Best Ever Albums

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Skinny — Sat, 6 Apr 2019 18:56:30 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/06/2019 22:56

baystateoftheart wrote:

Wow, an all-Skinny divisional final! Congrats on having the music taste that appeals to the largest number of BEA voters 😉

In all seriousness, both Spells and If You Know You Know are great choices that fully deserve the acclaim.

I'm voting 'Spells'.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

baystateoftheart — Sat, 6 Apr 2019 16:16:39 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/06/2019 20:16

Wow, an all-Skinny divisional final! Congrats on having the music taste that appeals to the largest number of BEA voters 😉

In all seriousness, both Spells and If You Know You Know are great choices that fully deserve the acclaim.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Jimmy Dread — Sat, 6 Apr 2019 16:01:29 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 04/06/2019 20:01

I pull a spells on you.

Jenny wins 11-10

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

baystateoftheart — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:37:04 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/05/2019 22:37

Nobody:
Mitski: ♪ nOBoDy ♪

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

baystateoftheart — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:34:41 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/05/2019 22:34

Gowi wrote:

Link

Good song, but not sure if it's indie pop exactly.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

baystateoftheart — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:32:18 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/05/2019 22:32

Jimmy Dread wrote:

Ooh I think I could do better than that..

Essential listening. I love that song and The Field Mice. I just happen to slightly prefer Nobody.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

mickilennial — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:23:10 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 04/05/2019 22:23

Jimmy Dread wrote:

Ooh I think I could do better than that..

Link

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Jimmy Dread — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:05:42 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 04/05/2019 22:05

baystateoftheart wrote:

Best Ever Indie Pop Song About Loneliness

Ooh I think I could do better than that..

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

baystateoftheart — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 17:45:10 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/05/2019 21:45

If we're now re-upping commentary from the hidden depths of the previous page, I might as well reiterate this from the last round:

baystateoftheart wrote:

To give some more context on what I think it does really well, here are some other track tournaments I probably would have nominated Nobody for, in addition to BTT 2018:

- Best Ever Indie Pop Song About Loneliness
- Best Ever Integration Of Disco Influence Into Indie Pop
- Best Ever Emotionally Expressive One-Word Chorus
- Best Ever "Why Am I Crying In The Club Right Now" Song

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Skinny — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 17:10:56 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/05/2019 21:10

Just to reiterate...

Skinny wrote:

I love Hval's free-associative approach to pop on 'Spells', with its swirling, subtly dissonant saxophones floating in and out of its disco-tinged, anthemic '80s pop-rock like licks of smoke, while her glorious voice rises into that beautiful apocalypse of a chorus. Every (solo) release of hers features one pop banger, a song that pushes her otherwise experimental, ominous, sex-positive, quasi-ambient spoken word into Fleetwood Mac- and Sade- and Kate Bush-shaped boxes, and this is her best yet, a cathartic release that feels like the glorious final stage of a trilogy that began with 'The Battle Is Over' and continued into 'Conceptual Romance'. She makes music that is at once dizzyingly dense and yet refreshingly airy, music that is both exhaustingly heavy and yet blessed with an always natural, always playful lightness of touch. I know it's an easy and lazy comparison, but on 'Spells' she recalls the best moments of fellow Scandinavians Robyn and Björk, crafting a slice of pop music that is unafraid of tackling the micro and the macro, hyper-personal music that is full of huge, universal ideas, and that manages to be catchy and immediate without any hint of compromise. She is one of the most beguiling artists working today, and 'Spells' is her finest achievement to date, the most natural synthesis of her pure pop and more avant-garde leanings yet. I'm generally of the opinion that she can do no wrong, but even I didn't know she could be so right. So yeah, vote to 'Spells', a raging river of a song, a rhino-shaped cloud of a song, an Elven banquet of a song, an ascending unicorn of a song, an exploding disco ball of a song. We will not be awake for long.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Skinny — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 17:06:11 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/05/2019 21:06

Gowi wrote:

ngh... love both, so this is a tough one

Not gonna hate?

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

mickilennial — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 14:48:03 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 04/05/2019 18:48

ngh... love both, so this is a tough one

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Jimmy Dread — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 12:40:24 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 04/05/2019 16:40

Poll closes tomorrow... it’s a close one...

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

dihansse — Wed, 3 Apr 2019 15:29:35 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 04/03/2019 19:29

and it's close call....

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

dihansse — Wed, 3 Apr 2019 15:28:39 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 04/03/2019 19:28

Both songs are surprisingly good but I vote for Nobody.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

travelful — Tue, 2 Apr 2019 16:01:24 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 04/02/2019 20:01

baystateoftheart wrote:

Seems like there's a post like this from someone on almost every matchup that ends up being close. It ain't over till it's over. That's why my philosophy is always to vote based on my preference, however narrow that preference is, and avoid voting for perceived underdogs based on their status as such.

very true. here we are at a tie match. It was 5-1 when I voted 🤣

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

baystateoftheart — Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:53:10 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/02/2019 18:53

travelful wrote:

really surprised at these results so far, I was under the impression Spells was loved enough to likely make the finals. Well..it got my vote.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Skinny — Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:10:53 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/02/2019 18:10

I love Hval's free-associative approach to pop on 'Spells', with its swirling, subtly dissonant saxophones floating in and out of its disco-tinged, anthemic '80s pop-rock like licks of smoke, while her glorious voice rises into that beautiful apocalypse of a chorus. Every (solo) release of hers features one pop banger, a song that pushes her otherwise experimental, ominous, sex-positive, quasi-ambient spoken word into Fleetwood Mac- and Sade- and Kate Bush-shaped boxes, and this is her best yet, a cathartic release that feels like the glorious final stage of a trilogy that began with 'The Battle Is Over' and continued into 'Conceptual Romance'. She makes music that is at once dizzyingly dense and yet refreshingly airy, music that is both exhaustingly heavy and yet blessed with an always natural, always playful lightness of touch. I know it's an easy and lazy comparison, but on 'Spells' she recalls the best moments of fellow Scandinavians Robyn and Björk, crafting a slice of pop music that is unafraid of tackling the micro and the macro, hyper-personal music that is full of huge, universal ideas, and that manages to be catchy and immediate without any hint of compromise. She is one of the most beguiling artists working today, and 'Spells' is her finest achievement to date, the most natural synthesis of her pure pop and more avant-garde leanings yet. I'm generally of the opinion that she can do no wrong, but even I didn't know she could be so right. So yeah, vote to 'Spells', a raging river of a song, a rhino-shaped cloud of a song, and Elven banquet of a song, an ascending unicorn of a song, an exploding disco ball of a song. We will not be awake for long.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Fischman — Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:30:19 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 04/02/2019 16:30

This was one of the tougher matchups for me in the tourney. Both songs are rather captivating. In the end, I decided Nobody was a little more so.

Re: 2018 BTT RD4 - Nobody vs Spells

Repo — Tue, 2 Apr 2019 08:57:57 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 04/02/2019 12:57

Hval.