This seems like a permanent state. If I had started trying to listen to every new tape uploaded to Datpiff in February 2011 I'd probably still be at it today.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 February 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
Ghostride the Drift
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
I don't think anyone's pretending to have listened to all of the records in a given year, or even a plurality? Lists are an aggregate, and imo the more interesting ones either poll across a very large base, meaning there's more of a chance people who are into more obscure genres and subgenres will have peers in a poll, or they're very targeted at a specific type of music and you get a handful of devotees making a targeted list.
Aggregate year end lists are just, like, these are some albums that some of us found interesting at this point in time. Maybe you'll listen to them in the future, too.
― mh, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
lol who's talking aggregates, I'm talking individuals!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 February 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
The Ghostride the Drift album from 2018 or so is really good fwiw.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
It's interesting to me that Sherburne doesn't talk more about how black metal and dark ambient are fellow travelers— Dischord is mentioned as a nod to the underground/punk nature of the scene he's describing, but dark ambient is much closer to black metal in terms of its prolific nature, anonymous rotating musicians, and general vibe.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
I got into the west mineral etc stuff through huerco s, whose first album is one of my favorites of last decade. a lot of that stuff just really hits me in the right place. i guess you could call it dark but to me it’s more like cloudy/overcast.
― brimstead, Friday, 4 February 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
dim? no
― Evan, Friday, 4 February 2022 22:28 (two years ago) link
ha yes I like that
― brimstead, Friday, 4 February 2022 22:28 (two years ago) link
black metal definitely isn't as cool as it used to be. Pitchfork publishing Xasthur and Leviathan reviews feels like a century ago
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:42 (two years ago) link
This Birthday Party review is a piece of shit:
"Of all the bands that fit loosely under the umbrella of early-’80s “post-punk” bands, the Birthday Party was easily the sexiest. This is both obvious and the faintest of praise. As far as primal concerns went, being sexy wasn’t a big one for, say, Gang of Four. Only Bauhaus, fellow princelings in the “Don’t call us goth!” boyband olympics, came close. But Peter Murphy’s glam quartet was practically obsessed with being sexy, and even the most performatively minded sex-haver will tell you that too much effort can be a real turn-off. Couple Bauhaus’ preening with Peter Murphy’s somewhat ooky lifelong oedipal relationship with David Bowie, and the field for sallow-cheeked hip thrusters really opens up."
Blah blah blah...
― Freeze Instr., Monday, 7 February 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
That's 2002-quality PFork right there.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 7 February 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
thought that review was pretty good
― Dan S, Monday, 7 February 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
I avoided them at the time but always wondered what I missed
― Dan S, Monday, 7 February 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
listening to them now, Nick Cave was so savage
― Dan S, Monday, 7 February 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Paul Ponzi at 5:42 4 Feb 22black metal definitely isn't as cool as it used to be. Pitchfork publishing Xasthur and Leviathan reviews feels like a century ago
I think people are rightly a lot less willing to handwave away Nazis like those bands in the name of early 00s Vice style edginess
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 February 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
also xasthur and leviathan sucked
― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 February 2022 03:41 (two years ago) link
I always confuse the Birthday Party with The Wedding Present.
― MarkoP, Monday, 7 February 2022 05:25 (two years ago) link
Haven't done so for years, but when I was in high school, I would constantly mix up the Birthday Party and Beat Happening because someone put their songs back-to-back on a mixtape for me, and I could never keep their names straight.
Obviously I resolved that once I graduated high school and started spending much more time with music.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
top news story on the page today:
Snacks, Bethany Cosentino’s Pet Cat and Best Coast Album Cover Star, Has Died
oh yeah and Betty Davis
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 10 February 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
yeah wtf is that
they do have an article about Davis, but it's below the fold. too bad she was never able to reach the heights that Snacks, Bethany Cosentino’s Pet Cat and Best Coast Album Cover Star did in her career
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:15 (two years ago) link
From the band’s debut album Crazy For You and the iconic lyric “I wish my cat could talk” (taken from “Goodbye”) on through to the artwork for their 2021 single “Leading,” he quickly became integral to Best Coast’s public-facing identity.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link
ICONICINTEGRAL
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
Whatever subconscious interest might have existed in my brain to someday check out this band Best Coast…
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:45 (two years ago) link
in my feelings about that lil floofer
― imago, Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:45 (two years ago) link
Paul Ponzi at 4:00 10 Feb 22top news story on the page today:Snacks, Bethany Cosentino’s Pet Cat and Best Coast Album Cover Star, Has Diedoh yeah and Betty Davisjfc on phone at least this is the top story and Betty Davis is way down the page
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
Wait, are Xasthur and Leviathan Nazis?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
xp: Way down the page on the website as well.
― peace, man, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
I didn't even know that Best Coast had released an album a year or so ago, let alone that it was their first in five years. At that pace they could put that cat on the cover of every album and it *still* wouldn't qualify as iconic. Or at least no more iconic than any cat. I mean, look at this guy:
https://i.imgur.com/fqreLAh.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
I dunno. I remember Snacks the Cat. He's actually the first thing I think of when I hear the words Best Coast. When the first record came out, I think that a moderate amount of attention was paid to him in the press. More than most artist's cats anyway, save for Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button.
― peace, man, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
For instance, recently I read an interview where american Malefic, better known in bm circles as Xasthur said "The NSBM scene wants nothing to do with Xasthur? I really wasn't aware if it was or not. I'll put it this way, being where I'm from and noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority, I certainly don't take any offense to NSBM, yet I don't feel the need to wave the NSBM banner."
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link
But the longer you sit with “Spud Infinity,” and “Red Moon,” its closest counterpart, the less their hillbilly trappings come across like winks.
hillbilly trappings
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link
i think maybe i meant to post that in the big thief thread but whichever
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
I dunno, I thought the first Hillbilly Trappings EP was OK.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link
at least PF's obit for Betty Davis, a human woman, was longer than the obit for the white lady's cat. (counts words) oh wait nm
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
cripes
― rob, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
how many words are just meows though?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 February 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
Ugh, do you have a link for that interview, upper ms?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Thursday, 10 February 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
Can't we just leave the black metal racist stuff off of this perfectly pleasant thread?
― enochroot, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
(oh wait, never mind, I thought I was on the EOY albums thread... the pitchfork thread is a trash heap)
― enochroot, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
hahaha was gonna say
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
thought this revive would be about 5 BNMs in 5 days, if i'm reading Twitter right
― alpine static, Thursday, 10 February 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
4 BNMs, 1 Best New Reissue
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 February 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
Sam Sodomsky's Sunday review of Death's Symbolic was, for me, a case of – "Never heard of this album; I'm not at all into the genre; but I gotta hear this ASAP!" (...not the first time one of his pieces has had this effect).
― a beneficial mulch (morrisp), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
death is so so good, i'm a metal dilettante and they blow me away
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
That how I felt about the Iannis review from the other week.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
xpost Death are a top tenner for sure.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
i don't remember if Leviathan were nazis, just that Jef Whitehead was a scary, horrible human being who was accused of sexual assault and domestic violence, and continued to write about the person he abused on his albums.
execrable fucking being.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
This Sunday review kicks off with a portrait of L.A. as cliché (that I never care for); mentions the album being “reviewed” in a paragraph early on; spends most of the rest of its time talking about the band’s singer; and seems to cuts off abruptly when you think it’s about to circle back to a bigger point. Weird piece.
― punching the clock on a tambo (morrisp), Sunday, 20 February 2022 06:59 (two years ago) link
It also kind of writes off the band’s music as generic.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link