ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

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
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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.

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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!

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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?

have 2 say oggie u got a good knack of making me kinda wanna revisit albums i know i don't like

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 00:40 (18 hours ago)

fittingly i enjoyed you pissing yrself w/ glee at how terrible laurel halo was.

yeah personally I'm just a pretty visual person so I'd like my 'first impression' of these albums I haven't heard of to be the actual, color version. (granted that even among color vversions there will be differences w/r/t to reproduction like color saturation etc.) anyways carry on

I don't understand how those light board things work, but they look cool as fuck.

hey its my #1

I had this at #5

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

She's logged time as both a Vivian and a Dum Dum girl

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

I think I wrote them off for a while because of the dumb name. Checked out Attack on Memory early in the year after a friend enthusiastically recommended it, but it didn't actually click for me until months later. Ended up liking it enough to vote for it, though.

both of those bands sucked iirc

im sure i'll be embarrassed by this record in like 3 years but its really sweet right now

I thought 'Know Me' was unbelievably flimsy when I listened to it but the rest of the Frankie Rose album really burrowed its way in with me and I ended up playing it loads. Such a good Sunday evening album, something about it felt really old-school 4AD as well but not in a useless derivative way. It really tails off in the final third, but the middle section, from Gospel/Grace to Had We Had It is gorgeous.

乒乓 saying what i was attempting to, just more clearly.

Argh stfu about the sodding pictures already.

ok

I voted for Purity Ring, mid ballot. Can't really add much to the comments on the PR thread, but its a interesting mix of teen poetry recital and UK bass that works despite its ingredients.

gr8080 otm. helpful input for future polls imo. on the plus side i agree that jf's look is pretty neat and he's doing a great job on this, for which i'm grateful.

xp *cries about pictures*

i really can't decide what is worse, the name or the music. just speaking of purity ring, that's probably applicable for the albums before as well. what is the appeal of this kind of generic progressive rock music with a digital touch?

clams casino is 1/2 of purity ring, right? its weird because i'm into is solo stuff but cant get w/ PR

oh word? I had no idea Clams Casino's dayjob is Purity Ring. Makes sense, tho.

i don't think its the same guy or if it is i was completely unaware

i heard a couple songs off this on the radio and it reminded me a bit of the most recent Dirty Projectors album - does it qualify as progressive rock? I guess I'm picky when it comes to what progressive rock I like - as I didn't like either Purity Ring or Dirty Projectors.

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45. BAT FOR LASHES The Haunted Man (329 Points, 13 Votes) Spotify