best of Vxspertine's 2017 In Review |#1 Album Revealed: Björk LOST

[Unoriginal]

Melodrama is kinda low but glad it's on the list

I only listened to Pleasure's title track  

[rvx]

Feist + Lorde

Edited December 17, 2017 by rvx

[Vxspertine]

 

18. St. Vincent – Masseduction

 

Quote

In Los Ageless, the waves they never break
They build and build until you don't have no escape
But how can I leave?
I just follow my hood to the sea, go to sleep

 

Spoiler

Score: 7/10 (7.3/10)

Trinity: Los Ageless, Pills, Slow Disco

Worst track: Garbageboy

 

@Joey Coco won. I didn't know much about her before this album was released and I was actually going to skip it, but then I saw how much acclaim and hype it was getting here so I jumped on the hype train, and I was pretty impressed at first to be honest. I loved this initially. The pretty instant hooks on some of the songs on the album captured my attention, and I think I was also pretty blinded by the hype.

 

I thought it'd end up higher on this list, but a lot of the songs got old very quickly, and honestly the whole album aged like milk. The main problem with this album is how try-hard it is. Tracks like Sugarboy are way too much imo and have been too much for me since the first time I heard them, and a lot of tracks in the middle of the first and second half are just not much more than basic and generic. On the other hand tracks like Los Ageless and Pills are among my favorite tracks of the year and have amazing hooks.

 

It's a pretty random mixed bag for sure, and I don't really come back to it much as an album, but it's still a lot better and a lot more exciting than other pop records that came out this year and I think it deserves some of the acclaim it's been getting.

[Vxspertine]

 

17. Zola Jesus – Okovi

 

Quote

One small thread keeps you hostage
To the better side of death
One small chain a ghost in limbo
It's all for the best

 

Spoiler

Score: 8/10

Trinity: Witness, Ash To Bone, Exhumed

Worst track: Wiseblood

 

I didn't know who she was before this release. Right off the bat the first things you're introduced with when you listen to this album, are the beautiful Doma and the amazingly intense Exhumed, 2 tracks that I think are some of the most important tracks on the album.

 

With really intense and interesting lyrics and really intense and beautiful vocal performances, this album is pretty amazing.

 

The first half of the album is excellent. I love songs like Witness and Ash to Bone because of her amazing vocal delivery, Exhumed's grand and dramatic strings work amazingly with her lyrics and vocals, and Siphon's instrumentation works really well with the mood of the album. While the second half is not as good imo (her vocals sound kind of lazy and it effects the instrumentation, and it gets pretty dreadful at some points) this album is still amazing and her sound is very intriguing. Really looking forward to see how her sound develops in the future.

Edited December 17, 2017 by Vxspertine

[theblackestday]

You already know how I feel about the two awful albums Melodrama and Asseduction

 

Tried getting into Pleasure but I couldn’t  It’s so boring it was a nightmare revisiting it

 

Okovi  

Edited December 17, 2017 by theblackestday

[Vxspertine]

 

16. Arca – Arca

 

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No, no quiero

vivir preso de la melancolía

 

Spoiler

Score: 7.5/10 (7.65/10)

Trinity: Reverie, Coraje, Fugaces

Worst track: Piel

 

Arca came thru with his vocal debut on his self-titled album. This album is strangely catchy (pretty much like his previous efforts) and his vocals deliver and add a lot to his sound. He has a really unique production style and it's been manifesting differently on every release he put out so far, and this album is no exception.

 

His vocal delivery is really heartbreaking on most of these tracks, he pours so much emotion into his performances, and it makes the songs even more gorgeous. I just really hope he will be changing up his production style at some point, thorough this album I kept getting the feeling of "I've heard this before" since he didn't really switch up his sound much, some tracks on this album and also on other efforts he was a part of this year have some of the same sounds he already used on past albums and same production style.

 

While Reverie is like one of the best songs of the year, Piel is pretty unlistenable and Miel And Child are both not very good.

