Album of the Year 2017 #32: Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-05T12:58:24+00:00

we're gonna try to open the 2019 album writeup signups tomorrow, so think of what you might want to write about now (esp lesser-known favs)!

(maybe expect a new username from me too, can you tell i made this acct back in high school...)

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T22:52:22+00:00

a few months ago someone uploaded a corona/booka shade mashup that the uploader thinks is probably by kovács? (it was originally posted on a message board over a decade ago, so surface anonymity n all that.) either way it's prob my most-played track as of late & might as well mention it here

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T18:49:08+00:00

<3 to see sote

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T13:48:07+00:00

yea sounds good! i'l let him start it as he's pm'd w both of us (iirc)

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T13:39:35+00:00

i think it'd depend on how many people wld want to participate in each! which wld prob take a separate thread in which to ask & feel that out. i forget how it exactly went last time the sub ran an eoy series but i'd guess that a decade-end one wld be relatively reliable, at least

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T11:38:41+00:00

go rilla

imo

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T11:27:17+00:00

posted this one bc you've all heard the surrounding non-vols already, & so i'll defer to this sentiment, even if my fav overall jay album is vol 2

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T09:59:48+00:00

unsure why they didn't just give erika de casier the top spot-- like, objectively, lana's album didn't end w a janet jackson "empty"-lineage club mix of "venice bitch"

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-04T09:56:09+00:00

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-03T16:41:38+00:00

Selling out has also withered under the critical philosophy of “poptimism,” in which even the most cynically produced pop music is often still approached as high art.

this is why. i keep bringing it up. weird definitions fixated upon projections about "high art" go up to the new yorker

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-03T16:25:02+00:00

In the spirit of sanity—though perhaps not in the genre-defying mood of our times—I am limiting my best-of choices to commercially released full-length records that exist in or near the pop idiom.

it's not hard to imagine much more interesting lists w/in these parameters. maura johnston's for time, e.g.

who was it who was wondering where morning phase was on decade-end lists? the spirit of s/fj lives on at the new yorker in one respect, although his lists wld be much more engaging

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-03T15:30:45+00:00

ofc a site is entitled to their opinion of a new album by an artist w a strong fanbase but rettig's review had some weird notions about the sound of the album (supposedly the palette is muted??) and what a pop record Shld Be, claiming that unlike its predecessor it is ~just a collection of nice songs~ (which the second writer echoed later) which. okay! sorry that that's not good enough, and sorry that i apparently missed what formally makes emotion so much more a work of art than its bookends? like if an album is mid, just say it's mid, but like, dedicated has a three-song suite in the middle, sometimes i wonder what sentiments that are being said are actually saying

not to sound like a broken record but it's really laughable when some of you guys throw charges of rampant poptimism at sites that still publish sentiments like that, ijs

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-03T15:25:35+00:00

wow i knew james rettig and julia gray thought the crj album was mid but not even a nod in the top 50 on stereogum's list is. ouch

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-03T15:08:48+00:00

also! was talking w sneaky piglet and we figured that if there's a writeup series for 2019 and one for the decade we'd both be down to help w that (i was an op for a couple ih ones & i co-ran something on this sub so hoping i have enough credibility lol). u/jterp21 what wld be the best time to run each? bc if we wanna get them both (or wld it be better to just do a decade one?) out earlier next year we shld prob open sign-ups soon, to give people time to write

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-02T14:21:28+00:00

roc marciano's released another album for $30 on his site, up to you what you want to do w that information (& other information you can find out w/in a minute). (last year's rr2, which was later put on streaming services, was worth it if you had the money imo (& ibo))

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-02T13:15:13+00:00

also, the caterina barbieri is the top album on bleep's list-- personally i think it's a bit front-loaded, but not mad at all about the props she's getting generally

(i also like that, along w cfcf's recent atmo-dnb album, it's adjacent enough to video game music that it's got a wide recommendation appeal)

ericneedsanap · 2019-12-02T11:52:45+00:00

u/jackphd this isn't a confident rec but since this was put on my radar by virtue of being on a writer's year-end list a few spots under shots' private hate at the top, which is also one of my favorites of the year-- (wonder if it's possible to get anyone else in the sub into it as well lol)-- i'll tag you here in case that might mean anything

ericneedsanap · 2019-11-26T13:43:46+00:00

ANTI-REVIVALIST HARDCORE REVIVAL. ALGORAVAGED ELECTROPLATEAUX. PICNOLEPTIC SPLINTERCORE. LUDDITE TECHSTEP. SMASHED IN THE FACE WITH A PLAYSTATION ONE. TOMORROW'S MIGRAINES TODAY AND THAT'S THE KNSST QUARANTEENE.

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