct mush anyway, you often can't hear harmony in a conventional sense, and they often sound fantastic in the process, but it's also why the 'but it's microtonal' chin-stroking comes across as a bit silly here, even before you get to the comedy goblin vocals.
(xpost) Now Low are the sort of Pitchfork-friendly indie perennials I actually approve of.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
AAAAHHHH i never expected dumblonde to make it! it was a v last-min rise up into ballot territory for me but my initial "wow this is way weirder and more interesting than the non-dawn danity kane remnant had any right to make" reaction ended up in real love for its strange glitchy synthworld
"you got me" was always my #1 favourite, feels like a lost uk garage/house classic that would be right at home in a dj q set"tender green life" what are the textures like on this song"carry on" - what a closer. björkvoice: ALL FEAR IS BROKEN NOW / WE STAND AT THE DAWN OF REVOLUTION NOW [martial drums]
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
why?
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Xp I love the first song on Stara Rzeka but its a bit of a red herring per the rest of the album. Try these, davey:
https://youtu.be/PV6_OQb8zhA
https://youtu.be/bEhCARwK1Tg
― the drummer for Gaz Dad (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Carry On is a stunner for sure
― Spottie, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
xp to lex
The Low was excellent but I didn't have it in my 25. Agreed best since D&G.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
That Dumblonde album is fucking superb!
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/plsLjgV.jpg
42 DJ RICHARD "Grind" (350 points, 13 votes)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 635
― ulysses, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
ok i'm just going to put my personal feelings about low here fwiw and i'm no stranger to liking the music of an artist whose beliefs i disagree with and i'm aware that this would elicit shrugs from almost anyone but... afaict they are half-in and half-out of mormonism which is total bullshit and unconscionable imo.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
because it's just so dumb, idk? and dumb in way that makes it very unlikely the music on it is even remotely close to what I'm into
like, I'm sure that's how people react to a name like Pissgrave too
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
(to lex)
dj richard juuuuust missed my ballot but i really loved it, even more when learning how a lot of it was inspired by the effects of coastal erosion near his home
"savage coast" really evokes coastal walks in howling gales for me
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 2:40 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is fine but also useless as a contribution
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
whereas something like Astrorgasm from the Inner Space is also dumb but in a different way and that wouldn't put me off checking it out
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:40 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'd assume anyone calling themselves dumblonde is pretty self-aware and not actually dumb tbh
omg this dj richard album RULES
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
dj richard is such a talented producer but this album never really took off for me.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
it does kinda rule though
A good band name attracts the likers and repels the haters imho.
Love the DJ Richard,this hit my list late.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
DJ Richard is pretty excellent, the tone of it just hits right in my happy spot
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:37 PM (30 seconds ago)
To be honest, 'Dumblonde' is the kind of name I'd imagine a shit male rock band coming up with. But context is everything.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
i wondered for a sec if dumblonde was a sophie-style put-on but they seem like the real deal and the music is obv. better
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
There isn't any strict reason why what I said about 24tet music wouldn't apply to 12tet music; however, most people growing up in a Western environment (particularly an English-speaking one) is going to have music based on 12 tones burned into their bones by adulthood; that is the foundation of how we hear consonance and dissonance. Introducing semitones introduces shades of dissonance and making those shades really distinct from each other requires precision of sound production, otherwise you start veering back towards the dissonances we've heard our entire lives. Jute Gyte falls over for me because he's doing all of these things in an allegedly microtonal universe using sound palettes that cross the boundaries of the dissonances he's trying to create, making the whole thing sound to me like it's an exercise in covering up a tuning mistake.
I find the detuned restatement of the final melodic theme of "Closer" to be a much more satisfying example of stepping outside of a traditional 12-tone musical universe than anything I've heard from Jute Gyte, which feels aimless, intentionless and accidental to me.
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
btw i really want an opportunity to make a mix where "launch ramp to the sky" transitions into "4 walls," thanks for that ilm albums poll
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Blondes
― nomar, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link