I feel like I only need to listen to each of their albums once, like going on a rollercoaster or something, but that one time is a real blast.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
I feel like I should I enjoy this band more. Go Canada!! anyway.
― jmm, Monday, 4 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Voted for OOT in tracks, some reservations about how well the whole album hangs together. Maybe I should follow emil.y and persevere.
― seandalai, Monday, 4 February 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
I try to keep on top of techno* but I don't think I caught the Skee Mask?
Hailu Mergia definitely too low but glad it placed. an absolute joy from start to finish. the title track was my tune of the year
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
YT//ST was the last thing on my ballot. Like emil.y, my love for their second album kept me from falling as hard for this one. It's good, but my least favorite of their records.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
Hooray Hailu Mergia! My first to place
― . (Michael B), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
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#63: Mariah Carey – Caution - 228 points – 11 votes
Mariah Carey's many Moments
Leah Greenblatt: “Carey is no longer at the white-hot center of the zeitgeist, but on her 15th studio album, she finds a freshness that’s been missing from her recent material.”
Andrew Unterberger: “The album likely won't spin off a breakout hit, or reintroduce Mariah to the Spotify generation, or change the course of her career in any dramatic way. But it's a new Mariah Carey album, and it feels like exactly what she and her fans wanted it to be.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
amazingly, no one started a thread for this last year. I voted for it i think.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
key tracks: GTFO, Caution, A No No, Giving Me Life, Stay Long Love You
Caution is probably my favourite Mariah album.
― kitchen person, Monday, 4 February 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
Yes! This is easily my favourite YT/ST album. Some almost Judas Priest moments in there.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
Hi everyone! Thank you so much ulysses for covering me today I’m away from home and will be arriving late.
I’ll probably do 60-41 tomorrow, 40-? on wednesday and the rest on thursday. Wednesday is gonna be a tricky one as I have a tight schedule and wont be around my computer but I might post the initial run in the morning and the rest in the evening... I’ll have to improvise as I don’t want to leave you hanging for hours to get the next results... maybe tomorrow I’ll go all the way to 60-35 to avoid the gaps on tuesday.
I think the full results are very good and they have the variety that some of you thought was missing on the singles poll. Today has been amazing, and there’s a couple of albums I had no idea existed and which have been great companions this morning for me. thank you again ulysses for all the help with the rollout and seandalai of course for making this happen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
I'm glad Yamantaka exist but please don't make me listen to it again.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
Images great agin, btw!
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
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#62: Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy - 230 points – 10 votes
Bodak Yellow is:
Carrie Battan: “Not since Lana Del Rey has an artist triumphed over such low expectations and landed as a bona-fide pop star.”
Rob Harvilla: “What makes Invasion of Privacy even more impressive is that at 13 tracks and 48 minutes, it has the Spotify-stats-conscious heft expected of a top-tier rap album nowadays, but never drags, never settles, never dilutes Cardi’s delirious absurdity. It feels like a throwback to an idealized album-oriented past—a tribute to the way that hip-hop of a certain vintage would like to remember itself, anyway.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
wow that's low!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
Great stuff. Hailu Mergia was on my list also. This last run of albums has reminded me why I love ILM. Hee.
― kraudive, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
This was my guess for 78'ing tbqh
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
this alb was good but i only listened to it once
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
Liking the more compositional side of the Kamasi album. Prefer that to jam mode.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
I'm weirdly excited that nothing I've voted for has placed yet. I guess it's equally a good sign (for the ones which will) as bad (for the ones that won't).
― Nabozo, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
Same. I'm holding out hope for three, five at the most. The rest will walk in saer's footsteps.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
“Not since Lana Del Rey has an artist triumphed over such low expectations and landed as a bona-fide pop star.”
reality tv stars can be Kardashian-esque near-billionaires or the President of the United States ... but a pop star ... no way!
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
last one for the day
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
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#61: Andrew WK – You’re Not Alone - 233 points – 8 votes – 1 first place vote
Andrew WK: C/D?
