The Underside Of Power is sounding great this morning. That's how you do a chorus. I probably need to go back and give the album another listen.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
will need to give this a listenjust hitting up this SAM track for third time in a row
― nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
it takes a powerhouse band to pull off this song without it turning into a mishmash--from the feverish post-punk intro, to the stomping verses that crib the bassline from The Tramps' "Disco Inferno," opening up into a chorus that could have felt at home on a classic Stax record.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
Pour Aisha :) gorgeous, 31!
― i know kore-eda (or something), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
many xps, but I voted for "Magnolia" in my top ten. It is literally impossible to not move your body when that song comes on.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
That Mondo Grosso / Shinichi Osawa song is amazing and didn’t see it on the noms list :/ thanks for the voters!
First time looking at the video and I love it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
Wow, I like this Algiers song a lot. Will listen to more of this band.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
I'm still really surprised that the Algiers album wasn't more of a hit with the critics. It sounds like the kind of thing they'd get behind.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
it got a lot of positive notes outside of that weird P4k pan
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
one of the little things i love about algiers is the way that the richard hammond-looking dude on bass holds his instrument like it's a machine gun that he just ripped off a tank turret
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
think they got geoff barrow involved for this record and it shows. third-era portishead being one of the touchstones for the album's sound
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Also had this at #2 (somewhat tactically, my #1 is probably at 200 in the full rundown).
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
Pour Aisha is pretty but a little too minimal for me to love
The Underside of Power is my favourite post-punk thing i've heard in ages, shame they didn't really get any 'buzz' despite some good reviews outside of p4k. it was Adrian Utley who produced some of it not Barrow but yeah it's clear
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
oh yeah that's it
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
'hymn for an average man' is full portishead and a recommended listen
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
for anyone who struggled with he album as a whole I really recommend the NPR track-by-track thing
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
finally listening to the lcd track and wow this guy has like three albums tops in his record collection. i guess "how do you sleep" is gonna place bc it's way better than this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
yeahhh really hoping the album tops out at like 40 in the rollout but I gather that's optimistic :/
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
I still think having a multi-night goodbye party for your band at MSG, releasing a fucking movie of it, and then bringing your band back five years later is a fucko thing to do. Especially with shit like "Oh Baby."
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZXrPB3U.jpg
31 KELELA "Frontline" [244 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]https://soundcloud.com/kelelam/frontline
wonderful song
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
xpost I was surprised how much I enjoyed the LCD album when it came out, but I haven't gone back to it much at all. After all the ridiculously high end of year placements I've started to resent it a bit.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Sorry that soundcloud link is just a :30 clip, but the song isn't on youtube at all. xps
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
no one asked for an LCD Soundsystem reunion. Their 'final' album (before the comeback) was weaksauce and his big 'I'm leaving Facebook forever byenow' gesture was overinflated and self important, so reforming the band only a few years later to do this just made no sense
― Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
or what JF said
omfg frontline is so good
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
forget whether I voted for the album or "Frontline" but yeah great song. We had a good run of no repeats but Kelela is a good one to break the streak with
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
oh this is why LMK seemed low, love this
i enjoyed a fair bit of the LCD album but it was way overrated in most EOY stuff. How Do You Sleep was one of the real duds, it's such a slog
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Huh, they both have 7 votes. Just ballot placement thangz, I guess.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
Didn't check out the Algiers album last year but from what other ilxors had said about it I thought I'd like it a lot more than I actually do. It just seems a bit full of rock stodge.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Oh Baby - sounds like the cover looks. terrible. 1Shadow - dreary, whenever i look in the middle distance I see a carpet warehouse. they must see something better but no idea what. 3Ogre - this is from that episode of Star Trek Original Series where they go to a planet of ancient greeks and the one with the red shirt gets vaporized again. would be a 5 but its always good to see Spock smiling so an extra half for that. 5 and a half.Red Flavor - the Korean version of the music they play on Norwegian airlines for three hours straight when you are delayed on the runway because Norwegian Air have the lowest priority at the gate. 1Magnolia - Quite like the production, its even a little bit genial! 6
Mondo Grosso - first 40 seconds or so are alright, vocals are completely characterless and then it gets sappy and overdone and whatever was there disappears. 4Did You See - no idea 2Pour Aisha - first artist on list I own a record by (not this one), the sounds are nice but really it needs a touch of Riquelme to think about reaching bank holiday deckchair status. its growing on me though 7The Underside Of Power truly dire. when you complain about music in a coffee shop and then in 10% of them it plays this which is much worse than the other sort (the vampire one we had from before) 0frontline - bearable i guess 4
― saer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
:D
'frontline' is a really cool trip
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
Mondo Grosso - first 40 seconds or so are alright, vocals are completely characterless and then it gets sappy and overdone and whatever was there disappears. 4
I'm fine with this take as long as a saer track makes top 10.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
love u saer
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
lmao at the notion of Algiers getting coffee-shop play
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
Pour Aisha - first artist on list I own a record by (not this one), the sounds are nice but really it needs a touch of Riquelme to think about reaching bank holiday deckchair status. its growing on me though 7
I have to say I find this extremely disappointing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
tbf there are a few communist coffee shops out there
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
you guys really like kelela, huh?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
it was in Blods coffee corner!
― saer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
pour aisha is quite nice, goes straight into my bobbins playlist
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
saer has the best dawson take
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dQmD4iX.jpg
30 ALVVAYS "In Undertow" [250 points, 8 votes]https://youtu.be/T1n72aCdwdU
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
I guess this is my day huh? lovely band.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
I voted for the album, but this is a nice opening track.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
alvvays are pleasant i guess but there's nothing interesting about them at all
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
lol i was about to say alvvays are alvvays pleasant
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Surprised to see this place so high. The second album didn't quite hit me in the same way the debut did. This is definitely is one of the highlights.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
there are a million songs about accepting something is over and being OK alone but I like the particular formulation here, and the closing "no turning....ba-aaaack" always gets me
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
Second one I voted for, love this. Both albums have been completely overshadowed by their lead singles for me though.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
my only strong feeling about alvvays is that I think it would be super fun to be in this band
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link