Best Ever Albums

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

baystateoftheart — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:07:59 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 07/29/2019 00:07

Crave defeats The Drought 9-5 and advances to round one.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

baystateoftheart — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:15:13 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 07/26/2019 22:15

This match has two fewer votes than all the others. Two interesting albums - what are you waiting for? 😁

Remember, they all close Sunday at 7 Eastern Time unless someone requests an extension.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

baystateoftheart — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:33:49 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 07/23/2019 01:33

Two albums that I liked a lot more than I expected (especially Puce Mary). Engaging listens throughout with interesting blends of sounds. Crave gets the edge, but both will end up on my 2018 honorable mentions chart for now. I agree with CGD that Crave is foremost an art pop album, and agree with Tilly that there are significant darkwave and synthpop influences. Somehow I am the first person out of 13 on RYM to rate it at least 3.5/5, while The Drought is in the top 100 for 2018.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

RoundTheBend — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:56:10 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 07/21/2019 20:56

CryingGameDahlin wrote:

Gonna go with Pernet, I've liked what I've heard from Puce Mary but this again isn't creepy or violet or at least varied enough to be artistically successful, but still a nice sound regardless. Pernet is just effectively low-key, not quite unsettingy but definitely off-kilter (if melodic) late-night, through-the-headphones art pop, and is the more engaging listen.

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Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

cestuneblague — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:34:47 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 07/21/2019 20:34

Gonna go with Pernet, I've liked what I've heard from Puce Mary but this again isn't creepy or violet or at least varied enough to be artistically successful, but still a nice sound regardless. Pernet is just effectively low-key, not quite unsettingy but definitely off-kilter (if melodic) late-night, through-the-headphones art pop, and is the more engaging listen.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Repo — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:12:15 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 07/20/2019 15:12

Leonie Pernet reminds me of The Cranes from the early 90s who I loved.

(still deciding)

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

dihansse — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:01:42 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 07/17/2019 20:01

Both albums are in their way very creepy but Puce Mary wasn't able to hold my attention neither on an intellectual level as on an emotional level so this was going to be a no no whatever the other album was.
And I thought I wouldn't like the Leonie Pernet album at first view but I had to change my view big time. This is an incredibly atmospheric album which changes moods even within the songs (just listen to the title track) and while it still has a feeling of the better French pop, it has all kinds of other elements in it which are blended in the greatest way. This is for me the clear winner of the two and I hope it doesn't stop here for it.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Repo — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:36:58 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 07/17/2019 13:36

Both create great dark atmospheres that I really enjoy. Will be a tough one.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Fischman — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:48:08 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 07/15/2019 20:48

Two very interesting albums, but neither as interesting as they might be from an analysis point of view, neither one grabbed me big time. That said, it did enjoy the rather dystopian future sci-fi soundtrack vibe of the Puce Mary, so it got my vote by a nose.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

craola — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:19:03 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 07/15/2019 19:19

i went leonie pernet as well. puce mary is nice in a style-over-substance way, but ultimately, i won't remember this record past this tournament. the leonie pernet album is pretty great, and i could see it being a bit of a grower as well.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

guzguzgarbit — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:03:20 GMT

Author: guzguzgarbit

Posted: 07/15/2019 18:03

This is a tough match-up for me... I really like Puce Mary, I have one of her albums in my chart. And The Drought is probably one of her best.
I'm still going with Léonie Pernet though. It's not a perfect record, but there is a great atmosphere I think. And it contains the greatest concentration of good tracks and ideas I've seen this year.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

craola — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:40:01 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 07/15/2019 16:40

RoundTheBend wrote:

I used Smash Mouth's All Star and Walking On The Sun to be my palate cleansers to properly get this tournament started...

that's actually pretty brilliant.

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Tha1ChiefRocka — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:43:51 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 07/15/2019 15:43

Guzguz, your album is pretty cool, and I dug some of the tracks and atmosphere, but I kind of have to vote for myself. 😁

And I like mine better too. 😎

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

RoundTheBend — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:28:15 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 07/15/2019 04:28

I used Smash Mouth's All Star and Walking On The Sun to be my palate cleansers to properly get this tournament started... 🤣

Puce Mary: Really liked the textures here. I did feel like I was playing a creepy video game or watching a scary movie most the time (like one that actually was creepy and scary). While clearly good, I didn't have any inclination to want to spin this record again as it emotionally or mentally did very little to me other than see images of things I wish I didn't. Was looking for some Danish stuff I could get into given my family history, but unfortunately didn't. I got in a deep state of being mentally disturbed instead. Textures are fantastic though, so I can see why this was nominated. 75

Léonie Pernet: This had a tinge of Sylvan Esso to it (from my perspective). I really dug the instrumentation here and how about halfway through the album it slowly twisted to a whole new world. There were moments that appeared a bit more what I'll call amateur songwriting, but overall it was pretty solid. 80

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Repo — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:24:29 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 07/15/2019 04:24

Hayden wrote:

Quote:

Genres [RYM]: no genre votes yet

I'd go with avant-pop, but that's not really a genre. Verges rock/IDM/ambient/shoegaze at times too.

Being said, an initial listen didn't particularly click with me. Might give it another shot tomorrow along with the Puce Mary (which I'm familiar with but simply haven't heard anything off of).

Sounds like synth pop/darkwave to me. Pretty good too!

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Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Hayden — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:27:41 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 07/15/2019 03:27

Quote:

Genres [RYM]: no genre votes yet

Re: Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

Luigii — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:19:41 GMT

Author: Luigii

Posted: 07/15/2019 03:19

Smell that? Smells like a tournament.

With 1/5 of the play ins done, I will say that I do enjoy both albums real well. But there has to be a winner from me. Now I could argue that Crave does appeal to my taste for being inspired by synthwave and downtempo (unless guzguzgarbit wants to correct me). And these songs do bloom into some chilled and intoxicating songs. But if there was a complaint for this album, it just comes down for a few of these songs can feel a bit long winded in there design.
Grade:90

Which leaves The Drought to be the winner of this round. Now, like Chief, I don't expect this to win since this album is quite abstract and can get noisy in it's sound design. Hell I could see some arguments where some people just don't get it. But to me, I love this. Not only is the sound design is spellbinding but also quite captivating. It sounds horrifying as well as mind morphing. Now, if there was a complaint for this album, it would be how for me at least where how the songs end. I wish Puce Mary was able to make some of these songs have a satisfying finish. Otherwise, this is one of my personal favorites for 2018 and could be in my top 20 for 2018 whenever I get to that list.
Grade:95

Play-In: Puce Mary v. Léonie Pernet

baystateoftheart — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:34:50 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 07/14/2019 22:34

Seed #29A:

The Drought by Puce Mary

Nominated by: Tha1ChiefRocka
Genres [RYM]: Death Industrial

Seed #29B:

Crave by Léonie Pernet

Nominated by: guzguzgarbit
Genres [RYM]: no genre votes yet

Instructions:

If you have not already, please listen to both albums in full before voting. Share your thoughts and/or your vote in this thread. This poll will be tallied in no fewer than fourteen days. See Tournament Spreadsheet for the full bracket.