[theblackestday]

Arca  Not you dragging Miel and Piel but praising Coraje

[Vxspertine]

 

Spoiler

 

28 minutes ago, artangels said:

THIS TEA

i hate this track so much  

It's way too much 

25 minutes ago, Unoriginal said:

Melodrama is kinda low but glad it's on the list

I only listened to Pleasure's title track  

I'm surprised you didn't listen to Pleasure 

21 minutes ago, rvx said:

Feist + Lorde

10 minutes ago, theblackestday said:

You already know how I feel about the two awful albums Melodrama and Asseduction

 

Tried getting into Pleasure but I couldn’t  It’s so boring it was a nightmare revisiting it

 

Okovi  

 

3 minutes ago, theblackestday said:

Arca  Not you dragging Miel and Piel but praising Coraje

Coraje is exellent wym

 

I'm not sure when my next update is going to be, I'll try to get one done tomorrow 

 

Recap:

 

Spoiler

20. Lorde - Melodrama

19. Feist - Pleasure

18. St. Vincent - Masseduction

17. Zola Jesus - Okovi

16. Arca - Arca

 

[Unoriginal]

1 minute ago, Vxspertine said:

I'm surprised you didn't listen to Pleasure 

i listened to the title track at work and planned on listening to the rest of the album but just... didn't  

[Vxspertine]

10 minutes ago, Unoriginal said:

i listened to the title track at work and planned on listening to the rest of the album but just... didn't  

Well get to it fat you'll probably like it 

[volition]

Definitely feel like Melodrama is being overrated by critics, though obviously it’s still a good album. The exuberant praise confused me for a long time and I kinda think it’s retrospective of her debut which I personally thought was better.

Pleasure and Arca are great though Century and Desafío are personal highlights from each.

Masseduction comes nowhere near her previous albums but I still like it 

Okovi is also really great too but Wiseblood is really awful, I can’t stand that song. Melodically it’s very dull and unpleasant (to me).

[theblackestday]

Wiseblood slander is not allowed on this site, tf? @artangels @ChapelHooker come clock these hoes

Edited December 17, 2017 by theblackestday

[Tom Vercetti]

Pure Heroine deserved Melodrama's acclaim more, i'll agree on that.

Sugarboy slander eh. Tbh, it drained out pretty quick. Too sugary. I'm seeing this common criticism of  Masseduction being overplayed but idk, I didn't have that issue. 

Okovi was my first Zola album as well and I liked some songs from it.

I like those Arca highlights.

[artangels]

30 minutes ago, theblackestday said:

Wiseblood slander is not allowed on this site, tf? @artangels @ChapelHooker come clock these hoes

33 minutes ago, volition said:

Okovi is also really great too but Wiseblood is really awful, I can’t stand that song. Melodically it’s very dull and unpleasant (to me).

 

 

[Vilppu]

hdfhdj a throwback to when Reverie copypasted that Masseduction comment onto our convo and you got mentioned, assuming you didn't dig too deep into that but if you had, I'm 459% sure you would consider me a crazy psycho

 

aaanyway, really liked that album obvs + Pleasure and Melodrama were good too. From Arca I've only heard Mutant and it was so off-putting  also

 

ALL OF THE THINGS WE'RE TAKING

'CAUSE WE ARE YOUNG AND WE'RE ASHAMED

 

 

SEND US TO PERFECT PLACES

ALL OF OUR HEROES FADING

 

 

NOW I CAN'T STAND TO BE ALONE

LET'S GO TO PERFECT PLACES

 

Edited December 17, 2017 by Vilppu

[Vxspertine]

Spoiler

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1 hour ago, volition said:

Definitely feel like Melodrama is being overrated by critics, though obviously it’s still a good album. The exuberant praise confused me for a long time and I kinda think it’s retrospective of her debut which I personally thought was better.

Pleasure and Arca are great though Century and Desafío are personal highlights from each.

Masseduction comes nowhere near her previous albums but I still like it 

Okovi is also really great too but Wiseblood is really awful, I can’t stand that song. Melodically it’s very dull and unpleasant (to me).

Yeah Melodrama is overrated to the heavens. Pure Heroine was more rushed but it had her best songs.

Century and Desafio are both great  I hate the abrupt ending on Century though 

Wiseblood is definitely the worst song on the album, her vocals are so lazy tbh

1 hour ago, theblackestday said:

Wiseblood slander is not allowed on this site, tf? @artangels @ChapelHooker come clock these hoes

 

35 minutes ago, artangels said:

 

 

If it doesn't make you wiserdoesntmakeyoustrongerdoesntmakeyoulivealittlebitwadrudoiiin

 

39 minutes ago, Tom Vercetti said:

Pure Heroine deserved Melodrama's acclaim more, i'll agree on that.

