pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

HAND OF DOOM
about drug abuse, mainly heroin.

No. 50: SOB x RBE - Gangin
No. 49: Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload
No. 48: Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
No. 47: Skee Mask - Compro
No. 46: Blood Orange - Negro Swan
No. 45: Cat Power - Wanderer
No. 44: Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
No. 43: Sleep - The Sciences
No. 42: Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
No. 41: Ty Dolla $ign / Jeremih - MihTy
No. 40: Iceage - Beyondless
No. 39: The Internet - Hive Mind
No. 38: Kali Uchis - Isolation
No. 37: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
No. 36: Rico Nasty - Nasty
No. 35: A.A.L (Against All Logic) - 2012-2017
No. 34: Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
No. 33: Sheck Wes - MUDBOY
No. 32: Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
No. 31: Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
No. 30: Christine and the Queens - Chris
No. 29: boygenius - boygenius EP
No. 28: Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
No. 27: Soccer Mommy - Clean
No. 26: Vince Staples - FM!
No. 25: Playboi Carti - Die Lit
No. 24: Julia Holter - Aviary
No. 23: Travis Scott - Astroworld
No. 22: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
No. 21: The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
No. 20: Beach House - 7
No. 19: Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
No. 18: SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES
No. 17: Pusha-T - Daytona
No. 16: Jon Hopkins - Singularity
No. 15: Noname - Room 25
No. 14: Amen Dunes - Freedom
No. 13: Tirzah - Devotion
No. 12: CupcakKe - Ephorize
No. 11: Ariana Grande - Sweetener
No. 10: Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
No. 9: Tierra Whack - Whack World
No. 8: Low - Double Negative
No. 7: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
No. 6: Rosalía - El mal querer
No. 5: Snail Mail - Lush
No. 4: Robyn - Honey
No. 3: DJ Koze - Knock Knock
No. 2: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
No. 1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy

TOO LOW... (all of these made my top 10, and I think Low should be top 2-3)

No. 43: Sleep - The Sciences
No. 40: Iceage - Beyondless
No. 21: The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
No. 19: Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
No. 18: SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES
No. 8: Low - Double Negative

Also, I'm sorry... but how is Janelle Monáe not even in the top 50 here? That album is fantastic.

not a big surprise, since they only gave it a 7.7

I appreciate what she's doing but I don't really like it

taste is subjective

same

Dry year

im glad they made room for the Georgia Anne album, was overlooked by a lot of lists

no Autechre in the top 50? really?

Albums that got Best New Music, but didn't make the Pitchfork top 50:

Saba – CARE FOR ME (8.7)
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (8.6)
Mount Eerie – Now Only (8.5)
Father John Misty – God's Favorite Customer (8.5)
Tim Hecker – Konoyo (8.5)
Jean Grae / Quelle Chris – Everything's Fine (8.4)
Joey Purp – Quarterthing (8.3)
Jeff Tweedy – Warm (8.3)

*almost inaudible voice* a shame, that father john misty record was actually good

Jean Grae / Quelle Chris – Everything's Fine (8.4)

oh man i feel bad i forgot about this, such a great album...early year stuff sometimes suffers

three Chicagoans on that list!

no CSH is a relief

Albums that got Best New Music, but didn't make the Pitchfork top 50:

Saba – CARE FOR ME (8.7)
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (8.6)
Mount Eerie – Now Only (8.5)
Father John Misty – God's Favorite Customer (8.5)
Tim Hecker – Konoyo (8.5)
Jean Grae / Quelle Chris – Everything's Fine (8.4)
Joey Purp – Quarterthing (8.3)
Jeff Tweedy – Warm (8.3)

― ilxor, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:10 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is pretty interesting. (joey purp got accused of abuse right before the list fwiw)

lack of saba is inexplicable imo

this is pretty interesting. (joey purp got accused of abuse right before the list fwiw)

