tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27081143740488734392024-03-13T07:03:21.743+00:00Reckonomics"The dismal science, dismally put" - The Telegraph.Loughlan O'Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777148807741992856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708114374048873439.post-92221084664731938562017-07-14T20:03:00.000+01:002017-07-15T16:58:29.195+01:0040 Favourite Albums of 2017 so far... (21-40)<span style="font-size: large;">This is part 2 of my favourite albums of the year so far. Go and read <a href="http://reckonomics.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/40-favourite-albums-of-2017-so-far-1-20.html">part one</a> first if you haven't. Although saying that, they're only in alphabetical order.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Albums that closely missed out include <i>Hot Thoughts </i>by Spoon as well as <i>Snow </i>by The New Year. I've let their people know they were so close to blog immortality, and I'm told they're devastated. Frank Ocean's 2017 singles as well as LCD Soundsystem's new EP would have made the list, but you've got to have rules to follow, and they're definitely not albums. Tough shit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've only just noticed this, but that's a great bit of cover art. A late entry, but some of the most enjoyable minimalism I've heard in a long time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Kendrick Lamar - <i>DAMN.</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: DNA, HUMBLE, YAH, GOD, DUCKWORTH</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kung-Fu Kenny, King of Hip-Hop. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Obviously it's here, you can stop worrying - easily within my top 40 in fact. Naturally, he drops 'b***h' and the n-word left, right and centre, so be careful how you sing along ('HUMBLE' a particular challenge). I think it might be more consistent than <i>To Pimp a Butterfly</i>, and I've played it just as much. It hasn't hit the zeitgeist in quite the same manner, but that surely is the fault of Bono, rather than K-dot. Either way, his name now brings a seal of consistent quality. I thought there would be two albums, I was disappointed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Laurel Halo - <i>Dust</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite different to her previous albums, this is experimental-pop rather than electronic dance music. The production on the album, and synths in particular, are mesmeric and dreamy. One of my favourites of the year so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Les Amazones d'Afriques - <i>Republique
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When you google their name the first sentence returned is '<span style="background-color: white;">Les Amazones d'Afrique are an all-female collective of west African musicians campaigning for gender equality'. Hopefully that sells it. '</span>Dombolo' is second to 'Chanel' by Frank Ocean for my favourite song of 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Mac Demarco - <i>My Old Man</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Return of the Mac. It's probably not one of the<i> best</i> albums of the year, but I love Mac Demarco. His lyrics are still sweet, with more introspective here than his previous efforts. However, sometimes he knows the perfect mixture of jangly, noodling guitar and synths, and sometimes he doesn't get the instrumentation right. I just want to be his mate mostly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Man Forever -<i> Play What They Want</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Driving, pulsating, modern drum-jazz, with appearances from Yo La Tengo and Laurie Anderson to boot? Yes please. (Note for Jazz-ophobes: It's not too jazzy, I promise).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's huge variety on this album, so it's quite hard to pigeonhole. At times it focuses on melody, other times it's happy to lose melody completely and focus on noisey rhythms and abstract soundboards. But pigeonhole we must. Ambient Techno. Next!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Moiré -<i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No Future</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Piss-poor cover, almost as bad as Babyfather's <i>BBF </i>(I seriously don't get this Union Jack thing at all). However, this is full of bass-driven UK dance/techno tunes. Good stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is actually a compilation album, but all of the artists are on the label PAN - who have also put out records by Keith Fullerton Whitman, Oren Ambarchi, Rashad Becker, Objekt and Aaron Dilloway. The title of the album is actually Japanese, and it means 'an empathy towards things' apparently. I thought it was meaningless English. Anyway, it's a great collection of Ambient pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Mount Eerie -</u><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><u><i>A Crow Looked at Me</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christ. Phil Elverum (of the The Microphones fame) has recorded some good albums as Mount Eerie. This is very different though. It's a very real, detailed, heartfelt and immediate meditation upon the sudden illness and subsequent death of his wife, and the mother of their young child, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Geneviève Castrée</span></span>. Most of the tracks were recorded in the room in which she died, one of which was only 11 days after. Even though this is one of my favourite albums of the year, I've only managed to listen to it through about 5 times. Have some tissues at the ready</span><span style="font-size: large;">, because it will probably make you cry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Nicholas Britell - <i>Moonlight OST</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It's the best film I've seen this year, and the best film soundtrack I've heard too (Mica Levi's Jackie soundtrack deserves mentioning, but I think it was released last year). The chopping and screwing of classical pieces, as well as the inclusion of Hip-Hop and R&B classics make for an emotional listen. It's hard to listen without divorcing it from the film, but I think the soundtrack stands up by itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - <i>Feed the Rats</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is this metal? I hope not. Let's call it rock. Either way, it's groovin', space-y, desert-y and psych-y. I've heard they're great live too. It's like a heavier Kyuss without Josh Homme and his cronies, which can only be a good thing. Also, is their stupid name a riff on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo">Buffalo sentence thing?