ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

for anyone who wants Carcass at their "most" "pop" I recommend "The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills."

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It seems to be a photo of garbage which fits in with the whole vaporwave thing but it seems lazy and not very compelling, except it compels me to hate it. Maybe because it's so fugly. And maybe somebody thought to arrange that photo, in which case, IDK if that's worse or not... Anyway it's a pretty good ambient record but I voted for Tim Hecker instead. xpost

Donato Dozzy is the first thing on here I straight-up hadn't even heard of that seems interesting.

i'm not super big on 'middle cyclone' these days and this one isn't hitting me yet (might need to spend more time with both), but i think 'the tigers have spoken' and 'fox confessor' are both incredible.

thanks al for turning me on to that Donato Dozzy album, think you mentioned it on ILV

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52 SAVAGES Silence Yourself (346 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote)

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my favorites off the new Neko Case are "Night Still Comes" and "Bracing for Sunday"

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I shd have thrown this on the bottom of my ballot tbh, it was a very enjoyable listen even if it didn't melt my mind (like Gorguts)

uhhh Carcass obv

i voted for 'night still comes' in the tracks poll, it's great

I don't know why I automatically lose interest as soon as a metal riff kicks in - maybe I should take it to BB's autoconditioning thread.

I really love most of Neko's albums, but couldn't get into the latest one at all. It really drags, and am surprised so many rate it. It seems to be a similar case, to a lesser extent, to PJ Harvey's last one.

Well Surgical Steel is made entirely out of metal riffs so it's probably a lost cause for you.

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Hm, getting worried that no more of my choices will make it now, the number of votes needed to get on the list seems to be pretty high.

Not got much to say about things that have placed so far, I will try to sample some of the ones I don't know and find something semi-interesting to say.

J0rdan imma call you out on your shit here: Gorguts got 9 minutes before the next album was posted, Carcass 11. As poll chief d'ya think you could perhaps at least strive to hide your contempt a little?

wtf chill out

An EP with Shut Up // She Will // Husbands // Marshall Dear or perhaps I Am Here would have been one of my favorite releases this year.

Carcass is very pop-streamlined as death metal goes. Easy to rock out to.

J0rdan imma call you out on your shit here: Gorguts got 9 minutes before the next album was posted, Carcass 11. As poll chief d'ya think you could perhaps at least strive to hide your contempt a little?

― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah cuz i'm really salivating to read some posts about savages

Fortunately people are still allowed to talk about an album once the next one has been posted.

Which just happened.

J0rdan imma call you out on your shit here: Gorguts got 9 minutes before the next album was posted, Carcass 11. As poll chief d'ya think you could perhaps at least strive to hide your contempt a little?

― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is, seriously, maybe the single most psychotic post in the history of ilx. print it, put it in a frame.

lolol

10-minute lag is pretty standard for rollouts - JF slowed his down this year but that's more the exception than the rule. Prefer a brisk-ish pace myself tbh.

you guys

Enjoying Carcass more than I enjoyed Gorguts, but suspect this might well be due to the fact that I'm not trying to listen to it first thing in the morning.

Obama just raised fed minimum wage, let's lobby him to raise ILE's so volunteers can get paid to do this shit

i'm completely ambivalent about metal btw ... i have much more "contempt" for factory floor or rhye or whatever

glad carcass, gorguts, and dj sprinkles placed, all way high on my ballot

As a former poll runner I can vouch for the self control it takes not to splurge all the results in half an hour.

trv (kvlt) challop: jeff walker's vocals are actually pop

i think what lj is het up abt is the lingering attention given to some community faves makes it seem like a brisk succession from one alb (e.g. carcass) to another is saying, 'well not much to say here obv, lol metal'.

The only song on the Savages album that I don't think works that well is "Hit Me" and that's mostly because by the time the album hits that point I'm anxiously anticipating "Husbands"; I may try swapping those in the play order and see if I like it more.

Awesome! Neko Case & Carcass. Terrific double whammy! yay!

I usually try to keep it around 4 placings per hour. 5 if I'm in a hurry.

Enjoying Carcass more than I enjoyed Gorguts, but suspect this might well be due to the fact that I'm not trying to listen to it first thing in the morning.

― keiji cretins (NickB)

Also they are considerably more accessible.

Thrashers Abattoir is a pretty cool two minute blast. I like plenty of metal vox, but this guy, not so sure. I like the production on this a lot.

ty j., precisely. also welcome to team psycho *applies corpsepaint*

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51 ASHLEY MONROE Like a Rose (348 points, 13 votes)

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nice! would've voted for ashley monroe if i'd heard enough of it in time.

daaaaamn

hoped for a top twenty placement

My favorite of the Traveling Mirandas stable: having the prettiest voice makes the tough songs even more devastating

kinda getting into this Carcass album now.

i'm gonna call you out on your shit, though. savages deserved 13 minutes before the next album was revealed, not 12.

i'm surprised ashley monroe beat out carcass, i thought it was a good record but a little conventional, and certainly not the ilx fave that e.g. brandy clark or kacey are gonna be.

lol xp

my third vote! i know a lot of posters here disagree but critically ashley monroe seemed like the third wheel behind kacey musgraves and brandy clark in terms of "new feminist country" or whatever and while i agree with that this is by no means a minor work.

"you got me" - just a straight-up gorgeous melody. i love how here, romantic love is a metaphor for addiction; on the song that follows it, "the morning after", it's vice versa
"used" - she wrote this when she was 17 and it was on a debut album that i don't think ever properly came out; she held it back for this album, with good reason. the way it reframes a misogynistic slur with tenderness and love is really something important imo.

i'm surprised ashley monroe beat out carcass

Perhaps the only music board on the internet where one can read a sentence like that.

and "The Morning After".

I know I'm not some brand new dress
Hanging there perfectly pressed
That never has been worn
I've got some buttons missing
And there's a couple stains
And places where the fabric has been torn
But in the end
I'll be worth a whole lot more
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