I oughta pay attention to Rock-A-Rolla, huh
still haven't heard that goddamn Kayo Dot album
― Cap.Obv (acoleuthic), Sunday, 5 December 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
The Swans album is good...although I tend to prefer my Swans/Angels of Light pretty rather than punishing, and this new one maybe veers towards the less melodic.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 5 December 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
So Pitchfork aside, are there any 'big' magazines still to declare?
― groovypanda, Sunday, 5 December 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Terrorizer, Kerrang.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 5 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lots, i think, at least among online magazines (like p4k), e.g., popmatters, dusted, resident advisor. most lists start coming out this week, i imagine.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 December 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
AMG too.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 5 December 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
is The Wire out yet?
― sofatruck, Sunday, 5 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't think so, my copy hasn't arrived anyway.
― seandalai, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a list of lists that I find interesting, and the date they came out last year. Not necessarily all that similar to my own tastes, but are unique enough that they always have some must-hear entries I missed earlier in the year. Anyone got the Rock-A-Rolla list?Quietus, Dec 8FACT, Dec 11The Wire, Dec 14Brainwashed, Jan 4Silent Ballet, Dec 25Rock-A-Rolla, Nov 25Decibel, Nov 25Terrorizer, Dec 31Treblezine, Dec 14Cokemachineglow, Dec 22Resident Advisor, Dec 17Artrocker, Dec 3
Quietus, Dec 8FACT, Dec 11The Wire, Dec 14Brainwashed, Jan 4Silent Ballet, Dec 25Rock-A-Rolla, Nov 25Decibel, Nov 25Terrorizer, Dec 31Treblezine, Dec 14Cokemachineglow, Dec 22Resident Advisor, Dec 17Artrocker, Dec 3
Still a good number of lists to look forward to. Just listened to or revisited a dozen albums from the Rock-A-Rolla list. The big one for me is Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit. Love it! Årabrot - Revenge was also one that might make my top 50. The Melvins album has three great tracks, but is way too inconsistent to place that high for me. Have never been able to get into Harvey Milk. Mike Patton's album was an interesting find. I guess his wife is Italian, and this is live performances from Europe, sung mostly in Italian, chopped and edited. Master Musicians of Bukkake is good, Kayo Dot impressive as a whole but hard to pick any standout moment, and Shining is a pretty hardcore avant jazz trip that is tough going beyond small doses. U.S. Christmas has good moments, but also causes fatigue after more than a few cuts. Just can't get in the mood to listen to Celeste at all. Love that they put Iron Maiden up there, even though I like Slough Feg, The Sword, Sahg and Grand Magus more.
Interesting crossover between that list and FACT - Oneohtrix Point Never. I got on board with them last year, but was late in getting the new one. Forrest Swords is the one album that I liked enough to possibly crack my top 50, possibly. Digital Mystikz is good but not necessarily in one sitting. Altered Natives, Solar Bears, Guido, Emeralds, Actress, JJ are all impressive in different ways, but just not my thing enough to make my top 100.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 5 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Meant to cross out FACT, not Quietus, which is out tomorrow.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 5 December 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
fact's list is a collection of albums maybe worth checking out placed in random order, as per usual, yet is still the best list so far
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 6 December 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
The Quietus Albums Of 2010http://thequietus.com/articles/05391-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2010
1. Liars - Sisterworld2. Salem - King Night3. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky4. These New Puritans - Hidden5. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter6. Walls - Walls7. Lindstrom and Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool8. Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury9. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist10. UFOmammut - Eve11. Gayngs - Relayted12. Electric Wizard - Black Masses13. Cathedral - The Guessing Game14. Besnard Lakes - Are The Roaring Night15. Grinderman - Grinderman II16. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II17. The Body - And All The Waters Of The Earth Shall Turn To Blood18. Pan Sonic - Gravitoni19. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid20. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot: Son Of Chico Dusty21. Anika - Anika22. FM Einheit - No Apologies23. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star24. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal25. Shining - Blackjazz26. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma27. I Like Trains - He Who Saw The Deep28. Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave29. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine30. Lonelady - Nerve Up31. Jane Weaver - The Fallen By Watchbird32. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise33. Napoleon III - Christiana34. Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here35. Arabrot - Revenge36. Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté - Ali and Toumani37. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs38. Demdike Stare - Symbiosis39. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead40. White Hills - White Hills/White Hills Drop Out With GNOD/Stolen Stars Left For No-one
― O Permaban (NickB), Monday, 6 December 2010 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't take seriously any list with Salem in their top 20 (especially their #2), because it becomes abundantly clear to me that the listmakers actually hate everything about music.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Monday, 6 December 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm more interested in FACT's tracks list than its albums list - when does that start?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't take any list with Kanye anywhere near it (srs Gareth Campesinos? and there was me on the kanye thread saying that kanye going to lc! instead of bon ivor would have made it like a billion times better) seriously. Salem are at least intresting with their rapey gaze.
