What a great list so far. Voted Spellling only. Currently very much enjoying the Howie Lee.
― kraudive, Monday, 7 February 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
Re: compilation albums, I do hope that La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient and Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 placesOh wow. Was that 2021? Have listened to it loads but would have sworn it was at least a couple of years old
― groovypanda, Monday, 7 February 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
Increasingly in the last year or so I'm hearing a lot more music that makes me think "What am I listening to here? How did this actually come about?"
For me these days it's very much "decreasingly". I'll check out the Howie Lee!
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
Good day for me - I voted for Vijay Iyer, Altin Gun, Heisei No Oto, and I've added a few things to my To Listen pile.
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
heard most of these, didn't vote for any
looking forward to checking out the emeka ogboh album, the can live album, and heisi no oto though
really enjoyed the spelling album when it came out but it had diminishing returns when i revisited at the end of the year, there's some great moments but it falls off in the second half.
― ufo, Monday, 7 February 2022 22:03 (two years ago) link
I have been underrating black midi. The sax on this album is beautiful and the whole thing amounts to something weirdly, energetically poignant.
― tangenttangent, Monday, 7 February 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
(Re Altın Gün:)
I know it’s not an “i” but couldn’t get the typography to do that letter― ✖✖✖ (Moka)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka)
I'm pretty sure it turned out correct? As I understand it, the Turkic uppercase version of "ı" (as in Altın) is "I", while a capital "i" would properly be "İ". (This is one of those things that utterly bedevil those dealing with internationalization of software: not even conversion from lower- to uppercase is necessarily the same across languages using many of the same letters!)
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 7 February 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
Black Midi straddles that fence of epic riffs and proggy cheese (peaks with Ascending Fourths) that lends itself to being underestimated. Reminds me of King Crimson a bit in that regard. Fun record, though I didn't vote for it
― octobeard, Monday, 7 February 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
Howie Lee album is very pleasant, nice island vibes. I'm hoping for a Lou Harrison revival one of these days.
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Monday, 7 February 2022 23:36 (two years ago) link
i think so far its just Godspeed from my list but this is great. lots to check out here.
― gman59, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
I saw Black Midi live having not heard them before. It didn't click. I don't see the point in being this technicalLy accomplished if all the production is so blown out you can't make out any of the instruments. I just don't get the appeal of this sort of thing
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
Nice. Vanishing Twin, Emeka Ogboh and all of 66-62 were on my earliest longlist. Only voted for Birdy Island, I think, though I spent relatively little time with it as 8 consecutive tracks. Just as likely a "this pretty thing is Howie Lee again, isn't it?" phenomenon while shuffling.
Pretty sure I voted for Altın Gün a couple of years ago but they didn't seem so literally-recorded-in-1973 this time. (I guess the under-rated Kit Sebastian got my vintage Turkey pastiche vote instead lol.)
I shall listen to this Japanese comp...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link
First time in years I didn't vote. Just completely spaced on the deadline. Really enjoying the roll-out so far.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
Interesting results today. A fair few I've never heard.
I only heard the Vanishing Twin album a few weeks ago and really liked it. Their previous album is great too. Feels like the kind of band I should have been listening to for years. Kind of like when I belatedly heard Jane Weaver a couple of years ago.
Ended up voting for Spellling low down on my list. I don't know if that album will have long term appeal. I really couldn't get past her voice and theatrics at first, but I kept coming back to it and the songs would get stuck in my head. I tried to put it on the other day and really wasn't in the mood for it. I can't remember the last time I had that kind of weird relationship with an album like that.
I didn't like the first Black Midi at all. Haven't heard anything from this one. Voodoo Chili comparing some the vocals to Larry Cameo is making me want to hear it.
That Altin Gun is good. Definitely one I need to revisit. Pleasantly surprised to see them here.
Will try and check out a few of the ones I've not heard in the next few days. Enjoying the roll-out so far.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
this black midi is better than the first one (the sax helps) but i don't think it's really going to change anyone's mind about them
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
Voodoo Chili comparing some the vocals to Larry Cameo is making me want to hear it.
haha. nb, i literally haven’t read anyone else who made the comparison, just a weird back of the throat singing that this one guy does that larry also sometimes doss. please don’t listen to black midi and expect to hear something that sounds like cameo
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:31 (two years ago) link
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili),
I listened to the album. There was one song where I could kind of hear what you meant. Not really a reference I ever would have thought of myself, but you put it in my head and so spent the full 45 minutes listening out for it.
The album wasn't really what I expected on the whole. It did get slightly better than that first song which was a bit of a nightmare, but not really my thing at all.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
am deep in the Can. Zwei was pretty cool
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 09:55 (two years ago) link
yeah that was a good listening experience or w/e. not that i'd vote for it or anything ;)
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:52 (two years ago) link
Something I learned last weekend: Altin Gun released a second album in 2021.
― signe anderson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link
About five tracks into VT and struggling to say much about it other than 'irksomely coy Quietus audiopiffle', so I'll add 'save me Moka'
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
Sure, why not?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UtNjtZk.jpg61. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti152 points / 4 votes / 1 #1 voteVideo from the album: “Folie Á Deux”rolling thread 2021 (deluxe edition)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
oh shit, glad this made it
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
Apparently I liked something from this and then forgot to return. Thanks for the reminder!
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
i like this so much more than the usually oppressively grimy griselda shit, and i think that it’s more than just mach’s strength as a writer, and partly because he doesn’t try to “elevate” anything, but stays firmly in the gutter
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
good album
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
vc otm
There is a kind of hypnagogic amelodicness to the whole thing that's reminding me a little bit of Ka's Honor Killed the Samurai.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
*perks up*
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
*becomes flaccid*
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
Listening to this now -- I don't quite have the vocabulary to describe why I like this so much, something about the way the vocals kind of float above all the rest of the sound
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MOu0aCM.jpg60. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You155 points / 6 votesVideo from the album: “Pond House”saint etienne
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
heh I had no idea they put out an album this year
― rob, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
lol same
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
they've been trying to tell you
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
wau
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
this is about 40 places lower than it would have been but for the great UK ILX exodus lol
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
big SE fan on the whole but just didn't rate much this 'nice enough' EP
― nashwan, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
I like “Pond House” but found the album a bit snoozy. Not bad! But didn’t go back to it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
This was the first St. Et album I've liked in quite a while.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
I'm a fan of their last two albums -- Words and Music ranks among their best -- but I had trouble sitting still through this one.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VDtyoRl.jpg59. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble - NOW156 points / 5 votesVideo from the album: “Forever Momentary Space”International Anthem: S/D
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
I don't quite have the vocabulary to describe why I like this so much, something about the way the vocals kind of float above all the rest of the sound
Vocals are super dry while the woozy Rhodes is low-passed and even the bass has reverb? I really like it.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
good albumxpost
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
I was really really enjoying that Mach-Hommy track linked up, but I wasn't paying much attention to the lyrics and all of a sudden I get "rock with Coldplay, it was all yellow" hitting me. Kind of burst me out of the magic.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
rappers love coldplay
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
no one knows why
I think he mentions Barry Manilow in the next few lines as well!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
Love that Damon Locks album. My second vote to place.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
voted for it too, really invigorating
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link