if that's shade then it's ill-chosen shade
― imago, Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
not really shade--just that complaints that these lists are full of albums-I-haven't-heard-of will soon be remedied by soothing dips of consensus
― President Keyes, Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Mitski and Kacey should go on tour together
― alpine static, Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
The Best Metal of 2018, according to Pop Matters:
20. Vein - Errorzone19. Thou - Magus18. Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light17. Slaves BC - Lo, and I Am Burning16. Portal - Ion15. Ghost - Prequelle14. Tribulation - Down Below13. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want12. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury11. Horrendous - Idol10. Pig Destroyer - Head Cage9. Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch8. Agrimonia - Awaken7. Chaos Echœs - Mouvement6. Sleep - The Sciences5. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms4. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology3. Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma2. Sumac - Love in Shadow1. Yob - Our Raw Heart
Decent list, overall. I don't much care for Yob but it's good to see Mournful Congregation, Tomb Mold, Chaos Echœs, Horrendous, Imperial Triumphant and Portal.
https://www.popmatters.com/best-metal-of-2018-2621689330.html
― pomenitul, Friday, 30 November 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
Bleep's Top 10 Albums of the Year 2018:
1. Tirzah – Devotion2. Skee Mask – Compro3. SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES4. Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands of Love5. Chris Carter – Chemistry Lessons Volume 16. Kamaal Williams – The Return7. Paper Dollhouse – The Sky Looks Different Here8. Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman9. Pariah – Here From Where We Are10. Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
https://bleep.com/Bleeps-Top-10-Albums-of-the-Year-2018
― stranded, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
to paste the Paste list
50. Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On 49. Blood Orange - Negro Swan 48. Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere 47. Flasher - Constant Image 46. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie 45. Paul Kelly - Nature 44. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 43. Caroline Rose - Loner 42. Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed 41. Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss 40. Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet39. Alejandro Escovedo - The Crossing38. Richard Swift - The Hex37. Preoccupations - New Material36. Lonnie Holley - MITH35. I'm With Her - See You Around34. DJ Koze - Knock Knock33. Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything32. Noname - Room 2531. Neko Case - Hell-On30. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden29. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me28. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends27. Ought - Room Inside the World26. Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive25. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance24. Iceage - Beyondless23. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now22. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine21. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain20. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino19. Robyn - Honey18. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer17. MGMT - Little Dark Age16. Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue15. The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl14. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer13. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited12. Shame - Songs of Praise11. Amen Dunes - Freedom10. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog9. Low - Double Negative8. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs7. Pusha-T - Daytona6. Mitski - Be the Cowboy5. Snail Mail - Lush4. Soccer Mommy - Clean3. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel2. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! 1. Lucy Dacus - Historian
― comesayhey, Saturday, 1 December 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
I'm glad to see Pusha on a second wind but Daytona is not v inspired imo
― niels, Saturday, 1 December 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
milquetoast indie: a compendium
― imago, Saturday, 1 December 2018 09:52 (five years ago) link
Glad to see the love for Richard Swift. Hop Along too low, obviously. Some nice choices on the list until it takes a turn for the conventional in the top half
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Saturday, 1 December 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
I didn’t realize anyone cared about the new decemberists album... (I also didn’t realize there was a decenberists album this year)
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Saturday, 1 December 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
http://www.tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2018.html
100 albums including Mississippi bluesman (& RL’s grandson) Cedrick Burnside, Janelle Monae, Steve Reich, Carl Stone, Wayne Shorter, Sons of Kemet , Tirzah, and many more
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Just finished puking from all these lists. I don't think I'm going to be able to eat until 2019, it's all so sickening.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
oh, good to see ted gioia's list is up, i picked up a great bagpipe record from his list last year. he listens to a lot of stuff other people don't.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
like, an archival bruce haack record came out this year? who knew?
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
xp yeah just picked out the Sarah Davachi album from that list and it's great: organ drone that reminds me of Basinski at times. Cool.
― kraudive, Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
― willem, Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
I love the Bleep list, Tirzah es mi numero uno.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 1 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
I did! And it's rather fantastic!― willem
it is! there's gotta be some kind of story about that one... the guy who did "the electric lucifer" recording for a christian record label, around the same time he was recording the much, much darker "haackula"? i get the general impression there are lots of stories about haack that people don't really want to talk about, though...
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
The story's in the booklet, part of which is reproduced/available as an introduction on the label's website:https://www.telephoneexplosion.com/products/bruce-haack-preservation-tapes-lp-pre-order
― willem, Saturday, 1 December 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
re the bleep list, I guess here's where I say that I think the skee mask album is super uninspired. warmed over 'idm'-is-a-cool-flavor-now super griddy ugly sounding and boring. so many better techno
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 1 December 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
i love it
― j., Saturday, 1 December 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
Good to see the Chris Carter album in a list. Old Master Doing What Old Master Does Best in a convincing manner.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 1 December 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
I think that skee mask album is great! it's definitely one of my favorites of the year
― Dan S, Saturday, 1 December 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
the radiophonic workshop chris carter remix is good too
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 December 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
I guess the Objekt - Cocoon Crush album was released too late to show up on any of these lists, but it is so great
― Dan S, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
https://twitter.com/i/events/1068961391954935809
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Sunday, 2 December 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
gross
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 December 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
what it's just gary
― j., Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
I get the assessment that the Skee Mask album is basic, but still it didn't stop me from thoroughly enjoying it.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 December 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
whatever. everyone should listen to the shed album from last year instead.
actually the lauer album, released at the end of november, is arguably even more basic but way the fuck more fun. it's got a direct new order bite with peter hook bass and everything. it's a fucking blast.
feel like i can think of a few other techno albums from this year that are better than compro. it's blander than pampa people.
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
if 2018 is the year you want to get into drum n bass you can do a lot better
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
i'd be overjoyed if every compro mention were replaced with cerebral hemispheres by mr. fingers, which is just a b+ (it's overstuffed) but certainly better than compro.
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
I like Compro but yeah, the Mr. Fingers album deserves better. Its inconsistency is kind of charming.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
word
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
Mr Fingers record is definitely on my list of faves this year, and yeah, definitely higher than Skee Mask.
Will DiMaggio's At Ease was also pretty good, I wonder if it will show up on some lists?
Bjorn Torske's Byen on the space-disco tip and the Don't Mess With Cupid, 'Cause Cupid Ain't Stupid trip retro-hardcore comp were also things I enjoyed... I imagine the latter might make it onto the RA list.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
xp "crying over you" is better than anything skee mask has ever done, even when he was like 18 or w/e with Ilian Tape
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
i have not heard those, space-disco has me intrigued atm. will check out.
lol it's not a competition, you don't have to convince ppl to substitute a record you approve of for one you don't approve of. they can like more than one!
i rather like the dimaggio album too altho it's a little spikier than i usually wish it would be.
― j., Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:50 (five years ago) link
well................
it actually is a competition
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
anyway you should listen to "power" by lauer j. i think you'd dig it
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 2 December 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
off the top of my head so probably missing a bunch but electronic albums i've really liked this year: hieroglyphic being, steven julien, shinichi atobe, vessel, syclops, kelly morgan, arp, kate nv, hunee, shy layers, niagara, deena abdelwahed, will dimaggio, forma
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
err, kelly moran not morgan
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
Aside from Mr. Fingers, I especially enjoyed Autechre, Bjørn Torske, Martyn, Rival Consoles, SIT, Steven Rutter and Sly & Robbie with Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay. I've also been meaning to check out Richard Devine, Shackleton and DJ Richard.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:33 (five years ago) link
still need to hear bunch of those. would suggest giving the vessel record a go if you haven’t heard that yet, you might get something out of that. not too far away from shackleton, airy and strange but also very physical. think it’s called ‘queen of the golden dogs’?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link
music that would knock you over in the street then point out the beauty of the church spires as you lay bleeding on the ground
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
Sold!
― pomenitul, Sunday, 2 December 2018 11:02 (five years ago) link
ted gioia list looks great, I like the concise descriptions
― niels, Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
compro is very good imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
ctrl+f helena hauff
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
hm i'm only getting one result
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link