great 74 this year and a worthy winner, thx to poll runners!
― ogmor, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (seven years ago)
I'm a contrarian and love being non-hivemindy, but I've not been very successful at it this year.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (seven years ago)
hahaha xp
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (seven years ago)
I gave up on trying to “get” Aviary but maybe I should give it another shot
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (seven years ago)
I still need to buy a copy too.I posted this in the Holter thread but her last NTS mix makes a neat companion piece to the album:
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/julia-holter-26th-october-2018
― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/iqSavKe.jpg#3: Robyn - Honey - 933 points – 27 votes - 3 first place votes
Robyn
Will Hermes: "On her first album in eight years, taking a more active hand on the production side after what seems to have been a period of painful personal change, Robyn relaxes the tempos and lets the healing ecstasy of club grooves take over."
Stacey Anderson: "Robyn presents her first solo album in eight years subtly, with slight builds and light hands. But her masterful command of emotions on the dancefloor slowly reveals itself across another enthralling record."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:56 (seven years ago)
FUCK I WAS WRONG
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:57 (seven years ago)
Robyn definitely amid my top five, prob top three; almost certainly her best album to date and totally worth celebrating!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:57 (seven years ago)
Loved Aviary and had never really clicked with any of Holter's previous records (not that I've heard all of them).
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:57 (seven years ago)
glad she wasn't no. 1 but i totally voted for honey
I think I always knew this was coming down to Low vs. Kacey.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:58 (seven years ago)
it's going to be Kacey and it won't be close
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:59 (seven years ago)
weird
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:59 (seven years ago)
Too Kacey
― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:59 (seven years ago)
if you're doing some insider trading type deal here i'm going to be very upset
I'm finally gonna have to listen to this Low album, aren't I?
― enochroot, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:00 (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/3QKhjYt.jpg#2: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour - 1078 points – 30 votes - 5 first place votes
Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation
Alexis Petridis: "Regardless of genre, you’ll be hard pushed to find a better collection of pop songs this year. Everything clicks perfectly, but the writing has an effortless air; it never sounds as if it’s trying too hard to make a commercial impact, it never cloys, and the influences never swallow the character of the artist who made it."
Sam Sodomsky: "The mystical grandeur of Golden Hour creates a magnetic effect as Kacey Musgraves sings simply about the world as if she’s the first person to notice, and you’re the first one she’s telling."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:00 (seven years ago)
TOO LOW:
Honey was my #2, it really is the house music Aerial. This and my #1 were the albums that I listened to more than any others this year and there were no other reasonable picks for the top two imo, but maybe I could have put this at #1. It's classic.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:00 (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/cOFxE21.jpg#1: Low - Double Negative - 1440 points – 45 votes - 6 first place votes
Low: Classic or classic?
Ben Beaumont Thomas: "This ranks alongside the likes of Anselm Kiefer and Cormac McCarthy as a document of contemporary social collapse, and as such is the most important, devastating album of the year."
Stephen Deusner: "Double Negative is their biggest step forward to date, an album that scrambles their sound completely; it sounds nothing like Low and everything like Low. More than that, it captures what it means to be alive in 2018, when developments in technology create rather than alleviate suffering, when each day seems to present a fresh new hell, when it takes immense will power to maintain equilibrium and hope."
This album is the musical equivalent of an instagram post of someone doing yoga in a field of sunflowers.― kornrulez6969, Friday, August 17, 2018
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:00 (seven years ago)
WHAT
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:00 (seven years ago)
holy cats!
holy shit!!!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:01 (seven years ago)
that is...not even remotely close
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:01 (seven years ago)
rarely this happy to be wrong
i wish kacey had won :(
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
A winner I can get behind!
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
I guess I should take Low seriously at last!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
blurb for kacey yes ? xp
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
totemic album that I honestly considered also making my #1
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
hell yeah
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
Whoaaa
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
hmm. this seems like a particularly cruel fake-out
Low is like some '90s rock band, right? I didn't know they still existed.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
Hope you enjoyed this year's countdown! Thank you forks and seandalai! I have to leave will come back in an hour or so here's the image album if you want to recall what albums placed:
https://imgur.com/a/FfH9LSQ
the full results and stats should come shortly.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (seven years ago)
my actual album of the year until the mewithoutyou and mr twin sister and 1975 records came out
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (seven years ago)
too low
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (seven years ago)
Exactly Low enough.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (seven years ago)
playlist is fully updated and done; have at the listening:https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/4DzRiNP3gnIu4icC69zypd
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (seven years ago)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (seven years ago)
I don't quite get the Low album lol, it's decent, a bit boring, y'know. *volunteers for reeducation camp*
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (seven years ago)
well done Moka!
Wow, did not expect this!
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)
lol this is great bc i didn't vote for kacey
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)
thanks everybody :)
― nxd, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)
― imago, Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:03 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
turn it up louder
yes, great stuff pollrunners. no fake placement was the fake placement haha
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)
time to do the low artist poll i think
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)
I need to finally give Low a chance, at this point in my life? Hmm
― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)