voted for cassandra jenkins, grouper, koreless, mr twin sister and lil ugly mane.
only thing here i don't think i've heard is the sons of kemet.
do not really get the armed, tirzah and dean blunt much at all. sault & little simz both pretty underwhelming - the little simz album starts off strong but really runs out of steam towards the end. the concept & interludes are all extremely corny unfortunately.
i looooved erika de casier's debut but this one was just decent. melodies didn't quite grab me in the same way.
cfcf album had some nice moments but was just ok overall, didn't manage to recreate the same magic as liquid colours in this different style.
― ufo, Friday, 11 February 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
ime you have to be in a very specific mood to enjoy the Tirzah and Dean Blunt albums.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link
They’re like idk Gaspar Noe or Lars Von Trier films.
I really liked the Koreless Yugen EP in 2013 but didn't keep up with them at all. Hm.
OK, I'm glad I checked this out.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 11 February 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
Altin Gun album p good
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 11 February 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
Hell yeah this rollout is amazing. Koreless was my #2. Erika de Casier was off my ballot and I have regrets about that. Men I Trust was amazing. CFCF was on my ballot, as was Little Simz, who I will be seeing live on my birthday. Can't wait for the top 17
― octobeard, Friday, 11 February 2022 05:33 (two years ago) link
playlist is updated btw
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 February 2022 05:36 (two years ago) link
With my votes for Henki, Agor, SIMBI, Nine, Sensational, SoK and depending how many place today, I might be at a record in the top 26 or top 33. Or it might all crumble. I have high hopes that 333, Vulture Prince, Mother, Happier than Ever, Hey What, and Mercurial World will place. I also have hopes for Spiral and Collapsed in Sunbeams, although nothing from them showed up in tracks shockingly. I guess any more jazz is out of the equation, though I didn't vote for 1.8, Promises or Open the Gates and jazz is suddenly very contentious apparently (not that surprising for a genre experiencing a sort of comeback after 40 years), and I don't suppose we will see Haram.
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:29 (two years ago) link
...or Stand for myself
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:33 (two years ago) link
HTRK would have been high on my ballot (possibly number one) if I'd gotten round to listening to their album before voting
― paolo, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:52 (two years ago) link
have placed 4 and am expecting 0 more, but that isn't going to stop me listening to your offerings with pitiless judgement
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:01 (two years ago) link
had always thought of CFCF unkindly before, probably for irrational reasons, but this is pretty engrossing. 'gravure idol' just finished & was particularly so. if we're not going to get death's dynamic shroud, this will have to do instead, lol
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:42 (two years ago) link
it is extremely long tho
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:45 (two years ago) link
Have placed 4 and am expecting 1 more, which for me feels very hivemindy! Given up hope on the Chants album placing, though ;_;
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 10:26 (two years ago) link
well I mean I didn't vote for it but L'Rain is one of mine in spirit maybe
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 10:29 (two years ago) link
L’Rain will probably be the only one of my votes to turn up in this last stretch
I’ll echo a few other posters - this has been a year when a surprisingly high number of my votes surfaced in the rollout (and a lot of things surfaced that I’d heard but didn’t vote for)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 11 February 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
Haha I saw CFCF roll by and initially thought "right so that Something Something Coastal Fever band has shortened its name, maybe a good move, I can never remember it correctly".
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:04 (two years ago) link
Lol christ, wonder if we've dodged Parquet Courts as well. ILM at least avoiding much of the worst of the new post-punk. Dry Cleaning, whom I'm listening to right now, are pretty good I think
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:09 (two years ago) link
ALC is even serving some primo skronk in the absence of TFS (or Springtime)
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:16 (two years ago) link
lol i don't think there's any chance at all parquet courts show up at this point
― ufo, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:25 (two years ago) link
tbc I didn't vote for TFS and don't think they deserve it this time
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:26 (two years ago) link
Two tracks in I was on board with Sons Of Kemet. Six tracks later I am....not
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:56 (two years ago) link
although just as I wrote that, the end of 'let the circle be unbroken' was pretty cool
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:59 (two years ago) link
My first skip was Can, towards the end of the opening 20 minute jam. Not horrible by any means, but just not something I need.
I made it all the way through GY!BE, which must be a lifetime first, but my constant thought was "basically this = the Swans it's still OK to like". It didn't give me anything that Swans used to give me more of.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 11 February 2022 12:09 (two years ago) link
Extremely more into Rochelle Jordan's take on garagey R&B than EDC's rather, um, polite one
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
I'll add that if 0PN truly has ushered in the era of bright uncanny-valley harpsichord production, I want zero to do with it (see also Koreless)
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
Maybe the expensive sterility is the point but no
https://i.imgur.com/gCH80YF.jpg15. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime359 points / 14 votesVideo from the album: “Chismiten”Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2021 Thread (Often African bands)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
love that robert beatty album art
― nxd, Friday, 11 February 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
Don't mind if I Mdou
― Evan, Friday, 11 February 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
any other solos to rival the AV final onslaught?
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
gonna assume 'several' and stick this on presently
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bubv1Pk.jpg14. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8363 points / 12 votes / 1 #1 voteSong from the album: “Space 1”Nala Sinephro - beautiful new cosmic/spiritual jazz/fusion/electro/REALLY GOOD debut on Warp
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
i had no idea this was popular!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
Promises is going to top this and it's gonna be ugly
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
i put this high. Love it
Promises will not beat Magdalena Bay or Low imo, if we're doing predictions
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
not gonna say the only one of those three i voted for
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
screen violence top five please
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
Not even heard of this one - thread title makes it sound promising so will put it on my 'to check out' list.
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
didn't realize it had its own thread (rather than just part of the Promises thread discussion). Not even sure where I heard of it now. A gorgeous little trip
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link
said 'Judas' out loud when it became clear track 3 of the Moctar would be acoustic-led
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
this bangs tho
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
when moctar built his own guitar when he was a child, he should've made it an electric one. what was he thinking?
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
The Nala Sinephro mixing is particularly astounding. One of the best sounding records on the countdown imo.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/m1wEkAM.jpg13. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour369 points / 10 votes / 2 #1 votesVideo from the album: “Brutal”olivia rodrigo sets a record
all he had to do was find some magnets and wires xps
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
Liking this means you're down with the kids and True Pop or something
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, February 11, 2022 10:27 AM (one minute ago)
otm
― rob, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
Tala Tannam is a very beautiful acoustic track; I retract the 'Judas' which was a joke anyway :p
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link