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Last Active 11-02-22 4:56 am
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| klap 4 2018
10 years of this shit? | | 30 |  | Empress Of
Us
I don’t even smoke weed
RIYL overlooked pop music, Chairlift, Japanese Breakfast, Blue Hawaii | | 29 |  | ITEM
Sad Light
goldfish thoughts swimming in your head / carnival or store bought / they die in days and never talk
RIYL indie with soul, the Wrens, Rowancore | | 28 |  | Launder
Pink Cloud
there’s too many ways to keep you close
RIYL vaguely post-punky guitar rock, DIIV, the Bilinda Butchers | | 27 |  | Ben Howard
Noonday Dream
what’s a man anyhow / if not alone / collecting facts
RIYL folk and Xanax, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, floating | | 26 |  | RUFUS DU SOL
Solace
starting to notice a sound
RIYL electro, Lane 8, Flight Facilities, what your latest Tinder match likes | | 25 |  | Anna Burch
Quit The Curse
I’m just asking for a friend, but it’s good to see you again / is it the same stuff you had last time? / It really made me lose my mind
RIYL indie pop, Natalie Prass, Phoebe Bridgers | | 24 |  | Neko Case
Hell-On
she sang me a song that was too sad for some / struck up the band and filled up her lungs / her mouth was sharp as the rib of a star / as she told no tame truths that would break our own hearts
RIYL fire, water, air, earth | | 23 |  | Forth Wanderers
Forth Wanderers
did you cut your hair just to stay afloat?
RIYL Hop Along but with someone who can sing, Pinegrove, Ratboy | | 22 |  | Exitmusic
The Recognitions
some truths are meant to let you down
RIYL Widowspeak, Blouse, Lower Dens, music about break-ups | | 21 |  | Albert Hammond Jr
Francis Trouble
my left side companion, enjoys when we’re not polite / he leaves me stranded when we get confronted by right
RIYL guitar rock, Meet Me in the Bathroom, old Arctic Monkeys, old everything actually | | 20 |  | Beach House
7
skinny angels making eyes at cameras perched in every room
RIYL you know, like what they sound like, but darker | | 19 |  | Her
Her
mistakes you don’t regret
RIYL vocalists on Disclosure tracks, electro-pop, artists that you can’t Google | | 18 |  | Golden Features
SECT
soon we’ll have a problem
RIYL Ed Banger, Gesaffelstein, dirty disgusting clubs | | 17 |  | Earl Sweatshirt
Some Rap Songs
‘member when they had my grandmammy on a drip drink / how much of that gin straight? Could have filled a fish tank / my doggy hit my cell, say he got me off the strength / ask him, “that’s just how it is?”’ say / “you die and then you live, huh?” / your heart and then your limbs break
RIYL Madvillain, new Tyler, the Creator, record scratches, reading Pitchfork | | 16 |  | Illuminati Hotties
Kiss Yr Frenemies
you wrote a song on my guitar and it sounds like shit
RIYL Snail Mail, Hinds, being very rude to boys | | 15 |  | Robyn
Honey
it’s a tired old record / I still play it anyway
RIYL the queen | | 14 |  | Gia Margaret
There's Always Glimmer
pour it black ‘cause it brings me back / to your front room, our noses pressed on the front window / and the TV screen / no sugar or cream / only good things
RIYL Molly Burch, Cat Power, blissful domesticity | | 13 |  | U.S. Girls
In A Poem Unlimited
these vital lies just don’t come in my size
RIYL Let’s Eat Grandma, Julia Holter, women’s marches | | 12 |  | Denzel Curry
TA13OO
Donald Trump, Donald Duck, what the fuck is the difference?