</a> Surely not. Surely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At first his voice really grated on me and it's a concept album about the jobs people had in Dark-Ages Northumbria. It does <i>not</i> sound like my type on paper. But, the Quietus eventually ground me down, and I finally gave in. The melodies at times are modal, and typical traditional English folk - think Shirley Collins - but there is experimentalism here too. You might not like it at first, but listen 10 times until you do. That's a good use of time, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Rodrigo Amado - <i>The Attic</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could pretend to know about the Lisbon Jazz scene, but I don't. Apparently the quartet are all big names. All I know is it's great improv-jazz and Amado is a sick saxophonist. Warning: this is quite jazzy, and possibly not for everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Saagara -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>2</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wacław Zimpel, alongside an Indian orchestra. Takes from lots of genre's, and Zimpel always seems to hit the mark for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Shit and Shine - <i>Total Shit!</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: Chklt Shk, Excess Laziness Egotism, Dodge Pot</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Turn it up loud and treat yourself to a little dance. I have no idea how you're supposed to say 'Chklt Shk', but it's a great track. It's noisy, rock-influenced electronica, that's all about fun. It doesn't take itself seriously at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Moonlandingz<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> -<i> </i></span><i>Interplanetary
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: Black Hanz, I.D.S, The Rabies are Back, Neuf de Paps, Glory Hole</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Half of Fat White Family team up with some guys from the Eccentric Research Council to present The Moonlandingz. I like the former and had never heard of the latter, but I prefer this to both of them. Yoko Ono is on the album, as is Philip Oakley from the Human League. I feel like the cover conveys <i>exactly</i> how it sounds. I hope they tour more, I think it would be great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Necks -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Unfold</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is<i> </i>quite long, but it can go by quickly. Even thought it's percussive multi-instrumental jazz, it creates a lovely soundscape to dip in and out of. In fact, you could listen to it on loop several times without realising it. Dare I say it seems to be circular in structure - perhaps even <i>folded</i>? Reign it in, Loughlan. Reign it in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Vince Staples - <i>Big Fish Theory</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: Crabs In a Bucket, Big Fish, 745, Yeah Right, Homage, Party People</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking over my choices, there's much less Hip-Hop on this list than I expected there to be. This, alongside Kendrick, is the only 'rap' from this year which makes my cut - Loyle Carner, Wiley and BROCKHAMPTON just lost out, whilst RTJ and the new Tribe album was last year. Vince Staples is funny on and off the mic, but this is goofy and easy-going in a way his last project wasn't - true of the lyrics, and true of the excellent production too</span><span style="font-size: large;">. It's more mass-market in focus than </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Summertime '06, </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">and without the chaff of the '06' half.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Japanese inspired ambient music. Lots of bleeps, bloops, hums and hisses, packed around wonderful, meandering, clicks and melodies. I'm running out of adjectives. 40 is a lot.</span>Loughlan O'Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777148807741992856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708114374048873439.post-51803319951832802362017-07-13T20:23:00.004+01:002017-07-15T02:56:50.884+01:0040 Favourite Albums of 2017 so far... (1-20)<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I felt bad for posting such a boring second piece, so I thought I'd write something more fun, and much more self-indulgent for the next. Now an egomaniac after writing one blog piece, </span><span style="font-size: large;">rather arrogantly I thought I'd list my top 40 favourite albums of the year so far. I'm sure you're desperate to tell me which Uruguayan psych-jazz and Icelandic ambient scat-house albums I've missed. That's why the list very much falls into the category of 'reckons'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That being said, making the list - which mostly just involved scrolling through Spotify - made me rediscover music I'd forgotten about. If you get a chance, it was more fun than I thought it would be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the first 20, in alphabetical order. The second 20 will follow later. What a tease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Raised in Wolverhampton, Actress has tapped into something special. Subdued dance music, that's great to work to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>(Sandy) Alex G - <i>Rocket</i></u><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Full of great songwriting, this is Alex G blending genres, left and right. It truly pains me that he is so prolific at so young. I just love Alex G, and this is one of his better albums.</span><br />
