Comments on: listing badly

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By: catherine

catherine — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:55:39 +0000

see i like his voice in context of some of the NP’s stuff – used sparingly throughout the CD or for harmonies – but yeah, a whole CD of it, eesh.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:15:24 +0000

Yeah, Dan Bejar’s voice really irritates me. I’ll give Destroyer a shot, but I have a feeling I’m going to find it grating.

By: caralyn

caralyn — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:51:05 +0000

TIE: Cat Power/Neko Case/Joanna Newsom. Says the melancholy folkie chick.
Seriously, I mean, SERIOUSLY did they NOT put Neko Case’s Fox Confessor on that list? How is that decision justified? HOW, I ask. HOW.

By: catherine

catherine — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:48:52 +0000

is destroyer really any good? that’s one of the guys who also does new pornographers, right, dan bejar? i saw them open for NP in chicago and thought they absolutely blew, but maybe on CD they’re better.

By: Armsmasher

Armsmasher — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:34:09 +0000

Oh, and the Newsom album is great by me simply for explaining the difference between meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.
And so soon after classifying peaches, plums, and pears.
Tommy, you might like Destroyer.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:36:08 +0000

Oooh, year end lists! That wonderful time of year where we get to say things like “Interpol? Best record of the year? Really?” I liked that album.
It’s pretty much impossible to remain silent about Pitchfork’s picks. Do they accurately reflect the best stuff of the year? Probably not. I think the lists of each of their writers probably do though.
I like a lot of what Chris Dahlen, Mark Richardson, and Drew Daniel write. Turns out they liked a lot of the stuff I was into this year. A bunch of the things they listed weren’t on the big top fifty.
They mentioned the new Subtle album. I’m a complete nerd when it comes to anything Dose One is involved with. His evolution from the mush of psychedelic hip-hop in cLOUDDEAD to his (more) straight-forward hip-hop with Jel in Themselves to their unclassifiable band of Subtle is unstoppable. It’s lush and emotionally all over the map. I have no idea what he’s talking about half of the time, and that doesn’t bother me at all.
They also mentioned Juana Molina’s “Son” record. I saw her at Iota a couple months back and it was one of the most intimate and excellent shows I have ever seen. Her voice is just so beautiful. She had a false start here and there, but I can’t blame her. Sampling herself singing and playing guitar and overlaying synthesized melodies and rhythms can’t be easy. I don’t understand Spanish, but hopefully that’ll change soon.
Anyway, there are a couple favorites of mine that didn’t make the list as well. I should say that I am very much into hip-hop and electronic music, but I listen to a lot of rock too.
Clark’s “Body Riddle” is probably my favorite album this year. Despite being entirely sequenced, the album oozes feeling. The drums have a distinct “live” feel to them. The tracks are most-definitely SONGS (something electronic music is sometimes derided for ignoring). There’s a real arc to them. Excellent album. It manages to reference the best of Warp records without sounding like any of them. I love it.
The new Squarepusher album is pretty darn good too. There are a couple tracks on there that wander a little too close to wanky jazz guy, but for the most part it’s exciting. He checks all the moods he’s explored on previous albums. And the track released as a download-only single at the same time as the record, “Hanningfield Window,” just kills.
Anyway, woohoo to Ghostface, Califone, Dilla, Ellen Allien and Apparat, and Sonic Youth for being on the list.
And now I’ll say that I haven’t heard most of what you listed, Tom. I want to now though. I don’t know what Malajube or Annuals are. Have them at the office?
Oh, and the Newsom album is great by me simply for explaining the difference between meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.

By: Armsmasher

Armsmasher — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:41:10 +0000

I know it’s super declasse to say that someone did it better before, but the Pipettes really should be signing their checks over to the Shangri-Las.
The Boris, Clipse, T.I., Brightblack Morning Light,and Scott Walker records are all excellent. If there’s room for those, consensus choices like the Hold Steady and Decemberists, and flashes in the pan like Tapes n Tapes and Band of Horses, I’d think there’d be a nice middle-place finish for a dark-horse record like Rainer Maria’s.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:56:39 +0000

I’m with you on _Bring It Back_ even if no one else is. Ditto with the Pipettes–”Pull Shapes” is the stuff, and a few other songs are also pop perfection, but I don’t think they can successfully sustain a whole album that way.