I still haven't gotten into Snail Mail, and I did see them once already Gotta get tickets to that Ratboys/Lomelda show, stacked
Just going to post this before I change it again. 1. Kevin Morby - City Music 2. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow 3. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan 4. Big Thief - Capacity 5. King Krule - The OOZ 6. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lighntess 7. The Weather Station - S/T 8. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent 9. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN 10. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism 11. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator 12. Tyler the Creator - Flower Boy 13. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness 14. Bedouine - S/T 15. Aldous Harding - Party 16. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things 17. Sam Baker - Land of Doubt 18. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream 19. Peter Oren - Anthropocene 20. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding 21. A. Savage - Thawing Dawn 22. Binker & Moses - Journey to the Mountain of Forever 23. Joan Shelley - S/T 24. Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone 25. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me 26. Jake Xeres Fussell - What in the Natural World 27. Thundercat - Drunk 28. Twain - Rare Feeling 29. Alex Cameron - Forced Witness 30. Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett - Lotta Sea Lice 31. Marika Hackman - Im Not Your Man 32. Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference 33. Danile Luppi - MILANO 34. Colter Wall - S/T 35. Hand Habits - Wildly Idle 36. Simon Joyner - Step into the Earthquake 37. The National - Sleep Well Beast 38. Destroyer - Ken 39. Johanna Glaze - Wind Sculptures 40. James Elkington - Wintress Woma 41. Gun Outfit - Out of Range 42. Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer 43. Milo - Who Told You To Think 44. White Reaper - The World's Best American Rock Band 45. Jamie Branch - Fly or Die 46. Sampa the Great - Birds and the Bee9 47. Michael Nau - Some Twist 48. Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound 49. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Centennial Trilogy 50. Trevor Sensor - Andy Warhol's Dream And 20 more... Spoon - Hot Thoughts Laura Marling - Semper Femina Trummors - Headlands Anna St. Louis - First Songs Talib Kweli - Radio Silence Fleet Foxes - Crack Up Jay-Z - 4:44 H. Hawkline - I Romanticize Wooden Wand - Clipper Ship John Moreland - Big Bad Luv Shannon Lay - Living Water Will Johnson - Hatteras Night, A Good Luck Charm Princess Nokia - 1992 Tyler Childers - Purgatory Your Old Droog - PACKS Jaye Bartell - In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation Mapache - S/T The Como Mamas - Move Upstairs Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Backlash The Deep Dark Woods - Yarrow
I wish I knew how buzz was created and how to control it, one of the most powerful forces in weird music coverage
There's a ton of good bands no one hears tho, buzz is directly linked to good band exposure and success. There is also a finite level of buzz that can be maintained with a large amount of good bands missing out. There's a bunch of albums that are on most of these lists, who decides, how does it build, where does it go
that's all marketing and label push of course, sites post things less on merit and more on politics with promoters and stuff but usually to actually get legitimate buzz you have to be good. snail mail got it through some great SXSW performances. at least in the general scene new bands don't get buzzy without a reason
My Top 10 Tracks of the year 1. Tony Anderson - Butterflies 2. Bleachers - Don't Take The Money 3. Anna of the North - Oslo 4. Axel Flovent - City Dream 5. Fickle Friends - Glue 6. Gryffin - Feel Good 7. Gabrielle Aplin - Waking Up Slow (Piano version) 8. Haim - Want You Back 9. DWNTWN - Bloodshot Eyes 10. London Grammar - Big Picture
My top twenty: 1. Bleachers - Gone Now 2. Caracara - Summer Megalith 3. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights 4. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm 5. The Front Bottoms - Going Grey 6. Coma Cinema - Loss Memory 7. Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor 8. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN 9. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life 10. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory 11. The Menzingers - After the Party 12. The World is a Beautiful Place - Always Foreign 13. Emperor X - Oversleepers International 14. Alex Lahey - I Love You Like a Brother 15. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape 16. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps 17. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet 18. Katie Ellen - Cowgirl Blues 19. The National - Sleep Well Beast 20. Special Explosion - To Infinity
I'm not saying there isn't a reason or buzzy bands are bad, I want like data on the intangibles. How does one performance make an impact, do writers have to be there and talk the band up after, what are the factors, how does this happen
I've been so out of the loop on buzz bands after it stopped being blog oriented, I think it still is to some extent but I feel like when I see a band on Pitchfork or Brooklyn Vegan it's like oh y'all have been listening to them for 3 years
Yo that Paranoid Void record is incredible. Have you listened to tricot? They're very similar but I like them even more.
