It’s absolutely gut wrenching isn’t it - a work of art.
Fight me. nah don’t obvs
I feel like it’s an album where pretty much ever note is in the right place, and On Battleship Hill is the highpoint of that. Just love how the whole album manages to be really direct about the ravages of war in general without being clumsily “war=bad”. Can understand why you might not like it, though, I guess. Each to their own.
It doesn’t help that her voice goes straight through me, then you have the wailing at the start of England and I can’t make it past that.
Yeah that’s fair enough
Would love a list…
Here’s some stuff I liked from last year. I love pretty much anything that Ka and Armand Hammer do (billy woods and ELUCID).
Nice one! Will work my way through these. Gotta love this place!
Ditto. Gonna have a dig through that list myself - I like everything I’ve already heard on it.
Brilliant brilliant record.
“Roam the streets, not known for peace Never rest, forever quest, Golden Fleece”
Had that track on a lot the past couple of weeks. Great album.
I haven’t listened to any other Ka stuff other than that and Honour Killed the Samurai. Really need to dig deeper, he has such a brilliant sense of pose and focus to his flow.
These five are in my top 10, along with (probably controversially): Relatives in Descent No Cities to Love Here and Nowhere Else Home, Like No Place is There Slowdive
Night Time, My Time and Be the Cowboy would be close too.
I’m really shit at remembering when something has come out so i’m awful at this kinda thing,
but Thou - Heathen is a definite contender here.
Listening to Have You in my Wilderness for the first time in ages.
What an album. Love everything about it
Remember being so amazed and thrilled at the Brighton show the week it came out that I purchased a vinyl copy for the band to sign (a) even though I didn’t own a vinyl player (b) the double bassist wasn’t even the player on the album. They were lovely to talk to.
Babbled on at my partner about that show for weeks
Relistening to LP1 for the first time in ages. Two weeks is such an earth shakingly massive banger innit
Whatever the collective noun for great shouts is, that’s a ________ of them.
I believe that would be a thunder of great shouts.
Great piece by Simon Reynolds about how/why the critical consensus around Albums Of The Year went AWOL in the 2000-2009 decade. I can’t believe this is nearly 10 years old, as it’s the first thing that pops to mind when there’s any discussion of how/why the net has made things go all to cock in respect of agreeing on musical things.
It’s a really good summation of the issues isn’t it.
Maybe it’s just looking at this thread but I can imagine there might end up being quite a lot of consensus around a top 10 of this decade but essentially very little commonality between different lists beyond that.
The Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme
