"jasmine" is amazing, otherwise i don't get why people care about that guy at all
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
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
pure bathing culture was quite nice live, lots of layered harmonies, but i have yet to check out their record.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
God all these list blow. They're giving me dysentery.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
Well you'll probably appreciate the inclusion of Diarrhea Planet on this list then:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/23-best-rock-records-2013
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
"Guitars are still awesome. Here’s why."
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
The Cuushe and Still Corners albums are sweet.
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I get the Haim. It sounds like grade Z Stacy Q to me. What am I missing? And how come nobody is raving about After Dark 2?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
ejecta put out an album? is it actually worth checking out? i'm not willing to put much faith in gvsb rec's
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
xp after dark 2 is #15 on that list and there's no haim to be found
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Time Magazine - Top 10 Albumshttp://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/04/arts-and-entertainment/slide/top-10-albums/
1. Yeezus, Kanye West2. Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend3. mbv, My Bloody Valentine4. Who Is William Onyeabor?, William Onyeabor5. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, Neko Case6. Electricity by Candlelight, Alex Chilton7. Cut 4 Me, Kelela8. The Electric Lady, Janelle Monáe9. Mole City, Quasi10. Matangi, M.I.A.
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
And how come nobody is raving about After Dark 2?
Because it's a comp containing material that IDIB was leaking out track by track going back to fall 2012?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Not that such a thing makes it ineligible, but it maybe diluted its 2013 impact.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Kelela makes it into Time Magazine top 10?
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
Bryce Dessner's Kronos Quartet album is so much better than the National album, I can't even
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
i was all over idib dude's last album and invested a lot of time and energy listening to it and thinking about the lyrics and the music. but then i was convinced that it just had pretensions to seriousness and was weirdly grossly hollow, despite the music, and i couldn't bear to listen to it anymore.
so after dark 2 was a casualty of that i guess.
― j., Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I can't quite get a handle on how that happened.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
It's Douglas W's personal list basically
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah that made much more sense when I saw the byline
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Why on earth did you ever do the first thing that you did in that post xxxp
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
explains the Alex Chilton inclusion too! xp
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Neko Case is doing post-rock now?
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
bc 乒乓 it seemed like a very ambitious album and i wanted to understand it
― j., Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
these are definitely two things you can compare to each other
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
I don't love the KQ album, but I'm def more excited about that side of Dessner.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Hadn't listened to Marnie Stern in many months and am enjoying revisiting it. I still like the Palma Violets album, and the Mosquito seems to be underrated. Sure it's not as good as It's Blitz, but it beats the hell out of a lot of other boring indie crap I see on most these lists. Nice to see Merchandise's Totale Nite EP on NME list too.
I wasn't a fan of the first Arctic Monkeys album, but liked all their albums after. This piece actually got me finally appreciating some of the songs on the debut more - http://www.popmatters.com/post/175769-the-top-ten-arctic-monkeys-songs/. It also shows they had really strong songs on each their albums, though I do think the latest is best.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
― j., Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:28 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
IDIB are sort of like Revolutionary War reenactors or something where their whole goal is to completely nail this aesthetic of a very specific slice of an era
I wouldn't stress their ambitions too much
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I get the Haim. It sounds like grade Z Stacy Q to me.
Stacey Q did freestyle.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Guess this wasn't posted.
