Still super curious about that Dr John album
― in a year with thirteen goons (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
The next installment of the Fact list is up and starts here if anyone cares:http://www.factmag.com/2012/12/03/the-50-best-albums-of-2012/22/
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
eh if an EP has more than 3 songs i think it's fair game for album lists
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol i think there are maybe 3 albums in the entire fact list so far i rate, and a great deal that i hate
also finding out that the price i pay for getting excited about so many of my favs making it into the guardian's 40-11 is being underwhelmed by the top 10
i siiiiiigh
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
The Wire list has landed:
1. Laurel Halo - Quarantine2. Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet the Congos - Icon Give Thank3. Actress - RIP4. Jakob Ullmann - Fremde Zeit - Addendum5. Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing6. CC Hennix & The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage - Live at the Grimm Museum 17. Bob Dylan - Tempest8. Julia Holter - Ekstasis9. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse10. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy11. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch12. Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing13. Fushitsusha - Mabushii Itazura Na Inori14. Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi - Imikuzushi15. Death Grips - The Money Store16. Emptyset - Medium17. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful18. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems19. V/A - Wandelweiser und so Weiter20. Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry: At June in Buffalo21. Richard Skelton - Verse of Birds22. The Bohman Brothers - Back on the Streets23. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city24. Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda - Crosshatches25. Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways26. Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester27. Killer Mike - RAP Music28. Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour29. Rhodri Davies - Wound Response30. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes31. Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers32. Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya33. Annea Lockwood - In our Name34. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II35. Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-199636. Heatsick - Deviation37. Duane Pitre - Feel Free38. Raime - Quarter Turns over a Living Line39. Swans - The Seer40. Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck - Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh41. Cooly G - Playin' Me42. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman43. DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi44. Charles Gayle Trio - Streets45. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange46. Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games47. Peter Cusack - Sounds from Dangerous Places48. Pelt - Effigy49. DVA - Pretty Ugly50. Brotzmann/Satoh/Moriyama - Yatagarasu
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
16 minutes long? barely over 10 minutes of new (to this year) material? i think 6 is the minimum of (normal length) tracks i'd want before classing it alongside an album.
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha that Passion Pit album is terrible
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
11. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
wow, review copies way in advance for the whole staff?
18. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
hurrah
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think it really matters if a record's lead single came out the year before either! that happens all the time!
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
the music being by Azealia Banks is a much bigger issue
Is Rolling Stone the only publication to have rated the Nas album so far? I'm aware I probably like it more than most people here but I thought it would placed in more publications even as a token pick.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
it's in the fact list
it's alright, wouldn't be in my list but it's a lot better than a lot of stuff that is ending up in these lists
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
It seems both Heatsick and Helm released albums this year I knew nothing about the existence of. Bah.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
The Heatsick one is an EP, I think. It's pretty good!
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
Re: The Wire
Surprised at the high Dylan placing. Surprised by the low Swans placing.
Guess it's not a surprise, but happy to see
14. Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi - Imikuzushi
getting a mention, it's killer-diller.
And does anybody know anything about this? Totally passed me by -
40. Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck - Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for posting the Wire list! Top ten for Bob Dylan is the biggest surprise on there for me, but then I haven't heard it or read any reviews of it so there you go.
The Heatsick record is good fun! Have tried the Helm one a few times but it's never really stuck with me.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
It's just a 12" with a remix on the B-side. A-side is a pretty good Senegalese Mbalax track with relatively light production tricks.
Here we go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rPIzyKkuNs
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
The Wire also has a big reissues list - top 5 is Laurie Spiegel/Can/Pauline Oliveros/Don Cherry/AR Kane - and the usual genre lists, but I'll let someone else type those out...
