ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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.

But ILM didn't appear to go apeshit over the Arcade Fire album and that still made it. I Really can't call it on albums like that.

The quasi-lurker vote?

I'd be pretty surprised if These New Puritans placed, but you never know...

1975 is like the best album ever other than maybe red and lttp and autobiography, it makes me dizzy with happiness, the drums on 'the city', the section starting with 'TABS WITH UNLIMITED 0S' on 'money', how the guitar riff shifts at the "run run away from the boys in the blue" on 'chocolate', the second verse on 'heart out' which i can't not mouth along with in public with every line corresponding to a different facial expression, THE INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE ON 'SETTLE DOWN' LIKE HELLO, the ridiculously dramatic bridge on 'robbers', "i know you're looking for salvation in a secular age but girl i'm not your saviour", the bassline in 'pressure' omg joy. also i barely know what a bridge or a bassline is so hope i used those correctly lol

anything that places from here on out needs at least 20 enthusiastic fans on the board, kind of a high bar, especially for something like that Bowie that never generated much excitement here.

I'll be absolutely amazed if it didn't. Look at the number of points 77 had, and consider how many people have already admitted to placing it high (although I placed it around the middle tbf) xxp

consider how many people have already admitted to placing it high

About three? Not sure that's enough.

Hmm. Think a lot more people liked it than it might seem. But if it has missed out then you all fucking suck (and if it's missed out by less than 10 points *I* fucking suck because it really could have been higher)

nickb, me, imago... errr...

uberweiss otm

Thing about the These New Puritans album is that I know a couple of people that really like them don't vote in these lists. Scik Mouthy and Gerald McBoing-Boing seem to be big fans but don't usually get involved. Same reason that Wild Beasts have never made any of the end of year lists (despite them being awesome)

still got my fingers crossed for 1d's album to place!!!

It should be mandatory that anyone with access to 77 board has to vote.

nickb, me, imago... errr...

DJP! NA! Have faith!

:-)

the main thing is that i hope yeezus doesn't sweep

cos that would be like yeezus swept

bang

omg @ yeezus swept

kanye krucifies the kompetition

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I actually had it quite low on my list too.

+32 lurkers and we've got ourselves a winnuh!

think there's a silent swell of voters (sarahell for ex. who I know voted for TNP) with fairly artrockish tastes. we can hope TNP was the rallying-point (other than MBV)

the new pornographers?

looool

I keep on reading it Star Trek style... like... uh... The Next Penetration?

the neverending pory.

Transgressing Nice Poll

I preferred MBV to These New Puritan as an album, actually, although imo the latter's high was (slightly) higher (both incredible at their best obv)