Frownland's Top 20 Albums of 2017 (featuring 17 honourable mentions)

OccultHawk · 01-07-2018, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle

Okay. I'd believe you more if you didn't say Gold Digger was alright. He's made much better songs than that in the same kinda vein.

The fact that I can’t remember them or any KL songs except DNA proves the music is forgettable.

Dry. Like old chicken.

OccultHawk · 01-07-2018, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Gold Digger is trash lol.

Flashing Lights is the ONLY song of his I actively like.

Don’t remember it.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-07-2018, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Gold Digger is trash lol.

Flashing Lights is the ONLY song of his I actively like.

What about the stuff he's done for other people?

Got loads of good beats.

**Exo** · 01-07-2018, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

What about the stuff he's done for other people?

Got loads of good beats.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-07-2018, 05:10 PM

lmao OK fair enough.

**Frownland** · 01-07-2018, 05:16 PM

Kanye's a good producer but I never came across anything that made me think he was above the grade or daring. I honestly think that you had to be there for the Kanye wave to really get it.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-07-2018, 05:25 PM

I bought The Blueprint the week it came out, and also The College Dropout.

I liked Kanye before he blew up I was there for the wave and I got it.

**Goofle** · 01-07-2018, 05:43 PM

All of his albums have at least one great track. Aside from maybe TLOP.

**Frownland** · 01-07-2018, 07:15 PM

Honourable Mention Number 4

A7PHA - A7PHA

Anticon artists Doseone and Mestizo come together as A7PHA. I don't know much about Mestizo, but he's on a K-the-I??? track which is an endorsement of the highest order, to say nothing of collaborating with Doseone, who I've been a long time fan of. I think it only makes sense to call Doseone the Beefheart of rap because of the way that he deconstructs it to the point of creating the rap of parallel universes. I've heard him referred to as the Mike Patton of rap as well and maybe that's more appropriate because I know that some people are annoyed by Doseone's voice.

The record is a bizarre listen that I gravitate to just to figure out what it's trying to be. It's full of hard electronic beats and these hooks that are melodic, odd, and punchy. There are some sick bars on here too, especially the Alias feature. Doseone has some really melodic parts, some grimier ones, and harder verses where he gets especially percussive. Musically, it jumps between synthy, dark, trippy, dancy, rock-influenced, and tribal. When I first listened to it, I had zero idea of what to think of it. There's still some element of that every time I hear it, but it's stood up in a good way after several spins.

https://anticon.bandcamp.com/album/a7pha

**Frownland** · 01-08-2018, 06:09 PM

Best Personal Musical Discovery of 2017

So this part will be about what I consider to be the best music from years past that I learned about this year. Aight?

Sublime Frequencies: Molam, Minority Ethnic Music, Mono, and Asian Music in General

Sublime Frequencies is the label run by Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayat. Some of you might already be familiar with their Omar Souleyman or Group Doueh releases. Others are OGs and already know how awesome the label is.

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Sublime Frequencies is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations.

Sublime Frequencies is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research.

It all began when Mondo sent me a cut from Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam, which is part of a series where they would go and record the tribes of various countries. That led me to the album Ethnic Minority Music of Northeast Cambodia which I grew to love because of the vocals and gongs.

It wasn't until I spent a lot of time on those records that I progressed to learn about the psychedelic folk genre molam in Sublime's Frequencies' Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2. My first reaction was that it was the best music that I'd ever heard in my life. I just sat in awe of most of the record since it was so clearly derived from Western psychedelic music but rests in such an entirely different realm. That was a good night, my dudes. It was later my pick for the album club (RIP).

That later led to Princess Nicotine, which is a Mono (Burmese pop/folk) compilation that also put me into a similar state of elation when I first heard it. I love the excitable sensibility in the rhythms and the vocals.

I'm still slowly chewing my way through their discography, but even if they only had what I've heard from them so far (there are a few that I'ven't mentioned), I can't help but thank chaos for Alan Bishop for offering us this on top of Sun City Girls, Alvarius B. and the rest of his works.

01-07-2018, 05:16 PM	#76 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Kanye's a good producer but I never came across anything that made me think he was above the grade or daring. I honestly think that you had to be there for the Kanye wave to really get it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-07-2018, 07:15 PM	#79 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Honourable Mention Number 4 A7PHA - A7PHA Anticon artists Doseone and Mestizo come together as A7PHA. I don't know much about Mestizo, but he's on a K-the-I??? track which is an endorsement of the highest order, to say nothing of collaborating with Doseone, who I've been a long time fan of. I think it only makes sense to call Doseone the Beefheart of rap because of the way that he deconstructs it to the point of creating the rap of parallel universes. I've heard him referred to as the Mike Patton of rap as well and maybe that's more appropriate because I know that some people are annoyed by Doseone's voice. The record is a bizarre listen that I gravitate to just to figure out what it's trying to be. It's full of hard electronic beats and these hooks that are melodic, odd, and punchy. There are some sick bars on here too, especially the Alias feature. Doseone has some really melodic parts, some grimier ones, and harder verses where he gets especially percussive. Musically, it jumps between synthy, dark, trippy, dancy, rock-influenced, and tribal. When I first listened to it, I had zero idea of what to think of it. There's still some element of that every time I hear it, but it's stood up in a good way after several spins. https://anticon.bandcamp.com/album/a7pha __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-07-2018, 05:10 PM	#75 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	lmao OK fair enough.

01-07-2018, 05:25 PM	#77 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	I bought The Blueprint the week it came out, and also The College Dropout. I liked Kanye before he blew up I was there for the wave and I got it.