never got round to hearing that, i do love jme though
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
DJP alert
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FQdjmZ1.jpg#71 – clipping. – There Existed an Addiction to Blood (188 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote)
Clipping - Midcity (noise rap)
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-revie.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Too goddamn low ffs!
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Was hoping for #45 to match Pfork's rating.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
looking at my ballot now, it looks like I forgot to vote for this
― silverfish, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
Probably should have placed it a little higher on mine.
― Chris L, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
i still don't know what clipping is all about. name just makes me think of toenails
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
glad it got in! on balance probably their best yet
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
I feel like I made some sort of copy paste error, because there's another album on my ballot that shouldn't be there. Sorry!
xxp to myself
― silverfish, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
hopefully it was a good one.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
They've reached greatness - well, they already had, but this is a stunning reaffirmation. Some of the best sonics and rapping around, and the concept is always so tight. I mean, I slightly prefer Splendor & Misery if pushed, but that one's on my all-time list and this is a broadening of focus to encompass new and horrific delights
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/U7FaZIK.jpg#70 – Blanck Mass – Animated Violence Mild (189 points, 6 votes)
Fuck Buttons: Pretty/Noisy band on ATP Recordings: Dígame Más Por Favor
https://www.nme.com/reviews/blanck-mass-animated-violence-mild-review-2536310
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
I very much enjoyed World Eater, but as I've said elsewhere this one was basically the Mortal Kombat soundtrack sans the unsophisticated charm. Then again, my tolerance for maximalist kitsch is quite low.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
whoa I expected clipping to place a lot higher wtf
― brimstead, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
About halfway (? lol how long is this album) through the Matana Roberts and rather enjoying it btw
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
👍
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
They are a hip-hop group that uses a ton of industrial/field recordings to put together the beats for their music. For example, on the song "Shooter" (from a previous EP) they went to a rifle range and recorded themselves firing something like 14 different guns, then built the main percussion hits of the beat off of those samples. Their emcee is Daveed Diggs, who was the original Lafayette/Jefferson from the Broadway cast of Hamilton. This album starts out using a horror movie tropes as allegories to stories about police brutality and street crime and slowly segues into straight-up horror stories involving red room parties, werewolves, and more.
Standout songs on the album are "Nothing Is Safe", which turns a drug bust into a Carpenter-scored home invasion story, "Run For Your Life", which tells the story of a junkie being hunted by a drug lord recast as a serial killer where the beat comes out of cars driving down the street as the junkie tries to get away, "The Show" which is an industrial march about torturing people for entertainment, "Story 7", which brings together characters from other "Story" tracks from previous releases as they encounter a werewolf, "He Dead", which uses sparse cathedral organ as a backdrop for how the police hunt poor black people, to pretty much every other song on the album. I strongly, strongly recommend listening not only to it, but their entire discography; Diggs is a lights-out talent in and of himself and the sound palette the group has created for him to show off over is incomparable.
(There Existed An Addiction To Blood was my #1 and I think this group is by far the best musical act of the 2010s after diving back through their work; also check out "The Deep" EP; the title track was nominated for a Hugo Award.)
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
ha! world eater is the album I accidentally voted for. I like it, but it overdoes it a bit and like I mentioned in the tracks thread, sounds like a caricature of World Eater
― silverfish, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
I also want to call out "Club Down" for having a backing track made up entirely of synth stabs and screams and the lurching nightmare beat of "All In Your Head" that blossoms into really the only moment of positive catharsis on the album, an a capella hymn-like text that blossoms into a full-on drum n bass celebration.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
Daveed Diggs of clipping. also has a snowballing acting career onstage/film/television.
You're gonna see a lot of him this year as Frederick Douglass in the Ethan Hawke HBO show The Good Lord Bird and in the (god help us) TNT adaptation of Bong Joon Ho's dystopian sci-fi movie Snowpiercer.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
he's sorta ridiculously talented is what I'm getting at. I saw him in White Noise last year and, though the play was garbage, he was magnetic.
apologies but clipping always sounds very corny to my ears. it's a combo of diggs' super-wordy and enunciated rapping and the "WE'RE SCARY!" aesthetic
― na (NA), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
wtf does snowpiercer really need or deserve an english language adaptation
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
DJP didn't even mention the incredible "Blood of the Fang", which made my singles ballot and almost cracked the 77.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
thank you djp, helpful posting!
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
Surprised that clipping is so low despite not voting for it myself, thought it would have reasonable ilx support.
― emil.y, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
― ciderpress, Monday, February 3, 2020 12:04 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
not sure if irony, but snowpiercer was definitely in english
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
None of you have mentioned La Mala Ordina (my #4 track) or the Piano Burning outro yet either, which brings us to virtually the whole album
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
oh right that's even more perplexing then
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
(Adding to DJP's excellent write-up, the use of cars playing the beat as they drove by in Run For Your Life was some properly breathtaking stuff. I first listened to it walking alone by a road in the early morning. A good setting for it)
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
to say something positive though, i love the cate le bon album and am glad it eked its way on here
― na (NA), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Most of these albums so far are TOO HIGH. Clipping, Cate le Bon, and Blanck Mass were all overrated.
― octobeard, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NQj4g7U.jpg#69 – Sampa the Great – The Return (194 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote)
Rolling non-US rap thread 2018
https://www.popmatters.com/sampa-the-great-the-return-2640293029.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
Excellent first half, then it completely lost me – and I'm a fan of 90s-style full CD-length overreaching in hip-hop.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
oh damnit TOO LOW. My #1
― octobeard, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Are you Bandcamp?
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Was that their #1? If so they have good taste
― octobeard, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
nice
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
Tell us why it's good then!
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
oh i loved this record, first of all votes to place this fortnite
― nxd, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
I was a bit disappointed at first by The Return, it felt a bit too mellow coming after the undeniable energy of, er, "Energy" and "Final Form". But it did grew on me, even the slower jams make sense in the context of it being an introspective concept album on African immigrant experience.
― Tuomas, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
It's gorgeous - Sampa's voice, her words, and the production. Probably the album with the best balance of those three things this year imo. It's super close to my other favs of the year but I had to pick a #1 and it won out
― octobeard, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
#72 – Jme – Grime MC (187 points, 7 votes)
so happy it made the top. such a great record.
― Nourry, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
impressive for an album with no digital release whatsoever
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
And Laurel Halo's DJ-Kicks was my #3, so I'm glad I helped it make it to the the top 77. It really is one of the best DJ mixes of the millennium, and the best record she's ever released. If you buy the Bandcamp version that comes with a free download of full versions of all the tracks, you can see what a great job she did at selecting them and mixing them in a coherent whole.
― Tuomas, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, February 3, 2020 12:41 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
did it even see physical release in the US?
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
not AFAIK
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
the Laurel Halo DJ-Kicks album was great I thought! It was high on my list. also voted for the Matana Roberts
― Dan S, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
I can't really put into words exactly how offensive this position is to me. It comes across to me as saying Diggs can't be good at hip-hop because he's not black enough.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link