Ah Bad As Me, which I voted for and gave a positive write up when it came out, but now...? I dunno, I've gone right off it. Too many dull ballads and hoary rockers. I'd say there are maybe four decent tracks here but I skip so much off this thing. Do like Let's Get Lost and Hell Broke Luce.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Was kind of like Wet Hair iirc? xp re Moon Duo
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
lex i'd be pretty surprised if you didn't like the Hatchback album. really should've placed higher, imo.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
demdike stare and moon duo = my first votes to make the countdown. yay!
i've cooled on the former a bit since late 2010/early 2011, as their assembled body of work tilts a little too steeply towards spooky aural wallpaper for my taste, but the high points (in my estimation, the denser and more beat-driven tracks like "forest of evil dawn" and "repository of light") are spectacular.
moon duo are easily my favorite thing to come out of the wooden shjips axis, and mazes is leaps and bounds beyond anything they've done prior. could listen to the title track forever. so effortlessly cool and catchy. motorik beach pop!
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh tom waits, nice. didn't quite make my ballot but i was really pleasantly surprised by it - it sounds like he really enjoyed making it, it has this fantastically unforced feel to it - just tom being tom and doing what he's best at. these were my favourites
talking at the same timehell broke lucelast leaf
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
tried to listen to laura marling's "the beast" but couldn't make it through
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Demdike Stare is fantastic, but I didn't vote for it because I kind of thought of it more as a comp/reissue.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
only played the TW album once so far but Hell Broke Luce completely owns
― bs and 'Why Do You Listen To Frog?' (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
basically a really nice balance between drunken rollicking explosions and chants / sentimental balladeering / casting a caustic observer's eye over the financial crisis
xps
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Lex, I agree it's def Tom's chillin out having fun being human album - think that's what made me like it in the first place, but I do miss his more character-based/theatrical side.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wl1sI.jpg
47. Clams Casino — Instrumentals (354 points, 12 votes)
P4K: 17P&J: 61
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
cannot stand Last Leaf! Chicago and Face to the Highway are both great (among the other quality tracks mentioned)
XPOST
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh god i just can't be bothered with clams casino until and unless rappers rap over it
so bored of 2am lonely laptop music in any case
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Man. So many albums I literally haven't even heard of. I'm excited.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
ooo ooo ooo ooo ~melancholy~ ooo oooo ooooooooooooooooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Clams is sweet. Shame 'I'm God' wasn't on the mixtape though, that's amazing.
XP
LOLex
― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2010/dialcd22.jpg
cover connexion
― ≧^◡^≦ moon dayo (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
clams is cool... he has a few classic beats but the actual rap songs are good enough that i don't see the point of the instrumentals
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
what does this sound like?
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
i am CONCERNED yall. we're 20 albums in and my favourites are by TOM WAITS and LAURA MARLING. and my favourite new music i've heard this week is by LEONARD COHEN. what is happening to me!!!
otoh i am downloading this hatchback album based on the awesome title track. wish i'd known about it last year, i felt like i wanted music like this a lot. psychgawsple did you like the almunia album?
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
i mean karl...
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
or er both of you
i like but don't love clams, prefer his music with rappers too.
so reductive
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, that John Roberts album is songreat and none of you bastards voted for it last year at all. Clams Casino was like the Balam Acab record for me, pretty but kind of dull.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
lex, also check out White Elephant's Sir John (plus Mark E Remix) and Torn Sail's Birds.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
I like that Clams album a lot. Surprised it's this low, to be honest.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Lex you being a tom waits fan is so crazy to me! In a good/unpredictable way
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i voted for the Almunia album. i think my ballot was unweighted, though. i couldn't pick 25 albums to fill it out.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
love both of these - they were on a great compilation called future balearica that i had. past tense. gone in my hard drive death ;_;
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
lex i bet all your faves are much higher in poll if tracks results are anything to go by.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Thought the Almunia album was ok (the title track is a jam) but it was only like my 5th favourite beach vibez album of the year after Hatchback, Gatto Fritto, Out of City and probably something else I'm forgetting.
― two lights crew (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Ri9hd.jpg
46. Azari & III — Azari & III (358 points, 12 votes)
P4K: DNPP&J: 737
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, but i figure that if an album got okayed by the nomination process and the sounds contained are among my favorites on the choose-from list, then that's reason enough to throw it some points. a big part of my goal is to bring attention to music that i think deserves it, and i don't want technical considerations to limit me in that regard.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
I was stunned by how much I loved that Azari & III record.
contenderizer - that's fair, I just didn't even see it on the nom list tbh
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeahhhhh azari & iii!
actually i'm not sure this quite made my ballot either but it's a super great album - undecided was my favourite of the previously unreleased tracks
they've come such a long way, can't believe they'll be supporting madonna on her next tour. they should be fucking producing for her
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
a & iii put on a fantastic live show too - "into the night" as final slow dance <3 <3 <3
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Really happy that Laura Marling placed, I suppose the difference between her and KT Tunstall is largely the darkness (ie she is 1x massive goth) - I think of her as closer to Will Oldham than any of the Mumfords set.
Also Laura is a better songwriter by fucking miles.
Hatchback is just precision loveliness.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
A few hours late with this since I've been cooking/hosting dinner, but the Ferraro is a fun album - breezy/blank but quite psychedelic and non-intuitive in how things are assembled. One of my dearest friends has been raving about Ferraro for a few years now, so I view Ferraro via my friend's more artworld kinda axis (Cory Doctorow/Paper Rad/etc). High concept, sure, but not any more low-stakes gamesmanship than, I dunno, Brian "Windows 95 sound" Eno's ambient stuff. Reminds me a bit of 50s generic happy modern machine music & other optimistic chintz - cheers me up a lot more than the other ambient-y stuff I was listening to this year (Roll the Dice/Blanck Mass/Hauscka/etc).
ogmor probably put this better tbh.
― etc, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i was pretty shocked that azari & III finished in the 700s in P&J
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
despite absolutely loving the pre-album singles i still haven't gotten to that azari & III album
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone have like a list or mix of good clams casino songs with rappers?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
This is the point I realise that Yob wont place :( I knew Corrupted wouldn't. The top of metal poll doesn't always translate over to doing well in big poll.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not even sure the metal poll winner will place now.
I think "Manic"/"Undecided" were great but not sure how well the Azari & III hangs together as an album - better than the new H&LA, but not a patch on, say, the H&LA debut.
― etc, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:41 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lil b - i'm godsquadda b - fakest year everlil b - motivationasap rocky - palacelil b - cold war
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for both Danny and Kendrick (the latter of whom was my #4), so stuff it, lex!
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm running a bit behind here, but just chiming in to say I really enjoy that Laura Marling album. It's got kind of a '70s singer-songwriter vibe to my ears: sprawling song structures, wide dynamics (too few albums recorded with headroom like that these days), confessional lyrics. Not sure exactly who it reminds me of. I also dig her voice a lot. My fave track is probably "Salinas" but there are many good ones. They're best heard in the context of the album though. I should probably go back and check our her previous work.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
ASAP Rocky 'Wassup' probably ended up my favourite Clams production jobbie of the year.
Lil B 'Motivation' killer also, yeah. Can't see a Lil B record scraping in here, iirc 'Angel's Exodus' was hovering around the bottom end of my ballot.
― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Checkin and diggin the Moon Duo album
― Number None, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the Laura Marling was a great discovery for me, I really like the vibe.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link