ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

did y'all hear that blue daisy remix of jamie woon? pretty epic: http://soundcloud.com/bluedaisy/jamie-woon-nightair-blue-daisy

Leatherface never split and are still making great records. Don't compare them to Fucked Up though, they're leagues and miles better than them.

Found the Azari album really grew on me - also found only the 2 big singles were working for me at the start, but repeat listens led to me liking it all a whole lot. Fantastic production!

Was also mega surprised by how much i enjoyed the Real Estate. They're basically Mccarthy without the politics, and i fucking love Mccarthy.

Mush by Leatherface rules

it does. Im getting all nostalgic listening to it now on spotify

guys this is the 2011 thread

"Manic" is like their fifth single and is p much them switching things up a bit with these manipulated vocals after doing straight-up male diva on all the singles before that, which are all on the album.

Mush really is one of the best British records in any genre. It's SO GOOD.

listen to the wind
drink a lot of gin

listen to the wind
drink a lot of gin
video gaaaames

damn, you beat me to it :)

Would love to hear the Andy Stott played loud on a decent stereo, I think my shitty set-up (not to mention my neighbours) have been a barrier to getting the most out of it. You can sense the weight of the music even on headphones though, almost like a suffocating sensation at times.

Didn't vote for it anyhow though, and still have 0/25 so far

Given up hoping that the Roman Flugel album will appear, definitely one of my favourite techno albums from this year and really strong from start to finish. Anyone who enjoyed the Robag Wruhme record should check it out, probably a better listen overall imo.

yep, i voted for the Roman Fluegel. if i had done a weighted ballot it would've been number one.

king of limbs is going to be the radiohead album that people who are paying attention rep for in 5-10 years in spite of the fact that it got slagged of now, sorta like sonic youth's 'goo' or pj harvey's 'is this desire.'

yes yes *gives reassuring pat on the head*

Its not an awful album by any means, just not exciting enough to really be worth talking about - and I usually ride for Radiohead.

kevin arent you like sixteen?

forgive me, i mean, in college

yeah i'm really smart for 16 tho

smart aleck more like

Is This Desire didn't get slagged off when it came out. It was #1 in p&j, wasn't it?

#7

ur thinking of to bring you my love. 'king of limbs' blew me away last year and im cool, i promise!

yes you're right I'm thinking of to bring you my love, my favorite pj harvey album

I definitely went through the arc of curiosity -> fascination -> immunity with her

I don't think it breaks new ground and I'm not sure it will be remembered, but the perfect balance and serenity of that Real Estate album strikes me as a kind of genius

Lol "King of Limbs" is the first RH album I've liked in years

I feel like Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea gets ignored sometimes, but it was #2 in the 00 Pazz Jop. I still love that one. This last one not so much.

yes that was another very good one, i think and iirc it was given a very bad review by p4k

I feel like Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea gets ignored sometimes, but it was #2 in the 00 Pazz Jop. I still love that one. This last one not so much.

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:29 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my favorite PJH album this side of rid of me and the 4-trk demos, doesn't get half enough credit around these parts

Stories is indeed a great record. I prefer it to To Bring You... and Is This Desire? by quite a margin.

i thought stories was her biggest critical and commercial success pre-LES? mercury prize and so on. also her worst solo album by some distance. i mean obv PJH has always had good reviews but SFTCSFTS got a lot of "finally this scary weirdo has made a happy classic rock album" type reactions.

for me, it's

is this desire? > let england shake > to bring you my love > dance hall at louse point > white chalk > dry > uh huh her > 4-track demos > rid of me > stories from the city, stories from the sea > a woman a man walked by

mor eon topic, i'm listening to the hatchback album as my first-thing-in-the-morning soundtrack while catching up on the news and the internet and it's PERFECT, i love how low-key it is in its psychedelia - every so often a tiny detail emerges from the general mood and catches my ear

is this desire? > let england shake > to bring you my love > dance hall at louse point > white chalk > dry > uh huh her > 4-track demos > rid of me > stories from the city, stories from the sea > a woman a man walked by

I guess theoretically it's possible that AWAMWB is the worst (I haven't heard Uh Huh Her and never properly got into White Chalk so I'm not sure) but I love it so long that seeing it at the end of that list makes me sad.

Rid of Me way too low on that list though.

The Hathback is great, yes. It was near or even in my top 10 IIRC.

Hatchback

Lol "King of Limbs" is the first RH album I've liked in years

Yeah, me too. Actually, I never thought I'd enjoy another Radiohead album again.

i didn't really get into anything on AWAMWB - even though i think SFTC's overall aesthetic is boring, its high points are pretty high.

