more than pretty outstanding actually
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
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
The only way to be surprised by these lists is to actively avoid reading any and all critical discourse, including music threads here.
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
dog latin: a meatl album sighting - Black Breath are on Fact's list
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
The new Hot Chip is pretty good, probably better than One Life Stand, not quite as good as Made In The Dark.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't exactly call it one of the best of the year though...
NickB: Black Breath are the daddy tits!
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I was going to love "Motion Sickness" until the intro ended
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
definitely feel like joe goddard's come into his own over the past year production-wise - "gabriel", yes, also his remixes of delilah's "love you so" and especially jessie ware's "night light", which is just a flawless and astonishing thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZrThWeqmzs
(i give each new hot chip a dutiful listen but i'm even less interested in them now than i was back in the day, and even that was lukewarm. i'm sure his voice is getting worse.)
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
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Also: Young Smoke is there. A good day for Latin dogs everywhere.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Am I the only person who dug the Project Undark Radium Girls 2011 stuff?
I guess the lack of response means that yes, yes I am.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
:-) Young Smoke album is the most accessible tru-footwork record to date. I'd recommend it to anyone really, not just juke fans.
re: Hot Chip, it's his voice i can't stand and generally puts me off them.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
you know who should really be on more of these lists, is Alabama Shakes
Brittany Howard is a force of nature
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
haha maybe I should have searched BEFORE I posted that
can anyone be arsed to write out the fact list? i'd do it but at work and stuff..
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Probably not worth doing until they finish the roll out?
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
btw I am listening to Tame Impala right now and this is great
I also suspect that half the guitar bands out there now who bore me silly could convert me to a fan in five seconds by adding judicious amounts of flange to their guitar sounds so I guess you can call me the anti-n/a
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm the other way round in that I think this is Hot Chip's best album, I went back and listened to The Warning fairly recently (which I suppose was their buzz album) and it's so clunky in comparison.
This is my favourite Joe Goddard production, Gabriel excluded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHtclUAyLo
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, love Nneka, her song Shining Star AND Goddard, but didn't know this existed.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link