Get To Know A Top 10: December 2021 Thread - Anti

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[DommeDamian]

yeah got to agree with a lot of you. I really like how it's focused around the ambitious atmospheric and dreamy sound a lot of the time, with shoegaze and lo-fi folk as the mains.

before I even checked out and heard all the 10 albums, I knew what was going to be my favorite.
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[Lowkey]

Anti is genuinely the GOAT

Fantastic chart, seeing Anti's taste evolve over the past decade has been so fun.

Sunbather is my favorite album here, but they're all super solid.

[baystateoftheart]

A great group of albums! Loveless and Dots And Loops are on my own overall right now, and I also love The Glow Pt. 2. Deathconsciousness, Feels, and The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid are all very good. I've only heard Stratosphere and From Here We Go Sublime once (impressed by both), so I'll revisit those two. Sunbather and Dopethrone will be brand-new listens.
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[indieshins]

So far I've listened to The Glow pt 2., Sunbather and Dopethrone, all once each. Liked them all. It was great listening to Sunbather again, because when I listened to it initially, I had very little experience with heavier music, including shoegaze. I don't think I'd even heard Loveless at that stage. Now with more grounding in both metal and shoegaze, I had more appreciation for what they were doing.

The other two I hadn't heard before. Loved the heavy, deep, doomy sludge of Dopethrone, definitely giving that another listen. And The Glow pt 2 had a really interesting sprawling eclecticism to it, which fit with the lo-fi production to give it this endearingly ragged feeling.
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[Fischman]

So I'm halfway through the list and it's not really clicking with me for the most part.

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
I remember when this first came out. I was introduced to it by my niece and my initial impression was that I was excited to find a current band that was new and fresh on one hand and something I could enjoy listening to on the other hand. However, over time, the sound lost me, largely due to my dislike for those not-so-engaging vocals. This latest listen was pretty lukewarm.

Sunbather - Deafheaven
Okay, so this is heavy.... cool.
But then.... again, those vocals! I grew up with heavy metal, and to this day listen to a good deal of speed metal, industrial, and thrash, so I have no problem with harsh vocals. But they do need to be at least somewhat intelligible, and please, a least little melody. This was also not my thing.

The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones
Some interesting acoustic work here, but the music is just too plodding and the vocals too subdued for my tastes.

Stratosphere - Duster
The music, like the album cover, seems a sort of pseudo-minimalism with some potentially interesting modulations to be heard along the way. There were some songs I could really sink my musical teeth into, but there were too many with those plodding, droning, repetitious eighth or quarter notes going on and on and on. A real mixed bag here.

Dots And Loops - Stereolab
Okay, now we're talkin'!. Here's the big happy surprise of the first half. I was really enjoying the music sans vocals for a while, but then here we go again... in comes the weak vocalist dragging down potentially great music again... but wait! Now we've got some female vocals to.... with a good voice... and most importantly providing some intricate counterpoint to the primary vocal. Now that I think about it, there are intricate arrangements throughout the music. Lots to pique my interest here. What's more, subsequent listens illuminated even more wonders. This is easily my top choice in the group so far.


1. Dots And Loops - Stereolab
2. Stratosphere - Duster
3. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
4. The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones
5. Sunbather - Deafheaven

[Mercury]

This is fascinating because honestly none of these albums are remotely my jam. There is an interesting taste presented here, a unique perspective which I can respect and, indeed, do respect. But I don't like shoegaze too much, nor electronic dance music, nor blackgaze, nor somewhat imprecise freak-folk stuff, nor slowcore.... so that kind of makes it so the album I like the most here is Dopethrone but even amongst metal genres and aesthetics that slow, heavy as fuck, almost drone sound is probably at the end or toward the end of my arbitrary rankings (ahead of Power Metal of course). Loveless is special too, despite not really liking nor ever fully understanding the intense appeal of the genre and aesthetic amongst music nerds (I think there is an interesting tendency of music fans toward the more gauzy, indistinct, dreamy, slower, more subtle side of indie music and sounds.) I think that 1991 classic has earned its love.

I suppose I prefer music that is clear, cutting, jagged, fomulated, and maybe i'm a bit more attracted to tradition or clarity of melody. That may explain why when I see 7-9 of these 10 albums steer clear of this bundle of traits I just described, I am left amazed at the incredible variety of opinion music fans have.

I am going through an Animal Collective Hatred phase at the moment, so the one that is my LEAST fave is clear here. The best or my fave of these is Loveless or Dopethrone with neither being something I love or really REALLY like.

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sounds like I'm ragging on this chart and top 10... so let me say, this is cool. I am actually impressed that this has a disticnt vibe, a very Anti feel, and it .... fits together. And I am amazed that, against all odds and surely some shared or overlapping tastes in music, not a single one of your TOP TOP TOP albums ever I even feel a little love for. The odds are slim but you did it.
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