ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

If an ILXor made this for a compilation, I'd dig it - I guess I'll adjust my expectations accordingly

I mean, it kind of sounds like something one of us would do, so

never heard of project pablo before but this just sounds like music made by wankers who fetishise cassettes

i mean, it's perfectly listenable though, not bad, but i don't need my music to sound like a fucking cassette

it's got a nice homemade vibe about it. what nonplusses me about music like this though is whether the lo-fi clunk was borne out of necessity or if it's just some guy just putting his productions through a bunch of digital patches.

Now that I've listened to some more of it, there are songs that are just fine and others that are like a serrated knife in the eye.

The Soichi Terada compilation kinda filled my need for this emotion, this year.

lmao i googled and they ARE cassette fetishists

why are canadian electronic producers all so annoying?

track 3 was the one i meant i'd dig if it was made by an ilxor fwiw, track 4 is just really annoying

Kind of wonder how people would react if they had no knowledge of it being a cassette release.

last track is the pick

i don't want to get too much into the cassette debate (my stance: yeah, fine but i don't have a player, so) - but i can kind of imagine this sounding nice on a cassette. There are people like Bass Clef who does everything analogue and mixes down to cassette,so I think he's therefore justified in releasing things on cassette.

Kind of wonder how people would react if they had no knowledge of it being a cassette release.

― Evan, Monday, January 25, 2016 2:57 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i had no knowledge until after i listened. it is p obvious tho on account of the production sounding like ass

this wasn't just released on cassette though was it?

last track is the pick

― ogmor, Monday, January 25, 2016 2:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this isn't so bad!

don't mind the production at all myself but then my ideology and lex's tend to conflict on this issue so idk pick a side

consciously making a cassette sound is quite an annoying aesthetic decision, rather than just keeping it lo-fi

ah didn't vote for it but that project pablo record was great!

<3 "the feeling"

That Kurt Vile album was a snoozefest, 8 votes for 225 pts probably means it was way down the list for most people who voted for it. At least I hope so.

I never got around to that Kurt Vile due to lack of inspiration, and that's despite liking some of his past albums which were also made fun of here. How do the fans of it rank it?

god why do you care so much if people like cassettes

http://i.imgur.com/YAD8Gmv.jpg

75 BRANDON FLOWERS "The Desired Effect" (226 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 150

today is a write-off huh

Lurker revolt.

jesus

Great album. I didn't know he had it in him.

No one ever answered my question in the other thread whether this guy is the son of Mike Flowers, but I guess he's not?

he's the cousin of Tim Flowers, Tuomas

Tuomas Flowerrs??

I dunno who's that?

(Xpost)

Tuomas you've single-handedly justified this album's placement.

Some good songs on this record, but I didn't think the one that made the tracks poll was one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/v/WN2F6WQk8zk&fs=1&hl=en

some sort of metaphor whereby ILM, music, the EOY poll and Kitchen Person are played by Collymore, Flowers, the ball and the divot, but I'm not sure in which order

hi Tuomas, Tin Flowers is your mom

no youtubes!

god why do you care so much if people like cassettes

― hi-nrg candidate (crüt), Monday, January 25, 2016 10:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think people are upset that an artist might purposefully fashion the production to sound cassette-ish as a gimmick.

Forks, what time are you planning on starting the proper rollout?

i love this album, surprise

sozzles fevesy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Flowers
Early life
Brandon Flowers, the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981, in Henderson, Nevada, to Jean Yvonne (née Barlow) and Terry Austin Flowers.
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/x-files/images/8/86/The_Truth_Is_Out_There_tagline.jpg/revision/latest%3Fcb%3D20070529002506

http://www.opinionatedbastard.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/truthisoutthere.jpg

actually, David Bowie said that

god why do you care so much if people like cassettes

― hi-nrg candidate (crüt), Monday, January 25, 2016 10:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think people are upset that an artist might purposefully fashion the production to sound cassette-ish as a gimmick.

― Evan, Monday, January 25, 2016 10:20 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Perhaps. Also, I lived through the cassette era. I owned several hundred of them. It's a terrible format. To see it fetishized is on par with people talking about how fun it is to suck mashed potatoes through a straw.

that project pablo release is available on 12" too and it sounds great.

there's a song on this record that wholesale samples "smalltown boy" how could i not love it

and mp3 so ppl like evan can jizz on it xp

i am actually just getting around to transferring a number of my old cassette mixes to spotify playlists right now (#pvmic); it's a great way to rediscover old songs and evocative sequencing. there's a specific way i like to hear King Pleasure into Eddie Jefferson that brings me back to junior high

http://i.imgur.com/BXpPEqg.jpg

75 DICK DIVER "Melbourne, Florida" (227 points, 7 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 129

Wait what did I do?

xps

hadn't heard the flowers album before. assumed it would sound a lot like a killers album but it has that gaslight anthem / working class rock sound