ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

In a Silent Way knockoff /= smooth jazz!

lex, do you like scritti politti?

i love "the boom boom bap", not into anything else i've heard by them (scattered tracks from the 80s that i can't remember). don't really ~care about them despite reading oodles of stuff about them

just realised the 1975 remind me of placebo a bit ie even more NOPE

heavily rhythmic pop-rock? (ie 1975, Paramore, Haim)

I don't hear Paramore as having much in common with the other two, though I don't have much use for any of them.

lol maybe 'sweet jazz' then, def not too crazed tho

paramore are a bit of an outlier there but "ain't it fun" is kinda the paramore version of a 1975 song

i don't see it for Drake in the albums poll. thankfully.

ilm's grand tradition of mostly snubbing drake continues :)

god let's hope so

btw this one poll is basically completely descaling my eyes to R&B, ty based ilx

can't be bothered to check but iirc his second album didn't place and his first album wasn't even nominated

and was "hold on we're going home" the first drake track to place ever? and it didn't even make the top 50 despite being called track of the year elsewhere

Did anybody else vote for bilal?

i voted for Bilal. gave up on expecting to see it here a while ago, though, must've gotten 78'd.

Did the dream land anything in singles?

One thing I'll definitely pursuing in earnest is the Robert glasper experience

Did the dream land anything in singles?

LOL

Did anybody else vote for bilal?

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it ain't happening :-(

"Chocolate" could have been a really nice track without all the vocal affectations. I guess this is what you get from the generation that grew up with Panic at the Disco in the background...

*that Sunn O))) song 'Alice' I recall you liking quite a lot, even if it was rly a smooth jazz song disguised as experimental metal

now come on. this is "ascension" levels of reaching here.

Gonna experiment with a different response format tonite: 1 album at a time

FANTASIA Side Effects of You - wow, opening track is kinda spectacular! Hi-tech rhythm'n'prog grandstanding, like this already. I think the track in the traxpoll was a bit bland for my tastes (bland isn't the right word - maybe 'calculated' - I think I described it as a song laboratory-designed to appeal to ILX) but this is a great improvement. Track 2 is fun as well. I don't think I'll ever lose my freak to this shit but I'll sit through a fine deal of it. WTF why is this a dub song all of a sudden :D ok fine, this is pretty enterprising stuff. Relentless, maybe. I like Without Me a lot more this time, actually. Think you need to take your time with this album. So Much To Prove is GREAT! Really funky. I think I like my R&B either really floaty, spectral and psychedelic or really mad & uptempo. Album is retaining high quality thruout, v impressed. I think the only thing it lacks for me to really think about calling it a potential high ballot-placer for myself is a sense of musical *wonder* and *astonishment* but it's so damn fun that this doesn't matter - it's an absolute success and it does what it sets out to do superbly. It might even stand a chance of reaching the lower end of my ballot, although I've discovered so much great music in this poll that it's hard to say now. Let's just call it broad approval and nothing bad whatsoever to say.The sentiment feels hard-won, too - this isn't just an obligatorily commercial record - it feels like Fantasia has needed to write this for a while.

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

― SHAUN (DJP)

She will definitely make it. Her last album made the top 30 in 2010 and this one has had a way better reaction. It might even sneak into the top ten.

imago plz don't

i'm into it

haha gr80 why not? i haven't even finished the Fantasia album yet :D

From these threads it seems like a lot of people here have a problem with heavily rhythmic pop-rock?

I don't hear heavily rhythmic when I listen to The 1975. I hear mush. Possibly to put off by the vocals to notice the rhythm. I do like HAIM.

Admittedly, my taste in recent rock is very narrow and leans toward an art/prog./psychedelic mode, but my few favorite bands also often have a pop side and can be heavily rhythmic (my top five of the last fifteen years are: Tokyo Jihen, Boris, Company of Thieves, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, and Lansing-Dreiden).

surprising and pleasing co-writing credits on the fantasia album:

tiwa savage (nigerian afrobeats singer) on "supernatural love"
druski (dawn richard's producer) on "ain't all bad"
sevyn streeter on "get it right"

I don't hear heavily rhythmic when I listen to The 1975. I hear mush.

