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Wild Beasts album of the year in The Fly

Binary_Star [Edit] [Delete] 52 replies 14:00 November 5th, 2009

That said, The Big Pink were 2nd and Florence and the Machine were 3rd, so perhaps it's not such a good thing.

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hrm

it's good but not sure it's THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR.

sean | 5 Nov '09, 14:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- It's a likely contender for me
  
  the rest of that Fly list is fucking horrible, but I'm pretty sure Wild Beasts will be my number 1. I can't think of any reasons why it wouldn't be.
  
  GoatmeatMF @sean | 6 Nov '09, 08:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
How did The Fly choose an album of the year?

Don't they give everything 5/5 anyway?

(ps The Big Pink album is fucking phenomenal)

bamos | 5 Nov '09, 14:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- It'll be difficult for the Observer Music Monthly too
  
  they give everything 4/5.
  
  Binary_Star @bamos | 5 Nov '09, 14:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
To paraphrase Brian Clough

It's not the album of the year but it's definitely in the top 1.

Binary_Star | 5 Nov '09, 14:09 | X | ^ This | Reply

Teepee_uk this'd this
that list in full then:

1/ Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
2/ The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
3/ Florence + The Machine - Lungs
4/ YYYs - It's Blitz!
5/ The Horrors - Primary Colours
6/ Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
7/ The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
8/ The Temper Trap - Conditions
9/ ...Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self
10/ Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
11/ White Lies - To Lose My Life
12/ The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
13/ Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
14/ The XX - XX
15/ Japandroids - Post-Nothing
16/ Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
17/ Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
18/ The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
19/ Muse - The Resistance
20/ Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!
21/ Swimming - The Fire-Flow Trade
22/ Manics - Journal For Plague Lovers
23/ Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
24/ Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
25/ Passion Pit - Manners
26/ Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
27/ Animal Collective - MPP
28/ The Invisible - s/t
29/ Howling Bells - Radio Wars
30/ Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - s/t
31/ The Virgins - The Virgins
32/ Kasabian - West Ryder etc
33/ Dizzee Rascal - Tongue 'N Cheek
34/ Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
35/ Blue Roses - Blue Roses
36/ Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
37/ Noah & The Whale - First Day Of Spring
38/ Julian Plenti - ...is Skyscraper
39/ Jamie T - Kings & Queens
40/ Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
41/ The Boxer Rebellion - Union
42/ PJ Harver & John Parrish - A Woman, A Man Walked By
43/ Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
44/ Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
45/ La Roux - La Roux
46/ HEALTH - Get Color
47/ Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
48/ Golden Silvers - True Romance
49/ Girls - Album
50/ Chairlift - Does It Inspire You

SCROTUM | 5 Nov '09, 14:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
- some things that struck me:
  
  - a lot of end-of-year lists are going to bear similarity to this, albeit with the placings switched a bit but YYYs/Horrors/Wild Beasts will all likely stick around the upper end
  - there are some very strange placings: the b2b Bombay-Cribs in the top 10 confounds me, as Animal Collective are dumped mid-list (that in itself won't be at all common)
  - bar Toddla T and Fever Ray, this list includes almost all my favourite 15 or 20 albums of '09
  - brilliant line at the end of Primary Colours blurb: "What's that Faris - A slice of humble pie? Yes please. Om nom nom." :D :D :D
  - it's been a very poor year for hip-hop, normally a couple of token releases push through into lists like these
  
  SCROTUM @SCROTUM | 5 Nov '09, 14:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I think the MPP mid-list thing might be more common than you think,
    
    same too with Bitte Orca, particularly in British publications. To me they both seem like the kind of albums where if you 'get' them then you'll really like them, but if you don't then you'll meet them with aversion. And since end of year lists for publications are usually aggregated from individual writers' lists, in which these albums will be placed either very high or rather low, then they'll end up with seemingly average placings. That's my theory anyway.
    As for me, I don't really get either album, though I'm beginning to come round to MPP after going back to it a few times over the last ten months. Bitte Orca I just really dislike.
    
    Coja @SCROTUM | 6 Nov '09, 03:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Poor year for hip hop?!
    
    What are you chatting about? Seriously.
    
    DJ Quik & Kurupt, Raekwon's OB4CLII, Antipop Consortium, hell, even the Dalek album has grown on me.
    
    Sorry man, you're just wrong there.
    
    lemonbrickcombo @SCROTUM | 7 Nov '09, 14:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - And that's without mentioning the new Mos Def,
      
      the latest Madlib Beat Konducta release.... etc.
      
      Seriously, so wrong.
      
      lemonbrickcombo @lemonbrickcombo | 7 Nov '09, 14:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - okay beyond Cuban Link II
      
      personally I've seen nothing of true merit come through.
      
      In comparison to come years, it just seems quite thin on the ground in both quality and quantity. There certainly hasn't been any mainstream-leaning killers that would permeate this list anyway.
      
