ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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I LOVED the previous Andy Stott album but had zero desire to even investigate this one

aw djp - this was his goth one as well!

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link

check out the title track for example: http://youtu.be/9BIYV3BLcno

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link

I missed the one weird trick of prior three releases, namely overbearing sidechain compression. I'm guessing inertia and belated recognition accounts for the critical praise.

OTOH, the cover art may be the best thing about more recent Andy Stott releases.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link

listening to "Faith In Strangers" now

I am one who is all in favor of drawn-out intros but good god man, get on with it

much more interested in going back to the Lena Willikens album crut linked on the thread I started in Idiot Thread Repository than continuing with this, which has a slight "Squarepusher on quaaludes" vibe to it

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

so ponderous xp

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

i don't remember his last record having overbearing sidechain, it was pretty roomy. haven't heard this one yet but will check out at some point, i'm a mild admirer

ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link

I put on Scuba Death's Nitrogen Narcosis (less ambitious, and better for it) far more often when seeking soporific dub techno in 2014.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link

what exactly were the ambitions of this record?

diamonddave85​ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link

to serve man

ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link

things pick up on it after the first three tracks tbh, it does get off to a very slow start

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link

I found even the last Andy Stott album, which seemingly everyone liked, to be dreary as hell, so no way am I going near this one.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/mOLc0q5.jpg

33 THE SOFT PINK TRUTH Why Do the Heathen Rage? [426 points, 16 votes]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link

Oh thank god, finally something I voted for! Great, great record.

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link

Ah excellent!

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link

yesss

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link

pro-tip: this album is rly fun sex music

Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link

:D

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link

am i hearing the opening lyrics of this album correctly?

"ISIS, the rainbow of saphire mysteries, you are the calling I hear from the wind in my bones"

Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link

Thank fuck for this, my #7, completely amazing work, an important album even

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link

Fuck yeah! Loved that SPT album.

Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link

This has so many good moments. And yeah I know I said upthread the whole appropriation of black metal has been done a lot, but this gets it right. It treats the source material with respect while shining a light on all its nooks and crannies, not afraid to make fun of it either.
I'm not that familiar with the original tracks - most of them are obscure even for BM - but it did make me go back and check them out. The difference in interpretations is significantly marked.
anyway so many great moments: Let There Be Ebola Frost turned into a thunderous italo house tune being one of my faves.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link

ok lol just realized it is probably referring to Isis, not ISIS.

Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link

lmfao

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link

lay down that pipe son

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link

Love the Snap! sample on "Satanic Black Devotion".

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link

there's a sentence that piques my interest.

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link

I enjoyed that Andy Stott album more than anything I've heard of his in the past. It seemed somehow less dysphoric and more beautiful

I'm rapidly losing coherence, coming of a straight 24 hour stretch of work...

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link

*off

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link

Really liked this album, especially "Let There Be Ebola Frost."

Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/h2nE71J.jpg

32 ARIEL PINK Pom Pom [430 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link

"put your number in my phone" is great - i was sure it was going to place on the singles poll

Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link

Do the familiar song titles on SPT mean that it's an album of covers?

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link

megalol @ that SPT album cover

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link

possibly the most metal album of the year, almost certainly the most fun of the year imo

xfuckingposts

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link

Dan, yes, it's an album of black metal covers.

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link

if you turn the ariel pink record the right way up, it's actually called 'wool wool'

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link

take that sheeple

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link

Also time to rep for the SPT statement of intent, which I think is pitched perfectly (unlike the shitty shitty politics of AP).

Disclaimer: Aesthetics and Politics are neither equivalent nor separable. Black metal fandom all too often entails a tacit endorsement or strategic looking-the-other-way with regards to the racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and homophobic bullshit politics that (still) pervade the scene, on behalf of either escapist fantasy talk, shaky invocations of art as a crypto-religious path to transcendence, or--the oldest cop out in the book--the quietist declaration that “I just like how it sounds.” Just as blasphemy both affirms and assaults the sacred powers it invokes and inverts, so too this record celebrates black metal and offers queer critique / mockery / profanation of its ideological morass in equal measure. Mixed emotions about a murky, diverse and self-differential scene are all very well, but, as Barack Obama is so fond of saying at press conferences just before legitimizing drone warfare, let’s be clear: No apologies, no excuses, and no escape clauses are hereby offered. Murderers are murderers. No safe space for fascist garbage. The Soft Pink Truth hereby abjures black metal homophobes, racists, and Nazis categorically and absolutely: MAY THIS CURSE BIND! Remember Magne Andreassen!

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link

oh, thanks Emil.y, I'll have to check SPT out too

xps

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link

Thank god Ariel Pink is out of the way.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

I actually really liked about half of the Ariel Pink record, a first for me

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

ariel pink truth

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link

good album imo

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link

Great manifesto from Drew. What are Ariel Pink's shifty politics? My gf absolutely loves the album...

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link

I loved the Ariel Pink album on first listen, but when I tried to listen to it a second time it didn't seem as good. "Put Your Number In My Phone" is a great single though!

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link

lol, shitty, even

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link

in interviews ariel pink comes across as a drugged out insane challoping "aren't i so un-PC" moron

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link

^^^

imago: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/15/ariel-pink-pom-pom-4ad

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link

I just got so sick of Ariel Pink being a garbage human being I couldn't be bothered to listen to him any more. Apparently it's a good record. I dunno, I like plenty of art made by assholes/evil people, but most of them aren't currently giving douchey interviews all the time.

xp imago, he's a misogynist twat, amongst other things. There's a strain of defence that says it's all 'arch' but ffs we don't need people spouting that crap whether they truly believe it or not.

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link

Same.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link


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