ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

just gonna ignore that last one and carry on talking about dawn

hey is another favourite - so melodically generous

i love how the mixtape is as equally interested in sounds, emotions and SWAGGER. her debut album proper is easily one of my most anticipated for 2012

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

38. Junior Boys — It’s All True (375 points, 15 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 631

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Also is there a version of that Dawn Richard album that doesn't sound like a third-generation cassette copy yet? The songs were fantastic (Runway especially) but I was finding it way too muffled to really get into. Well, except the one with the a cappella autotune, that was terrible.

is this that same girls band that did that laura song and he sings like a child? and he grew up in isolation from all music except 2 songs or something?

fastnbulbous you ranked 500 albums? 0_o

cuz i heard a bit of this new one and it sounded like a different band?

yeah same one

Yeah, Girls was my #279

Are you joking? I thought only freaks like Chuck Eddy were capable of ranking to this extreme.

Vomit and Honey Bunny are great tracks but the rest of that Girls album is quite plodding and boring, especially the track Magic which sounds like some britpop band like Dodgy or someone.

wikipedia says:

Dawn has announced that her major solo debut project will be a broken up trilogy of albums entitled "GoldenHeart, "BlackHeart", and "RedemptionHeart". "GoldenHeart", the first of the trilogy is expected to be released in 2012.

i really really hope that's true

nb kalenna, the other dirty money girl, has also kicked off her solo career, and this first track has got be HYPED for it - a few months earlier and maybe i'd have had time to rep it enough for it to place in the trax poll http://soundcloud.com/k-diddybop/kalenna-gotowork

Also 'A Prelude To A Tell Tale Heart' is a terrible fucking title.

I'll agree w/the consensus that the last two Jr. Boys albums are no patch on the first two, but there are still plenty of nice moments on them.

i still like what junior boys are doing, though this doesn't really touch their first 2 records

will never get the love for junior boys

ha in between the junior boys single placing in trax and today, i managed to forget again that they released an album last year. siiiiigh they're just not exciting any more ;_;

Also 'A Prelude To A Tell Tale Heart' is a terrible fucking title.

the album was originally gonna be called a tell tale heart, hence "a prelude to..." for the mixtape

will have to dl that Dawn Richard. Nikkiya was "the free mixtape r&b" i listened to in 2011 ;)

A Tell Tale Heart is also a pretty terrible title.

Nikkiya was "the free mixtape r&b" i listened to in 2011 ;)

still got my fingers crossed that this will place but not as hopeful any more :(

I'm getting déjà vu. Junior Boys again? They bore me to tears, sorry.

you ranked 500 albums?
Um, have you've visited his website?

ok vomit is quite good actually. But none of the other tracks are as good as it

Love this Junior Boys album, love them all for different reasons. Forgot to vote for it.

xp
at least it wasn't called "Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard"

i wonder if the feeling i get when people get all giddy about real estate and girls is the same feeling rap dorks get when people like drake or lex gets about the weeknd. i guess not because i just find them generic and boring, not deplorable, but it seems to be the same kinda thing where most of the people who like them don't really listen to a lot of indie rock/guitar music. it's like indie rock for rap dorks.

plz get fastnbulbous spam out of here plz, we have enough of that around ilm

it's like indie rock for rap dorks.

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speaking as a rap dork that loved both the real estate and girls album, i can just about guarantee you that maybe 1% of rap dorks are checking for real estate and/or girls albums

people who only listen to indie rock are really into those two bands

actually, there are some good mixtape titles in the Poe bibliography. "Thou Art the Man" is making me lol

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37. Death Grips — Ex-Military (382 points, 13 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 165

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it took me like all year to realize i liked it's all true

it's not nearly as immediately catchy/poppy as last exit, which id still rank as my fav of theirs

ppl seem to really love so this is goodbye but it's v meh to me

Yeah, 532 albums. It's what I do. Think of it as an ongoing playlist. When I started listening to a lot of music, it's just a handy way to keep track of stuff and revisit my favorites more often, or reconsider others rather than forget about them. They started as lists on whatever word processing program I used for Apple IIs in 1983 on the 5" floppies, and went to web in '95.

it's like indie rock for rap dorks.

curious what the real indie insiders are stanning over?

I like Real Estate (And Woods) but not anything i've heard by Girls.

i'm phrasing my point re: real estate and girls poorly. maybe i just mean they seem like "entry level" indie rock or something. ignore all the stuff about rap dorks. i think i actually like real estate but don't get why someone would be really excited about them.

The idea of listening to Death Grips far exceeds the actual act of listening to Death Grips. Like Fucked Up, I find that one track a day is enough to fulfil my Death Grips RDA. Still, they've done a fab job of achieving what dälek never could.

N/a this was my feeling re: liturgy and metal.

I love listening to the Death Grips mix all the way through! really well sequenced.

Yeah Death Grips is cool. "West End Boys"

I'm with dl here - it's clearly a great album but I haven't listened to it much since the initial buzz.

DEATH GRIPS yeah, my third vote to have placed, after demdike and moon duo. super fun for walking around real fast with headphones on while making karate chop motions with your hands. (it's okay because no one is looking.)

What's a good showcase track for dg? I love the album but I don't feel like I've really explored it properly. Always wanna play it to people but never know which track is best represented.

Death Grips would've been my #1 if I had voted.

i don't like girls, but "vomit" is p great as it turns out. except for the part at the end with the backing vocals, that sucks. if they'd just repeated the dino jr. guitar solo, i'd have been way happier. it doesn't matter though because i don't like girls.

What's a good showcase track for dg?

guillotine and takyon are both ace

I think if they don't like the first 2 tracks they're not going like the rest of it.

curious what the real indie insiders are stanning over?

Depends what you mean. Indie rock, indie pop, DIY? Certainly not bloody Girls, anyway. Though a fair amount of trü indie people like Real Estate, I guess (not me).

I just listened to some Girls songs. I wish they had more tension, more meat; it feels like they lack a center, like there's no "there" there. I mean, that song "Honey Bunny"? I almost literally cannot process how someone thinks it's aesthetically okay to just put a little surf-rock lick in there like that. It feels so wrong on some deep level that I cannot articulate. And a song "Die" with, you guessed it, "angry guitars"! I think these guys just think of the whole idea of Music way differently than I do, like it's some neat little macaroni sculpture you'd make in third grade and bring home to your folks.

curious what the real indie insiders are stanning over?

Anything on Woodsist or not not fun

I'm not particularly "excited" by Real Estate, but I found myself returning to the album often enough that I ended up with a great affection for it.

all this debate about girls and like 3 people talking about dawn richard ;_;

i prefer the real estate album that was on Woodsist to this years