I think Matt DC is saying that Russian hackers are responsible for Kanye'a strong performance.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
heh? next you'll be saying Bradley Wiggins is a drugs cheat :p
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
Really bold of Textura to put Kanye at #1 this year
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
seems this is the year everyone got off the Wild Beasts bus. album was jaw droppingly bad IMO.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
liked the single a lot but yeah the album just went in one ear out the other
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
I really like about half of it tbh, "2BU" and the bonus track "Maze" are beauts
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I've been so torn on that Tignor album that's topping the Texture list all year. Its really beautiful but seems almost too easy. Like that, the Eluvium and the Ben Lukas Boyson are all so gorgeous but so effortless that it seems... suspicious? I like them all on a purely visceral level, but every time I sit down with them, it feels almost tropey
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
"I can understand liking it or finding its flaws sort of interesting but when Kanye's worst album by far is appearing as the top rap album of 2016 in multiple lists it suggests there's something else happening here."
Pitchfork put it at number 5 iirc. I'm starting to think Kanye owns 50% of Pitchfork or something, they keep giving him 10.0 or 9.5 ratings no matter how bad his records get.
― jon123, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
I listened to the Ben Lukas Boyson record at the weekend and it sounded gorgeous but in a very predictable way, like it was his pitch for soundtracking a Scandinavian murder mystery series set in a photogenic small town where everyone has a dark secret from 20 years ago.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
12. Dele Sosimi & Afrobeat Orchestra - Too Much Information (Laolu Remix)
FWIW this is brilliant.
the Kanye album is #4 in the guardian list
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
hell yeah it is
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Just a wee reminder that voting finishes on fridayILM METAL ALBUMS POLL 2016 VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD. [Voting ends Friday December 16 11.59pm GMT]
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Have we had FACT's Top 50 yet?
Lots of stuff still to discover from that list, for me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Here is the complete list from The Wire:
1. David Bowie – Blackstar2. Shirley Collins – Lodestar3. Moor Mother – Fetish Bones4. Autechre – elseq 1-55. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Skeleton Tree6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch7. Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina8. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music9. Gaika – Security10. Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande11. Gate – Saturday Night Fever12. Solange – A Seat At The Table13. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo14. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris15. Babyfather – BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow16. 75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock17. Anna Meredith – Varmints18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS19. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service20. Carla dal Forno – You Know What It's Like21. David Toop – Entities Inertias Faint Beings22. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker23. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered24. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans25. Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement26. Ectoplasm Girs – New Feeling Come27. Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines28. Ian William Craig – Centres29. Matmos – Ultimate Care II30. Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow31. Scott Walker – The Childhood Of A Leader OST32. Bitchin Bajas And Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Epic Jammers And Fortunate Little Ditties33. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City34. Katie Gately – Color35. Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini – Devotional Songs36. Anxiety – Anxiety37. Skepta – Konnichiwa38. Puce Mary – The Spiral39. The Dwarfs Of East Agouza – Bes40. Catherine Christer Hennix – Live At Issue Project Room41. Horse Lords – Interventions42. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q43. Frank Ocean – Blonde44. Thalia Zedek Band – Eve45. Charlemagne Palestine – Cathédrale De Strasbourg46. Ben Johnston – String Quartets 6, 7 & 847. Jackie Lynn – Jackie Lynn48. Zomby – Ultra49. Klara Lewis – Too50. Peder Mannerfelt – Controlling Body
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:06 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yup
did you guys hear èbony's "real love"? thought that was a shoe-in for all the electronic tracks lists
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
from p4k list "After seven LPs, Rihanna finally made a great album, rather than a collection of zeitgeist-dominating bangers surrounded by filler. " did i miss something? i thought everybody felt that anti was the same patchy thing as all the others
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
ppl felt that way on this site but pretty much nowhere else in my experience
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah i'm very confused that became the accepted anti narrative (well...not confused so much given how hard the line was pushed to start with)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:29 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Describes my ilx experience with almost any topic
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
it's "real truth" right? anyway i hadn't heard it but ohhhhhhhh my god
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
yeah "real truth"!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
SPIN put the 1975 at #5, and it's nowhere in the P4k top 50.
Well, at least that's one thing that Pitchfork got right.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Turrican is relentless, man
― alpine static, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
he's a lot of things -less
― banfred bann (wins), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
you'll never know what he'll say next. "he said WHAT?!" "yeah, you heard me" folds arms
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Nice to see Erlewine's influence on the Spin list pushing Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert into the top 50. Two of my favorites.
Also nice to finally see the Cymbals Eat Guitars album make a list. Probably not going to get the ilm crowd excited, but essentially a little messier version of the same 80s rock inspired album Spoon did on their last album.
Thanks for posting the mixmag list!
― Indexed, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
what is this babyfather cover art?
― Indexed, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:27 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agreed. Scandanavian Murder Mysteries was said upthread for Boyson, I feel like I am hearing the scores to all of the fantasy movies I watched when I was young in the Tignor.
― Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
I had a music teacher ruin Max Richter for me because he said the compositions were very obvious
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
Easily predictable, common.
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
not enough Jamila Woods on these lists
― alpine static, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
― Indexed, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:28 PM
SPIN's been covering country for years, though.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos)
Obviously they're forgetting that Rated R exists.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
SPIN singles: http://www.spin.com/featured/the-101-best-songs-of-2016/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
"Here is the complete list from The Wire:"
well it's kind of a relief that the wire has just decided to like the records everybody else likes instead of holding out on this notion of "avant garde" consisting mainly of 70-something europeans.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
"Releasing a nearly eight-minute track as a single is a bit like publishing 8,000 words on the internet and expecting everyone to read it start to finish."
emma i'm sorry nobody reads your thinkpieces but complaining about it in a blurb for an angel olsen song seems... performative.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
there is not nearly enough going on in that angel olsen song for it to be compared to 8,000 words
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
i mean, the space is why it's good
"The final crescendo is as satisfying as a good shit."
ah
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
someone's aggregating these this year, right? any chance we can get an update?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
― who is extreme
yeah this struck me as the best thing on the Mixmag list - the Koze remix and 'The Frontier' also nice tho
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:19 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
True, but I thought last year's list was especially indie-rock heavy? I only remember Kacey Musgraves making their list. Maybe it was just the year.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
The album cover transition from 38 to 37 on Spin's list of songs makes a good mini-narrative.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
interesting how the Suede record received great reviews but is afaict not showing on many lists
― niels, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
I liked in February, forgot about it, loved it in November. It's on mine.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
When did The Wire do this, really? Even looking at these, Robert Wyatt is the only person who could come close to fitting that description.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case, yeah, I'd like to see someone still rep for the proper European avant-garde as well.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
interesting how the Suede record received great reviews but is afaict not showing on many lists― niels, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:09 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI liked in February, forgot about it, loved it in November. It's on mine.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:12 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I liked in February, forgot about it, loved it in November. It's on mine.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:12 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's one of my most listened to records this year. I liked Bloodsports just fine, but Night Thoughts was their best album in years.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
As I've done in the last few years, I've made a Spotify playlist that aggregates a bunch of best-songs lists (Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NME, Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Consequence of Sound, PopMatters, Time, NPR, Vulture, etc.). Currently at about 450 songs. More to come?
https://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/6H2kytqHfA8bTFNOUPjm9x
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link