that record cover looks really dated. enjoyed it when i heard it but never went back
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Fennesz was one of the last things I cut from my ballot. It's shimmery!
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
I like the Fennesz better than anything I've heard of his in a while and it deserves a place here, but imo this record is not as good as Ben Frost's AURORA, which was released around the same time and which is flat out amazing
― Dan S, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
I keep meaning to listen to that Ben Frost album, but then again I had no idea Fennesz even released anything this year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
i remember feeling very nonplussed when i heard endless summer, which was an ilm fave back in the day. nothing happened in it!
things are happening in "liminality" but i'm not sure i like the fuzzy wash of guitars in general, i prefer my contemplative instrumental music a bit sharper than this. i wonder if the francis harris album will place.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
i listened to the fennesz back catalog the other day in anticipation of hearing this but i just wasn't feeling it tbh, there's something a little kitschy in a bland way about some of the tracks on black sea.
lee gamble - koch probably won't place but it hits so much harder and better in my own "weird ambient with teeth" category.
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Also enjoyed Fennesz but didn't longlist it for my ballot. Partly because I think I just had less of a drone year this year. Gutted that the one time I saw him live (with Grouper AND Natural Snow Buildings supporting, omg) he got the plug pulled on him when he was bossing the damn church.
― All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
just got here but wanted to cheer for BOTANIST yay@!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Given some of the albums that have placed I'd say there's a decent chance of Lee Gamble showing up.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Is it worth a bet though? /sorry
― All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
a cunning punt right there
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
did roll the dice release an album this year?
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Endless Summer was one of the most important records for me in my teenage years, and is still a very emotional and rewarding listen. This album sounds good but hasn't really hooked me.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
yes xp
― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Venice was the one that was important to me in my teenage years, remember listening to it on repeat in high school with my Minidisc player also lol Minidisc
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
― All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:50 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was at this, it was a really good gig
― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah this year's roll the dice was pretty good i thought, though it sort of fell out of regular listening by the end
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
I voted for it, not holding out much hope for it placing
lee gamble will i think
― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
I like Benji
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6B6VEO2.jpg
51 A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN Atomos [309 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Very gorgeous album, as expected, but didn't really think to place it on my list :(
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Only discovered that this month, but I love it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
oh nice didn't realize this had an ilx following
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
oh hey this is in my review pile, have not heard yet
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Matt DC what did you like about tune-yards lyrics? or did i misread you here
From the moment I clicked 'submit' on that post I knew exactly what some of those lyrics were going to end up being about and reading some of them confirms that - zing revoked.Her image and aesthetic are still terrible though.
Her image and aesthetic are still terrible though.
― flopson, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Pleasant background music, an easier listen than, for example, fellow Kranky artist Grouper. I like it, even though it barely made my top 500 :)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
wow this winged victory band is goodlike stars of the lid meets max richter
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
That's because it's one of the members of SOTL with another guy
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Matt DC what did you like about tune-yards lyrics?
I realised that 'infantilised' was inappropriate given some of the subject matter.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
winged victory are fantastic. didn't get my vote, but only because i hadn't given it enough time.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
ahhhh just googled the lyrics to water fountain, got it
― flopson, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Fennesz was the last thing I cut from my ballot. Didn't like Black Sea that much but for some reason this one clicked with me a lot. It's one of my favourite album covers of the year too.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
I voted Sun Kil Moon my #2 pick. I was floored by the excruciating confessionals and found quite affecting (and at times disturbing, e.g. his handwaving of parental beatings in "I love my dad") and its one of the most gut-wrenching depictions of working class American childhood/adolescence. I think people are writing this album off due to Kozelek's (admittedly assholish) public persona.
― Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
i found the asshole public persona stuff hilarious
― flopson, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
xp no, I genuinely hated it with a passion just from listening to whatever came up on shuffle, and have not been following the media circus
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah for this reason I've avoided any news stories about kozelek this year. Doubt I'll check anything else out by him but I like Benji as a single thing.
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
^^^^ This is the first thing I've read that has made me interested in hearing Sun Kil Moon
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Love Atomos. First of mine to place but I forgot to vote for Steve Gunn & Real Estate.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
it's fine if ppl don't want to hear a middle-aged dude work through his shit but lol @ everyone being like "my ears! my ears!" it was a unique, affecting record for me and i'm glad to see it place.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
the song about thinking about his mom dying really got me, it was so painful and raw and the feelings weren't masked with any kind of poetry, just thinking about my own mom what i would do if she died
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah "I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love" is the clear standout to me
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Yeah but lol scrabble tho right?
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Q4cK8hC.jpg
50 ALVVAYS Alvvays [314 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
I'm thinking the new Marilyn Manson is not the correct lead-in to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate Sun Kil Moon based on the agonizing minute of "Carissa" I just sat through
I think it's likely there is something worth exploring here but oh man, not now
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Feel bad for dismissing it so violently and denying the agency of its voters :/ it is just the sort of art that gets me riled purely by existing. 'Not for me' doesn't quite cover it when it (easily) wins Drowned In Sound's year-end equivalent poll (lol I know, I haven't been there much of late, worry not) - feels like the UK indie consensus is heading down some paths I absolutely cannot follow. But fuck the consensus, really :P
...I mean,
― Scrabble: A classic board-game that Mark Kozelek likes to play with his (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
(also i shouldn't say no poetry but very plainspokens style. also i find his fingerstyle playing though simple very hypnotic at times)
what's wrong w/scrabble?
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
alvvays! great album.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
huh Alvvays a) sounds nothing like what I imagined them to be; and b) sounds really fun on first blush
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Xpost Imago, Benji's not really million miles away from Nothing Important of you squint. Not exactly as arcane or experimental, very straight-up and confessional instead but I don't see the ire unless one happens to have a problem with Kozelek as a personality, or just acoustic guitar music of this sort in general
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Probably the only indie-pop record I needed this year, filler-free
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link