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GFOTY & Spinee - Dog Food Brock C – 2016

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typical p.c. music bubblegum vaporwave, often a bit much to take (your first encounter with p.c. music is especially jarring), but the driving bass and electronics aren’t to be ignored. but for a better project…

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1,000 Years Liza Anne (Ft. Jake Vroon) – 1,000 Years

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“1,000 Years” is a song dedicated to “those who can’t quite swallow the fact that a goodbye has been said and that is that.” The eighth track on Anne’s 2014 album The Colder Months tries to cope with the goodbye, turning to liquor among other methods, though offers the hidden realization that drinking won’t help the situation.

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And I'll drink till all my blood is filled with you
Till the whiskey drowns my sorrow
And I'm not thinking about tomorrow
Oh, whatever it takes to feel you again, to feel you again Liza Anne (Ft. Jake Vroon) – 1,000 Years

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Alcohol serves as a coping technique to try to recreate the memories and feelings of their past lover, but the lyric page to this song on Liza Anne’s website contains a coded response to this method. The lyrics are written out in all lowercase, save for the occasional capital letter that, when placed together, spell out the message:

I CANT DRINK YOU INTO MY ARMS

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These sections of the record reminded me of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which forgotten memories and unexpected bits of data crash in from out of nowhere to distract Jim Carrey from the romantic trauma he’s trying to obliterate from his brain. For Vernon, however, it’s possible that he’s trying distract the listener from the record’s emotional red meat by front-loading the “weird” songs. Bon Iver Disappeared For Years And Then Came Back With Its Best Album

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Weezer - Weezer Genius – Best Albums of 2016 Nominations

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Cosign Brock.

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Bon Iver - 22, A Million Genius – Best Albums of 2016 Nominations

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Vesuvius: Like many people, my first reaction upon listening to 22, A Million was “wtf.”

Today, I love this thing.

It does a lot of similar things to Blonde – the vocal distortions and use of space and mumbling about nothing – but imo has more moments of beauty.

Definite top 10, probable top 5, credible #1 but I’d be surprised if it ends up there.

brock: if you know brock, you know brock is a justin vernon fanatic, so you should not be surprised that this is either brock’s #1 or #2 record of the year (brock feels weird about trying to pick between this and blonde so soon after their releases when they both feel like generational albums from his two favorite artists). experiencing the live debut at eaux claires was a truly spiritual experience – brock

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Loved this album so much I wrote a review of it for my student newspaper, bathimpact, back in September. I doubt I’ll be able to better or more concisely word it here so please feel free to check out the review below!

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I think this is an amazing record, and one that we will be unpacking for years to come. I believe the songs all stand on their own (“000000 Million” is one of my favorite songs of the year, and perfectly encapsulates everything I love about Bon Iver) but this also felt like the album where the songs were most closely designed to sit next to each other and work as one whole piece of art. And much in the same way as with blonde, the most exciting part of the album is that every time you listen to it you feel like you’re listening to the song for the first time and discovering something different or new about a song or the album that you hadn’t contemplated or discovered previously, which I think is as high of praise as I could give 22, A Million. I have this ranked in my personal top 3, and would be happy if it lands in that space on the year-end list, but realistically could see it in the top ten or top fifteen as well.

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I tried listening to this and I just don’t really get it? I like the aesthetic of it, all the numerology stuff is cool, but the rest I just… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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still trying to process where exactly in the top 15 this falls for me, all I know is that it belongs there

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one of the few non-rap records i took the time to listen to a few times this year and i dug this. top 15

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I really liked it, but I wouldn’t say top ten. Maybe around 25, imo. Has a couple of my top contenders for best tracks of the year, but 33 GOD got old, Moon Water was forgettable, and 715 CREEKS didn’t need to happen the way it did.

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Sigh… I adore For Emma, Forever Ago and Bon Iver, Bon Iver, but after 4 tries, I’ve still yet to “get” this album. Songs like “715 – Creeks” and “8 (circle)” give me hope that it could turn into something I’d like, but I really just don’t understand the hype around even the most loved songs on the album (I’m looking at you “33 "GOD”“). It all just seems like a forced experiment to me rather than a natural progression. But who knows, maybe the 5th time is the charm…

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top 10 for me

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I’m still at “wtf” but it’s one of those wtf’s that I have a hunch about….

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Charlotte Day Wilson - CDW Brock C – 2016

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a very talented musician i saw open for Local Natives who did everything from vocals to bass guitar to a saxophone solo to a duet of “dark days”, but hasn’t yet turned that talent into particularly captivating or original music.

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Museum Mouth - Popcorn Fish Guinea Pig Brock C – 2016

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tracks 2-5 dragged on for me, but “koopa breeders” snapped out of that funk, and “lacquer” capitalized on the energy of 2-5 without sacrificing a good melody.

“magenta arboretum” was another passover for me, but “roadkill” was a nice subdued song like the first track “bugeyed” or joyce manor’s “do you really wanna not get better”, “i scream at you…” was very solid, and “the big stairs” was a decent closer.

essentially, if this were split into two EP’s, I would really enjoy one and brush over the other. some good tracks, some blah.

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Parquet Courts - Human Performance Brock C – 2016

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brian pretty much hit the nail on the head with his “critics tell me i should like this band but i’m a critic, too, and i still don’t particularly like this band/10” rating of this album, but i like this particular album of theirs much more than others like content nausea

“a melody abandoned in the key of new york” goes “captive of the sun”, which seems indicative of parquet courts' post-punk as well – melody is abandoned a bit too much for me to enjoy as much as their canadian counterparts, ought, despite the fact that the vocal delivery style is one of the genre’s calling cards (hence me not listening to much post-punk).

but here, vocal melodies poke their heads out more than in past pq projects i’ve listened to – most notably during the last 30 seconds of “paraphrased” – and it’s quite nice. “steady on my mind” is a sneakily gorgeous, plodding track that could almost pass for a modern velvet underground song, “berlin got blurry” is a damn good song about loneliness in a foreign city, i like the vocal dissonance on “it’s gonna happen”, and moments on songs like “human performance” and “already dead (digital only)” are solid despite their oft-grandiose themes. i was pleasantly surprised by this.

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brian pretty much hit the nail on the head with his "critics tell me i should like this band but i'm a critic, too, and i still don't particularly like this band/10" rating of this album, but i like this particular album of theirs much more than others like *content nausea*

"a melody abandoned in the key of new york" goes "captive of the sun", which seems indicative of parquet courts' post-punk as well - melody is abandoned a bit too much for me to enjoy as much as their canadian counterparts, ought, despite the fact that the vocal delivery style is one of the genre's calling cards (hence me not listening to much post-punk).

but here, vocal melodies poke their heads out more than in past pq projects i've listened to - most notably during the last 30 seconds of "paraphrased" - and it's quite nice. "steady on my mind" is a sneakily gorgeous, plodding track that could almost pass for a modern velvet underground song, "berlin got blurry" is a damn good song about loneliness in a foreign city, i like the vocal dissonance on "it's gonna happen", and moments on songs like "human performance" and "already dead (digital only)" are solid despite their oft-grandiose themes. i was pleasantly surprised by this.

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My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall Brock C – 2015

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decided to look back over this list while adding to my 2016 list. i don’t remember anything about this record but remember the exact house i was mulching when i was first listening to it lol. music is weird.

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i just had a similar thing last night where i realized i had revisited the same spot that i initially started listening to the truehoop podcast (roughly a year ago) *while listening to the pod. felt very strange.

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