pipe down, you're no lover
it's failing cuz you want it to
well, i thought it was love but i guess i must be dreaming
'bout feeling something instead of you
37. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Yea IK horrifically titled, tooo longggg, there was no need for them to go ambient on us etc. But for me, these are all things that reflect the 1975's ambition, which is something I don't think get enough credit for for many. Take away the filler (there is surprisingly little of it) and you're left with a solid ass collection of different spins on new wave and similar styles. But even with all the extra, somehow the whole thing still ends up as more than the sum of its parts.
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those pristine days i, recall so fondly
so few are trials when a life isn't lonely,
and now if only
36. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
My first PC (occasionally
PQ) release got me into some of their previous work too, and with those I appreciated the band's commitment to a distinctly modern brand of post-punk. But this album was a lil different. Their overall style stays in place, but the traces of world music (or at least Talking Heads), some balladry here + there, and this strange overarching spaghetti western feel make it the most interesting and colorful set out of everything I've heard.
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yeah i say it to ur face
but it doesn't mean a thing
ow!
35. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
I know the first several times I saw Jessy's name pop up she was being mentioned as part of the 'alt-R&B' movement that was kind of always too big to be treated as one umbrella term. She spends some time on her second album diving further into that same sound, but the most promising moments come from her moves into poppier stuff, and her slightly freaky, skittering take on it.