I feel like this was tailored made for me. Lo-fi, cozy, wandering down the shore in the winter as the waves loll at your sneakers. Smoking a cigarette on the breakers on an overcast Fall day while everyone else is inside watching crap on the tely. This is insular music made for headphones and desolate places. For walking about the subway as the rest of the world passes by oblivious. Cocooned in my own little snow globe. Shake gently please.
baystateoftheartNeil Young as a butternut squashProfile Massachusetts
I feel like this was tailored made for me. Lo-fi, cozy, wandering down the shore in the winter as the waves loll at your sneakers. Smoking a cigarette on the breakers on an overcast Fall day while everyone else is inside watching crap on the tely. This is insular music made for headphones and desolate places. For walking about the subway as the rest of the world passes by oblivious. Cocooned in my own little snow globe. Shake gently please.
Enthusiastically co-sign both of these recommendations! They are #12 and #13 on my draft chart.
Started listening to that Beach Fossils album my freshman year in college. I've often turned to it in winter, but I look at it more as a hazy reminder of summer than a snow globe. The fact that it doesn't break 2010's top 100 here or 2010's top 1000 on RYM makes it desperately underrated! _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
I realized that this was for 2010. Need to get this act completed at some point. But for this album, so far this is some excellent stuff within the chill electronic field.
I feel like this was tailored made for me. Lo-fi, cozy, wandering down the shore in the winter as the waves loll at your sneakers. Smoking a cigarette on the breakers on an overcast Fall day while everyone else is inside watching crap on the tely. This is insular music made for headphones and desolate places. For walking about the subway as the rest of the world passes by oblivious. Cocooned in my own little snow globe. Shake gently please.
Enthusiastically co-sign both of these recommendations! They are #12 and #13 on my draft chart.
Started listening to that Beach Fossils album my freshman year in college. I've often turned to it in winter, but I look at it more as a hazy reminder of summer than a snow globe. The fact that it doesn't break 2010's top 100 here or 2010's top 1000 on RYM makes it desperately underrated!
Me too. To me it best represents The End of Summer. A summer that has recently passed and the nostalgia that one feels for those lazy, carefree days. And that nostalgia, that desire to rewind time just a bit, to go back to where you were and how those days feel, cause those memories to imbued with a shade of blue.
A late find, and one I'd ignored because it supposedly serves mainly as a mixtape prequel to/elongated advert for Lito's spotty, underwhelming, fad-chasing, though admittedly excellent in parts Starlito's Way 3, a record I listened to at the time and filed under 'forgettable'. Turns out that not checking this out was a major mistake, as it may be the rapper's most consistent solo effort (and certainly superior to the album that succeeds it), a one producer + one rapper project that finds Starlito at his charming, languid, dexterous best, over a series of silky, luxurious beats that sound like Pimp C scoring Super Fly, perhaps slightly less like pure sonic money than the beats on Teflon Don or both of 2010's Pilot Talk records, but no worse for it, and navigating the same ballpark in any case. In fact, Curren$y and Officer Ricky are good reference points for those unfamiliar with Nashville's finest, as his rapping mixes the mischievous, old-school lyricism of Ross with Spitta's slurred, stoned flow and down-to-earth manner, adding in a dash of dazzling wordplay to underline his measured, undeniably technical grace. Whilst the lyrical themes may be commonplace in hip-hop, in Starlito's hands they sound fresh and natural, proving that he has been one of the South's most reliable rappers for the past decade. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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One of the most beguiling, bucolic albums of 2010, God Was Like, No is arguably The Fun Years' most fully realised LP, with the unusual baritone guitar and turntable duo delivering a collection of wintry, nostalgia-inducing soundscapes that rely on repetitive, off-kilter, two-string riffs, a permanent wall of vinyl hiss, and glorious noise crescendos - and, crucially, perfectly wrought tension, the ominous feeling that everything is about to collapse into a dying star of blinding white noise, until it doesn't. There's a spidery, minimal, Slint-indebted feel to the guitar lines, and a nod to Basinski in the way that they appear to decay beneath the perpetually chugging grot and grime, but even in the record's most confrontational, abrasive moments, gorgeous melodies find a way to shine through. It's a masterful record that defies easy categorisation, and is likely to be enjoyed by fans of drone, shoegaze, and post-rock, and in particular works as a lovely companion piece to the year's other pastoral guitarnoise masterpiece, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's Love Is A Stream. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
One of the most beguiling, bucolic albums of 2010, God Was Like, No is arguably The Fun Years' most fully realised LP, with the unusual baritone guitar and turntable duo delivering a collection of wintry, nostalgia-inducing soundscapes that rely on repetitive, off-kilter, two-string riffs, a permanent wall of vinyl hiss, and glorious noise crescendos - and, crucially, perfectly wrought tension, the ominous feeling that everything is about to collapse into a dying star of blinding white noise, until it doesn't. There's a spidery, minimal, Slint-indebted feel to the guitar lines, and a nod to Basinski in the way that they appear to decay beneath the perpetually chugging grot and grime, but even in the record's most confrontational, abrasive moments, gorgeous melodies find a way to shine through. It's a masterful record that defies easy categorisation, and is likely to be enjoyed by fans of drone, shoegaze, and post-rock, and in particular works as a lovely companion piece to the year's other pastoral guitarnoise masterpiece, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's Love Is A Stream.
