2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

If this is true maybe I might actually give that album a chance.

Wait Ned, you've been avoiding Sleigh Bells because of "Rill Rill"??? Did no one tell you that there are 2/3 songs on there where they are channeling Lush via dance beats?

I've heard a rumor to the effect. (Crucial difference between them and School of Seven Bells -- the latter did not have a really annoying song oversold to me as the greatest new thing around that put me off further investigation.)

I have to agree with the general anti-"Rill Rill" sentiment. I like the song just fine and think it's a nice little respite on the album, but it seems weird that a publication such as Pitchfork would praise the band with great hyperbole for it's trademark sound and then pick the one song where they do the complete opposite sound as the best example of their musical talent. "Tell Em'" seems the obvious choice to me.

I like "Rill Rill" well enough but that is so not my go-to song on the album; that would be "Run the Heart":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9LyxbA6GI

when that beat comes in, everything in the world makes more sense

Sleigh Bells have appropriate initials imo.

OUT

Unless you mean "significantly badass"

"Crown on the Ground" is fucking tight, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8ppcFGPlY&feature=related

Infinity Guitars was the one that finally hooked me, but I don't think it's one that falls neatly into the "Lush-in-the-red" category.

Sleigh Bells' performance opening for LCD Soundsystem was one of the most awful things I've ever seen.

i've only heard "tell 'em" by sleigh bells and i absolutely loathed it

Rill Rill is like the only song on that album I DON'T like, I have no idea why everyone rallys round it

That's definitely not a peanut butter and jelly show bill. More like peanut butter and dijonaise. xp

"Crown on the Ground" was on P4k's list last year.

u right

definitely some good stuff in the pitchfork list aside from their continued obsession with the "deep" soul-searching LCD tracks. they are extremely good at picking the best tracks on indie rock albums (e.g. "Desire Lines") and then go for the most maudlin bullshit on every new Murphy CD.

I wasn't making suggestions for what should be on the list, I was trying to get Ned to hear Sleigh Bells!

why is "run the heart" produced to make the listener feel like they have tinnitus

how can you claim to like club music and then ask questions like that

The whole album is like that.

It took me months not to hate it, and now I actually love it.

Dan, since u r here, did you see this from the other day? Whatcha listening to 2010?

i like club music that sounds pristine and totally polished!

that constant high-pitched tinnitus thing in sleigh bells songs would be AWFUL in a club

Half the bands I saw in clubs in the 90s played through horrible pa systems that sounded just like that.

I did see that, just haven't gotten to it

Lex, that Sleigh Bells album is about bombastic musical extremes; you are essentially genetically predisposed to dislike it.

omg that Niki & the Dove track, I am sold by the first 10 seconds

maybe you actually have tinnitus, lex -- sleigh bells sounds totally pristine and polished to the rest of us

omg that Niki & the Dove track, I am sold by the first 10 seconds

― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:11 AM

I thought you might be.

So "Run the Heart" is definitely better than "Rill Rill" but...it's not the end of the world?

"Crown on the Ground" isn't really doing it for me either, then again that sounds like a pretty cruddy low kbps rip. (If it's meant to sound like that then I don't know what to think.)

"why is "run the heart" produced to make the listener feel like they have tinnitus"

yeah, i hope none of the people who make this kind of stuff own dogs. that would just be cruel.

(If it's meant to sound like that then I don't know what to think.)

It's intentional.

...yeah, then I think this album is not for me, then.

The Wire top 50

01 Actress - Splazsh
02 Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
03 Swans - My father will guide me up a rope to the sky
04 Joanna Newsom - Have one on me
05 Catherine Christer Hennix - The electric harpsichord
06 Rangers - Suburban tours
07 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before today
08 John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Last daylight
09 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disengenuity/Disengenuousness
10 Kevin Drumm - Necro accoustic
11 Sun City Girls - Funeral mariachi
12 Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motobachii
13 Sun Araw - On patrol
14 Gonjasufi - A sufi and a killer
15 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
16 Joe Colley - Disasters of self
17 Richard Skelton - Landings
18 Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?
19 Eleh - Location momentum
20 Autechre - Oversteps
21 Helena Gough - Mikroklimata
22 Demdike Stare - Liberation through hearing
23 Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic materials
24 Bill Orcutt - Way down south
25 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
26 Bellows - Handcut
27 Tilbury/Duch/Davies - Conrenius Cardew: Works 1960-1970
28 Hype Williams - s/t
29 Laurie Anderson - Homeland
30 Konono No 1 - Assume crash position
31 Zs - New slaves
32 Phew - Five finger discount
33 Sabbathh Assembly - Restored to one
34 Derek Bailey - More 74
35 Seijaku - Mail from Fushitsua
36 Tyler the Creator - Bastard
37 Moon Wiring Club A spare tabby at the cat's wedding
38 Larry Polansky - The world's largest melody
39 Alasdair Galbraith - Mass
40 Jailbreak - The Rocker
41 oOoOO - oOoOO
42 Pedestrian Deposit - East fork/North fork
43 Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadaz vol 3
44 Prins Thomas - s/t
45 These New Puritans - Hidden
46 Aldo Clementi - Works with flutes
47 Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Air supply
48 Joseph Hammer - I love you, please love me too
49 Joshua Abrams - Natural information
50 Grinderman 2

18 Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?

This is one I've seen pop up in too many lists for me to not investigate it at the least. I guess I just like the name/title.

i should have bought that kevin drumm box when i had the chance

44 Prins Thomas - s/t

Kinda surprised to see this. I thought it was generally panned by reviewers.

Actress album pretty overrated. 'Always Human' does bang tho.

That Richard Skelton album is really beautiful, great to see it on that list.

15 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot

how is this a 'wire record'

Who cares? It's a great album.

how is a record full of totally bonkers, monstrously layered electronic textures a 'wire record'

I always love the way you can read every issue of the Wire and still not recognise a bunch of the year-end top 50 (Phew? Pedestrian Deposit?). Big Boi seems the most unexpected move on that list, even Joanna Newsom kinda makes sense since they gave her a full-page review.

Haven't seen Sabbath Assembly or Jailbreak on any other lists and I like both of 'em so that's something

I think 'a Wire record' is just anything they reviewed in 2010, and they have a rap section (and cover a bunch outside of that) so there you are

My fiancee LOVES "Rill Rill" and can't be bothered with anything else on the album.

i quite like Tell 'Em but nothing else (maybe Crown On The Ground)

how is a record full of totally bonkers, monstrously layered electronic textures a 'wire record'

― skrrr boi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:44 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how is this an accurate description of the big boi record?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtwBDZ8c_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1ivdW8Yj4

sounds 'out-there' enough to be a wire record but even so, wire's rap coverage has never really been about finding the weird and obscure, just what they find dope. hell, noz is their head rap writer.

also did big boi record a video for every song?