best of volition's Best of 2018 | all albums done

[Tsareena]

Kelela, Vince

3 hours ago, volition said:

Melodrama (13 -> OUT)

girl I-

[theblackestday]

our taste it AMAZES me

[Tom Vercetti]

Love how similar the top 10s are.

 

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1. Take Me Apart - Kelela (+5)

It's what she deserves. 

[minho]

1. Take Me Apart - Kelela (+5)

3. Big Fish Theory - Vince Staples (-1)

5. Flower Boy - Tyler, the Creator (+2)

 

yes wonderful

 

Melodrama (13 -> OUT)

 

hmmm

 

[ultraviolence.xx]

6 hours ago, volition said:

Melodrama (13 -> OUT)

SCREAM

 

also tea

[Vxspertine]

6 hours ago, volition said:

2. Music For People in Trouble - Susanne Sundfør (-1)

3. Big Fish Theory - Vince Staples (-1)

Oh wow

6 hours ago, volition said:

1. Take Me Apart - Kelela (+5)

6 hours ago, volition said:

6. Reaching For Indigo - Circuit des Yeux (+14)

Oh WOW

6 hours ago, volition said:

9. Neō Wax Bloom - Iglooghost (+6)

10. Black Origami - Jlin (-7)

 

Melodrama (13 -> OUT)

OH WOW!!!

[World Eater]

the Circuit des Yeux snappage

 

11 hours ago, volition said:

I thought that 2017 was relatively weak at the time but 2018 was somehow even worse 

I've been saying!

[madonnas]

I only listened to TMA once this year but it did sound better than I remembered it   

[Unoriginal]

TMA somehow collecting even retrospective acclaim it's what she deserves 

[ElleDriver]

can't believe that susanne sundfoer album was your aoty at some point...

[ChapelHooker]

Iglooghost, Vince, Susanne and Kelala 

 

[volition]

 

22 hours ago, Wicked said:

I'm glad you realized Melodrama is mid.

 

Kelela & Vince kind of owned the year just a bit.

Yeah I was trying to convince myself throughout the entirety of 2017...

 

21 hours ago, TRF. said:

this banner  but the top 10 from 2017 is AMAZING... Points Were Made!

I think the changes were improvements tbh

 

19 hours ago, Tsareena said:

Kelela, Vince

girl I-

it's what she deserves

 

19 hours ago, theblackestday said:

our taste it AMAZES me

you won't be saying that in 2 minutes

 

19 hours ago, Tom Vercetti said:

Love how similar the top 10s are.

 

It's what she deserves. 

best female r&b of the decade? can't see why not

 

17 hours ago, minho said:

1. Take Me Apart - Kelela (+5)

3. Big Fish Theory - Vince Staples (-1)

5. Flower Boy - Tyler, the Creator (+2)

 

yes wonderful

 

Melodrama (13 -> OUT)

 

hmmm

 

it's what she deserves 

 

15 hours ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

SCREAM

 

also tea

it's what she deserves

 

15 hours ago, Vxspertine said:

Oh wow

Oh WOW

OH WOW!!!

it's what they deserve

 

10 hours ago, World Eater said:

the Circuit des Yeux snappage

 

I've been saying!

it's what she deserves!!

 

8 hours ago, madonnas said:

I only listened to TMA once this year but it did sound better than I remembered it   

then keep going until it becomes amazing

 

6 hours ago, Unoriginal said:

TMA somehow collecting even retrospective acclaim it's what she deserves 

it's what she deserves indeed!!

 

I didn't quote everyone who complimented the banner but seeing your comments, I have decided to drop out of uni and become a freelance graphics designer.

 

I will be posting 2 disappointments today and 3 tomorrow, just because they're kinda long and I need to fit an extra day in. They aren't solely disappointments too, but also overrated while acclaimed albums, or ones that I knew would be bad regardless.

[volition]

For some reason this got trapped inside the spoiler so...

 

I didn't quote everyone who complimented the banner but seeing your comments, I have decided to drop out of uni and become a freelance graphics designer.

 

I will be posting 2 disappointments today and 3 tomorrow, just because they're kinda long and I need to fit an extra day in. They aren't solely disappointments too, but also overrated while acclaimed albums, or ones that I knew would be bad regardless.

[volition]

 

Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae

 

So this time around Janelle decided to become a person and it resulted in her worst album yet. Everything from her Many Moons EP to the Electric Lady have been well-liked by me, and although there was a decline, I will still satisfied with what she was putting out, until now. Dirty Computer is perfectly listenable and it’s clearly not bad, but for me it is very disappointing coming from someone who’d been so ambitious in the past. I find the politics on this extremely crude and rudimentary and so the lyrics are often off-putting in a way that wouldn’t be the case if they were subtler or more incisive. The music also feels more disjointed than it should be, considering the way The Archandroid managed to sequence many songs of varying genres, eg. Pynk which is nice enough although very average but sounds completely out of place. I also feel like the songs lack any lasting impact, a lot of them to me are unmemorable compositions or second rate Prince rip-offs. As I said, it’s completely listenable, but a disappointing effort from someone who at one point had made music so interesting.

Edited December 13, 2018 by volition

[volition]

 

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

 

It doesn’t baffle me that this has managed to get so much attention; it seems to have attracted a whole lot of pop fans into country music (as in, this is the only country album they will ever listen to), but I cannot see this as anything other than very mediocre. It’s just a series of incredibly bland and underwritten country pop songs, I fail to see what makes it worthy of any sort of acclaim whatsoever. The songs are beyond simple, they are skeletal. Kacey takes the simplest of emotional inclinations and stretches them out for 4 minutes; the songs are conventionally structured, and there’s barely enough content to even tell a story beyond being in a certain state of mind. I will say the instrumentals are pleasant and have occasional instrumental flourishes that are nice to listen to, but the songs are juvenile and they barely scratch the surface of any kind of feeling.

[Body Electrician]

Tea. DC is one of the most overrated albums ever. It was never cute to begin with and aged horribly.

[World Eater]

2 minutes ago, volition said:

 

2 minutes ago, volition said:

[theblackestday]

2 minutes ago, World Eater said:

 

[2]

[Body Electrician]

I too find GH pretty overrated. Some great songs amongst many meh songs.

 

[Eeveelution]

4 minutes ago, World Eater said:

 

[3]

[Tom Vercetti]

Some points for Gryffindor were made for both mentions. 

[Tsareena]

girl you lied twice

[Unoriginal]

36 minutes ago, World Eater said:

 

[4]

[Vxspertine]

52 minutes ago, volition said:

So this time around Janelle decided to become a person and it resulted in her worst album yet.

 

Defo agree though. For Janelle's standards Dirty Computer is not unique or adventurous. I also found a lot of it to be lacking energy. It still has some holy bops like Take My Wig and Make My Wig Fly though.

Edited December 11, 2018 by Vxspertine

[Pink Matter]

2 hours ago, World Eater said:

 

Literally the opposite for me  

 

While Dirty Computer is no The ArchAndroid, I found it to be a step up from The Electric Lady which I felt was very overstuffed with incredibly weak songs (especially in the latter half of the album). It made the album age very poorly for me. Outside of certain songs, I thought the lyrics were fine  and I also never really had an issue with the album sounding disjointed. It seemed like she actually made an effort to connect songs together (especially the ones in the middle of the album).

 

Golden Hour though

 

Easily one of my least favorite albums to listen to this year. I thought it would be more than what it is but I am just not a fan of country music. Outside of those two disco-pop songs she had on the album, nothing else really held my attention.