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Monday, 6 December 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
If wonder if the headlong rush to overpraise the Kanye record is out of a desperate desire for honest-to-god POP STARS. There's a real dearth of acts with actual presence here. 2009-10 critical consensus is a triumph of facelessness really. What do Salem look like? Who cares? Does anyone look at The National or The Arcade Fire onstage and think "OMG rock icons"? You look at these lists and you start to realise why the NME et al were so desperate for The Stroke and the White Strips to come along a decade ago. Say whatever about Janelle Monae or Nicki Minaj or whoever but at least they're trying.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
As far as the rock music press goes this moment actually feels a bit like this time 10 years ago, for the above reasons.
― Tim F, Monday, 6 December 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
If wonder if the headlong rush to overpraise the Kanye record is out of a desperate desire for honest-to-god POP STARS
i kind of feel like this whenever i read another 5000-word tumblr screed on why ke$ha is so important, too
i mean look at the goddamn pop charts, that's all the explanation you need for this state of affairs
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Pop stars includes ROCK STARS as well. Enough fucking Brooklynites in cardigans, Jesus.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
that reminds me that i really need to buy some new sweaters.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 December 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2010
1) Emeralds Does It Look Like I’m Here?2) The National High Violet3) Deftones Diamond Eyes4) Perfume Genius Learning5) The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year6) These New Puritans Hidden7) Shearwater The Golden Archipelago8) Yeasayer Odd Blood9) LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening10) Sufjan Stevens Age of Adz11) Arcade Fire The Suburbs (Review)12) Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty (Review)13) Weezer Hurley (Review)14) Rufus Wainwright All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (Review)15) Pantha du Prince Black Noise (Review)16) Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Review)17) Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers (Review)18) Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II (Review)19) Caribou Swim (Review)20) Kelis Flesh Tone (Review)21) Flying Lotus Cosmogramma (Review)22) The Besnard Lakes ...Are the Roaring Night (Review)23) Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal (Review)24) Villagers Becoming the Jackal (Review)25) Blood Red Shoes Fire Like This (Review)26) The Phantom Band The Wants (Review)27) Errors Come Down With Me (Review)28) White Hinterland Kairos (Review)29) Max Richter Infra (Review)30) Deerhunter Halcyon Digest (Review)31) Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (Review)32) Los Campesinos! Romance is Boring (Review)33) Foals Total Life Forever (Review)34) Joanna Newsom Have One on Me (Review)35) Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans (Review) / Interview)36) Richard Skelton Landings (Review)37) Marnie Stern Marnie Stern (Review)38) 65DaysofStatic We Were Exploding Anyway (Review)39) Gold Panda Lucky Shiner (Review)40) Sleigh Bells Treats (Review)41) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti Before Today (Review)42) Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Review)43) Liars Sisterworld (Review)44) Forest Swords Dagger Paths (Review)45) Broken Bells Broken Bells (Review) / Interview)46) Gil Scott-Heron I’m New Here (Review)47) Four Tet There Is Love in You (Review)48) Ikonika Contact, Love, Want, Have (Review)49) No Age Everything In Between (Review)50) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross The Social Network (Interview) 51) Bryan Ferry Olympia (Review)52) Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can (Review)53) Wild Nothing Gemini (Interview)54) Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer (Review)55) The Walkmen Lisbon (Review)56) Matthew Dear Black City (Review)57) Darkstar North (Review / Interview)58) Daft Punk Tron: Legacy (Review)59) Gorillaz Plastic Beach (Review)60) Robyn Body Talk 1-3 (Reviews)61) Women Public Strain (Review)62) The Roots How I Got Over (Review)63) Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Review64) Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks (Review)65) Darren Hayman Essex Arms (Review)66) of Montreal False Priest (Review)67) Jonsi Go (Review / Interview)68) Sky Larkin Kaleide (Review)69) Belle and Sebastian Write About Love (Review)70) Surfer Blood Astro Coast (Review to Follow)71) Everything Everything Man Alive (Review)72) Twin Shadow Forget (Review)73) Interpol Interpol (Review)74) Beach House Teen Dream (Review)75) Rolo Tomassi Cosmology (Review)
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 6 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the past couple of years for me have been a slow, grim realisation that the rock press, and the history of criticism, and the music that gets canonised, will never get any better
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit at Deftones at number three. Is this one of those "not for this album, but because they need some general respect right about now" placements? Because the new one is good, but they've done far more interesting things in the past that have been completely ignored.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 December 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
And aside from the album charts, look at the top grossing concerts - Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Taylor Swift, George Strait, Eminem, Jay-Z, Black Eyed Peas, John Mayer, Nickelback, Michael Buble, Elton John, Eric Clapton, etc. Swift will show up in the upcoming more mainstream lists, but otherwise not much crossover between these worlds. Mostly same as it ever was.
