ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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.

"Sunlight on the Faded" was a v cool LH non-album track from 2013 though.

Ooh, that Yamantaka will be the first one today to pull me away from Truckfighters!

So far today I voted for Ka (which I didn't expect to place at all) and Rhye. For all the pitting of Rhye and Quadron against each other, I like them about equally and for the same reasons. The whole "Oh no! Quadron good! Rhye bad!" thing just seems silly to me.

Ka is just good rap film noir. Definitely a step up from Grief Pedigree.

The whole "Oh no! Quadron good! Rhye bad!" thing just seems silly to me.

well, this is pretty much a response to the reverse, which was the unsaid subtext all throughout 2013 of rhye getting vastly more press attention and critical love

Never got into the Laurel Halo album. I think it's the only thing she's done so far under her own name that I haven't out & out loved. Hoping that one day she manages to successfully reconcile her techno stuff and her avant-weirdo stuff and her pop stuff cos that record would be a total smasher. This one didn't really have anything for me to grab onto. I keep saying this but everyone should check out her last two EPs cos that is srsly some of her best music.

I would have voted for the William Onyeabor (and Patrick Cowley) but I have a no reissues rule. I listened to that Laurel Halo album last night. Well half of it, it just reminded me of a bad IDM record (sorry, doglatin). I loved "quarantine", I thought that was unique and spellbinding. Bleating, my arse.

http://i.imgur.com/ll4MZCQ.jpg

46 QUADRON Avalanche (378 points, 17 votes)

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HA

None of you can take away the "Quadron > Rhye" binary from me.

haaaaa

i like quadron album a decent amount. in the thread i called it "lobby music" which is true but also a compliment.

Wish it placed higher though.

I spent a day caning the "Hey Love" video over the weekend - would check out the rest of the album but it's not on Spotify here.

I do think the Laurel Halo record requires total immersion to fully appreciate

quadron, love!

hahaha, such good timing :D

really do love ilm for placing quadron above rhye in both polls. my fourth vote to show - the rest of the album is a lot more relaxed than "hey love" but it's such a lovely stretching-out summer mood

lex does it again

well, this is pretty much a response to the reverse, which was the unsaid subtext all throughout 2013 of rhye getting vastly more press attention and critical love

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:29 AM Bookmark

The inverse, too, although I haven't really been following said press.

The whole "Oh no! Quadron good! Rhye bad!" thing just seems silly to me.

otm

well, this is pretty much a response to the reverse, which was the unsaid subtext all throughout 2013 of rhye getting vastly more press attention and critical love

thing is... u don't have to counter every dumb dichotomy with its equal dumb converse

I really view the two albums as more complimentary than anything. Woman as the winter to Avalanche's summer.