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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
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
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?
Yep!
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.
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
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).
Voted Fever Ray here, I feel all the other acts in the group have demonstrably better songs (demonstrated indeed by us in 2 cases)
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.
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
Looks like the bracket balancers are going to claim their first victims here (BUT WHO??)
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.