Re: The Wire Top 50 Albums
 

has anyone heard/formed opinions on these? i'm impatient to hear the Scritti Politti and Mordant Music in particular.

Re: Wired Top 50 Albums
 

heard wolf eyes at the radio station but i havent been motivated enough to sit with it to get an actual opinion of it yet.

grizzly bear has been sitting on my hard drive trying to do something other than make me think "yeah it's, er, nice enough"

theres a few universal favorites that going in one ear and out the other. like ys.

Re: Wired Top 50 Albums
 

i thought i felt the same way about Ys (er, higher up on this thread), but i keep being compelled to put it on. at first it was because i really wanted to get into it, and earn my 14 dollars' worth; now i can't get away from Joanna and her stupid faeries*. something about the sly songfulness within each 15-minute epic. it seems like a quintessential grower.





*(i actually <3 faeries)

Re: Wired Top 50 Albums
 

seems that way too but...

a friend and i were driving in a car with her dad and this came on the radio (college...), so we started explaining this woman to him and all the accolades and what rolling stone is making fun of for and he sits there listening to it and after awhile says "i really love how she plays the harp but why does she sing like that?"
i also can't seem to get past that either. ever since i first heard her through my design drawing prof i couldnt stand her voice and i still can't make peace with it.

Re: Wired Top 50 Albums
 

the first time i heard her voice was in the dubstep track "Shadow" by Clouds, where it sounds awesome. anyway, Joanna just sounds really similar to Bjork to me (~65% of the time). i like how you can hear the grain in her singing sometimes, how it sometimes verges on unlistenability; it seems an important contrast to the frilly, unobjectionable backing arrangements.