UHH is definitely worth hearing - it's better when it's understated rather than in-your-face which might be a reason it gets overlooked, but songs like "the darker days of me & him", "the slow drug", "it's you"...all magnificent.

not heard this hatchback record before
absolutely wonderful stuff

I liked the Hatchback album (definitely more than the Windsurf one I listened to) but didn't vote for it - like so many records this year (incl. Toro Y Moi) it was a case of hearing it once, thinking it was pretty good then never feeling the urge to go back to it.

Also Lex, sorry to read about your HD failure upthread!

Yeah I meant to say I'm sorry about your hard drive - that sucks. Did you have any sort of backup?

no because it WAS the backup! except it became the main music drive anyway.

i salvaged what was on my ipod which is a good start, and have decided to start from scratch rather than pay silly money for data recovery (tried the cheap option but obviously i am so cursed that cheap, easy fixes re: technology never apply to me). it is a bit liberating except when i remember all the random shit i spent ages tracking down online :( albums are easily recoverable, old mixes and obscure '90s remixes less so :(

Yeah :-( this has happened to me before, perhaps the worst part is that it's actually very easy to forget the existence of the old mixes and obscure '90s remixes entirely, and then one day they pop into your head and it's like you suddenly realise you can never go back home to that moment when you had that obscure remix and it was so important to you.

i think there's something important in the fact that the VERY FIRST SONG that sprung to mind when this happened, the trigger for the first wave of panic "shit what if i don't own this any more", was the polow da don remix of fantasia's "when i see u"

(it was on my ipod - obv! can't go anywhere without it in my pocket - so it's ok.)

(you may see me disconsolately bumping threads in the coming months asking for "help" with this matter)

listening to fucked up now. i do like this. it's like if leatherface made american idiot.

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol. Did not know that there was a band named leatherface so thought this post was referring to leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I was v intrigued by the idea and after listening to some Fucked Up tracks was totally on board with this comparison!

I'm so terrified that my hard drive is gonna crash someday... xp

Hatchback was in my top ten as well. I thought the ILX massive would place it higher on this list tbh. Glad to see some people listening to it for the first time now, it's such a classic album.

can someone post a list of all the albums so far thx

― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

77. When Saints Go Machine — Konkylie (258 points, 10 votes, one first place vote)
76. Robag Wruhme — Thora Vukk (262 points, 8 votes)
75. Liturgy — Aesthethica (264 points, nine votes)
74. The Joy Formidable — The Big Roar (266 points, seven votes, one first place vote)
73. Jay-Z & Kanye West — Watch the Throne (266 points, 10 votes)
72. Barbara Panther — Barbara Panther (270 points, seven votes, two first place votes)
71. Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine (271 points, nine votes)
(tie) 69. Wild Flag — Wild Flag (273 points, 10 votes)
(tie) 69. Low — C'Mon (273 points, 10 votes)
68. ILX Presents Lulu (276 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
67. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls (282 points, 11 votes)
66. Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva (288 points, 10 votes)
65. The Psychic Paramount - II (290 points, 9 votes)
64. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (290 points, nine votes, one first place vote)
63. Austra - Feel it Break (290 points, ten votes, one first place vote)
62. Drake – Take Care (292 points, 8 votes, one first place vote)
61. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (294 points, 10 votes)
60. James Ferraro — Far Side Virtual (295 points, 11 votes)
59. Perfume — JPN (298 points, 10 votes, two first place votes)
58. Grouper — Alien Observer/Dream Loss (304 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
57. The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient (322 points, nine votes, one first place vote)
56. Danny Brown — XXX (323 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
55. Mastodon — The Hunter (328 points, 10 votes)
54. Kendrick Lamar — Section.80 (337 points, 10 votes, one first place vote)
53. Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know (342 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)
52. The Mountain Goats — All Eternals Deck (342 points, 12 votes)
51. Demdike Stare — Tryptych (347 points, 16 votes, one first place vote)
50. Hatchback — Zeus and Apollo (350 points, nine votes, two first place votes)
49. Moon Duo — Mazes (350 points, 12 votes)
48. Tom Waits — Bad As Me (352 points, 14 votes)
47. Clams Casino — Instrumentals (354 points, 12 votes)
46. Azari & III — Azari & III (358 points, 12 votes)
45. The Weeknd — House of Balloons (360 points, 10 votes, two first place votes)
44. Fucked Up — David Comes To Life (360 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)
43. Real Estate — Days (361 points, 11 votes, two first place votes)
42. Radiohead — King of Limbs (362 points, 13 votes)
41. Andy Stott — Passed Me By/We Stay Together (363 points, 13 votes)

While I knew that some people here were into Hatchback, I don't have the impression that it broke out of the usual suspects for beach vibez or that it got much attention outside ILM. So I think #50 is a decent showing.

Yeah, maybe because of my own enthusiasm for it, having learned about the album through here, I was under the impression it was hueg here. You are right.

fwiw (SPOILERS) Zeus and Apollo is the highest-placing album that got 0 votes in Pazz and Jop, so it's definitely outperforming its broader reception on ILM.