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| Poll: Please listen to both albums in full before voting, then choose your favorite. |
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| Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple |
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68% |
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| The Slow Rush by Tame Impala |
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32% |
[8] |
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| Total Votes : 25 |
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #1
- Posted: 06/28/2021 21:49
- Post subject: Round 1: Fiona Apple v. Tame Impala
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Seed #1:
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
Nominated by: Komorebi-D
Genres [RYM]: Art Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Progressive Pop
Seed #6:
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The Slow Rush by Tame Impala
Nominated by: AwaitingAndrew
Genres [RYM]: Psychedelic Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Synthpop
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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 twenty-eight days. See Tournament Spreadsheet for the full bracket.
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Hayden
Location: CDMX
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- #2
- Posted: 06/28/2021 22:00
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Not much of a contest here for me. Comfortable voting Apple.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 28
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- #3
- Posted: 06/28/2021 22:05
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Honestly I could repeat what Hayden said. But it actually be for Tame Impala.
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travelful
BEA's Official Florida Man
Age: 27
Location: Davenport, Florida
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- #4
- Posted: 06/28/2021 23:42
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Excited to give them both a relisten. I remember both being good but yet still leaving me disappointed for not living up to my high expectations.
I was supposed to see The Slow Rush tour last year but of course covid happened and then they cancelled the Orlando reshow for 2021.
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Exist-en-ciel
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- #5
- Posted: 06/29/2021 01:24
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I'm one of those people who liked The Slow Rush. But Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the album of the year 2020. So a pretty easy vote for Fiona Apple for me too.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- #6
- Posted: 06/29/2021 01:39
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| travelful wrote: | Excited to give them both a relisten. I remember both being good but yet still leaving me disappointed for not living up to my high expectations.
I was supposed to see The Slow Rush tour last year but of course covid happened and then they cancelled the Orlando reshow for 2021. |
Ditto - oddly enough Fiona's album (while good) is getting all this praise when her 2012 Idler Wheel is better and didn't get that praise.
As for Tame Impala, I've just heard better from them. Cool album art though.
Easy win for Fiona in the end.
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AwaitingAndrew
Gender: Male
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- #7
- Posted: 06/29/2021 01:57
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What a brutal draw for my nominee...
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Purplepash
ranker, rater, & music list maker
Gender: Male
Age: 54
Location: Western Australia
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- #8
- Posted: 06/29/2021 08:25
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Yeah this shouldn't be a first round match up...both albums are really good and in my top 100 for the year, but I like The Slow Rush (and all things Kevin Parker) just a little bit more.
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travelful
BEA's Official Florida Man
Age: 27
Location: Davenport, Florida
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- #9
- Posted: 06/29/2021 14:50
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| travelful wrote: | Excited to give them both a relisten. I remember both being good but yet still leaving me disappointed for not living up to my high expectations.
I was supposed to see The Slow Rush tour last year but of course covid happened and then they cancelled the Orlando reshow for 2021. |
After relistening to both my opinion hasn't really changed. I think they're both good records and would certainly recommend them to others. But for me in a year that I found so much amazing music, I don't even have either in my top 80 of 2020. Overall this is just the most forgettable Tame Impala record. Even after 5-6 listens now. It sounds nice when listening but by the time it's over I can't remember much as far as highlights go. I can't see myself playing over any of the other Tame Impala records going forward.
Fiona Apple's record is constantly impressive and overall very memorable. So my vote will go to Fetch The Bolt Cutters. Even so I am definitely not convinced this is even her best album, so I am still missing something. Why exactly is this being praised as the best record since TPAB? And for Pitchfork I believe it's their first 10 since MBDTF in 2010...
I just don't hear what makes this record an all-time great album. Unfortunately that's the hype that led me to initial disappointment last year. When I put on my first listen I was expecting some crazy ass shit. Overall I think it would be on the border of 2nd/3rd in her discography behind Idler Wheel and maybe When The Pawn.
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EyeKanFly
Head Bear Master/Galactic Emperor
Age: 33
Location: Gotham
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- #10
- Posted: 06/29/2021 16:09
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Don't have much to say in addition to what others have said about the match-up.
However I will say that I didn't have very high hopes for Fiona Apple since I'm not huge on her prior stuff, but this blew me away. The Slow Rush was disappointing for me. The songs Tame Impala released before the album came out were very promising, but the rest of the album just did not live up to the same potential. While The Slow Rush is 6th seed and got a harsh pull facing Bolt Cutters in the first round, I also feel like there are so many better albums here, and it surprises me that this is regarded so highly here on BEA.
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