List season is approaching...so, which albums have fallen dramtically in your estimations?
Albums that were potentially near the top of your favourites, but now you wonder why you even own them. Long-term disappointment, if you will.
Perfume Genius - Emotional albums tread a very fine line of tastefulness and at first I was very into this. For the last few months I've found it very ham-fisted and cringeworthy. And I still love Hospice.
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I would say long-term disappointment
but I've been a bit underwhelmed by 'Until The Quiet Comes.'
yeah, ditto
it was comfortable #1 of the year when I first heard it. will still rank highly but I'm far less inclined to believe it's a masterpiece as I initially did
Such a disappointment after Cosmogramma
I think I prefer it to Cosmogramma
I've been listening to it more anyway. It's not as bombastic, it sort of just glides you along, while sucking you in a bit. It takes advantage of the subtle moments, a lot going on in the background that you don't really appreciate until you've listened through it a couple times.
I really utterly love it
But it's been hurdled over by over records this year for various reasons. This year has been so good for music, I must've spent an hour staring at my screen trying to send my top 5 album list to Sean for the DiS lists.
The XX - Coexist
Really thought it was great, but haven't been able to go back to it since.
I think Coexist is better than the first one.
I am very close to being of this opinion myself
At first Coexist just seemed like a watered down version of the first one. Now, it almost feels like they were written by two different bands.
I feel the opposite
initially underwhelmed, has made loads more sense on repeated listens.
"We used to be closer than this..." shivers.
Chromatics and The xx.
Especially Chromatics. All style no substance, I think.
I could have told you that from the start!
Yeah, well.
I sort of got swept up in it all. Then listened to the album for about the third time and realised I was bored.
i've gone reverse
bored to begin with but its kinda become parta me. weird.
this doesn't quite apply
but i have to say, i'm not quite as hot on frank ocean as i was and i don't know why
maybe i burned it out? i really really loved it. still do, just not as much.
On the topic of Frank Ocean, is the rich kids song a joke?
I really hope it is.
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...ort of Morrow
Just dropped off my radar. No inclination to listen to it at all any more.
did you ever like that?
it was shocking
Liked the way you dropped the 'P'
and dropped the line and said 'dropped off my radar'. Metadrop. Classy
Kendrick Lamar
is overrated.
enjoyable enough album
just dont think its worthy of all the hyperbole
Jack White is sliding too
Every Elbow album...
bar the first two.
I have this experience with Spiritualised (apart from the first record)
Love them for a week. Never listen to them again.
Grimes for me.
Beach House - Bloom
I loved it at first, but after a few listens a lot of the melodies started to sound saccharine. Myth and Lazuli are great tracks, the rest are a bit meh.
Same here
Not a patch on their last one.
Excellent
like the previous one.
Twin Shadow
Fucking couldn't get enough of it, but now I skip Golden Light anytime it comes on on my yearly playlist. Probably going to get dropped.
The opposite is true of the new Twilight Sad. It's taken me almost 10 months to fall in love with it.
I'm a big doubter on this one...
...just how many listens did it take for you to 'get it'? (or were you just in the right mood one day).
Proabably 10+ listens and yeah, the mood was probably needed.
i really liked Polica at first
but it has become a bit samey
this
though it depends on my mood - sometimes I listen to it and I'm like what the fuck is this coffee shop bullshit with the bizarre vocal effects, sometimes it hits the spot. Mostly the former
Purity Ring
i saw em a couple times before 'shrines' came out and was so excited about it but after 10 or so listens its worn SO thin. apart from the fact that their sound is a cool idea thats well executed i really think the album just got really tiresome after a couple months.
This ended up being the opposite of how it worked for
Months later I still have that 'Grandma...' line form Belispeak revolving round my head, and Obedear is a recently found obsession.
listened to it like a million times
still great. Fineshrine is too good.
SVE, Chromatics, Twin Shadow, Lower Dens
All early contenders that have since slipped out of my top ten.
Conversely, the Hot Chip album just keeps climbing and climbing...
