ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Vatican Shadow just missed my ballot and, in retrospect, I wish I'd put it on there over a couple of things that popped up near the end pretty much solely due to the number of times I'd played specific songs on them (looking at you, ultimately-disappointing-but-still-decent Sleigh Bells album)

the action bronson & daphni albums are both good fun but i voted for vatican shadow, gunplay & the dreaded laurel halo. vatican shadow is cartoonishly bleak. reminiscent of metal gear solid. bogota rich was my fav unacceptable album of the year, relentlessly hard&catchy even if there was marginally less precision-bellowing than on inglorious bastard. i like how perverse quarantine is. it's so internet. that sort of numb sensitivity you get w/ sleep deprivation. her dispassionate bleating just endeared it to me more aggressively.

btw, this happened mad early. When I got out of class at 10AM, this had already been entirely rolled out.

Yeah, I woke up and went into work super early today. Rolling out the results made the time go by crazy fast too, so there's a good chance I'll stick with this schedule all week (soz west coasties).

:((((

This is a Monday boast. We'll see what time I actually get up and go into work tomorrow. crut can attest to my usual tardiness.

:((((

― The Reverend, Monday, January 28, 2013 12:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Worked for me and I'm a Mountain Time man.

suits me - i got into work just as it started rolling out, and my boss wasn't around so bonus.

PS i will prob be in trouble tomorrow now though.

Mean ol' albums taught me to weep and moan
Got what it takes to make a Mountain Time Man leave his home

Just disappointed there hasn't been a single hint of a clusterfuck yet. What's going on ILM?

Voted for Grizzly Bear and Twin Shadow. Some of the albums I haven't heard sound promising, though.

three of my bottom five (in a ballot of 20) made the list today. i don't know what that means.

this metz album rules.

its like a little less gothy pissed jeans, reminds me of nation of ulysses in some spots

Interesting list so far.

Love the graphics, but I gotta ask, what's with the grayscale?

yeah, gotta say i'm not a fan of the decision to go grayscale

I like it. It's refined.

Makes me feel sad.

the galaxy garden album art just screams in color, it's like my favorite thing ever

http://i50.tinypic.com/dnhd15.jpg

Yeah, but you can look at that cover whenever you like. It's not like JF's jpgs are going to replace the original designs.

Plus, one can read it as sombre mourning for the better albums that should have placed in the poll.

Haha exactly

Well looks like Grizzly Bear got shafted.

xxp i don't necessarily disagree with you but as someone who flips through these polls mainly to be introduced to music i've missed, it is a little weird not having the actual pallet of colors to associate with the album on first glance.

Laurel Halo suffers the most, apparently the cover was all that record had going for it!

fwiw i've seen the lone album cover several times and it never made an impression until seeing the b&w version

i didn't see a spotify list so http://open.spotify.com/user/callalldestroyer/playlist/51xGGGTA0yUpkkCRoHPqhg

I forgot to vote for this. Nothing I would have voted for turning up so far. Im not familiar with any of these albums tbh. As for stuff im familiar with….grizzly bear ARE boring. I never got into animal collective except for that ‘peacebone’ song. I like that Metz track, “sad pricks” a lot but I haven’t heard the album. I just listened to the laurel halo album and its very purty. I gert what the fuss is about, its really good and that’s only my first listen. what ive heard from nina kraviz is good too.

oh hey Metz is kind of great

I was scared by the Dino Jr comparisons but I am digging "Headache"

not feeling the b&w covers :(

if it helps, Metz was already black & white

should have made that one color.

the grayscale thing is interesting to me because i've been banging on the last couple years about every other album cover (in indie/'acclaimed' type cicles at least) is in black/white/gray so i'm curious to see how often it doesn't much change the look of the album cover in question.

but seriously, I like the b&w.

metz sounds like a lot of things but dinosaur jr is not one of them imo

Metz sounds like a late period Alternative Tentacles band.

the reason everyone has different references for what they sound like is because they are v. generic

the grayscale thing it's like... why

the reason everyone has different references for what they sound like is because they are v. generic

otm

That Lone cover is less striking to those who remember Buggy Riphead's digital anenomes for FSOL's Lifeforms era artwork/media and not a few imitators from the psytrance/psyambient scenes thereafter.

I love the Lone cover because it looks exactly like the album sounds like.

Would be fun if the percentage of colour increased with every entry.

or if the percentage of color increased every time someone complained about it

lol just noticed/registered that Lower Dens is also greyscale/b&w

Did someone remix all the albums to be in mono for the Spotify playlist?

you're welcome

Would be fun if the percentage of colour increased with every entry.

― questino (seandalai), Monday, January 28, 2013 4:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the wi7ard of o7

could we get Z S in here to subtly animate all the album covers thx

ugh, i'm already spending all my free time animating all of the coint and plick results for next week's rollout!

(also i like the b/w! it's something new to think about when seeing all these covers again for the billionth time!)

um so if it's clear that there is absolutely no good reason for these to be in grayscale can we do the rest in color? so they look like the actual covers of the albums we're polling?

how about people who didn't put in the effort to roll out the poll stfu and let him do w/e he wants, ffs. sepia tone that shit for all i care.