ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Great list so far, imo. Can't follow the roll out live and even if I could I think it's too busy already :)
Lots of stuff I'll check out though (Dozzy (love his music), Gorguts, Follakzoid, f(x)...) once it's weekend and I have some time.
Stuff I voted for that's place until now: DJ Sprinkles (#1), Factory Floor, Matmos, Maya Jane Coles, Fuck Buttons, William Onyeabor and Young Galaxy. Yamantaka//Sonic Titan fell off at the last minute, regret it already since I've been playing it lots the last few days.

He seems preoccupied with making terrible Nick Cave-in-dub records

Asphodells is more like a tasteful version of Jah Wobble tbh. Revisiting it now - solid enough but yes, needs some teeth.

New stuff to me - William Onyeabor was great. Didn't like the opening track of Yamantaka but skipped to 'One' which emil.y recommended and really liked it and ended up enjoying the album.

just listened to the donato dozzy - v nice and the last track is definitely something, though not sure it feels as unique/special as VFTL or his heyday-of-mnml stuff

Have now realised that there is no way on earth I can keep up with this thread, but wow, I am really glad to see that Maya Jane Coles album place, because it feels like that was truly slept on.

Whalesong is my fave off the Y//ST album. Some great Goat vibes for One though.

Voted for the John Grant. Hadn't heard any of his stuff before this record but it ended up being one of the two albums I played the most last year.

The sampled dialogue midway is totally great, apparently Terre won't reveal the source, I keep wondering where it's from.

nypd blue

Adore that track.

i've also seen this incredible clip of her tearing a strip off some guy from bossip at a press event. "when i spaz out then i'm crazy? no, motherfucker, i'm not crazy, i'm the realest bitch you gon see." she leaps in at like 1:15

this was epic, ty. also a very blatant portrayal of the forces at work within that world. amazed that she managed to put out such a weird & idiosyncratic record in that climate.

Just because that clip was sorta buried at the end of lex's paragraph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bb3EoGyb0A

DONATO DOZZY - Really quite pretty, though it occasionally sounds like the soundtrack to a documentary about fish.
JOHN GRANT - Very intrigued by this, lots of interesting stuff going on here. Reading up on him sounds like a cool guy too.
RHYE - Pleasant but slight. Took me a while to work out it was a bloke singing.
YOUNG GALAXY - Not bad, they seem to know their way around a chorus. The sort of thing I'd be happy to hear on the radio but wouldn't seek out.
KA - Ooo, this guy's trying to do something a bit different. Yeah, could get into this.
DJ SPRINKLES - Can't find enough of this online to comment.
NEKO CASE - Obviously an accomplished songwriter, but again wouldn't seek it out.
CARCASS - My all time favourite extreme metal band.
SAVAGES - Yeah I quite enjoy the spiky post-punk thing, probably fun live.
ASHLEY MONROE - Not for me thanks.
WAXAHATCHEE - Meh
WILLIAM ONYEABOR - Cool grooves. Think I'd like it better if the songs were shorter.
YAMANTAKA - Not bad, washes over me slightly. I like the cover art.
LAUREL HALO - Think they were playing this in the chill out room last time I was at Bagleys, in 1998.
QUADRON - Great voice, decent songs. Like the classic soul flourishes.
ARCADE FIRE - Never got them.
MATMOS - Cool.
JON HOPKINS - Deep and atmospheric, sounds like it would reward repeat listening.
MAYA JANE COLES - OK this is sounding excellent.
FUCK BUTTONS - They have an undeniably powerful sound but I can't think of a situation when I'd listen to them at home. Probably need to see them play.

Of the things I haven't heard I will investigate John Grant, Ka, Jon Hopkins and Maya Jane Coles further.

DJ SPRINKLES - Can't find enough of this online to comment.

can't find the Sprinkles online either, but Midtown 120 Blues is on youtube.

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

The sampled dialogue midway is totally great, apparently Terre won't reveal the source, I keep wondering where it's from.

nypd blue

Ha.

