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My knee-jerk shortlist is below, but with eight albums still to check out it's likely to change a bit yet.
Looking forward to seeing how it lines up with the official shortlist on July 13!


ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Darling the Dawn
Mariel Buckley - Everywhere I Used To Be
Debby Friday - Good Luck
Dan Mangan - Being Somewhere
The Sadies - Colder Streams
Jairus Sharif - Water & Tools
Andy Shauf - Norm
Snotty Nose Rez Kids - I'm Good, HBU?
Alexandra Stréliski - Néo-Romance
Witch Prophet - Gateway Experience
 
Like, what the fuck is this shit?
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That's the pedigree of the new Foo Fighters according to discogs:
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Foo Fighters - But Here We Are

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Let's get Ryan K Smith to cut it, send it to GZ for the metal work and then send that to fucking Memphis. They could have let me cut it for like a 1000th of the price - not sure it would be discernably different after Memphis gets done with it.
 
avecigrec said:
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What Are We Rejecting When We Reject St. Anger? Metallica’s Mid-Life Crisis At Twenty | The Quietus

There is a contrarian impulse in music criticism just as there is in the wider public sphere; an impulse as ironically predictable in its inevitability. Rest assured that The Quietus is not Spiked and I am not Brendan O’Neil. I am not about to argue that St. Anger is a lost masterpiece. Much of...
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It's a decent article. The biggest problem with St Anger is that it's self-indulgent bullshit. The things that suck about it: shitty lyrics, no solos, song arrangements that turn every song into a plodding 7 minute riff barrage endurance contest, that fucking snare drum, the entire SKOM fiasco, etc., all could have been solved if either James or Lars (or both) had someone around that they trusted to tell them "this is bullshit and you are sucking really bad", and they had the courage to listen to it and accept it.

Which is essentially what they did with Rick Rubin on Death Magnetic, whose advice was basically "what if Metallica in 2008 did not suck like it does? What if 2008 'tallica made the record that logically should have come between AJFA and TBA? Thrash with songwriting chops and the lyrics don't suck ass. And solos." Presumably Kirk slipped Rick a $50 and he mentioned the solos to the band a few times.

I have hated on AJFA before and regretably I think there's no real fixing that record -- the band doesn't want to admit they fucked up, Jason would like everyone to shut up about it and ultimately Lars' criticisms about the sound are true. Which is something Flemming Rasmussen should have been fired for, a lot, but it's just as likely the band wasn't willing to listen to guitar sound advice. But maybe SA could be redeemed by re-recording it. Fucking switch out the snare and put solos on it. The lyrics will still be My First Therapy bullshit but whatever at least it won't be boring for the whole 70 minutes.
 
Every once in a while I stumble upon a song that just latches on to me and won't let go. I love it when it happens. Some combination of the melody, the arrangement, the lyrics, the delivery, and the complexity of the song just comes together in a way that speaks to me at every level of my being, at least for at time. And during that time, I just can't stop listening to the song and trying to break it down in my head until every fucking nuance has worked its way into my cells. Currently, the song that won't let go is Wednesday's "Chosen to Believe." Fuck. What a banger! The lyrics are provocative and seductive to me in some way I don't quite understand, Karly Hartzman's voice just rips me up, and the band absolutely kills it. Extra bonus is that I can delude myself into thinking I can accompany the song at my drum kit.

Check it out here. Definitely worth double-digit listens.



And here's a live version:

 
Jan said:
So my local Radio Station has this weird tradition of spending the summer vacation Sundays by playing topical 100 lists that get elected by musicians, radio host, record execs, record store owners etc (142 people this year) who each create a top ten and the 100 best are calculated from that.
It's year 6 and the topics get more varied, so ii was best 100 songs about the radio yesterday. Here is the list as a spotify playlist, next week is best Songs about sex
Joy division was first this time
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The are doing it again this year. First sunday was best breakup songs
 
I've developed a LOT of mixed feelings about Dr. Dre over the last thirty years, but I couldn't possibly agree with him more here...

“Anybody that’s talking about the state of hip hop right now, when talking about it from a negative place, sounds like somebody’s fuckin’ grandfather,” said Dre.
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He continued, “This is just what it is. Hip-hop is evolving. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it, you know what I’m saying? I’m keepin’ it all the way 100 with you. Some of this shit, most of this shit, I don’t like. I don’t listen to a lot of that shit. But I’m not hatin’ on it. I’m never gonna hate on it.”
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Dr. Dre shares his thoughts on modern hip-hop

“Hip hop is what it is"
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While I will never not think Morrissey is an insufferable twat, and his post becomes a bit of a blovited ramble at the end, I find myself agreeing with far more of what he has to say here than I'm fully comfortable with...

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Morrissey attacks music industry following Sinéad O'Connor's death

Morrissey has attached the music industry following their responses to Sinead O'Connor's death in a new blog post
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