RIYL Vince Staples, Earl Sweatshirt, Dragon Ball Z | | 11 |  | Lucy Dacus
Historian
it’s a myth and now I see it clearly / you don’t have to be sad to make something worth hearing
RIYL Elliott Smith, singer-songwriters, Big Thief | | 10 |  | Ginger Root
Mahjong Room
RIYL Craft Spells, the Ophelias, jazz in your chamber pop | | 9 |  | Tancred
Nightstand
RIYL Now, Now, Charly Bliss, theacademycore | | 8 |  | Shakey Graves
Can't Wake Up
one glass of wine is plenty of time / to dream about all of the things that I’ll never do
RIYL Father John Misty but less of an asshole, Dr. Dog, Fruit Bats | | 7 |  | Dean Forever
Dean Forever
ease the nearing
RIYL David Dean Burkhart’s YouTube channel, Alvvays, Night Flowers | | 6 |  | Pusha T
DAYTONA
caviar facials remove the toxins
RIYL eight balls, impeccable flow, shitting on Drake | | 5 |  | The Beths
Future Me Hates Me
I wanna hear that broken sound
RIYL New Zealand jangle pop, the Courtneys, hating yourself | | 4 |  | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Hope Downs
I’m just a servant to my base desires
RIYL three guitars fuck ya! Chapel Hill rock by way of Australia | | 3 |  | Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour
all I ever wanted was something classic
RIYL beautiful pop music, Pistol Annies, taking acid | | 2 |  | Mitski
Be the Cowboy
just how many stars will I need to hang around me / to finally call it heaven?
RIYL all the genres, St. Vincent, being happy and also sad | | 1 |  | Vansire
Angel Youth
Earth’s a set and life’s the movie screen / and every dream that you have in-between / they’ll fade with every frame you see
RIYL Blood Cultures, bedroom pop, Rust Belt winters, warm blankets | |
klap
12.16.18 | one guess what the staff AOTY is... | robertsona
12.16.18 | shhhHHHHH | Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.16.18 | I like those Her and Robyn records but man new Empress Of was easily the biggest disappointment of the year... | Lucman
12.16.18 | Seeing Vansire at 1 warms my heart. | klap
12.16.18 | potsy i originally thought the same but it's grown on me. actually had a tough time deciding on that last spot but i've listened to it a ton | Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.16.18 | Well that's encouraging. Maybe I'll spend a little more time with it before I write it off completely | Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.16.18 | No blood orange love? | rabidfish
12.16.18 | lmao at forth wanderers being better than newest Hop Along | klap
12.16.18 | Never really got into the blood orange this year but it was good
I actually hate hop along | rabidfish
12.16.18 | sad | robertsona
12.16.18 | High five, hop along are weak | twlight
12.16.18 | great list Klap, a lot i need to check out. I just got kacey musgraves tickets for Red Rocks, stoked | twlight
12.16.18 | also have oyu listened to Saba - Care for Me? if you dig denzel curry you should check it | klap
12.17.18 | thanks dude, i will peep it. very jealous of the red rocks show | unclereich
12.17.18 | Low | twlight
12.17.18 | quite low | blastOFFitsPARTYtime
12.17.18 | Muchas klaps 4 putting The Beths on here. Easily in my top 5 too.
You should review it some time. | theBoneyKing
12.17.18 | Huh, guess I listened to less klapcore than usual this year. | Sowing
12.17.18 | 27, 8, 3 are good | klap
12.17.18 | plane, easy top 10
blast, actually been meaning to review it for half a year but just haven't been able to get around to it (as with the rest of my 2018 sputniking). on the list tho
sowing, there's a couple other good ones here too ;) | blastOFFitsPARTYtime
12.17.18 | Sweet as, looking forward to it.
Btw, I saw Finn Andrews play his solo album in full recently and it's gunna be tight. Hoping that'll be high on your list when it comes out next year. | RadicalEd
12.17.18 | Sexy list. As expected. | neekafat
12.17.18 | no | luci
12.17.18 | that item is the late year discovery we needed. credit to verdant | twlight
12.17.18 | No ye projects? | klap
12.17.18 | Pusha was the only one I liked | mallen-
12.17.18 | Hope Downs!
Obviously not surprised to see Vansire at 1, although I thought you'd have Beach House a little higher | klap
12.18.18 | Never been as big a beach house fans as others on this site and I didn’t think 7 was up to the level of depression cherry. Still one of their best tho | verdant
12.18.18 | klap 4 this list ha ha | klap
12.18.18 | this guy gets it | budgie
12.18.18 | i tinks the first 2 beach house are the best | WeepingBanana
12.18.18 | are any of these even midwest eggpunk tho? | Brostep
12.19.18 | rufus RIYL absolutely spot-on | klap
12.19.18 | midwest softboiled eggpunk only | NorwichScene
12.19.18 | Meh | betlwedl
12.22.18 | how tf can you say frances quinlan can't sing
like if you don't like hop along's music whatever but she's undeniably a ridiculously skilled singer | klap
12.22.18 | Hack, sorry |
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