      SCROTUM @lemonbrickcombo | 7 Nov '09, 19:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - *Linx
        
        I know, I know
        
        SCROTUM @SCROTUM | 8 Nov '09, 01:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Kasabian above HEALTH, Girls and The Boxer Rebellion!?!
  
  I think that just about sums up the credibility of this list
  
  domgourlay @SCROTUM | 5 Nov '09, 14:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  hello_dave this'd this
  - Don't forget that White Lies are atop all of them...
    
    hmm
    
    "interesting"
    
    tomatron @domgourlay | 5 Nov '09, 14:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    Coja this'd this
    - And wasn't the Chairlift album
      
      released in 2008?
      
      domgourlay @tomatron | 5 Nov '09, 15:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - And
        
        crap?
        
        tomatron @domgourlay | 5 Nov '09, 15:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        But still better than the Kasabian effort
        
        :-)
        
        domgourlay @tomatron | 5 Nov '09, 15:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        tomatron this'd this
- fuck buttons at 43?
  
  MADNESS
  
  Jamie_Summers @SCROTUM | 5 Nov '09, 14:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ...should have been in the Top 50?
    
    bamos @Jamie_Summers | 5 Nov '09, 14:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I was saddened at that too
    
    I had them at #2 when I submitted my individual list for this (did have WB at 1 though, so, yay!)
    
    jarock87 @Jamie_Summers | 5 Nov '09, 14:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - There's albums in here that no-one gave a shit about
    
    when they came out, Franz Ferdinand? The virgins? and the inclusion of La Roux, Dizzee Rascal and Kasabian makes me feel they've just chucked anything that people might have heard of in there
    
    beautiful_balloon @Jamie_Summers | 5 Nov '09, 14:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - I gave a shit about Franz Ferdinand
      
      SCROTUM @beautiful_balloon | 5 Nov '09, 14:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - You're right about Franz Ferdinand
      
      it's strange. They seem to have slipped quietly from being a popular band to one which people are either indifferent too or don't even think about at all. I must admit, I liked their first album but are pretty bored by them now. I think they're a band that work a lot better in a club than being listened to at home.
      
      Binary_Star @beautiful_balloon | 5 Nov '09, 14:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - I saw them at Brixton the Saturday before last
        
        they came on at midnight, wrapped up at 1.30. it was brilliant, they do work so much better in a live setting, the new material especially.
        
        SCROTUM @Binary_Star | 5 Nov '09, 15:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        franz ferdinand
        
        and i'm going to say on the new album tour, bored me to sleep at the cure.
        
        Ok, to be fair I hadn't got much sleep and the 02 chairs are pretty comfy. BUT STILL FRANZ FERDINAND ARE THE ONLY BAND TO SEND ME TO SLEEP.
        
        niallKP @SCROTUM | 7 Nov '09, 19:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- ^This shit is wack.
  
  TheSoundofBastards @SCROTUM | 5 Nov '09, 14:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  tomatron this'd this
- hrm
  
  Apple+F "Pho..." [insert that dinky-dink noize here].
  Applee+F "Act..." [insert that dinky-dink noize here]
  
  Essentially, no Wolfgang Amadeus, no Actor, no list. Them's the rules.
  
  sean @SCROTUM | 5 Nov '09, 15:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Hmmm
  
  Probably a solid enough reflection on what a normal British whitebread indie fan is into, which I totally respect, we can be in danger of losing that.
  
  But Trail of Dead... WTF????
  
  lukowski @SCROTUM | 6 Nov '09, 22:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  lemonbrickcombo this'd this
clear omissions from...

the raveonettes/kasms/bishop allen/Parts & labor/Ghost of a thousand/sunn o))/art brut/swan lake/johnnhy foreigner/slow club

la roux/white lies/florence/mumford/horrors - pffffttt!!!

chamber | 5 Nov '09, 17:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Where's A Place To Bury Strangers
  
  Gentle Friendly or Phoenix too?
  
  domgourlay @chamber | 5 Nov '09, 18:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - don't think gentle friendly is out yet
    
    just on the UTR site
    
    guntrip @domgourlay | 6 Nov '09, 08:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Out Monday
      
      I think.
      
      domgourlay @guntrip | 6 Nov '09, 09:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
- parts & labor
  
  didn't release an album this year. i guess two last year and losing a member slowed them down a bit ;)
  
  guntrip @chamber | 6 Nov '09, 08:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
I'm guessing

...that A Place To Bury Strangers came out too late to make the list.

The Fly doesn't have a Dec issue as such (this is Nov/Dec) so takes its list rather early!

A Place To Bury Strangers will be high up my list of 09!

Nice to see The Joy Formidable at #16!

Interesting enough list I thought - unlikely many people will agree too much with any list that comes out. Can't say I was too impressed with the Wild Beasts effort....

nickd | 5 Nov '09, 22:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
hehe.

7/ The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
8/ The Temper Trap - Conditions
9/ ...Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self

no fucking way.

