another vote for sotofett here
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Sunday, 8 January 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Definitely co-sign Poli Genova.
A couple of things i'd highlight:
Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht: Beautiful, spartan Dutch electro-folk albumSerebro - Slomana: This year's model from Russia's masters of melancholy popKing Bubba FM - Calling In Sick: Shirking anthem from one of Barbados' top soca producer-turned-singersNe Tvoe Delo - Best Hits Debut album of emotive synth popPharaoh - Fosfor: Russian trap with black metal vibesVremya I Steklo - Navernopotomuchto Hugely catchy Ukrainian europopMujuice - Amore E Morte Wonderful Casiotone/Magnetic Fields/Postal Service-style lo-fi bedroom popL'One - Yakutyanochka Endearing tropical house rap from the coldest city on earth
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Sunday, 8 January 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
calling in sick is fucking great; I found myself whistling the chorus for more or less the whole last week of the year
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Sunday, 8 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
My tracks ballot (minus "Sorry") in Spotify Playlist form.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
I have a new project (maybe the phrase 'life-consuming folly' would be better) in which I'm making a mix for every year since 1860. The rough 2016 mix I just put up works well-enough here as it contains 47 tracks which are nearly all nominated here, either on their own or on an LP.
https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/centuries-of-sound-2016/
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
whew I got my tracks and albums down to 25 each but I like doing weighted ballots so getting a good sense of ranking will take some re-listening and thinking bout stuff.
also wanted to mention:Hazel English - Never Going Home -- very pretty indie pop, kinda like Beach House imo.
― Frobisher, Monday, 9 January 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
shout-out to Brigid Mae Power, outstanding folk artist from Galway. voting for that LP for certain.
― nomar, Monday, 9 January 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
some good discoveries for me from the spotify list:
Elka36Lake RuthMammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
― nomar, Monday, 9 January 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
Quttinirpaaq - Dead SeptemberI nominated this but someone in the other thread correctly pointed out it's actually 2015 and was in the running for votes last year.
Also the Sky Girl comp is on Spotify and it rules.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
The Martha album is super catchy pop-punk/indie-pop and needs your vote.https://marthadiy.bandcamp.com/album/blisters-in-the-pit-of-my-heart
― jmm, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
my favorite discovery from the nominations thread was Andrew Pekler's Tristes Tropiques. worth a listen for anyone who's into experimental electronic/ambient music.
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
sorry "experimental" is a lame descriptor. idk. it's good.
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
This is what I wrote about Tristes Tropiques:
I saw Pekler’s music described not as “ambient electronic” but as “abstract electronic” and I can’t think of a better descriptor. It’s a broken soundscape that feels vaguely familiar while never settling into place. It’s like a video game with bad draw-in problems; paths and surroundings shift and appear from nothing, are granted solidity, and they fade back to grey mist. Tristes Tropiques is another album I would have given time nor attention to before this year. With a constantly changing present it pulls the attention to the now. No prediction is safe or right or true.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 01:50 (seven years ago) link
I used to love Pekler's Sad Rockets jazz project, but I haven't listened to him in 15 years, could check this one out.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 07:10 (seven years ago) link
I love that Hazel English track. My friend Adam went to see her show a few weeks ago and said she was the tiniest person he's ever seen.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 08:42 (seven years ago) link
fans of that track might also enjoy dj python - sunset drive, which also churns beautifully
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, January 7, 2017 11:10 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is lovely thank u karl
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
the traumprinz track that topped the ra list ("2 bad") is similarly nice in a "it has the exact right amount of things in it" way
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
King Bubba FM - Calling In Sick: Shirking anthem from one of Barbados' top soca producer-turned-singers
Love this
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
"2 bad" is a very pretty track, but putting it at the top of a list just seems gauche. as a rarity it's charming, as an anthem it's cloying
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
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the ra blurb is definitely egregious in attaching The State of The World to this pretty and weightless thing
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
I'm not very metal at all but the Alcest album is pretty nice (though arguably itself not very metal either).
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
I'd love to see Calling In Sick place high.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
i agree that listing "2 Bad" at the top of the RA poll puts too much of a spotlight on it, but I don't think in general they rep for tracks that could be described as anthems, do they? I really liked the whole 28 min EP that it's from, 2 The Sky
btw karl..., thanks for bringing my attention to Bjorn Torske - Fugelkongen, it's amazing!
― Dan S, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
i would like to suggest "Pink Sunglasses" as the Miranda Lambert single worth rallying behind.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
also, sounding my trumpet as a vote submitted
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
glad you like "fugelkongen," dan. dense, hallucinatory dance music with a psychedelia reminescent of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
since we're talking about the original track, does anybody know what the string sample is in the gammal mungolian mix of "fuglekongen" is? it's killing me
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
"2 The Sky" from that Dj Metatron EP is so good. Have that on constant loop.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Voted. No tracks ballot this year because I couldn't be arsed - but enjoyed more from 2016 than I thought I did.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Just noticed on the albums master list that both "Nicki & the Dove" and "Niki & the Dove" are included. Could the tabulator pls ensure that any votes for the former are combined with the latter? thx
― monotony, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
also, now voted!
― monotony, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
Could the tabulator pls ensure that any votes for the former are combined with the latter? thx
Will do
Also: THREE (and a bit) DAYS left to vote!
― Vote! In the 2016 EOY Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:35 (seven years ago) link
I thought polls closed on the 20th?
― monotony, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Oh wow I got super confused there, all along I had assumed it was this Friday and hadn't bothered to check. Sorry for CAPS.
― Vote! In the 2016 EOY Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Ha! If it ended this Friday, I think we'd be in big trouble. I haven't even got my own ballot together yet.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
seandalai- i emailed you
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
fyi "Bernardino Femminielli - Plaisirs Américains” is showing up on the noms list as just "Femminielli - Plaisirs Américains” (no Bernardino)
also this is a dope song and you should all vote for it
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
lmao who nommed this
470.Gilbert Gottfried and Mario Cantone - Baby It's Cold Outside
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
^ it's amusing!
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I may have voted for Plaisirs Américains. Tres Tellier.
Other songs en francais nominated by this moi: Bonnie Banane's queasy 'L'appetit' and Hypnolove's breezy 'La Piscine'
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
Talking of songs en français, I got really into this Belgian rapper Shay in the last couple of months - voted for her "PMW" single but tbh the whole Jolie garce album is brilliant, hooks and charisma throughout
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
I agree w Karl on "2 Bad", I like it but number one of the year with a write-up like that? nah m8
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I will limit my stumping to Jeff Rosenstock's WORRY, which I should emphasize will definitely not be of any interest to those w/ no patience for pop-punk and/or rock music generally. It inspired me, for better or (likely) worse, to try and make music for the first time in a decade. You can read lots of words about it in lots of places but you're better off just downloading it (donation/PWYC) from his label.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
worry is gonna be real high on my albums ballot. it's at least as good as or better than btmi!'s vacation which is his other great record.
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
the mini punk rock opera on side two of worry is prob my favorite thing that i heard last year
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
yeah I stitched "Blast Damage Days" onwards into a single mp3 and I listen to it once a day at minimum
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
That second half is so good. It's easy to click on "To Be A Ghost..." and end up listening to the whole rest of the album.
― jmm, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
he played a surprise acoustic set here in TO between Christmas and NYE and it totally made my holidays, "To Be a Ghost" was probably the highlight
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death <--- this album rules
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link