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 4:13 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark

also his album getting best new music made no sense in the first place

Naw it’s a pretty good album that would have done a lot better in a year that wasn’t saturated with Credible Indie Rap

i'm lukewarm on joey p, but the new alb was a big improvement on iiidrops, which got a lot of critical attention.

i've seen a few stray tweets about allegations against him, but haven't been able to find news articles yet. what's the deal?

hmm

I’LL ONLY SAY THIS ONCE CUZ I DONT WANT IT TO BE MISTAKEN AS ME BEING INSECURE OR ME SEEKING OUTSIDE VALIDATION IN ANYWAY... I KNOW WHAT I AM. BUT ANY YEAR END LIST (NOT JUST HIP HOP) ANY... THAT DOESNT HAVE CARE FOR ME IN IT IS DISRESPECTFUL 🤷🏾‍♀️

— SABA (@sabaPIVOT) December 12, 2018

saw that late yesterday. did he play P4k fest?

Saba and Grae/Quelle seem like the only real weird omissions from that list. and i'm not surprised they skipped over Grae/Quelle ... but Saba is very surprising.

CSH is a remake of an old album
do we really need like the Xth-best albums from Eerie, FJM, Hecker on these lists
Current Long-Haired Wise Man Tweedy is very cool, but the album is just OK

I especially loved the Saba and Tim Hecker albums from that list of omissions.

Jean Grae / Quelle Chris – Everything's Fine

Bandcamp's album of the year.

Solid choice, I love that one too!

I caught Jean Grae opening for Talib Kweli and Mos Def back in the early to mid '00s, and I remember either Kweli dropped out of the show for some reason, so Jean Grae played a longer opening set and OH MY GOD SHE KILLED IT.

either Kweli or Mos Def* dropped out...

hell yeah Jean!

"Watch Jeff Tweedy Rate Stuffed Crust Pizza, Men’s Jewelry, and High School Reunions"

The Avril Lavigne review today is really well written and thoughtful.

Yes, I thought that was good. They should do more of the Sunday retrospectives on bad albums.

That is not a bad album, it’s a very good album; and even the reviewer seems to rate it more highly than the miserly 6.6 posted at the top.

Fair enough, I haven't heard it. I guess I mean albums that aren't already critically regarded as classics.

Honestly, this is why I sometimes think P-fork should just "stay in their lane"... they revisit a 16-yr-old album that was hugely popular, fit perfectly with the moment, introduced/established a significant artist, and has no bad or skippable songs over its 13 tracks... and they give it a 6.6 because... reasons?

they want everyone to know that this album that everyone of a certain age knows about has many strong moments and is ok to listen to

but yes, i very much enjoyed reading it all the same

Let Go is a 6.6 though

Let Go is a 6.6 though

it has one of the defining pop ballads of its era ("i'm with you") plus two singles that stodgy critics were singling out as being Actually Pretty Good For An Inherently Silly Manufactured Pop Tune even then. perhaps every other song on the album is mediocre but i wouldn't know as i've not heard it in full.

first four or five tracks are all time bangers but it drops off pretty quick

Not to 6.6 level. 6.6 is a mediocre album

why am I arguing about this, lol

Anyway, some of the best songs are later — like “Things I’ll Never Say”

could you guys make it any more obvious?

I’m convinced this record wouldn’t be half as loved if Avril had lived longer

Do you mean, like, if Avril's career had lived longer...?
Or is ilx now the nexus of some Berenstein Universe-type phenomenon where all of us are denizens of different timelines with different pop histories and celebrity deaths?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/may/15/avril-lavigne-melissa-cloning-conspiracy-theories

"all time bangers"

ic otm, tbh

https://twitter.com/en_cohen/status/1074443467886014464

^Tweets are protected

sorry, he posted: "If there's any 2002 album named "Let Go" that Pitchfork needs to reconsider..." with a screenshot of the 3.8 they gave Nada Surf's Let Go