What you've all been waiting for: Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me Sampha - Process Father John Misty - Pure Comedy The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid Converge - The Dusk in Us Strange Ranger - Daymoon Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory The National - Sleep Well Beast Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun Four Tet - New Energy Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes Laurel Halo - Dust Mutemath - Play Dead Joey Badass - All-Amerikkkan Badass Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence Baths - Romaplasm Less Art - Strangled Light Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love Liam Gallagher - As You Were Bonobo - Migration Caracara - Summer Megalith Jay Z - 4:44 Kelela - Take Me Apart Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives Rostam - Half-Light Lo Tom - Lo Tom Bjork - Utopia Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy Ride - Weather Diaries Perfume Genius - No Shape Clark - Death Peak Future Islands - The Far Field Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent Alvvays - Antisocialites Miguel - War & Leisure SZA - Ctrl Sleaford Mods - English Tapas Forest Swords - Compassion Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want? Spoon - Hot Thoughts Granddady - Last Place Harry Styles - Harry Styles Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes Randy Newman - Dark Matter Honorable Mentions (alphabetical): Actress - AZD Big Thief - Capacity Brian Eno - Reflection Circa Survive - The Amulet Cloakroom - Time Well Conor Oberst - Salutations Ex Eye - Ex Eye Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up Glassjaw - Material Control Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life Land of Talk - Life After Youth Life and Times - The Life and Times Nightlands - I Can Feel the Night Around Me Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time OST Power Trip - Nightmare Logic Queens of the Stone Age - Villains Quicksand - Interiors Slowdive - Slowdive St. Vincent - Masseduction Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Vietnam Was OST
1. The National – Sleep Well Beast 2. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. 3. All Time Low – Last Young Renegade 4. Bleachers – Gone Now 5. Lorde – Melodrama 6. Stars – There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light 7. Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound 8. The Maine – Lovely Little Lonely 9. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life 10. Everything Everything – A Fever Dream 11. The Front Bottoms – Going Grey 12. Vagabon – Infinite Worlds 13. MUNA – About U 14. Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface 15. Paramore – After Laughter 16. The xx – I See You 17. Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie 18. Turnover – Good Nature 19. LANY – LANY 20. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy 21. Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex 22. JAPANDROIDS – Near to the Wild Heart of Life 23. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps 24. Hippo Campus – landmark 25. QTY - QTY 26. Sorority Noise – You’re Not As ______ As You Think 27. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Echo of Pleasure 28. Thunder Dreamer – Capture 29. The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful 30. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Zombies on Broadway Top EPs: 1. The Wonder Years – Burst & Decay 2. The Japanese House – Saw You in a Dream 3. Great Good Fine Ok – III 4. BC Unidos - Bicycle 5. Halfnoise – The Velvet Face 6. Flint Eastwood – Broke Royalty * Additional shout-outs to the following artists for putting out some awesome albums that, while not realized in my Top 30, were fantastic nonetheless: The Menzingers, Jay Som, Julien Baker, Enter Shikari, Japanese Breakfast, Alvvays, Passion Pit, and WALK THE MOON.
it’s pretty good. if i made a top 100, it’d probably be on the lower end of that. good, nothing great, though i appreciate him experimenting with something new liam’s is great, which took me by surprise
finally hit my goal of listening to 200 new albums in 2017. this year has been..interesting.. 1. RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network 2. The National - Sleep Well Beast 3. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket 4. Kesha - Rainbow 5. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps 6. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 7. Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here 8. Four Tet - New Energy 9. People Like You - Verse 10. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel / Pop 2 11. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape 12. DJ Seinfeld - Time Spent Away from U 13. The Menzingers - After the Party 14. Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe 15. 21 Savage - Issa Album 16. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa 17. Prawn - Run 18. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie 19. Milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?! 20. St. Vincent - Masseduction 21. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights 22. Driveway - Nothing Important Happened Today 23. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet 24. Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions 25. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer 26. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 27. Florist - If Blue Could be Happiness 28. Code Orange - Forever 29. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory 30. Wiley - Godfather 31. Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good at This 32. Dizzee Rascal - Raskit 33. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 34. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me 35. Emperor X - Oversleepers International 36. Kelela - Take Me Apart 37. Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1 38. J Hus - Common Sense 39. Kitty - Miami Garden Club 40. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy 41. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 42. SZA - CTRL 43. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage 44. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural 45. A$AP Ferg - Still Striving 46. Future - HNDRXX 47. Soccer Mommy - Collection 48. Real Life Buildings - Significant Weather 49. Charly Bliss - Guppy 50. football, etc. - Corner
I started compiling all the lists in this thread to see what the average top 20 was but it’s too much work lmao