Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

wow destroyer you weren't fuckin kidding

Emilie Nicolas, «Like I’m a Warrior»

I just happened across this album over the tgiving holiday weekend. I'd had "Pstereo" in my Spotify best of the year list for a long time, but I didn't know there was a full LP. Unfortunately, except for one other song, it's pretty boring. :(

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:06 PM (3 minutes ago)

Nobody Knows is great, Grow Up also sounds good to me, the repetition works really well as a check on the song becoming trite nostalgia. Haven't really sat down with the album otherwise.

alvvays is OK i guess but idk how it superseded a lot of stuff on that list (or off it!) this ages & ages song is kinda wack

really dreading sylvan esso given the zings upthread

That Sylvan Esso thing is atrocious.

I like Alvvays, though they have better songs than that one. Now I'm listening to Ages and Ages and I might actually hate it more than the Sylvan Esso one. Eesh.

what. the. fuck. is. this.

I refuse to visit paste again. Which horrid Ages and Ages song did they pick?

"Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)"

destroyer, so otm when describing esso as a more annoying tuneyards, a thing i didn't think was possible. does she have the cultural appropriation tourism issue garbus has or nah?

Thanks JF off to make myself puke in my mouth.

Made it a minute in. That's some dire shit.

Didn't really care much for the Sylvan Esso song that Paste gave number 1 to, but I don't mind the other song I've heard of hers, "Coffee".

i'm excited to check out the Textura list & Raymond's noise list

― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:54 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you sir

I liked the FKA Twigs album a lot, though I need to spend more time with it - it's one of those things where I need to be in the right mood (same with Beyonce's album, actually).

Here are a bunch of the things from the Textura list:

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6oD6W0OgTAIDPUAcT5EtWv

gracias

count me as another of the "ANOTHER WORLD" adventurers with like 50% of that textura list
This steel hammer album is instantaneously awesome

you guys, hate Sylvan Esso and Ages and Ages as much as you like, I get it, but that Alvvays album is AMAZING, top to bottom

27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)

^ this is really lovely FYI

okay, i have to reiterate how beautiful the first track on this Julia Wolfe album is and everyone with a passing interest in reich should play it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGVEiO8bwtI

Cosmopolitan - The 20 Best Albums of 2014
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a33585/best-albums-of-2014/

1. Taylor Swift, 1989
2. Ariana Grande, My Everything
3. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste
4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum
5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold
6. Tinashe, Aquarius
7. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence
8. Kelis, Food
9. Lykke Li, I Never Learn
10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition
11. One Direction, Four
12. Ex Hex, Rips
13. Jessie Ware, Tough Love
14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
15. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness
16. Dolly Parton, Blue Smoke
17. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager
18. FKA twigs, LP1
19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright
20. St. Vincent, St. Vincent

pleased to see love for dolly and azealia and tinashe and miranda

best list so far by miles!

yeah p solid. wouldn't rank taylor that high above everything for 1989, tho, not with tinashe and miranda lambert and lykke and bey that far behind her

Even though there are a few things on there I hate or at least don't care about, I think I agree.

i love that ilx hivemind taste intersects most closely w/ cosmo

(if it was red, different story, i'd understand a top 5 placement)

yeah look at us wusses ugh amirite

Least amount of dudes yet

despite the numbering, the cosmo list does say "in no particular order"

no i don't really associate cosmo w/ wussiness but maybe if i were being uncharitable a kind of rote superficiality? idk anything about their music crit nb and i like plenty of artists on that list just that i've seen a cosmo cover before in my life

whoever built that list is gonna be fun to hang out with

nahhhh

Is that a list just by Eliza Thompson or did they poll the Cosmo staff? Just curious.

like c'mon, this is at least a little lol that this is the magazine that closely lines up w/ ilx critical darlings

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1295625/thumbs/o-COSMO-COVERS-570.jpg?1

no worries mordy i was kidding & yr assumption is understandable

(nb i love carrie underwood)

and i hate one direction pretty thoroughly so i dont have full credentials for the pop quadrant of my listening brain, fwiw

https://twitter.com/thompsonplaid/status/527866562628165632
i stand by my hypothesis

A Surefire Technique That Takes You Both Over the Edge Simultaneously

^ David Fricke is writing slash articles for them now?

xp and based on that twitter, that list is like 85% her. let's get her on ilx plz

Cosmo Bandesman

xxp she digs sleater kinney...

that's a little surprising

https://twitter.com/thompsonplaid/status/539903968483102720

let's see, out of 1,866 followers, one person retweeted and zero favourited it

That cosmo list is excellent; all jokes, reservations, whatever much less so. Very telling, these "oh no we're like GIRLS" reactions. Btw how is a women's magazine more superficial than any of the desperate and hidebound music outlets itt? Beyond the covers cosmo, elle etc publish much more ~srs features than fucking stereogum

tbf Mordy is the source of that ugliness which is pretty expected at this point.

Particularly nice to see the kelis and miranda lambert albums there; former seems to have been completely forgotten, latter I thought had a lot of support but of course lambert's positioning is all wrong for any serious music publication to acknowledge her!

Xp indeed

i couldn't do anything with the kelis album unfortunately. i tried!

Jerk Ribs still sounds great to me, but yeah...the rest of it faded away quick.

It's not one to return to in the winter even if you like it I guess

Time Magazine - Top 10 Best Albums
https://time.com/3613540/top-10-best-albums/

1. LP1, FKA twigs
2. St. Vincent, St. Vincent
3. Alt-J, This Is All Yours
4. 1989, Taylor Swift
5. Too Bright, Perfume Genius
6. Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey
7. Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me!
8. The Voyager, Jenny Lewis
9. Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams
10. Broke With Expensive Taste, Azealia Banks