In one breath, I could say Love Is A Stream had higher high's. But after getting close to done with this album, I'd argue that this is better. Not only is this album a consistent run from beginning to end, the variety is some impeccable stuff. Like at first, it acts a bit slow in the beginning but by the tail end, the listener is just lost of words to comprehend what happened. Grade:95
Also Skinny is absolutely correct. If you enjoy drone, shoe gaze, ambient and post rock, you need to listen to this.
I feel like this was tailored made for me. Lo-fi, cozy, wandering down the shore in the winter as the waves loll at your sneakers. Smoking a cigarette on the breakers on an overcast Fall day while everyone else is inside watching crap on the tely. This is insular music made for headphones and desolate places. For walking about the subway as the rest of the world passes by oblivious. Cocooned in my own little snow globe. Shake gently please.
I know exactly what you mean! Except I have to substitute with rain here, Down Under. (P.S. I’ve never seen snow.)
I listened to this for the first time ever yesterday while finishing up some Christmas shopping and fuck! It knocked me off my feet! Total surprise. To think, the dude can put this out 30+ years into his prosperous career is dumbfounding to me! He was already showing the world revolutionary world of art back in the 70s but this is something else! This is him embracing the sounds of the 21st century, and in some respects, surpassing it. Essential 2010 listening, even I though it ended before I got the chance to notice. _________________ Some RYM paraphernalia:
Rock Is NOT Dead: The Garage Rock Revival of the 2010s
One of the biggest trends of the 2010s was the triumphant return of primal garage rock. Arguably the biggest bands of that movement were Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees, both of whom released steller albums in 2010 with ...
I wanted to take this post of Tilly as the basis for a session on garage rock with a psychedelic twist and decided to widen the scope and not limit myself to that San Franciscan scene so I listened to the following albums:
First those from the San Franciscan scene:
I listened to both of the two albums mentioned (I didn't know before) and while I sure liked them I had that feeling that both artists have released albums that are much better in a later stage of their careers. So my end conclusion is that while they are now included in my top chart of the year they won't be high in rank.
On the other hand there's that other album from that scene that I did already know:
Play It Strange by The Fresh & Onlys
This is even a bitter album than I had already thought before. It sounds indeed very... Fresh. Their psychedelic influence is very clear on the longest and best track on the album Tropical Island Suite and the rest of the albums follows suit. For the moment my 5th best album of the year.
And the another fine psychedelic album from that year I already knew but now from New Zealand:
Kudos by Surf City
This one is a bit lighter than the other albums I mention here but still has that psychedelic twist.: lots of reverb but very good songs especially on the opening track Crazy Rulers of the world. Also an album I promoted to a higher rank: now the fourth. It's very much underrated on BEA so I can definitely advice every one the give it a spin.
And a Canadian rec:
II by The White Wires
Maybe a bit more a garage rock band than a psychedelic one but their song writing is impeccable: just listen to a very fresh sounding track like Hands. Currently at the sixth rank of 2010.
And then two albums which I demoted a bit after listening back to them:
The Monitor by Titus Andronicus: I used to like this band and this album a lot but I have to admit I get a bit tired by them: their combination of raw punk (especially the singing) and their use of traditional instruments like bagpipes and flutes makes them sound a bit like the Pogues but I have to say now like bad pogues especially since their tracks are just too long to make them interesting enough.
Wilderness Heart by Black Mountain: I have a bit the same feeling with this album. I used to like it a lot and it's still in my chart but it's not something I now would hype as a must listen for the year.
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