Going all in on Phoebe this year. Album of the year and best song as 'I Know the End'. Too much good stuff this year that I maybe should have voted for just to throw the names out there, but I had to go with my heart.
Super late to this party once again but for all its worth here are my top 10
1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher - worked well on all levels for me
2. SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
3. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
4. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
5. Drab City - Good Songs For Bad People
6. Adrianne Lenker - Songs/Instrumentals - technically 2 albums but...
7. Sorry -925 - felt like I had already heard a large chunk of this album via their EP and single releases, but they added plenty of new material that was solid
8. Warnings - I Break Horses - as a big fan of her debut album, big fan of this one
9. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
10. What We Drew - Yaeji
Biggest Disappointments:
1. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension - just didn't do it for me.
2. Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open - erased most of this album from my mind. Hollywood is probably one of the worst songs I have ever heard.
3. Caribou - Suddenly - didn't hate it and actually had a few tracks I really enjoyed, but it was always going to be hard to follow up Our Love
Biggest Surprises (new discoveries)
1. Drab City - formerly known as oOoOO which I had no idea until much later
2. Ratboys - all around fun album
3. SAULT - had no idea about them prior to this year when they dropped Black Is right in the middle of this Summer's protests.
Favorite music memory this year:
Driving across Colorado in the mountains east of Gunnison listening to Moodymann
lol I'd forgotten about Daughtry. Went to a St. Vincent show once in Indianapolis that was playing in the downstairs of this venue where Daughtry was to play at the same time at the main stage upstairs. The main entrance for both shows was the same though and I did not know that Daughtry was playing upstairs. Scared the hell out of me as soon as I got in line and looked around thinking I had gone to the wrong venue.
In no particular order
I Need You - Octo Octa
Dylan Thomas - Better Oblivion Community Center
Downhill Lullaby - Sky Ferreira
Wild Time - Weyes Blood
Light Years - The National
This Life - Vampire Weekend
UFOF - Big Thief
The Barrel - Aldous Harding
Room Temperature - Faye Webster
Jenni - Big Thief
Morning Comes - SASAMI
Chlorine - Penelope Isles
All Mirrors - Angel Olsen
Not - Big Thief
Took a Long Time - Carla Dal Forno
The Mother Road - Chelsea Wolfe
Lucy - Soccer Mommy
Split - Chastity Belt
Found Me - Men I Trust
Love the variety of genres thrown in there and there is some stuff i haven't heard that I'll need to definitely check out before I finish my own list. That being said, I am sad Boards of Canada, Mazzy Star, and No Joy are not on that list which were some of my favourite albums this year
Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Steven Spielberg
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best Original Screenplay: Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie
Best Foreign Film: Amour
Best Documentary Feature: 5 Broken Cameras
Best Production Design: Les Miserables
Best Cinematography: Skyfall
Best Costume Design: Les Miserables
Best Film Editing: Argo
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Les Miserables
Best Score: Life of Pi
Best Song: “Skyfall” from Skyfall
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Animated Short: Adam and Dog
Best Documentary Short: Inocente
Best Live Action Short: Buzkashi Boys
My harmonica version will blow all out of the water. So let's mix my harmonica version with the kazoo, xylophones and theremin versions and get Pitchfork's best album of the year (yes I'm ambitious)
Those EDMrs my biggest complaint of the weekend. A few friends had the unfortunate task of heading to Perry's (EDM stage) for Little Dragon and apparently all the crowd did during the set, was stand around in circles talking to each other and texting their friends (guess not enough drops). Also lots of pick-pocketing going on in there. But these reviews were amazing to read coming back from the festival. Caught the essence of the festival pretty well
They call it a place of "love and peace" but it's followed by a dude just shooting down a couple of zombies who represent the "mainstream masses". That's just rude juggalos
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