ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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
Used

lol xxp

The debut album did come out, eventually, digital only - I was obsessed with it and furious at the treatment of her. Happier times since.

The Carcass album is the first one I'm truly excited about today. Dare I say it placed too low? Should have been higher than boring old Savages anyway. So many amazing riffs it's buckling at the seams. The playing is so on form and I love the interaction between drummer and singer. It's loads of fun. Metal hataz please suspend your aversion to growly vocals and give this a chance. It's hilarious and cool.

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

<3

credit due to all involved

carcass 'unfit for human consumption' makes me remember why i loved rock music in the first place before i got all the indie rock nonsense into my system

Ashley Monroe (23) and Carcass (37) were both in the P+J Top 40 btw

carcass 'unfit for human consumption' makes me remember why i loved rock music in the first place before i got all the indie rock nonsense into my system

― j., Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:06 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha just listened to this one, very good

credit due to all involved

― sleeve,

Hey, that's like all of us, man! *group hug*

vocals are great on that xp

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

― davey, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:40 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the album cover does not even remotely resemble the vaporwave aesthetic, and dozzy's music has nothing to do with vaporwave. the original track is called 'vaporware'

feel like carcass have a slayer kinda thing going on where the riffs are so high caliber that it's hard to to appreciate the craft but that could just be bc I like carcass

http://i.imgur.com/ZvF8D42.jpg?1

50 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt (352 points, 11 votes)

Spotify

Waxth is this?

Wondering if Deafheaven is even gonna place, given that Gorguts and Carcass both beat them on the metal poll.

Good album; the song lengths worked. She was terrific at Pitchfork

expected to really like waxahatchee but it didn't hit me particularly - but i REALLY didn't give it enough of a chance, standout tracks anyone?

lex: this is by far the standout track for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHivBJoFa_0

but then again i only like this record, the songwriting doesn't totally come together for me

i would not be surprised if deafheaven had more hipster-metal-choice votes (saying that as a factual statement, not as a judgment), but it doesn't seem super likely, just possible

there is emo-shrieking, after all

i love that waxahatchee record - short sweet punky awesome

Wondering if Deafheaven is even gonna place, given that Gorguts and Carcass both beat them on the metal poll.

― Simon H.,

I dont anticipate anything else from metal poll placing now except Qotsa and probably deafheaven if they really did cross over to "indie" fans.

Think Ghost and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats are a gonner now too since People generally didn't like them as much as previous album.

yeah that's what I'm wondering, if ILM really does have a sizeable hipster-metal-only contingent. xxps

"Waiting" isn't on YouTube except for a live clip.

here's [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4mTTprO2qU]"You're Damaged"{/url]

woops

ilm has a sizeable hipster-only contingent lol xp

Waxahatchee album was nice for a listen but didn't care to revisit.

Deafheaven will def place

http://i.imgur.com/ln3S4lE.jpg

49 WILLIAM ONYEABOR Who is William Onyeabor? (352 points, 16 votes)

yeah it didn't quite grab me xxp

This Carcass album is pretty sweet!

also William Onyeabor is amazing!

This Onyeabor album is super sweet! Would have voted for it if I didn't have a policy of not voting for archival comps.

"policy" = some semi-rational way of paring my ballot down to 25 albums, really

onyeabor is my first placing album; really an amazing listen

i didn't vote because i was useless with new music this year, but onyeabor would have been my #1. that cover! i've had the LPs propped up against my shelves for the last month or two, and somehow i never noticed that there were legs and feet and grass at the bottom!

Onyeabor is great

You're Damaged is indeed a great way to end this short and delicate record. Dixie Cups and Jar, Blue pt. II and Swan Dive are my standouts. Reminiscent of 90s indie but also very contemporary, you can hate one kind or the other and still enjoy the album. Lyrics end up being pretty devastating.

Is it just me or does "Fantastic Man" sound very much like "Sound & Vision"? Is this a coincidence or do we know if one influenced the other (not sure which came first)?

can someone dump a onyeabor youtube in here

It's a play-in-the-background album in the best sense.

slightly unfortunate sequencing at the beginning, though. i like "body and soul" a lot but it's one of the lesser tracks (imo) and either "atomic bomb" or especially "good name" would have been a fantastic start to the tracklist