(TOP 5 TODAY, MOFOS!) Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Albums Poll Results)

808s and Heartbreak

now THERE'S an album against which that criticm makes sense (and I say this as a big Kanye fanboy)

xp I guess there's just a bit more going on in the latter two tracks, yeah?

I love the second track a lot but yeah it's quite centred around the drone + choir, whereas track 3 is a little more propulsive, spacious and crazed (keyboards halfway through are a definite O_O) and Alice is horn-driven ascent to heaven, harps all a-glissando, Last Post ablaze

yeah, I agree with that. don't really feel like "Aghartha" really does anything tho

really really really, blah

I haven't really gotten into the first track much yet, but it does give the vocalist a canvas upon which to sound REALLY menacing. It's the kind of thing which will end up totally growing on me, though; there's a lot of background detail in the sound, especially in the second half, which will seep into my brain and reel me down, down to where heat reigns...

It's certainly the most abstract, avant-garde, flat-out uncompromising statement of ugliness on the record.

Haha, listening to it now on headphones, that second half is pretty wondrous! You just have to get there first! Also I'm completely not sure it's your thing, even if I am enjoying it. Sounds like a ship breaking apart as the crew's screams are muffled below deck...

I listened to the album low on speakers (sleeping housemates) so I may be losing some detail, power, etc.

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and reel me down, down to where heat reigns...

Oh man, headphones!!! HEADPHONES!!! Especially for the first and last tracks.

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all i have are shitty earbuds. much better sound from my stereo.

listening to aghartha in an open space (i.e. not on headfones) might be essential for that track. when the vocals finally descend, they sound HUGE. and frightening. like some larger than life embodiment of evil who will them go on to destroy the fabric of space and time later in the song

Well, I'd give it another go at a louder volume at some stage, is all I'll say. Maybe by then I'll have gotten the DJ Sprinkles album...

Yeah, strongly suspect I'll go batshit for Aghartha at some point

I listened to the album low on speakers (sleeping housemates) so I may be losing some detail, power, etc.

It has to be played VERY LOUD.

the second half of agartha sounds like the song itself is falling apart under its own weight.

don't find attila menacing during that. he's more... elemental. he speaks as if he's been one with a cliff face for the last billion years.

'alice' and 'big church' are easy highlights for me though.

don't find attila menacing during that. he's more... elemental. he speaks as if he's been one with a cliff face for the last billion years.

YES, it's not that he's the bearer of menace per se, more the conduit

xp: it's no coincidence that those are the kang-heavy tracks...

Great great great album, though I think it's odd how much people act like it's this realy distinct thing (okay the rants are, but leaving the rants aside) - the music is very much along the lines of what a lot of people on a kind of deep house/downtempo/broken beat/post-acid jazz axis were doing at the end of the 90s and beginning of the 00s

this is a great post bc it tells me some more stuff to check out, but i mean the angry queer rants are kindof defining on this album, and kindof set the stage for why i like it so much i mean it actively sets a context for the sounds

i think the e-red album carves out a more identifiable & considered persona and -- most importantly -- world view than does love vs money, but i think in the context of male & female r&b both albums have very singular and fresh personas. idk if there was a female r&b decade in the past decade that was better at balancing the desires to be dominant of men and to cater 2 them. if the album isn't a redefinition of feminism, then i guess it's just a pure distillation. in the context of male r&b, the-dream is probably the best at incorporating the tropes & sounds of hip-hop into his music, but he also has a soft & introspective side that manifests itself in totally stirring & forward thikning songs like "lvm" -> "lvm2" -> "fancy" -> "right side", and none of his contemporaries can really make that claim

this is a great post bc it tells me some more stuff to check out, but i mean the angry queer rants are kindof defining on this album, and kindof set the stage for why i like it so much i mean it actively sets a context for the sounds

I agree with this absolutely - I meant things I've read about the music specifically. Obv the entire thematic element adds enormously to the album's appeal and success.

i think the e-red album carves out a more identifiable & considered persona and -- most importantly -- world view than does love vs money, but i think in the context of male & female r&b both albums have very singular and fresh personas. idk if there was a female r&b decade in the past decade that was better at balancing the desires to be dominant of men and to cater 2 them. if the album isn't a redefinition of feminism, then i guess it's just a pure distillation. in the context of male r&b, the-dream is probably the best at incorporating the tropes & sounds of hip-hop into his music, but he also has a soft & introspective side that manifests itself in totally stirring & forward thikning songs like "lvm" -> "lvm2" -> "fancy" -> "right side", and none of his contemporaries can really make that claim

This is really spot on about both artists I think.

As I've stated, I enjoy the Electrik Red album just fine -- but doesn't labeling it a "redefinition of feminism" considering its tiny sphere of influence strike you guys as a bit over the top?

jordan didn't label it that though.

also none of us really have any business playing the real world impact card.

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5 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (386.5 points, 34 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (12 in p4k, 4 in p&j)

That puts me at 8, but I suspect it's the last one I voted for that will place.

I think I like this album more now than I did a year ago, fwiw.

That album is fucking fantastic.

great album

great screengrab

i listened to this while rushing around town super-stressed today! it turns out that it is PERFECT for that frame of mind combined with ridiculously windy weather

jordan's post on the-dream and e-red otm, plus i think electrik red incorporate hip-hop tropes into their brand of r&b as integrally and successfully as terius does on his own album, and that's kinda their route to carving out something very fresh and new - for a perspective that combines (or rather erodes) submission and dominance like that, i guess you have to go back to the tlc days.

Glad this placed. I'm all for GAPDY lolz but this is a geniunely strong and affecting album, YYYs' best.

sick of gapdy meme now

its GAPDYX now

ER in top 4 wau

GAPEDYX

Egad Pyx
Aged Pyx
Axed Gyp
Ad Ex Gyp
Ax Ed Gyp

racist

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4 -- Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1 (455.5 points, 28 votes, 6 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 148 in p&j)

highest average and the most #1 votes

tbh I had never heard of them until this poll

dream xx anco?

anco already placed

AC was #7

16.27 ppv!

musically, I think you would like them a lot

Fever Ray Dream XX

that's kind of an oddly subdued photo of them haha

I listened to the track that placed in the singles poll, whoever said it sounded like Kelis doing Pop Life was so otfm. I should listen to it, I think I listened to about 5 new albums last year.

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great top four then guys