ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

studio is not beardo

I'm happy to defend this album. It's way better than the artwork would suggest. They'll never top In Ghost Colours but this is probably their second best album now.

IsaacHale
Jun 16, 2012
10
This is an incredible album from Hot Chip, rivaling their defining album "Made in the Dark." It's smooth, dancey, and utterly heartfelt. I can… Expand

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WeAreTheFilter
Jul 1, 2012
9
Hot Chip

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Manik_Music
Jun 18, 2012
9
Electro-brit poppers Hot Chip have produced a expertly crafted fifth album. If the group wasn

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RomanRaifeld
Sep 18, 2012
8
Probably not their best album but melodic and tuneful one and well-produced. The tracks of new release are not huge hits but a small one I would even say chamber and even intimate.

Poll is already better than last year's. Voted for Melt Banana and Follakzoid but glad to see Oh Sees, Gorguts (which I need to listen to soon) make the cut

if there was a hot chip record last year, that's like 100% to place even though no one posting in the thread voted for it, right?

KBP to thread

the Cut Copy album is a full-on homage to the Primal Scream/Happy Mondays axis of musical nostalgia and surprisingly great, esp. after their previous one which made me want to hunt the band down and slay them

it fell off the bottom of my ballot at the last minute but I really enjoyed it

next: Holy Ghost!

Am abandoning hope for my #2 and my #7 tho xxxxp

http://i.imgur.com/2zJ9e8F.jpg?1

67 f(x) Pink Tape (300 points, 8 votes)

i'm highly intrigued by this thanks to the packaging can someone post some good youtubes from this record

this one is not on spotify

what the heck is this? clue me in, voters

Name reminds me of F-i; I am also intrigued

full album

http://youtu.be/zPsmoYIpDI0

i think?

Finally some joy for the K-Pop massive. Even though the album is pretty short it didn't really keep my atention for the duration; almost voted for Airplane in trax, I think most people went for the sadly non-Christmas-themed Rum Pum Pum Pum.

Don't think anything here can match Electric Shock from last year.

omg f(x), yes. K-pop squad came through for this, after failing to place anything in the tracks poll.

xp prefer Airplane too, but Rum Pum Pum Pum is excellent as well.

sickest album cover

i've never really been able to take too much k or j-pop in at once, i prefer it in bitesize form to a whole album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S9WNunDi8

this is the best track from f(x) imo

This is great. Totally off my radar but a nice discovery.

√romance √cult

"Airplane" is a really good track off this album.

Pink Tape is killer! Loads of goodness on there, 'Step' and the lush 'Shadow' (whose writers include Cathy Dennis and Sophie Ellis-Bextor) highlights as well as the aforementioned.

every year this thread brings k-pop into my line of vision and every year i think "wow k-pop artists are killing it the most in terms of fashion and video"

come with me. airplane! love!
this is cute and reminds me of a YA romance novel

Yay! On 'pink tape' for the first time f(x) come close to achieving the same kind of success in album format as on their super consistent singles run. For the posters who don't know them they're perhaps less in your face than the more widely known 2NE1, but equally true to their own sound and style, a kind of stuttery, playground rhyme pop with pockets of soaring beauty http://youtu.be/kKS12iGFyEA

I am on board with 2NE1 so I will definitely Youtube this when at home

one of my coworkers is really into k-pop and, frequently stuck working late on a particularly demanding project, would put 'pink tape' on and we would have an impromptu dance party. so i have a lot of affection for that album, even if i didnt vote for it

http://i.imgur.com/5yWZn5W.jpg?1

66 DANNY BROWN Old (300 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)

Spotify

For some reason I was expecting f(x) to be a noise-rock band. I like that they have a token butch member.

yessss

For some reason I never really got into that album even though I enjoyed it whenever I put it on and I played the hell out of XXX? I think I might have just worn out on him a bit.

old is an obviously great album that i didn't listen to that much

dude is an incredible rapper tho

I enjoyed Danny Brown's album a lot; it also just missed my ballot

"Lonely" my most played album track of the year

Rev and J0 otm. Couldn't ever find the time or care to really get into this like I did w XXX.

Only played this once but enjoyed it a lot more than XXX. I was really surprised Pitchfork had this in their top five.

Jayson Greene's review sold me.

i know it's a little bit of work, but can someone provide a small descriptive snippet (or even a phrase) for each album? for posterity? like a post or a review or sthg?

I like that they have a token butch member.

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend)

Actually Taiwanese American, spoke Korean poorly at first. One of the most popular members now among the largely female fanbase.

First half is great but not that keen on anything past Dope Song, nowhere near as good as XXX.

One of the most popular members now among the largely female fanbase.

― abcfsk, Monday, January 27, 2014 12:10 PM Bookmark

go figure

http://i.imgur.com/oDe8ai4.jpg?1

65 FACTORY FLOOR Factory Floor (301 points, 11 votes)

Spotify

Based on the track from the other thread, this is boring Portland-style "hipster house"?

nah industrial-tinged acid techno I would say

and really good, 2nd of mine to place

Yeah, it's more industrial + early acid house. Not that I know what Portland-style hipster house. Apart from Fall Back and Two Different Ways I found it pretty cold and uninvolving. They're better live apparently.

danny brown - i had my "admirable album from talented and distinct artist that doesn't hit my personal spots or that i will ever listen to" moment with xxx and nothing i read about old suggested this would change - indeed i see more people say similar things this time round - so i never bothered to listen. if anyone has any trax they feel like changing my mind with, feel free

factory floor - as i said in the trax thread i'm pro this kind of music but don't strictly need any more of it in my life, i have quite a lot already

yay the first off my ballot to place