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The veiled Moroccan punk band Taqbir are serious: ‘By pushing their anger towards the sexism, homophobia and racism that lingers like a dark, poisonous fog around Moroccan culture, Taqbir play a very dangerous game.
They are putting themselves on the frontline, risking potential imprisonment, death threats and more, just to escape the cultural prison they’ve grown up in.’ Frontwoman Aicha (a pseudonym) and her band perform behind veils to conceal their true identities out of fear for repercussions.
Their debut EP ‘Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause’ features only four songs and clocks in at seven minutes. Think Cocaine Piss meets The Slits meets X-Ray Spex. Live, they are ‘a blast of compressed rage.
The full version of my interview with Ajay Saggar of the Bent Moustache is now up on the neate blog.
A slightly edited version appeared on the Quietus.
More neate photos.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2021 by deepskyobject
1. Crystal Canyon - Yours With Affection and Sorrow [shoegaze]
2. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend [alternative]
3. Черноплодь/Чернохор - И З Г О Р А [drone, russian avantgarde metal]
4. Nation of Language - A Way Forward [new wave]
5. Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me [punk]
6. Trigg & Gusset - Black Ocean [dark jazz]
7. TRPP - TRPP [dream pop]
8. Biosphere - Angel's Flight [ambient]
9. Alessandro Cortini - Scuro Chiaro [drone, electronic]
10. Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit [doom]
11. Flyying Colours - Fantasy Country [shoegaze, dream pop]
12. Stereolab - Electrically Possessed [Switched On vol. 4] [lo-fi]
13. НОМ - МАЛГИЛ [Посвящается ОБЭРИУ] [russian avantgarde]
14. Kraków Loves Adana - Follow The Voice [darkwave]
15. Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum [icelandic post-punk]
16. Soft Blade - Softic [minimal wave, russian electronic]
17. Drug Store Romeos - The World Within Our Bedrooms [indie pop]
18. Vollam - Mirror EP [shoegaze, dream pop]
19. Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion [atmospheric black]
20. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour [pop]
21. Goat Girl - On All Fours [indie pop]
22. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny Haha [indie pop]
23. The Splashers - Homesick EP [dream pop]
24. Françoiz Breut - Flux Flou de la Foule [french pop]
25. Jarvis Cocker - Chansons D'Ennui Tip-Top [pop]
26. Tape Waves - Bright [dream pop]
27. 김민하 [BrokenTeeth] - 편지(The Letters) [shoegaze, dream pop]
28. Blankenberge - Everything [shoegaze]
29. Midwife - Luminol [ambient pop, shoegaze, slowcore]
30. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg [indie rock]
31. Minuit Machine - Sainte Rave [darkwave]
32. Leila Abdul-Rauf - Phantasiai [dark ambient]
33. Alice Phoebe Lou - Glow [pop]
34. Wednesday - Twin Plagues [dream pop]
35. Lucid Express - Lucid Express [shoegaze, dream pop]
36. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning [black, death]
37. Vessel of Iniquity - The Doorway [death, industrial]
38. Space Afrika - Honest Labour [ambient]
39. Still Corners - The Last Exit [dream pop]
40. Seefeel - St / Fr / Sp [unreleased][electronic]
41. Pia Fraus - Now You Know It Still Feels the Same [shoegaze, dream pop]
42. BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory [jazz fusion]
43. White Flowers - Day By Day [dream pop]
44. Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment [noise pop, kraut]
45. Mogwai - As The Love Continues [post-rock]
46. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders [nu-jazz]
47. Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2 [avant-prog]
48. Ora Clementi - Sylva Sylvarum [electroacoustic]
49. BRUIT ≤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again [post-rock, drone]
50. Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991, vol. 1,2 (2020-2021) [musique concrète]
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The Wire's Releases of the Year 2021
1. L'Rain - Fatigue
2. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
4. Low - Hey What
5. Daniel Bachman - Axacan
6. Apartment House - Number Pieces
7. Hamid Drake, Elaine Mitchener, William Parker, Orphy Robinson & Pat Thomas - Some Good News
8. Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment
9. Circuit Des Yeux - -io
10. Phew - New Decade
11. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
12. Angel Bat Dawid - Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology
13. James Brandon Lewis - Jesup Wagon
14. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound
15. Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works
16. Tomaga - Intimate Immensity
17. Anthony Braxton - 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017
18. The Bug - Fire
19. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
20. Maggie Nicols - Creative Contradiction: Poetry, Story, Song & Sound
21. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Minds in Flux
22. Muqata'a - Kamil manqus
23. Alpha Maid - CHUCKLE
24. William Parker - Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Volumes 1–10)
25. Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron
26. Space Afrika - Honest Labour
27. Clarissa Connelly - The Voyager
28. Perila - How much time it is between you and me?
29. Grouper - Shade
30. Sourdure - De mòrt viva
31. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
32. Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS
33. Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit
34. RP Boo - Established!
35. Eliane Radigue - Occam Ocean 3
36. Karkhana - Al Azraqayn
37. Pauline Anna Strom - Angel Tears in Sunlight
38. Pamela Z - A Secret Code
39. Patricia Brennan - Maquishti
40. Rambutan - parallel systems
41. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
42. Azita - Glen Echo
43. Raed Yassin - Archeophony
44. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - Now
45. William Parker - Mayan Space Station
46. Meemo Comma - Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²
47. Patrick Shiroishi - Hidemi
48. Ahmed [حمد] - Nights on Saturn (Communication)
49. Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
50. IZ Band - IZ: 路过旧天堂书店 Drop by Old Heaven Books
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Uncut's 75 Best Albums of 2021
1. The Weather Station - Ignorance
2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
3. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
4. Low - Hey What
5. SAULT - Nine
6. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
7. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
8. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
9. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
10. Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
11. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
12. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
13. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
14. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You
15. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
16. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
17. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
18. Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It
19. John Grant - Boy from Michigan
20. Modern Nature - Island Of Noise
21. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
22. The Coral - Coral Island
23. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
24. Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
25. Jane Weaver - Flock
26. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)
27. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
28. Ryley Walker - Course In Fable
29. Steve Gunn - Other You
30. Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
31. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
32. The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
33. Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove
34. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
35. John Murry - The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes
36. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
37. Dean Wareham - I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L A
38. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
39. Squid - Bright Green Field
40. Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
41. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
42. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha
43. My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket
44. Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home
45. Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes
46. Israel Nash - Topaz
47. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
48. David Crosby - For Free
49. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Pick A Day To Die
50. Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
51. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
52. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - Now
53. The Black Keys - Delta Kream
54. Daniel Bachman - Axacan
55. LoneLady - Former Things
56. Damon & Naomi - A Sky Record
57. Haiku Salut - The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
58. Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
59. Strand of Oaks - In Heaven
60. Grouper - Shade
61. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
62. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind
63. Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor - Time No Changes
64. Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments
65. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
66. Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
67. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
68. Cathal Coughlan - Song of Co-Aklan
69. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together
70. black midi - Cavalcade
71. Buffalo Nichols - Buffalo Nichols
72. Marianne Faithfull With Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty
73. Sleater-Kinney - Path of Wellness
74. Rosali - No Medium
75. Rose City Band - Earth Trip
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Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2021
