The Poptimists 2006 End Of Year Poll: ALBUM OF THE YEAR

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Poptimists End of Year polls kick off with the unimportant, but still intriguing, category of Album of the Year. Thankyou for your nominations, which have been distilled to a shortlist (by the scientific means of "most mentioned") as follows:

Paris Hilton - Paris: The year's most controversial release - frothy R&B-pop from the heiress-turned-renaissance-woman.
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles: Luscious electronic pop and atmospherics from German boffinette and henchbeing.
The Knife - Silent Shout: Shrieksome electro artpop from Scandinavia.
Marit Larsen - Under The Surface: Scando singing-songwriting popstrel spans country, twee and Euro-pop.
Beyonce - B-Day: Quickly recorded relationship dissections from the reigning queenbot of R&B.

You, the Poptimists Voting Academy, can grace ONE of these with your tick. Do so!

[Poll #891029]

Another category tomorrow - if you didn't nominate you STILL CAN in the other categories by going here!

Comments

Re: badly-argued defense of The Knife

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'They're like what Goldfrapp dearly love to think they are but clearly aren't, musically.'

For the last two albums Goldfrapp have gone wholesale 'phwoarr' electropop but there's still a richness to their sound I can enjoy despite their ditching of reference points like Morricone and Barry.

But I think you have a point in that Goldfrapp have lost the sense of menace and mystery they may have had initially. But The Knife are just a whole lot weirder and more alien in the end. Maybe it is because Goldfrapp are British I dunno. I would love them to try and do something more 'out there' and genuinely malveolent like 'Silent Shout' tho.

Re: badly-argued defense of The Knife

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

On my first encounter with them they reminded me most of Propaganda, except with more current reference points to their dance element.

Re: badly-argued defense of The Knife

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yeh I was gonna mention Propaganda again - I did this on ILM when everyone was originally jizzing over 'Heartbeats' (or the remix at least).