Some of those mixtapes you recommended in these 3 years, Tom, really saved my week, or let me know more about rap, hip hop and the mixtape format in general (I'm still bouncing with the 3 DJ Angelbaby mixtapes!).
Thank you for that amazing work, and now I'm wishing you keep on writing about mixtapes!
Wow. This thing brings contradictory feelings to me.
I really don't wanna know more, because I respect them so much as musicians, Gordon and Moore were part of the spark in my favourite music, and I'm so grateful for everything I still get from ther work. This story doesn't make them more interesting, just more... human to us?
But everytime I check any detail about their separation in this magnificent pieces from Kim, I just read it over and over again to not lose anything. It's just that's way she describes everything that makes it so powerful.
Man, I was expecting "Anna" on the #1. Really nice song, super nice dance, nice images, my video of the week. The only thing that maybe can beat that video is "Dayzed Inn Daydreams".
People usually says every time: "Music this year is awful". I don't know if I'm getting dumb but since 2012 I found current music awesome an exciting. Alright, maybe we will not have another 1967, 1994, 2000 or whatever, but just look at all those very good releases in just one month of 2015: Björk, Panda Bear, Sleater-Kinney, Viet Cong, Petite Noir, Joey Bada$$, Belle & Sebastian, etc. This is week is tough: Natalie Prass, Jessica Pratt, Napalm Death, even The Dodos. You have a lot of good sounds to taste, and it seems there is no time enough
Nobody has mentioned him, but his last album is still spinning in my head: Benjamin Clementine's At Least for Now. The guy is really doing something.
This album elevated my expectations about music in 2015 a lot. I still believe Person Pitch is his best, but Grim Reaper gets me excited everytime I listen to it.
Nehhh. The album of the week is Black Messiah. I really like Charli, but this is mehhh. We deserve more "Nuclear Seasons" and "Superlove" , and less "Boom Clap" and "Break the Rules".
Even The Pinkprint, which I was expecting to suck, is a lot better. That Nicki album is fuil of surprises.
I like this year a lot. And I found it amazing since I started listenning Lost in A Dream with "Under the Pressure". From that moment (playing music in my MP3, I was waiting an elevator on the 14th floor, and that took like 15 minutes because the other one was broke. Yeah, I listenned that song twice), I knew this War on Drugs album was simply the best of 2014, and didn't dissapoint me track after track, play after play.
The list is fine, not everything is fine, but it has some good surprises (Sharon Van Etten, Strand of Oaks, Angel Olsen) and a great top 3. I was expecting a little more love to this albums:
- Mac DeMarco - Salad Days,
- Ben Frost - A U R O R A,
- Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
- Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
- DJ Quik - Midnight Life
- Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
- Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
- DJ Dodger Stadium - Friend of Mine
Man, that video. I'm not sure the odd effect is because that song is amazing or Angel Olsen is amazingly beautiful. The truth is I liked better "Windows" than any of the videos on the list this week, and the five videos are pretty good.
My total favorite of the week, and even maybe the year: Iceage's "Against the Moon".
So Stereogum decided this is not the Album of the Week....
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"There are two songs in particular that deserve a mention, but were too divisive to make the list: Taylor Swift’s “Welcome To New York” and Ariel Pink’s”Black Ballerina.”"
I feel so sad that "Welcome To New York" is a divisive song, because it definitely sucks, and there should not be another opinion. Oh, the horror, the nowadays pop,.....
Totallly agree with the two top songs: if it weren't for that overwhelming Sleater Kinney "comeback or whatever" song, this week would be for "Mr. Noah".
I was expecting a lot from this album, and all because that incredible "Tough Love" single. Yeah, I prefer Devotion, although this is a good album, but just not my type at all.
The Best Day is my album of the week, but OK, Moore is victim of his "indie scandal", and this new album just sounds as another regular Sonic Youth album, which is awesome.
Excuse me. According to you this is even better than the new Iceage album! That's my choice for AOTW, because, man, those danish guys learned to write terrific songs and to put them all in one album.
So, if you think Tinashe's debut is even better than those three albums, let's give it a listen.
The best of this stunt: People is listening Sun Kil Moon and The War on Drugs white music.
Come on, this song is so stupid that is almost genius. Yes, he's really joking about all the buzz and rock soap operas created by music sites.
I prefer the Arca video right now. That video is something.
I think now that "Never Catch Me" is great, and it's earning a piece of my heart every time I watch it. My favourite thing in that video? Its simplicity.
And also "Ridiculous Thoughts" is still amazing, it has aged very well. That video with Elijah Wood is nothing special, but it's the first image that came to my mind when I remember No Need to Argue.
Thank you for writing this anniversary piece. This was a peculiar part of my adolescent life, when your body is awkward, your mind is so incoherent, and you were looking for something strong and beautiful at the same time. I have mixed feelings on the Cranberries, but listenning Dolores O'Riordan's voice or that "Zombie" melody, even the "Ode to my Family" first notes, take me straightaway to my 11s.
Not the best week, but from all those albums in consideration, yeah, Right from Real was very good and you can listen it multiple times. And I just realize it's really two EPs.
I was one of that R.E.M. fans who met the band because of Monster. As an innocent kid, I started to like that "alternative" music, and before listenning the album I thought every worldwide hit single like "Losing My Religion" was contained here. After that, Monster was my favourite album from the band, like the soundtrack for those days.
Now, I feel a strange affection for those melodies, but I can't say Monster is really great with true confidence. It's not bad at all, but sounds so "seudogrunge" sometimes that I understand some people think this is the sound of a band making money in the mid-nineties. It's always good to come back to Monster, but I only recommend it maybe once a year, nothing else.
I'm kinda scared. If this song gets popular, Jeremih is going to release a video with the Pitbull version? That can screw the summer jam of many forever!
I wanna forget that Jeremih let Pitbull rape "Don't Tell' Em". "Ella es una loca, ella me provoca, a ella gusta la fiesta", "No le digas que me llame a su amiga" COME ON!!!! WHY? That doesn't rhyme or make any sense
I've been singing it for months, when it was released with the YG remix, which is obviously the version that finally getting some notoriety. That was amazing, was my summer anthem, and I'm pretty sure that NOBODY NEEDS THIS STUPID PITBULL VERSES. Nobody needs Pitbull in music at all.
Wow, I haven't heard a lot of albums from this week that I could like. Laetitia Sadier released something these days???
Anyway, I can't think in any other choice different for AOTW than Too Bright. It's like a I Am a Bird Now for this decade.
SYRO and the GOAT album are very good albums, but it's been months since I listened something so good as Too Bright.
I don't know you, people, but "Don't Tell 'Em" is my summer anthem of 2014. And this new version is still great.
Last year, this guy gave us "Bo Peep" with Shlohmo, and now "Don't Tell 'Em". I really want to have that anticipated album, to find at least one song like this.
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