A few more tracks we enjoyed this year.
Nicolas Jaar - With Just One Glance You (feat. Scout LaRue)
Devo: This is Demi/Bruce's daughter singing. Could have killed it for me, except that she's actually good and sultry.
Van Stee - We Are
Ding: Really dig this band outa Minneapolis, hope they get too big for their snow pants.
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Kowieski: With so much talk of the bro-step movement in the blogosphere (some of you should embrace this and rebrand yourself), I think this is a good counter-balance to all the super heavy-bass/WUB WUB WUB WUB/Optimus-Prime-fucking-a-crane music.
The Shoes - Time to Dance
FreyDon: Only watch this video if you think you would like to see Jake Gyllenhaal murdering people with a fencing sword.
Escort - Cocaine Blues
Devo: Hey folks, meet Escort, the band that might get you laid in early 2012.
Rebecca & Fiona - Dance
Tatarsky: Late night music. These broads know how to party.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The Prig's Worst of 2012 List
Merry Christmas.
#5 Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid M.A.A.D City
What about this guy matters? Just cuz he gets pseudo weird on a few tracks, all of a sudden this is some Outkast shit? Fuck that. This is a mediocre album from a mediocre rapper. Dre killed him on his own track. He actually put Drake on one of his tracks, which no one from Compton should ever do.
#4 Alt-J: An Awesome Wave
Shitty singing? Check. Is the "band" a bunch of nerds? Check. Repetitive "minimalist" tones that only get "interesting" when the computer noises start? Check. Matilda is grating. Their song MS practically gave me MS. 4 of the 13 tracks were an "Intro" or an "Interlude" - so they are fucking lazy too.
#3 Grimes: Visions
Grimes is what makes me hate contemporary music and internet culture. Knowing little about anything, she uses everyone else's taste to "create" her own. She says things like "One day, I was listening to music and it suddenly made sense to me how it was constructed." This is a girl using computers to disguise her voice and her lack of any musical talent. All tracks sound the same so none jumped out.
#2 The Xx: Coexist
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry about that - just thinking about this shit album put me to sleep. The best words to describe this album are as follows, and I quote, "stink, stank, stunk." Special hat tip to Grantland writer Amos Barshad, who made the daring move of writing, ""Shelter" is catchy as a motherfucker." I disagree Amos, "Shelter" is mostly just some broad mouth breathing into a microphone, while someone else half asses the guitar.
#1A Macklemore & Lewis: The Heist
Someone actually wanted mold themselves in the model of LFO? Frankly, I'd prefer "Summer Girls" to this mess of cliches and overall theft of a culture. I've said it before about other white-washed hip hop culture thieves - luckily none are ever remembered, which is appropriate given all the talk about this being "his moment." His song about shoes especially touched my cold heart - the Nike product placement probably helped fill his wallet. His terrible posturing and posing on that tiny desk show deserves mention as well.
#1B Every shitty electro tune that was pumped out by no talent clowns for a bunch of people on drugs (no offense meant to drugs). I won't even bother to name them because that would insinuate that they actually have characteristics that separate one from another.
Folks that mattered to the Prig this year - Danny Brown, King Tuff, The Moons, Gun Club Cemetery, Frank Ocean, Freddie Gibbs, certain Beach House tracks and some Azealia Banks.
- The Prig
#5 Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid M.A.A.D City
What about this guy matters? Just cuz he gets pseudo weird on a few tracks, all of a sudden this is some Outkast shit? Fuck that. This is a mediocre album from a mediocre rapper. Dre killed him on his own track. He actually put Drake on one of his tracks, which no one from Compton should ever do.
#4 Alt-J: An Awesome Wave
Shitty singing? Check. Is the "band" a bunch of nerds? Check. Repetitive "minimalist" tones that only get "interesting" when the computer noises start? Check. Matilda is grating. Their song MS practically gave me MS. 4 of the 13 tracks were an "Intro" or an "Interlude" - so they are fucking lazy too.
#3 Grimes: Visions
Grimes is what makes me hate contemporary music and internet culture. Knowing little about anything, she uses everyone else's taste to "create" her own. She says things like "One day, I was listening to music and it suddenly made sense to me how it was constructed." This is a girl using computers to disguise her voice and her lack of any musical talent. All tracks sound the same so none jumped out.
#2 The Xx: Coexist
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry about that - just thinking about this shit album put me to sleep. The best words to describe this album are as follows, and I quote, "stink, stank, stunk." Special hat tip to Grantland writer Amos Barshad, who made the daring move of writing, ""Shelter" is catchy as a motherfucker." I disagree Amos, "Shelter" is mostly just some broad mouth breathing into a microphone, while someone else half asses the guitar.
#1A Macklemore & Lewis: The Heist
Someone actually wanted mold themselves in the model of LFO? Frankly, I'd prefer "Summer Girls" to this mess of cliches and overall theft of a culture. I've said it before about other white-washed hip hop culture thieves - luckily none are ever remembered, which is appropriate given all the talk about this being "his moment." His song about shoes especially touched my cold heart - the Nike product placement probably helped fill his wallet. His terrible posturing and posing on that tiny desk show deserves mention as well.
#1B Every shitty electro tune that was pumped out by no talent clowns for a bunch of people on drugs (no offense meant to drugs). I won't even bother to name them because that would insinuate that they actually have characteristics that separate one from another.
Folks that mattered to the Prig this year - Danny Brown, King Tuff, The Moons, Gun Club Cemetery, Frank Ocean, Freddie Gibbs, certain Beach House tracks and some Azealia Banks.
- The Prig
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