I've a heart of stone when it comes to that album but I've friends who like lex have embraced it since Nov. 8.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 December 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
fun fact: Solange is Beynoce's sister
― alpine static, Thursday, 8 December 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
I liked it from the beginning but won't deny that it has a tranquility that has been partic appealing over the past month.
― rob, Friday, 9 December 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
I like it a lot!
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 9 December 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
Afropop.org "stocking stuffers" (from below the equator on a couple of continents and more)
BISA KDEICAETANO VELOSADJ ROCKY MARSIANODON JAZZYELAGE DIOUFELZA SOARESFATOU SEIDI GHALIGILBERTO GILLOS HACHEROSNOURA MINT SEYMALIORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE CONTONOUOSEI KORANKYEPEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUPRICHARD BONATIKEN JAH FAKOLYTIWA SAVAGEVAUDOU GAMEVICTOR TAVARESVIEUX KANTEYISHAK BANJAWZOMBA PRISON PROJECT
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 December 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
Oops -- Here are the specifics
The complete list of this year’s recommended records, and where to find them:
Bitori, Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)
Elage Diouf, Melokàane (DEP)
Tiwa Savage, R.E.D. (Mavin)
Bisa Kdei, Break Through (BLMC)
Yishak Banjaw, Love Songs Vol. 2 (Terenga Beat)
Debo Band, Ere Gobez (FPE)
Various Artists, Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta (Numero Group)
Various Artists, Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics (Sterns Africa)
Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Madjafalao (Because Music)
Vaudou Game, Kidayu (Hot Casa)
Bossacucanova The Best of Bossacucanova (Six Degrees)
Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, Dois Amigos: Um Século de Música (Ao Vivo) (Nonesuch)
Elza Soares, A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (Mais Um Discos)
Los Hacheros, Bambulaye (Chulo)
Ibrahim Maalouf, Black Light (Impulse)
Tiken Jah Fakoly, Racines (Universal)
Vieux Kanté, The Young Man’s Harp (Sterns Africa)
Bombino, Azel (Partisan)
Noura Mint Seymali, Noura Mint Seymali, Arbina (Glitterbeat)
Mohamed Abozekry, Karkadé (Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi)
Osei Korankye, Seperewa of Ghana: Emmere Nhyina Nse (Akwaaba Music)
Richard Bona, Heritage (Qwest)
The Pedrito Martinez Group and Román Díaz, Habana Dreams (Motema Music)
Harold Lopez-Nussa, El Viaje (Mack Avenue)
Zomba Prison Project, I Will Not Stop Singing (Six Degrees)
Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni, Les Filles de Illighadad (Sahel Sounds)
Sahra Halgan Trio, Faransiskiyo Somaliland (Buda Music)
Aziza Brahim, Abbar el Hamada (Glitterbeat)
Rocky Marsiano, Meu Kamba Vol. Dois (Akwaaba)
Graveola E O Lixo Polifônico, Camaleão Borboleta (Mais Um Discos)
La Yegros, Magnetismo (Soundways)[i]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 December 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
that Gil/Veloso album is a snooze imo
Noura Mint Seymali record is great, stripped down Saharan blues with a torch singer as a frontperson
she was super good live as well
― sleeve, Friday, 9 December 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/620-revolvers-20-best-albums-of-2016/
Whiney I think used to write for Revolver
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 9 December 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
If you ignore the uniform adulation for Bowie, Radiohead, Nick Cave, Cohen and Iggy, albumoftheyear's aggregated list seems reasonably or at least predictably well representative of newer acts and genre range.
It's worse than GAPDY if you think it matters that the five this time are all decades old.
― nashwan, Friday, 9 December 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
only if you're ageist
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 9 December 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, and they're all men too.
― nashwan, Friday, 9 December 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
interesting thing to me about the aggregate is how high kanye is placing with a record which seems widely to be considered a misstep. in the aoty rankings it's the highest placing record without a #1 vote. this i think is perhaps a better example than beyonce (whose record truly is superb) of someone getting plaudits based essentially on name recognition.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 9 December 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
― rob, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:00 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what's kind of brilliant about that album to me is that it conveys both serene and restorative tranquillity but also total broken-down (and very specific) depression simultaneously. it builds the former out of the latter but not in a worthy "how to overcome sadness through being excellent" kind of way, the sadness is the core of it.
