The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

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

Aside from Evoken, a few doom and doom-ish bands that have released albums more deserving of attention than Yob's or Sleep's this year: Messa, Argonavis, Hamferð, Hooded Menace, Churchburn, Mournful Congregation.

That Messa album is great.

i agree that Sleep isn't that great. Sleep is a merch-sales operation at this point.

Yob is fucking great, though. Whiney is right about the melody and the soaring. and Mike's one of the best vocalists going, in any genre. they're great recorded, and they're mind-blowing live.

did they get more coverage because of the near-death experience? maybe a couple pieces, but nothing major. everyone writes about a new Yob record ... and with good reason.

glad this thread has had a metal takeover anyway

i mean they could've kept his medical issues under wraps and done just fine. Yob doesn't need to cook up a hook for press, c'mon.

Scheidt's voice does absolutely nothing for me.

i also think it's worth noting that Mike does a good job - whether you're reading his words or you have a chance to talk to him about it - of passionately and precisely explaining how his experience affected and fueled Our Raw Heart. like, it's *part of the story* of the music, it's not just in the press release because it sounds cool.

yob have great album art

"x do/does nothing for me" is of course a perfectly fine statement, my side-eye only gets raised when it's associated with "here's a list of similar bands who are OBVIOUSLY superior based on arcane personal criteria"

xpost Orion Landau: http://orionlandau.tumblr.com/ +++ https://www.instagram.com/orionmustbedestroyed/

wow american pleasure club is not for me

I didn't really get it either. Might go back and try again at some point, but who has the time

i do like the flasher record

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

― grawlix (unperson)

so would you say sleep is wrong?

that Guttersnipe -My Mother the Vent record from the Wire and Quietus lists is completely insane

really kind of love ZULI - Terminal

that Guttersnipe -My Mother the Vent record from the Wire and Quietus lists is completely insane

I know you all like "This is America" because it's feels like a statement or something but I'm still waiting for someone to give "Baby Shark" the respectful nod it deserves. The actual zeitgeist song of the year.

I for one have no idea what that is. any relation to left shark

Oh it's an indie gem with 2,016,756,968 views that's been around for a while but the western world just became acquainted with its relentless power this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

i feel confident enough that baby shark will place higher than this is america in the ilm tracks poll at least

I will vote for it unironically.

if approx 1/5 of the world likes it (I'm assuming repeat views) how good can it be

I can’t hum one bar of This Is America

The “I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City” of our time

ouch!

“This is America” is all about the music video, and it’s a brilliant one... top 10 of the decade even. But, song of the year? To each its own but I don’t think it’s even the best song on his album.

thanks to Tim for mentioning the Roy Kinsey album, that's really excellent

I don't want to be that guy but the Einsturzende Neubauten original version of Baby Shark is best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AYFL5GMc0

DAZED - The 20 best albums of 2018
https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/42479/1/best-albums-2018-sophie-robyn-ariana-tierra-whack

20. THE 1975 - A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS
19. SERPENTWITHFEET - SOIL
18. TROYE SIVAN - BLOOM
17. AMNESIA SCANNER - ANOTHER LIFE
16. BROCKHAMPTON - IRIDESCENCE
15. BLOOD ORANGE - NEGRO SWAN
14. NAO - SATURN
13. CARDI B - INVASION OF PRIVACY
12. THE INTERNET - HIVE MIND
11. KALI UCHIS - ISOLATION
10. TIRZAH - DEVOTION
09. YVES TUMOR - SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE
08. CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS - CHRIS
07. ROSALÍA - EL MAL QUERER
06. ARIANA GRANDE - SWEETENER
05. LET’S EAT GRANDMA - I’M ALL EARS
04. MITSKI - BE THE COWBOY
03. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES
02. ROBYN - HONEY
01. TIERRA WHACK - WHACK WORLD

that's a very ilx list i think

wow american pleasure club is not for me

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 4:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like it but the only song that really stuck with me is the one that kinda sounds like Neil Young

surprised to see tierra whack bag a couple of number ones. fun album but a bit slight and really wished she’d let some of the ideas stretch out a bit. felt like something that crop up in the lower (more interesting) reaches of these lists

it's nice that this year's been open enough that something like that can top some of these lists, makes a nice change from recent years where everything was dominated by a handful of Event Albums