Kind of can't believe that nobody has listed the Paramore album, but I guess The National are just THAT MUCH MORE INTERESTING. (cough.)
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
flaws and such, Paramore's album is closing in on my #1 spot. When it's on, there's nothing better.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
It's my #2. (My #1 has yet to be mentioned in any of the lists reposted here.)
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Q: If Paramore has never clicked with me in the past, would this album change the game?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
I liked them well enough until I heard "Still Into You" and "Ain't It Fun" and away I went
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
I remember trying out "Still Into You" earlier in the year and it failing to make an impression, but sometimes the curiosity of not getting into something other people really like makes me want to try harder.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
re: The National, a friend just posted a link to their list on fb and commented "The next time I see a band excitedly talk about how Rolling Stone wrote about them, I will post a link to their top albums of 2013 and then we will both feel bad for a minute."
Possibly, sure. The old guitarist who co-wrote a lot of the old stuff and the other guitarist and bassist stepped up in a big way, and the whole thing has a much broader scope than the early albums. Xp
― deez the season (some dude), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
*Rolling Stone's list
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
The old guitarist left the band, I meant to say
― maura, Wednesday, December 4, 2013 7:02 AM (14 minutes ago)
can't say what either might sound like, so my apologies x2
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
NME's list overall is surprisingly old. Only one debut, only three artists under 30.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, December 4, 2013 1:06 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
surely this isn't correct.
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
what about bands that have three 22-year-olds and one 60 year old?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
i think that johnny marr has left the cribs now tbh
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
i like that national record a lot and it's definitely better than high violet (mostly because of the reinforced emphasis on groove i.e. their incredible drummer) but hoo boy @ its uniform placing here. alfred wrote a great review of it in spin though iirc
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
It's staggeringly competent, I'll give it that.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
that's how I feel about the Vampire Weekend album
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, totally. Lots of Solid B Albums this year.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
what's your #1 maura?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
marnie stern
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
she's just doing shit that nobody else is, and in this really impressive way that vaults over the heads of so many
i didn't hear it. everything she's done in the past has vaulted over my head, personally
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
I returned to that Marnie Stern album a ton this year. I think it would have gotten more critical love though if it hadn't been a step down from her previous album. That one was the high watermark.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
i don't think it's a step down at all, and i love the way that kid millions' drumming loosens things up just enough
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
had no idea he played on her new one, I really need to check it out
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I got the eponymous one a couple of years ago, and that totally vaulted over my head. I had no idea what I was meant to be getting from it at all.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Marnie's new one now and this is so much more to my liking than her previous ones. I think the edges are softer and the structures are more like traditional pop songs. Of course, it's entirely possible I'm misremembering what her previous albums sound like.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
i liked one of her albums from several years ago and liked it as an art-pop piece. will prob check this one.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
xp to monotony - I meant to say "in the NME Top 10"
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
I loved the first two Marnie albums so much -- partly because of their rough edges and rickety weirdness -- that the subsequent ones have seemed good-but-not-as-good to me. All a matter of what pushes your buttons, obviously, and regardless of which album is your fave, I think she's amazing.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Hm, I really liked the first MS record and sorted of faded back from the ones that followed. I liked her later live performances less, certainly. But I haven't heard this one at all.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Or basically, what tipsy mothra said.
I don't think her early LPs were as severe as they were often described, at least not once you adjusted to some of her tones. This Is It And I Am It was just awesome anthem after awesome anthem. But her self-titled LP is the one where she really opened up as a songwriter; that album just crushes me.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Chronicles of Marnia is sorta the easy-listening Marnie Stern album I didn't know I wanted but am glad to have
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
have you guys heard the Wire album? The best of their post-2008 run.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's really good, def in my top 20
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Can't vouch for the quality but at least this one's a bit different to the other indie lists so far...
Gorilla vs Bear - albumshttp://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/12/04/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2013/
40 LAUREL HALO | Chance of Rain39 LEE BANNON | Never/mind/the/darkness/of/it…38 CFCF | Outside37 YOUNG GALAXY | Ultramarine36 DEATH GRIPS | Government Plates35 SZA | S34 TINASHE | Black Water33 STILL CORNERS | Strange Pleasures32 EMPRESS OF | Systems31 TORO Y MOI | Anything In Return
30 3:33 | $.29 DJ RASHAD | Double Cup28 CLASSIXX | Hanging Gardens27 DARKSIDE | Psychic26 RICH HOMIE QUAN | Still Goin In / I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In25 CUUSHE | Butterfly Case24 ARIANA GRANDE | Yours Truly23 QUASIMOTO | Yessir Whatever22 DEAN BLUNT | The Redeemer21 HAERTS | Hemiplegia + remixes
20 KNX. | Anthology19 RECYCLE CULTURE | In Transit18 CHARLI XCX | True Romance17 THE KNIFE | Shaking the Habitual16 POSTILJONEN | Skyer15 VARIOUS | After Dark 214 WHITE DENIM | Corsicana Lemonade13 ARCA | &&&&&12 PURE BATHING CULTURE | Moon Tides11 GROUPER | The Man Who Died In His Boat
10 FKA TWIGS | EP209 JAI PAUL | leaked demos08 DIANA | Perpetual Surrender07 BLUE HAWAII | Untogether06 EJECTA | Dominae05 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER | R Plus Seven04 BURIAL | Truant / Rough Sleeper (2012)03 JULIANNA BARWICK | Nepenthe02 DANNY BROWN | Old01 AUTRE NE VEUT | Anxiety
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
ban autre ne veut
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Can't vouch for the quality
Think you can...
09 JAI PAUL | leaked demos
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
thats a pretty good list. the blue hawaii was super boring tho. can't wait for agor to release some of his techno stuff tho... shit's bangin
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
is that the first time the Grouper album has appeared?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Pure Bathing Culture <- wanna check this out based on name
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
was in a low placing on the Quietus list xp
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
GvsB typically sidesteps the indie blog trap by digging at least half a layer deeper than most of his colleagues.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Jai Paul! that's another name that, back in June, you would've confidently assumed would be on most of these lists. although obviously the record being an unsanctioned and disavowed leak could've hurt its reach in the long run, but at the time that just seemed to intensify the critical praise.
― deez the season (some dude), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
didn't they also discover that those leaks weren't actually Jai Paul or am I misremembering?
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
nah they just said that he didn't intentionally leak the album himself -- they were his demos tho
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
"jasmine" is amazing, otherwise i don't get why people care about that guy at all
the evolution of gvb's taste is pretty hilarious + corny
is it still one guy and his taste has developed or is it some kind of baby stereogum thing now where they staffed up with some non-indie fuxx?
― deez the season (some dude), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link