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
That reminds me, it's been a bit disappointing to see no mention of the Shangaan Shake album so far. xp
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Wait a second, according to my calculations, Josephine Foster and Six Organs of Admittance have both made it to exactly one list? I have some questions regarding critical abandonment.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
one list each, not the same listWire and some dad mag iirc?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Nice to find out Annea Lockwood released something this year, but I'm going to back to it later. Definitely not morning listening (nor would I expect it to be).
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
FACT's top twenty reissues (there's actually forty but i got tired)
20: LAURIE SPIEGEL - THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE (UNSEEN WORLDS)19: PYROLATOR - AUSLAND (BUREAU B)18: PARRIS MITCHELL - ‘ALL NIGHT LONG’ (WICKED BASS)17: DAVID LYNCH & ALAN R. SPLET - ERASERHEAD (SACRED BONES)16: DREXCIYA - JOURNEY OF THE DEEP SEA DWELLER II / JOURNEY OF THE DEEP SEA DWELLER III (CLONE CLASSIC CUTS)15: VARIOUS ARTISTS - STRANGE PASSION: EXPLORATIONS IN IRISH POST-PUNK DIY AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1980-1983 (CACHE CACHE / FINDERS KEEPERS)14: STERAC - SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES: REMASTERED AND REMIXED (100% PURE)13: ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - RIFTS (SOFTWARE)12: THE BURRELL BROTHERS - THE NU GROOVE YEARS: 1988-1992 (RUSH HOUR)11: CODEINE - WHEN I SEE THE SUN (NUMERO GROUP)10: RAEKWON - ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX: THE PURPLE TAPE (GET ON DOWN)09: BOB CHANCE - IT’S BROKEN (TRUNK)08: KW GRIFF FEAT. PORKCHOP - ‘BRING IN THE KATZ’ (NIGHT SLUGS)07: PAPERCLIP PEOPLE / PSYCHE/BFC - THE SECRET TAPES OF DR EICH / ELEMENTS (PLANET E)06: CLEANERS FROM VENUS - BOX SET VOL. 1 (CAPTURED TRACKS)05: LEGO FEET - LEGO FEET (SKAM)04: SLEEP - DOPESMOKER (SOUTHERN LORD)03: RUFF SQWAD - WHITE LABEL CLASSICS (NO HATS NO HOODS)02: FRANCIS BEBEY - AFRICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1975-1982 (BORN BAD)01: MONOTON - MONOTONPRODUKT07 (DESIRE)
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
15: VARIOUS ARTISTS - STRANGE PASSION: EXPLORATIONS IN IRISH POST-PUNK DIY AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1980-1983 (CACHE CACHE / FINDERS KEEPERS)
think my friend's dad features on this. unfortunately not my dad though, he was more into free jazz back then.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
I'm listening to it as we speak. Which band?
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure either of those artists are exactly mainstays on EOY lists, though, are they? Guess I could imagine SOoA on The Wire. But I'd be surprised to see either show up on RS or Spin or P4k in any given year.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, that was an xpost to La Lechera.
Nas album is really good, definitely suffered in these lists from coming out the same year as the biggest NEW ILLMATIC hype in ages
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
think it's SM Corporation, xpost
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
on there twice so they must be good
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
431 listeners of Last.fm!
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
on not of
xp Thanks for answering my question. Makes sense, also Rangda. I'm glad Wire still has Josephine Foster's back though because she has never disappointed me from one album to the next. She always totally slays whatever she's singing.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:45 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
no i'm pretty sure people just don't care that much about nas anymore
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
that too. but it's still better than some of the albums people overrated more in years when they needed Nas more for their genre narratives.
