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| Poll: Please listen to both albums in full before voting, then choose your favorite. |
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| Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne |
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78% |
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| You're Not As _____ As You Think by Sorority Noise |
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21% |
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| Total Votes : 19 |
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baystateoftheart
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Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #1
- Posted: 09/04/2018 17:54
- Post subject: 2017 Championship Tournament, Round 1: #17 v. #18
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Seed #17:
Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne
Nominated By: Tilly
Genres [RYM]: Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Seed #18:
You're Not As _____ As You Think by Sorority Noise
Nominated By: Purplepash
Genres [RYM]: Emo, Indie Rock
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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 twenty-eight days and no more than forty-two days. See Tournament Spreadsheet for the full bracket.
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RockyRaccoon
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Gender: Male
Age: 33
Location: Maryland
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- #2
- Posted: 09/04/2018 17:58
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I love both but I've gotta go with the Sorority Noise record. Something about when an artist is painfully honest with their grief just gets me, and that's exactly what Cameron Boucher does here. The way he talks about losing friends to suicide and heroin, as well as his own personal struggles, it's incredibly powerful.
That's not to take away from the beauty of Byrne's album, both are excellent.
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mickilennial
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Gender: Female
Age: 35
Location: Detroit
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- #3
- Posted: 09/04/2018 21:06
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The Sorority Noise record is really well-written and wears its emotions on its sleeve, but ultimately it relies on bog standard conventions of pop punk and midwest emo rather than doing anything inventive. Put against one of the finest folk/art pop records of 2017 it doesn't stand a goddamn chance.
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AwaitingAndrew
Gender: Male
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- #4
- Posted: 09/05/2018 03:06
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This is the closest round 1 poll for me: two albums I've previously listened to and quite enjoy. But I come back to Not Even Happiness and to Sorority Noise's previous album - Joy, Departed - with more regularity than this one. You're Not As ____ As You Think gets a bit too conventional at times, and while I suppose you could argue the same for its competition, Julie Byrne's voice is sublime throughout her album. So while I'd like to see both move on, Not Even Happiness gets the edge.
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Purplepash
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Gender: Male
Age: 54
Location: Western Australia
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- #5
- Posted: 09/05/2018 10:25
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I hadn't heard the Julie Byrne album before and it's nice, but too nice for my tastes. I rarely go for nice when I listen to music. I wouldn't complain about listening to it but I don't think I would choose to play it again.
Whereas Sorority Noise was easily my most played album of 2017. It sounds like Cameron put his heart and soul into making this album. It's powerful and passionate and, at least in my case, has relatable lyrics dealing with grief, anger, remorse, drugs, and questioning of religion. I've been there and therefore this is an album that provokes a strong emotional reaction with every listen. I don't just listen to this album, I feel it. My album of the year!
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Skinny
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- #6
- Posted: 09/05/2018 18:15
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Like both, love neither. Byrne's previous was more mischievous, more intimate, more beautiful. Sorority Noise kinda makes me wish I was listening to The Hotelier instead. Vote to Byrne, just.
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dihansse
Gender: Male
Age: 60
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- #7
- Posted: 09/05/2018 18:18
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I didn’t like the sorority Noise album at all and although I’m not really inclined to include the Julie Byrne album in my top 2017 chart I can’t deny it has a certain charm
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #8
- Posted: 09/11/2018 18:28
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Not Even Happiness is a note-perfect folk album, beautiful although maybe just a bit generic. It gets my vote over the Sorority Noise album, which was pleasant enough, but never clicked for me.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #9
- Posted: 09/11/2018 19:24
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Just read this, so here it is FYI:
| Wikipedia wrote: | | On April 9th, 2018, former The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die guitarist Nicole Schoenholz accused Boucher of raping her friend. Boucher released a statement the next day denying the allegations.[29] On April 11th, the alleged victim came forward on Reddit, claiming that Boucher raped her in 2013.[30] In response, Sorority Noise announced via the band's Twitter that they would cancel their remaining shows with The Wonder Years.[31] Their publicists, the PR firm Brixton Agency, announced that they had severed ties with the band.[32] |
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