OK you've lost me now
― imago, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
cool so there was never any chance you would like yob, thanks for contributing
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
There was a chance, back in 2004.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/472/seriouscatcover.jpg
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
That Messa album is great.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
glad this thread has had a metal takeover anyway
― imago, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Scheidt's voice does absolutely nothing for me.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
yob have great album art
― brimstead, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
"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"
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
xpost Orion Landau: http://orionlandau.tumblr.com/ +++ https://www.instagram.com/orionmustbedestroyed/
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
wow american pleasure club is not for me
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
I didn't really get it either. Might go back and try again at some point, but who has the time
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
i do like the flasher record
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
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?
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
that Guttersnipe -My Mother the Vent record from the Wire and Quietus lists is completely insane
― Dan S, Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
really kind of love ZULI - Terminal
― Dan S, Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 December 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 December 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
I for one have no idea what that is. any relation to left shark
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
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
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
i feel confident enough that baby shark will place higher than this is america in the ilm tracks poll at least
― ufo, Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
I will vote for it unironically.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
if approx 1/5 of the world likes it (I'm assuming repeat views) how good can it be
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
I can’t hum one bar of This Is America
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
The “I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City” of our time
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
ouch!
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 December 2018 05:12 (five years ago) link
“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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 December 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
thanks to Tim for mentioning the Roy Kinsey album, that's really excellent
― ufo, Thursday, 6 December 2018 06:47 (five years ago) link
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
― Doran, Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
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 RELATIONSHIPS19. SERPENTWITHFEET - SOIL18. TROYE SIVAN - BLOOM17. AMNESIA SCANNER - ANOTHER LIFE16. BROCKHAMPTON - IRIDESCENCE15. BLOOD ORANGE - NEGRO SWAN14. NAO - SATURN13. CARDI B - INVASION OF PRIVACY12. THE INTERNET - HIVE MIND11. KALI UCHIS - ISOLATION10. TIRZAH - DEVOTION09. YVES TUMOR - SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE08. CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS - CHRIS07. ROSALÍA - EL MAL QUERER06. ARIANA GRANDE - SWEETENER05. LET’S EAT GRANDMA - I’M ALL EARS04. MITSKI - BE THE COWBOY03. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES02. ROBYN - HONEY01. TIERRA WHACK - WHACK WORLD
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 6 December 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link
that's a very ilx list i think
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 6 December 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
― 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
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 6 December 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
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
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
I mean there are a few totemic ones that are making almost every list, but yeah this feels like a less consensus-ruled year than most
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
that is a very triumphant list. yassss
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
actually i do rly like 4 of the top 5 so no real beef
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
If I had to guess, I think Let's Eat Grandma might end up topping the ILM list.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
no wayyyyy. they might make the top 10. might.
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
for all that i like the album it isn't in my 25, for instance
if i had to guess it'd be Kacey Musgraves but there's a loooot of possibilities
― ufo, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
swear we're missing something obvious
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
It's going to be Robyn.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
http://dis.resized.images.s3.amazonaws.com/540x540/105574.jpeg
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
Robyn would surely be the most underwhelming winner ever? Guess I'd better see what the fuss is about this 'Robyn' character then!!
― imago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
2014 was the last time there was this little consensus in all the publication lists and it was War on Drugs/St Vincent/Run the Jewels/FKA Twigs that did best in the aggregate lists
this year it's Janelle Monae/Low/Mitski topping the aggregates so far and at the very least Low doing so well is pretty cool
― ufo, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link