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 December 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
like, it actually feels like being so fatigued that you want to give up while also ultimately working towards a kind of hope and making the case for these states of mind being intertwined if not the same thing
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 December 2016 13:04 (seven years ago) link
yep
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 9 December 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
I've never known the thread starter to be particularly interested in tracks rather than albums, and the thread title reflects that, but someone hit us up with some good tracks lists please. They're usually more fun/interesting.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
GRAMPDY
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 9 December 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
just be glad the Wilco record is not showing up much
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 9 December 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
GAWDY
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 9 December 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Hey some of them are dead. And you can't just filter Beyonce and Solange out because they don't fit the theory.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
SOLRIPBEY
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 9 December 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
lol
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 9 December 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
I've never known the thread starter to be particularly interested in tracks rather than albums, and the thread title reflects that, but someone hit us up with some good tracks lists please. They're usually more fun/interesting.― Matt DC,
― Matt DC,
gotta get your snidey remark in as usual, eh?
this type of thread has always had both albums & tracks and there has been tracks lists posted and I'm sure as they come out more will be
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Haha that wasn't meant to be snide, you *are* usually more visibly involved/interested in the ILM albums poll when it rolls around.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
If you would like a reminder of how dire pop music has been this year, I could post the Billboard Hot 100 for 2016.
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 9 December 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
xp
fair enough. I usually quite like the ilm tracks poll even if its more from a spectator point of view
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
we did try a metal tracks poll before but the voters werent interested so i dumped it
new board description
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
Has this been posted yet?http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9990-the-20-best-electronic-albums-of-2016/
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 9 December 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
lex otm on solange album, it is really good
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 9 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
i just heard this song the other day, it has almost 350 million views on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuY9FET9Y4
― nomar, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
the bandcamp countdown just finished up and it turned out to be a really great varied list https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/12/09/the-best-albums-of-2016-20-1/
king at no. 1! oranssi pazuzu!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
that Jose Mauro reissue that led off their list was fantastic
― rob, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I am super happy that Jenny Besetzt ended up at #6 on the Bandcamp list.
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
oh thanks for pointing that out, reminded me that i needed to buy it still
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
xpost. Somewhat ironically, now that Wilco are actually sort of good (last two albums) they're vanishing from the charts. Serves them right I guess.
― dlp9001, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Pitchfork's 20 Best Experimental Albums. I'm working through these. Matmos is really good and Yves Tumor is enjoyable so far.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Oh, people are hating on it on the Pitchfork thread.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
serpentwithfeet is pretty badass but it's not really what I would bring to mind when thinking of "experimental music"
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Anna Meredith album is great as well but there's nothing experimental about it at all.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Not at all??
― Evan, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Ha, yeah, I don't know if I'd really describe the things I've listened to as "experimental" per se but these lists usually include music I enjoy. xp
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
Requirement number one to be an 'experimental art' artist: your album cover must be black & white.
― Moka, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
http://www.rap-up.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/adele-25-cover.jpg
― nomar, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Other notable entries from the Bandcamp list:
#37 Sélébéyone, Sélébéyone #32 Marissa Nadler, Strangers#28 SubRosa, For This We Fought the Battle of Ages#24 The Body, No One Deserves Happiness#14 Elza Soares, The woman at the end of the world (A mulher do fim do mundo)#8 Jenny Hval, Blood Bitch#6 Jenny Besetzt, Tender Madness#5 Shabaka & the Ancestors, Wisdom of Elders#4 Ette, Homemade Lemonade#3 NxWorries, Yes Lawd!#2 Moor Mother, Fetish Bones
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 9 December 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I'm wondering about that Moor Mother album tbh. Very intrigued from the few snippets I've read
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
http://www.stereogum.com/1914711/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2016/franchises/2016-in-review/
Stereogum's never run a jazz list before. I'm glad they asked me for one.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 9 December 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
#7 Noname is also great/notable!
(so, the whole Bandcamp Top 8 then)
xxp
― Jeff W, Friday, 9 December 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Ok I always roll my eyes at the whole 'easier to admire than to listen to' but that's pretty much where I'm at with Moor Mother
(though "KGBK" just came on, and that's sounding pretty cool)
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link