I think I always knew this was coming down to Low vs. Kacey.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
it's going to be Kacey and it won't be close
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
weird
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
Too Kacey
― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
WHAT
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
holy cats!
holy shit!!!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
that is...not even remotely close
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
rarely this happy to be wrong
i wish kacey had won :(
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
A winner I can get behind!
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
blurb for kacey yes ? xp
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
totemic album that I honestly considered also making my #1
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
hell yeah
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
Whoaaa
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
too low
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Exactly Low enough.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Robyn definitely amid my top five, prob top three; almost certainly her best album to date and totally worth celebrating!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
well done Moka!
Wow, did not expect this!
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
lol this is great bc i didn't vote for kacey
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
thanks everybody :)
― nxd, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
― 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 (five years ago) link
time to do the low artist poll i think
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
I need to finally give Low a chance, at this point in my life? Hmm
― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
Unless this is a cruel fakeout, this means that I voted for both the #1 track AND the #1 album. That has definitely never ever happened before. Fuck.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
Thank you, pollrunners. Thoroughly enjoyable and well-executed rollout!
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
blurb for kacey yes ? xpYeah!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
emil.y your ILM-embroidered jacket should arrive in the next 2-6 weeks
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
also thanks very much Moka, forks, and seandalai !!!
Low's last one finished relatively....low...compared to this. Ones and Sixes was at #43.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
Yes! Low my #1. Kinda knew it would win but didn't want to jinx it. 1440 points is, like, all-time high though, isn't it? Which I did not expect.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
I think that's a fair discrepancy. this one felt like the fully-fleshed-out version of that one. xp
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.twitter.com/BruceLevenstein/status/1075876452887916544
― *there's (Noel Emits), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
Thanks Moka! ulysses! seandadata! Standards maintained, and arguably surpassed this year.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link