NME - Top 50 Tracks of 20131. Daft Punk - 'Get Lucky'2. Arcade Fire - 'Reflektor'3. Arctic Monkeys - 'Do I Wanna Know?'4. Disclosure feat AlunaGeorge - 'White Noise'5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Sacrilege'6. Courtney Barnett - 'Avant Gardener'7. Pond - 'Xanman'8. Foals - 'My Number'9. Lorde - 'Royals'10. Kanye West - 'Black Skinhead'11. Merchandise - 'Anxiety's Door'12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Jubilee Street'13. Haim - 'Falling'14. David Bowie - 'Where Are We Now?'15. Drenge -'Bloodsports'16. Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Smooth Sailin''17. Pulp Vs Soulwax - 'After You'18. Kanye West - 'I Am A God'19. Queens Of The Stone Age - 'If I Had A Tail'20. A$AP Rocky - 'Wild For The Night'21. Savages - 'She Will'22. Kanye West - 'Bound 2'23. Jagwar Ma - 'The Throw'24. Vampire Weekend - 'Ya Hey'25. Laura Marling - 'Master Hunter'26. Primal Scream - '2013'27. Childhood - 'Solemn Skies'28. Jon Hopkins - 'Open Eye Signal'29. Arctic Monkeys - 'I Wanna Be Yours'30. Chvrches - 'Recover'31. Vampire Weekend - 'Diane Young'32. Arctic Monkeys - 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'33. Factory Floor - 'Fall Back'34. Phoenix - 'Entertainment'35. Wolf Alice - 'Fluffy'36. Kanye West - New Slaves37. Foals - 'Bad Habit'38. MIA - 'Bring The Noize'39. Katy B - '5AM'40. Kelis - 'Jerk Ribs'41. Big Sean - 'Control'42. King Krule - 'Easy Easy'43. Temples - 'Colours To Life'44. Parquet Courts - 'Stoned And Starving'45. Chance The Rapper - 'Juice'46. James Blake - 'Retrograde'47. The Cribs - 'Leather Jacket Love Song'48. Telegram - 'Follow'49. Pixies - 'Indie Cindy'50. Fat White Family's 'Is It Raining In Your Mouth?
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
i enjoyed seeing lorde at 50 on complex's list
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
ooh, "Jerk Ribs"
― maciej recognizing trill, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
I love about half of After Dark 2, mainly "Dancing In The Dark" and the Chromatics tracks.
― ☞ (brimstead), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Had forgotten about Jerk Ribs. Went back and listened to it and I might even like it more than I did in the spring.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
34 TINASHE | Black Water
Saw this on Fact's mixtape list too. It's great. Looks like ILM had some interest in her in 2012 but nothing this year. Bit of a stretch but if you found Kelela too cold or wimpy, you might like this a lot more.
― rob, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
That Caitlin Rose album is very nice, about the only one I have checked out on the strength of testimony from people on this this thread so far.
Not seen many classical/jazz/avante garde type lists but Zorn has been on fire this year, Gloria Coates/Kreutzer Quartet have "At Midnight" on tzadik which is great, the Aaron Parks album is sweet and percussionist Kuniko Kato did a beautiful recording of Reich/Arvo Part on Cantus.
looking at that quietus list; there is no way their no. 100 Shitfucker - Sucks Cocks In Hell (Hells Headbangers) isn't better than their no.1 Grumbling Fur - Glynnaestra (Thrill Jockey)".
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
and by a considerable margin
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
4 voters in the Quietus poll, as Doran-of-this-very-Parish is quick to point out at the top of the run-down. As he says it certainly makes for an interesting selection.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
my top 5 tzadik releases if ur interested dsp:1. Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy2. Barbez - Bella Ciao3. John Zorn - Filmworks XXV—City Of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond The Infinite4. Pat Metheny - Tap: The Book of Angels v.205. Jon Madof - Zion80
― Mordy , Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
I've been wanting to check out that Pat Metheny one
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
The Pat Metheny/John Zorn one is excellent.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Masada Chamber Ensemble's Bar Kokhba and Eyvind Kang's Theater Of Mineral NADEs are my faves
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Can someone post the FACT magazine albums in here?
― Moka, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
bar kokhba is older right?
― Mordy , Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah, late 90's I think? I really love it.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
So someone explain to me how Hookworms have managed to get quite so much traction this year. I don't dislike that record but it doesn't seem all that much better than loads of other psych from this year - Pinkunoizu, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Vision Fortune etc. They kind of remind me of Wooden Shjips both in their meat-and-potatoes dronerock sound and the mystifying level of approbation they get from Mojo etc. Or am I just old and deaf?
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
xpost
was grooving out to the Bar Kokhba Sextet recording from the 50th birthday series the other night. I think that may be my favorite of all his discs (at least the ones I've heard).
Does anyone know if this is any good?
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
Can someone post the FACT magazine albums
not been published yet!
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
oh i really want to hear that. also he has another disc coming out this month of shir hashirim related material that i am very excited to hear (the last artist to do shir hashirim stuff was ayelet rose gottleib on her fantastic mayim rabim) xp
― Mordy , Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
Nick, they're way better than Wooden Shjips (they don't ruin their motorik with Doors bits, for one), and they're also an amazingly good live band.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link