FACT's 20 albums for 2011

if we're talking about albums from non-musicians in 2011, easily my most anticipated is kim kardashian's

Posts very much in character. Hope there's a duet with Justin Bieber where they pretend to be a couple and she sounds like she would rather be anywhere else in the world.

dude terius is producing it!

TERIUS

and KIM KARDASHIAN

it is going to be INCREDIBLE

That's a pre-emptive entry on the "albums that oughtta get 10.0" thread, right? Kim Kardashian is less obviously a terrible human being than Paris so I'm sort of anticipating this. Hoping Terius veers more into riotous Electrik Red/Basic Instinct territory rather than breathy sex ballads though.

Apparently David Lynch has already released a single? Is it any good?

there's two, one dumb "electropop" song and one drony/ambient track that'd one expect from him

That's a pre-emptive entry on the "albums that oughtta get 10.0" thread, right?

Several major publications are already reserving their number one spot for 2011 for it.

don't really see the need for albums but out of these...uh the villalobos might be good (is it the ECM stuff?) the isolee is...a grower but a bit of a disappointment at same time...not sure yet (do love one of the tracks on there tho) - each time i'm going to play it i end up playing the christopher rau lp instead

instra:mental could be good - no idea bout these at all, but was really into 'lets talk' last year

don't really see the need for albums

love this kind of fronting, very 'now' to boot

Hope there's a duet with Justin Bieber where they pretend to be a couple and she sounds like she would rather be anywhere else in the world.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 January 2011 12:20 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Funnily enough, they are doing "Oliver's Army"

oh good grief.

wow, i finally listened to the james blake album expecting to dislike it based on all the trashing its getting here, and....i kinda like it! i can see why people might get really evangelical about this in a talk talk way sorta, though its way more monochrome than those talk talk records and probably more similar to something like bon iver in tone and scope. definitely not dubstep in any way though imo

i wouldn't go that far, even 'limit to your love' is 140 bpm with bass that's pretty clearly influenced by dubstep

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dammit forgot to vote for burial.

there's a lot of potential on this list. but like every year, much of it will disappoint, and great stuff will surface that is totally unanticipated.

YAY!

promise?

yes. i give you my word.

you can trust me on this. i've never been wrong.

How is this panning out?

terius produced kim kardashian. it was incredible.

lol

30 albums still to look forward to in 2011

ACTRESS - GHETTOVILLE (WERK DISCS)
APPARAT - THE DEVIL'S WALK (MUTE)
ATLAS SOUND - PARALLAX (4AD)
BJORK - BIOPHILIA (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
COOLY G - TITLE TBC (HYPERDUB)
DAVID LYNCH - CRAZY CLOWN TIME (SUNDAY BEST)
DJ SHADOW - THE LESS YOU KNOW THE BETTER (ISLAND)
DRAKE - TAKE CARE (YOUNG MONEY / UNIVERSAL MOTOWN)
THE-DREAM - L.IV (DIARY OF A MADMAN) (DEF JAM)
THE DRUMS - PORTAMENTO (MOSHI MOSHI / ISLAND)
FEIST - METALS (POLYDOR)
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - TITLE TBC (ISLAND)
JOKER - THE VISION (4AD)
JUSTICE - AUDIO, VIDEO, DISCO (ED BANGER)
KUEDO - SEVERANT (PLANET MU)
LEYLAND KIRBY - EAGER TO TEAR APART THE STARS (HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS)
L-VIS 1990 - NEON DREAMS (PMR)
LA VAMPIRES & MARIA MINERVA - TITLE TBC (NOT NOT FUN)
MARTYN - GHOST PEOPLE (BRAINFEEDER)
MATTHEW HERBERT - ONE PIG (ACCIDENTAL)
MODESELEKTOR - MONKEYTOWN (MONKEYTOWN)
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - REPLICA (SOFTWARE)
RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS (WARP)
SANTIGOLD - TITLE TBC (WARNER)
SULLY - CARRIER (KEYSOUND)
THEO PARRISH - UGLY EDITS (SOUND SIGNATURE)
TOM WAITS - BAD AS ME (ANTI/EPITAPH)
WATER BORDERS - HARBORED MANTRAS (TRI ANGLE)
THE WEEKND- ECHOES OF SILENCE (SELF-RELEASED)
ZOLA JESUS - CONATUS (SOUTERRAIN TRANMISSIONS)

Thoughts on these?

fuck Drake, IMO

ACTRESS - GHETTOVILLE (WERK DISCS)

not partic anticipating, can't get into his stuff

APPARAT - THE DEVIL'S WALK (MUTE)

heard this, it's ok

BJORK - BIOPHILIA (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)

the three tracks i've heard are underwhelming and the whole ~multimedia~ ~app~ thing is tremendously offputting

COOLY G - TITLE TBC (HYPERDUB)

yup, hyped

DJ SHADOW - THE LESS YOU KNOW THE BETTER (ISLAND)

this ain't 1996

DRAKE - TAKE CARE (YOUNG MONEY / UNIVERSAL MOTOWN)

kmt

THE-DREAM - L.IV (DIARY OF A MADMAN) (DEF JAM)

radiokillaaaaaaaaa! my expectations are somewhat tempered but i'm still looking fwd, will drop everything to d/l it when it leaks

THE DRUMS - PORTAMENTO (MOSHI MOSHI / ISLAND)

these people are terrible wtf

FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - TITLE TBC (ISLAND)

hahahahahahahaha i'll stick to "damn i wish i was your lover" thanks

JOKER - THE VISION (4AD)

kinda felt the single with jessie ware wasn't all it could have been, guess i'm still anticipating but i don't expect anything to blow my brains out like "gully brook lane" did all those years ago

JUSTICE - AUDIO, VIDEO, DISCO (ED BANGER)

fuck off

L-VIS 1990 - NEON DREAMS (PMR)

yes!

