Credit is due: I hadn't heard of almost all of those. I cynically wonder whether that's for solid reasons though. The Quietus has burnt me before like this lol
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 06:33 (two years ago) link
The quality of the music that the Quietus promotes has dropped precipitously over the past few years.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:53 (two years ago) link
Like oh great, another gabber metal record and a Sleaford Mods side project plus an effusive review of some unlistenable experimental dance music
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:54 (two years ago) link
Horsegirl definitely a band that I avoided because of their name.Fwiw the Binker Golding is in my top 5 of the year, incredible record.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:56 (two years ago) link
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:53 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
fully agree
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:02 (two years ago) link
any music site who reps for Fat White Family needs burning down and then salting the earth over their domain. That's an even worse crime than p4k clickbait like: here is what some gormless twink from some netflix shite is currently listening to.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:09 (two years ago) link
the quietus just has a strange taste very much of its own and always has
― ufo, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:10 (two years ago) link
It's made a pronounced lurch towards really boring, nothingy music imo
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:13 (two years ago) link
I do wonder how much of that is the result of the UK avant-music scene falling embarrassingly, catastrophically behind the US one though
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link
mighta messaged on other boards but i really recommend the brainwaltzera album, looks like a nice list will deffo check the others
― nxd, Thursday, 18 August 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
of the ones on there, i’ve heard the naima bock (excellent) and the defcee/boathouse album (pretty good)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
oh! and the they hate change album, which is one of my ten or so favorite albums of the year
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
I checked out Horsegirl and it was decidedly not my thing, so the only one on here I've really heard is the Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice, which is lovely. I keep meaning to start a Moon Glyph label thread, lots of gems there
― rob, Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
yeah moon glyph has been doing great stuff, i was glad to see that lynn avery album get a nod
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link
I've played stuff off the Katarina Gryvul and Silvia Tarozzi records on my radio show, so I wholeheartedly recommend those. Interested in the Afrorack record.
― emil.y, Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
the Avery & Pulice is really good, and agree with emil.y re: the Gryvul— those two and the Binker record are all year standouts for me.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
re: the pfork list — the ella mai got a shoutout and that's got one of my favorite songs of the year on it, so i'm down. skimmed a few other things that looked of interest and made some notes. these are almost always my favorite types of pieces pfork does.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
― nxd, Thursday, August 18, 2022 8:35 AM (seven hours ago)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, August 18, 2022 9:18 AM (six hours ago)
I liked the first track on the brainwaltzera, but wasn't quite in the mood for that sound so will have to return.
The Bock album is brilliant so far, really happy to hear this! I've also been meaning to listen to They Hate Change...
― rob, Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
from that pitchfork list i'm really loving FLO
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
ooh otm, this is really well put together
― rob, Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
agreed map. production is nice.
has anyone else heard this ogi? i'm checking it out now because of the mention in the pfork piece. only two song in, but one of them is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwKp-HkKUMA
"envy"
this is completely great.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
it's funny to read this in parallel to the ilm '10s poll, w/r/t/ how a bunch of esoteric picks and unique individual tastes get flattened out into a dull consensus (as i assume very few of these albums or songs from them will make p4k's main year-end list)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 August 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
a good point— and always been a source of frustration with pfork for me. "we could talk about this stuff more, but nah." i mean i guess all of the albums or artists were at least mentioned before the column, but most of us will probably be able to guess their top ten albums in a month's time. none of them will be from this column.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Friday, 19 August 2022 03:49 (two years ago) link
most of us will probably be able to guess their top ten albums in a month's time
I don't know if it's just me, but I visit that site every day, and yet I don't really have a grasp at all as to what their top albums this year will actually be other than Beyonce and Big Thief.
― MarkoP, Friday, 19 August 2022 04:59 (two years ago) link
Yeah same here actually (not that I pay super close attention…)
― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Friday, 19 August 2022 05:19 (two years ago) link
yeah there just haven't been that many big event albums this year so far, so those are the only two i'd consider locks for p4k's top 10 (& ours) so far. kendrick is another critically acclaimed event album of course but p4k was notably cooler on it than most critics so i expect it'll show up in like, the 20s on their list. i'd also point out that no one really expected them to have jazmine sullivan at #1 last year, especially since the consensus among fans seemed to be that it was a bit slight? last year's p4k list was genuinely pretty unexpected in general.
― ufo, Friday, 19 August 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
Reports of rockism's demise have been greatly exaggerated: today's Sunday review is Graham fucking Parker.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 21 August 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
I dunno, I've wanted to read a contemporary reappraisal of a once-lauded figure, and Elizabeth Nelson's the writer to do it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2022 11:44 (two years ago) link
Nelson's a good writer who clearly wishes she was alive to write for the Voice in the Seventies. A young fogey. Of course she loves Graham Parker — it would be shocking if she didn't.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 21 August 2022 12:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I always have to remind myself that I am old and getting older every day, and even then Graham Parker was already somewhat forgotten history when I was *young*. There's no reason to believe anyone learning about music today would necessarily give that or any Parker album (or Joe Jackson, or Nick Lowe, or hell Elvis Costello) a listen, but it's a good record and I welcome any renewed discourse.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 August 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
It might be best that we all forget Elvis Costello
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 August 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Pitchfork will 100% have Rosalía’s Motomami in its top 10.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 21 August 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
Wet Leg maybe too
― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Sunday, 21 August 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
It might be best that we all forget Elvis Costello― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, August 21, 2022 9:39 AM
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, August 21, 2022 9:39 AM
I BEEN SAYIN THIS FOR YEARS
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Sunday, 21 August 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
lol it's the midpoint of Tom Petty and early Elvis Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXvBivGcMo
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 21 August 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
And Randy Newman. Jesus, I just watched that whole clip — it felt 48 hours long.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 21 August 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah, wow, both of the songs I've heard from this guy are utter trash
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 August 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
ok zoomer
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 August 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
milo's vid unavailable here in uk: what's the song?
i wd still rep for the LP squeezing out sparks but probably more from fondness towards my own youth than caring much abt parker's place in history lol, the critical consensus c.1979 was betting on a thing that ran off a cliff pretty quickly
― mark s, Sunday, 21 August 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
"Local Girls"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 21 August 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
which is on squeezing out sparks so doesn't even help my small point
― mark s, Sunday, 21 August 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
lol Paul Ponzi, I’m turning 38 in five weeks
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 August 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
yr all zoomers to me
― mark s, Sunday, 21 August 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
get off my lawn
property is theft, greyhair
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
Graham Parker placed second in the 1976 Pazz and Top poll with Heat Treatment and first in 1979 with Squeezing Out Sparks, for historical context
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
*Pazz and Jop
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
cadence weapon vs pitchfork(with a namedrop for this place)
https://thewalrus.ca/bedroom-rapper/
― mark e, Monday, 22 August 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
I actually found ilm because Rollie mentioned it on a hip hop message board I used to read
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 August 2022 11:55 (two years ago) link