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
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, February 3, 2020 12:26 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'm not saying he's not good at it, i'm saying i don't like it. i'm not mentioning the rapping style and the aesthetic as being in contrast to each other, i'm mentioning them as two separate things that i don't like. the rapping feels like it's more about technique than expression, which is not something i enjoy, and i have trouble taking "scary" music seriously. it's admittedly a reductive opinion but i've listened to them several times and didn't enjoy it and so didn't go back to give it a deep analysis.
― na (NA), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
fwiw for the curious, the aesthetic of There Existed.... isn't out-and-out horrorcore or anything, it's more "here's a sample from the score to a 70s horror film there, a droning synth there, a lyrical motif as a starting point there" etc
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
regret not throwing a vote to clipping (and one other which i hope will place)
― omar little, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ugNkIRX.jpg#64 – Miranda Lambert – Wildcard (208 points, 8 votes)
miranda lambert
come anticipate Miranda Lambert's new double album The Weight of These Wings
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/miranda-lamberts-wildcard-is-a-freewheeling-country-rock-masterpiece-901904/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
I voted for Fontaines too because I heard it for the first time and liked it the same weekend I was voting. Dunno if I'd do it again. It's fine, but whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
It's fine, but whatever.
My reaction to the Tyler record.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
i always vote Miranda Lambert high up but i haven't really listened to this album yet so i didn't vote for it. she is wonderful tho.
― omar little, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
This countdown is so much less contentious (and, I guess, less heavily trafficked) than the tracks rollout!
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
I liked that Fontaines DC record. Kind of a Dublin Idles it's okay to like afaic
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
re: Lambert, only 3-4 real outright killers on the level of the last album, but not a bad listen
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
I've only heard a couple of Fontaines DC songs and they reminded me of Idles so I didn't investigate any further. Didn't realise they had any kind of following on here.
― kitchen person, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
Whoa, worst cover I've seen so far
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
That's actually an oddly cropped version of the cover I'm familiar with.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
Ah ok, that would make sense.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Listened to Dogrel a lot last year and put it on my ballot. Absolutely hated the Idles album
― groovypanda, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Has anyone completed her crossword yet?
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
lambert record is great, think i voted for it? not a masterpiece like the last one but they can't all be
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
one more and then i'm out for awhile; expect a few PM options to appear.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
enjoying caterina barbieri!
― nxd, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
I guess with Ecstatic Computation placing, at least one thing from my ballot did. Which is nice.
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
thank u for bringing it to my attention!
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
nm i did not vote for it. only thing to place from my ballot so far is cate le bon
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
fontaines dc didn't speak to me at all.
the national album was incredibly impressive, but i had a hard time sitting through the whole thing. not in kansas and you had your soul with you were my choice cuts.
re: tyler - count me as a flower boy-preferrer too, but igor certainly had its moments. never thought i'd describe tyler, the creator as background music, but here we are. still, i liked it enough for it to sneak in my personal top 50.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
PM options
Eh?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I am indifferent to Fontaines DC overall, but I do like "Boys in the Better Land."
― jaymc, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
― dad genes (morrisp)
You can listen along with the tracks rollout and give immediate responses, and that doesn't really work with albums. You've got to either know them already or have a larger amount of time to spare.
― emil.y, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
Just catching up, not heard many of today's albums so far but Igor was one I voted for - I hadn't clicked with anything Tyler had done since that first mixtape so it was a pleasant surprise how much I enjoyed this. Sounds like I should give Flower Boy another listen though.
The clipping. album is an odd one for me, bits of it I found really effective but as a (quite long) album it just didn't hold my attention.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
this clipping. album. you guys could have told me! I was expecting some harsh Dälek type stuff but this is truly excellent
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
listening to the clipping. album for the first time now, really liking it
― Dan S, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
I voted for the Miranda Lambert album just on the last two songs, which I've listened to again and again and again and again and eventually I'll listen to the earlier songs again
haven't heard (of) any of the earlier albums, well I've heard of the national but never heard them
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
Hooray for Matana Roberts, basically.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
Wildcard on this second pass sounds like a companion to Platinum, not really a copy but in the same vein (complete w/the "bad shit is gonna go down" duet w/the slightly lesser country star). it's really a good one. likely would have voted for it if i'd spent more time listening. Mess With My Head is A+ for sure.
― omar little, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
So despite liking and voting for Clipping I didn't actually know anything about who was behind it until today and am surprised to find out it's that guy from Hamilton.
― Chris L, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
The clipping. album is an odd one for me, bits of it I found really effective but as a (quite long) album it just didn't hold my attention
I skip the interludes and "La Mala Ordina" a lot, not because I dislike them but because I'm often anxious to get to the next song and don't often have the luxury of time (related note: meetings suck)
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
La Mala Ordina is fantastic I think!
― Dan S, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
one of those tracks where the features are absolutely critical to the narrative
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
DJP otm about Clipping.
Associating enunciation and wordiness with corniness is suss
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
And ahistorical!
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
Like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFYrRkGiVN0
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
that's why it's corny, it sounds like something that came out when i was in college. but ILM loving music that sounds like it came out when they were in their early 20s is very on-brand.
― na (NA), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
Mess With My Head is A+ for sure.
― omar little, Monday, February 3, 2020 1:18 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
pretending to like lil xan to own the olds
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
Spotify playlist has spoilt #63 if anyone's keen to see. Forks must have not noticed he got xposted and hurried off. We're all behind you Forks lol :D
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Weezer_Teal_Album.jpg#63 – Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album) (208 points, 8 votes)
― enochroot, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
clipping. sounds exactly how I wanted all these anti-pop consortium / dälek / cloudead bands from the early 2000s to actually sound like. fair to say certain attitudinal parallels with Algiers in some ways?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
finally, some bona fide rock n roll
― frogbs, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
oi stop doing his job for him, he'd have been back soon
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
fair to say certain attitudinal parallels with Algiers in some ways?
imo yes, also some goth cred to both
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
haha, the clipping album ends with a performance of Annea Lockwood's 'Piano Burning'!
― Dan S, Monday, 3 February 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link