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bluth | Best of 2015 FINISHED
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I would NOT describe Momma as a standout but I guess I'm glad someone loves it.
Out of Reach is a total aesthetic! But it's not my fave on the EP (maybe my least fave? but like it's a really consistent project)
Is What's a Girl to Do a cover of the Cristina song? I couldn't find it (I didn't look very hard yet)
Warm blood is so good. Like, who else has done that? WHO?
OMG Honey I'm Good is SO trash. Gross. Disgusting. I hate every song in your bottom 6. DFH is the one I hate the least but it's not like it's good or anything.
 Halsey is so bad.
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I love Dear Future Husband. 
You are RUTHLESS.
I still don't even know who Halsey is though so 
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Dear Future Husband 
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Warm Blood is good.
Lol I love all the songs from your worst list  except for Fight Song, that song is trash 
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Yes drag that SJW and that Tumblr trash 
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Fight Song it's REALLY annoying 
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Your worst-of lashings are now my new bible verses
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Wow. The write-up for Annie. I was there. I didn't want to leave 
Saint Carly and Kendrick 
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This song feels like it exists in a world of Ned Flanders, where all drivers are polite and selfless on the road, where lawyers and politicians don't have ulterior motives, where people pop up at your kitchen window every morning to offer you freshly-baked breakfast muffins and a drive to work
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You just described me there. 
But even I don't really like Shut Up And Dance.
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Listening to a couple of these that I haven't heard. Gonna have to def. check out Annie and been meaning to check out Fatima.
Warm Blood <3
Aw, I liked S&D
But the rest of these lashings 
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Warm Blood 
Shut Up And Dance is such a bop, I don't think it's one of the worst songs of the year 
Drag Meghan
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I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ugh those worst songs of the year are so on point - ew ew ew @ charlie puth, halsey, rachel flatpen and vanilla trainor ugh
V V Brown has gone in such a weird direction with her music. She was always on the edge of what's expected but her latest album is actually so crazy I just cant get into it
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Your write-ups
Marvin Gaye is cute tho 
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Okay, first, gonna say this about a song that I really do love:
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This song feels like it exists in a world of Ned Flanders, where all drivers are polite and selfless on the road, where lawyers and politicians don't have ulterior motives, where people pop up at your kitchen window every morning to offer you freshly-baked breakfast muffins and a drive to work
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This made me chuckle. Again, I'm a big fan of SUAD...and I can't deny the truth of this statement. 
The REST of your worst songs list, though, is unbearably accurate. "New Americana" and "Honey, I'm Good." are probably my least favorite songs of 2015, though the existence of "Marvin Gaye" probably bothers me more.
Oh, also, "Warm Blood". Yes. Much yes. 
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2015 Best Songs
15 Love Is Free
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique
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14 Body Talk
Escort
| Continuing this bopT-filled update is this wonderful disco number. The rest of the parent album kinda blended into one for me, but Body Talk is something of a masterclass in taking a throwback song and turning it into something fun and saturated with hooks. It's just something that makes you want to throw some shapes down the discoteca, yknow |
13 Ch-Ching
Chairlift
| Ch-Ching, a title probably inspired by the feeling of royalties from BEYONCE pouring into Chairlift's pockets, definitely has a self-titled influence there. Ch-Ching is nothing like Chairlift has done before, but it feels really refreshing and, importantly, right. The horns, claps, everything, it's some concrete jungle, downtown stuff, and Caroline's voice totally fits in amongst all this. Infectious and fun. |
12 Borders
M.I.A.
| 2015, if not defined by anything else, was probably the year of moral issues rising to the surface of the collective social consciousness. Such a year would never be complete without M.I.A.'s sardonic commentary from the sideline, which is what she does perfectly in Borders. The most immediate thing you could probably draw from the song is that it refers to the migrant crisis, but I also like the idea about M.I.A. deriding the border that exists between people's online and offline personae: 'goals, bein bae, love wins', easy things to type out on-screen but seldom seen acted upon in real life.
The hook is catchy and the beat is pretty good too, but I don't think we ever doubted that from Maya. Had I been arsed to go through with a video countdown this probably would have been #1 too.
