ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

yeah zach hill should really work on his chops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdMDcG3zAEI

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48. CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack on Memory (314 Points, 13 Votes) Spotify

also I lost a ton of respect for Death Grips after that super bratty Spin piece, specifically at the point where Burnett apparently said straight-facedly about the NO LOVE DEEP WEB cover art "I just looked at the picture and thought 'what a beautiful piece of art'"

we've all thought that about our penis at one point or another

love the cloud nothings record

also another one unaffected by greyscale

'Guillotine' is still THE Death Grips tune for me, and the one that go me interested in the first place. After that it just felt like more of the same. I guess this is the problem with a lot of loud/abrasive music - without due care it can appear to turn into a formula sans nuance - I'm thinking of the kind of problems people were levelling at brostep a year or two back specifically. Obviously there are exceptions, as with metal. But even metal tends to work best when there's a contrast of dark/light heavy/quiet rather than a bombardment of noise.

3 of the next 4 also unaffected. Ordinarily, that would be something like a hint, but there were SO MANY b&w covers last year that I don't feel like I'm tipping my cards.

Google Image Searching "No Love Deep Web" is surprisingly a treat.

I can't think of a single thing on The Money Store that sounds like "Guillotine"; certainly none of the songs I listed are sparsely arranged base drops with minimal drum tracks and intermittent digital noise blasts.

I don't thing of DG as particularly noisy/abrasive.

calling your band cloud nothings is basically saying to the world "no need to care about us"

I guess this is the problem with a lot of loud/abrasive music - without due care it can appear to turn into a formula sans nuance

sometimes the problem is the listener

Might as well call them the dream.

man don't u see you can't really touch a cloud so you could say it's "nothing" but then when u think abt it it's actually water vapor and *is* something

I didn't get that Cloud Nothings record AT ALL, it was just nowhere near as good as the stuff it's influenced by. In my one listen to the Metz album I found so much more to enjoy than repeated attempts to get into Cloud Nothings

kind of lolling at dog latin saying "the problem with abrasive music is that it's too formulaic; it should really follow this type of pattern in order to work" with no apparent sense of irony

http://i.imgur.com/Aat4zs0.png

47. FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar (316 Points, 12 Votes) Spotify

yes

too low tho

no, don't please. I'm working an aesthetic here and if I wanted to just post the covers as they are EVERYWHERE ELSE on the internet, I could've saved myself a shitload of time and done exactly that.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:04 AM (13 minutes ago)

also another one unaffected by greyscale

― ciderpress, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:12 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

3 of the next 4 also unaffected. Ordinarily, that would be something like a hint, but there were SO MANY b&w covers last year that I don't feel like I'm tipping my cards.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:13 AM (4 minutes ago)

THIS IS SO WEIRD!!!!! love you man, but idgi

al leong otm

Good album. Voted for it when I decided the Dum Dum Girls EP to be ineligible.

og pressing of this on vinyl was so cool I snatched one up w/o even owning a turntable.

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/img/large/slr150-color.jpg

whoa, that's awesome. i need to listen to frankie rose. multiple friends have recommended her to me but i haven't gotten around to it yet.

came out really early in january iirc-- listened to it pretty consistently all year

idg why greyscaling the art for the art of it is so strange to people. did none of you ever read zines on newsprint? OLD SKOOL DIY! Or maybe just a choice.

In two years, when it's my turn for albums again, I'll just post regular old jpegs and you can have the boring poll you want.

Tails off, but first half of this is untouchable.

i've already said i like the greyscale as have several other people

thx

I think I would be absolutely in love with this Cloud Nothings album if the singer was even a tiny bit less pathetic

on "No Future/No Past", it doesn't sound like he's sliding around on the pitch for any particular effect or reason; it sounds like he can't hear and is second-guessing the notes he's trying to sing combined with zero breath support, it's really fucking aggravating

like, "let's take the dude from These New Puritans and make him try to sing long, sustained lines instead of the percussive choppy vocals he's actually good at"

in summation, Cloud Nothings gets the "you are not the Pixies, stfu" gasface

Tails off, but first half of this is untouchable.

I might co-sign this if the final track weren't my favorite.

i like the cloud nothings album, though i think i liked them more when they didn't have pretensions to being more than a punk-pop band. they still know how to write good hooks though.

omg can we leave JF alone re: the greyscale already. i think it's interesting sometimes but doesn't always work, but the point is JF is the one putting the time & effort in to run this shit and it's basically up to him

i remember being very jaded with all the music i was being recommended at the start of the year, nothing that was hyped was clicking with me, and frankie rose was among this. can't remember why though.

huh Frankie Rose album is a good bit more interesting this time than it was the last time I tried to listen to it

johnny fever i appreciate your zine aesthetic

also i don't really care about good singing
xpost

xps

Although I made a joke about the grayscale, I think JF should roll this out the way he wants to and I understand why he would want to go this route. Also with all the industrial and new velvet austerity music in today's poll results, it makes sense.

xposts sorry

your text-box choices are great! i just feel very strongly about an album's cover art having a very important role in the album's overall work. like, the artists already made an aesthetic choice-- youre just making a list, bruh.

also, all the "oh btw this one actually didnt have any color" talk is hilarious and weird but really confusing and unnecessary too

i'm not mad or asking you to start posting in color, i just think its a bad choice for a thread thats supposed to be a DEFINITIVE DOCUMENT of ilx's music listening for a whole year, i'll stfu now

I really like the songwriting/arrangement behind "No Future/No Past" but I can't get past dude's voice, at least not on this listen

idg why greyscaling the art for the art of it is so strange to people. did none of you ever read zines on newsprint? OLD SKOOL DIY! Or maybe just a choice.

You should have printed it out in b&w, ran it through a crappy Xerox copier a few times to get that cruddy 5th-gen copy look, then scanned it back in - or better yet snapped a photo of it with an Instagram sepia filter (just kidding).

a thread thats supposed to be a DEFINITIVE DOCUMENT of ilx's music listening for a whole year

what

I would have cared more about the Frankie Rose if neighboring furrows weren't being plowed by So7B, Chairlift, Exitmusic etc. last year

what

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:39 AM (1 minute ago)

c'mon you know what i mean

on this listenthrough I already like Frankie Rose a good bit more than Chairlift and I never heard Exitmusic

So7B is unimpeachable

Not to diminish what's actually taking place here, but everything in this thread is just chatter. The definitive document is a spreadsheet that seandalai will share once the rollout is over. No pics on that baby!

http://i.imgur.com/uyN7ws8.png

46. PURITY RING Shrines (320 Points, 11 Votes, 2 First Place Votes) Spotify

i guess i've just always liked pictures better than numbers and words

TOO LOW DAMMIT

ps cad and I are seeing them tomorrow, apparently dude plays MIDI light bulbs ^_^

Wasn't Frankie Rose in some hipster girl band 5 yrs ago, or am I thinking of someone else?