#41

Not even the best Kendrick album of the decade m6!

(bants obviously, it’s probably the best and most important record of the last 10 years but I still prefer GKMC)

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#42

Order TBD and obvs potential for a late 2k19 entry but…

Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
Everything Everything - Fever Dream
Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour
Eleven Tigers - Clouds Are Mountains
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
Bvdub - Serenity
Everything Everything - Arc (yeah yeah I know)
Hotel Neon - Context

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#43

Entirely reasonable. I don’t feel it should be included in the final chart, certainly. I do feel that it would be emotionally dishonest for me not to admit the impact the record had on me at the time though, even if it is now uncomfortable to admit / listen to.

Certainly don’t want to derail this discussion though and happy to delete the post of there is a risk of that happening.

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#44

I really should listen to Everything Everything!

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#45

Thing is, I admire TPAB a great deal, but enjoy listening to GKMC more. I do enjoy TPAB (should probably add it toy list actually), but in terms of emotional response, GKMC generates more for me.

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#46

They’re… fine

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#47

Plus GKMC has Money Trees.

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#48

To pimp a butterfly or e-mo-tion

#49
  1. Kendrick - To Pimp A Butterfly
  2. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel/POP 2
  3. Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  4. Sufjan - Carrie & Lowell
  5. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
  6. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
  7. Taylor Swift - 1989
  8. Björk - Vulnicura
  9. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
  10. Beyoncè - Beyoncè
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#50

And Swimming Pools, and the two title tracks, and the Art of Peer Pressure, and Sing About Me…

It’s all wonderful.

#51

Just realised m b v came out in 2013.

#52

do you have a connection to the band or just really like them (or both obv)?

was expecting your list to be specialist electronic masterpieces - although I don’t know a fair few of them so maybe they are.

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#53

here’s my longlist (over 200 records!) which I started at the end of last year for anyone interested. As we’re now in the last twentieth of the decade I’ll start whittling these down soon:

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#54

Is that one track from each of your favourite albums?
Good idea - I might do that.

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#55

yup, exactly. Some are there more because that particular song is a banger rather than the inclusion of the whole album, but then it gives me a prompt to remind myself of said record while I work through this.

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#56

Not mentioned yet:

Tierra Whack - Whack World
Robyn - Body Talk
Rolo Tomassi - Astraea
Big Thief - Capacity
Rosalia - El Mal Querer
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
Bjork - Utopia

#57

No personal connection. Their music just moves me emotionally and makes me want to dance at the same time in a way that is truly rare (Let’s Eat Grandma did something similar). They’ve made alt-pop bangers about the complexities of young folks being tempted to join IS, they’ve got crowds singing along to explicitly anti-Trump, anti-Farage songs…

The singer has a bit of a marmite voice (which I love obvs) and an amazing knack for fun turns of phrase and lyrics which just feel good to sing along to - like I’d never considered the mouth-feel of lyrics before but he’s a master of that nebulous concept.

They hold a special place in my heart as one of the few bands the TV also likes (she’s pretty ambivalent about most music). Great headphone listen, perfect car music, and sooooo much fun live.

The Everythings are hugely influenced by weird electronica which I think is part of why they appeal to me so much. They did a spotify playlist of track-by-track influences for their last album which was full of weird IDM.

In terms of my list, while I spend 90% of my time with weird electronica, it tends to be lyrics which are really going to hit me emotionally which skews lists like this and are more likely to become associated with a specific time or place which elevates them.

Even that bvdub album, which was already in my top 10 of the decade, has taken on a whole new meaning because our baby falls to sleep to it like magic.

Hotel Neon is ambient, Eleven Tigers is a post-dubstep masterpiece, Shackleton is… Shackleton. Utterly unique rhythmic genius. And bvdub is synths to drown in.

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#58

Thanks - brilliant post, really appreciated. Will be exploiting your knowledge and checking these all out.

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#59

Funny that Blonde wasn’t even my album of that year and now it’s likely to end up as my album of the decade - shows how these things take time!

Hope we’re doing a proper count at some point later on too

#60

Blonde properly grew on me too, easily a top 25 of the decade now but didn’t make my top 25 of that year.

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