Isn't it pointless to dismiss entire lists based on one album you don't like?
Glad to see Ufomammut again on Quietus. Will finally get around to hearing Walls, Teeth Of The Sea, Perfume Genius. Deftones, wow, forgot about them.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 6 December 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to hear that UFOmammut.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 December 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2010/12/06/100-best-tracks-of-2010-100-81/
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
love the bookends to that section particularly - r1 ryders really impress me, and obv cassie is #cassiefanclub
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
so the kanye, big boi and roots were the only rap records of the year. good to know.
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
they were the only ones people in the white music industry cared about, yes
not sure why this is unexpected or shocking
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I have heard about 3 of those 20 FACT tracks. So much for my illusions of "knowing about stuff".
― seandalai, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd say that Wut is pretty much a lock to win that Fact poll but it's about the journey innit.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
FACT reliably makes me feel like I've spent the whole year missing stuff.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513GG9g2p9L._SL500_AA280_.jpg
^I am pretty intrigued by this, the sample on the link isn't rly long enough to tell you much but it has the kind of shit artwork that makes you think it'll be great
― smoking on his cigarette / listening to a Carcass set (DJ Mencap), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
92: JAMES PANTS‘I LIVE INSIDE AN EGG’(STONES THROW)
How did you possibly miss this one?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Mencap - the entire EP is storming, well worth checking out.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
is it really? every sample i heard this year sounded pretty shit.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
glad FACT continues its reign of making more british / more dance versions of the same lists everyone else does.
hey guys!! that big boi album isnt all that
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure why this is unexpected or shocking DJP
Please post the lists from the non-white industry
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 December 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
is it really? every sample i heard this year sounded pretty shit
Depends what you're looking for, they're straight-up functional bangers by and large, so they're not really going to sound their best on a streamed sample. House Girls 6 is better than House Girls 1 though, takes the metallic clanks from Dennis Ferrer's Hey Hey and just clatters away all over the top.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
deej, exactly how many different records do they have to feature before they stop being a version of everyone else's list?
And please someone, recommend some great neglected 2010 hip hop albums instead of complaining about their absence.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Spin's Top 40 albums of 2010 (don't think anybody's posted this yet); I'll let somebody else do the scrolling and listing:
http://www.spin.com/gallery/40-best-albums-2010
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 December 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
swag cru -- POX year end song recommendations
also
WAKACurren$yLil B's various tapesOFGWKTAStarlitoYelawolf
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ta
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
great neglected hip-hop albums: waka flocka flame, yelawolf (mixtape and album), the jacka & laroo, rah digga, gucci mane's jewelry selection mixtape. i think the big boi is more than worthy of a place on these lists, though i wouldn't rank it that highly - it grew off me quite a lot, though "shutterbugg" is still one of the singles of the year.
the clip i heard of house girls 6 was even worse, just an over-cluttered mess that made me want to listen to "hey hey" instead.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah that digga is doooooope. didnt really care for any of gucci's 2010 tapes but i didnt give them enough time.
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i gave both curren$y albums a listen and they were ok enough but didn't really grab me. i love the idea of lil b and in the right mood can totally vibe to his music, but i get bored after a medium-sized dose of him.
what's the deal with the odd future wolf gang thing? i can't bring myself to click on any thread with so many answers.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
dope teenage crew from the westcoast = 200 new answers. dope teenage crew who also have rape jokes in some of their lyrics = a million new answers. best place to start lex is the mellow hype record lex, i think you'll really enjoy it.
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
jewelry selection is a terrific mixtape, esp its second half, but i've kind of given up on gucci mane ever getting it together to fulfil his potential on a proper album, and i basically can't be bothered to particularly rep for artists whose careers are basically just them dribbling on to the internet without any sort of editorial process and leaving their fans to actually curate their shit into some sort of sense
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there any 2010 dancehall or roots reggae albums that have gotten any attention? Will its more high-profile crossover status from some years back ever return?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Stay tuned.
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link