1. Space Afrika - Honest Labour
2. AceMoMa - A Future
3. Eris Drew - Quivering in Time
4. Emeka Ogboh - Beyond the Yellow Haze
5. Erika De Casier - Sensational
6. George Riley - interest rates, a tape
7. Hoavi - Invariant
8. Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997
9. Various Artists - The Sound Of Limo
10. Skee Mask - Pool
11. Yu Su - Yellow River Blue
12. Perila - How much time it is between you and me?
13. Andy Stott - Never the Right Time
14. Wanton Witch - Wanton Witch
15. Dawn Richard - Second Line
16. L'Rain - Fatigue
17. Various Artists - Amapiano Now
18. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
19. DJ Manny - Signals in My Head
20. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
21. Tirzah - Colourgrade
22. aya - im hole
23. HTRK - Rhinestones
24. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1
25. Mr. Mitch - Lazy
26. Loraine James - Reflection
27. Arushi Jain - Under the Lilac Sky
28. Conclave - Conclave
29. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
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The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2021
1. The Bug – Fire
2. aya – im hole
3. Dean Blunt – Black Metal 2
4. The Weather Station – Ignorance
5. William Doyle – Great Spans Of Muddy Time
6. Loraine James – Reflection
7. Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki
8. Scotch Rolex – Tewari
9. Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
10. Gazelle Twin & NYX – Deep England
11. Tanz Mein Herz – Quattro
12. Liars – The Apple Drop
13. Divide And Dissolve – Gas Lit
14. The Armed – ULTRAPOP
15. L'Rain – Fatigue
16. Tomaga – Intimate Immensity
17. Tirzah – Colourgrade
18. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
19. Rắn Cạp Đuôi – Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế
20. black midi – Cavalcade
21. Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – Whose Woods These Are
22. Eris Drew – Quivering In Time
23. audiobooks – Astro Tough
24. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms To Open Us
25. MICROCORPS – XMIT
26. Joy Orbison – still slipping vol. 1
27. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
28. The Transcendence Orchestra – All Skies Have Sounded
29. HARD FEELINGS – HARD FEELINGS
30. Part Chimp – Drool
31. Rochelle Jordan – Play With The Changes
32. ioulus – oddkin
33. Kìzis – Tidibàbide / Turn
34. Black Country, New Road – For The First Time
35. Space Afrika – Honest Labour
36. Shirley Collins – Crowlink
37. Skee Mask – Pool
38. Shackleton – Departing Like Rivers
39. Grouper – Shade
40. Ed Dowie – The Obvious I
41. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
42. ---__--___ – The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid
43. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d's Pee At STATE'S END!
44. Erika de Casier – Sensational
45. Hawthonn – Earth Mirror
46. Rufus Isabel Elliot – A/am/ams (come ashore, turn over)
47. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
48. Ruth Goller – Skylla
49. Succumb – XXI
50. Melvins – Working With God
51. Frog Of Earth – Frog Of Earth
52. Oliver Leith – 'Me Hollywood'
53. Andy Stott – Never The Right Time
54. Goodbye World – At Death's Door
55. Slikback – MELT
56. Max Syedtollan / Plus-Minus Ensemble – Four Assignments
57. Time Binding Ensemble – Nothing New Under The Sun
58. William Parker – Mayan Space Station
59. NONEXISTENT – NONEXISTENT
60. Årabrot – Norwegian Gothic
61. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Searching For The Disappeared Hour
62. Manic Street Preachers – The Ultra Vivid Lament
63. Claire Rousay – a softer focus
64. Helm – Axis
65. Clairo – Sling
66. Aging ~ Land Trance – Embassy Nocturnes
67. Rien Virgule – La Consolation Des Violettes
68. Jane Weaver – Flock
69. Jeff Parker – Forfolks
70. Vapour Theories – Celestial Scuzz
71. At The Gates – The Nightmare Of Being
72. GNOD – La Mort Du Sens
73. Ursula Sereghy – OK Box
74. Bloody Head – The Temple Pillars Dissolve Into The Clouds
75. Jorja Chalmers – Midnight Train
76. Leather Rats – No Live 'Til Leather '98
77. Koreless – Agor
78. Snapped Ankles – Forest Of Your Problems
79. Hedvig Mollestad – Tempest Revisited
80. Richard Youngs – CXXI
81. Squid – Bright Green Field
82. Mirage – Mirage
83. Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis – May Sounds
84. My Bloody Sex Party – Vol. 2
85. Taqbir – Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause
86. The Altered Hours – Convertible
87. Perkins & Federwisch – One Dazzling Moment
88. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon. I
89. Fluisteraars – Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking
90. Angharad Davies – gwneud a gwneud eto / Do And Do Again
91. Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou
92. Antonina Nowacka – Vocal Sketches From Oaxaca
93. Turnstile – GLOW ON
94. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
95. Senyawa – Alkisah
96. Ruth Mascelli – A Night At The Baths
97. LoneLady – Former Things
98. Low – HEY WHAT
99. Marco Shuttle – Cobalt Desert Oasis
100. Celestial – I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
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Rough Trade UK's Albums of the Year 2021
1. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
2. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
5. Idles - CRAWLER
6. Squid - Bright Green Field
7. Jane Weaver - Flock
8. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
9. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
10. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
11. The Weather Station - Ignorance
12. black midi - Cavalcade
13. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
14. Bicep - Isles
15. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
16. St Vincent - Daddy's Home
17. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
18. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
19. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
20. 박 혜진 [Park Hye Jin] - Before I Die
21. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
22. L'Rain - Fatigue
23. Koreless - Agor
24. Alfa Mist - Bring Backs
25. Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou
26. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
27. Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems
28. Pip Blom - Welcome Break
29. Jungle - Loving In Stereo
30. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
31. shame - Drunk Tank Pink
32. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
33. Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
34. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
35. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
36. Altın Gün - Yol
37. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
38. Marina Allen - Candlepower
39. Clairo - Sling
40. Tindersticks - Distractions
41. Tirzah - Colourgrade
42. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You
43. LUMP - Animal
44. Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
45. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol
46. Sunroof - Electronic Music Improvisations Vol
47. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind
48. Desire Marea - Desire
49. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
50. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
51. SAULT - Nine
52. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
53. Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn
54. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
55. Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
56. Low - Hey What
57. FUR - When You Walk Away
58. Nao - And Then Life Was Beautiful
59. Goat Girl - On All Fours
60. Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms
61. Jordan Rakei - What We Call Life
62. Portico Quartet - Terrain
63. Sedibus - The Heavens
64. Elder Island - Swimming Static
65. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
66. dodie - Build a Problem
67. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)
68. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE
69. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
70. The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue
71. Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes
72. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
73. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
74. John Grant - Boy from Michigan
75. TORRES - Thirstier
76. Django Django - Glowing in the Dark
77. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha
78. The Goon Sax - Mirror II
79. Tot Taylor - Frisbee
80. Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader
81. Yann Tiersen - Kerber
82. Squirrel Flower - Planet (i)
83. Spencer Cullum - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection
84. Hannah Peel - Fir Wave
85. Berwyn - DEMOTAPE/VEGA
86. Skee Mask - Pool
87. slowthai - TYRON
88. Kojaque - Town’s Dead
89. Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror
90. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy
91.Steve Earle - J.T.
92. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses
93. Geese - Projector
94. Nation of Language - A Way Forward
95. Rostam - Changephobia
96. Villagers - Fever Dreams
97. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods
98. Sleater-Kinney - Path of Wellness
99. Chubby and The Gang - The Mutt's Nuts
100. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
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Gorilla vs Bear’s Top 50 Albums of 2021
1. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
2. Tirzah - Colourgrade
3. HTRK - Rhinestones
4. Grouper - Shade
5. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
6. Dean Blunt - Dean Blunt
7. Space Afrika - Honest Labour
8. Wet - Letter Blue
9. Dorothea Paas - Anything Can't Happen
10. Karima Walker - Waking the Dreaming Body
11. Enumclaw - Jimbo Demo
12. Doss - 4 New Hit Songs
13. Jessy Lanza - DJ-Kicks
14. Mr Twin Sister - Al Mundo Azul
15. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
16. Erika de Casier - Sensational
17. Men I Trust - Untourable Album
18. Wednesday - Twin Plagues
19. Loraine James - Reflection
20. Small Black - Cheap Dreams
21. Hildegard - Hildegard
22. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
23. Sun June - Somewhere
24. Nana Yamato - Before Sunrise
25. Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy - Son
26. DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - The Makin' Magick II Album
27. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
28. Buzzy Lee - Spoiled Love
29. Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
30. Sangre Nueva - Goteo
31. Indigo Sparke - echo
32. harvey_dug - Nu Grip
33. Snail Mail - Valentine
34. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
35. Nite Jewel - No Sun
36. Skee Mask - Pool
37. Renée Reed - Renée Reed / J’ai rêvé
38. Cleo Sol - Mother
39. Low - Hey What
40. JPEGMAFIA - LP! (OFFLINE)
41. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
42. Hand Habits - Fun House
43. Holy Other - Lieve
44. Sloppy Jane - Madison
45. VA - I can't complain but sometimes I still do
46. Navy Blue - Navy’s Reprise
47. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
48. Equiknoxx - Basic Tools
49. You’ll Never Get to Heaven - Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train
50. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom
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Mojo's 75 Best Albums of 2021
1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
2. St Vincent - Daddy's Home
3. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
4. Low - Hey What
5. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
6. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)
7. The Coral - Coral Island
8. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
9. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
10. Villagers - Fever Dreams
11. John Grant - Boy from Michigan
12. The Weather Station - Ignorance
13. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
14. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
15. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
16. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
17. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
18. Idles - CRAWLER
19. David Crosby - For Free
20. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
21. The Bug - Fire
22. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
23. Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
24. SAULT - Nine
25. The Black Keys - Delta Kream
26. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
27. Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
28. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
29. Field Music - Flat White Moon
30. Yola - Stand for Myself
31. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - L.W.
32. Paul McCartney - McCartney III
33. Endless Boogie - Admonitions
34. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE
35. The Stranglers - Dark Matters
36. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
37. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions)
38. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You
39. Jane Weaver - Flock
40. Chrissie Hynde - Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Dylan
41. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
42. Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
43. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
44. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
45. Jungle - Loving In Stereo
46. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha
47. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
48. Squid - Bright Green Field
49. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
50. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolves
51. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
52. Nathan Salsburg - Psalms
53. Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood - LIVE
54. Tony Joe White - Smoke from the Chimney
55. BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
56. Lorde - Solar Power
57. Reigning Sound - A Little More Time with Reigning Sound
58. Ryley Walker - Course In Fable
59. Billy F Gibbons - Hardware
60. Cedric Burnside - I Be Trying
61. Steve Gunn - Other You
62. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
63. Howlin' Rain - The Dharma Wheel
64. Tony Allen - There Is No End
65. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
66. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
67. AC/DC - Power Up
68. Loretta Lynn - Still Woman Enough
69. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space
70. black midi - Cavalcade
71. Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
72. Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It
73. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy
74. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods
75. BLK JKS - Abantu/Before Humans
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Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
2. Adele - 30
3. Rauw Alejandro - VICE VERSA
4. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
5. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
6. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
7. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
8. Turnstile - GLOW ON
9. C. Tangana - El Madrileño
10. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
11. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
12. He has never been more enigmatic
13. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
14. Morgan Wade - Reckless
15. Polo G - Hall Of Fame
16. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
17. Low - Hey What
18. Tems - If Orange Was A Place
19. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
20. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
21. Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
22. Doja Cat - Planet Her
23. Dawn Richard - Second Line
24. Cimafunk - El Alimento
25. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
26. Carly Pearce - 29
27. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
28. This is how free rock & roll should sound
29. The Weather Station - Ignorance
30. Mabiland - Niñxs Rotxs
31. Young Thug - Punk
32. Mustafa - When Smoke Rises
33. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
34. Snail Mail - Valentine
35. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT
36. Adult Mom - Driver
37. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic
38. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
39. Pooh Shiesty - Shiesty Season
40. Yola - Stand for Myself
41. Topaz Jones - Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
42. Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
43. Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name
44. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
45. Myke Towers - LYKE MIKE
46. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
47. Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
48. TOMORROW X TOGETHER - The Chaos Chapter: FIGHT OR ESCAPE
49. Jhay Cortez - Timelezz
50. Drake - Certified Lover Boy
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Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2021
1. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
2. JOHN - Nocturnal Manoeuvres
3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
4. The Courettes - Back in Mono
5. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
6. The Stranglers - Dark Matters
7. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
8. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
9. Cold Water Swimmers - Holiday At The Secret Lake
10. Squid - Bright Green Field
11. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
12. Gazelle Twin & NYX - Deep England
13. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - L.W.
14. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
15. Carol Hodge - The Crippling Space Between
16. Hello Cosmos - Golden Dirt
17. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
18. Idles - CRAWLER
19. CHIHUAHUA - Violent Architecture
20. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE
21. Rats On Rafts - Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths
22. The Mudd Club - Bottle Blonde
23. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
24.St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
25. black midi - Cavalcade
26. Matt Berry - The Blue Elephant
27. Mad Daddy - Mad Daddy
28. Private Function - Whose Line Is It Anyway?
29. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy
30. Pink Suits - Political Child
31. Blue Orchids - Speed The Day
32. Jane Weaver - Flock
33. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
34. ZoZo Ginzburg - Blue Mountains
35. Steve Conte - Bronx Cheer
36. James - All the Colours of You
37. 24/7 Diva Heaven - Stress
38. Deathretro - Deathretro
39. The William Loveday Intention - Will There Ever Be A Day That You’re Hung Like A Thief?
40. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
41. Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds
42. Lola In Slacks - Moon Moth
43. Neighborhood Brats - Confines of Life
44. The Catenary Wires - Birling Gap
45. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
46. Turner - Daydreams & Stars
47. LUMP - Animal
48. Reigning Sound - A Little More Time with Reigning Sound
49. Slow Down, Molasses - Minor Deaths
50. The Stan Laurels - There is No Light Without the Dark
51. Low - Hey What
52. La Luz - La Luz
53. Gojira - Fortitude
54. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
55. Kiwi Jr
56. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
57. Dark Mark & Skeleton Joe - Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe
58. The Bug - Fire
59. The Shadracks - From Human Like Forms
60. Amigo the Devil - Born Against
61. shame - Drunk Tank Pink
62. LoneLady - Former Things
63. Night Beats - Outlaw R&B
64. Fightmilk - Contender
65. Johnny Mafia - Sentimental
66. Jim Bob - Who Do We Hate Today
67. The Coral - Coral Island
68. Field Music - Flat White Moon
69. Jim McCulloch - When I Mean What I Say
70. Alan Vega - Mutator
71. Kiss Me, Killer - 2020 Vision
72. John Grant - Boy from Michigan
73. Lou Barlow - Reason To Live
74. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
75. Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems
76. Sonny Vincent - Snake Pit Therapy
77. The Chills - Scatterbrain
78. Sister John - I Am By Day
79. Du Blonde - Homecoming
80. Hooveriii - Water for the Frogs
81. Erica Nockalls - Dark Music From a Warm Place
82. Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers
83. Amy MacDonald - The Human Demands
84. Francis Lung - Miracle
85. Cult Figures - Deritend
86. ANTHRAX - Serfs Out
87. VEX - Average Minds Think Alike
88. Freya Beer - Beast
89. Digital Resistance - Alternative Facts
90. Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit
91. Mush - Lines Redacted
92. Filthydirty - The Rise And Fall Of Blasphemouth
93. Gary Numan - Intruder
94. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
95. Rutger Hoedemaekers - The Age of Oddities
96. The Bevis Frond - Little Eden
97. Blowers - Blowers
98. The Brothers Steve - Dose
99. Delilah Bon - Delilah Bon
100. Primitive Knot - A New Ontology of Evil
101. TV Priest - Uppers
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Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
2. Snail Mail - Valentine
3. Turnstile - GLOW ON
4. Low - Hey What
5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
6. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolves
8. The Weather Station - Ignorance
9. Polo G - Hall Of Fame
10. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
11. Wednesday - Twin Plagues
12. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
13. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
14. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
15. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
16. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
17. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
18. Tirzah - Colourgrade
19. Clairo - Sling
20. Fiddlehead - Between The Richness
21. Water From Your Eyes - Structure
22. KA - A Martyr's Reward
23. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
24. The Armed - Ultrapop
25. Nation of Language - A Way Forward
26. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
27. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH
28. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
29. Squid - Bright Green Field
30. 파란노을 [Parannoul] - To See the Next Part of the Dream
31. Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
32. One Step Closer - This Place You Know
33. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa
34. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
35. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
36. Men I Trust - Untourable Album
37. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM
38. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT
39. Home Is Where - I Became Birds
40. Erika De Casier - Sensational
41. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
42. Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone
43. Loraine James - Reflection
44. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound
45. Iceage - Seek Shelter
46. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
47. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
48. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses
49. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
50. Closer - Within One Stem
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Billboard's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
2. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
3. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
4. Adele - 30
5. Doja Cat - Planet Her
6. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
7. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic
8. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
9. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
10. C. Tangana - El Madrileño
11. Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue
12. Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
13. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
14. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
15. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
16. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
17. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT
18. Drake - Certified Lover Boy
19. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
20. Snail Mail - Valentine
21. Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning
22. Giveon - When It's All Said And Done
23. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
24. Karol G - KG0516
25. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
26. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
27. Turnstile - GLOW ON
28. Lucky Daye - Table For Two
29. Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions
30. Porter Robinson - Nurture
31. Carín León - Inédito
32.J. Cole - The Off-Season
33. Mon Laferte - SEIS
34. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
35. Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone
36. Justin Bieber - Justice
37. Rauw Alejandro - VICE VERSA
38. Joy Oladokun - In Defense of My Own Happiness
39. Kanye West - Donda
40. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
41. Willow - lately i feel EVERYTHING
42. Tems - If Orange Was A Place
43. Don Toliver - Life of a DON
44. Fred Again
45. Myke Towers - LYKE MIKE
46. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
47. SG Lewis - times
48. Young Dolph & Key Glock - Dum and Dummer 2
49. Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes
50. Clairo - Sling
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AllMusic's Best of 2021 (alphabetic)
Adele - 30
Aimee Mann - Queens Of The Summer Hotel
Allison Russell - Outside Child
Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Billy F Gibbons - Hardware
Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
Bomba Estéreo - Deja
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
C. Tangana - El Madrileño
Cadence Weapon - Parallel World
Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
Chelsea Carmichael - The River Doesn’t Like Strangers
CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
Clark - Playground in a Lake
Cleo Sol - Mother
Cola Boyy - Prosthetic Boombox
Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I
Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Ed Dowie - The Obvious I
Eivind Aarset - Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey
Eric Bibb - Dear America
Field Music - Flat White Moon
Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
Geoffrey O'Connor - For As Long As I Can Remember
Grouper - Shade
Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Helado Negro - Far In
Helsinki Chamber Choir / Nils Schweckendiek - Pärt: Passio
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes
James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Jazzmeia Horn And Her Noble Force - Dear Love
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9
Jerry Cantrell - Brighten
John Carroll Kirby - Septet
Jon Batiste - WE ARE
Jorge Elbrecht - Presentable Corpse 002
Karol G - KG0516
Kenneth Whalum - Broken Land 2
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
Klenke Quartett, Nicola Jürgensen & Stephan Katte - Mozart: Clarinet Quintet; Horn Quintet
L'Rain - Fatigue
Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
Lil Nas X - MONTERO
Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Liz Phair - Soberish
LoneLady - Former Things
Los Lobos - Native Sons
Makthaverskan - För Allting
Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Marisa Monte - Portas
Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Matthias Goerne / Seong-Jin Cho - Im Abendrot: Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Mocky - Overtones for the Omniverse
Mogwai - As the Love Continues
Mouse on Mars - AAI
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
Olivier Latry - Liszt: Inspirations
PinkPantheress - to hell with it
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
Polo & Pan - Cyclorama
René Jacobs - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Robert Finley - Sharecropper's Son
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof
Rochelle Jordan - Play with the Changes
Roxana Amed - Ontology
Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You
Smile Machine - Bye For Now
Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
Squid - Bright Green Field
Steve Gunn - Other You
TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi
Terrace Martin - DRONES
The Armed - Ultrapop
The Coral - Coral Island
The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here
The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather
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Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2021
1. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
3. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
4. Turnstile - GLOW ON
5. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
6. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
7. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
8. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
9. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM
10. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
11. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
12. Snail Mail - Valentine
13. Doja Cat - Planet Her
14. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks Of God
15. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
16. Idles - CRAWLER
17. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
18. Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
19. Geese - Projector
20. Adele - 30
21. Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader
22. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
23. McKinley Dixon - For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her
24. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
25. Hovvdy - True Love
26. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
27. SAULT - Nine
28. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take
29. Remi Wolf - Juno
30. Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)
31. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
32. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
33. Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning
34. Jon Batiste - WE ARE
35. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
36. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
37. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
38. The Armed - Ultrapop
39. Amigo the Devil - Born Against
40. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
41. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
42. The Weather Station - Ignorance
43. Squid - Bright Green Field
44. Haviah Mighty - Stock Exchange
45. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
46. BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
47. Yola - Stand for Myself
48. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
49. Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
50. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
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Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
2. L'Rain - Fatigue
3. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
5. Low - Hey What
6. Turnstile - GLOW ON
7. The Weather Station - Ignorance
8. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
9. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
10. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
11. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha
12. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
13. Tirzah - Colourgrade
14. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
15. Snail Mail - Valentine
16. MIKE - Disco!
17. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
18. Grouper - Shade
19. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
20. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
21. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
22. Dawn Richard - Second Line
23. black midi - Cavalcade
24. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
25. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take
26. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM
27. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
28. Spirit Of The Beehive - Entertainment, Death
29. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
30. Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus
31. Wiki - Half God
32. Adele - 30
33. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa
34. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
35. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
36. Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
37. RP Boo - Established!
38. Navy Blue - Navy's Reprise / Song of Sage: Post Panic!
39. Loraine James - Reflection
40. Erika De Casier - Sensational
41. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
42. Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy
43. Hand Habits - Fun House
44. Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena
45. aya - im hole
46. Helado Negro - Far In
47. dltzk - Frailty
48. KA - A Martyr's Reward
49. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
50. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
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NME's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
2. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
3. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
4. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
5. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
6. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
7. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
8. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
9. Turnstile - GLOW ON
10. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
11. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
12. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
13. Ghetts - Conflict Of Interest
14. Clairo - Sling
15. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
16. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
17. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
18. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together
19. Lorde - Solar Power
20. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
21. London Grammar - Californian Soil
22. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic
23. Bicep - Isles
24. Snail Mail - Valentine
25. Royal Blood - Typhoons
26. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
27. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT
28. Idles - CRAWLER
29. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
30. The Killers - Pressure Machine
31. slowthai - TYRON
32. Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
33. AJ Tracey - Flu Game
34. Remi Wolf - Juno
35. Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
36. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
37. Ray BLK - Access Denied
38. TOMORROW X TOGETHER - The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE
39. Easy Life - Life's a Beach
40. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
41. Joy Crookes - Skin
42. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
43. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
44. Bleachers - Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night
45. Young Thug - Punk
46. Nao - And Then Life Was Beautiful
47. SAULT - Nine
48. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
49. Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This
50. Doja Cat - Planet Her
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Slant Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
2. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
3. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
4. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
5. Low - Hey What
6. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
7. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
8. serpentwithfeet - DEACON
9. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
10. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
11. Suzanne Santo - Yard Sale
12. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
13. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
14. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
15. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
16. Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
17. TORRES - Thirstier
18. Erika De Casier - Sensational
19. Spellling - The Turning Wheel
20. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
21. Loraine James - Reflection
22. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
23. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
24. Snail Mail - Valentine
25. The Killers - Pressure Machine
26. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind
27. James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds
28. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
29. Doja Cat - Planet Her
30. Porter Robinson - Nurture
31. Kanye West - Donda
32. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
33. DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
34. Helado Negro - Far In
35. Tinashe - 333
36. LSDXOXO - Dedicated 2 Disrespect
37. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
38. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
39. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
40. Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
41. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
42. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
43. Squid - Bright Green Field
44. Young Stoner Life, Young Thug & Gunna - Slime Language 2 (Deluxe)
45. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
46. Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky
47. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM
48. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
49. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
50. MARINA - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
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NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
2. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
3. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
4. Allison Russell - Outside Child
5. C. Tangana - El Madrileño
6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
7. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
8. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
9. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
10. Wild Up & Christopher Rountree - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine
11. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
12. Helado Negro - Far In
13. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
14. Adele - 30
15. Tems - If Orange Was A Place
16. Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue
17. Willow - lately i feel EVERYTHING
18. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti
19. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More
20. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
21. Low - Hey What
22. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
23. Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name
24. Turnstile - GLOW ON
25. Eris Drew - Quivering in Time
26. Cleo Sol - Mother
27. Toumani Diabaté & The London Symphony Orchestra - Kôrôlén
28. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT
29. Lukah - When The Black Hand Touches You
30. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
31. Doja Cat - Planet Her
32. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
33. James Brandon Lewis - Jesup Wagon
34. Emily D'Angelo - enargeia
35. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
36. Spellling - The Turning Wheel
37. Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange
38. Mon Laferte - SEIS
39. MIKE - Disco!
40. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
41. Susana Baca - Palabras Urgentes
42. Kenny Garrett - Sounds from the Ancestors
43. Yebba - Dawn
44. Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
45. Rodrigo Amarante - Drama
46. Vadim Repin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Andris Nelsons - Sofia Gubaidulina: Dialog: Ich und Du; The Wrath of God; The Light of the End
47. Artifacts - ...and then there's this
48. Pink Siifu - GUMBO'!
49. Circuit Des Yeux - -io
50. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic
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PopMatters' 75 Best Albums of 2021
1. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
3. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
4. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
5. Dawn Richard - Second Line
6. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
7. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
8. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together
9. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
10. Rochelle Jordan - Play with the Changes
11. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
12. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
13. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
14. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
15. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
16. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
17.Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet, Vol. 1
18. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
19. The Bug - Fire
20. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
21. Loraine James - Reflection
22. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
23. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
24. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
25. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
26. Snail Mail - Valentine
27. Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
28. The Weather Station - Ignorance
29. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
30. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
31. Elbow - Flying Dream 1
32. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
33. Headie One - Too Loyal for My Own Good
34. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
35. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
36. Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home
37. Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange
38. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
39. Helado Negro - Far In
40. Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming
41. Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses
42. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
43. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
44. Yola - Stand for Myself
45. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
46. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
47. Maisie Peters - You Signed Up For This
48. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
49. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
50. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence
51. Goat Girl - On All Fours
52. Hayes Carll - You Get It All
53. Vince Staples - Vince Staples
54. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
55. Jungle - Loving In Stereo
56. Turnstile - GLOW ON
57. Jane Weaver - Flock
58. Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
59. John Grant - Boy from Michigan
60. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
61. Anz - All Hours
62. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
63. Alessia Cara - In The Meantime
64. Bremer/McCoy - Natten
65. King Woman - Celestial Blues
66. John Hiatt With The Jerry Douglas Band - Leftover Feelings
67. Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy
68. Low Cut Connie - Tough Cookies: Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts
69. Aaron Lee Tasjan - Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!
70. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
71. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
72. Portico Quartet - Terrain
73. black midi - Cavalcade
74. Altın Gün - Yol
75. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
...
Gigwise's 51 Best Albums of 2021
1. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
2. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
3. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
4. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
5. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
6. McKinley Dixon - For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her
7. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
8. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
9. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
10. Du Blonde - Homecoming
11. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
12. Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
13. Charli Adams - Bullseye
14. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
15. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
16. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic
17. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
18. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
19. Idles - CRAWLER
20. Surfbort - Keep On Truckin'
21. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
22. Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms
23. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
24. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
25. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
26. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
27. Tommy Genesis - goldilocks x
28. The Vaccines - Back In Love City
29. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT
30. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take
31. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
32. Clairo - Sling
33. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
34. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
35. JPEGMAFIA - LP!
36. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
37. Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
38. Bicep - Isles
39. CHAI - WINK
40. Paris Texas - BOY ANONYMOUS
41. Low Hummer - Modern Tricks For Living
42. Nation of Language - A Way Forward
43. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
44. James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart
45. Doja Cat - Planet Her
46. Joe & The Shitboys - The Reson for Hardcore Vibes Again
47. Iceage - Seek Shelter
48. Royal Blood - Typhoons
49. Bull - Discover Effortless Living
50. Ashnikko - DEMIDEVIL
51. Remi Wolf - Juno
...
The Guardian's 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
2. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
4. The Weather Station - Ignorance
5. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
6. SAULT - Nine
7. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
8. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
9. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
10. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
11. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
12. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
13. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
14. Lil Nas X - MONTERO
15. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
16. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
17. Tirzah - Colourgrade
18. Turnstile - GLOW ON
19. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together
20. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
21. The Coral - Coral Island
22. Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
23. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
24. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
25. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
26. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
27. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
28. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
29. Clairo - Sling
30. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE
31. Low - Hey What
32. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
33. PinkPantheress - to hell with it
34. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
35. Aly & AJ - a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet...
36. aya - im hole
37. Erika De Casier - Sensational
38. Goat Girl - On All Fours
39. Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos
40. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
41. Eris Drew - Quivering in Time
42. Gojira - Fortitude
43. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound
44. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
45. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
46. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy
47. CHAI - WINK
48. Lucy Dacus - Home Video
49. Møl - Diorama
50. Agnes - Magic Still Exists
...
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On 21st June 2012 saxophonist Rowland Sutherland bought his "re-envisioning" of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" to the glorious setting of King's College Chapel in London.
Preview here:
ancienttofuture.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/summer-solstice-...
Review here:
thequietus.com/articles/09173-john-coltrane-a-love-suprem...
Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters perform at iTunes Festival in London, UK. 8th September 2014.
See more images from the show on The Line of Best Fit: www.thelineofbestfit.com/photos/live-photo-gallery/robert...
This particular photo is also featured alongside a review on The Quietus: thequietus.com/articles/16206-live-report-robert-plant-an...
This image is © 2014 Steve Asenjo. All rights reserved. No reproduction without prior written permission.
On 21st June 2012 saxophonist Rowland Sutherland bought his "re-envisioning" of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" to the glorious setting of King's College Chapel in London.
Preview here:
ancienttofuture.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/summer-solstice-...
Review here:
thequietus.com/articles/09173-john-coltrane-a-love-suprem...
All Tomorrow's Parties
Camber Sands
2006
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition. August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
"Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the weekend's main draw of the ATP that I was shooting for Plan B magazine. However, I nearly missed this, as by the time I ambled up to the photo pit, security had stopped all pass holders from entering as there was no more room.
My only option was to take up a position on the crowd's side of the barriers and in front of the speakers. Fortunately I was carrying a 300mm telephoto lens that I rarely used and although I couldn't see the band when they came on stage, I turned out to be extremely well placed for when Karen O moved to the centre of the stage.
I came away with three stand out photographs of Karen in profile, one of which is in black and white with an extended arm and a raised middle finger. This photograph of her singing delightedly into a dangling microphone had publishable potential for text to be added on the right side and it was considered for Plan B's double page spread but in the end that was filled with a raw capture of Liars."
Codpiece made from "Viners" Sheffield stainless-steel table knives, corroded iron spring washers, silver, shibuichi and set with cubic zirconia stones.