All those skipping and interlocking guitar lines and post-dubstep drum machine beats!

i havent heard anyone talk about MIA all year

I am disappointed Laura marling is so high, blood sausage contingent who don't really care vote:P

I really should have voted for the 1975 instead of like, Classixx or something that I wore out on. I ended up giving it short shrift.

Well I didn't really listen to that much by the 1975. Maybe I will try a few more tracks.

i havent heard anyone talk about MIA all year

Yeah, maybe there was a lot of talk on ILM or something, but in general, Matangi seems to have had a much lower profile than MAYA.

The Matangi thread felt like 5 enthusiastic people in a sea of ennui to me

This was just on my site new answers:

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013 [Started by le goon (J0rdan S.) in January 2014, last updated 1 minute ago by jaymc on I Love Music] 1975 new answers

I think a lot of people assumed in advance Matangi was going to be underwhelming and didn't bother with it. It's a shame as it's mostly great.

Chvrches in with a good shot of still placing, I guess.

21 THE 1975 The 1975 - yikes. I saw the videos and thought I hated Hot Hot Heat the first time around but then I went to see them live, just slipped in, wanted to form a definitive opinion, and they started covering "All My Friends" (barf) except! it wasn't a cover, the guy had made up a new ""lyric"" that was basically him repeating "she's got a boyfriend anyway" a thousand times. Absolute worst. I don't feel violence thoughts toward bad musicians, but I will not call for help when these guys are inevitably mauled to death by dogs

yah i tried listening to this band because of the controversy itt and its just mirthless pseud wave for teenage rapists. pastiche of every unpleasant band guy scumbbag over ugly guitar blends, fuck these horrible people. video casting director has p good eye for models though, ill give them that

its just mirthless pseud wave for teenage rapists.

Wow, can you not?

I'm really actually pretty fucking angry now.

wtf Lamp!

Calling people who are fans of a band you don't like rapists is pretty fucking low.

And very trivializing of rape.

Answer me lamp!

GOLDFRAPP Tales of Us - Am letting this one sink in slowly. It's kinda really lovely and gorgeous. After two songs it could go either way - it could make me feel pleasantly bathed in sonic wool, or it could launch me into transcendence. Obviously I need to give it a lot more time. Except gosh, Drew is the most beautiful song so far! Wow. Ulla less affecting, think it reaches more directly for the heartstrings, which means I recoil a bit. Alvar MUCH more like it, though - paces itself gloriously, plays up the tension on the edge of unstoppable beauty without giving fully over. I don't think the album's quite regained the majesty of Annabel and Drew, but is still keeping me interested. Oh less so now - I think the best tracks were frontloaded. Ah well. Gimme a heads up if any of the last three are great. An album with more to recommend than demerit.

imago I love your recaps when they're all in one post so your breezy style isn't diluted by a thousand voices

So I think there are seventeen albums that will definitely make the top 20.

Daft Punk
Vampire Weekend
Sky Ferreira
M.I.A.
Paramore
My Bloody Valentine
Run the Jewels
Chance the Rapper
Haim
Kanye West
Beyoncé
Kacey Musgraves
The Knife
Dawn Richard
Charli XCX
Janelle Monae
Kurt Vile

And these are other albums that could be contenders.

Floorplan
David Bowie
Disclosure
These New Puritans
Chvrches
Pusha T
The National
Blondes
2 Chainz

o ok :) i get that it kinda fucks with the flow of the discourse and in practice makes too much of the thread about me - will try to listen to as many of these as possible before posting a splurge. don't think i'll manage all 20 though, which is a shame as I long to eviscerate The 1975 more comprehensively than anyone else has. it is my mission to see to it that word of my post reaches The 1975 and they instantaneously disband in horror. naturally I cannot recall a note of their music but it is an ambition I lovingly cradle. *resumes PSB headbopping*

of the maybes listed I predict

Disclosure
These New Puritans
2 Chainz

I will say that Kitchen Person's list has put me in mortal terror that TNP will lose out to Chvrches or some shit and I'll have to go on a terrible and self-destructive profanity-spree

kinda don't think m.i.a. will place.

bowie? i don't know. did ilm rate it highly?

lol it's ILM

figured Chvrches was a lock for the countdown somewhere but I can't see it as top 20

ILM was the one of the few sane places that didn't go apeshit over Bowie.