#227

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.

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#228

Listening to Have You in my Wilderness for the first time in ages.

What an album. Love everything about it

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#229

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

#230

Relistening to LP1 for the first time in ages. Two weeks is such an earth shakingly massive banger innit

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#231

Whatever the collective noun for great shouts is, that’s a ________ of them.

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#232

I believe that would be a thunder of great shouts.

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#233

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.

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#234

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.

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#235

The Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme

#236

I believe someone called it the death of subculture and I’m not smart enough to really be dialed into whether that’s true or not but it sort of makes sense.

Indie kids aren’t exactly gonna latch on to Imagine Dragons like they would have to Blur or The Cure or whatever back in the day.

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#237

I’m not sure that particular example has anything to do with the decline in genre tribalism

#238

People can access way more music than they could so rather than people latching onto something that nearly ticks all their boxes they can find a record that does tick all their boxes. People also less likely to stick to one or two records for a significant amount of time exclusively due to the amount of music available at their fingertips. Subculture isn’t dead its just harder to pigeon hole bands and people into specifics.

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#239

A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Both Albums but especially Atomos.

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#240

Current top 20:

  1. Kendrick Lamar — good kid m.A.A.d city
  2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  3. Joanna Newsom — Have One on Me
  4. Ian William Craig — Centres
  5. Shackleton — Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs
  6. Destroyer — Kaputt
  7. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Bird, Lake, Objects
  8. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp a Butterfly
  9. Noname — Telefone
  10. Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
  11. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
  12. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
  13. FKA twigs — LP1
  14. Tim Hecker — Virgins
  15. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
  16. Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
  17. Lets Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
  18. Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Re:ECM
  19. Joanna Newsom — Divers
  20. Dominik Eulberg — Diorama
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#241
  1. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
  2. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
  3. Objekt — Cocoon Crush
  4. Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
  5. Arca — Arca
  6. Angel Olsen — My Woman
  7. Jlin — Dark Energy
  8. Nicolas Jaar — Space Is Only Noise
  9. Daniel Avery — Drone Logic
  10. Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
  11. Stephan Bodzin — Powers of Ten
  12. Grizzly Bear — Shields
  13. King Creosote/Jon Hopkins — Diamond Mine
  14. Car Seat Headrest — Teens Of Denial
  15. Fennesz — Bécs
  16. Young Fathers — White Men Are Black Men Too
  17. Todd Terje — It’s Album Time
  18. Songhoy Blues — Music in Exile
  19. DJ Python — Dulce Compañia
  20. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Luminaries & Synastry
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#242

If I’m being completely honest with myself then I’d make a top 10 comprising of just Self Defense Family, Parquet Courts and Protomartyr, as I believe these to be the three bands who have connected with me the most over the decade (and also hey also guitar music isn’t dead!)

If I’m being more objective and considering the records that really impacted the decade for me and for music generally, then yeah @mroc has nailed it with these three tbh:

I started working on my list at the back end of last year, I’ve already got over 200 records to sort through here, although admittedly some are EPs or for particularly great tracks I’ve loved over the decade:

#243

Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
Vessels - Dilate
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
The Lucid Dream - Compulsion Songs
Anna Von Hauswollf - Dead Magic
Lower Dens - Notropics

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#244

For me this decade has been about finding electronic acts who connected with what I always wanted from them, from a bleak point of view so;

Andy Stott
Demdike Stare
Raime
haxan cloak

I bloody love it.

And also all of Swans and Protomatyr.

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#245

This is great. Cheers for the heads up

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#246

Mew - Visions is my #1 so far