The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

beautiful cover.

boo’d up might have come out in 2017 but it’s def a 2018 track. D-40 probably right tho

funny how these things work. culture II feels like it came out an age ago. might as well have been a 2017 record

D-40 has been going down this pedantic wormhole since, like, "Still Tippin'." Ignore.

Complex: "But Earl treats the lo-fi nature of the process in the same way that Guided by Voices did in their heyday"

lol was not expecting that one

Complex list is decent but the ordering is bonkers to me.

Also, am I alone in thinking that the Tierra Whack album seems to be getting more shine than it deserves? Maybe I'll revisit it today but I didn't really like it much when I first listened.

I agree. As a calling-card EP it shows a lot of promise, but aoty is a big stretch

Vinyl Factory list is awesome. Love their taste.

TW probably my favourite rap album of the year tbf

yours, a committed and knowledgeable rap fan

Glad to see the Yob record place so low on the Noisey list. Yob sucks, and I don't understand why so many critics worship them. Sure, the dude almost died and that's a good feature hook, but it doesn't make their music interesting.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 5:59 AM (three hours ago)

O_O

tbf I've never got Yob either

tbf they're one of the best heavy bands on the planet

Nah, he's right.

2xp

Yob sucks, and I don't understand why so many critics worship them

it's unperson, you can replace "yob" in this construction with like... most bands

i don't love yob but i respect what they're doing

who da fuq is yob

xxp ok, fine, but in this particular case that is an laughably terrible opinion.

xp a metal band

idk how you listen to "Marrow" and say this band sucks

and the idea that people only write about them because Mike almost died is borderline offensive. the band has existed for 20 years, has been touring the world for almost as long, and has been a favorite of critics for 10+

doesn't mean you have to like 'em but citing his medical issue as a good feature hook driving press coverage is impressively stupid

and the idea that people only write about them because Mike almost died is borderline offensive

i mean, agreed

album's great and dismissing it as only being listed because of the "narrative" is some bullshit

doesn't mean you have to like 'em but citing his medical issue as a good feature hook driving press coverage is impressively stupid

You know it was the first sentence of the press release, right? And I'm well aware of how long Yob have been around - the first record of theirs I heard was the aptly titled The Illusion of Motion. There's a fair amount of good doom out there, but Yob are boring and bad.

Literally every single one of their post-hiatus albums has been EOY list fodder.

There is nothing exceptional about the treatment this record's gotten AFAICT

you clown yourself for spending any time thinking about press releases imo

There are plenty of hyped up releases I don't care for but I generally assume it's because they hear something I don't, not because they're dumb rubes who fell for an extramusical marketing hook.

Literally every single one of their post-hiatus albums has been EOY list fodder...There is nothing exceptional about the treatment this record's gotten AFAICT

Absolutely true. They've been critical darlings for a decade, and I'm honestly kind of impressed that they've managed to thread the needle and lure in both metal writers and "I don't know shit about metal but this is the best metal album of the year" indie schmendricks. I still think they suck, though.

you clown yourself for spending any time thinking about press releases imo

You clown yourself by pretending that shit doesn't matter. I've argued for years that critics' polls should include four categories: Artist, Title, Label, and Publicist.

I have no idea who this band is, but, like, every press release tells a story about stuff happening in the artist's life, singling out any one band for it is kind of like singling out a person for breathing air. (there's a point to be made about how this is sometimes gruesome/commodifying for the musician, but that point is not here)

You clown yourself by pretending that shit doesn't matter. I've argued for years that critics' polls should include four categories: Artist, Title, Label, and Publicist.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:35 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes you certainly have argued this for years

using your whole fucking thing about press releases to second guess other ppl's enjoyment of the band/record is fucking stupid pretty boring and bad though

i probably should've edited that post more

There's a fair amount of good doom out there, but Yob are boring and bad.

what a shitty opinion

I think i read a Ben Ratliff thing that I always think about, w/r/t their interplay. They really feel synced into each other. They have melody and soar. This is maybe my third fave Yob record.

i just put on the new yob and i can sorta immediately tell why it's special? they're really locked in and dynamic and there are good melodies on top of it

I mean, this is a lot of what I love about Kranky-era Low, but it's just louder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGgEvV3W2qc

And dude has a great rock voice too

i mean i'm essentially repeating what whiney said but. otm! xp

Looking at these lists is like looking at current squad list of Turkish football clubs on wikipedia except with more Josephines than Cenks. No sign of Djourou yet, however

just wanna note that the break in Yob releases was not exactly a "hiatus", more like Mike's attempt to start a totally new band that became a total clusterfuck cuz of some legalistic jerks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middian

and I think he just gave up at that point and went back to Yob, but not totally sure. I was roommates with the Middian bass player for a while and heard abt most of this as it was going down.

I mean, I will grant unperson that, yes, T E H N A R R A T I V E has granted them maybe a little more coverage/focus then they would get otherwise, but they are easily the best non-Sleep doom band of the last 15 years so who gives a shit

Having just heard the new Evoken, I'll take those guys over anything by Yob or Sleep.

the new evoken is great but imo we can have it all

we can have Mournful Congregation too! doom is a big heavy church

Sleep sucks too, FTR. (So does Neurosis, just to complete the everyone-is-wrong-but-me trifecta.)

OK you've lost me now

cool so there was never any chance you would like yob, thanks for contributing

There was a chance, back in 2004.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/472/seriouscatcover.jpg