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<u>Arca - <i>Arca</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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Quite different to his previous two albums, <i>Mutant</i> and <i>Xen</i>, Arca deciding to sing on the album really changes its focus. I have no idea what he's saying, but I'm sure it's light, happy-go-lucky and playful (It's definitely not - listen with caution).</span><br />
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<u>William Basinski -<i> A Shadow In Time</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are only two pieces on the album, but 'For David Robert Jones' (Bowie to the rest of us) is my favourite Basinski piece I've heard since <i>Melancholia.</i></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Bing and Ruth<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>- <i>No Home of the Mind</i><o:p></o:p></span></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Minimalist ambient music all acoustically recorded, and released by 4AD. This is really really lovely.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Blanck Mass - <i>World Eater</i><o:p></o:p></span></u><br />
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<i>Dumb Flesh</i> was good, but I think this might be better. It's ever so slightly more accessible, but still all consuming. Listen with headphones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part 2 of James Leyland Kirby's project as The Caretaker, in which he documents the experience of dementia taking hold through the medium of turntable music. Part 1 is great listening, but the distortion of memory is beginning to really take ahold in Stage 2. Listening to this piece becomes quite disconcerting by the end, at least it makes me feel uncomfortable. I haven't listed a favourite track as I really think you should listen to the whole thing (Stage 1 included).</span><br />
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<u>Colin Stetson - <i>All This I Do For Glory</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not Stetson's best, but not every album is Catch-22 (or<i> New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges</i> in this case). If you've never heard him play I suggest listening to an album first, and then watching him play on youtube. It still impresses me that all parts of the pieces can be played simultaneously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><br /></i></u>A free release by Dean Blunt, this isn't much more than noodling at times. It's short and sweet, and I've listened to it quite a lot - so something must be good about it, right? I'm bending my own rules here as it's more of a mixtape, but this should still be available to download for free online. He released this alongside another project he recorded in 2014 with Joanne Robertson, called <i>Wahalla</i>, check them both out<i>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>D. Glare <i>- 4 Oscillators & 130 Samples at 130bpm</i></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course sampling has always been closely linked to live-performance, but I think to record your <i>first</i> attempt must be some kind of nod towards <i>E2-E4</i> by Manuel Göttsching. The end result is nothing like that, but there are real moments of brilliance here. There's also a fair amount of filler, but squeezing variation out of such tight restrictions must be difficult. I suppose the clue is that oscillation is central to the piece.</span><br />
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<u>Demdike Stare - <i>Wonderland</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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This really taps into the breakbeat-techno groove I've been in recently. Combines American Footwork influences with British Jungle. Good beard too.</span><br />
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<u>Forest Swords - <i>Compassion</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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I don't really know what genre this album would fall into to be honest. I've seen it described as 'wordless protest music', and that seems apt. How very 2017.</span><br />
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<u>GAS - <i>Narkopop</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: Narkopop 2, Narkopop 7</span></i><br />
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The king of Ambient Techno is back. and now it's on Spotify so you can listen all the time. It's not Königsforst, but what is?</span><br />
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<u>GNOD - <i>JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL
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<span style="font-size: large;">It really promises a lot with a title like that, doesn't it? It's full-on, so listen when you want to let off steam.</span><br />
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<u>GP Hall - <i>Industrial Blue</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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I can't remember how I found this, but you'll have to go <a href="https://lullabiesforinsomniacslabel.bandcamp.com/album/industrial-blue">here</a> for this one. As soon as I heard the first track I knew I'd like it. Industrial soundscapes, with all the sound created on guitars. Not recorded this year, but only just issued.</span><br />
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<u>Happy Meals -<i> Fruit Juice</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: Lá Lábas, Fruit Float, Suivez Moi</span></i><br />
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Fun, bleepy-bloopy poppy dance. Which is exactly what the fantastic cover-art promises I suppose.</span><br />
