ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

okay I'm going in

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okay fuck no

That cover looks better in black and white.

xxp LDR that is.

haha that looks like JF just lobbing a bomb into the thread and running away

haha, kinda!

Really digging Chairlift, don't know how this passed me by.

I had no idea people rated this album...If I dislike the singles (maybe apart from VG), will I have any time for the deep cuts?

LDR really feels like years ago now.

save us JF

I had no idea people rated this album...If I dislike the singles (maybe apart from VG), will I have any time for the deep cuts?

that depends, how do you feel about singers who constantly sound like they are mooing in pain?

probably not. i only like "summertime sadness" and "this is what makes us girls" of the deep cuts.

i'm still mystified w/r/t the extreme reactions she elicits. some of her songs really work, a lot of them really don't, ehhhhhhh.

there's one song where she sings in this ludicrously overblown sexyvoice "kiss me in the D-A-R-K tonight" and i always hear it as "kiss me in the DPRK tonight"

xps to seandalai

her?

born to yawn imo

this album was overrated, but the backlash was so strong that it may now be underrated.
it is (at moments) very maudlin, and was the perfect soundtrack for midnight at the new years eve dinner I attended

the mental image I have of a dinner where this album would be a perfect soundtrack is my idea of hell on earth

i've no idea how her (on-record) voice elicits strong reactions either, it's just bland (but works sometimes)

yawna del ray

Trying to think what Chairlift sounds like and it's this; Rosie Vela - Magic Smile.

great run so far today though i haven't heard the LDR and suspect it's not gonna be my thing

chairlift record is wonderful especially the whole first half. very strong hooky songwriting. geir would approve

Underrated

geir would approve

Now NOBODY'S gonna listen to it.

http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=37457

Im sure Geir would approve of LDR

based on what I've heard, Geir would think LDR was harmonically and melodically boring

Obviously it's not a great record - some of the lyrics, if nothing else, put paid to that - but I like that she stuck with her schtick for years and finally made it work. I like that she sold 3m albums without touring. I like that she survived an overblown and sometimes downright vicious backlash. I like the fact, as someone pointed out at the time, the music sounds like Mono. I like half a dozen songs on here.

suddenly I get Chief Keef

this chairlift is pretty good
man i realize how out of synch i am with ILM reading this poll
and how little i really listen to new music at all anymore

lana del ray record is so bad

i fucking love i belong on your arms but maybe the whole record needs some more time to grow

Yeah I said on the trax thread that IBIYA is the only Chairlift song I need.

Yeah I said on the trax thread that IBIYA is the only Chairlift song I need.

― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:11 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this

but WHAT a song to need.

i belong on your arms

This song needs to be written -- something about tats...

tats for tits

(sorry)

Yeah I said on the trax thread that IBIYA is the only Chairlift song I need.

― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:11 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd contest this if you haven't heard the whole thing properly. So many tracks had an instant appeal for me - very little hard work, but it still yields results on repeated play.

(I Just) Dyed in Your Arms

still love LDR, voted for it but shocked at it placing so high

both Arms and 'Take It Out on Me' grabbed me instantly iirc, and the rest of the record was a pretty quick grower

xp I have heard the album a couple of times, I do like it but nothing stands out for me the way I Belong does.

The Chairlift album was an early favourite of mine last year that pretty much stayed with me throughout the year - I love that album. Maybe it does tail off a bit towards the end, but that's because I feel that the opening run is so strong. I'd go as far as saying that 'Met Before' was one of my favourite tracks of last year - should have nominated it. Listened to it more than the School Of Seven Bells album too. Anyway, it's too low!

I mean, you can't really fuck with 'Sidewalk Safari', 'Wrong Opinion', 'I Belong In Your Arms', 'Take It Out On Me', 'Met Before', 'Amanaemonesia'... all sterling tracks.

Met Before, Take It Out On Me and Ghost Tonight are all up there with IBIYA for me. They do the 80s pop thing better than anyone else at the moment.

funny, i don't think there's anything strictly 80s about their sound, though IBIYA does hint at paul simon pretty strongly

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Yeah, 'Ghost Tonight' is another one. I love '80s pop/synth pop in general, so the Chairlift record was always going to be right up my street.

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34. LE1F Dark York (396 Points, 12 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)

If the Chairlift record is this low, I'm not expecting the Daily Bread album to poll now :(

I'm not expecting the Daily Bread album to poll now

Did anyone even care about it besides me and you?

Wow this is really high for Dark York. Good mixtape - my favs were Fresh and Lavandin as well as Wut - but it did have enough flaws (mixing, several subpar trax) to miss my ballot. Didn't expect it to place tbh. Should def not be higher than Haze

#1 vote gonna be soooo happy!

Yeah, I'd never heard of Le1f till the tracks poll. I like his steez though.

I'm fine with it being higher than Haze. (Ranked it higher than Haze) I love Reservation but took far more pleasure out of Dark York last year. More jams, more quotables, more awesomeness, etc.

Haze is more polished in some ways, but not as consistently jawdropping for me.

And you know I love them both.