Lol started listening to French Films for you trolaplooza, didn't make the cut but it was in the my top 10 for Finnish indie

Daughter leaked!

It's been a while since an album from an artist I'd never heard of has had as big an impact on me as Waxahatchee's "Cerulean Salt". It's an astonishingly good album. Highly recommend it. Also downloaded her first album which is more lo-fi but just as moving and superbly well written.

Don't think it has been posted - Rustie's latest track Slasherr is really cool imo.
Azealia Banks seems like a less than stellar person, but her new track Yung Rapunxel is also cool.

http://pitchfork.com/news/49871-list...berlake-album/

New Justin is so disappointing. Awful.

Mirrors >>>>>>>>> Every other track.

I've been a closet JT for a long time but I'm not feeling his new stuff. I feel like his sound hasn't changed with the time.

Haven't checked it out yet myself, disappointed to see these reactions. But at least then my expectations are tempered, was pretty hype after Mirrors which is just an amazing song.

Posting too much today, but I really like this song that I randomly came across just now reading The Singles Jukebox (which is also a new site to me, and seems cool). Anyway, hot chicks, nice production, great pop tune:

SXSW Mixtape

20/20 is self indulgent and much of it is just meandering mid tempo blah. I think timbaland (and Justin's insistence on collaborating with him well past his relevance) is to blame for it being underwhelming. He just doesn't have it anymore, the game has passed him. I mean what's the last banger he made? 'The Way I Are' had a nice beat but even thats 2007 and it's nowhere near 2006 future sex love sounds

Idk it's a shame I think I read somewhere that Justin was just fulfilling his record contract or something here. There are a few songs that I like and I'm going to listen to it a few more times but I think a big mistake was going for the home run prog-pop 7 minute song on nearly every track.

suit and tie still has its moments for me, mirrors is beginning to lose its charm to me (well the first 5 minutes of it at least), strawberry bubblegum had some nice moments but nothing else really stuck with me

Like what made frank oceans 'pyramids' great was that it wasn't surrounded by songs just like it (among other things, obv I mean it's just a great song)

British Invasion Sheep in POG

I'll add a contrarian voice to the 20/20 talk ITT: I like it.

My nitpicks: I wasn't a fan of the various 808 sound choices—e.g., I thought the first half of "Don't Hold the Wall" was elite, whereas the second half felt kind of amateurish—and most of the tracks need to be ~20% shorter. It also suffers from a good amount of aesthetic dissonance: the 808-based stuff, and the Loose leftovers ("Let the Groove Get In"), and the Prince-like stuff, and the '90s-Timbo throwbacks, and the pure FutureSex/LoveSounds rehashes, sit side by side in a not-too-coherent way. A more homogeneous stylistic palette would've served it well, imo.

But it melts very well into the background of whatever the **** I'm doing, and scattered throughout are a good amount of elite-tier high points, which is more than I can say for most albums. So if I did the rating thing, I'd probably give it a 7-7.5/10 or so. I expected to like it because I like most of what Timbaland has done, but it's in the bottom half of his body of work, imo.

It's not very close to FS/LS, though, that much is clear imo. FS/LS mastered this binary-song-w/-interlude structure. "... Comes Around" and "I Think She Knows" are untouchable.

Yeah, loved this one. "Hollow Bedroom" and "Brother Bryan" are great tracks. "BB" in particular is pretty cunning: the instrumental is minimalist in a childish and unsophisticated way, but that only makes the vocals (esp. in the chorus) a lot more touching. I'm not sure why I just thought of Vivian Girls's "No"—but I did.

I hope Colbie Caillat releases an album in 2013.

That's funny because I like the second 'half' of Dont hold the wall much more than the first

Agreed that Bankrupt is very good, exceeded my expectations (I only liked half of the songs on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix really)

I agree that Entertainment is sort of grating at times but it is also one of the more energetic single-ish songs on an album that imo after one listen doesn't have many

Love this cover and track:



http://soundcloud.com/chancetherappe...by-benzel-cass

Very good album. "Smother" and "Human" are my favorite tracks. The way she sings "I'm sorry if I smothered you" at the end of the first makes me feel pretty emo. I wish a few more tracks had the energy of "Human."

daughter album is great.

Peace album stream:

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?bl...e_album_stream

strokes streaming on pitchfork