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
don't think the NPR lists have been posted yet have they? they're just in alphabetical order:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2012/2012/12/05/166230912/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2012http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2012/166027824/100-favorite-songs
the nas album got quite a lot of hype when it came out so i'm pretty sure that "people" do "care" about nas
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
For those like me who don't feel like clicking, here's the NPR album list:
Ab-Soul, Control System Alabama Shakes, Boys And Girls Alisa Weilerstein, Cello Concertos (Elgar & Carter) Alt-J, An Awesome Wave Andy Stott, Luxury Problems Astro, Astro Berlin Philharmonic, St. Matthew Passion Meek Mill, Dreamchasers 2 Bobby Womack, The Bravest Man In The Universe Bomba Estereo, Elegancia Tropical Brooklyn Rider, Seven Steps Cafe Tacvba, El Objeto Antes Llmado Disco Carla Morrison, Dejenme Llorar Cat Power, Sun Cody ChesnuTT, Landing On A Hundred Dan Deacon, America Death Grips, No Love Deep Web Debo Band, Debo Band Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan Dwight Yoakam, 3 Pears Exitmusic, Passage Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel Flying Lotus, Until The Quiet Comes Frank Ocean, channel Orange fun., Some Nights Homeboy Sandman, First Of A Living Breed Iris DeMent, Sing The Delta Janka Nabay, En Yay Sah Japandroids, Celebration Rock Karriem Riggins, Alone Together Kendrick Lamar, good kid, M.A.A.D. city Killer Mike, R.A.P. Music Leila Josefowicz, Violin Concerto (Salonen) Leonard Cohen, Old Ideas Matt Ulery, By A Little Light Miguel, Kaleidoscope Dream Neneh Cherry and The Thing, The Cherry Thing Now, Now, Threads Pallbearer, Sorrow And Extinction Patrick Watson, Adventures In Your Own Backyard Pink, The Truth About Love Regina Spektor, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas, Harmonielehre/Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Adams) Sharon Van Etten, Tramp Swans, The Seer The 2 Bears, Be Strong The Very Best, MTMTMK Ty Segall, Twins Vijay Iyer Trio, Accelerando Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
From the video I've seen Dylan's voice is so so shot, makeing such a noise that it totally fits w/a high placing in the Wire poll.
4. Jakob Ullmann - Fremde Zeit - Addendum
This is amazingly high - I love A Catalogue of Sounds, but austere classical doesn't usually make the top 10. Haven't heard this set though.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
LOL
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
the Pink album's dope, good to see that recognized somewhere
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
kudos for dreamchasers 2 and the cherry thing!
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Meek mixtape is good but i'm definitely rating the album over it.
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Oh boy...
Magnet - Best Of 2012: Electronichttp://www.magnetmagazine.com/category/best-of-2012/
MAGNET’s Justin Hampton picks the best electronic releases of the year.
1 Death Grips The Money Store (Epic)2 Hundred Waters Hundred Waters (Owsla)3 deadmau5 <Album Title Goes Here> (Ultra)4 Rusko Songs (Mad Decent)5 The Gaslamp Killer Breakthrough (Brainfeeder)6 Calvin Harris 18 Months (Fly Eye/Columbia)7 NOISIA Split The Atom (mau5trap)8 Die Antwoord Ten$ion (Zef)9 Mala Mala In Cuba (Brownswood)10 Death Grips No Love Deep Web (self-released)
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
since the NPR site is fucked and I had to do a web safari to get to the song list, here's that:
