Modern Qualifier 13 – DOLLARS CHIFFON CARBON TOPLESS

A single from 2019’s Chris, and the first appearance of CATQ since their 2020 poll win. Nominated by Neal D.
A 2021 collaboration which also featured on MUNA’s self-titled 2022 LP. Nominated by Alison Y.
A track from Karin Dreijer’s 3rd LP as Fever Ray, which came out this very year! Nominated by Steve M.
Title track from the 2022 Poll winner’s Natural Brown Prom Queen LP. A Bracket Balancer.

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Qualifier M13: DOLLARS CHIFFON CARBON TOPLESS

CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – “5 Dollars” (YouTube)

MUNA ft PHOEBE BRIDGERS – “Silk Chiffon” (YouTube)

FEVER RAY – “Carbon Dioxide” (YouTube)

SUDAN ARCHIVES – “NBPQ (Topless)” (YouTube)

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j_e_l

12 May 2023 12:42

Was really put off by the vocals on C&tQ’s, really jarring. Sudan Archives has done better. I liked Muna and Phoebe best, it was like good advert music

I miss the bees

16 May 2023 14:09

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The affected way she swallows the ll in dollars turned me into a strange rage. Especially when she enunciated it properly once in the song showing that it was perfectly possible

Baltimore Jacks

12 May 2023 13:37

Lol at Sudan Archives winning the 2022 poll, without even having to pull out this exhilarating, inventive monster jam. Would saying that she’s “taking the piss,” be a correct usage of that British-ism?

I miss the bees

16 May 2023 14:19

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Yep!

vinnycrackers

12 May 2023 20:20

As someone who spent lunch hour watching the Janelle Monae video, I was really in the mood for this Sudan Archives on a similar theme.

Arron Wright

12 May 2023 20:41

I don’t think I voted for Sudan Archives once in the 2022 poll… And yet, within days of her win I’d heard the album and felt like I’d been missing out big time.

Positively slammed the button here, and will just have to deal with (valid) accusations of hypocrisy re voting for bracket balancers 🙂

ismathers

13 May 2023 18:52

Happy to see Sudan Archives in the lead here, happier that I appear to have (so far) picked correctly in my aim to vote for both a song I love and one that might block Christine & The Queens from going further (no that one poll was not C&TQ’s fault, yes I am going to die mad about it anyway).

Edward Still

13 May 2023 19:44

Voted Fever Ray here, I feel all the other acts in the group have demonstrably better songs (demonstrated indeed by us in 2 cases)

Jeff Worrell

14 May 2023 16:17

On the “vote for something I don’t know over something I do” rule, and because The Knife are having to battle elsewhere, voted Fever Ray here. Increasingly challenged and conflicted about their imagery, mind you.

di qualcosa di sinistra

14 May 2023 18:13

Am I the only one that finds the french version of “5 dols” somewhat superior than the english one? Something seems to be lost in translation and/or it *flows* much better. Voted for it anyway 👍

Tom

14 May 2023 23:03

Looks like the bracket balancers are going to claim their first victims here (BUT WHO??)

SmoothBrain

14 May 2023 23:53

I love the individual bits of NBPQ but after listening to the Sudan Archives album repeatedly last year I feel it’s the track from it that feels the least stand-alone – something too jarring about the transitions between parts.

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