The text to accompany this, should anyone be interested, reads:
"Empire State Human [1] – A Post-Industrial Codpiece
"The 1980s saw an emasculation of Britain, nowhere more so than in the heart of steel-producing cities like Sheffield where a political agenda cut away at the core values described by Marx as 'The Dignity of Labour'. The destruction of this pure ideal lead to the current hubristic - in the Ancient Greek sense of ὕβρις - political thinking, endless recession and the crushing humiliation of a service-drone population.
"Taking a cue from the Nitzchean and Marxist ideals of the music which evolved in Sheffield [2,3] at the very point of transition from industrial to post-industrial – music by bands like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire – this piece seeks to protect the steel-worker from both literal and figurative castration by the god/dess Mammon, leaving the wearer’s ideals and body Stain-less.
"[1] The title 'Empire State Human' is taken from a track by The Human League, written in 1979. In this song the lyrics express a Nietzschean ideal:
"'I never wanted to be human size
“'So I avoid the crowds and traffic jams
“'They just remind me of how small I am...
“'...if I'm not tall, tall, tall, then I will grow, grow, grow
“'Because I'm not tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall'
"See also David Stubbs, 'The Battle Between Thatcherite Pop and Marxist Funk', The Quietus, March 27th 2009.
"http://thequietus.com/articles/01376-david-stubbs-explores-the-battle-between-thatcherpop-and-marxist-funk
"[2] 'Made In Sheffield', Plexifilm DVD, ASIN B0009I7NGC 2001 - interviews with Philip Oakey (The Human League) and Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire).
"[3] 'Synth Britannia', BBC Enterprises, Broadcast on BBC 4, 2nd August, 2010 – interview with Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)."
Photograph by Simon Murphy, all rights reserved.
As part of the “Festival of the Unconscious” exhibition, the Freud Museum presents “The Portrait of Jean Genet” by Disinformation. “The Portrait of Jean Genet” is a potentially infinite sound and video installation, based on the final interview given by the French burglar, prostitute and playwright Jean Genet, shortly before Genet’s own death. As a vivid articulation of the psychoanalytic concepts of Eros and Thanatos, Genet mishears the interviewer Nigel Williams, asking “Vous avez dit, L’Amour?” (“Did you say… Love”), because “J’ai entendu La Mort” (“I heard… Death”). In terms of “Rorschach Audio” type mishearings, the terms “L’Amour” and “La Mort” sound essentially identical, and are disambiguated by understanding their use in context. “The Portrait of Jean Genet” draws an analogy between the way in which listeners disambiguate perceptions of so-called “homophonic” sounds, and the way viewers project contradictory interpretations onto ambiguous visual figures, such as the spontaneously-reversing cube discovered by the Swiss crystallographer and geographer Louis Albert Necker.
“The Portrait of Jean Genet” is based on a static artwork of the same name, first published on Flickr in 2011, then re-published in the book “Rorschach Audio” in 2012. “The Portrait of Jean Genet” video has been screened at PoetryFilm events at The ICA (London, 2014) & CCCB (Barcelona, 2015), and is exhibited with thanks to Alex Hammond, James Register, Claire Craig and MOT International.
The Festival of the Unconscious
24 June to 4 October 2015
The Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
London NW3 5SX
ATP 2004, Camber Sands
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition. August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
"When Lightning Bolt played the Director's Cut ATP I couldn't get anywhere near and I also completely missed their outdoor chalet set. This was the next chance I had when they were the first band to play at Jake and Dinos Chapman's ATP. I arrived only minutes before they were due to start and found them set up in the upstairs room in the corner next to the can bar.
Behind Brian Chippendale's drums were a set of barriers with just enough space to squeeze between them and the wall. From there, I couldn't see the other Brian [Gibson] but it became clear that the action was in the crowd. While the young guys at the front initially sat patiently in anticipation, within seconds of the band starting, they would stand up and increasingly encroach forward as more people pushed from behind. The band stopped a number of times to get people to move back and sit down, only for the cycle to repeat itself again.
There was barely any light so I had to guess with my focus and the timing of my shot; it's only because of my flash that details in the crowd can be seen. I have a print taken in black and white that includes a sliver of a masked Brian Chippendale in action, but what I really like about this colour shot is that it's one of the few times you can tell which band are playing by seeing a picture of the crowd."
© Greg Neate, www.neatephotos.com
Codpiece made from "Viners" Sheffield stainless-steel table knives, corroded iron spring washers, silver, shibuichi and set with cubic zirconia stones.
The text to accompany this, should anyone be interested, reads:
"Empire State Human [1] – A Post-Industrial Codpiece
"The 1980s saw an emasculation of Britain, nowhere more so than in the heart of steel-producing cities like Sheffield where a political agenda cut away at the core values described by Marx as 'The Dignity of Labour'. The destruction of this pure ideal lead to the current hubristic - in the Ancient Greek sense of ὕβρις - political thinking, endless recession and the crushing humiliation of a service-drone population.
"Taking a cue from the Nitzchean and Marxist ideals of the music which evolved in Sheffield [2,3] at the very point of transition from industrial to post-industrial – music by bands like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire – this piece seeks to protect the steel-worker from both literal and figurative castration by the god/dess Mammon, leaving the wearer’s ideals and body Stain-less.
"[1] The title 'Empire State Human' is taken from a track by The Human League, written in 1979. In this song the lyrics express a Nietzschean ideal:
"'I never wanted to be human size
“'So I avoid the crowds and traffic jams
“'They just remind me of how small I am...
“'...if I'm not tall, tall, tall, then I will grow, grow, grow
“'Because I'm not tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall'
"See also David Stubbs, 'The Battle Between Thatcherite Pop and Marxist Funk', The Quietus, March 27th 2009.
"http://thequietus.com/articles/01376-david-stubbs-explores-the-battle-between-thatcherpop-and-marxist-funk
"[2] 'Made In Sheffield', Plexifilm DVD, ASIN B0009I7NGC 2001 - interviews with Philip Oakey (The Human League) and Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire).
"[3] 'Synth Britannia', BBC Enterprises, Broadcast on BBC 4, 2nd August, 2010 – interview with Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)."
Photograph by Simon Murphy, all rights reserved.
live @ Netil House, London 27/11/2013
> thequietus.com/articles/14017-shellac-netil-house-live-re...
Various Artists + Disinformation "Antiphony"
Ash International [Ash 3.4] 2xCD 1997
Sound Mirror photo © Julian Hills, Feb 1996
Sound Mirrors video © Barry Hale, 1997 -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsR3qyJDk0c
Imber village photo © Joe Banks, Jan 1996
The Sound Mirrors video – “Blackout” by Disinformation – has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally since being filmed by Barry Hale and first exhibited in 1997. In 1999 and 2000 the video formed the centrepiece of the Arts Council funded “Blackout” exhibition, which toured to the Waygood Gallery (Newcastle), Broadway Centre (Nottingham) and ICA New Media Centre (London), since when the video featured in numerous group exhibitions and several Disinformation solo shows. The Sound Mirrors video has most recently been exhibited in the “Digest Sound” exhibition at the Witte Zaal [gallery] (Gent), as part of the Courtisane Film Festival in 2010, and at Le Bon Accueil [sonic arts gallery] (Rennes) in 2014.
Artangel and Imber - www.flickr.com/photos/disinfo/7042948343/
Codpiece made from "Viners" Sheffield stainless-steel table knives, corroded iron spring washers, silver, shibuichi and set with cubic zirconia stones.
The text to accompany this, should anyone be interested, reads:
"Empire State Human [1] – A Post-Industrial Codpiece
"The 1980s saw an emasculation of Britain, nowhere more so than in the heart of steel-producing cities like Sheffield where a political agenda cut away at the core values described by Marx as 'The Dignity of Labour'. The destruction of this pure ideal lead to the current hubristic - in the Ancient Greek sense of ὕβρις - political thinking, endless recession and the crushing humiliation of a service-drone population.