Aluna George, "You Know You Like It"Ana Tijoux, "Las Cosas Por Su Nombre"Ane Brun, "Do You Remember"Angel Olsen, "The Waiting"Arnaldo Antunes, Edgar Scandurra & Toumani Diabate, "Ce Nao Vai Me Acompanhar"Baauer, "Harlem Shake"Bang On A Can (David Lang) "For Madeline"Baroness, "Take My Bones Away"Bat For Lashes, "Laura"Behzod Abduraimov, "Danse Macabre"Best Coast, "The Only Place"Bill Fay, "The Never Ending Happening"Bonnie Raitt, "Not Cause I Wanted To"Bruce Springsteen, "We Take Care Of Our Own"Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"Ceclia Bartoli, "Amami, e vederai"Chairlift, "I Belong In Your Arms"Cloud Nothings, "Stay Useless"Daughn Gibson, "In The Beginning"David Byrne & St. Vincent, "Who"Death Grips, "I've Seen Footage"Django Django, "Default"Egyptian Project, "Besharis"Ellie Goulding, "Anything Could Happen"Father John Misty, "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings"Fatouma Diawara, "Bakonoba"FIDLAR, "Cheap Beer"French Montana, "Pop That"fun., "We Are Young"G.O.O.D. Music, "Mercy"Gregory Porter, "Be Good"Grimes, "Genesis"Grizzly Bear, "A Simple Answer"Heems, "Womyn"High On Fire, "Fertile Green"Hospitality, "Eighth Avenue"Hot Chip, "Look At Where We Are"Icona Pop, "I Love It"Jack White, "Sixteen Saltines"Jai Paul, "Jasmine"Jamey Johnson & Alison Krauss, "Make The World Go Away"JEFF the Brotherhood, "Sixpack"Jeremih, "F—- You All The Time"Jeremy Denk, "Ligeti: Automne e Varsovie"Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck, "Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh"Joey Bada$$, "Waves"John Fullbright, "Gawd Above"John K. Samson, "When I Write My Masters Thesis"John Talabot, "Destiny"Julia Holter, "Marienbad"Justin Martin, "Don't Go"Kacey Musgraves, "Merry Go Round"Kelan Philip Cohran and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, "Spin"Kishi Bashi, "Bright Whites"Kristen Kelly, "Ex-Old Man"Le1f, "Wut"Lianne La Havas, "Is Your Love Big Enough"Little Big Town, "Pontoon"Loudon Wainwright III, "In C"LV, "Nothing Like Us"M.I.A., "Bad Girls"Machel Montano, "Go Down"Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Same Love"Mala, "Mulata"Marcel Khalife, "Oh, My Proud Wound"Martha Wainwright, "Everything Wrong"Metz, "Headache"Miguel, "Adorn"Neil Young and Crazy Horse, "Walk Like A Giant"Perfume Genius, "Hood"Ralph Peterson, "4 in 1 (Fo'tet)"Rick Ross feat. Andre 3000, "Sixteen"Robert Raimon Roy, "Robert Raimon Roy"Rufus Wainwright, "Montauk"Ryan Truesdell, "Punjab"Saint Etienne, "Tonight"San Francisco Symphony (Adams), "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"Schoolboy Q, "Blessed (feat. Kendrick Lamar)"Scissor Sisters, "Let's Have A Kiki"Sean Rowe, "Horses"Shemekia Copeland, "Ain't Gonna Be Your Tattoo"Shovels & Rope, "Birmingham"Simone White, "Big Dreams And The Headlines"Sinead O'Connor, "The Wolf Is Getting Married"Sinkane, "Jeeper Creeper"Six Organs of Admittance, "Waswasa"Solange, "Losing You"Spiritualized, "Hey Jane"Tame Impala, "Elephant"Tanlines, "All Of Me"The Mynabirds, "Generals"The xx, "Angels"THEESatisfaction, "QueenS"Titus Andronicus, "In A Big City"Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse"Usher, "Climax"Waxahatchee, "Be Good"Wiley, "I'm Skanking" (The 2 Bears Remix)"Y.N. Rich Kids, "Hot Cheetos and Takis"
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
haha I was listening to that Noisia album yesterday, it was fun
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
That Actress album is hugely dull. I figure it's getting big props because people weren't quick enough to jump on the Splaszh-wagon.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
the Die Antwoord album is hilarious. "DJ Hi-Tek will fuck you in the ASSS"
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Those NPR lists have a lot of good stuff on them. Also: "Hot Cheetos and Takis"
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
More piks from a glance at the wire list - anyone heard these?
24. Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda - Crosshatches31. Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers50. Brotzmann/Satoh/Moriyama - Yatagarasu
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link