this track is absolutely crushing. really enjoyed the EP last year so this album is already pretty high on my most anticipated list this year. love Boot & Saddle too so hopefully I'll be catching her live shortly after the release!
the second the piano started in earnest on The Brothers Williams Said I knew this one was going to be special. definitely my AOTY a whopping 18 days into the year.
No mention of The Innocence Mission anywhere in this thread. anyone else love it as much as me? I really didn't like their early stuff but I'm more of a fan with every passing album.
On the balance of my first listen of each (currently on my second for Mac):
The Innocence Mission > Mac Miller > Pinegrove > 070 Shake > The Professionals > Theophilus London (god awful, don't even consider it)
Bombay Bicycle Club, Chelsea Cutler and Eminem (morbid curiosity) on the docket for tomorrow. nice to have such a busy release week after the usual dreadful stretch from mid-December to mid-January. have a lovely weekend y'all!
I use to love The Maine in middle school so I'm gonna have to check this out. if this is genuinely good then I'm fully convinced this is going to be a god tier year for music.
seeing him do Insomniac live was one of the wildest moments I've ever experienced at a concert. whole crowd absolutely lost their shit, and I didn't get my voice back for like a week.
I refuse to broach the world of podcasts for this very reason. I listened to six new albums so far today, and I'd still like to get to two more (including this Em one, begrudgingly). I simply do not have the time to listen to podcasts AND be informed enough to argue with strangers on here.
EITS was the band that got me into purely instrumental stuff other than classical, and while I don't return to their stuff like I do This Will Destroy You, Mogwai or GY!BE, I still enjoy throwing on one of their records from time to time. Once I finish working through the 8 or 9 albums that dropped today I'm gonna give this a spin for sure.
really really lovely listen. Jon Brion did an excellent job seeing this through to the end. Nice to see a rapper's estate make sure a posthumous album was done right, unlike many recent contemporaries.
this rules. I'll be buying my tickets tomorrow, for sure. few things I love more than a festival where I don't care for or have already seen the headliners (Missy and Stevie being the exceptions this time) but would be interested in 75% of the shows below the fifth line. Dave and Khruangbin are two acts in particular that I've really been looking forward to seeing.
"Also, launching later this year, a robust new user experience will be sure to delight and infuriate Stereogum’s dedicated commentariat in equal measure" - to be fair, any given article (or for some, the lack thereof) seems to delight and infuriate us in equal measure. except this one, which should delight everyone!! congrats all!!!
I agree the iguana placement at five is suspicious. maybe a little payola on King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's part?
(this thread is a bad joke safe zone please don't downvote me)
a lot of rappers have been called Young Thugs disciples (or imitators, depending on how charitable you're feeling), but I feel Roddy is the only one who truly deserves that title - and to be clear, I think that's a good thing. Gunna and Lil Baby are way too one note to warrant the comparisons they always get, Lil Keed isn't there yet, etc, etc. Roddy does such fun, unexpected stuff with his voice on a ton of tracks throughout Antisocial (the hook on Perfect Time is probably my favorite example), and while he lacks the wild wordplay that Thug usually employs, there's reason to believe he could get there down the road. album was just meh but I really think he shows a lot of promise.
Lancaster fucking rules, man. lotta good bands in the area, shout out to the Chameleon Club for being the only respectable music venue within an hour of me growing up (also pour one out for the Croc Rock in Allentown, one of the only other decent venues in my vicinity).
I've loved Mick since The Water(s) but unfortunately, for me, he has yet to put together a really great album - starting to pigeonhole himself as a features/singles guy, as far as I'm concerned. here's hoping this is the one where he puts it all together!
I've been on this site long enough to know this is either a good friend of yours or your second account, my g. either way, please try not to take comments online so personally you either call in reinforcements/your alter ego to try and seem "right". have a lovely Sunday!
perhaps you're getting downvoted for unfairly maligning a website's staff - one that was forced to layoff beloved contributors just a few months back - because they don't post enough about an artist that you like. just a thought!
every single album you mentioned was slept on to some degree - Brockhampton in particular I feel got a rather tepid reception for what I think might be their best body of work (and that's coming from a huge Saturation stan). if it weren't for a few duds towards the end it might have been #1 for me.
I knew all the words to Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too when I was in first grade. as you can imagine, my parents were not pleased with my older brother. anyway, saw Say Anything six times and met Max twice, one of the sweetest artists around - wish him nothing but the best.
yeah he has thus far completely avoided the post-popularity slump that similarly huge producers have gone through. he picks his projects really well and is great at working to an artist's strengths rather than simply providing a signature sound. Maria and Disco Shit off Netflix & Deal were excellent, think it clocked in around 40 overall for my rap projects this year.
he gave us an album title way back in July, and I think you're right that the snippets were leaking around August. I was holding out hope it would release this year but I'd bet on February/March of 2020 at this point. The Sun's Tirade is one of my favorite rap albums of the decade so I'm eagerly awaiting whatever he's got for us.
1. Bandana - Madgibbs
2. Hiding Places - billy woods & Kenny Segal
3. GINGER - Brockhampton
4. Psychodrama - Dave
5. AMHAC - JPEGMAFIA
6. There Existed an Addiction to Blood - clipping.
7. Guns - Quelle Chris
8. Brandon Banks - Maxo Kream
9. New Sauce City - Sauce Walka
10 (unfortunately) Diaspora - Goldlink
Fever at 8 is still wild to me but we all have our preferences, I suppose. no 10s in rap this year for me and probably only two 9s - here's hoping for a better year next year (if we don't get new Isaiah Rashad I'm rioting)
one of my go-to "just got handed the aux cord" tracks is The Last Huzzah remix. every single verse absolutely rules. never have I related to a line more in a rap song than "I've got three shirts and they all look expensive".
"The song is a benefit for Hoodies For The Homeless, a nonprofit that aims to help homeless people listen to it below." incredibly specific nonprofit but I too agree that more people need to be watching the videos at the bottom of articles, homeless or otherwise
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