Miikka | 6 Nov '09, 09:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
I reckon DiS should do end of year lists like the Intertoto Cup

So we can have three or four winners.

JoeDiddly | 6 Nov '09, 09:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
I listened to Wild Beasts for the first time today

but I think I've been had. I'm sure someone's messed with the ID3 tags, because it sounds like an Editors album, and shirley not the sort of thing a band called "Wild Beasts" would produce.

robluvsnic | 6 Nov '09, 13:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Wild Beasts was a neat choice for No1

...so I thinking the rest of the list would have been interesting but their are some horrible choices on there. Some good one's of course but it just looks like a run down of whatever indie made somewhat of a splash this year. I, for the life of me, cannot understand how Mew's "No More Stories" doesn't sit atop of every list assembled but the same thing happened with Glass Handed Kites. They just dismiss it as Danish prog and don't stop and piece together what a spectacular, inventive work of genius art they've created.

auteur55 | 6 Nov '09, 23:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
I think I own 30/50 on that list at least...

Joy Formidable kudos. Wild Beasts album is excellent, no arguments, but better than MPP? not for me!

Andy | 7 Nov '09, 00:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
If you think The Fly's best albums were bad

Have a gander at Q. They have Kasabian AT NUMBER ONE.

Binary_Star | 7 Nov '09, 11:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oh goodness
  
  This is pretty special!
  
  1. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
  2. Florence And The Machine – Lungs
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
  4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
  5. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
  6. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
  7. Muse – The Resistance
  8. Lilly Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
  9. U2 – No Line On The Horizon
  10. Phoenix – Woulgang Amadeus Phoenix
  11. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
  12. Jack Penate – Everything Is New
  13. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
  14. Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
  15. Dizzee Rascal – Tongue ‘N Cheek
  16. Empire F The Sun – Walking On A Dream
  17. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
  18. Mika – The Boy Who Knew Too Much
  19. Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
  20. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
  21. Jamie T – Kings And Queens
  22. The Low Anthem – Oh My Gad, Charlie Darwin
  23. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
  24. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
  25. Noah And The Whale – The First Days Of Spring
  26. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
  27. The Dead Weather – Horehound
  28. Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
  29. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
  30. La Roux – La Roux
  31. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
  32. Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
  33. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
  34. White Lies – To Lose My Life
  35. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
  36. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
  37. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
  38. Richard Hawley
  39. The Horrors – Primary Colours
  40. Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
  41. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
  42. Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx
  43. Tinariwen – Imidiwan Companions
  44. The View – Which Bitch
  45. Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band – Outer South
  46. Golden Silvers – True Romance
  47. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
  48. Ian Brown – My Way
  49. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
  50. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complication
  
  Amazing stuff! :D
  
  tomatron @Binary_Star | 7 Nov '09, 12:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - The Q top 50 is fixed to so they can keep the likes of Lilly Allen and Kasabian sweet
    
    and their record companies so they have editorial access to these people in the future. I find this list achingly depressing...
    
    JohnnyZaza @tomatron | 7 Nov '09, 13:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    erniebiff this'd this
Not happy about all these coming out so early.

grouchland | 7 Nov '09, 13:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Florence and the Machine 2nd?

Fuck. Off.

Binary_Star | 7 Nov '09, 13:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
.

Ugh, I hate lists always coming out so early. There's still two months of the year left!

I used to quite like The Fly, but the last lot of magazines I've picked up just fail to interest me. I'm easily going to have a top 100 list this year, but of them only 3 are in The Fly's list. Ah well.

paulo13 | 7 Nov '09, 14:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
End of year lists

are getting like shops advertising for Xmas. Seems to start earlier and earlier every year.

Binary_Star | 7 Nov '09, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Fly

...Listens to a lot of Hip Hop then?

monkeygod | 7 Nov '09, 14:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Jamie T!
  
  **MASSIVE SAFETY WINK**
  
  tomatron @monkeygod | 7 Nov '09, 14:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
Next month is "End Of Decade!!!" lists,

So publications are getting the end of year stuff out early.

Sub_Editors | 7 Nov '09, 14:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Too......many..........lists

must.....es....esc......escapurgggggggggggghhhhhhhh.........

Binary_Star | 7 Nov '09, 14:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
i'm really surprised

at how low Bat for Lashes are in all of these lists?

Two Suns, Frank Turners, Bombay Bicycle Clubs and MPP would all be in top 10 for mine.

niallKP | 7 Nov '09, 19:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
how kasabian

can be on any list of this kind annoys me. top 50, yeah most likely. but any increase on that is stupid!
Bombay Bicycle club too, I just don't enjoy their stuff.
'Two Dancers' is a superb album, I have been lucky enough to work with them live recently, thus gaining access to, in my opinion, their superb live performances. Big things in 2010.

So_It_Goes | 7 Nov '09, 22:08 | X | ^ This | Reply