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Poll: Which album is your favorite? Please listen to all ten before voting. |
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Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval |
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7% |
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22, A Million by Bon Iver |
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7% |
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Tragedy by Julia Holter |
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7% |
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Leave Me Alone by Hinds |
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15% |
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Apocalypse, Girl by Jenny Hval |
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30% |
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Antisocialites by Alvvays |
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7% |
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Right From Real by Lydia Ainsworth |
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7% |
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I Never Learn by Lykke Li |
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7% |
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Born To Die by Lana Del Rey |
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7% |
[1] |
Feel It Break by Austra |
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0% |
[0] |
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Total Votes : 13 |
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 11/02/2019 17:09
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Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval
I love Jenny Hval and think she's still incredibly underrated. No one can write and perform an off-kilter pop song quite like her. Meanwhile, she also has an outstanding conceptual vision for her music. This record contains both songs most notable for their gorgeousness and songs most notable for their unique artistic choices and ideas. Blood Bitch is one of Hval's master works, and this is a great pick for #1. 4.5/5. _________________ Add me on RYM
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.
Location: Kansas
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- Posted: 11/02/2019 22:11
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baystateoftheart wrote: | Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.
Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval
I love Jenny Hval and think she's still incredibly underrated. No one can write and perform an off-kilter pop song quite like her. Meanwhile, she also has an outstanding conceptual vision for her music. This record contains both songs most notable for their gorgeousness and songs most notable for their unique artistic choices and ideas. Blood Bitch is one of Hval's master works, and this is a great pick for #1. 4.5/5. |
This is the first time I've listened to a whole album of hers, and I found the music to be highly enjoyable. Creative enough to keep me interested, and accessible enough to have relisten value. However, I do think the concept of this album is really heavy-handed.
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- Posted: 11/03/2019 02:39
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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | baystateoftheart wrote: | Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.
Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval
I love Jenny Hval and think she's still incredibly underrated. No one can write and perform an off-kilter pop song quite like her. Meanwhile, she also has an outstanding conceptual vision for her music. This record contains both songs most notable for their gorgeousness and songs most notable for their unique artistic choices and ideas. Blood Bitch is one of Hval's master works, and this is a great pick for #1. 4.5/5. |
This is the first time I've listened to a whole album of hers, and I found the music to be highly enjoyable. Creative enough to keep me interested, and accessible enough to have relisten value. However, I do think the concept of this album is really heavy-handed. |
Apocalypse, Girl gets my vote for the poll. Just a head's up. _________________ Submit Your List for BEA's 2023 Film Poll!
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 11/04/2019 01:17
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22, A Million by Bon Iver
Another excellent choice. I just listened to this for the first time since 2017 and it was as great as I remembered. Going in a more glitchy, electronic direction was a natural progression after self-titled, and he pulls it off really well. Quality folky songs with great vocals underneath + interesting production choices layered on top = a winning combination. I can definitely see why this would be someone's favorite Bon Iver album, even though I think I prefer its predecessor. 4/5. _________________ Add me on RYM
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cestuneblague
Edgy to the Choir
Location: MA/FL
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- Posted: 11/04/2019 14:30
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Love it, both the more direct and experimental sides of modern pop. Apocalypse Girl is probably my favorite atm, in my view Hval's best work and her most underrated, but will listen to a few I haven't heard, or heard enough.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 11/11/2019 18:55
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Tragedy by Julia Holter
I love Loud City Song, Have You In My Wilderness, and Aviary, so I was excited to check this out. It's very good as expected, but not quite as engaging as any of those three. There are more ambient/drone elements and less avant-pop. It's a lot less musically dense than her later work, although there are still plenty of ideas. Well worth a listen, but it will not be a contender for my favorite of this batch. 3.5/5. _________________ Add me on RYM
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment
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- Posted: 11/12/2019 00:26
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This is a rather monothematic list, musically speaking. Being a theme I don't generally cotton to made it more challenging for me to listen through all the albums and try to determine which, if any hit me any more profoundly than the others. Without much difference there, I fell back on which ones I think exploit the basic elements of music more craftfully. With that in mind, I have to say "I Like Lykke."
(although I can certainly understand the accolades that go Holter's way as well, and at times, I was surprisingly drawn in by Bon Iver)
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Skinny
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- Posted: 11/12/2019 05:53
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The acclaim Blood Bitch received was writers trying to atone for not initially realising quite how great Apocalypse, girl was. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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cestuneblague
Edgy to the Choir
Location: MA/FL
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- Posted: 11/12/2019 08:56
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Damn Straight wrote: | The acclaim Blood Bitch received was writers trying to atone for not initially realising quite how great Apocalypse, girl was. |
Also for pre Norman Fucked Rockwell albums ya went with Born to Die???
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