ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

It's good stuff, just way too long and relentless for me to have ever heard the entire thing in one listening. Queen Of Hearts was one of my favourite tunes of the year, the rest does pretty much the same thing in different ways.

what in the world does the soft bulletin have to do with that fucked up record?

seriously these vox are no different to all the hardcore vox i listened to in the 90s. What is so off-putting other than the fact you maybe dont dig hardcore? Contenderizer im surprised at you re the vox.

I really like this so far

xp

oh cool Real Estate!

Love love that Real Estate album too! We're on a great run here.

Days is such a great little jangle rock record.

xxxpost Sorry, that was about Fucked Up, not Real Estate who I don't think I really understand yet.

this is p4k indie right?

also no one who listens to black metal gets to complain abt hardcore vox

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

who was that aimed at?

Nothing really sticks out on Days (the cover is appropriate) but what a great vibe. I found myself listening to it three or four times in a row at work.

Hmm...have to say I dug the previous album but this was a big let-down ("It's Real") aside.

if it is Lex, p4k is improving.

yeah it doesn't 'feel' like a #1 album of the year, but i returned to it a ton, and it's so, so good at what it does that i just played it more than anything last year

This is Feelies worship indie.

like that real estate record, it feels slight but i think jangle pop is kinda slight by nature

also no one who listens to black metal gets to complain abt hardcore vox

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

who was that aimed at?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:11 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no one in particular, just cutting it off before it starts

Not a bad band to worship.

my gf totally stole days and stashed it in her car so i haven't gotten to listen to it nearly enough

I knew I liked her.

:)

i like this record, didn't make my ballot but the first few tracks are especially nice, and i love the hypnotic groove the last track settles into at the end

well i like the fucked up record so far so you cant say it about me.
but BM vox are different to hardcore and clearly some prefer one to the other (or hate both)

Man, "Green Aisles" totally stands out for me, but the vibe on the whole record is fantastic.

I hope they explore the sound of that last cut a bit further. Really nice evolutionary step.

but I really dont get the hatred for this guys voice at all.

The Real Estate is another one I voted for. Very monochromatic, but for this type of music that's a compliment. Sort of early REM meets Unrest meets Heavenly. Nails that wistful-happy-sad vibe perfectly.

this is dreadful. i'm trying "it's real" and it's just so aimless and feeble...sounds like it should be soundtracking a tv advert for a washing powder called nostalgia. oh look the video is basically a fucking instagram tint stretched out and they look like complete douches.

Im hoping Woods might place now. That would be great. Always disappointed they didn't make it in previous years.

If Lex doesn't like it it's bound to be good.

haha lex you're always saying things like 'feeble'. You prefer strong and muscular music?

Listening to "It's Real." Sounds more swedish than jangle to me -- I imagine that if I listened to this 10 times I'd find it really dug into me, the way those Club 8 records do, but I'd have to listen to it 10 times to find out. "Slight" is about right.

so many ilxors had never heard hardcore vox before?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like fucked up but the whole thing of people marveling about OMG A SHOUTY HARDCORE BAND GOT A BONER FOR THE SOFT BULLETIN gets a bit much

also no one who listens to black metal gets to complain abt hardcore vox

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

have heard tons of hardcore vocals over the years (love john brannon, for instance), but 9 times out of ten, "hoarsely bellowing angryman" is not a sound i enjoy. at least not in recorded music - can def be cathartic live. i'm more a punk than a HC fan, and when i do like HC, i like it in small doses & with the tuff-guy shit dialed down.

dying crow style BM vocals are much easier for me to digest, probably because they seem more weird than belligerent - the he-man testosterone frenzy isn't such a factor.

Sort of early REM meets Unrest meets Heavenly.

Lacks the urgency of early REM and Unrest, lacks the amiable amateurishness of Unrest and Heavenly

Marling was my #1, btw. I don't prefer this LP to her previous one, but I do think it is more of a piece, and I like the darker route she's heading down lyrically. She's probably the most interesting young singer/songwriter around atm.

Also voted for the Tom Waits and Fucked Up.

There was one track on the Grouper album I was quite taken with, but the album didn't find a place on my ballot in the end. Couldn't really get into it.

haha lex you're always saying things like 'feeble'. You prefer strong and muscular music?

i like slight records when they're very still, like phaedra or mirel wagner

slight jangly guitar pop is my idea of hell though to be fair

like that real estate record, it feels slight but i think jangle pop is kinda slight by nature
no way. lots of music i love, i mean LOVE, could be classified as jangle pop: the feelies, the smiths, the whole sarah catalogue etc. but it does not feel slight by any means. it may feel bright or light but not slight. not sure about that real estate yet, the vibe is great but i am not sure about the quality of the songs.

Jesus you guys, how do you like your milquetoast in the morning?

it's nice sometimes not to have a songwriter telegraph 60 seconds in advance exactly when a song is going to end.

this fucked up album is really good. Why didn't I hear it earlier.
It just missed out in metal poll top 125 I think.

a fucked up album cannot be good, it can only be fucked up. which it is by the way. q.e.d.

it's just so aimless

so wrong.

My number 1. Based solely on the fact that it was by far the most-listened to album of 2011 for me. First few times it felt like 'nice vibes' and great for driving on late summer days etc....but somewhere around the fifth or sixth time "Municpality" and the final track started clicking and I began to like every individual track. I think it's too straightforward to be considered some sort of paragon of P4k indie. Tellingly my mother asked if it was "easy listening". Lovely stuff.

Jesus you guys, how do you like your milquetoast in the morning?

Guilty as charged, though for me it's more of an evening background music album. If I focus on it too much, it can become slightly annoying.

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42. Radiohead — King of Limbs (362 points, 13 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 33

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sadly, my #1 being a less hyped indie record than Days means it's probably out of the running

a fucked up album cannot be good, it can only be fucked up. which it is by the way. q.e.d.

rmde

oh right there was a radiohead record this year

found King of Limbs dull. then again it took two years for me to come around to In Rainbows so...ya never know.

very sad that new Radiohead/Yorke albums are no longer exciting.

i listened to the second half of this way more than the first half

Shit of Limbs more like.

especially "Codex" which was really pretty

i loved that real estate record but i dont think i voted for it

same for war on drugs-- honestly assumed most ILM ppl would hate it!