Josh Modell: “As always, Andrew W.K. builds anthems brick by brick, reinforcing huge choruses with multi-tracked vocals and earworm piano lines, all the better to make you feel like a participant as much as a listener. ”
Mark Beaumont: “Andrew WK’s enormous, and enormously stirring, maximal synth-metal soundtrack to the struggle, and were it any bigger it’d develop its own moon.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
oh HELL yeah
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
voted for the title track instead but this album is incredible
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
lol boom. my #17. very large and positive album of party wisdom
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
voted for this beast
― nxd, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
it takes a LOT for me to connect with a good-natured, positive album but AWK pulled it off through sheer force of will
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
Worth living for
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
the devil's on your side -> break the curse = one of the most epic track pairs of the year
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
hahahah my #1 vote put this over the top
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
yeah, very tight points grouping so far
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
I'm proud to say I received zero excitement from I Get Wet back then. This American thing / shtick is alien to me.
― Nabozo, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
as weirdly complex and contradictory as AWK's persona is I think this album really does capture it all. awesome set of songs to boot - I voted "Music is Worth Living For" in the tracks poll just because it was the single, there's at least 6-7 songs here worthy of rating
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
Wooo! Second album voted for. Ever Again was my pick, but it’s an inspiration start to finish
― tangenttangent, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
This Jean Grae/Quelle Chris album is good but the ironic "Shabazz Palaces for Adult Swim viewers" vibe permeating it is keeping me at a remove.
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
The Hailu Mergia album is very lively, the expanded band and improved sonics really add a lot of punch and freewheeling energy.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
I thought they were from Montreal?― pomenitul, Monday, February 4, 2019 1:20 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkBoth I think now, originally Montreal though.― Will (kruezer2), Monday, February 4, 2019 1:23 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Both I think now, originally Montreal though.― Will (kruezer2), Monday, February 4, 2019 1:23 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't think anyone still lives in mtl anymore, was two-city for a while (collaborators still live in mtl iirc but all full timers in to)
also sorry i just got here
also great record hoo boy i got a lot of reading to catch up on
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
I liked I Get Wet, it was a lot of fun but this sounds like a metal remix of the Greatest Showman soundtrack
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
And I say that as someone who likes Ghost quite a lot
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
Nice to see the Skee Mask album place - it was my favorite electronic release of the year along with NTS Sessions.
I thought UZU was a huge letdown from YT//ST so I ignored Dirt. I presume it's an epic return to the form of their debut?
Cardi B is too low. Kamasi about right. A few others (Kero Kero Bonito, Mariah Carey) shouldn't be here and are stealing spots from better albums.
― octobeard, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
yea it definitely has a sort of musical vibe to it, in the Meatloaf sense
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Hey don't forget--you you still have a week to vote in metal poll. Ballots are five-alb minimum, so even a ballot with just Senyawa, Ghost, YOB, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, and Andrew W.K. would be enough to participate, but plenty of albums getting promoted within the thread, so anybody with a curious temperament is invited to come sample:
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 9th!
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
the only album of the first batch which does something for me is the hailu mergia. nothing outstanding really and quite easy listening but it is nice life-affirming fusion stuff.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
Mariah and Cardi B my only votes to show today. I wouldn’t change a single thing about the Mariah album - concise, well-produced and alternately gorgeous and affecting / playful and silly. Deserved to be a lot higher I reckon.
― monotony, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
damn, wish I had voted now, Cardi was my #1, I really coulda helped a girl out.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
Awesome. Voted for the Senyawa album and the YOB. I hadn't heard Senyawa before this one and it opened me up to a whole world of their music. The YOB concept is great but I also love the album as a whole, has more of a life affirming feel to it than the rest.
I'm pretty sure I voted for the Jean Grae/Quelle Chris too. She's got to be the most underrated rapper out there.
Love that the Ghost, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan and Andrew WK albums all made it. Had I had more voted to give they would have made it. Great representation of hard rock/metal all around so far.
The Wednesday Campanella is lovely too, had not heard this before.
― gman59, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link