ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

People (including me maybe) have weird expectations of what will place.

I love that autechre album and voted for it, but there's just no way it places in the top 20

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just tbc I know there's no way in hell that I&W record places, I'd be surprised if it even made the top 150.

j0rdan

It was in no way the best Iron and Wine album. Bit too saccharine for me.

I thought for sure Dustin Wong would place! Clearly my perception is flawed.

you guys are really going to make me listen to the 1975, huh

kinda shocked Depeche Mode is missing the countdown

oh wait, no I'm not because only Ned and I still care about them and Ned doesn't vote

The 1975 was my big surprise crush of the year. Couldn't and still can't get enough of it.

Do it CAD!

will do tomorrow prob

Bowie is a definite i think

yeah I guess loads of rock critics post to ilx

;)

Could we get a rundown of today's results please?

re: the Holden album (my #2), here's a nice interview with him: http://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/james-holden/

After the hardcore hardware talk, I loved the bit about "Blackpool Late Eighties"

You don’t seem the type to make a big club banger on the plane on the way to a gig.

Definitely not. I’m not sure I believe all those stories. I did write ‘Blackpool Late Eighties’ in a hotel. I was flying back from the States and it snowed here so we got re-routed to Amsterdam and I was gutted because I don’t really like being away and I was really homesick. I went into Amsterdam and bought a big bag of weed, downloaded some free soft synths and made that track in the hotel room, off my tits. I tried to remake it using real instruments and it just never really worked, so the synth parts in that are from some free string synth I found.

David Bowie
These New Puritans
Daft Punk
Vampire Weekend
Sky Ferreira
M.I.A.
Paramore
My Bloody Valentine
Run the Jewels
Chance the Rapper
Earl Sweatshirt
Haim
Kanye West
Beyoncé
Kacey Musgraves

That's 15 I feel are likely, and maaaaaaybe My Dick, but perhaps I've overestimated a fun thread turning into votes.

I'm willing to bet Bowie won't place.

are you saying My Dick mightn't be as big as you thought?

the knife is a definite

kurt vile?
queens of the yawn age?

really like the Boards of Canada album. it reminds me of the quiet serenity of a nuclear missle silo out in the desert right before the button gets pushed.

Oh yeah, The Knife for sure. Maybe instead of Bowie (an album I don't personally like much, but people who do seem to REALLY like).

I dont think Earl is making it?

Blondes?

are you saying My Dick mightn't be as big as you thought?

I'd hate to think that My Dick is just a small fry.

QotSA more likely than Bowie.

I actually will be very surprised if M.I.A. places

The 1975 album is frontloaded w/singles if you're listening on Spotify &c, but deeper into the tracklisting:

° Robbers is p.lush in a Blue Nile way.
° For the Amel Larrieux fans, Menswear is the album's "Trapped Being Human".
° Girls is fantastic Scritti Politti-meets-Fall Out Boy froth.

yeah the 1975 thread was a blast in that there are like 75-100 otm touchpoint comparisons in there. Also fun to read as familiar users trickled in with their thoughts. some predictable and some not.

did janelle place already?

Settle Down is my jam on there now I think, after all the singles anyway.

i think everything else on that 1975 album pales in comparison to "chocolate"

janelle not placed yet

The 1975 is one of the few albums so far on the list that I just couldn't stand at all (though I'm not listening to any of the country albums at all; if that makes me an awful person than so be it).

Oh yeah, she'll be here surely.

new to me albums that i have really enjoyed so far: k michelle, carcass & goldfrapp

xp Ha, Blackpool Late Eighties is one of my favourite tracks on The Inheritors. Free synth strings ftw.

The 1975 is one of the few albums so far on the list that I just couldn't stand at all

just listened to them for the first time and i got nothing making me want to listen again.

I think everything on that 1975 album pales in comparison to music

Keep pretending like you've actually listened to it!

On the positive side, Holden is today's "I hadn't even heard of this and it's pretty cool" album.

"I think everything on that 1975 album pales in comparison to music"

Correct.

i really liked the guitars on sex off the 1975 record, you could have those on the cheesiest song ever and it would still sound beautiful to me

they have a song called 'sex'

sorry spottie but between that and the 'IMPOSSIBLY NOW' adverts all over the london underground i'm gonna find it incredibly difficult to hear these guys with a fresh conscience

v interested to see if you can pull it off tbf

fully expecting a quality slagging tho

found a real dealbreaker in trying to put people onto the 1975 is the dude's voice so sorry guys

I can't possibly imagine being of the mindset that is put off an act because they have a song called "Sex"

yes the dude's voice is THE WORST