thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

It really drifted by me as well, but her previous work benefits from its inescapability. I'm sure I'll be crushed into submission in time

she's had a few great singles but her previous albums were so inconsistent - this one's by far her best. can understand how some could be bored by it but i'm certainly much less confused by all the acclaim than i was in 2010

this thread will live on long after my death

(old Jess quote/paraphrase)

gonna use this safe space to say that the Monae album has a few nice songs but is overrated as hell

yeah

and i still think it’s her best lol

it's her worst but I still like it

just gonna come out and say it, Autechre's latest only has like 6 hours worth of good stuff on it

lol

yeah the janelle monae album is fine, and her strongest, but not really one of the best of the year or anything. some amazing singles though

not to go full unperson - I'm sure plenty of people unreservedly love every note - but there's a case to be made that a convergence of extramusical factors helped juke the stats in its favor

but, yknow, twas ever thus

please note thread title change to reflect our eternal discontent with hyped releases of any year

Monae is definitely one of those artists who's so easy to root for that it makes you overlook the filler

Thanks for pointing it out, felt like I was getting gaslighted there for a sec.

xp

Monae is definitely one of those artists who's so easy to root for that it makes you overlook the filler

yeah I can understand this too

xp bookmarks may keep the old title for a while

I've never enjoyed a note of Janelle Monae's music but will watch her act in anything

Re-Robyn. "Obviously great" is very relative. I wish I could come up with an elaborate and constructive diss (as we're supposed to), but the truth is I gave the album 15-20 minutes and found nothing exciting (title track is alright but sounds like someone else). And I like pop in general and some electro-pop. It's everyone's right to shrug something off and move on.

I gave the album 15-20 minutes

listen to the whole thing, come on

We should also do a thread to dis imago-hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about.

briiiiing it

here's how it's done btw: The Chap - Mega Breakfast

I've never enjoyed a note of Janelle Monae's music but will watch her act in anything

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:30 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't have anything mean to say... it's just not for me at all!

i can forgive imago for hyping all sorts of things i don't care about just for being a fellow katie dey evangelical

what are the new traumprinz songs.... sorry i can't keep track of all the aliases but "2 the sky" is all time

the most loved traumprinz this year is dj healer - nothing 2 loose, which is great, but i think there was some other stuff too

imago is big Swirlies fan right? This would be my reason to forgive if I needed one

agreed on Monae and Robyn. The upside is nothing highly acclaimed this year really rankles me. I'm not sure if that says anything about 2018 or if I'm just aging out of caring so much

there's just nothing this year to care *deeply* about either way. and i'm *not* saying this was a bad year for music or there was no good music this year, it's just pretty clear (to me, at least) that there are no lightning rods out there

tried to start a julia holter war, to mass apathy

cmon we need more hate

listen to the whole thing, come on
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, December 6, 2018 4:36 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

During my university years, when I was downloading albums all day, I would be very scrupulous about listening to albums from A to Z. I also used to be very respectful anytime three people agreed that an album was a great work of art, even when it left me politely clueless. I'm still lending my curious year to things that leave me clueless, but I'm way more anarchic and tyrannical: if 4 songs can't convince me, and I underline convince me, the opinion of the entire virtual planet won't make me lose my time. But apparently this forum frowns immediately if someone is not aligned (see imago, unperson etc), which is quite fun mind you, you can criticize but don't dare not like it, actually it's not just here that you get accused of lèse-majesté for not honoring the official 2018 playlist.

someone mentioned 2014 in comparison with this year, which makes a lot of sense to me although i think 2014 was the weakest year for albums in recent memory and this year has easily been the strongest. it kinda produces the same result in aggregate lists

xp with alpine static

This year the strongest? 2016!

cmon we need more hate

― imago, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:32 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok i really disliked the time i spent with the american pleasure club album yesterday

This year the strongest? 2016!

― imago, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:34 AM (twenty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also an incredible year but like... things that would've made my top ten in 2016 are drifting to the 20s and 30s this year. there's too much excellent stuff

For me, 2016 had more all-time great albums but there's a case that this year has had just as many (or more) really, really good albums

I love the emptiness of these statements absent a modicum of shared criteria to determine what is and isn't worthwhile. While we're at it, though, 2018 was alright, no more and no less.

I love the emptiness of these statements absent a modicum of shared criteria to determine what is and isn't worthwhile

welcome to ilx/new board description

All music is worthwhile to someone, if only to the person who made it, but it doesn't mean we can't be irreverent. I see less and less irreverence, people pretend to like everything out of general respect or optimism, safe that they be a hater or someone who does not understand.

it feels like a lot to get into but this is 2018 for me:

- new albums from established bands/artists that blew me away in ways they hadn't previously (mewithoutyou, the 1975, low, mr twin sister, meshell ndegeocello, autechre, robyn, fucked up)
- stuff that seemed extremely congruent with the chaos and noise i felt humming internally and externally all year (low again, autechre again, mewithoutyou again, julia holter, dj healer, helena hauff, yves tumor, skee mask, sheck wes)
- tons of albums that i'm still getting to the bottom of (voivod, evoken, jenny wilson)

I spent many a self-pitying night listening to Things We Lost in the Fire when it came out, but Low's latest reminded me of Neil Young's Trans: kind of cool yet too unidiomatic to be convincing.

2013 and 14 were pretty weak but these last 4 have been very very strong

what this year shares in common with 2014 is a lack of event albums that completely dominated critical discourse throughout the year and eoy lists, so what's bubbling to the top feels a little less pre-ordained
and there's more room for indie darlings like mitski. at least this year it's better stuff than the war on the drugs

the only stuff id really complain about that's getting a lot of love in lists this year is sweetener and the idles album

i love the Robyn album, after not being particularly invested in her music previously

oh god idles are so shit

i think this is one of the worst years for big singles i can remember... my favorite song of the year is like... fucking tyga or something

but for albums, dang... 1975, kacey, blood orange, charlie puth all dropped classics to me and there's a good 5 or so albums i pretty much love as well

the Kacey album dominated my summer. I really did like her first and was cool with her second, but this one felt like a breakthrough.

The Robyn album being the Chosen Pop Statement in a year where Tove Styrke has one out too is so bewildering to me