ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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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

donato dozzy album is really nice btw

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

Got this on right now, finding it surprisingly listenable! NB I'm not paying any attention to the lyrics.

they are about slaughtering animals for food and the hopeless condition of the working man in modern society

Sweeeeet. Listened to this on the way home from work today. Went v. well with the rain

hmm listening to "one" by yamantaka/sonic titan...i guess i admire it but it's not really my thing? i like the riff and i like the waily vox but not together, it's a bit jarring and doing two moods at once ends up making me not feel anything much. i don't like the drumming, it's very distracting and keeps trying to intrusive. they seem like they're having fun which is nice for them.

delete "keeps trying to" dunno what that's doing there

yeah i can't really tell what i think of the yamantaka record--based on the ppl who seemed to be into it i assumed it would be some kind of psych-metal thing, and it's not not that but i can't decide how much i enjoy their various curveballs.

Onyeabor is awesome. Didn't vote for it b/c I never considered it a "2013 album," but I'm glad it made it.

xp I'm listening now, would just file it under prog tbh. I like it

yeah thats probably right

Yeah it's hella proggy.

iirc the selected tracks were "Whalesong" and "Lamia".

Man, to me, 'One' is transcendent.

Definitely filed under "proggy rock", if not prog-rock.

love the william onyeabor record

http://i.imgur.com/WTcf8wP.jpg

47 LAUREL HALO Chance of Rain (364 points, 14 votes)

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yeah "proggy rock" sounds about right for YT/ST

I could not get into this Laurel Halo album at all after trying it during the noms phases

i felt an inclination to spite louis by not moving on from UZU until all the british people were asleep

hahahah

Didn't really get into this probably should give it another listen, love the cover art though.

Post-sevenses high supper fish'n'chips buttered scone tea naptime.

The Laurel Halo is good but I generally like most of her stuff. It's techno but you can't really dance to it. But it's not idm either.

despite multiple assurances that this laurel halo album was different to the last and that the awful queasy bleating was gone, i never got round to this because the memory of how terrible the last was kept it at the bottom of my to-listen list

If I were ienjoyhotdogs I'd have called him William Onyerbike! !!!!!!!!!

Wtf Quarantine is the best thing she's ever done. Bleating!

Nice to see lots of love for the William Onyeabor here.

Why Go To War is another of my favorites from it

more like Onyeabore xps

I thought Quarantine was great but this is just as good, although very different. What vocals there are on this album are not easily identifiable as such

lex, you might prefer Windflower, which is less of a mashup of styles than One. It's also very pretty but I'm not sure what you'd think of this variety of prettiness:

https://soundcloud.com/suicide-squeeze-records/windflower-by-yamantaka-sonic

The abrupt ending makes more sense in the context of the album.

It's techno but you can't really dance to it. But it's not idm either.

― The Robotic Policeman II (dog latin), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:14 AM Bookmark

So basically, you're saying it's dumb and you can't dance to it. Thumbs down.

I think I liked this LH more than the last one but I didn't listen to it much.