Listened to those Grouper albums A LOT this year, but I think she overstretched herself a bit. Nice, but not essential.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
the album cover alone should give it a spot in the top 20
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Sadly this record starts great and goes downhill from there.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
what is the war on drugs
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I have that Kurt Vile album, the only thing I do have by him, and other than Society Is My Friend, I don't think I understand the appeal. He ranked pretty high on Pazz & Jop, but it's a fairly standard rock LP from what I can hear.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Cool to see Perfume and The War On Drugs make it. Good job people!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
i am beginning to think that a lot of my more obscure votes (angel haze, nikkiya, sunny sweeney) won't make it :(
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
american folk rock meets shoegaze/kosmiche xxp lex
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Philly band doing a modern take on Tom Petty, kinda. I voted for it, but only on the strength of about half the songs if I'm being honest. xps to lex
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
War On Drugs >>>>> Kurt Vile, it's all the droney spacey stuff that pushed the War On Drugs above it for me. Had expected that album to be higher actually, it was top 10 for me.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, love love love The War On Drugs record. I was actually disappointed in the Kurt Vile album this year because it was too acoustic meandering for me. It was good, but not what I'd hoped. I found more of what I was looking for with War On Drugs.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
i second the TOO LOW.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Also, Matt DC otm.
Okay War on Drugs, listening to the track 'Black Water Falls' on utube. Like it a lot.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds Dylan-y to me.
tried to listen to war on drugs, seemed like something i might like but was pretty bored by it
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
that james ferraro album felt kind of thin and cheap to me
this is the whole point iirc
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Thought I'd like the War On Drugs based on the reviews I saw, but it was a bit meat-and-potatoes and could have done with rocking-the-fuck-out a bit more. Should have learnt my lesson from buying Wilco records when I was told they'd gone "weird".
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
now i'm beginning to think that had i nominated some albums (lapalux, jonwayne, ELOS, balam acab, shlohmo), they might have actually had a shot.
i'm assuming rustie was nominated?
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, Rustie was.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, my prediction #23.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
This thread has officially declared war onme. BRING IT ON!
Srsly WoD reminded me of weaksauce Verve; what are the cool droney/spacey tracks?
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
hurrah for Grouper
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
this is the essential war on drugs song imo hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMToQg0vSds
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
most of the droney spacey stuff happens in between the tracks, 'the animator' is a good transition track, but really works best in the context of the album flow
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
every WoD track reminds me of another band (and i don't mean that as a knock against them). that one is their Arcade Fire track.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
(i meant the youtube link)
Ooh, whee, I missed this kicking off again. Voted for Ferraro and Perfume. Totally don't get the Ferraro hate - it's an interesting bit of textural electronica with good noises. Was completely o_O when it won the Wire poll, mind you. It's good, but it's not that good.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3u1tq.jpg
55. Mastodon — [/i]The Hunter[/i] (328 points, 10 votes)
P4K: DNPP&J: 47
Spotify
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
also war on drugs was probably my favorite live band to see this year (2x!! shoudlve seen them that third time) seeing 1/3 of the crowd leave during the amazing 10 minute harmonica/feedback/sax drone jam was pretty funny
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Mastodon drums are huge, guitars are thin.
― Poon Aggroved (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Nice to see the Mastodon place! Such a great album and a really wise move for them to slide away from the epic prog thing for awhile.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
(thx dd85 btw)
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
far side virtual is a v gaudy outlier, an extreme mutation of certain threads in modern music mb, & of ferraro's archaeology of information age detritus. occupies a ridiculous position in the musical landscape of 2011, which makes it fun to back in the name of tastelessness & irony (rock out w/ "celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay"). i really love listening to it tho; despite employing all these trashy cheap sounds it's a p massive record & insanely rich considering how well it sticks together. it's not chip tunes; this stuff unfolds in a p epic even glorious fashion in this uncanny environment which is less familiar than it pretends to be. ive never known a record evoke so many peculiar & barely remembered things - everyone comes up w/ different references ive never heard of, which is significant - but those similarities are a pose & it doesn't actually function like Microsoft Musical Instruments demo songs, but instead pulls this weird set of things together in a way that seems so intuitive it feels like it was always grouped that way, but really this is some super sly taxonomy&world-building, built around garish, often v slight sounds. it has a clownish, circuslike quality to it & is wicked psychedelic imo
― ogmor, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I thought Mastodon might place. Good album, I realised many years ago they weren't going to make another Remission. They for me fill the heavy rock void left by Qotsa while Josh took a break.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
the war on drugs are really, really awesome. very unique sound... i generally prefer stuff that is more song oriented but that album is just really cool.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Nice write-up Ogmor! I agree with you on the psychedelic aspect of it. For all the cheap and nasty sounds, they're layered in a curious and sometimes surprisingly lush and lovely way.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
I had a harder time connecting with the new Mastodon than with their previous albums. Definitely agree that the guitars were too thin or maybe just too low in the mix.
Still voted for it though...
― Moodles, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Do metalheads have a word for people who don't listen to any metal except Mastodon? If so, I'm one of those people - my Soundgarden/QOTSA loving younger self would have approved.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
i think i liked the idea of the mastodon album (return to shorter, unconnected songs) than the concept - maybe it was too long? there's some good stuff on there though.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
First listen, but something about the busy metropolitan feel of the Ferraro record reminds me a bit of Different Trains. Maybe it's placement of the voices too. I quite like it I think, but I can quite understand the hate too.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:21 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, but different trains is not interesting in the long run because it has a "busy metropolitan feel" (something you could say about thousands of albums/pieces of music). it's interesting because it's complex, rigorous, challenging, distinctive and hypnotically beautiful - in the minds of many listeners. don't see any equivalent value in the ferraro album.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
the band i discovered on the metal poll that sounded like QOTSA (at least to me) were Red Fang. Loved that record.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
On previous albums, it seemed like every song was one awesome riff after another. This one didn't quite do that for me.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
whoops, i skipped 56 like an idiot, sorry
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NBOaz.jpg
56. Danny Brown — XXX (323 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
P4K: 19P&J: 28
can anyone who voted for that james ferraro album explain why they love it so much?
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012
I voted for Ferraro. Why? Its cheery without being twee and has a bright sound. I certainly prefer it to the Ford & Lapotin or oneohtrix whatever records. I'd call it bright rather than thin
― Cashmere Combabe, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
keep meaning to listen to the danny brown album because i like his huzzah verse a lot, keep forgetting to actually listen
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
ogmor's defense of FSV is at least interesting and substantive. in my view it's an overelaborate description of clothes that aren't there, but i can at least understand that other people get something out of the experience.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Danny Brown. Cool. Must admit I find I have to listen to that pretty selectively ie I won't play it more than once through in a row which is something I tend to do with albums I like. It's pretty wearing. Good though.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
What is Danny Brown? Feel like I'm typing that a lot today.
― two lights crew (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link