ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Does me not really understanding Tim Hecker reconcile K3vin K's zing about slow jams up thread?

I listened to hecker but then I listened to miley, phew

Its strength is to trying to reckon with a life that hasn't worked as planned, or perhaps was screwed from the beginning.

xxxxpost

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21 THE 1975 The 1975 (623 points, 16 votes, 2 first place votes)

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Brad Nelson, come out come out it's here

ftr, my position on Miley Cyrus is still FUCK MILEY CILEY AND HER GODDAMNED MINSTREL SHOW

wow, I thought that was top ten for sure

I'm now worrying that Floorplan and Rashad Becker won't place. They're not gonna place are they? Fuck.

this is not at all a pop album. It's quite adult.

I mean in terms of the antiseptic vocals/production/arrangement, not like chart impact or what have you.

liked the 1975 mostly for about 36 hours, lost all interest, probly wd enjoy the odd track turning up in other contexts

wooooooooooooooo

can we take a minute here to praise shane mcanally, who co-wrote most of the kacey musgraves album, most of the brandy clark album and the best song on ashley monroe's (among other 2013 achievements)?

(he is not, however, credited on the best song on brandy's, "what'll keep me out of heaven.")

pouring one one out for Toro y Moi and Natasha Kmeto from my top ten

RIP Floorplan

it's realy sad, it was an album I voted for

sarge did you skip #24?

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:53 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't see the problem with brandy clark's voice or arrangements, they're both the perfect way to frame the songwriting, which is front and centre

xp oh ugh the 1975, horrific band

can we take a minute here to praise shane mcanally, who co-wrote most of the kacey musgraves album, most of the brandy clark album and the best song on ashley monroe's (among other 2013 achievements)?

and Miranda Lambert for supplying them all with dough.

1975 album is ridiculously good of course

Oh great, Arctic Monkeys and Arcade Fire placing was one thing, this placing so high is just... seriously!?

I don't know what The 1975 is but it got a ridic Enthusiasm score (average of 38.94 points per ballot) so I guess I should check it out.

sarge did you skip #24?

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:53 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:59 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark

oh yes i did whoops

i guess that was gonna happen at some point one of these years

ok so 24

don't see the problem with brandy clark's voice or arrangements

There isn't one! The plain slickness is just an instant visceral turnoff for me personally. Might pick up a copy for my folks though. (Incidentally, the closest thing to country-pop that I voted for was the Mavericks album, which I bought for them but ended up being really impressed by.)

starting to think bilal won't place :-(

I thought The 1975 released a fun, inconsequential-yet-entertaining album. I liked it but never felt like voting for it

the mavericks album is fantastic. (xp)

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24 BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow's Harvest (605 points, 19 votes)

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he plain slickness is just an instant visceral turnoff for me personally. Might pick up a copy for my folks though. (Incidentally, the closest thing to country-pop that I voted for was the Mavericks album, which I bought for them but ended up being really impressed by.)

ok this is strange, Simon. The Mavericks album is 10 times more slick than Clark's; the latter is closer to Americana stuff.

Oh wow that's lower than I thought.

*interprets numerologiclal meaning of 24 coming after 21*

where's run the jewels?! gotta be coming up right?

I'm just jumping around the Spotify playlist and my 2 favorites today are DJ Koze and DJ Rashad.

Glad I could help bump the Tim Hecker album up a notch or 2. xp and BOC!

*interprets numerologiclal meaning of 24 coming after 21*

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:03 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah... spoooky!

Boards of Canada slipped off the end of my ballot, which I instantly regretted when I replayed "Reach for the Dead" but honestly I felt stronger about the albums I voted for

Yeah, Boards of Canada is good. Maybe a few more plays would have put it on my ballot, but it hadn't quite clicked with me as much as my other choices.

you skipped sixty-ten also

The BoC album is good. It's very much a mood piece and I'm going to be looking forward to taking long long walks once the weather improves just a little bit before I get back into it again. Love the concept, the general post-apocalyptic 'Threads'-y vibe although I couldn't tell you which tracks are the best. It's just there. And like all good BoC albums, it's the kind of thing, like a bolognese or a chili, that is best appreciated after it's been left alone for a while and reheated... errr...

i voted Floorplan just above BoC, so there's still hope.

bought the BOC record and did try to love it but god it was a struggle to get through, everthing on it is a dismal trudge to nowhere

ok this is strange, Simon. The Mavericks album is 10 times more slick than Clark's; the latter is closer to Americana stuff.

Oh it's definitely at least as slick, but the diversity of the songwriting and arrangements makes it more interesting to me.

♫we're on a dismal trudge to nowhere♫

ha, BOC isn't the BOC I was thinking it was

Agree with NickB, New Seeds was the stunning pre-leaked track that turned out to be comfortably the best thing on there

bought the BOC record and did try to love it but god it was a struggle to get through, everthing on it is a dismal trudge to nowhere

― keiji cretins (NickB), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:09 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously, leave it alone for a bit and come back to it every so often. There's something subliminal about this band, I've found, where you don't notice some of the key details the first few times round. I always get a 'hang on, that sound/melody wasn't there last time I played the album' thing.

Still to come (I guess): DP, Beyonce, Kanye, Haim, Disclosure, The Knife, MBV & Vampire Weekend. Any surprises?

hoping for my #1 but realistically there's almost zero chance of it showing.

Still to come (I guess): DP, Beyonce, Kanye, Haim, Disclosure, The Knife, MBV & Vampire Weekend. Any surprises?

paramore, chance the rapper and sky ferreira dead certs too. omar souleyman, janelle monáe and charli xcx as well, of traxpoll artists?

i voted for floorplan but never really expected it to place. have lost hope in creep. no idea about the popularity of the 2 chainz and a$ap ferg albums. surprised om'mas keith hasn't shown up...

have a horrible feeling dawn richard may have missed the 77 :///

i do feel i owe it a dutiful revisit, much the same way as i feel about skegness xps

surprises? the Melt Yourself Down album, perhaps?

Of the stuff I voted for, there are only two albums left that have a realistic possibility of placing and even one of those I'm not too sure about. My #1 definitely didn't make it.