DY i think your attempt at an insouciant posting style would work better with either the lol at the start or the lmao at the end but not both, bc that's a bit try-hard tbh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:58 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha
― i am curious #yolo (wins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
Bleep Top 50 Albums
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus SevenSpecial Request - Soul MusicTim Hecker - VirginsThe National - Trouble Will Find MeBoards of Canada - Tomorrow's HarvestThese New Puritans - Field of ReedsHolden - The InheritorsForest Swords - EngravingsFuck Buttons - Slow FocusKaren Gwyer - Needs ContinuumFour Tet - Beautiful RewindAutechre - ExaiMount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less YouthFactory Floor - Factory FloorJohn Roberts - FencesMachinedrum - Vapor CityKanye West - YeezusThe Haxan Cloak - ExcavationDarkside (Nicolas Jaar + Dave Harrington) - PsychicJessy Lanza - Pull My Hair BackOmar Souleyman - Wenu WenuLaurel Halo - Chance of RainRon Morelli - SpitYoung Echo - NexusZomby - With LoveModerat - IIRecondite - HinterlandFloorplan (Robert Hood) - ParadiseThe Knife - Shaking The HabitualThundercat - ApocalypseArctic Monkeys - AMWolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower FloorsAtom TM - HDTropic Of Cancer - Restless IdyllsKMFH (Kyle Hall) - The Boat PartyConnan Mockasin - CaramelDaft Punk - Random Access MemoriesFalty DL - HardcourageMika Vainio - KiloBeautiful Swimmers - Sonsenking - Capsize RecoverySano - SanoRabih Beaini - AlbidayaRoly Porter - Life Cycle Of A Massive StarFunction - IncubationJulia Holter - Loud City SongAtoms For Peace - AMOKZed Bias - BossRene Hell - Vanilla Call OptionJohn Wizards - John Wizards
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/10/249243871/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2013
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Kyle Hall - The Boat Party
^ been meaning to buy this all year long
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
The National in that top five is just bizarre.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
They just can't resist a bit of morose adult contemporary. I'd think Weekend - Jinx or Pop. 1280, Chelsea Wolfe or TV Ghost would fit their tastes better.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Floorplan (Robert Hood) - Paradise
yasssss first appearance of this that i've seen
absolutely banging techno, this goes so hard
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah that album's great, it's got a nice soul/gospel thing going on as well.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah "never grow old" was a huge anthem this year
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I listened to that Recondite album solidly around the house for about a week, that's a good backgroundy techno album for autumn/winter
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
okay the first track on this Floorplan album is A+
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Ah, that Vice list was alright. I lol'd.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
And yup, thanks to Lex for point out the awesomeness of that Floorplan release.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Stereogum - Best metal albumshttp://www.stereogum.com/1561822/the-50-best-metal-albums-of-2013/list/
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
you'd never guess what was number one
Spin - Best pop albumshttp://www.spin.com/articles/spin-20-best-pop-albums-2013/
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
WHINEY this isn't an attempt to zing u over clicks but your arrows don't work on any of your lists (i'm on chrome) and tbh they very rarely do in general
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
pretty surprised Jagwar Ma isn't getting more love.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
And is it true that no one has mentioned Polvo?
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
even allowing for homogeneity taking hold in the top 10, Stereogum have by a fucking mile the best/most interesting metal list I've seen so far
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
no-one else seems to give a shit about the Cultes Des Ghoules album that's roughly in the middle of it but it is some killer weirdo black metal
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Jagwar Ma suffer from the 'name so terrible I can't bring myself to check them out' syndrome.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
huh. name never bothered me - maybe because i heard the music before i got my hands on their name. either way it's my hands down, no doubt, fav album of the year.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
lots of good stuff on the Stereogum metal list, despite the predictable #1.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Wire list comes out tomorrow iirc, any guesses for what's won that?
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Cultes Des Ghoules album that's roughly in the middle of it but it is some killer weirdo black metal
otm
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Wire list comes out tomorrow iirc, any guesses for what's won that?― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:35 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:35 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hasn't it been someone from the Lopatin/Ferraro/Halo axis the last few years?
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Rashad Becker maybe? Or the Knife?
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Kinda hope it's Bangerz though.