Sugarboy slander eh. Tbh, it drained out pretty quick. Too sugary. I'm seeing this common criticism of  Masseduction being overplayed but idk, I didn't have that issue. 

Okovi was my first Zola album as well and I liked some songs from it.

I like those Arca highlights.

I didn't like Sugarboy at all, just way too much for me 

28 minutes ago, Vilppu said:

hdfhdj a throwback to when Reverie copypasted that Masseduction comment onto our convo and you got mentioned, assuming you didn't dig too deep into that but if you had, I'm 459% sure you would consider me a crazy psycho

 

aaanyway, really liked that album obvs + Pleasure and Melodrama were good too. From Arca I've only heard Mutant and it was so off-putting  also

 

ALL OF THE THINGS WE'RE TAKING

'CAUSE WE ARE YOUNG AND WE'RE ASHAMED

 

 

SEND US TO PERFECT PLACES

ALL OF OUR HEROES FADING

 

 

NOW I CAN'T STAND TO BE ALONE

LET'S GO TO PERFECT PLACES

 

I do remember that and I didn't dig deep enough apparently 

Mutant is literally his worst project, you should listen to his EP Stretch 2, my favorite Arca project

And about Perfect Flops... Rum pum pum pum

 

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Edited December 17, 2017 by Vxspertine

[Nimrod.]

Cant wait for the next set 

[Eeveelution]

The bandwagon Asseduction hate has got to stop

 

[Lovesong]

Feist   

Folk ****ing won this year

[madonnas]

Did you listen to more Zola after getting into Okovi?

Taiga was kinda meh but had its moments, but her other releases are SO GOOD

[Lazuli]

MASSEDUCTION  

Okovi was kinda cute but I didn't really revisit it much

Same with Arca, but it's more laborious

[MP2K]

Out of Production, Arca doesn't really do it for me. I do hope so one day.

I might have to get into Zola

Masseduction - I need to finish it but it's great.

[SLIME]

You half dragging all these albums is kinda sending me too sljsks I wasn't ready

But I can back most of them being where they are still, only things that triggered me were Arca over Annie and Nobody Knows Me Like the Piano being a Process lowlight :( (Feist is 100x more boring fight me)

 

And lmfao mumble pop I might steal that. Keep em coming

[Vxspertine]

Spoiler

 

18 hours ago, Nimrod. said:

Cant wait for the next set 

Thanks  Coming in a bit 

18 hours ago, Eeveelution said:

The bandwagon Asseduction hate has got to stop

 

I'm sorry but itswhatshedeserves.gif

18 hours ago, Lovesong said:

Feist   

Folk ****ing won this year

It really did 

15 hours ago, madonnas said:

Did you listen to more Zola after getting into Okovi?

Taiga was kinda meh but had its moments, but her other releases are SO GOOD

No, which ones should I listen to? Are they better than Okovi? 

13 hours ago, Lazuli said:

MASSEDUCTION  

Okovi was kinda cute but I didn't really revisit it much

Same with Arca, but it's more laborious

I actually found the Arca album to be pretty accessible here and there. Reviere is one of the best tracks of the year for sure 

12 hours ago, MP2K said:

Out of Production, Arca doesn't really do it for me. I do hope so one day.

I might have to get into Zola

Masseduction - I need to finish it but it's great.

Fair enough, I would really live for a new Arca production style with his next album

You should Okovi was pretty great 

1 hour ago, Kang. said:

You half dragging all these albums is kinda sending me too sljsks I wasn't ready

But I can back most of them being where they are still, only things that triggered me were Arca over Annie and Nobody Knows Me Like the Piano being a Process lowlight :( (Feist is 100x more boring fight me)

 

And lmfao mumble pop I might steal that. Keep em coming

 I didn't realise I was dragging everything until I finished writing everything 

Annie's album freefell down my list for a reason  Arca's album had a solid spot in my top 20 since he dropped it.

The Piano song is the most generic song on that album, SNS

 

 

#15 - #11 coming up in a bit 

[madonnas]

 

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