YOB play doom metal not stoner
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
Surely they have strong stoner leanings? Or maybe I'm just saying that because I love doom.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
save us moka
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
I only mentioned authenticity because it seems like they were consciously aiming for it on the somewhat-relevantly-titled Our Raw Heart. I'm finding it hard to disregard their intentions completely.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
And yes, salve regina.
ARE YOU READY?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
gogo
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
hit me
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Let's do this.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
yesss
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
woooo
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Cross fingers I don't mess the bbcode
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
maybe if someone xposts you (like this) it gives you a chance to check
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
posting is praxis
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HYbVoxi.jpg#60: Mount Eerie – Now Only - 234 points – 8 votes
Sam Cleeve: "Like its predecessor, Now Only lays profoundly bare Elverum’s grief. But although it is often an excruciating listen, it also finds room to step, however briefly, outside of the agony that marked its predecessor, if just for long enough to suggest that Elverum is, somehow, beginning to find some relief in the unbearable."
Alexis Petridis: "Now Only is an album it’s hard to imagine anyone listening to for pleasure: it’s incredibly brave and hugely--understandably--self-indulgent. What it does, unequivocally, is tell the truth, albeit a profoundly uncomfortable one."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
I found this less painful to listen to than the previous, maybe because it shows him moving on to a slightly less raw stage of grieving, and finds room for a little more humor/lightness. I'm very glad these albums exist.
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
This feels like a good placement for it
Listening to the previous one felt a little too intrusive for comfort. I haven't checked out his other albums.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
the sort of music that is obviously good but quite difficult to listen to more than once
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
he seems more chipper these days at least, so good for him
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
I found this less painful to listen to than the previous, maybe because it shows him moving on to a slightly less raw stage of grieving, and finds room for a little more humor/lightness.
Yeah I only made it through A Crow Looked at Me once but found this much easier to connect with. Great record.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
also, these albums vs recent Kozelek are a great a case study in how basically the same approach (confessional, diary-like lyrics over ambling instrumentals) can be great or unlistenable depending on execution
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
this might be my favourite album by phil now
massively underrated compared to a crow looked at me and so much more expansive. aclam was so stark i can barely listen to it as music, just appreciate it vaguely from a distance. now only still has death and grief at its centre but with the passing of time it has much more swirling around the outside too. the music is also great and mostly takes the form of meditative epics but it's the simple things like when that first finger picking pattern comes in on tintin in Tibet that i love the most
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
aclam
a silly acronym for a very very serious album
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
he cited benji as a major lyrical influence on these last two albums and massively improved on it
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/BxG8o49.jpg#59: Burna Boy – Outside - 240 points – 9 votes - 1 first place vote
Burna Boy – OUTSIDE (2018)
Claire Lobenfeld: "Where WizKid softens some of the edges of Afrobeats, making the genre more familiar to newcomers, Burna’s output is more kaleidoscopic. It makes Outside a fine lesson in mixing genres without making mud."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
a pretty cool album that i didn't vote for. "Calm Down" was the highlight for me and cements jae5 as one of the best producers around these days
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
ufo otm about now only, which is really too tender and personal a record for this bantersome thread but!: seeing the sparse devastation of a crow looked at me thaw into this, which eases in some elements of older mount eerie/microphones but still has the clear-eyed directness of the last album, and seeing the care with which he has held himself throughout, has filled me with a humbled gratitude and a deep, real hope. "two paintings by nikolai astrup" is the standout.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
ooo this is great. fantastic list so far this year kudos ilm. i was loving kero kero last night.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
None of my favourites have made it so far but it's all been quite good overall, barring a record or two.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
burna! first of my votes to place. record ruled my life in december
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
iirc I was the #1 for this, so obligatory TOO LOW but also yay!
― rob, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Hailu Mergia is sounding pretty great.
― jmm, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZI49J6h.jpg#58: Jon Hopkins – Singularity - 240 points – 10 votes
Landon Macdonald: "Singularity is the follow up every fan would hope for. It's larger; it's denser; it's quicker. It’s a 63-minute microhouse masterpiece. It rebroadcasts Hopkins’ sound as a more atmospheric, clearer vision. Whether its an improvement upon Immunity isn’t important — it’s a definite refinement."
Ben Hogwood: "Building on the innovations of previous album Immunity, it invests more emotionally and retains the primal physical stimulus behind Hopkins’ best music. He remains a wholly individual voice in a congested field, a single phrase played from his piano speaking volumes. And Singularity is his best album yet."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
Yeah, at least it placed!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
xpI wonder if the exact same nine people voted in the Outside poll thread
― rob, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
Burna that is
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
that emerald pulse song was good enough but i dunno if i could take a whole album of that stuff
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
i think the hailu is my only vote that placed. (i say think bc i didn't save my ballot and now i don't really remember what i voted for)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
[so far]
jon hopkins places: I sleep
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
like jon hopkins though this record doesn't really do anything that the previous one didn't do and this one doesn't have 'sun harmonics' on it so it's the lesser
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
burna boy is sounding spirited rn
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I thought the extremely low placing of “Ye” especially meant that all these people had put Outside extra high on their album ballot, so this placing is quite disappointing —- but yay, at least it did place (I think I had it as my #2).
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
(xps to rob)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
Charlie Puth.
How credible.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
Curious about the Jon Hopkins. I loved the track that placed in the Tracks 77.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Enjoying Outside after two or three listens although 'Ye' is still very much the highlight for me.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
didn't really discover Outside until around the time of the voting thread, would've voted for it if I had started listening earlier
― Dan S, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
I thought the Jon Hopkins album as good as it was didn’t reach the heights of the Skee Mask
― Dan S, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link