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11 Terrence Loves You
Lana Del Rey
| Even though one of the things that draws me to Honeymoon is hearing Lana obstinately stand by her formula, some of the best moments in her discog are when - for a fraction of a second - she snaps away from her persona and reveals something more human. "I'm tired of feeling like I'm ****ing crazy."
The arrangement in Terrence Loves You is as simple as simple gets, and the song entirely hinges on that wonderfully emphatic "I lost myself when I lost you." Leave it to Lana to make something seem so trite and profound at the same time. The song is so understated, and yet it's so dramatic, and unashamedly so, because it knows that people are suckers for the dramatic, emotional crux. It's subtle to the point that it feels completely endless, in both a temporal and emotional sense. |
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2015 Best Albums
9 In Another Life
Bilal
 | I learned Bilal's name through his feature somewhere on To Pimp A Butterfly, and In Another Life definitely has similarities stylistically. Elsewhere, the album is a pretty easy, short (less than forty minutes) neo soul listening which doesn't demand Butterfly's political attention nor, say, Wildheart's artistic attention, and instead makes for something that just makes you want to, you know, relax
In Another Life takes its main frame of reference from 70's flavoured R&B, into which Bilal takes pretty simply songs which best exemplify the melodies and his often-used falsetto. I can't really offer more than to just listen to this album for being a pretty competent mood-setting album, with features from Kendrick and a fantastic contribution from Kimbra on Holding It Back. Just as he sings on album highlight Satellites, 'Just another day / In another life / On the satellite', there's a lovely, spatial, weightless feeling about this album. |
8 Hallucinogen
Kelela
 | Janet's brand of 90's R&B has had such an undeniable impact on music's current landscape, of which Hallucinogen is such a clear example. There's obvious influence from the moody, midnight rain songs on Janet. which create an atmosphere which is so intimate and yet so expository, songs which draw you in as much as they make you slutb0p. I guess you could say Hallucinogen successfully accomplishes the same thing Jamie xx's album tried to do, which is to conflate the internalised listening experience of the bedroom with a deeper, club-ready underbelly, which makes for a really interesting, hallucinogenic (ding ding ding!) EP which exemplifies Kelela's ability to merge these places together.
It's something made apparent from the onset with the opener, A Message, which combines Arca's moody production with Kelela's rather sedated 'If I were your ex... girlfriend' vocals, which makes for this twisted, candid listening experience. It follows through on the album's themes of sexual domination on Gomenasai, the brooding march of The High, the conflict between the head and the heart on All The Way Down, or the highlight Rewind which doesn't need any flowery, ******** explication because it's a downright bop
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7 Why Make Sense?
Hot Chip
 | I think the main and, probably, the only mantra to be taken from Hot Chip's latest album can be found in the title: Why Make Sense? These guys are just here to have fun, play around a bit. They don't want to overindulge and take themselves too seriously, they just want to flirt around with what they do best, which is taking solid pop ideas and articulating through their own, idiosyncratic brand of electronic music. This idea really shows in Why Make Sense? - an album I honestly didn't expect to enjoy - which is so easy-going and visceral, it's kinda hard not to be taken in.
Why Make Sense?, I guess, is somewhat comprehensive in its interpretation of modern day electronic music. Opening track Hurrache Lights reminds us that Giorgio Moroder released an album this year, Need You Now is an enjoyable version of most of In Colour, Cry For You's jumpy, glitchy verses are resonant of 2014's Syro. The best moments are probably the most unexpected ones: Love In The Future has a pretty seamless guest feature from De La Soul - two artists I would never have imagined together - but it works well, and as mentioned previously Need You Now is probs something I might not have expected from Hot Chip.
But all round fun album, would recommend 2 a friend
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I got into Hot Chip's Made in the Dark~era stuff (so good) this year but nothing newer by them although everything I heard was good, lemme fix it
+ I mean mr bilal must be REALLY good then if he had a better album than g-rimes 
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I have to wait to cmmnt on the others cuz I can't seem em on my phone nn but ok bordersg0d 
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There are just so many songs called body talk lol. I love love is free. Hot chip let me down this year. 
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Chairlift + M.I.A 
Why Make Sense
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Hallucinogen is amazing of course. I liked the Hot Chip album too, it was very fun!
I should listen to the Bilal album then! Sounds interesting.
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