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I'll take a swing at this since I voted for Chance. I liked Bowies album, but I also felt like his death actually weighed on the album at times. You're listening to a man, that's dying, talking about dying, and grappling with the heavy burden of mortality. That's some draining shit. Yeah, it's good, but half the time I would listen to it, it felt like work. I appreciate it for what it is, but the replay value didn't hold for me over time.
In a complete 180, I don't really remember the last time I had as much fun listening to an album as Coloring Book. It may be my proximity to the city, but for a kid from Chicago to make a project like this, with everything that's happening in our world/that city today, I feel like that means something. It doesn't necessarily mean something in the way that Black Star does, but I think it's just because you're looking at the grimness of death, and the vibrancy of life. It's just polar opposite, in a sense. Yeah, technically it's not much to look at, and there may even be a track or two I don't like as much, but damn does it make me happy.
TL;DR I like rainbows, butterflies, and Chano from the 79th
Nothing wrong with liking rainbows and butterflies. But Blackstar kept me in rapt attention all the way through and Coloring Book had some real filler in it. The intro to How Great feels like it's about 45 minutes long.
I can respect that, and there are definitely flaws in the construction of Coloring Book. At this point, with only 16 albums left, it comes down to different strokes for different folks, all that jazz.
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
I can find things wrong with almost all of these albums. But they are definitely sixteen of the best from 2016. Not the top sixteen of 2016, but sixteen of the best. I'm hoping hard for Bon Iver to make a comeback and Angel to edge out Bey.
2021 08-07: Japanese Breakfast @ Union Transfer 09-08: My Morning Jacket / Brittany Howard @ The Mann 09-18: Soccer Mommy @ Union Transfer 10-01 thru 10-03: Austin City Limits Music Festival 10-19: Waxahatchee @ Union Transfer 10-27: Arlo Parks @ The Foundry 11-09: Squid @ Johnny Brenda's 11-17: Monophonics @ World Cafe Live 12-01: Caribou @ Union Transfer
So, as of Roger Sterling, we have: only one match within five votes, two within seven, two within nine, one within eleven, and two of an over thirty vote difference
And y'all are voting wrong in exactly half of them
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.