and also no KTL? Boo
― straightola, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
i saw a lot of pre-release excitement on twitter from UK critics about the xx which pretty much all turned swiftly into mild disappointment once people had heard it
it's basically the first album but...less. i don't really have any complaints about its sound or direction as such, it's a nice background album if you need it like that, but the songs are just not there apart from "angels"
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
you keep saying that as if it isn't a meaningless criticism
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
the hooks aren't there, then
a lot of things aren't there
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
There was so little there in the first place that all it really took was a tiny drop off in quality to feel massive.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yes. When your sound is that minimal you can't afford to get anything wrong. It's a classic "same but worse" second album.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
the only thing I think they got wrong was not giving Romy a few more takes at vocals on some songs (esp. "Tides")
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
dan i think you're the only one that likes the album in the entire world. all these list placements are payola.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
isn't that what the P stands for in DJP?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Despicably Juicy Payola
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
dj purée
― flopson, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
dion's sharp puncture-marks
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Stereogum Top 50 Albums:
http://stereogum.com/1210661/stereogums-top-50-albums-of-2012/franchises/listomania/
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
No XX, no Animal Collectors
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
nice to see a number one i love!
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
cool to see the swearin' album on a list, that thing rocks
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
a+ list format (1 page and a sample for every album)
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
ahaha the commenters are all despairing about the presence of taylor swift and the absence of father john misty and death grips
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
more like father john mimsy amirite
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
"No Alt-J? No Polica? No Death Grips? No respect."
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Could someone please explain to me how Red is a better album than R.A.P. Music? Or Sweet Heart Sweet Life? Or Habits and Contradictions? Or Bloom or Sun or Ocean Roar?
SO MUCH BETTER
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
wonderful explanation.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yes and no. Art is subjective, yet anyone can tell that, in terms of craft, theme, subtext, etc, Van Gogh’s art is objectively better than your 3-year old’s stick drawings. On that note, was Taylor Swift’s album better than Sharon Van Etten, Beach House, Killer Mike, or a crapload of artists who didn’t make the list (Father John Misty??)? No way.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
YES
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i remember thinking we'd genuinely stamped out rockism by means of LOGIC in the 00s and yet it seems to be more rampant than ever
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
just gonna type father john misty like "Father John Misty??" from now on
that is his name now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
haha dude maybe among a circle of critics but never among people who care about animal collective
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Commenters never seem to understand the ballot-tallying aspect. You see them saying "OK, maybe that should be 15-20 but it's not good enough for the Top 10", which is basically saying that seven voters could like it but not ten. I think they really believe that a list is drawn up and painstakingly sequenced by a central committee weighing up, say, Taylor Swift vs Killer Mike, using a whiteboard and flipcharts.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
you would think that people that care enough about stereogum to get worked up over this list and comment on it would have seen this coming based on what stereogum's coverage has evolved into, but alas
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cafwd.org/page/-/images/blog/florida_hanging_chad_recount.jpeg
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Commenters never seem to understand the ballot-tallying aspect.
i know right! even when you explain it to them! every year!
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Weszy Rosen | Posted at 11:55am
Exactly, she may be popular, but everything else on Top 40 stations is one big four-on-the-floor synth jam dance fest.
Small anecdote: I drove home for Thanksgiving and the only radio stations my friend’s car would pick up were Top 40 which: fine all right okay that’s cool, but they kept playing this one song that had every line end with “on the flooooor”. It was the most grating thing I’ve ever heard in my life.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
xp Ha ha. "Taylor Swift?????"
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:23 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark
the j lo track?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
ask Weszy.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Is that a photo of Farmer John Misty?
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
that killer mike lp was cringe enough at the time let alone still picking it after however many months hindsight
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
I think they really believe that a list is drawn up and painstakingly sequenced by a central committee weighing up, say, Taylor Swift vs Killer Mike, using a whiteboard and flipcharts.
tbf I really wish this would happen more often.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
NPR/Uncut catnip though it may be, I love the Father John Misty record. Who's with me? *silence across ILX*
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Has Rick Rodd even made any other lists?
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, Ross
Hmmmm thats a different Fushitsusha album on the Wire list than the one on my own top 10.
― in a year with thirteen goons (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
There were two fushitsusha albums this year, both on heartfast
― Dan S, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Confusing! One of them is on Spotify, but I don't know which it is.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
I think they're supposed to be the first two parts of a trilogy
― Dan S, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for both Fushitsushas (a tie). Kinda thought others would do the same - I mean, how do you choose between Fushitsusha albums (unless one of them is Origin's Hesitation or the one Zorn produced, of course)?
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I see that one of the wire voters picked the second of the two as his album of the year, so maybe that's why it did better
― Dan S, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
that killer mike lp was cringe enough at the time let alone still picking it after however many months hindsight― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:29 AM (51 minutes ago)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:29 AM (51 minutes ago)
wait, what? i listened to it for the first time in a while today and it sounded better than ever
do people dislike that record??
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
rtc does. I liked Reagan, probably need to hear more
― in a year with thirteen goons (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
This is literally someone who The Wire put on their Top 50. This video is maybe the best thing since Salem at Fader Fort.
http://vimeo.com/32733990
― is that my hand, dolphin? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link