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Christophe

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No objections to the P4K 100 thing? Sound... I’ll listen to ten at a time and do a quick thought and score,  until it’s done or I get fed up...

100 - Post Malone : Rich & Sad 

Pretty much every song in this approximate genre flows like this where they pause, jam the entire line into the last 60% of the bar then go to a sad bit. Hookless, boring (2/10)

99 - Miya Folick - Stock Image 

A professional musician looking for a way into the industry, chooses the tried & true “facsimile of 80s pop song” world remains upended (4/10)

98 - Mac Miller - Self Care

It was funny when P4K slammed this (said “it sounds like he has a mouth full of water when he raps (paraphrase)) when it came out and are hard in retcon mode. Generally pleasing “expensive Ableton” atmosphere but goes on a bit (5/10)

97 - Young Fathers - In My View

+1 point for using the phrase “i’m a greedy bugger”. It is pleasingly stark and cold but sort of shoots for a vague Radio 1 Live Lounge sad acoustic meaningfulness. It’s ok! (6/10)

96 - Sharon van Etten - Comeback Kid 

*tosses light softball for Uncut subscriber/P4K reader c. 2004*

*laughs as ball is in mid-air*

*ball lands in glove*

*WE TOOK YOUR GUITARS AWAY scrawled on ball* (3/10)

95 - Frank Ocean - Moon River 

One of the greatest songs ever written gets the 5am back at the flat after a might at Matt & Phred’s on Ambien treatment. Inessential (2/10)

94 - Amber Mark - Love Me Right 

Hey this is alright. Quiet storm-adjacent moody sexxx(love) pop, a couple of nice musical surprises in there too, just needs James Ingram to duet in the key change (7/10)

93 - Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

Guy is 47 and he sounds more awake than everyone thus reviewed put together. Nice tour through most of the things he improved or invented without surpassing himself (7/10)

92 - Charli XCX - Track 10

Every time I hear a song that sounds as simultaneously directionless, predictable and flat as this i rush to Wikipedia to guess the total number of songwriters and producers. I guessed 6. It was 8 (2/10)

91 - 700 Bliss - Ring The Alarm 

Short experimental rap/sprechgesang number, beat sounds like a sketch for something really good, doesn’t quite come off though. Probably works better in the flow of an album (5/10)

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groaninjock

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Not too shabby a year for music. Having deliberated, cogitated and digested, here are my top 20 albums of the year:

1. Shame - Songs Of Praise
2. Boy Azooga - (One) (Two) (Kung Fu)
3. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
4. B.C. Camplight - Deportation Blues 
5. Welles - Red Trees and White Trashes
6. Kyle Falconer - No Thank You 
7. Wooden Shjips - V.
8. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
9. Greta Van Fleet - Anthem Of The Peaceful Army 
10. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
11. The Coral - Move Through The Dawn
12. The Filthy Tongues - Back To Hell
13. Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Here Lies The Body
14. Beak> - >>>
15. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures 
16. Tim Burgess - As I Was Now 
17. Muse - Simulation Theory
18. Miles Kane - Coup De Grace
19. Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds
20. The Vryll Society - Course Of The Satellite

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Christophe

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Pitchfork Top 100 songs of 2018 (90-81)

90 - Future - Hate The Real Me

FruityLoops emo-hop with warbly autotune sadrappin that has a weird potency (real emotional content? An irrepressible humour?) in spite of it being nearly objectively rubbish (4/10)

89 - Carly-Rae Jepsen -  Party For One

The video (containing an old lady whirling a double-end dildo around her head) is way more wild than this pleasantly taut pop song about wanking (the song is way too pleased with itself for its subject matter) deserves (5/10)

88 - Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour

This would sound great in a two-fer midweek teen disco set with ‘Let Me Be Your Fantasy’ by Baby D, which is pretty high praise. A bit Le Tigre, a bit Nightcrawlers (7/10)

87 - Migos - Stir Fry

There’s some bits in this where the individual melodies start to come together indicating some actual compositional nous but it refrains from becoming songly to just inscrutably headnod in an admittedly not-bad way (5/10)

86 - Mt. Eerie - Distortion 

Celebrity Rocker Phil “The Fury” Elverum takes a Mark Kozelek-style diary approach to his signature nylon-string existential pondering. Not bad but if he’d put this out 10 years ago it would make no lists (6/10)

85 - Beyoncé and Jay-Z - Apeshit 

Music for your undiscerning hedge fund billionaire to do coke to (1/10)

84 - Valee - Vlone 

Lovely sound design, nice depth to the mix, a serene feel, like practising swordplay in a mystical forest, but it doesn’t go anywhere and oh gr8 a guy talking about brand names and money, how terrific (5.5/10)

83 - Amen Dunes - Believe

This walks such a fine line. Tip it one way and it’s the noble suburban psych glory of Death Masks or The Clientele, but tip it the other way it’s just Richard Ashcroft fronting War On Drugs (the world’s most boring band). I will be generous - (6/10)

82 - JPEGMAFIA - Macaulay Culkin

Veteran is a really great album, really wild with electricity and mischief, so of course p4k pick the one tune on it that sounds like s4dr4ppp for fans of Xanax, deleting selfies and Lena Dunham thinkpieces (5/10)

81 - Lil Peep - Life Is Beautiful 

Hardest one to rate given how much it clearly reflects his actual death and is released in way suggesting it’s adjacency so clearly. Not sure this music is for an old fart like me, though I do like the outro and the warped cello sound (?/10)

 

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Sidney Gish released a pretty decent album on 31st December last year. But otherwise, nothing much happens in late December, and some websites did their end of year lists way back last month. So fair enough, here's mine. They are in order but I wimped out on splitting the top two.

1= Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
1= Lucy Dacus - Historian
3 Stella Donnelly - Thrush Metal*
4 Mitski - Be The Cowboy
5 Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
6 Estrons - You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough
7 IDLES - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
8 Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
9 Anna Burch - Quit The Curse
10 Boy Azooga - 1,2, Kung Fu!

* totally bent the rules for Stella Donnelly, not just because it's only a six track EP, but also because it had been released in 2017 in Australia, then 2018 in the UK. But she's great so suck it up.

Nods also to Beach House, Courtney Barnett, The Goon Sax, Sunflower Bean, Adrianne Lenker, and probably some others who might just as easily have made the cut if you'd asked me on a different day.

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50/50 Winner

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I've revised a few choices so here's my top 10 (in no particular order) -

Say Sue Me - Where We Were Together
Free Cake For Every Creature- The Bluest Star
Lord Huron - Vide Noir
Bill Ryder Jones - Yawn
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
Jerry Paper - Like a Baby
Black Moth Super Rainbow- Panic Blooms
Adwaith - Melyn
Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader
808INK - When I'm About, You'll Know

Also, special mention to a band called Arlie, their EP 'Wait' is awesome and I hope a full length album is released soon.

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Sorry for the spacing, pain in the arse on mobile.

1. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

2. Ghost - Prequelle

3. Judas Priest - Firepower

4. Conjurer - Mire

5. Black Peaks - All That Divides

6. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs

7. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume

8. Møl - Jord

9. Bleed From Within - Era

10. Parkway Drive - Reverence

11. Bleeding Through - Love Will Kill All

12. Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

13. Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods

14. Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

15. Frontierer - Unloved

16. Khemmis - Desolation

17. LIK - Carnage

18. Between The Buried And Me - Automata I

19. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms

20. Soulfly - Ritual

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On 13/12/2018 at 23:51, Christophe said:

Pitchfork Top 100 songs of 2018 (90-81)

90 - Future - Hate The Real Me

FruityLoops emo-hop with warbly autotune sadrappin that has a weird potency (real emotional content? An irrepressible humour?) in spite of it being nearly objectively rubbish (4/10)

89 - Carly-Rae Jepsen -  Party For One

The video (containing an old lady whirling a double-end dildo around her head) is way more wild than this pleasantly taut pop song about wanking (the song is way too pleased with itself for its subject matter) deserves (5/10)

88 - Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour

This would sound great in a two-fer midweek teen disco set with ‘Let Me Be Your Fantasy’ by Baby D, which is pretty high praise. A bit Le Tigre, a bit Nightcrawlers (7/10)

87 - Migos - Stir Fry

There’s some bits in this where the individual melodies start to come together indicating some actual compositional nous but it refrains from becoming songly to just inscrutably headnod in an admittedly not-bad way (5/10)

86 - Mt. Eerie - Distortion 

Celebrity Rocker Phil “The Fury” Elverum takes a Mark Kozelek-style diary approach to his signature nylon-string existential pondering. Not bad but if he’d put this out 10 years ago it would make no lists (6/10)

85 - Beyoncé and Jay-Z - Apeshit 

Music for your undiscerning hedge fund billionaire to do coke to (1/10)

84 - Valee - Vlone 

Lovely sound design, nice depth to the mix, a serene feel, like practising swordplay in a mystical forest, but it doesn’t go anywhere and oh gr8 a guy talking about brand names and money, how terrific (5.5/10)

83 - Amen Dunes - Believe

This walks such a fine line. Tip it one way and it’s the noble suburban psych glory of Death Masks or The Clientele, but tip it the other way it’s just Richard Ashcroft fronting War On Drugs (the world’s most boring band). I will be generous - (6/10)

82 - JPEGMAFIA - Macaulay Culkin

Veteran is a really great album, really wild with electricity and mischief, so of course p4k pick the one tune on it that sounds like s4dr4ppp for fans of Xanax, deleting selfies and Lena Dunham thinkpieces (5/10)

81 - Lil Peep - Life Is Beautiful 

Hardest one to rate given how much it clearly reflects his actual death and is released in way suggesting it’s adjacency so clearly. Not sure this music is for an old fart like me, though I do like the outro and the warped cello sound (?/10)

 

If you keep saying 'p4k' I'm going to do much worse things to you than LincolnHearts ever managed.

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9 hours ago, Clyde01 said:

Been listening a lot to Greta Van Fleet’s debut album Anthem of the Peaceful Army.

They are undoubtedly a shameless Led Zeppelin rip off but just hearing music like that getting made by a modern band is pretty exciting.

The From The Fires EP last year was incredible but I found the album a bit flat, to be honest. There's not a song on there that's as good as anything from the EP.

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On ‎16‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 04:02, JamieStevenson said:

I'm pretty embarrassed to say I don't think I even managed to listen to 10 albums this year. I'll definitely be making a bit more of an effort for 2019.

Loads of great songs in 2018 but not so many great albums in my opinion.

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The From The Fires EP last year was incredible but I found the album a bit flat, to be honest. There's not a song on there that's as good as anything from the EP.


I agree with you that the EP is probably better but still think the album is very good. There aren’t as many absolute stand out belters as on the EP apart from When The Curtain Falls but it’s still a solid album. Perhaps suffering from being judged against that EP where literally all 8 tracks are brilliant.
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Top 10 ,in no particular order ,
Kyle Falconer - No Thank You
Interupters - Fight the Good Fight
The Skids - Burning Cities
The 1975 - ABIIOR
Shame- Songs of Praise
Idles - JAAAOR
Years & Years - Palo Santo.
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Richard Ashcroft - Natural Rebel ,
First Aid Kit - Ruins .

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