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Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Hayden — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 09:43:24 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 04/20/2019 13:43

Them initials.

RIP Sons.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

cestuneblague — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 04:54:01 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 04/20/2019 08:54

Hval-Holter runoff to be posted on Monday

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

baystateoftheart — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:41:54 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/19/2019 02:41

Unless Spells picks up 3+ unanswered votes or Words I Heard picks up 4+, we're headed to a runoff.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Hayden — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:04:08 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 04/18/2019 14:04

Went with Julia in the end.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

baystateoftheart — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:28:47 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/17/2019 23:28

baystateoftheart wrote:

Julia Holter is rightfully one of the most acclaimed active musicians, while Jenny Hval remains painfully underrated (she still doesn't have a bolded release on RYM or an album in the top 2500 on BEA). For me, this is an excruciating choice between two stellar tracks (though SoK is far from shabby).

When two songs under consideration are this excellent, it becomes about nitpicking, and the ever-so-slight cheesiness of the saxophone part in Spells has finally tipped my vote to Words I Heard.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

revolver94 — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:46:16 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 04/17/2019 04:46

Skinny wrote:

anothergreenworld2

dang brings me back : ' )

(spells)

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

RoundTheBend — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:33:06 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 04/17/2019 04:33

I must be still using Facebook... haha (nope)... but that JENNY HVAL track just doesn't jive with me... at all. I feel like I'm lost when I listen to it, as unique as it is (I guess... idk, I just feel like some random Ableton beep bops were used over a bland chord structure and the rhythm was dreadful)... I guess I suck at life.

I went with Words to give a chance to snub out Spells, but could've gone to either of the two first tracks - solid for sure.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

RoundTheBend — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:58:46 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 04/17/2019 02:58

CryingGameDahlin wrote:

I think we need a public apology for this

🤣

I still can't believe that happened.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:24:56 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/17/2019 01:24

Words I Spells by Julia Hval

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

dihansse — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:52:01 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 04/16/2019 19:52

All three have gradually grown on me and now I like them all very much so it's very difficult to make a choice.
But I think I'm gonna choose for the least likely when I started this: Jenny Hval.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:32:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/16/2019 18:32

Spells is the coolest, Tubman the most original and Words the most beautiful. I voted Words, but then again I'm obviously biased 😕

Can't complain about the final-all these tracks are amongst 2018s best songs for me. I'd never heard Spells before this contest and never realised how much I like the Sons track before so they've been good finds. To give Julia a bit of support here (though she hardly needed it in this tournament) I feel like she is the artist we are most likely to look back on in 10 years time as having created something really striking and significant in 2018.

That said, any of these tracks would be worthy winners.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

cestuneblague — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:41:11 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 04/16/2019 17:41

Skinny wrote:

Probably should've clarified that I wrote that comment with tongue firmly in cheek, and that it's actually been very pleasantly surprising to see songs that I love get so far in a tournament stacked with great choices.

I think we need a public apology for this

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

travelful — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:44:20 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 04/16/2019 15:44

Spells gets my vote.

Not too shabby of a final.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Repo — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:03:08 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 04/16/2019 15:03

Totally & deservedly Spells. Perhaps my fave from the whole thing.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Skinny — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:59:13 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/16/2019 14:59

baystateoftheart wrote:

:roll: 🙄 :roll:

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

baystateoftheart — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:56:20 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/16/2019 14:56

Skinny wrote:

And thanks to anothergreenworld2 for running a successful tournament that rightly saw my superior taste in music validated and even championed by lesser mortals, regardless of the outcome. Still, 'Roaches' should've won.

🙄 🙄 🙄

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Skinny — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:41:08 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/16/2019 14:41

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, 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: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

baystateoftheart — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:59:56 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/16/2019 03:59

Hayden wrote:

Can possibly see Hval/Holter splitting the vote and Sons of Kemet coming out on top...

That won't happen, because CGD decided to go with a runoff if the leader is under 51%.

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

Hayden — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:56:13 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 04/16/2019 03:56

Haven't a clue who to vote for, haven't a clue who will win. It's a great finals, but it's a little odd 🤣

Can possibly see Hval/Holter splitting the vote and Sons of Kemet coming out on top...

Re: Close2018 BTT GRAND FINALE! Holter-Kemet-Hval menage a trois

baystateoftheart — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:01:57 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/16/2019 03:01

Julia Holter is rightfully one of the most acclaimed active musicians, while Jenny Hval remains painfully underrated (she still doesn't have a bolded release on RYM or an album in the top 2500 on BEA). For me, this is an excruciating choice between two stellar tracks (though SoK is far from shabby). Will have to marinate on this for a minute.

(real heads know)