"Taking a cue from the Nitzchean and Marxist ideals of the music which evolved in Sheffield [2,3] at the very point of transition from industrial to post-industrial – music by bands like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire – this piece seeks to protect the steel-worker from both literal and figurative castration by the god/dess Mammon, leaving the wearer’s ideals and body Stain-less.
"[1] The title 'Empire State Human' is taken from a track by The Human League, written in 1979. In this song the lyrics express a Nietzschean ideal:
"'I never wanted to be human size
“'So I avoid the crowds and traffic jams
“'They just remind me of how small I am...
“'...if I'm not tall, tall, tall, then I will grow, grow, grow
“'Because I'm not tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall'
"See also David Stubbs, 'The Battle Between Thatcherite Pop and Marxist Funk', The Quietus, March 27th 2009.
"http://thequietus.com/articles/01376-david-stubbs-explores-the-battle-between-thatcherpop-and-marxist-funk
"[2] 'Made In Sheffield', Plexifilm DVD, ASIN B0009I7NGC 2001 - interviews with Philip Oakey (The Human League) and Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire).
"[3] 'Synth Britannia', BBC Enterprises, Broadcast on BBC 4, 2nd August, 2010 – interview with Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)."
Photograph by Simon Murphy, all rights reserved.
Various Artists + Disinformation "Antiphony"
Ash International [Ash 3.4] 2xCD 1997
Sound Mirror photo © Julian Hills, Feb 1996
Sound Mirrors video © Barry Hale, 1997 -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsR3qyJDk0c
The Sound Mirrors video – “Blackout” by Disinformation – has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally since being filmed by Barry Hale and first exhibited in 1997. In 1999 and 2000 the video formed the centrepiece of the Arts Council funded “Blackout” exhibition, which toured to the Waygood Gallery (Newcastle), Broadway Centre (Nottingham) and ICA New Media Centre (London), since when the video featured in numerous group exhibitions and several Disinformation solo shows. The Sound Mirrors video has most recently been exhibited in the “Digest Sound” exhibition at the Witte Zaal [gallery] (Gent), as part of the Courtisane Film Festival in 2010, and at Le Bon Accueil [sonic arts gallery] (Rennes) in 2014.
The audio content of “Antiphony” consists (in large part) of remixes, by the contributing artists, of electromagnetic noise recordings, originally released by Disinformation in 1996, published by the record label Ash International.
While the exhibition claims to “shine new light on Sid’s chaotic life in the spotlight” what we get - along with well trodden scenes of contract signing outside Buckingham Palace, TV appearances and band promo shots against brick walls - is countless similar images of Sid looking vacant whilst eating, drinking and sleeping. And though we’re spared any more intimate bodily function shots you will be yawning too at the live photography which - nevermind his lack of musicianship " nearly all rely on him holding a bass guitar with all the vaguely threatening manner of a confused drunk hanging on to a bar rail for support.
In case there’s any doubt that these less than pretty images were victim to camera shutter gremlins, this seemingly ad hoc selection of photographers confirm Sid’s pitiful presentation with such insightful observations as: ’Sid was not in a good mood’ and ’he seemed depressed’. In particular, Eileen Pollock recalls; ’Sid kept saying over and over again that he was hungry and asking us to buy him food so we bought him two kebabs’. An understandable gesture and not a bad return on one’s investment should there be any takers for her limited, signed, archival digital black & white prints of Sid viewed from behind, sitting on a curb and with his head on his knees going unframed for £425 ex VAT.
John Simon Ritchie was only a Sex Pistol for less than a year before their last gig (nevermind the reunions) and the range of photographs here are similarly limited in any sense of development of the man during his time with the band. That is except to say that things look bad during the Queen’s jubilee, worse on their ill fated American tour and downright disastrous by the time he’s being encouraged to do solo versions of ’My Way’ and is accompanied by the equally wretched with ’No Future’, Nancy Spungen; both of whom would die by the age of 21.
continues, go to next photo...
Following the (packed) “Rorschach Audio” lecture-demonstration at The University of Leeds Chemistry Building in Oct 2014, Leeds University’s School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies invited 12 guest speakers to offer “a short answer to a big question”, with a very loose brief… “If you could give 200 words worth of advice to a Fine Art student in 2015, what would it be?”, for publication in an A5 chapbook, published in May 2015.
The authors (contributing one page each) include Tim Etchells (performance artist and co-founder of Forced Entertainment), Richard Forster (sculptor and draughtsman), Oona Grimes (artist and story teller), Melissa Gronlund (writer and editor, Afterall), Mishka Henner (photographic and web artist), Jennifer Higgie (writer and editor, Frieze), Pavilion (commissioning agency), Grace Schwindt (sculptor and film and performance artist), Molly Smyth (sculptor), Alison Turnbull (painter), Covandonga Valdes (painter) and Joe Banks (founder of the art project Disinformation). The “200 Words” booklet was edited by Nick Thurston and is published in association with the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, Pavilion and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
“Art is not necessarily science, but science is always art”
“All artworks are psychology experiments”
“Don’t destroy all rational thought”
“The medium isn’t the message”
“Art should never be boring”... etc
www.fine-art.leeds.ac.uk/events/visiting-artists-talk-joe...
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
October 2011
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Lead image for Supersonic review on the Quietus
"Scorn has primarily been the solo dance project of Mick Harris for nearly two decades, creating proto-dubstep over a decade before that genre had been given a name. While this is stiff, asexual, oppressive and aptly named it is still a joy to dance to and contains unbelievable heaviness that happens without having to resort to fairground bass drops a la Skrillex. It's one of Supersonic's best shows to date and is only made all the more intense by Chris Plant's hypnotic visuals, which are part Orwellian future broadcast, part Fritz Lang's Metropolis and part unpleasant psychedelic mishap. Harris is a master of delayed gratification and dishes out relief to his audience exactly when they need it rather than when they want it." - John Doran, the Quietus
© All Rights Reserved. More neate photos
Codpiece made from "Viners" Sheffield stainless-steel table knives, corroded iron spring washers, silver, shibuichi and set with cubic zirconia stones.
The text to accompany this, should anyone be interested, reads:
"Empire State Human [1] – A Post-Industrial Codpiece
"The 1980s saw an emasculation of Britain, nowhere more so than in the heart of steel-producing cities like Sheffield where a political agenda cut away at the core values described by Marx as 'The Dignity of Labour'. The destruction of this pure ideal lead to the current hubristic - in the Ancient Greek sense of ὕβρις - political thinking, endless recession and the crushing humiliation of a service-drone population.
"Taking a cue from the Nitzchean and Marxist ideals of the music which evolved in Sheffield [2,3] at the very point of transition from industrial to post-industrial – music by bands like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire – this piece seeks to protect the steel-worker from both literal and figurative castration by the god/dess Mammon, leaving the wearer’s ideals and body Stain-less.
"[1] The title 'Empire State Human' is taken from a track by The Human League, written in 1979. In this song the lyrics express a Nietzschean ideal:
"'I never wanted to be human size
“'So I avoid the crowds and traffic jams
“'They just remind me of how small I am...
“'...if I'm not tall, tall, tall, then I will grow, grow, grow
“'Because I'm not tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall'
"See also David Stubbs, 'The Battle Between Thatcherite Pop and Marxist Funk', The Quietus, March 27th 2009.
"http://thequietus.com/articles/01376-david-stubbs-explores-the-battle-between-thatcherpop-and-marxist-funk
"[2] 'Made In Sheffield', Plexifilm DVD, ASIN B0009I7NGC 2001 - interviews with Philip Oakey (The Human League) and Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire).
"[3] 'Synth Britannia', BBC Enterprises, Broadcast on BBC 4, 2nd August, 2010 – interview with Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)."
Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic GH2.
All Tomorrow's Parties
Camber Sands
2006
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition.
August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
Codpiece made from "Viners" Sheffield stainless-steel table knives, corroded iron spring washers, silver, shibuichi and set with cubic zirconia stones.
The text to accompany this, should anyone be interested, reads:
"Empire State Human [1] – A Post-Industrial Codpiece
"The 1980s saw an emasculation of Britain, nowhere more so than in the heart of steel-producing cities like Sheffield where a political agenda cut away at the core values described by Marx as 'The Dignity of Labour'. The destruction of this pure ideal lead to the current hubristic - in the Ancient Greek sense of ὕβρις - political thinking, endless recession and the crushing humiliation of a service-drone population.
"Taking a cue from the Nitzchean and Marxist ideals of the music which evolved in Sheffield [2,3] at the very point of transition from industrial to post-industrial – music by bands like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire – this piece seeks to protect the steel-worker from both literal and figurative castration by the god/dess Mammon, leaving the wearer’s ideals and body Stain-less.
"[1] The title 'Empire State Human' is taken from a track by The Human League, written in 1979. In this song the lyrics express a Nietzschean ideal:
"'I never wanted to be human size
“'So I avoid the crowds and traffic jams
“'They just remind me of how small I am...
“'...if I'm not tall, tall, tall, then I will grow, grow, grow
“'Because I'm not tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall, tall'
"See also David Stubbs, 'The Battle Between Thatcherite Pop and Marxist Funk', The Quietus, March 27th 2009.
"http://thequietus.com/articles/01376-david-stubbs-explores-the-battle-between-thatcherpop-and-marxist-funk
"[2] 'Made In Sheffield', Plexifilm DVD, ASIN B0009I7NGC 2001 - interviews with Philip Oakey (The Human League) and Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire).
"[3] 'Synth Britannia', BBC Enterprises, Broadcast on BBC 4, 2nd August, 2010 – interview with Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)."
Photograph by Simon Murphy, all rights reserved.
All Tomorrow's Parties
Camber Sands
2006
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition. August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
"Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the weekend's main draw of the ATP that I was shooting for Plan B magazine. However, I nearly missed this, as by the time I ambled up to the photo pit, security had stopped all pass holders from entering as there was no more room.
My only option was to take up a position on the crowd's side of the barriers and in front of the speakers. Fortunately I was carrying a 300mm telephoto lens that I rarely used and although I couldn't see the band when they came on stage, I turned out to be extremely well placed for when Karen O moved to the centre of the stage.
I came away with three stand out photographs of Karen in profile, one of which is in black and white with an extended arm and a raised middle finger. This photograph of her singing delightedly into a dangling microphone had publishable potential for text to be added on the right side and it was considered for Plan B's double page spread but in the end that was filled with a raw capture of Liars."
a Tuff Life Boogie event
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
October 2012
Bent Moustache website and Quietus interview
New neate photos facebook page with more Un-Peeled scenes.
© All Rights Reserved. More neate photos
R.I.P.
Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Hipgnosis
thequietus.com/articles/05354-x-tg-pay-tribute-to-peter-c...
In his own words....
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
October 2011
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Supersonic review on the Quietus
© All Rights Reserved. More neate photos
Thank you Poly Styrene, and X-Ray Spex
"The inimitable Poly Styrene, real name Marian Said-Elliot, is now at peace after her battle against cancer, leaving us for a higher place at the age of just 53 on Tuesday [April 25, 2011]"
thequietus.com/articles/06171-poly-styrene-obituary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrOJ1ig6tI
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To have a rubber bun
The X-rays were penetrating
Through the latex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
Fell from the rayon trees
l-r the Professor of Rude Gestures, Joe, Tom, Roxanne & Ben.
circa 1993.
As featured today in the Quietus alongside an interview with drummer, photographer, motorcyclist, Joe Dilworth; finally published after 20 years in the Neate vaults.
We talk to the one and only Mr Lemmy Kilminster about his love of rock & roll, Hawkwind, his love of punk rock & Nirvana, and why humans can learn a lot from the ants... but for now, "You can love the individual, but you can't love the race... we're arrogant bastards. We're like a dose of crabs"
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by theQuietus.
In June 2008, I went to see what was going on at the Proud Gallery at Camden before one of the My Bloody Valentine shows at the Roundhouse. I ran into John Doran, editor of the Quietus and told him how ridiculous this exhibition looked. I thought about it some more and went back later in the week to look again when the Mencap gallery was open as well. You couldn't make up two such inappropriately placed exhibtions. I saw my story.
The words over the next four photographs are from the review that appeared as an opinion piece on the Quietus website on July 4th. Link here:
thequietus.com/articles/00122-dead-horse-flogging-with-si...
The photographs were taken with a compact Coolpix camera and are just for visual illustration. Both exhibitions are now over but I'm showing the photos with the review now as I wasn't using flickr then and want to post the review in some form before the end of the year. I didn't feel it was my place to take photos of the Mencap gallery but you can see the photographs they selected here:
www.mencap.com/news.asp?id=3607&pageno=&year=&...
In it's defence, I enjoyed Proud's Keith Morris (Nick Drake, Elvis Costello) exhibition in October and hope they continue to do more with Mencap. However, it's hard to see the value of this Sid exhibition and hopefully in the Depression of 2009, bright ideas like the punk themed lounge will be a thing of the past - as if they would ever allow filthy cider-swilling punks with dogs on strings to chill out in their corporate Hate lounge.
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All Tomorrow's Parties
Minehead
2007
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition.
August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
On 21st June 2012 saxophonist Rowland Sutherland bought his "re-envisioning" of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" to the glorious setting of King's College Chapel in London.
Preview here:
ancienttofuture.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/summer-solstice-...
Review here:
thequietus.com/articles/09173-john-coltrane-a-love-suprem...
Collective Endeavours presents a music/dance group improvised performance with
Solène Weinachter, Jer Reid, Brian Hartley, Joseph Quimby, Joan Clevillé, Rachele Rapisardi, Luke Sutherland
Counterflows
Langside Halls
Neate at ATP preview in the Quiteus
thequietus.com/articles/15626-greg-neate-at-atp-an-era-of...
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
October 2011
New neate photos facebook page with Supersonic Scenes.
© All Rights Reserved. More neate photos
All Tomorrow's Parties
Minehead
2007
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition.
August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
The Windmill, Brixton
February 2008
More Bent Moustache at Un-Peeled here.
The full version of my interview with Ajay Saggar of the Bent Moustache is now up on the neate blog.
A slightly edited version appeared on the Quietus.
More neate photos.
Having had a downloaded version of Drokk for sometime I eventually splashed out on the vinyl format yesterday at Underground Solu'shn.
thequietus.com/articles/08687-drokk-music-inspired-by-meg...
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
October 2011
Collapse Board neate photos review
Supersonic review on the Quietus
© All Rights Reserved. More neate photos
All Tomorrow's Parties
Camber Sands
2005
Part of Neate at ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties first photo exhibition. August 2014 update: Exhibition now on show at the 13th Note, Glasgow. Exhibition views.
On 21st June 2012 saxophonist Rowland Sutherland bought his "re-envisioning" of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" to the glorious setting of King's College Chapel in London.
Preview here:
ancienttofuture.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/summer-solstice-...
Review here:
thequietus.com/articles/09173-john-coltrane-a-love-suprem...
Paradiso, Amsterdam - supporting Dinosaur Jr
February 2013
Bent Moustache website and Quietus interview
New neate photos facebook page.
Full set - www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511332085571957.115394....
More neate photos
Glasgow, October 2011.
More Bent Moustache at Un-Peeled here.
The full version of my interview with Ajay Saggar of the Bent Moustache is now up on the neate blog.
A slightly edited version appeared on the Quietus.
More neate photos.