YOUR MUSIC TASTE IS SO DIVERSE.

Carly Rae Jepsen to Bat For Lashes.

 

Oh, Lana is SLAYING.

Need a thesaurus to understand these commentaries.

1 good artist (Grimes) against 3 terrible artists.

 

I haven't lost yet! :D

Awkward. Because Grimes, Purity Ring, The Weeknd, Crystal Castles, Celine Dion, Owen Pallett, Drake, Arcade Fire, Mylene Farmer, Avril, Tegan & Sara and like a BILLION OTHERS SAY HI.

 

(shut up randyschlong this is a matter of CANADIAN HONOUR and bigger than your silly EoY thread)

 

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From the opening, delicate, creeping moments of 'sever', it's clear than 'kin' is a fairly singular experience. There's a ghostly majesty at work here, a crackle to the sounds, a crinkle to the synths, a wild inflection to the vocals. It's intoxicating. But it isn't without catchy, pulsating rhythms in the spirit of the finest scandipop, and in fact, what Jonna Lee et al prove here is that the stereotypical cheesiness of schlager instrumentation can be reconfigured and recontextualised into an emphatically artistic, singular and morbid experience. What else is the swirling jingle of 'drops' if not a wicked twist on something like 'Jag ljuger så bra'? That connection is perhaps too facile, but 'kin' nonetheless seems informed by the same pulsatingly pure Swedish ethic to energise the soul of the music lover.

 

essential track //

TOO LOW BITCH.

Awkward. Because Grimes, Purity Ring, The Weeknd, Crystal Castles, Celine Dion, Owen Pallett, Drake, Arcade Fire, Mylene Farmer, Avril, Tegan & Sara and like a BILLION OTHERS SAY HI.

 

OK, 2 good artists (Grimes and Drake) against 3 terrible artists.

 

Your point is?

 

(sorry david i'll stop now)

OK, 2 good artists (Grimes and Drake) against 3 terrible artists.

 

Your point is?

 

(sorry david i'll stop now)

Have you even heard the rest of the artists I listed? THOUGHT SO. :/

YOUR MUSIC TASTE IS SO DIVERSE.

Carly Rae Jepsen to Bat For Lashes.

 

Oh, Lana is SLAYING.

 

THANKS. I do try.

 

Need a thesaurus to understand these commentaries.

 

Soz. I'm EXPANDING your vocabulary. Not just a pretty face!

 

TOO LOW BITCH.

 

You'd say that even if it was #2. That's what your OWN THREAD is for.

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The lazy groove of 'Thinkin Bout You', underscored by that slow, menacingly sad wobble of synths, is only the curtain for Ocean's overwhelming theatrics on channel ORANGE. The sexuality thing - that's incidental. It's a welcome move to dissolving stereotypical objectivity in r'n'b music, but it barely scratches the record, let alone breaks it. What channel ORANGE proves to be is a smooth, intoxicating glide through some exceptional grooves, guided by the silky vocals of Ocean and peaking, undeniably, with the glory of 'Pyramids', an indelibly constructed track that overlaps and winds various magical soundbites into an instant classic. But the remainder of the record is not cowed by the largess of their neighbouring track, taking different tones of humour, melancholy, confusion, cockiness and serenity. Ocean looks beyond the moment to the eternal, from the 'Pyramids' to the 'Pink Matter' of the universe.

 

essential track // Sweet Life

Have you even heard the rest of the artists I listed? THOUGHT SO. :/

 

Arcade Fire and Crystal Castles are alright. But they're not GOOD.

 

Channel Orange :wub:

But the remainder of the record is not cowed by the largess of their neighbouring track, taking different tones of humour, melancholy, confusion, cockiness and serenity. Ocean looks beyond the moment to the eternal, from the 'Pyramids' to the 'Pink Matter' of the universe.

 

essential track // Sweet Life

Pyramids definitely stands out amongst the more tender songs, which is what makes it work so well as an album.

 

Yes @ the Sweet Life loving, although Bad Religion is my favourite. That song does stuff to me :cry:

Arcade Fire and Crystal Castles are alright. But they're not GOOD.

 

Arcade Fire apathy is not permitted in threads started by me. Please vacate the area.