Although 'fallen dramatically' is probably not appropriate
I still think they're all good albums
I really liked Lee Ranaldo's new one when it came out
Really can't be arsed with it now. Just sounds like a half-arsed Sonic Youth LP. Which is essentially what it is I suppose.
Sleigh Bells new one
Haven't listened to it in ages.
So what we're basically saying is...
...that almost all the most talked about albums this year have become boring to some people at some time?
I'm not seeing anything in this if I'm honest.
I would still choose an album that I haven't listened to for a while as my album of the year based on the initial impact it had and whether anything has come close to it.
Basing my end of year lists of longevity is pointless - I stop listening to everything after about a month and won't come back to it for a while. I get tired of the most exceptional stuff after I've listened to it to death. Besides there's always something new to listen to and only a limited time in which to hear it all in.
'Kill For Love' still tops my list but I barely ever get the chance to listen to it and it does need listening to all the way through. Still a stunner though which as I've said, is unusual with me.
I don't think what you're saying and what the thread's suggesting are the same thing
For example, I've not listened to the Perfume Genius record all the way through for about 4 months I'd say, but it's still my AOTY. My opinion of the quality hasn't diminished.
However some stuff (Grimes and Twin Shadow seems to be common ones, although I personally still love the Grimes record) people think is awesome on first listen, but then after a bit of time find they're not that fussed about. We all admit some albums are 'growers' and I think this is just looking at the reverse process.
Absolutely this...
...except Perfum Genius is the perfect example, not a counterpoint ;)
The problem is I'm "not that fussed about" almost ervy single album on my AOTY list right now.
About 90% of them I probably won't listen to again again this year but that won't necessarily mean they're not amazing albums.
I'm just not in the mood for them now and there's other stuff I'm listening.
Take you example - the Twin Shadow album, 'Confess' (should be in any one's top ten list for '12 IMO but there you go) - I listened to the is recently and it sounded good but no where near as great as four or five months ago. However, I don't interpret that as an album I was wrong about - I just see it as an album I'm not in the mood for now and so I'm in not in the mind to judge it properly - any album I was listening to four or five months ago won't sound half as good now to my ears - in fact, I'll be a bored of most.
I have to go on what I felt at the time. I have my 'growers' of course but even they get strained after a few months.
In all honestly though, if anyone's top ten list has not got 'Kill For Love', 'Something', and 'Confess' in them then we're a breed apart and I might as well be reading French - don't get you.
As far as I'm concerned it's been yet another year of amazing 80s revival acts.
Long may they continue.
Yeah, I guess that makes sense too.
(FWIW I think Kill For Love and Confess were 11 and 12 respectively on my list, and I liked Something but not quite that much)
so the top album on your list is one you don't listen to much or the whole way through
sounds great!
Conversely I only rate albums that stay with me throughout the year and i love coming back to . If i initially love it the first few times I hear it but and then it does nothing for me in a months time I know it was lacking substance somehow. As a result my end of year list is 3 albums i love and a whole bunch after that which I can admit are reasonable
Some records can be the musical equivalent of a sugar rush
Instantly exciting but wears off quickly. Pop albums tend to most commonly do that. I think last year's Class Actress album is a good example.
definitly
the ones that take a while to reveal themselves are usually the keepers
How are we feeling about Last of The Country Gentlemen these days?
I popped it on the other day, and still got the shivers. Magical stuff. But the hype was so OTT i wondered whether anyone had drifted away from it...
Flying Lotus
first couple of listens were great. now i just get bored.
Dirty Projectors
At first I loved the fact that it was so melodic and accessible but then I realised it was all sweet melodies and slightly original instrumentation, but absolutely no depth to the songwriting. Not a patch on Bitte Orca.
I always find that
it's the albums that I get into instantly that I go off more quickly!
sexydave
I completely agree.
Unfinished list
Cat Power
Stars
The Shins
Bloc Party
Wild Nothing
Scissor Sisters
Santigold
SM Disco
Scuba
Miike Snow
Addisson Groove
Estelle
Air
It's sad that I had to think for a while to remember if Stars actually released a record this year
For a time, inbetween Set Yourself On Fire and In Our Bedroom After The War, they were actually my favourite band.