the Vinyl Factory list increased my backlog of things I need to listen to significantly.
― fffv, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
BELFAP ftw imo, tho i'm not into any of those albums
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
I really wish I understood what people get out of Lana Del Rey's music
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
the phrase i heard was "Joan Baez for the Facebook era" if that helps at all. it does not help me at all.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
lol that doesn't seem right at all. did they mean joni mitchell?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
(LDR is fine to my ears, but I'm confused as to why everyone is so excited about it)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
lol, i meant to type joni mitchell and it came out joan baez; my bad there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
sir, this is a dairy queen
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
EOY nominations r open: ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
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
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― dow, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
The rest of my Uproxx list, that is.
― dow, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
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, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
(Except for the Teitanblood.)
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
"...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
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
― 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.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
Yet another metal list, courtesy of… Grizzly Butts:
https://grizzlybutts.com/2019/12/18/the-top-50-albums-of-the-year-2019/
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
"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
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
her art was not branded product
we're using a 21st century term to describe what didn't exist in 1971?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
oh I think they had branded products much earlier than 1971--mostly cows though
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/12/18/aquarium-drunkard-2019-year-in-review/
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/The_Monkees_1966.JPG
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
incredibly deep thoughts
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
don't we have a dedicated thread for lame "emperors new clothes" declarations
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
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.
― imago, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
this list is the good kind of weird imo, exemplified by the amazing inclusion of #18https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akwwxz/the-100-best-songs-of-2019
― 10,000 mani-gecs (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
that's a weird list even for vice but i'll take weird over boring
― ufo, Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
The Wire posted the full ballots of everyone who voted in their critics' poll:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/charts/2019-rewind-contributors-charts
Mine:
Jaimie Branch Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise (International Anthem)Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia (Ropeadope)JD Allen Barracoon (Savant)Victor Gould Thoughts Become Things (Blue Room)Sunn O))) Life Metal/Pyroclasts (Southern Lord)Theon Cross Fyah (Brownswood)Paula Temple Edge Of Everything (Noise Manifesto)Opeth In Cauda Venenum (Moderbolaget/Nuclear Blast)Flowdan Full Metal Jacket (Tru Thoughts)Baroness Gold & Grey (Abraxan Hymns)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Here's a list by one of The Guardian's resident classical music critics, Andrew Clements:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/19/classical-cds-of-the-year-andrew-clements
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Pfork's metal list isn't half-bad:
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-metal-albums-2019/
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
Mostly out of curiosity, I wish every year-end list came with a separate list of how many albums from the previous year's list the writer(s) is(are) still listening to.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
xpost Thanks for posting, I haven't kept up with much metal lately, but there are some albums on that list that, on first skim, immediately caught my ear, like the Obsequiae.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
lots of lists here: https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2019
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
I generally get a lot of great tips from the lists on boomkat from folk whose music I enjoy, moreso than their main lists. Carla del Forno's list this year is really interesting.
― neilasimpson, Friday, 20 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Typically wonderful wordsmithery from Moon Wiring Club in his commentary on his own Top 10 for boomkat
― Jeff W, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
Seems like what you would expect here: https://pitchfork.com/features/article/2019-readers-poll-results/
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
Here's mine fwiw.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 December 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
Thanks Alfred! This thread is blowing my mind--knew I was ignorant of much, but---!Prob of little interest here, so I'll just link https://www.nodepression.com/no-depression-readers-50-favorite-roots-music-albums-of-2019/?mc_cid=4108cafd3a&mc_eid=b850f832a1My picks from these (several didn't make this Top 50, but ballot not at hand)numbers are placement in Top 50, not my ballot:1. Tyler Childers – Country Squire3. Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury18. Rodney Crowell – Texas22. Allison Moorer – Blood26. Justin Townes Earle – The Saint of Lost Causes39. Patty Griffin – Patty GriffinAll of those have some trans-genre/subgenre/ appeal for the rock-inclined, especially Sturgill, as I said on Rolling Country:have you heard Sturgill's Sound and Fury yet? I just did, and right off, seems like this ZZ Rex electro-pop-boogie, sometimes also reminding me of Neil and the Trans Band (more the show tapes than studio album), might suit you too. It's much less soapbox ranty than I feared---and the non-pedantic retro detailing, commercial inclusiveness x righteous fencepost grievances x deserty-hot-cold broodiness, also that voice, keep it all country or countryoid. Also 'ppreciate how he keeps twisting the dial into another track at just the right moment, or close enough. It's a hard candy Christmas alright.
― dow, Saturday, 21 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
X-post — years ago I remember some noting here that the Wire had a critic covering Dub reggae but not dancehall. Not really seeing dub or dancehall on any Wire contributor list. Am seeing some US & UK rap & jazz, but not really any reggaeton or Afro-Latinx jazz. Looks like a few African acts but not many.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 December 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Reading through the other Wire ballots made me realize how hopefully basic I am as a music listener
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
Sorry I missed this thread, been busy with life s**t and redesigning my site which is mostly done.
