Wow both of these will be on my chart when i get around to doing another update.
Yay! Thanks. I was thinking about adding them myself, but I'm fighting off a streak of laziness at the moment and losing terribly. _________________ follow me on the bandcamp.
I find that people who think there isn't enough good new music coming out tend not to listen to enough new music.
meh. I've only listened to somewhere around 60/70 albums from this year so far, but I don't think there's one that floored me, and there's usually a handful or two for me each year. Still need to listen to Fatima and CLPPNG, among many others. lehtal just rec'd me something on my chart that I'll probs like; maybe that'll be my aoty.
This year has been slow from my perspective too. Right now only three of my top ten favorite solo singers have new albums coming, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, and Hal Ketchum (Its been six years since his last album). One of my favorite female singers LeAnn Rimes did just now release a dance album on the day before yesterday, but all of the songs on it are from her previous albums only they have been redone so that they can be danced to. My favorite duo, Brooks & Dunn, went their separate ways a few years ago, I haven't seen anything new lately on my favorite trio, SheDaisy, and even though a live album from my favorite band, Diamond Rio, is supposed to be in stores at some point, its been almost five years now since a new album from them was released.
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I think this year has a higher average of 4 stars+ records than some of the past ones so far, so I have to go with the "it's just you" sentiment as well. I really really like most of what I put up in my top 30-50 of the 100 and the other half is damn stellar too.
Last year had a ton of hyped blockbuster albums. Justin Timberlake, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Daft Punk, Kanye West... There was a lot of buzz around those albums last year, and there is something magical about well known musicians putting out stellar work in their prime. I'm not seeing a lot of that this year, can't really think of a blockbuster type album that's gotten a lot of critical praise.
That said, I think there are just as many stellar albums out so far this year, they're just further below the radar than normal. Garage rock in particular has been off the charts so far. Some of favorites:
I've checked out a random track or two from Ought, and filed it away for closer listening. Trophy Scars was completely off my radar, so I look forward to listening to both. Thanks!
I got that impression initially, but tbh I think that's just how pretty much all new years seem. 2011, 2012, and 2013 all seemed pretty lousy to me at first, too. If I had to guess why, it's because we've already had generations of music listeners to pick out the best stuff from past eras. That's not to say there isn't great stuff among the more obscure stuff from the '70s through '90s, but it's a lot more likely that we'll enjoy the higher-ranked stuff from those years because that stuff has stood the test of time and has proved to be among the favorites of thousands of passionate music-listeners.
Nowadays, there's so much more music available (higher population, Internet, at-home recording technology, etc.), and since it's so recent the average album from the 2010s has not yet received even a fraction as many listens as the average album from the 1990s and before. Consequently, you may not particularly agree with the current consensus on the best albums for recent years. I bet if you dig a lot deeper, though, you'll find some really great stuff. There's just too much music coming out for it to all be mediocre or worse.
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