Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

also uh

boards of canada - campfire headphase
boards of canada - tomorrow's harvest

prob the rest of them too but whatever

tepid 6music indietronica and screwfacey IDMised versions of actually exciting genres

first one has a place, i don't mind easy listening it just depends how indie i guess, second one is v v v v v otm

"it's like dancehall but shit!"

there is a lot of bad mumdance and the grime angle of logos is definitely oversold

but i will go to bat for mumdance & logos “different circles” mix

it is on apple music and spotify, give it a listen if you like heavy ambient, you won’t be dissapointed

only one mention of the orb in the original thread, smdh

i heard this new Orb single the other day and jfc my toes haven't uncurled yet

i thought of clark too ... he reminds me of that part in amadeus ... “too many notes”

I don't mind Hopkins, but the only thing he did I love was the King Creosote collaboration.

a lot of the idea of overrated is about being annoyed by the garrulous "seen the light" hypecitement of people first jumping onto a perceived new thing whereas when you come across stuff in the middle of a big mix of all sorts of other stuff it can be perfectly pleasant and enjoyable

I don't mind Hopkins, but the only thing he did I love was the King Creosote collaboration.

still not entirely sure what his contribution was there.

avery is pretty popular right? "song for alpha" what a terrible album name.

i'm gonna say the new errorsmith album. i want to hear the influences more than the cerebral take on them.

Jon Hopkins is fine and perfectly enjoyable as a sort of candyfloss background music but it's a mystery how he got so big (massive adverts on the Tube, glowing broadsheet reviews) when he's essentially rehashing the sort of thing Stefan Bodzin was rehashing from James Holden over a decade ago.

YES

I agree with the Jon Hopkins thing, it's good but I'm surprised it's so huge.

Logos - Cold Mission

This still sounds great imo. And Jam City. And Forest Swords. And Burial for that matter, even if he's influenced a lot of questionable stuff.

Arca's recent s/t is my favorite thing of his since his early EPs/mixtapes.

a lot of the idea of overrated is about being annoyed by the garrulous "seen the light" hypecitement of people first jumping onto a perceived new thing whereas when you come across stuff in the middle of a big mix of all sorts of other stuff it can be perfectly pleasant and enjoyable

― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 3:38 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea otm

im also going to put flying lotus' entire discography here

mmm i like cosmogramma and you’re dead! but he seems like an ass and there’s a ton of equally good or better LA beatmakers

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Matmos
Herbert
Gudrun Gut
John Talabot
Talaboman
AGF.
Lappetites
Nina Kraviz
Clark
Belbury pol
Pye corner audio
Blondes
Kuedo

you're dead is ok. there are some incredible moments on a few of those records. but the rest ehhh

idk y’all galcher lustwerk has been pretty reliably good ime

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nicolas jaar

yea I don't think I've ever really liked a FlyLo album. god knows I've tried

BOC seem like the right answer here, ooooh its fuzzed out and creepy and I guess that's kinda neat but I gotta go with the normie opinion that it's all about "Roygbiv"

boc are good if the idea of the soundtrack to "the changes" played backwards and combined with numbers stations sounds like a good idea to you

it sounds like a good idea to me

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nicolas jaar

Good ones.

I still think FlyLo has a distinctive thing and makes records worth listening to, but yeah his persona has been a bummer.

I've never heard of Galcher Lustwerk.

BoC never really did it for me.

I like Tomorrow's Harvest, but it's fair to put it on here. It evokes very specific emotions for me, even though it doesn't really have a lot going on.

Fennesz - Endless Summer. Just never saw the appeal even tho the descriptions of it sounded all up in my alley.

is Tomorrow's Harvest overrated? apart from the publicity launch hoohah i thought it was poorly regarded by BOC fans and kind of indifferently received by the real world

for me it's a classic and possibly their best LP? as moodles says, "evokes very specific emotions", might not be technically that innovative but has a great deal of conceptual and emotional clout

i like that one Jon Hopkins song a lot, Open Eye Signal. The music video probably makes it work for me a lot better though tbh.

tomorrow's harvest does indeed evoke very specific emotions for me. mostly listening to it makes me want to kill myself.

ha

I feel like there's some weird calls on Ross' list - I have really fond memories of Herbert's Around the House, Bodily Functions and even 100 Lbs, but haven't listen to them for years (maybe they've aged really badly?). Blondes first two albums are dope. Matmos have done some great stuff, and Talabot's fin I could see people perhaps being less than enthused about, but I'm not sure it deserves to be listed as overrated.

100 lbs is the besy herbert imo!

best, even

But just so I'm contributing, and looking over recent releases, Daniel Avery strikes me as pretty overrated.

Also Caretaker and Nicolas Jaar get my vote.

UK lo-fi ironic house stuff like Ross from Friends, DJ Seinfeld and DJ Boring, although this could just be my own personal Spotify dilemma.

actually the best herbert is globus mix 5

then 100 lbs

i’m ok w calling the rest of it overrated

xp i have to ask - have you listened to much dj seinfeld, ross, dj boring, etc?

i was a naysayer for a while but then i got hooked - aside from the silly names they actually produce really legit house music

like there is very little that i would call “ironic” about their music

their names, yeah, are awful

Yeah, that mix is great - he had this real abrasive techno side mixed in with early microhouse.

The remixes comp from memory had some good stuff on it too.

They are all over my Daily Mixes by proximity to, I guess, 100% Silk stuff or Pacific Rhythm... so it comes on and sort of just passes me by. The names annoy me and the foggy production sorta seems beyond cliche at this point.

They are all playing at Field Day so tbh I was curious to see what they're like as DJs and prepared to make up my mind then.

But yes, the names are so bad, I couldn't help but mention them.

Actually, that DJ Seinfeld Shai remix actually did catch my ear, so perhaps I should pay the whole album some attention.

Actress's last album didn't do much for me but I still love his other full lengths. I rep hard for RIP and the misunderstood GHETTOVILLE.

(re: Matt DC's list)

and i'm so down for the lofi house/tech shit. here are a couple favs from last year:

dj swagger - lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiVLmCA0qtE

no moon - everyting has a return
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Jm_RdMq8Q

brb gonna listen to my favorite electronic musician, DJ Eddie Frasier's Dog

yeah actress is so dope

brimstead i started a lo fi house thread

word!

brb gonna listen to my favorite electronic musician, DJ Eddie Frasier's Dog

shurely DJ Eddie, Martin Crane's Dog?

DJ Eddie the Eagle from the Hilarious 1988 Winter Olympics