The Helena Hauff is very good though, my second one to place.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
Yeahhhhhh. I fell very deeply for this record. Beautiful is the word.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
ok this one I have absolutely not heard of!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
only records I’d go to mat for so far are mariah and hauff
skee mask compro and yamantaka I’d probably like but not spent any time w
the rest eh
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
yeah the eiko record owns too
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
I think I listened to this after the Quietus list went out and enjoyed it
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
Not Burna Boy for you, ||||||||?
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
*No
i really like this list so far lots of interesting stuff
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
Yeah this is bringing the variety. You'll even get some AOR synthpop later I'm sure
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3YU4gOS.jpg#43: Black Dresses - Wasteisolation - 285 points – 7 votes - 1 first place vote
Sasha Geffen: "By alchemizing tension into pop, Rook and Dizzy make music that doesn’t force listeners into an arbitrarily optimistic mindset. “The intention is for people to resonate with it if they’ve been in that dark place,” Dizzy says. “I just want to bring that dancing energy.” Black Dresses’s songs offer comfort and catharsis not because they promise that everything will get better but because they show you how to riot through hell."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
― imago
here you go
Fantastic to see Eiko place so high. On eof my top 5 of the year.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
I missed burna - yes, good album !
I never voted (shame on me) but if I had, I’d hope these would place
don toliverkacey*holter*DJ richard lil babythe beths*popcaanteyana taylor rico nastyjacquees shy layerstwin sister*doja cattracey thorn*terekke
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
loooool
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
Really happy to see Eiko Ishibashi! Imitation of Life is another great recent album of hers, as is the one she did with Tatsuya Yoshida
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
the majority of those will place xxp
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
The smoothest, slickest, most put-together synth duo in the biz. My #8. Settle in for an evening of sweet relaxation, folks
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
hell yeh black dresses, another vote here
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
I tried Black Dresses but found it unlistenable, just can't hang with abrasive synths I guess
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
eiko ishibashi is nice, one of my december discoveries. soundtracked some very long flights and made them a lot more bearable.
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
I was surprised prom / king didn't get nominated in the tracks poll. I was somewhat randomly driving about MLK Dr on the ss of chicago earlier this winter, going to eat, and it came on a shuffling spotify mix I'd made. Eerie to hear the whole song at that moment but what jumped out was "Sometimes I fucking hate Chicago, cuz I hate this feelin/ Innocent niggas get shot at, in the broad day the AM" ... meanwhile I'm driving past bucket boys at noon on a weekday. They contend with this place - obligations, family, the police, money - every day.
Saba flips the script on Chance's optimism, giving voice to the darkness that can take hold as a member of this community. Children walking to school in a war zone, friends and family killed with unimaginable regularity - and they're just supposed to be hardened to it all.
The song on the album that crushes me and speaks to this most viscerally is "calligraphy": "We cannot bear all of the fucked up shit we been through/ Why God keeping us here?" then the close with "Runnin" on repeat....ugh.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
yeah simon the * picks are ones I think will place
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
If the mature and delicate sounds of Black Dresses have put you in the mood for more, check out the new album (which came out today!) https://blackdresses.bandcamp.com/album/thank-you
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
It looks like quite a few significant members of #teamafroetcetera didn’t vote, not just dog latin...
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
genuinely dislike black dresses
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
they're working thru some shit
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
really enjoying the Eiko Ishibashi so far, lovely and chill
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
black dresses sometimes seem like they could be cool but the vocals are way too raw for me
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
i can get with 'thoughts and prayers," but the rest of the album just sounds like silverware stuck in a garbage disposal
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dw6Ptkr.jpg#42: Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita - 300 points – 13 votes
Ben Cardew: "On their first album in seven years, the New York fusionists tap into a welter of global styles; the result is soft-edged and idyllic, yet hides a subtle political undercurrent."
Dave MacIntyre: "On their sixth studio album Kazuashita, the New York band continue to develop the diversely influenced rhythms and soundscapes that have defined their career to date, while doubling down on the more electronic direction the group took starting with their previous LP."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
fuck yeah
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
ok rollout just got good, care for me is a big sigh of an album, don't normally like 'confessional' stuff but I think he's just abt charming/sly enough to pull it off. hauff has lots of rusty bangers and is good altho weirdly overrated here, the ishibashi album sounds how I imagined the new julia holter album would. albums with trains are always better. kazuashita was oddly overlooked, has some incredible highs
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
according to my 'albs i heard in 2018 list,' i listened to this, but i don't remember a note.
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
this record is fucking amazing
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
lovely album!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
silverware in a garbage disposal is a strong and accurate compliment haha
'slither' doesn't even come close to resembling my life but it made me cry. the rest of the album is this mad horrendous joyful deathly thing and then that is such a suckerpunch
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Cosign on Black Dresses' vocals' being too much. It'd be a clear contender for me otherwise.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
not an all time masterpiece like eye contact but a very worthy follow up, great album
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
definitely felt a little overlooked this year, i know they'd been gone for a while but they picked up right where they left off
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
I wondered if this would make it. A gorgeous record that I don't remember placing in any other list.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
really enjoyed the two lead tracks but hardly went back to this after a listen
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
ruby, ochre, white, lilac, orange, violet, emerald, lavender, ebony, fuchsia, eggshell, blue, eucalyptus, lime, amber, cerulean, khaki, onyx, kazuashita
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
yes GGD record owns too. a record I forgot about actually
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
i rate this one over eye contact, completely ridiculously gorgeous
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Sorry for letting down Team Black Dresses in the tracks poll, but it was v high on my album ballot, so I feel like I can be re-embraced into the fold now.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
Conversely, GGD (although I kinda liked Saint Dymphna) are the sort of gloopy artpop that I mostly can't abide, but let's wait until the business end of the poll before getting into all that properly. Besides I may have to listen to more than the advance singles before judging
wb emil.y lol
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
missed this! will have to listen
― Dan S, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
imago don’t read this
someone w good taste do I want to listen to black dresses y/n
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
black dresses don't resonate with my personal experience
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link