The Chloe and Pantha Prince albums both sound great TBF
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Have there ever been fewer debut albums represented in the critics lists than in 2007? Looks like the record biz is going for the safe nowadays.....
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
w00t @ Jess voting for Charlotte Hatherley
― The Reverend, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
And the tracks
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66290
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
A pretty big chunk of the NME list is debut albums, Geir
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
18 of them in fact. 19 if you count 'Mirrored' as being Battles' debut album
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I suspect Geir may deem the work of Battles as amelodic and rhythm dominate.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
That came out in January, everyone forgot about it by now. :-p
This kills me every year. I make a point of 'remembering' albums that came out between Jan. and Apr...and then those end up dominating my year-end lists.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
weirdness of the vibe list has a lot to do with fennessey's mp3-addled m.o i'm supposing, that glazed-over indifference where any song could be anywhere in the chart
not that i can really talk
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i mean..."Feel Like Dyin'"?
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
but yeah besides that and 'make me better' (just...wtffff, awful song) it is not all that crazy a list really. maybe they shouldve dispensed with the numbering.
also, i was expecting that fabo song where he sings about spaceships. if fabo's album comes out it will be the worst critical rigmarole in years.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
since the clipse, anyway
― r|t|c, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Other Music's top 25 (I'm pretty sure these are staff favorites, not top sellers):
1 TINARIWEN Aman Iman 2 PANDA BEAR Person Pitch 3 BURIAL Untrue 4 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam 5 PANTHA DU PRINCE This Bliss 6 NO AGE Weirdo Rippers 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Skull Disco - Soundboy Punishments 8 M.I.A. Kala 9 JAY REATARD Blood Visions 10 MAGIK MARKERS Boss 11 KING KHAN & THE SHRINES What Is?! 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS After Dark 13 THE CAVE SINGERS Invitation Songs 14 ROBERT WYATT Comicopera 15 ERIC COPELAND Hermaphrodite 16 SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 17 BAND OF HORSES Cease to Begin 18 BLACK LIPS Good Bad Not Evil 19 VAMPIRE WEEKEND EP 20 EFDEMIN Efdemin 21 STUDIO West Coast 22 THE FIELD From Here We Go Sublime 23 CHROMATICS Night Drive 24 ST. VINCENT Marry Me 25 OH NO Dr. No's Oxperiment
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
top reissues can also be seen on that link
i like the OM list.
― poortheatre, Thursday, 13 December 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF! WHY DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE BAND OF HORSES??
― stephen, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time someone listens to Band of Horses, god kills a kitten.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Or even a small horse.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Or both.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
stephen I kiss you
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
They're sort of a watered-down Built to Spill, so maybe residual love for that band has something to do with it.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The indie rock's been worshipping one watered-down Built To Spill or another (Modest Mouse, Death Cab, etc.) more than BTS themselves for damn near a decade now.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
haha "the indie rock" was a funny way to phrase that, sorry, subtract "the" or add a "world/community" at the end.
teh indie rockz
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
who is this band the Indie Rocks and where can I buy their music
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Why hasn't Ricardo Villalobos been mentioned in any of those lists? Is it because it was not an 'album' or that no one listened to it or (scary?!) that no one liked it?
― Popture, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Was there a new Ricardo Villalobos this year that got a lot of hype? (Last year he was on a bunch of lists...)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Fabric36, I guess?
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
that or fizheuer
― max, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
fabric 36 never quite lived up to its pre-release hype. i liked it - but didn't love it like some of his other work.
― sam500, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Some debut's on NME sure, but NME doesn't count as NME only likes debut albums. It is a well-known fact that NME hates anyone who has released more than 1 album and 2 singles.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Panda Bear is the worst music I've ever heard.
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Reverend is a god among men.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
why is glasvegas mentioned on this thread? people are weird
amused to see my #1 of the year isn't on any list at all.. still got it
― electricsound, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't really like person pitch all that much but rev hating an indie album being backed up by the dude who likes mickey avalon and skye sweetnam is shocker non-shocker of the month for sure.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it doesn't really seem like hateable music to me. it's just... there. resenting its critical love, maybe. but idk. it's kind of like wallpaper or something.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
No it is not wallpaper. It is earsplitting. (And actually I don't hate indie, just the way it gets privileged so much.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(Well, that's to say I don't hate indie on principle. I certainly hate that particular example thereof.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
idk dude whenever i listen to it i just get kinda bored. way too may stretches where nothing really happens. i like the overall mood, but i most def do not get how anyone could really love person pitch.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
so you chaps who don't get person pitch - how do you feel about animal collective?
― sam500, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i doubt rev has heard any animal collective, but i think panda's two songs on strawberry jam are better than anything on person pitch besides maybe "i'm not"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't heard Animal Collective, actually. I only downloaded Person Pitch after reading that if I liked LCDSS I'd like Panda Bear. Suffice to say, that wasn't true. Maybe after the cd I'm listening to is done, I'll pull them up on the U-Toob.
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
xp haha
idk if you'd like them. i don't have a great handle on what indie rockier music you might like. the new album is way more song-y than panda bear if that means anything.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Indie rock albums this year I love: LCD Soundsystem, Charlotte Hatherley, Spoon, Gogol Bordello
Indie rock albums this year I like well enough: Battles, New Young Pony Club, the Hives, the White Stripes, Grinderman
― The Reverend, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Truth is, I like a lot of indie music. The National, Iron + Wine, and (well I don't know if indie has claimed them but) The Noisettes are all on my year end lists. I just don't like Animal Collective, Panda Bear, St. Vincent, or Joanna Newsom. I actually hate them, and I've put the time in listening to their albums (Newsom I listened to about half a dozen times) to try and get what's going on there. And I just don't get it.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Jinx. Oh yeah, I like the Hives + the White Stripes album. I liked a bunch of indie albums this year. Sorry for not liking whiny freak-folk.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
rev you might like this but all those albums kinda groove in an SFJ-type way which doesnt surprise me since your tastes seem to skew more towards rap/r&b/reggaeton (yeah?) and animal collective are kind of like weightless on the bottom end and really compressed. def more indie pop than anything you mentioned.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
newsom blows and new animal collective is def not folk, but i have no handle on what you like mordechai but it seems like you would/do hate the fuck out strawberry jam.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 December 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Thing is, I like a lot of folk. Or rather, I like music that possibly has some folk resonances. I like Iron + Wine. A ton. Woman King EP is on constant replay in my apartment. It's just that the stuff I just mentioned doesn't click for me. I wish it did because a lot of people are really passionate about it, and I wanna get in on that. But there's something really unpleasant about it. (I don't like Andrew Bird either.)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link