Fester’s Lucky 13: 2019 Year-End Summaryhttps://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-19/#albums
1. Rosalie Cunningham – Rosalie Cunningham 2. The Sonic Dawn – Eclipse 3. Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean 4. Motorpsycho – The Crucible 5. Spidergawd – V 6. Lucille Furs – Another Land 7. Custard Flux – Echo 8. Rosegarden Funeral Party – Martyr 9. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel 10. The Warp/The Weft – Dead Reckoning 11. Patio – Essentials 12. Magic Circle – Departed Souls 13. Spirit Adrift – Divided By Darkness 14. Kills Birds – Kills Birds15. Priests – The Seduction Of Kansas 16. Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops 17. The Honey Pot – Bewildered Jane 18. Monarch – Beyond The Blue Sky 19. Bask – III 20. The Galileo 7 – There Is Only Now 21. Rose City Band – Rose City Band 22. True Moon – II 23. Jim Jones And The Righteous Mind – CollectiV 24. Avatarium – The Fire I Long For 25. Neutrals – Kebab Disco 26. Moon Duo – Stars Are The Light 27. Leprous – Pitfalls 28. Opeth – In Cauda Venenum 29. The Tea Club – If/When 30. Lowcaster – Flames Arise 31. The Messthetics – Anthropocosmic Nest 32. The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears 33. Worshipper – Light In The Wire 34. Control Top – Covert Contracts 35. Magic Shoppe – Circles 36. Automatic – Signal 37. Dumb Things – Time Again 38. Garcia Peoples – Natural Facts 39. Diagonal – Arc 40. Colour Haze – We Are 41. The Lord Weird Slough Feg – The New Organon 42. Chris Forsyth – All Time Present 43. Kadavar – For The Dead Travel Fast 44. Scarecrow – Scarecrow 45. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen 46. Elkhorn – Sun Cycle/Elk Jam 47. Zach Brock | Matt Ulery | Jon Deitemyer – Wonderment Bandcamp48. Baba Zula – Derin Derin 49. B Boys – Dudu 50. Lizzo – Cuz I Love You 51. Sacri Monti – Waiting Room For The Magic Hour 52. Body Type – EP2 53. White Denim – Side Effects 54. Ty Segall – First Taste 55. Skeleton Goode – Skeleton Goode 56. Papernut Cambridge – Nutlets II 57. Jess By The Lake – Under The Red Light Shine 58. Blue Orchids – The Magical Record Of Blue Orchids 59. Lola Colt – Human Made 60. 10 000 Russos – Kompromat 61. Blackwater Holylight – Veils Of Winter 62. Orodruin – Ruins Of Eternity 63. Lee “Scratch” Perry – Heavy Rain 64. Jack Hues And The Quartet Featuring Syd Arthur – Nobody’s Fault But My Own EP 65. Cate Le Bon – Reward 66. Baroness – Gold & Grey 67. James McArthur And The Head Gardeners – Intergalactic Sailor Bandcamp68. The Ivory Elephant – Stoneface 69. Sunwatchers – Illegal Moves 70. 75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real 71. Kaleta & Super Yamba Band – Medaho 72. These New Puritans – Inside The Rose 73. Torche – Admission 74. The Membranes – What Nature Gives… Nature Takes Away 75. Nil/Resplendent – Lesser Free Trade 76. FKA twigs – Magdalene 77. Doug Tuttle – Dream Road 78. Julie’s Haircut – In The Silence Electric 79. The Mystery Lights – Too Much Tension! 80. Crypt Trip – Haze County 81. Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus 82. Blood Incantation – Hidden History Of The Human Race 83. Crypt Sermon – The Ruins Of Fading Light 84. Savage Mansion – Revision Ballads 85. The Devil And The Almighty Blues – Tre 86. Sugarfoot – In The Clearing 87. Haunt – If Icarus Could Fly 88. The Snakes – The Snakes 89. Monolord – No Comfort 90. Saint Agnes – Welcome To Silvertown 91. Black Road – Witch Of The Future 92. Fred Deakin – The Lasters 93. Wand – Laughing Matter 94. Oh Sees – Face Stabber 95. Jane Weaver – Loops In The Secret Society 96. Ouzo Bazooka – Transporter 97. Gold – Why Aren’t You Laughing? 98. black midi – Schlagenheim 99. Durand Jones & The Indications – American Love Call 100. The Silence – Metaphysical Feedback
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 23 December 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
i like the control top record. didn't realize the silence had a new one, really happy to hear it. had forgotten white denim existed, ever since they put out that cactus underwear record i had sort of written them off?
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/best-music-2019-pop-comeback-rap-caviar.html
The 2019 Music Club features critics Carl Wilson, Lindsay Zoladz, and Ann Powers, with additional entries from Jack Hamilton, Julianne Escobedo-Shepherd, Jewly Hight, and Chris Molanphy.
15 postings or so about 2019 in music (mostly american chart pop and indie rock but some jazz and country and more)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
my trax/singles playlist (still slightly in flux)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cOEPaz4tlxnPpxfk1tFgS?si=cIyr1kD4RrKNNqNrZLM3SA
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
5against4 (part 1):
http://5against4.com/2019/12/30/best-albums-of-2019-part-1/
― pomenitul, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
Norman Records waited till today to post their top 50. AOTY is Kim Gordon. https://www.normanrecords.com/features/albums-of-the-year-2019
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link