ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8TNgLc7qMo

I liked Cerulean Salt but never went back to it, possibly through embarrassment at not being able to pronounce her name.

Atomic Bomb
Good Name

xpost that's what i was about to post

soooo good

What I've heard of the Onyeabor is great, yes. Need to listen to the whole album.

wow i noticed onyeabor's name around last year but never investigated - listening to "good name" and this is pretty fantastic

also reading the story behind this comp by our own DL and it's pretty remarkable - http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/17/five-year-quest-reissue-william-onyeabor

the last few songs are great as well, and kind of a left turn from the rest of the album. it starts to go off into this really pleasant electro disco world

never heard of this but its awesome

Onyeabor way too low!

this is really cool

Also, album cover of the year.

People have strange hang-ups about Arctic Monkeys based on nothing as far as I can tell other than made-up presumptions about their character.

my strange hang-up is based on hating the singer's fucking voice and hating the singer's fucking look and hating the singer's fucking lyrics and hating all that sitting on top of meat and 2 veg plod-rock. just for the record.

*applauds NV*

yeah but apart from that what's stopping you

onyeabor is my first vote to place, thanking karl malone for that tip

I don't care for AM but I don't think of them as being particularly plodding.

Ka is kind of cool but I don't really see myself going back to this

NV right on!

http://i.imgur.com/uRCw4Z9.jpg?1

48 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN UZU (360 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)

nice

Ashley Monroe album was my #2; I love her voice, as a singer and as a songwriter. voted "two weeks late" high in the tracks poll: fab wordplay

xp i missed out on ka's big breakthru when it happened and then i thought i would have a little chance at catch-up w/ the new one, and it seemed good but… sleepy

OH HAIIIIII

<3 Yamantaka

Spotify on that one

yayyyy I didn't vote for YT/ST because I hadn't listened to it at all but the album before this is amazing and I'm sure I will like this

Wow. Thought that UZU was a lost cause.

Spotify for Onyeabor

man i think i listened to this at some point like 3 months ago and was like 'this is cool' and then promptly forgot about it

why do I like Neko Case's appearance on Aqua Teen Hunger Force more than her albums

YT/ST has an… interesting live show but their music does nothing for me.

keep meaning to get to UZU. fantastic cover.

still grooving on this Carcass album, can't shut it off to check out anything else

this is the thing that rudipherous was saying sounded like matthew shipp in parts that I said I would check out & never did, if I'm not mistaken?

still grooving on this Carcass album, can't shut it off to check out anything else

for the next few hours here too tbh

Just the piano for very short segments. It does not sound anything like Shipp overall!

it's good but it sounds as much like Shipp as it sounds like Ascension

LOL

Need to hear the Y//ST album in full too, got some lovely songs on it

So far this entire list = things I didn't get around to hearing + dj sprinkles (which I love but like karl voted for wdss)

oh yeah xp don't wanna misrepresent what you said, it just got me intrigued