The 2019 end of the year music lists thread

Burna Boy perhaps, Davido less so, I’d think.

Accidentally posed this q in the decade lists thread

I guess this is the best place to ask, so when does our EOY poll nomination thread go up?

― Johnny Fever, Monday, December 16, 2019 10:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

we're talking about it.

cool cool cool

https://bittersoutherner.com/best-southern-albums-of-2019

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/music/2019/12/17/best-albums-2019-billie-eilish-and-lana-del-rey-make-top-10-list/4411975002/

oh, Billie Eilish and Lana del Rey? you don't say!

eat what you're given

Vinyl Factory - Our 50 favourite albums of 2019
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/our-favourite-albums-of-2019/

^ always some good stuff on this list imo

Great list. First one I've seen with some of the many great Japanese releases of this year. Meitei Komachi, Midori Hirano and Tujiko Noriko albums are all great. The Seito compilation is well worth checking out, too.

Heavy Blog's metal top 50:

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2019/12/17/heavy-blogs-top-50-albums-of-2019/

Well, not just metal. lj will undoubtedly approve.

Another great list, thanks for sharing Pom! I unashamedly love We Lost the Sea's 'Triumph and Disaster' listed there. Closest to echoing post-rocks glorious second wave of yore.

Thank you @HeavyBlog for ranking us at #7 for the year! :D

Also props for including that incredible @clppng album at #2 - You guys clearly broaden your perspective of what "heavy" music is beyond metal, and that album is the perfect example!https://t.co/9zv0grvsP5

— Wilderun (@Wilderunband) December 17, 2019

all things are one :)

I guess it's a safe bet that I won't get to vote in SPIN's year end round up this year then

https://www.spin.com/featured/best-albums-2019/

Wilderun/Clipping collab when

LDR
FKA Twigs
Angel Olsen
Big Thief
Purple Mountains

this year's GAPDY?

can I buy a vowel

Eilish

BELFAP

PALFEB

the Vinyl Factory list increased my backlog of things I need to listen to significantly.

BELFAP ftw imo, tho i'm not into any of those albums

I really wish I understood what people get out of Lana Del Rey's music

the phrase i heard was "Joan Baez for the Facebook era" if that helps at all. it does not help me at all.

lol that doesn't seem right at all. did they mean joni mitchell?

(LDR is fine to my ears, but I'm confused as to why everyone is so excited about it)

lol, i meant to type joni mitchell and it came out joan baez; my bad there

there's a really hacky david-lynch-noir-lite thing going on, add that to the superconfident self-branding of a rich kid with an increasingly global fanbase and you have yourself a sellable product. it signifies talking about america and existential despair in shedloads without doing any substantial talking imo - she's not what you'd call deep. occasionally writes a decent melody but nothing special. it has always been about the vibe with her, the cool and affected signification of noir, and in late-stage neoliberalism, superficial displays of limitless relevance are seized upon and propagated. comparisons to joni mitchell are not unwarranted in some ways except mitchell existed at the intersection of surface and depth and her art was not branded product but a nuanced, extremely personal response to the uncertainties of her age, therefore making her a great deal more interesting as a songwriter, a thinker and a person

sir, this is a dairy queen

EOY nominations r open: ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

lol xp

& to be clear, I don't actually hate NFR! - I gave it 5/10 and it could have been 6 - but the ldr phenomenon is a different story, and the music press is where i'm mostly pointing the finger

i like NFR well enough but that's fairly accurate imago, though i like her melodies much more than you. she's not a particularly interesting lyricist and i don't get the praise over that, but the rest of NFR is enough to carry it for me despite that weakness

Why I like LDR:

• The melodies and arrangements, and the production in general; her music sounds lush and extremely well put together by people who know what the fuck they're doing in a big-money studio
• One or two really great lines per album, and the way she strings banal and/or clichéd images together in order to create something more than the sum of the parts; she's a trope-collagist

Rachid Taha - Je Suis Africain ( late bad boy of Algerian pop) Yas indeed---"Just call me Rai Cooder." he quipped long ago, doing Western rock a reverse-Coody missionary favor while teaming w Steve Hillage and Galactic on Made In Medina, one of my all-time faves (Songlines reviewer Nigel Williamson said this was what Page & Plant were *trying* to do w some of Taha's neighbors on Unledded---and then some, I say). The new one is a rich shady grove-trove, just a bit bittersweet, nad made my Uproxx ballot, as might others from curm's list if I'd gotten out more (lots of great lists here). Most of my rest was recent jazz, thanks to Rolling Jazz.

The rest of my Uproxx list, that is.

Top 10, uh, black death records of 2019:

https://cvltnation.com/top-black-death-records-of-2019/

I haven't heard a single one of these.

(Except for the Teitanblood.)

"...except mitchell existed at the intersection of surface and depth and her art was not branded product but a nuanced, extremely personal response to the uncertainties of her age, therefore making her a great deal more interesting as a songwriter, a thinker and a person:

― imago, Tuesday, December 17, 2019 3:17 PM

^I like this

also like NFR but the branded product aspect makes it hard for me to see it with any perspective

Top 10, uh, black death records of 2019:

https://cvltnation.com/top-black-death-records-of-2019/

I haven't heard a single one of these.

― pomenitul

sean is the greatest music writer in history. no that's sarcasm, i am never going to listen to any of these records just because sean's praise of them is so fucking awful.

You mean Heretic Sect isn't your favourite new band that you have never heard of?

Fwiw I went straight to the play button every time.

Yet another metal list, courtesy of… Grizzly Butts:

https://grizzlybutts.com/2019/12/18/the-top-50-albums-of-the-year-2019/

"her art was not branded product but a nuanced, extremely personal response to the uncertainties of her age"

lmao cool it's the authenticity argument all over again

her art was not branded product

we're using a 21st century term to describe what didn't exist in 1971?

oh I think they had branded products much earlier than 1971--mostly cows though

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/12/18/aquarium-drunkard-2019-year-in-review/

we're using a 21st century term to describe what didn't exist in 1971?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/The_Monkees_1966.JPG

incredibly deep thoughts

don't we have a dedicated thread for lame "emperors new clothes" declarations

just trying to convey why i'm not persuaded by the music. obviously i stan for some extremely 'inauthentic' fare but i can't hear much motivation behind ldr's music other than 'i am a big deal', it's not the inauthenticity i object to so much as the lazy presumption of importance encoded into every interview, review, the odious explanation for the album title, the impeccably-recorded aor of it all. if that attitude was combined with interesting lyrics or music i'd see the point more, but i find neither, so i don't.