I saw her live and really soured on the record after that
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
Not that great live i have to admit
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
great list so far, some rad stuff i hadnt encountered before and that brad review is an awesome read as an example for something ive just discovered!
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
xp Are you talking about Tirzah or Snail Mail (re: live performance)?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
I usually like a small handful of techno* albums each year, but for whatever reason I failed to discover many this year so the Koze album ended up kind of standing in for that whole vibe.
― rob, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
assuming ilm is immune to the allure of the industrial-ebm-techno trend and the Ancient Methods album was somewhere in the 780s
― mh, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
I wanted to like the Koze album more than I did but it sort of felt like it had been left out in the sun too long. Terrible pacing and choice of vocalists as well.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
octo - snail mail
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
re: the mewithoutyou record, this was my favorite lyric of last year:
While all hiding inside our painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside-that same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside lives
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
nadwuar's snail mail interview was good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
tbh I was unaware of an industrial-ebm-techno trend but I'd be all over that if I was
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
Ventriloquism is a great album and I really don't know what Tuomas is talking about re: "less singular singers" unless he thinks "singular" is synonymous with "rangy"
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
i was really lucky and got two pieces of art last year that perfectly reflected the inside of my head, the mewithoutyou record and mandy. which is one of the reasons i'm not mad when someone dislikes or doesn't jibe with either of them
also it's been a bad time inside of my head obv
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
*forges axe, hammers distortion pedal*
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
orange in the grass, roll away!mother mckenzie in the nightshade!joshua resurrected hemingway!(hemingway hemingway)
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
this gang gang dance record is GREAT. how did i miss this?
― austinb, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:29 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think he was specifically saying "less singular than Nina Simone," which makes a little more sense. But still--Prince, Janet, Sade, Tina, even George Clinton, they're all pretty singular.
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
Enjoying the Noname I think
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
best result from youtubing eiko ishibashi was finding an unreleased mark e. smith interview.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
this might be too much but the gang gang dance has always made me think of aerial in its laterally expanding curvature
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
Each GGD dance album just feels like a ride and while this one is gentler than the others, the view from up there is amazing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
I liked the last 2 GGD albums a lot more than this one :/
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
for Colonel Poo: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3311
there are some other articles/guides but this is decent
― mh, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
of course you will find perspectives from all sides that say that things are not, in fact, industrial, ebm, or techno but there is a kind of genre grey area where a bunch of junk currently lives
― mh, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
I'm thinking of stuff like Final Cut
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
The three things so far that were on my (unranked) ballot: Tirzah, Noname and Everything's Fine
Some things I definitely need to listen to some more: Eiko Ishibashi, Dominique Dumont, Hailu Mergia, Saba, Kadhja Bonet, Neneh Cherry, Kamisi Washington
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
I liked the last 2 GGD albums a lot more than this one :/― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, February 5, 2019 3:57 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, February 5, 2019 3:57 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Same. I tried, but it just felt too gauzy and meandering. Nothing like the immediacy of "First Communion" or "MindKilla."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
"J-Tree" is pretty immediate i thought. it's a very natural continuation from Eye Contact, just more chilled out
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
Great poll so far and it's kind of refreshing to see hard rock and metal back on the menu. I'm excited to check out the albums by Sleep and Yob. The Armed are fun and I can see the appeal but maybe a bit exhausting
I really enjoyed the Parquet Courts album and would have placed it high. on my ballot. I'd completely lost interest in them circa Sunbathing Animal but this album is a hoot - a big grab bag of influences; a nice twist on their usual sound.
This Black Dresses album is so horrible. I don't know if it's ugly pretty or just ugly but the production is frankly unacceptable. Turning everything up so everything peaks way too much isn't really a sound design aesthetic I can parse.
All told, there's loads here I've either never heard of or haven't checked out properly yet.
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
Ventriloquism is a great album and I really don't know what Tuomas is talking about re: "less singular singers" unless he thinks "singular" is synonymous with "rangy"― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:29 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki think he was specifically saying "less singular than Nina Simone," which makes a little more sense. But still--Prince, Janet, Sade, Tina, even George Clinton, they're all pretty singular.
The Nina Simone debut album was a bit of a disappointment too, I liked the arrangements and production, but the truth is that as a singer Ndgeocello simply doesn't have the range and versatility needed to cover those tunes. (There was a good reason why she didn't sing herself on her jazz album, but instead had guest singers better fitted for the genre.) A good case in point is "Four Women": in the original version, Simone alters her voice to fit the role of each of the four women in the song, and the final "PEACHES" that closes the tune is absolutely dripping of both sarcasm and barely suppressed rage. But Ndegeocello sings the whole song with her trademark monotone voice, there's no variation between the different women's lyrics, which makes the whole tune half as effective and expressive as the Simone version.― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 16:21
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
xxp J-TREE was one of the tracks I liked yeah
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
i am happy that already two albums from my unranked ballot placed. first the phantastic breeders comeback which beams me back 25 years with the same kind of brash energy and infectious drive as "the last splash". then meshell ndegecello's beautiful cover album which made me discover a couple of great songs i didn't know before. i love her voice which often sounds as if it was behind a curtain, warm but at the same time far away. occasionally it reminds me of sade. it also has a dreamlike quality. and the instruments and production of ventriloquism are great, no frills but there is a lot of love to thedetail which can be heard and felt.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
imago, lets talk after. curious to see what you think of the show. I left with a such a smile on my face. after going to hardcore shows for a decade+, seeing them flipped it all on its head. they are a blast. the show was also like 5 bucks and half capacity. it was very awesome
― gman59, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
Glad to see GGD place - one of my votes.
Today is as good a day as any to finally give "The Dream My Bones Dream" a whirl - hoping to it now.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
(Also voted for Mariah. Need to get caught up on Kamasi.)
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Dj Healer isn't going to make it is? ;_;
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
Ought aren't gonna make this either it seems
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah.. We both should've voted for that to happen tbf
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
(you put me on Ought, still on high rotation here, what an album)
*sigh* you didn't vote either LBI? I think it was my AOTY for a little while in 2018
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
wanted to but couldn't find the time, sadly.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
I didn't vote, but the Meshell Ndegeocello record is one of my favs, and reading Brad's great review just makes me appreciate it more.
― The depressed somebody from the popular David Bowie song, (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link
I would've voted for Ought had I voted.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
the Black Dresses album is the only thing this year that I felt like I 100% needed. it hits me in the same place that Xiu Xiu's Knife Play did when it came out. the entire thing is a a big mass/mess of exposed nerves and I get why it might have limited appeal.
― fffv, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
Will Sandro Perri, Mr. Twin Sister and Mary Lattimore not place? I thought those got lots of love in their threads, but maybe not enough love to get as high as the list is now
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
No yes no
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
Perri could make it actually
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:29 (five years ago) link
i meant to vote for Sandro Perri but couldn't decide whether to vote for In Another Life the track or the album and ended up forgetting to vote for him at all
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:29 (five years ago) link
I'll be shocked if Mr Twin Sister aren't in the top 10. Possibly even top 5. The last album made number 14 in the 2014 list and I think this album has been even more popular on here.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link
hm idk about that
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link