Yeah, I think it’s pronounced ‘dive’
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Not ‘div’, unfortunately
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77 DIIV: Is the Is Are
78 Band of Horses: Why Are You OK?
When I first attempted to collate Necessary Evil 2016 back in the entirely understandable period of late 2016, I decided to write the ‘reviews’ alphabetically first before getting the abacus out and working out where the would be placed scientifically. This was a terrible mistake
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79 PJ Harvey: The Hope 6 Demolition Project
80 Tegan and Sara: Love You to Death
We’re at number 80! forever moving towards the appropriate!!
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81 Jeremih: Late Nights
Hey! The correct spelling of ‘nights’!
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The Weeknd’s first mixtape- 2011’s ‘House of Balloons’- was an absolutely marvellous piece of work and was the Necessary Evil album of 2011, even though I never actually wrote it down or told anyone about it, because when all’s said and done it’s really none of your fucking business is it?
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82 Plants and Animals: Waltzed in From the Rumbling
OK, children, we need to talk about ‘pretension’:
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83 Animal Collective: Painting With…
Aw, shucks, ‘Painting With’ is the very dang definition of a
When I threw all of you desperate plebs a bone by listing the best tracks of 2016 so far- back when life was good and we didn’t all automatically despise and mistrust our neighbours’ democratic menace- I named the undeniably fabulous FloriDada as the greatest artistic contribution of the year so far
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84 Zeal & Ardor: Devil is Fine
Now, usually I neither care for nor completely acknowledge the existence of your ignorant and- frequently- bigoted opinion, but for the purposes of rhetoric, I’m taking rare counsel with you decrepit losers: which decade was or is the best for music?
Take your time, I’ll give you a while to think:
85 Jesu/Sun Kil Moon: Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
Firstly, there’s an elephant in the room here: what the heavens to murgatroyd is Sun Kil Moon’s name supposed to be? Is it a pun?? A pun on Ban Ki Moon?? Because that’s just… just… awful. And probably a bit racist
-5
Oooooooooh, I’ve just Googled it: there was actually a Korean boxer called Moon Song-Kil/Song-Kil Moon. OK, I’ll allow that
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86 Chairlift: Moth
I almost absolutely love Chairlift, and I’m almost devastated they recently split up…
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Their command of pop music- unarguably the greatest artform human life has thus far managed to conceive- is exquisite, and ‘Moth’ (like it +1) has ten superlative examples of their craft
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