ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

i voted for fuck buttons; they were decent enough live but the album has been a pleasant "getting geared up" LP for most of the year

kinda hate that arcade fire album

xxp

might have something to do with declining importance of irl shops too

yeah what's the point of putting type on a cover if 90% of the people are just gonna see it in jpg form anyway

fuck buttons - i was interested in them for a short while in around 2009 but just feel like their brand of noise/dance lacks the payback i want. it's all big crescendos and little release. i could imagine stuff like this being good on a very loud system, but pfffff...

Gee I'm an unenthusiastic shit today...

this is not at all what I assumed Fuck Buttons sounded like

I'm a type junkie, so I'll always prefer type on a cover to no type on a cover. Unless you are lame and use comic sans or some other joke font, because you can fuck off if you do.

both days have ended with a British guitar act that I loathe with an incredibly violent passion, lol kiu ILM :D

wtf fuck buttons are not a "guitar act"

there is a marked lack of button-fucking so far, I feel slightly cheated

guitar act?!?!

they use/sample guitars!

noted guitar act Run-DMC

production sounds redlined to the max, no nuance

I've enjoyed all of Fuck Buttons' records. Consistently fun for me (not guitar band ha btw)

this one was a bit of a letdown, mostly because i thought tarot sport was amazing and slow focus did not really live up

"Guitar act"?

Many xposts, lol

skrillex iirc

not really into "dance" not-dance acts

this is no good, going back to matmos, onyeabor and carcass.

okay as this first track has gone on I've started to transition from "eh" to "NEVER END, YOU GORGEOUS OVERCOMPRESSED THING"

tbf i don't think i've knowingly heard Fuck Buttons, the name put me off and i've always assumed they was like the shit bits of Broadcast

Haven't listened to fu** butto** in years and years. Have they changed things up much?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/7/17/1374074366263/Fuck-Buttons-Manchester-003.jpg

pictured above: fuck buttons and all their guitars

this is striking me a little like "what if Alec Empire took some downers and then wrote a film soundtrack"

lol ok fine, am certain they've sampled guitars tho, they have that whole guitarish droney thing going on. the dynamic is of guitarry post-rock

They haven't changed much, for better

but wait... are fuck buttons a guitar band?

lack of dance trax seems to be balanced out by many dance albums - and vice versa for rap which is a bit strange, only two rap albums so far and apart from the obvyeezus i can't think of another that's a dead cert? i had three on my ballot, one won't place and the other two...might but could easily miss.

only nine artists have shown up who were also on the trax poll which is pretty good, though a cursory look over the latter and i can count like 18-19 more than i'm 100% sure are to come here so oh well

this is striking me a little like "what if Alec Empire took some downers and then wrote a film soundtrack"

― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:05 PM

this is very otm

run the jewels is a lock id've thought xp

yeah I'm expecting/hoping Run the Jewels and A$AP Ferg

oh run the jewels, of course

hoping for a$ap ferg and 2 chainz, have given up on eve though (well, never once thought she'd place really)

acid rap too rite?

Eve floated around the bottom of my ballot and eventually dropped off, I couldn't justify voting for her when I really admired the album more than I listened to it

listening to "The Red Wing" on the Fuck Buttons album and man, all of these not-guitars are blinding

just jumping in to express outrage that someone didn't know fuck buttons wasn't a guitar group

GOD

they are a fisherprice mic band.

chance is top ten I'm sure

I assume Karl is being sarky, but I don't think it's unreasonable to require someone slating a band to actually have a vague idea of who the band is.

(I say this as someone pretty ambivalent about Fuck Buttons, not a fan in particular.)

I've sat through two Fuck Buttons albums and regard them as functionally a post-rock band but I'll concede it was a foolish statement

get the feeling Roc Marciano isn't going to place, not dissing Ka who I also voted for, but Pimpire/Marci Beaucoup are both so much better.

there aren't any descriptors for any of these bands as they place -- i thought fuck buttons was like pissed jeans or awesome color.
as i said before, it'd help to have a few words describing each album that places. if i don't know what john grant does, how do i know if want to check it out?!

I've sat through two Fuck Buttons albums and regard them as functionally a post-rock band but I'll concede it was a foolish statement

"even though I am blatantly wrong, and it is easily proven that I am blatantly wrong, I'm going to continue typing words until I hit upon a combination that allows people to tell me I'm right"

just listen to it? not being snarky but the spotify playlist is right there and you can get an idea within like 30 seconds of what it is.

sp

XP

i do find the "tracks to check out" very helpful.

I think it's helpful in the metal poll for sure

i know i could listen to it (or look it up) but i don't always have access to speakers at the time i'm reading the thread -- it's just a small helpful thing that could be done to make the poll user friendly for people who aren't sitting at a computer all day. no biggie.

it was really helpful on the metal thread!!

yeah if no one's gonna suggest tracks or say a little something about an album they rep for i'm less likely to bother checking it out

both days have ended with a British guitar act that I loathe with an incredibly violent passion, lol kiu ILM :D

from now on i'm gonna refuse to differentiate between those bands and just call them both the fuck monkeys for convenience sake