ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

this is actually the liberating part of my whole music collection dying - so many of these albums were in my itunes, and i kept them for..."work purposes" maybe? just in case? and now i realise they need never be in there again

i'm possibly not even gonna be around tomorrow - will prob need to leave the house at 7pm GMT

Backtracking a bit, I really liked the Araabmuzik album, especially the cheesiest bits. Not sure it's a musical direction that I'd be waiting to see develop all that much, but it was good fun as trashy genre hijacking.

lol omar

Frank Ocean album is p great apart from that Hotel California bullshit

if by "p great" you mean "staggeringly brilliant", then yes. and that hotel california bullshit really is. bullshit i mean. i mean it's bullshit. anyway, great album, in my top 5, way too low here.

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

24. Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (481 points, 13 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: 44
P&J: 42

Spotify

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss

That Colin Stetson record is great!

my #3

i know there is no chance and i am not even a huge fan of the record but i can not tell you how much i would enjoy the corrupted album dropping in here like a mean drunk at a wedding reception

Astonishing piece of work, glad to see it place so high.

no chance :(

xp

Wowwwwwwww hell yes, so high!!

looks like the metal poll winner isn't going to place either.

I hadn't heard of this Colin Stetson record, but watching a clip right now from CBC and it's stunning! Thanks voters for pointing me toward it.

This Oneohtrix record is just my bag. Really love it.

i gotta run out in like 15 mins so i'm gonna drop the final three kinda quickly

23. E-40 — Revenue Retrievin: Overtime Shift/Graveyard Shift (484 points, 16 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 180

Spotify

No cover?

who is colin stetson?

the volume of e-40 material once again defeated me this year

http://blog.cashmereagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/E-40-Revenue-Retrievin-Graveyard-Shift-2011-ExplicitRetailGrouprip.jpg

i like the e-40 albums but yeah it's a lot of music to digest

whoops

http://i.imgur.com/z2UVQ.jpg

just listened to st. vincent "cruel" (fun!) and and am now checking out colin stetson. sweet christ, this stuff is gorgeous. where did stetson come from? can i get this on vinyl? best and most surprising thing on this list since julia holter. thank you, ilx!

Colin Stetson is great but missed my ballot due to not quite enough listening to it before the vote finished. Did vote for 'Judges' in the tracks poll, though.

YESSS 40watta

goon cru consensus in action I would assume

graveyard shift is really great, overtime shift is alright too

ok so i was digging this colin stetson thing and i thought it was some kinda skronky electronic deal...but this is a sax album???

probably the best and the worst of the 4

http://i.imgur.com/Y92X2.jpg

22. Lady Gaga — Born This Way (488 points, 14 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 30

Spotify

^ no idea how this happened

don't be a drag

E-40 was my #2. knew it would place, was hoping for top 20, but 23's pretty respectable, i guess. tons of stuff to digest, yeah, but graveyard's unstoppable. and even if overtime is relatively weak, i almost never bummed when something off one of these comes up on shuffle.

If I'd got my shit together to vote for tracks 'My Lil Grimey N***a' would've been in there.

^ no idea how this happened

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 1, 2012 1:24 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you don't get why it came in out of the top 10? yeah, me neither.

I get why; as an album it isn't that good

silver linings

"Fuck 'Em" is probably my favorite

xp

big xp

intrigued by the borden/ferraro/godin/halo collabo record. what's this one like? a pleasant, new age-y wash of sound?

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:58 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's a reasonable description, if you accept that such a thing can be very good.

lol @ j0rdan using the single cover of "born this way" rather than the dreadful album cover

inexplicably, "electric chapel" wound up being my favourite song on a wildly uneven, bloated album. will also rep for "scheiße" and "bloody mary" quite hard. the rest, less so

"judas" is underrated & the sax solo on "edge of glory" is of course classic, but a massive misstep after FAME MONSTER imo

alright last one for today, sorry to dump this on y'all

http://i.imgur.com/7n0fu.jpg

21. Shabazz Palaces — Black Up (502 points, 17 votes)

P4K: 14
P&J: 10

Spotify

Certainly happy to see Colin Stetson up here, even if it didn't grab me enough to make my ballot.

seriously this colin stetson is blowing me away, how is he doing this?

thx j0rd! enjoy your afternoon.

Colin Stetson recording is really interesting. Sax with a ton of mics (I am assuming both contact, close, and room mics) and then mixed to get that rich textural sound. Cool shit.

XP

The Borden/Ferraro/Godin/Halo collab is pretty much a new age synth drone record, it's more akin to the earlier Oneohtrix stuff that was what I fell in love with in the first place. Feels like optimistic kosmiche.

Liked but didn't love Shabazz Palaces, I think it may have fallen off my ballot in the final reckoning.

No overdubs either