Oh I hope so too, if only for the inevitable shitstorm.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
FACT, part II:
31. HUERCO S - Colonial Patterns32. FKA TWIGS - EP233. ROLY PORTER - Life Cycle of a Massive Star34. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - R Plus Seven35. MR MUTHAFUCKIN' EXQUIRE - Kismet36. LAUREL HALO - Chance of Rain37. TREE - Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out38. DONATO DOZZY - Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask39. KING LOUIE - Jeep Music40. SUICIDEYEAR - Japan
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Here's the complete Stereogum list, for archival purposes:
01. Deafheaven - Sunbather02. Gorguts - Colored Sands03. Inquisition - Obscure Verses For The Multiverse04. Oranssi Pazuzu - Velonielu05. Carcass - Surgical Steel06. In Solitude - Sister07. Windhand - Soma08. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods09. Inter Arma - Sky Burial10. Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum11. Power Trip - Manifest Decimation12. Bölzer - Aura13. Castevet - Obsian14. A Pregnant Light - Domination Harmony15. Aosoth - IV: An Arrow In Heart16. Lycus - Tempest17. Nails - Abandon All Life18. Various Artists - SVN OKKLT Compilation19. Anagnorisis - Beyond All Light20. Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury21. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance22. Kvelertak - Meir23. Satan - Life Sentence24. Vattnet Viskar - Sky Swallower25. Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkarana26. Imperium Dekadenz - Meadows Of Nostalgia27. Agrimonia - Rites Of Separation28. Cultes Des Ghoules - Henbane29. Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer30. TOAD - Endless Night31. Noisem - Agony Defined32. Fyrnask - Eldir Nótt33. Gris - À L'âme Enflammée, L'âme Constellée...34. Sadgiqacea - False Prism35. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control36. Cult of Fire — मृत्युकावीभत्सनृत्य37. Woe - Withdrawal38. VHOL - VHOL39. Aksumite - Return40. Hail Of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles41. Dressed In Streams - ST/Azad Hind42. Vuyvr - Eiskalt43. Yellow Eyes - Hammer Of Night44. KEN Mode - Entrench45. Cara Neir - Portals To A Better, Dead World46. Svart Crown - Profane47. Wormed - Exodromos48. Pinkish Black - Razed To The Ground49. Vastum - Patricidal Lust50. Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
That's actually a pretty solid list, glad to see Inter Arma get a high placing.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
Stereogum seems to have higher black metal representation than other lists. That's a big gap in my listening this year.
― jmm, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Really enjoyed NPR's list.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
They seemed to carefully pick representatives from nearly every metal sub-genre which is fine. Just goes to show how much damn metal there is, given they only scratch the surface of each. While Windhand sort of checks the box, stoner-doom is kind of neglected.
The NPR list is really good, and it reads like they're actually fans of music.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah, NPR was good, the only one of these lists with the John Legend album on it, which got pretty roundly ignored despite being full of Kanye co-productions and interesting songwriting choices.
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Man I couldn't really get into that John Legend album, it was patchy as hell. "Interesting songwriting choices" is otm.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
NPR list is neat.
"Where are Arcade Fire and The National?" comments after the post are a delight.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/31Gtm3X.png
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
They seemed to carefully pick representatives from nearly every metal sub-genre which is fine.
Yeah, there's doom metal, black metal, noise-rock/metal, shoegaze black metal, ultra-noisy black metal...that's all of 'em! That's all there is to metal!
Pro tip for metal bands: If you want critical love, clean vocals, melodies, and memorable choruses are right fucking out.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
if you want critical love from indie rock sites
Revolver et al still got love for clean hooks
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://rsmg.pbsrc.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/geirbot.jpg~320x480
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
mildly impressed by NPR's efforts to find a physical copy of all of their top 50 to take a pic of
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
They just can't resist a bit of morose adult contemporary. I'd think Weekend - Jinx or Pop. 1280, Chelsea Wolfe or TV Ghost would fit their tastes better.― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:41 (4 hours ago) Permalink
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:41 (4 hours ago) Permalink
I have at various times been morose, adult or contemporary, but never all at once.
― MV, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
oh man the floorplan record
fuuuuuuuuuck
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah if i ever went to clubs anymore (as opposed to going to clubs v. rarely) this record would sound unbelievable.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
Damn, this Ka album. Thanks Spin and Jody Rosen.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
the floorplan album captures very accurately a certain period of time on the dancefloor when you're high but not so high that you're totally out of yourself, and you feel totally mechanistic - the music's like a suit and you have to move in certain ways to put it on. and "never grow old" is that moment when you come to, not necessarily to sobriety at all but that moment when you see your friends' faces around you and it turns out you were all feeling the same way and now it's time to come together
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link