Well, the mystery is solved, but now I have mixed feelings. Think I preferred it mysterious!

ha man that k. michelle press conference clip is maybe the best thing posted in this thread

alright

::drumroll::

YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN UZU

^^this is dope as fuck

more albumens

http://i.imgur.com/U3jmqMB.png

40 FANTASIA Side Effects of You (421 points, 15 votes)

Spotify

more r&b?

more r&b

great album

i had never heard of fantasia before the tracks poll but that one with kelly rowland that featured was real great

Highest ever ranking album by an American Idol contestant on the ILX polls?

For someone who admits to finding "r'n'b slow jams" generally a bit boring, I've sure as hell had that Fantasia track from the tracks poll running round my head all day :-)

This one is patchy and really badly sequenced but the final two thirds are great. Mostly upbeat tracks though, not slow jams.

Well, the mystery is solved, but now I have mixed feelings. Think I preferred it mysterious!

for more info see http://nickminichino.tumblr.com/post/70916852345/unbornwhiskey-nickminichino-paa-john-irvin

i honestly think knowing the source makes the juxtaposition even more interesting

I really tried to get into this album as I loved her last one so much but I always seem to lose interest somewhere in the second half.

i had never heard of fantasia before the tracks poll - WHAT? HOW????

Her profile over here is basically zero, they don't really bother marketing American Idol contestants in this country.

Top three for me. I couldn't stop listening to this thing. It isn't just her voice, which has gotten scratchier and more powerful; it's how she found perfect songs for it.

can't find the Sprinkles online either, but Midtown 120 Blues is on youtube.

i know this is "rockist" of me, but to be clear, the new dj sprinkles is a compilation of-sorts, with dj sprinkles applying his touch to the songs. midtown 120 blues is all-original material from dj sprinkles, and it is breathtaking.

awesome :)

my sixth vote, "without me" is a bit of a red herring: the rest of the album's a lot more organic-sounding than its icy synths would lead you to think but the songs are pretty much all there and she's such an irresistible vocal presence, like, no one else sounds like she does right now. love how she channels lovers' rock for a pensive break-up song on "ain't all bad", gets her tina turner/james brown on for a super-energetic middle section (eg "get it right") and closes with this really intense ballad about digging her nails into your back (in a good way) - "in deep"

*goes to listen right now*

wait is fantasia really big or something
this is like when i only found out about marc anthony last month

more re: that dj sprinkes oh yoko remix: this is reducing it a bit but it's two media representations of queer people, one hostile, the other clumsy, thrown against each other. also the gil scott heron sample doesn't totally reveal itself for what it is until the nypd blue part starts so it at first seems just a "balling/bawling" riff

mdc is right that it does have sequencing issues though and you can pretty much delete the emeli sandé penned dirge of a title track on sight. i blame emeli sandé for so much

Oh it's not much of a track, but again, she sounds poised.

(Re: American Idol winners, the only exception I can think of is Kelly Clarkson and that's only because Since U Been Gone was such a monster).

Without You is brilliant, such a slinky melody.

wait is fantasia really big or something

to be fair it's now a decade since she won american idol and although "when i see u (polow da don remix)" from 2006 is something of a talismanic all-time classic for ilm r&b heads, album-wise she's only come into her own on her last two, both of which have been under-promoted (or only promoted to r&b audiences, with little critical traction or crossover to pop audiences) (and zero attempt to break her in the UK)

Fantasia won American Idol at the height of its popularity (Season 3) so most Americans probably know who she is

Dig this album, Get It Right hooked me. Lose To Win http://youtu.be/_cp-AK8ETdg

Was Without You a hit over here? I really have no idea what's in the charts these days.

R&B adult radio played "Lose to Win" to death here, and I never got tired of it. One of the better interpolations of a well-known hook imo

re american idol

i've just had a look and the only names i recognise are kelly and jordin sparks

Not Carrie Underwood?

This album pwns, I rank it up there with Beyonce and Janelle Monae

wow looking back i'm shocked that back to me never placed in the 2010 ilm poll, and "man of the house" was ignored in the trax too iirc - i definitely don't feel like fantasia's gotten that much more popular since (and that album/single are basically equivalent in quality to her album and big single last year)