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The wait was long and arduous, although it must be said that almost half of the songs on Make Me Believe In Hope had surfaced far in advance of the album's release. That it still feels, then, like a cohesive experience is testament to Rod Thomas' superb sense of emotional musicality and his propensity for utterly gorgeous choruses. He's informed by his extensive knowledge and love of pop music, particularly the '90s r'n'b-tinged pop music that is evidenced on the euphoric backing vocals of 'Feel It'. The lyrics are the familiar love and heartbreak on the dancefloor, but the male voice, particularly one as soft and fluid as Thomas', reveals fresh dimensions to a universal conceit.

 

essential track //

Arcade Fire apathy is not permitted in threads started by me. Please vacate the area.

 

Sorry. I tried to get into Rebellion (Lies), but I never could. :(

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I was in Amanda Mair's presence just a few hours before she turned eighteen, as she played to a enraptured crowd somewhere in Hoxton, just a few buildings up the road from where she'd played a few months before, to a mostly apathetic crowd. Mair's audience blossomed as rapidly as she did. There's some magic in someone this young, with a voice that sounds this young, being able to pull off wistful, beautific lyrics such as the longing that makes up the sparse 'Skinnarviksberget'. The album is as dominated by the luxurious piano chords as it is by Mair's voice - the two forming a relaxing, melancholy duet that craft an album of delicate, rhythmic beauty, bolstered by orchestral flourishes that are uncommonly lush and tender for music of this generation. I recently bemoaned that this album was self-titled - a rarer sight this year - but it maintains the purity and focus of a new, prodigiously talented star.

 

essential track // Before

Soz. I'm EXPANDING your vocabulary. Not just a pretty face!

 

I'm envious of your CLARITY OF EXPRESSION is all. Don't mind me.

 

Can't really comment on albums because I've probably not listened to any of them but I look forward to your songs countdown woo.

What else is the swirling jingle of 'drops' if not a wicked twist on something like 'Jag ljuger så bra'?

!

 

God I TRIED with the Bright Light (x2) album but it was never much more than good for me overall, with the odd highlight here and there. I definitely prefer Channel Orange. Everything from Lost onwards is just POW POW BRILLIANCE

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I'm envious of your CLARITY OF EXPRESSION is all. Don't mind me.

 

Can't really comment on albums because I've probably not listened to any of them but I look forward to your songs countdown woo.

 

It's hardly clear if you can't understand it! Songs coming later today wooooo

 

!

 

God I TRIED with the Bright Light (x2) album but it was never much more than good for me overall, with the odd highlight here and there. I definitely prefer Channel Orange. Everything from Lost onwards is just POW POW BRILLIANCE

 

Thought you'd like that, although it's probably bollocks. JINGLE BELLS

 

For SHAME. Full of gay anthems and he's SO lovely. As I said, I did love half of it before the album even arrived, the remaining songs (except 'Feel It') weren't QUITE as good. And ER 'Pyramids' is before 'Lost' why did you start there

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Marina Diamandis protested that she plays four different characters throughout the unfolding of 'Electra Heart', each one ringing with a different aspect of her personality. But the truths Marina uncovers on Electra Heart - breathtakingly, an advance from her perceptive debut The Family Jewels - are ones that thread through everyone, and she captures them with her trademark melancholy wit. She's self-effacing and self-aggrandising almost at the same time, a maddening figure of inconsistency. But all this just increases the relatability of the record, particularly (it must be said) for the anguished dramatics of the tortured gays who are probably most of her fanbase. The self-hatred, the glorious theatrics, the desolate desires and the utter confusion - it might not be a recipe for chart success, but it results in an explosive, intimate, astoundingly alive record.

 

essential track //

 

 

 

Anyone sussed who's #1?

And ER 'Pyramids' is before 'Lost' why did you start there

 

Exactly. How could anyone not like Pyramids?!

 

Electra Heart?! :puke: You have hit the lowest of lows, David. :kink:

Everything from Lost onwards is just POW POW BRILLIANCE

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*from Thinkin Bout You onwards.

Oh, and I think that Thinkin Bout You is one of the most PERFECT songs ever. :wub: