I find Bonet's singing hard to engage with, it's a bit distancing? But I'm giving the record another go now. Does she do all those sumptuous arrangements herself?
― Jeff W, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
I find Bonet's singing hard to engage with
I never quite got why this album was often put across as alt-r&b. It's got more in common with someone like Petula Clark than Gladys Knight.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
I tried a couple of times with the Bonet, but I wasn’t feeling it.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Good selection of albums on those last four. I don't really get Grae & Chris, bass-driven but deconstructed and not really pleasant instrumentally, though I've reached House Call and like this one. I returned to Senyawa the other day and realized I can just enjoy them on a purely sonic level - impressive sound and ambiance. I liked what I heard from Wednesday Campanella during the campaign, I imagine they could have placed a track like Bamboo Princess rather than appear here, but why not. I don't get KKB. Childqueen is certainly very well made but it was like a nice background painting and rather forgettable to me, except for tracks like Second Wind and Delphine.
― Nabozo, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RTDtaOu.jpg
#69: Ghost – Prequelle - 214 points – 6 votes
Ghost (or Ghost B.C. or w/e) -- Swedish Pop Metal in Satan's Service
Adrien Begrand: “Underneath the catchy melodies and snazzy artwork, Ghost have created one of the cleverest heavy metal records in recent memory.”
Dave Everley: “Satanic metal meets shameless pop on Swedish faux cultists’ crowning glory.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
Not quite as good as the last one but endearingly garish in its own way
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
xxp that's how i felt about Everything's Fine too, not for me at all
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Bonet album is losing me a little after a decent start - kind of coasting by on atmosphere. Oh Ghost, I still need to hear this
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
Surprisingly low but the ilm rock/metal contingent has shrunk over the past few years
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
imago did you listen to any of the metal poll spotify playlist?
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
not yet
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
I have a friend who's been talking to me about Ghost for ages and ages, and I keep smiling to him and never heard a note of them. Melodic / hardcore swedish metal or whatever doesn't seem very appealing. That's a cool metal cover I must say.
― Nabozo, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
Ghost is the furthest thing from hardcore.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
It's Europop in metal's clothing tbh
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
as long as we're talking metal
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
I keep forgetting people take this band seriously.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
This isn't sounding good tbh
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Maybe they just like fun (I wouldn't know anything about that tbf).
xp
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, February 4, 2019 12:06 PM (forty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
from maine to san diegomattingly and canseco!
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
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#68: YOB – Our Raw Heart – 214 points – 8 votes – 1 first place vote
YOB
Jimmy Hubbard: “YOB’s music on Our Raw Heart doesn’t settle for truisms. The beauty is of a rough sort, shot through with the residue of suffering. It’s a record by a mature band, setting itself to a serious task.”
Thom Jurek: “These seven songs -- totaling some 73 minutes -- are some of the most trying and beautiful material to emerge from extreme music in some time. This is doom metal possessed of hope.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
Another vote of mine. I don't really like the album tho, just the marketing hook.
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
Biographical storytelling aside, they could use a new singer.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
imago, there's some proggy instrumental stuff in there that might be up your alley. See "Miasma" and "Helvetesfonster".
― jmm, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Wednesday Campanella only one of mine so far. I meant to check out the Jean Grae & Quelle Chris record and go back to Senyawa (not sure I ever heard the whole thing but like the stuff I have heard), but didn't get round to them in time.
I guess the Ghost here is the Scando one? Album cover is fun.
Charlie Puth will always be that dickhead who did the terrible song with Meghan Trainor, I'm just going to remain perplexed and boggling at ilx for voting for him rather than dip a toe in this potentially lethal water.
― emil.y, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
way too low
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Bold use of saxophone on the Ghost album
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
Puth-Trainor is a human rights violation but the album is solid pop, emil.y.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
drugs a money doesn't seem to be here to promote his poll so here goesThe 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 9th!
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
I like Yob
fake Ghost is possibly the worst rock band of the modern era
― sleeve, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
I had never heard Charlie Puth in my life (despite him having one 1B and one 2B views song) and it seems I had been lucky that way.I'd like a Jean Grae album. A little more focused and a little less "abstract" than this one. Still the diversity here isn't a bad thing and it's well produced.
― Nabozo, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
The notion that Yob need a new vocalist is insane to me
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
crazy talk indeed
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
I would actually entertain that argument for Ghost tho
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
oh man, I've been completely sleeping on Ghost, haven't I? Think I was put off by the thread title. Zeroed in on the satan part rather than the pop part.
― Jeff W, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
yob should get ian gillan as a vocalist
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
and change their name to GOB
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
their album before this one and their first album are their best but this ones only a notch down from that. I think all their albums have made the 77 albums poll?
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
I wonder if Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats will place. They usually make the 77. 1st album was top 10 iirc
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, February 4, 2019 12:28 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've made a huge mistake
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Question for ulysses and seandalai what percentage of ballots are unweighted and each album gets equal points?
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
That was like 6 years ago, though. EOY voter pool is considerably different now. xps
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
xp seandalai can answer that; he's the stats guy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ekiOXsH.jpg
#67: Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth - 216 points – 10 votes
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Hank Shteamer: “A sprawling, eclectic set that ranges from the slightly tepid to the truly transcendent.”
Chris Ingalls: “It takes a musician, composer, and arranger of Washington's caliber to take these ideas and form them into a brilliant collection of performances.”
Very nearly voted for this, it's great and better than his previous stuff imo
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
remind me, how many albums are we rolling out per day?
― mh, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
I haven't spent as much time with this album as I should have but I'm glad to see it place. It had a much more 70s fusion vibe than the debut.
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
xp, 16 today and moka will find her own process
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
I wish Kamasi Washington didn't sound like such a throwback to me. I want to hear something new in jazz.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
imago you prefer the fusion synthy whooshing of this album to The Epic?
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
haven't managed to listen to this whole thing yet, but fists of fury is the right kind of overwhelming
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link