this is p4k indie right?
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
also no one who listens to black metal gets to complain abt hardcore vox― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
who was that aimed at?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing really sticks out on Days (the cover is appropriate) but what a great vibe. I found myself listening to it three or four times in a row at work.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm...have to say I dug the previous album but this was a big let-down ("It's Real") aside.
― two lights crew (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
if it is Lex, p4k is improving.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it doesn't 'feel' like a #1 album of the year, but i returned to it a ton, and it's so, so good at what it does that i just played it more than anything last year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
This is Feelies worship indie.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
like that real estate record, it feels slight but i think jangle pop is kinda slight by nature
also no one who listens to black metal gets to complain abt hardcore vox
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:11 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
no one in particular, just cutting it off before it starts
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Not a bad band to worship.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
my gf totally stole days and stashed it in her car so i haven't gotten to listen to it nearly enough
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
I knew I liked her.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
:)
i like this record, didn't make my ballot but the first few tracks are especially nice, and i love the hypnotic groove the last track settles into at the end
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
well i like the fucked up record so far so you cant say it about me.but BM vox are different to hardcore and clearly some prefer one to the other (or hate both)
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Man, "Green Aisles" totally stands out for me, but the vibe on the whole record is fantastic.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
I hope they explore the sound of that last cut a bit further. Really nice evolutionary step.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
but I really dont get the hatred for this guys voice at all.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
The Real Estate is another one I voted for. Very monochromatic, but for this type of music that's a compliment. Sort of early REM meets Unrest meets Heavenly. Nails that wistful-happy-sad vibe perfectly.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
this is dreadful. i'm trying "it's real" and it's just so aimless and feeble...sounds like it should be soundtracking a tv advert for a washing powder called nostalgia. oh look the video is basically a fucking instagram tint stretched out and they look like complete douches.
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Im hoping Woods might place now. That would be great. Always disappointed they didn't make it in previous years.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
If Lex doesn't like it it's bound to be good.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
haha lex you're always saying things like 'feeble'. You prefer strong and muscular music?
Listening to "It's Real." Sounds more swedish than jangle to me -- I imagine that if I listened to this 10 times I'd find it really dug into me, the way those Club 8 records do, but I'd have to listen to it 10 times to find out. "Slight" is about right.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
so many ilxors had never heard hardcore vox before?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i like fucked up but the whole thing of people marveling about OMG A SHOUTY HARDCORE BAND GOT A BONER FOR THE SOFT BULLETIN gets a bit much
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
have heard tons of hardcore vocals over the years (love john brannon, for instance), but 9 times out of ten, "hoarsely bellowing angryman" is not a sound i enjoy. at least not in recorded music - can def be cathartic live. i'm more a punk than a HC fan, and when i do like HC, i like it in small doses & with the tuff-guy shit dialed down.
dying crow style BM vocals are much easier for me to digest, probably because they seem more weird than belligerent - the he-man testosterone frenzy isn't such a factor.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Sort of early REM meets Unrest meets Heavenly.
Lacks the urgency of early REM and Unrest, lacks the amiable amateurishness of Unrest and Heavenly
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Marling was my #1, btw. I don't prefer this LP to her previous one, but I do think it is more of a piece, and I like the darker route she's heading down lyrically. She's probably the most interesting young singer/songwriter around atm.
Also voted for the Tom Waits and Fucked Up.
There was one track on the Grouper album I was quite taken with, but the album didn't find a place on my ballot in the end. Couldn't really get into it.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
i like slight records when they're very still, like phaedra or mirel wagner
slight jangly guitar pop is my idea of hell though to be fair
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
like that real estate record, it feels slight but i think jangle pop is kinda slight by natureno way. lots of music i love, i mean LOVE, could be classified as jangle pop: the feelies, the smiths, the whole sarah catalogue etc. but it does not feel slight by any means. it may feel bright or light but not slight. not sure about that real estate yet, the vibe is great but i am not sure about the quality of the songs.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus you guys, how do you like your milquetoast in the morning?
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's nice sometimes not to have a songwriter telegraph 60 seconds in advance exactly when a song is going to end.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
this fucked up album is really good. Why didn't I hear it earlier.It just missed out in metal poll top 125 I think.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
a fucked up album cannot be good, it can only be fucked up. which it is by the way. q.e.d.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's just so aimless
so wrong.
My number 1. Based solely on the fact that it was by far the most-listened to album of 2011 for me. First few times it felt like 'nice vibes' and great for driving on late summer days etc....but somewhere around the fifth or sixth time "Municpality" and the final track started clicking and I began to like every individual track. I think it's too straightforward to be considered some sort of paragon of P4k indie. Tellingly my mother asked if it was "easy listening". Lovely stuff.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Guilty as charged, though for me it's more of an evening background music album. If I focus on it too much, it can become slightly annoying.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nzVwd.jpg
42. Radiohead — King of Limbs (362 points, 13 votes)
P4K: DNPP&J: 33
Spotify
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
sadly, my #1 being a less hyped indie record than Days means it's probably out of the running
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
rmde
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh right there was a radiohead record this year
found King of Limbs dull. then again it took two years for me to come around to In Rainbows so...ya never know.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
very sad that new Radiohead/Yorke albums are no longer exciting.
― skip, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
i listened to the second half of this way more than the first half
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Shit of Limbs more like.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
especially "Codex" which was really pretty
i loved that real estate record but i dont think i voted for it
same for war on drugs-- honestly assumed most ILM ppl would hate it!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hey do you guys like the band Radiohead?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
42 counts as low enough to count as a victory right?
i didn't know there was an actual radiohead album out, they always seem to be in the background getting in the music press for marketing their music in some unexpectedly quirky guerrilla fashion and i always try to pay as little attention as i can
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
I quite liked Little By Little and Give Up The Ghost, but they're more like quite decent b-sides than anything else.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Save us Johnny Fever!
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
#42 is accurate. It was good enough to place.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
last one for the day real quick
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link