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<u>Ibibio Sound Machine - <i>Uyai</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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I dare you not to have a dance. British born, West African influenced. Lots of fun. Pretty much here on the strength of the first two songs alone.</span><br />
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<u>Jane Weaver -<i> Modern Kosmology</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to call this 'Cosmic Pop'. Very easy to listen to, with some lovely lyrics I'm told (I don't know, I rarely take them in). I'm just a sucker for synth pop really. 'H>A>K' really is excellent though.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Jay Som - <i>Everybody Works</i><o:p></o:p></span></u><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: The Bus Song, Baybee, Everybody Works, 1 Billion Dogs</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is indie-rock at it's best. It's catchy, and it has strength in depth. Apart from the first track, which I'm not a big fan of, every track is at least quite good. It's very NME, and I don't even care.</span><br />
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<u>Jlin - <i>Black Origami</i><o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite Tracks: Kyanite, Holy Child, Nyakinyua Rise, Hatshepsut, Never Created Never Destroyed</span></i><br />
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One of the best of the year so far, I've probably listened to this at least 20 times. Jlin has cemented herself as the rallying point for her genre. Even though it has Holly Hearndon and William Basinski on, I don't think it's better than Dark Energy - but just go and listen to them both as soon as you can.</span>Loughlan O'Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777148807741992856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708114374048873439.post-82798891983992881002017-07-12T18:06:00.000+01:002017-07-14T10:21:02.117+01:00Long Read, Short Research<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">Reading The Guardian back to front, as one often finds oneself
travelling, I came across<span class="apple-converted-space"> yesterday's </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion">long read</a>. When I saw that it concerned Economics I immediately became
sceptical - as I began reading, my fears were confirmed. One paragraph in
particular was so dense with contradictions and misunderstandings - all too common - that I thought I’d
write just about that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">At the risk of sounding polemic, the paragraph that talks about the<span class="apple-converted-space"> E</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis">fficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is,
frankly, rubbish. The writer defines the EMH as the following: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>‘since a free market collates all available
information to traders, the prices it yields can never be wrong’. I have no
idea what the writer interprets a ‘correct’ price to be - within the field of Economics or otherwise - but either way the definition simply isn’t correct.
The EMH certainly does not make a value judgement about what the price of an
asset ‘should’ or ‘should not’ be. A fairer definition would be this: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>‘Given a financial market has many
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agents, and given they all have access to the complete set of past information
about relevant variables, then those who engage in arbitrage in the market
should lose money as much as they earn money’. Even more simply put, on
average, if the market is 'competitive' with 'full information', it will be
impossible to earn profit simply through arbitrage in financial markets.
Hopefully this reformulation makes clearer why the EMH result was an important
milestone within the field of Economics - Fama was able to formalise, i.e. show
analytically, that given a set of crucial assumptions, a result which is fairly
intuitive (at least to me) follows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">However, the article then continues to detail Robert Shiller’s
contribution to the literature on the issue, and seems to claim that the two
economist’s conflicting papers is typical of the field's lack of ‘scientific’
grounding. It's true that Shiller found there to be strong evidence to suggest
that the EMH doesn’t always hold in the real world. Famous examples would be
Warren Buffet and George Soros, who have managed to earn profits from trade in
assets for decades at a time. Shiller’s results bring in to question whether
those agents who make up the market, do in fact have access to the complete set of past information, or indeed behave 'rationally'. His results actually demonstrate
that, at least some of the time, the assumptions that the EMH rest on do not
always hold in the real world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">Now, I’m not particularly well versed in the philosophy of
science, but correct me if I’m wrong if the following is not the scientific
method at work. First, a hypothesis is generated. Secondly, the hypothesis is
tested against empirical data. Finally, the hypothesis about the real state of
the world is revised in light of the data. The EMH is exactly that - a
hypothesis. Fara and Shiller in conjunction carried out exactly this process,
and were jointly awarded a prize for it. It seems obvious to me that Fara did
not suggest that no one can ever make any money from financial arbitrage - he
is not an idiot. In fact all he did was show analytically that such a market is a zero-sum game. To suggest that economists merely ‘believe what [they] want to
believe’ is unfair, and certainly doesn’t follow from the above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">It seems that this misunderstanding has arisen from merely a
cursory consideration of the importance of analytical results, grounded on
assumptions. It's hard not to smile at the irony here, considering that the
piece highlights the importance of economists' assumptions earlier on.
Without much consideration, the writer criticises economists for not testing
assumptions empirically, and then continues to detail exactly where Shiller won
a Nobel Prize for doing just exactly that. Moreover, their misunderstanding
about the EMH, it seems to me at least, has come about because they have
ignored the assumptions the EMH rests upon. In the definition I gave earlier,
the two clauses that follow the word ‘given’ are the EMH's assumptions (this
trick is one to watch out for - it’s a common hint that an assumption
follows). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">If I remember anything from my first tutorial in Economics, it
was to always list, and then criticise, the assumptions of the model in
question. Academic economists are obsessed with, to the point of being
wearisome, being careful with assumptions (possibly due to the directly
conflicting results of analytical models, if assumptions aren’t considered). It
seems that rather than follow such an approach, the writer has committed the
unforgivable sin of ignoring the assumptions Fama listed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">For full disclosure, I stopped reading the article after this
paragraph. But even then, this wasn't the only paragraph in the article where I
took issue with something said. But this one did seem to be particularly funny,
full of contradiction and peppered with superficial research. Another problem
is the way the writer deals with 2008. In one sentence, they are happy to admit there are differing schools of thought about what the response of governments should have been, but then in a later sentence condemns the entire field as having failed -
despite any internal contradictions, I think the issue is slightly more nuanced
than that. I'm sure The Guardian means well when it publishes it's quarterly
'bash the economists' piece, and there are certainly issues within Economics
that need to be addressed - but poorly researched articles do not a field
reform. Criticising Economics should really be some of the lowest hanging fruit for a
broadsheet in 2017, so it's surprising it can't be done in a more convincing
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Within Economics, a
rational agent is usually considered to be one that consistently acts in
accordance with their own preferences. Agents that make up financial markets can
be fairly assumed to be maximising profit - so in this context, a rational agent is one that maximises profit.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Loughlan O'Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777148807741992856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708114374048873439.post-24585076190674182062017-07-12T13:04:00.000+01:002017-07-12T18:25:20.236+01:00Completely Millenial<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">...or How I Stopped
Worrying, and Love the Blog</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For those of you
who are far in the future, who've dug up this blog as a desperate final attempt
to explain what drove me to commit such a horrible, heinous and horrific act,
you'll be sadly disappointed. All I can suggest is that my downfall really
started here, the day I set up a blog. The pangs of guilt I have for setting
one up are assuaged by the knowledge that reading the blog will almost
definitely be worse than writing it. Needless to say, I had the last
laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I'm sure with such
a terrible name no one expected anything worth reading anyway. But in all
seriousness, please don't expect anything resembling quality writing on the
blog - a large part of the reason I've set one up is to improve my writing
skills. Please don't expect considered and nuanced opinions either. 'Reckon-’ is
the operative part of the title, and I'll use it as a get-out-of-jail-free card
at the first sign of resistance. However, I hope the blog will allow me to
order and collect my thoughts somewhat, so I can at least remember what I
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: large;">This blog will just
be content, nothing more nothing less. Sometimes it will be about academic or
popular economics, and sometimes it will be 'reckons' on other subjects. I'd
like to think I might write about politics and music too but I'm making no promises. Much like an election, the best strategy with my blog is probably just to expect nothing. Nine times out of 10, we will wait a very long time for an awful outcome. I'll do my best to channel my inner Corbyn when I can.</span></div>
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