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Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:04 pm
by casecandy
D.o.S. wrote:casecandy wrote:DarkAxel wrote:the new Chelsea Wolfe is bangin
+1, her whole discography is really good.
At the risk of sounding like a noob, two vaguely controversial statements:
a) Chelsea was a gateway artist for me; I didn't get into older industrial folk like Current 93, Sol Invictus, Nurse With Wound, until after I heard similar music by Chelsea and looked into it
b) I think Chelsea makes better music than any of those artists
You're a pleb, etc.
And yet I'm an
honest pleb.
Hey look, Anton Newcombe tweeted me
So make that an honest, PEDANTIC pleb. BJM has spoken
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:07 pm
by D.o.S.
I called you pedantic first. I am staking my claim.
New BJM record (which I think is anton solo) is fucking fantastic too, btw.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:20 pm
by casecandy
D.o.S. wrote:I called you pedantic first. I am staking my claim.
New BJM record (which I think is anton solo) is fucking fantastic too, btw.
+1 to both these statements, particularly the second one. Love it.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:10 pm
by casecandy
Anyway, it's been another five pages, so I updated my little running list of records in 2015 and what I think of them. After repeated listens, some albums moved around. And, based on comments from neonblack, I dialed back the pretentious ratings system; new one is more streamlined and simple. Oh, and I linked to reviews on my blog where applicable. Huzzah!
I'm on the fence with Titus Andronicus and Bell Witch. Those records are really, really fucking good. Might bump up as time passes.
THE LIST (WORK IN PROGRESS)
★★★★★
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
★★★★
Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Musique de Film Imaginé
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Death Grips - The Powers That B
Desaparecidos - Payola
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
The Milk Carton Kids - Monterey
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
★★★
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Björk - Vulnicura
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
★★
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Refused - Freedom
★
Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind
HAVEN'T HEARD YET, BUT INTERESTED
High On Fire - Luminiferous
Dan Mangan - Club Meds
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - After
Monolord - Vænir
Mount Eerie - Sauna
Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues
The Sonics - This Is The Sonics
Stornoway - Bonxie
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
Baptists - Baptists III (TBD)
The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven (09/24/15)
★★★★★
Perfect. Succeeds artistically while being thoroughly enjoyable. Everybody ought to seek these out.
★★★★
Really good! For certain people and scenes, these are gonna be big.
★★★
Pretty good. Some really incredible songs, but only okay, taken as an album.
★★
There could be a few great singles on there, but as an album, it fails to impress.
★
A complete failure. It's not enjoyable at all and it has dubious artistic merit. In short, it sucks.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:33 pm
by SPACERITUAL
casecandy wrote:
a) Chelsea was a gateway artist for me; I didn't get into older industrial folk like Current 93, Sol Invictus, Nurse With Wound, until after I heard similar music by Chelsea and looked into it
b) I think Chelsea makes better music than any of those artists
EDIT:
What is nurse with wound even doing on this list? Were they referenced in a pitchfork article about David Tibet or something? Do you even listen to music?
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:43 pm
by Derelict78
Industrial folk?
How are any on these ( other than maybe NWW) industrial at all?
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:49 pm
by daseb
witch house reverb lady will never make anything as wonderfully depressing as 'the seahorse rears to oblivion'.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:52 pm
by D.o.S.
Probs not. I tried to get into Chelsea Wolfe for a while when she first started to get recommended on here in that big ass thread we had, but it was never really my bag.
Those bands are certainly made up of industrious people. That's about as close as I can come to condoning 'industrial folk'
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:07 pm
by daseb
Yeah chelsea wolfe seems like something I should like, considering what she does is a mash up of a lot of other things I love. Never been able to get through more than a couple songs without being bored though.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:13 pm
by D.o.S.
Precisely.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:28 pm
by SPACERITUAL
I had this conversation with justin the other day and we both concluded that CW is just a spooky lana del ray.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:29 pm
by SPACERITUAL
Like if lana del ray was really into donnie darko or something.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:47 pm
by D.o.S.
That's true but dude totally stood me up when I texted him to go see Neurosis on Saturday though so I'm salty as fuck. You know what the ratio of dapper ass clothing to metal vests was? It was none, because Herr Jfrey was not able to attend. Just me and the Vest Bros. And a lot of really cool folks, too.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:48 pm
by neonblack
That new album though. Those Mike Sullivan guitars though.
Re: Be(a)st of 2015
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:02 pm
by SPACERITUAL
D.o.S. wrote:That's true but dude totally stood me up when I texted him to go see Neurosis on Saturday though so I'm salty as fuck. You know what the ratio of dapper ass clothing to metal vests was? It was none, because Herr Jfrey was not able to attend. Just me and the Vest Bros. And a lot of really cool folks, too.
He arrived in charlotte with like louis vuitton steamer trunks full of suits and hatboxes and little engraved silver monocle holders and shit.