ILM'S TOP 77 ALBUMS of 2010 (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN)

love Dante's Disneyland Inferno but it was 14 years ago, and there has been a flood of great stuff coming out of their label, I think 64 releases and counting

voted for sun araw and no age. no age album really grew on me but it took a while.

listened to the sun city girls album once, thought it sounded pretty awesome at first but it's really samey tbh, kinda weird for a band that has so many sounds

i really like that sun city girls track! i love music with so much space in it and i love music that's evocative of deserts, this is both. fantastic feeling of stillness in it.

wow i didn't know the radio dept. would be so big here. there are some cool tunes on that album.

cntndrzr i'll check those out later, thx.

xps -

Dan S, OK I see your point about how the label's where most of their creativity is going these days.

Contenderizer it was my #1 as well, as my good-natured outrage over its placing probably indicates

the radio dept. (along with about half the trax results) makes me think that 2010 was waaaaay more 80s than i'd previously suspected

see also: chillwave

kinda loving "heaven's on fire" though

SCG would've placed top 3 for me, if I had remembered to vote

that and "Video Dept" are by far the best tracks on the album. Made the bottom of my top 25, great ambience but not enough top notch songs for such a short album.

yeah that's basically how i feel about it.

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63. THE KNIFE — Tomorrow, In a Year (270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
P&J: 232nd
Pitchfork: DNP
Spotify: listen

excellent

Liking 2 of the SSG's youtubes posted itt. Moving onto the third now.

that and "Video Dept" are by far the best tracks on the album. Made the bottom of my top 25, great ambience but not enough top notch songs for such a short album.

― skip, Monday, January 31, 2011 11:00 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

"a token of gratitude" is pretty nice, too, but yeah, a bit indistinct.

Am listening to Sun City Girls, very good! Glad that sleeve and contenderizer's #1 made it, Rihanna further absolved. :)

Tomorrow, In A Year is really, really excellent. If I'd voted in March it'd have been my #1.

okay where are sun city girls from?! am just streaming "black orchid" now and was surprised to hear them singing in Malay/Bahasa Indonesia... they're random phrases that don't make that much sense though.

(songs are pretty great too, loving it so far).

Liking 2 of the SSG's youtubes posted itt. Moving onto the third now.

― waka flocka flamini (pandemic), Monday, January 31, 2011 11:06 AM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

third might involve a hurdle, if it's "black orchid". fair warning.

lol xp

they're from arizona originally but have famously mined music from se asia and elsewhere.

okay where are sun city girls from?!

they're from phoenix az but are from lebanese ancestry iirc

xp

lewis's #1?

ah okay. It's kinda hilarious - it definitely sounds like people who have listened to indonesian songs without understanding them, just mimicking the phonetics.

It was 'black orchid' I was moving onto, and hey I really dug it.

okay where are sun city girls from?!

AZ, as said. they are (or maybe were, depending on your view of such things) p much internationalists. one of em runs the sublime frequences label (world music shiz).

formed in Phoenix. the label is now in Seattle I think

it definitely sounds like people who have listened to indonesian songs without understanding them, just mimicking the phonetics.

I think this is otm, you can also hear this approach in "Ben's Radio" off of the same LP.

Listening to The Radio Dept. "Heaven's On Fire" and, while it's a good and catchy little ditty, I'm disappointed it's not a Kiss cover.

The next album is going to make lex so happy...

xxp yeah at least one of the bishops is in seattle now

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62. THE NATIONAL — High Violet (270 points, 9 votes)
P&J: 8th
Pitchfork: 28th
Spotify: listen

ha

jeez all of my votes are ending up in this 4th quintile. The first CD of the Knife is, well, difficult. But after you make it through the first half your hearing has adjusted and what might sound like the nine-minute academic exercises in isolation on the 2nd CD feel like you just put on Body Talk. This is serious electronic pop fronted by people who can actually sing. For all the justified whining about Tallest Man on Earth, this entire countdown is full of Tallest Men on Earth compared to the opera singers on TIAY. Real vocal performances are not something you get to hear in a pop context very often, especially when they involve people who are already so accomplished in the pop realm. I would pay a ton of money to hear this performed live.

The next album is going to make lex so happy...

to see a band with such ridiculous consensus elsewhere place so low, yeah it does!

nice. tomorrow in a year. loved it so much

i dont get the national but whatever. this is a great list so far. im excited to check out sun city girls. ive heard a lot of great things but havnt checked them out yet

SCG have been doing world music fakeouts for a long time, this mariachi song from '87 contains the words "no habla espanol"

Youtube here

keep hoping TIAY will come to the u.s. at some point but not holding my breath

T,IAY Disc One is fucking incredible. Much as Disc 2 has some wonderful highlights (well, all of it except 'Seeds' if we're being honest), Disc One is the kinda shit that gets me very, very excited.

and hey, 'Seeds' isn't bad at all

plz plz plz refrain from actually embedding youtubes

i still haven't felt compelled to listen to high violet despite enjoying previous ones, this has happened to me a bunch lately with my old indie favorites where i go from enthralled to apathetic in the time between consecutive albums. probably because all the cool shit i discover through ILX pushes it to the side in my mind

i dont get the national but whatever.

I've liked 'em in the past, but High Violet is dullsville. zzzzzz

Are we just going down to 61 today JF?

am still rly liking SCG

d'oh sorry bout yt embed

but it's cool that the placing of their swansong here is turning a bunch of ppl on to SCG, funeral mariachi is a perfect starter's portal to their bizarro world

honestly it was between that and swans alb for #1 of last year for me, and I listen to funeral mariachi way more than it takes a rope of miles for my father to guide me up to the sky

The first CD of the Knife is, well, difficult. But after you make it through the first half your hearing has adjusted and what might sound like the nine-minute academic exercises in isolation on the 2nd CD feel like you just put on Body Talk.

100% agree, otm

honestly it was between that and swans alb for #1 of last year for me, and I listen to funeral mariachi way more than it takes a rope of miles for my father to guide me up to the sky

my experience as well, also lol at Swans title rewrite

everything i've heard off that knifeco record has been impressive, if less than immediate. dug "colouring of pigeons" when it showed up in trax, and am currently digging "annie's box". gorgeous mix of vocal and instrumental tones. i never gave it a chance because so many people wrote it off as soundtracky dabbling, but this is v impressive. and "seeds" is off to a good start, too.

would snag

overreliance on dig/dug/impressive

Are we just going down to 61 today JF?

Yup.