MARTYN - GHOST PEOPLE (BRAINFEEDER)

i guess so

MATTHEW HERBERT - ONE PIG (ACCIDENTAL)

smh

RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS (WARP)

this album is AMAZING!!!! i wasn't expecting it to be so good but it really is awesome

SANTIGOLD - TITLE TBC (WARNER)

i liked the single with karen o but not as much as the singles off her first album

SULLY - CARRIER (KEYSOUND)

yeah i guess

THEO PARRISH - UGLY EDITS (SOUND SIGNATURE)

yes, definitely

TOM WAITS - BAD AS ME (ANTI/EPITAPH)

i liked the single until the self-parodic vocals came in - i guess i'll still give it a listen though

THE WEEKND- ECHOES OF SILENCE (SELF-RELEASED)

I WILL KILL YOU

ACTRESS - GHETTOVILLE (WERK DISCS)
Hey cool, I didn't know about this! I'm still getting into the last one. He was VERY techno-y at Field Day, so maybe this will go in that direction.

JOKER - THE VISION (4AD)
Yep, interested!

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - REPLICA (SOFTWARE)
This guy is just a little too prolific maybe? I only feel like I've scraped the surface of his previous works.

SULLY - CARRIER (KEYSOUND)
I've heard it, it's nice - somewhere between dubstep, garage and footwork. And then after rinsing the album for a couple of weeks, I found out it's an old friend of mine.

TOM WAITS - BAD AS ME (ANTI/EPITAPH)
Well, duh, of course I'm looking forward to it. But I'd rather hear a new direction. I enjoyed Real Gone, but I do prefer his other styles more than the raggedy blues stuff he's been doing these last few years.

FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - TITLE TBC (ISLAND)

hahahahahahahaha i'll stick to "damn i wish i was your lover" thanks

<3 this

Lex, you have me interested in the Rustie album. The last thing I heard by him didn't do much for me, but it showed potential.

so I'm the only one who loves how dated Bjork's new singles are, then?

Have not heard the new singles - are they like 1993ish?

i don't think it's nec that they sound "dated" as such, though they do sound like they could have come from any recording session she did over the past decade - they just don't hook me with their, uh, hooks. or lack of. judgment not set in stone, maybe they'll sound better in album context, but they're just a bit...forgettable

david lynch YEAH OK

here's a radio rip of one of the best tracks on the rustie album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53T9jxRYCC8

thx, will check it out after work.

are most of these just bullshit? has jam city really got an album coming out?

anticipating actress & rustie, maybe apparat. and bjork, i guess.

What do you call it when you're over-generous with your time on something you don't like, but you want to learn to 'appreciate'? As in you've read five Murakami novels even though he's your least favourite? Or when you earmark a recipe for kohlrabi because you're determined to enjoy kohlrabi one day? Anyway I'll be listening to that Actress record, a lot, probably.

haha i totally sympathise re: actress

I like the clips from the Bjork record that I've heard. Nice vocal 'sound', less sibilant, lower in the mix. Excited for Cooly G and Theo Parrish. Have no idea about Rustie but love the clip above.

What do you call it when you're over-generous with your time on something you don't like, but you want to learn to 'appreciate'? As in you've read five Murakami novels even though he's your least favourite? Or when you earmark a recipe for kohlrabi because you're determined to enjoy kohlrabi one day? Anyway I'll be listening to that Actress record, a lot, probably.

― Ópen W. (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:37 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Hackwork?

ha, i genuinely enjoy splazsh, no homework. although it does make me want to fall asleep, in a good way.

xp!

ugly edits are all old although I guess it would be nice to have them in one place. That cant be an official release can it?

lol @ the dream & the drake being the token pop picks

You have to be in a very very very dozy state of mind to truly appreciate that Actress album. Only then can the mindworms start weaving their magic. Or something.

At least, I really like the first track, the one that's supposedly based on Erotic City.

Hubble - that's it

oh really, as in it samples erotic city?

awesome track btw

What do you call it when you're over-generous with your time on something you don't like, but you want to learn to 'appreciate'?

oh god, all the time with acts i love in the first place - is it worse when it doesn't pay off, and you feel like you've wasted all that time, or when it kind of pays off but, you suspect, only cuz you gave it those 940339 chances that you wouldn't have given to anyone else

Hackwork?

Yeah!

You have to be in a very very very dozy state of mind to truly appreciate that Actress album. Only then can the mindworms start weaving their magic. Or something.

Man, Splazsh should come w a how-to guide. I get told how to listen to it as often as I get people telling me I should try acupuncture

I like Actress because it's house music for dimensions with different physical parameters to our own. Or something...

'Hubble' is apparently a "study" of 'Erotic City'. I tried playing them back to back, and really there's little similarity, but at the same time I can kind of understand this. Something about the jitter - the groove in there.

the thread title The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète will put me off ever listening to that stuff at all

I'll listen to anything new by Actress and Cooly G tbh

the Martyn album is good, I think, but he is definitely down the (loosely dubby) techno rabbithole more than anything now