ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

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45 STARA RZEKA "Zamknęły się oczy ziemi" (388 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 337

6:24 of 'Grief of New Desire' is the Spagett! of music

Ship of Theseus has 6 tracks and 5 of them are for different reasons amongst the greatest things I've heard

Track 1 is this distorted, lumbering monolith which sounds like the world slowly caving in on itself, until it finally collapses in fury

Track 3 is a shifting, agonised, sweet, cruel and staggeringly poetic descent into the hell-heart of the depressed metal genius in love. It made our tracks poll, and rightly so

Track 4 is like Neurosis but better

Track 5 is mad, a fucking crazed mad lament for our fucking crazed mad financial system. It starts mad, gets madder and then actually just keeps on getting madder still as the IDM cash registers twinkle hellish in the background

Track 6 is a straight-up big ol' album-closing ballad. I would recommend newcomers to start with this one. It's the longest but also the most accessible track. And it's an incredible ballad too, rooted in classical Greek literature but stretching out to the limits of the form

Track 2 is merely very, very good and I never skip it. The whole album is a wondrous creation, and the best bit is that Kalmbach is only really getting started

I do not remotely care how ridiculous any of you think I sound

I lost the urge to check out the Levon Vincent after his douchebag 'arm yerselves' fbook posts but maybe I'll give it a whirl

Liked the Stara Rzeka, didn't make my ballot.

Wow, this is a good year for avant-proggy metal on ILM.

Hey cool, Stara Rzeka! My #1 did make it!

i am dying @ "the Spagett of music"

Drugs A Money! I feel your joy!

For those who don't get Jute Gyte but aren't totally opposed to it... If you can bear to, try spending a little longer with it. Take it on overcast walks, write some code to it, play it during dinner. What might not at first sound distinctive (though is still thrillingly opaque and intoxicatingly odd) becomes music you can live inside and the nuances unfold like rooms of an unexplored manor.

It's amazing. (Still, my...#6 I think)

I really loved Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem but didn't get to really know this one enough to vote for it.

ok i'm listening to jute gyte for the first time and it does seem a little half-assed to me and buzzing out of tune sonic youth isms are personal catnip and i don't mind dm vox. idk i would probably kind of dig if it came up on shuffle on a road trip or something. too much else in this arena i'd spring for first though.

xp lv is a little asinine in some of his opinions but he seems like a total sweetheart but idk

Aaaw Stara Rzeka is lovely! Happy it placed so high

jute gyte is not as interesting as it should be but also much better than it has any right to be

to my ears, Jute Gyte is taking several buzzwords, throwing them on top of some poorly-executed nonsense and waiting for the crowd to go wild.

The thing that makes microtonalism impressive is the precision of its execution, hearing those distinct quarter steps and the different tensions they create in your musical vocabulary when you lock them in; if you're also tying it to distorted pitches, you are IMO removing the entire point behind it.

I don't see why this is more necessary for 24tet music than for 12tet music tbh. A more trad classical music snob could surely say the same thing about a regular rock album with distorted guitars (and some do).

Take it on overcast walks, write some code to it, play it during dinner.

Again, this thread proves how the separate the worlds in which we live are... I could never imagine playing something like this over dinner, people would think I've gone crazy, I prefer to keep my friends. The only thing that should be played over dinner is Satie or Mendelssohn's "Lieder Ohne Worte" or some slow ambient, and it should be on low volume.

My Dinner with Tuomdre

(Anyways heres the whole SR album on youtube: https://youtu.be/76zOryTNxx8 it's also goid for overcast walks or dinner)

Take it on overcast walks, write some code to it, play it during dinner.

great advice for the levon vincent record tbh

Who needs microtones when you have Wolfetones?
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about halfway through "phantom power" i was like "oh i should've made this my no. 1"

Track 6 is a straight-up big ol' album-closing ballad. I would recommend newcomers to start with this one. It's the longest but also the most accessible track. And it's an incredible ballad too, rooted in classical Greek literature but stretching out to the limits of the form

Grow.Up.

People who listen to Jute Gyte tend to dine alone.

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44 DUMBLONDE "Dumblonde" (388 points, 14 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 256

We'll be giving Levon Vincent a good listen this evening, perhaps during dinner

YEAH

WOOOOOO

^^^^^^^^^^^

for a second I read that as Dumbledore

People who listen to Jute Gyte tend to dine alone.

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 1:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha. because they smell bad.

I could never imagine playing something like this over dinner, people would think I've gone crazy, I prefer to keep my friends.

The best friends are the ones you can surprise with Jute Gyte.

yusssssss dumblonde

wow, dumblonde is an impressive troll of a name

Dumblonde = v v good, maybe needs more microtones

More like jugged goat etc

fixed

For those who don't get Brandon Flowers but aren't totally opposed to it... If you can bear to, try spending a little longer with it. Take it on overcast walks, write some code to it, play it during dinner. What might not at first sound distinctive (though is still thrillingly opaque and intoxicatingly normal) becomes music you can live inside and the nuances unfold like rooms of an unexplored manor.

It's amazing.

― tangenttangent, Tuesday, January 26, 2016 1:02 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I loved Person Pitch so much but just never felt the desire to listen to this one. Anybody want to tell me why I should?

― emil.y

I actually don't get people who don't get Person Pitch. Obviously there's just something in that sound he gets that resonates with me and not others (I have a whole poorly-thought-through thesis on 'individual tone resonance'), but it works for me so well that it just seems self-evident.

― emil.y

It didn't do much for me at first but I think in retrospective Person Pitch might be one of the 10 albums I like the most of the 00's. Not based on favorite songs but because it works as a whole for me, there's not a single moment I dislike in that album and it's one of the few from the past decade I still listen to without skipping anything.

Regarding the Grim Reaper album, it's still a great listen and there's some highlights in there but suffers from diminishing returns for me. I would have loved it if some of these songs had been released as a follow-up to Person Pitch but it's been 8 years and unfortunately the surprise factor is missing for me... when Person Pitch came out the layers upon layers of vocals and the fractured pop sound didn't sound overused, neither did the 'tropical' influence which in the past years is to be found all over indie-pop and even the mainstream. It's difficult for me to shut down context when listening to a new album... maybe if I play Person Pitch to someone who has never heard it before it will sound like the same old at this point, but back then it felt like it was using a sound that hadn't been revisited in decades.

Xp

Oh god... Should have seen this coming...

haha

hmm dumblonde hitting my hi-nrg spot

anyway the dumblonde is awesome. didn't vote for it, hadn't really played it enough to commit but glad its here.

The best friends are the ones you can surprise with Jute Gyte.

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Hahahaha

every track on the dumblonde record does something different which sounds like a very boilerplate description but like really every track is doing something very distinct yet still within the realm of pop. it rules, i voted for it

yeah hard to pick a fav cos of that

LOL

I don't see why this is more necessary for 24tet music than for 12tet music tbh. A more trad classical music snob could surely say the same thing about a regular rock album with distorted guitars (and some do).

― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sure I mean a set of attitudes could be carried across to other things and it wouldn't look so good, but you know that can be ok sometimes.

I don't like half of the albums so far but it's a great poll so far. Lots of variation, the singles poll felt too homogenic for me this year.

As penance for making all of you think about Jute Gyte, I solemnly swear that we shall listen to the entire Dumblonde album tonight

This Dumblonde album is amazing and too much fun. Only discovered it when going through the Spotify playlist a few weeks ago. The production is just incredible.

well i'm very excited for that, lj