Also the pre-ST AC is dope need to revisit
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
Well, it is a story when one of the most critically lauded groups of the past decade falls off their perch. As Raymond says, the absence of AC on these lists is not inexplicable but it's not something that could have been predicted with certainty either. Not that it matters here but I rate CHz about the same as Strawberry Jam.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
I don't really like the pre Sung Tongs stuff. ST, Feels and MPP are all great, feel the same way as you about Strawberry Jam.
xp
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna defend anybody's desire to go long form about whatever on ILM. So many of us (myself included) don't go long here anymore.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, December 3, 2012 4:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I was being a dick, but it was more his topic than the length of his post I was reacting to.
― rap乒 4-tay (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'll add Fireworks to Strawberry Jam. Until Centipede they've always had a few notable gems on each album, but this is the first one I just feel ambivalent about on every track.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah was thinking about adding a Fireworks caveat to the SJ comparison, it's better than anything on CHz. Today's Supernatural and New Town Burnout are, I think, the keepers on the new one.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
That Death Defying Unicorn album someone posted upthread is insane and cool
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
they're so horrible. animal collective sound to me like what i imagine most modern music sounds like to really old people. like, what is that shit? i'll never understand them.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
You have lost touch with the feral spirit of youth, scott.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
they're just bad at it. and annoying. in a world where this already existed who needs them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fidi0JvFAnk
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Just out of curiosity, is anyone listing Meek Mill on any lists?
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
i can't listen to horrible mr. bungle music either though. people are horrified by different things.
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― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Wondering which Death Grips album will place higher in P&J?
And Rev, it's all love - just felt like ppl were dog piling on dog Latin a bit
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
if I didn't know dl would take it good humor, I wouldn't have posted it
― rap乒 4-tay (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
no offence taken, i mean, i was banging on about animal collective so i get what i deserve really.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
that Paul Dolden thing is interesting, but it's nothing like AC.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty gutted iamamiwhoami's Kin has only made the RYM list so far
listening to this now. pretty outstanding, definitely for fans of gazelle twin, the knife, and similar artists.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
more than pretty outstanding actually
Ha this is what I get for being outta touch with ILX for so damn long
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry dudes
Hey, is Alt Press still around, do they have a list?
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
"that Paul Dolden thing is interesting, but it's nothing like AC."
thank the lord.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
i was put off iamamiwhoami because of their name (even clunkier than when saints go machine) but this is really good.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
that last track is especially decent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3G_Y3aIlis&noredirect=1
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
lol "especially decent"
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
isn't that diplo's label
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin)
Yeah I can understand the name thing, there are some things about the whole campaign that have been a bit much but the music is just incredible.
It's all about Play for me, the chorus is just so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBC8L3pG_Y
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
Am I the only person who dug the Project Undark Radium Girls 2011 stuff? Need to track down the full album... And yes, it was released this year, despite the misleading name.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
listening to iamamiwhoami right now, having put it on the back burner for a while. this is really good stuff, and if i was inclined to compile a top 20 or whatever, which i may well do just for the hell of it, then this would definitely be vying for a good spot. it just seems to strike such a strong balance of tempos, atmospheres, everything. i really love "goods" and the frantic, spooky undercurrent that sends it whisking along.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
It's a shame some of the earlier stand-alone iamamiwhoami tracks didn't make it to Kin, especially ";John", but at the same time I understand that the build-up and the final artifact are probably intended to be different things.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure iamamiwhoami will place pretty well on ILM, as there's at least 5 of us who rate it. And yes, the initially offputting "Play" with the lovely Cocteau Twinsy chorus is my highlight too.
― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever
I know there was a huge build up with those singles but I somehow missed all that. Kin was the first thing I heard. I downloaded all the early singles a while back but haven't really spent much time with them yet.
Glad to hear there are few other iamamiwhoami supporters on here.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a thread about them? Might be worth starting one if not (can't check as I'm on my phone)
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
One here:
Who is iamamiwhoami?
The album grew on me enormously after seeing her live.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
remember when everyone thought iamamiwhoami was xtina?
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Filter Magazine - "Good Music Will Prevail"http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/filters_top_10_of_2012_staff_picks
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism MODULAR2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange DEF JAM3. Grimes - Visions 4AD4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d. city TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE5. Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs PARTISAN6. Cat Power - Sun MATADOR7. Mumford & Sons - Babel GLASSNOTE8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! CONSTELLATION9. Niki & The Dove - Instinct SUB POP10. Beach House - Bloom SUB POP11. Miike Snow - Happy To You DOWNTOWN/UNIVERSAL12. Liars - WIXIW MUTE13. Sigur Rós - Valtari XL14. DIIV - Oshin CAPTURED TRACKS15. Father John Misty - Fear Fun SUB POP16. Chromatics - Kill For Love ITALIANS DO IT BETTER17. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... EPIC18. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes WARP19. Jack White - Blunderbuss THIRD MAN/COLUMBIA20. The xx - Coexist XL
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
What's Father John Misty? I overheard the girls in the record shop banging on about him/them the other day.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
baffling that Cat Power is turning up on so many of these lists
― Number None, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
Think he was the dude with the really boring voice in Father Ted.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
haha, yeah that's very similar to who I imagined when I heard the name.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
Father John Misty is the drummer from Fleet Foxes or something I think. Seriously.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
Father John Misty - I'm Fine, Thanks
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
Father John Misty is Josh Tillmann - was the Fleet Foxes drummer for a while but also a solo artist before that. The album's good in that Bella Union vein - more John Grant than Fleet Foxes. He's got a nice dark sense of humour.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
Might be interesting. I'm not a FF fan, but from the description it sounds like it could fit into the Josh T Pearson category maybe?
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
Filter is possibly the least interesting list yet. I don't know who Diamond Rugs are though, maybe they're awesome.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
well, once you've seen 15 lists of pretty much the same albums in varying orders they all look pretty boring. is it right for me to moan about the marginalisation of metal/harder-edged rock and noise music on these lists? even the most supposedly eclectic publications seem to ignore the heavier end of the spectrum which is a massive shame considering the same fans of, say Liars, could easily love some of the (hate to use the term but here we go) post-metal stuff like UFOmammut and Om etc. Sometimes it feels like metal-genres are the final frontier for a lot of indie-type publications that have come round to embracing pop and r'n'b in the last few years.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
I would expect to see a fair number of metal records when the Quietus does its list FWIW, but yeah the point stands.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Scott OTM in a general sort of way, the "Who needs x when you've got Paul Dolden" argument casts a wide net
― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
Guardian number nine pick
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not discovering nothing from these lists.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
Hot Chip released another album this year eh? They do crank em out. Maybe I'll get round to listening to Made In The Dark one day.
I do still love Gabriel from last year though.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link