wokeupnew
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Canada is having a banner year it seems, 3 in my top 5!Nice to seeMen I Trust is still at the top
Best Music of 2021
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Hollywood
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I share a lot of albums with Rough Trade's AOTY list!
Hollywood
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avecigrec
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I've enjoyed a lot of those albums but only see three, at a glance, that will be on my own list.
Which really just means it's been a great year for music!
Hollywood
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I have roughly ten
TenderLovingKiller®
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Basic
Bennnnn
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This has some of my favorite albums of the year on it, albeit not in the same order. But it's so nice to see Wolf Alice and Cassandra Jenkins so high up on a list. I love those albums.
edit: realize they aren't that high up, but hey they're higher than I think they'll be on any other publication's list
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cbl
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Me - I feel pretty good about my list
Rough Trade - Dry Cleaning is #1 album of 2021
Me - missed that one...let's listen
Dry Cleaning - ***opening base-line***
Me - fuuuuuuuuuck
Rough Trade - Dry Cleaning is #1 album of 2021
Me - missed that one...let's listen
Dry Cleaning - ***opening base-line***
Me - fuuuuuuuuuck
wokeupnew
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cbl
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ya...as I listen a bit deeper, I feel like they're cut from the Arab Strap mold...you're giving me compellingly dark music but vocally I'm just not locked in like I am for similarly styled bands like Shame and Protomartyr
wokeupnew
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Bennnnn
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Oh that’s it I think. I liked the album (Dry Cleaning) but I haven’t returned to it. And as a whole listen through it kinda just loses me after a while. Thought I loved it initially, but yeah it’s too detached or something to really latch onto.
Wes C. Attle
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2021 was a big year for speak-singing. I know they’re trying to sound like The Fall, but I can’t seem to get into these bands. See: Dry Cleaning, Squid, Black Country New Road, TV Priest….
Hollywood
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I believe the term is Sprechgesang, and yes it was well represented in 2021, especially as part of the new wave of post-Brexit post-punk bands such as Dry-Cleaning, BCNR etc.
That said, it is not to be confused with spoken word poetry which is loosely defined as "poetry intended for performance", which resembles something like Cassandra Jenkins' mesmerizing sophisti-pop song Hard Drive.
wokeupnew
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This band led the way years ago with the speak-singing. I remember music nerds loving this album but I hated the way she sings. tbf I haven't listened to it in years. It could be better now.
I'm not sure of anything on my 2021 list yet except for Coeur de Pirate's Perseides. It's an album of solo piano pieces she wrote while recovering from vocal cord surgery. Each song is named after a city in Quebec that was important to her childhood. The vinyl has been delayed a bunch of times so I haven't "spun" it yet, but it gets played every couple days.
Wes C. Attle
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For some reason, this one had clicked for me
wokeupnew
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listening to this now, it's realllllll nice. Getting very strong Dustin O'Halloran vibesI'm not sure of anything on my 2021 list yet except for Coeur de Pirate's Perseides. It's an album of solo piano pieces she wrote while recovering from vocal cord surgery. Each song is named after a city in Quebec that was important to her childhood. The vinyl has been delayed a bunch of times so I haven't "spun" it yet, but it gets played every couple days.
Oh for sure! Yeah, I was thinking you were the one that posted it here originally cause it’s totally up your alley.