ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

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.

Ghostory is fantastic, just as Disconnect From Desire and Alpinisms are fantastic

I love that all three albums use a similar toolkit to explore subtly different moods/headspaces, but what I really love is that they did their own version of "Soon" on this album and it was fucking awesome and should have placed super high on the tracks poll

also love non-classical songs where a dude gets to sing a bass G

it's never too late to vote cozen. the only problem being, your vote won't be counted anymore.

It's funny, I've seen them live three times and the album was in my top 40, yet at the same time I was somewhat bewildered by the extreme enthusiasm, e.g. super-annoying oversold crowd at the last show, #6 and 4 in the other polls. But good for them.

*waits for boring rock portion of the rollout to be over*

; )

day 3 of 4 having all the indie favorites is par for the course on ilm polls i think

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29. MUNGOLIAN JETSET Mungodelics (428 Points, 15 Votes) Spotify

ah fuck, I left an unnecessary pound sign in the graphic. POLL IS RUINED!

re indie, i still have some slight hope that the tindersticks album will place.

my indie favorites were mostly on day 2 thx

big run of uneven records today

Surprised by this. Three great tracks but very patchy.

ilm is spinning off its axis

also love non-classical songs where a dude gets to sing a bass G

country-gospel quartets?

also doo-wop

Wondering whether Smalhans will crack the top 10...

hoping it will crack the top 1

Le1f album was my #1, love the mastering tbh. I voted for that and Neneh Chsrry (many xposts)

And Tame Impala placing I am done talking about my ballot until the top 10