ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Yes my no.1!

Ah crap, Spotify link is wrong again. Sorry!

what is voices from the lake?

Austere techno, but very pretty - almost ambient

yeah, looks intriguing!

I don't think you can appreciate how good this album is by listening to tracks in isolation, its the whole journey man!

In other news, yay the Cherry Thing. A thrilling record

I haven't heard this release, but I kinda like the one that is on Spotify.

Mad abuse of the term 'austere' going on ITT. I think I appreciated the detail in Voices From The Lake more than I enjoyed it, could never really get into the headspace for it and lacked the motivation to bother most of the time.

Cherry Thing made my ballot - found myself wishing they'd reinterpret, like, every song in the world in that way. No way was it the "difficult" album I saw it described as. Loved Accordion and Cashback

Xp yesssss VFTL!! Most immersive record I heard last year. Best listened to when hungover or ill or when it's miserable outside

voices from the lake was my #2, absolutely amazing.

Hehe, I'm only running with the theme established earlier wrt 'austere techno'. It's not that austere, very lush in fact

voices from the lake record is very nice

Omg VFTL is not austere either, jeez

ok i'll give it a try one of these days
austere (cold) not really my thing but austere (lush) sounds delightful

sooo lush

No not cold at all.

i don't want to clog up the thread w/youtube embeds so just search this on youtube:

Voices From The Lake Feat. Donato Dozzy & Neel - S.T. (Vftl Rework)

VFTL kind of felt like...solitude, but nature breathing/existing/living around you

i just got a record from the environments series and the "wind in the trees" track is like that -- it almost sounds like electronic static with birds, but it's just wind in the trees.

VFTL felt like its album cover, like a foggy forest w/a highway bisecting it running into a metropolis.

the music here is subtle. when the faint, optimistic bass melody comes to the foreground halfway through it feels almost cathartic

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31. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Ghostory (422 Points, 14 Votes) Spotify

glad to see the thing/neneh and so7b make it

i just got a record from the environments series and the "wind in the trees" track is like that -- it almost sounds like electronic static with birds, but it's just wind in the trees.

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Yeah its ambient crossed w/hints of environmental sound recordings, except there seems to be a lot more of the former w/not quite as much as the latter. This from a couple of tracks.

Great idea that I've never heard anyone quite make a really really good go of it - although I suspect Milton would know. xps

TOO LOW

TOO HIGH

JUST RIGHT

TOO GREYSCALED

I HAVEN'T HEARD IT

Disconnect From Desire was my #1 album a couple years ago. I couldn't even get enthused enough by this one to listen to it past last June or so.

al leong: i would think ghostory would be "up yr alley"

nice! ghostory was a major comeback from their nap-inducing 2nd album

lol jf and i with totally opposed opinions there

Sadly, I think they're on a straight trajectory downwards since the debut.

ilm is the only place i've ever seen anyone talking about School of Seven Bells

gr80 i'll give it a go, i heard 'disconnect from desire' and liked it but didn't follow up on it beyond one listen.

I like how their sound just gets bigger with every passing record, the first one sounds really weedy and flat in comparison when you go back to it, although there are still some fantastic songs there. I miss the harmonies on this new one though.

It's interesting that the person whose display name consists of ❏❐❑❒ has complained the most about grayscale album covers.

what the fuck does that mean?

yes that's very interesting

owned

Voices From The Lake & the Blondes LP were my two headphones albums this year; "foggy forest w/a highway bisecting it running into a metropolis" is OTM.

Dark York is great (as is Reservation) - the murkiness is kinda the point. Here's some non-"Wut" tracks:
Fresh
Mind Body
Lavandin

is it too late to vote

I'm really surprised to see the School Of Seven Bells albums come in here, it's not that I wanted it to be higher, I just actually thought it would be.

-s.

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30. TAME IMPALA Lonerism (426 Points, 15 Votes, 2 First Place Votes) Spotify

tame impala record is solid and i like the ringodrums but i don't really get excited about it

good album

nice! ghostory was a major comeback from their nap-inducing 2nd album

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Only problem I have with their second album is that I feel it was a bit too long, but I'm fond of more than a few of the songs on there.