ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

omg @ yeezus swept

kanye krucifies the kompetition

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

― doglato dozzy (dog latin)

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)

*Puritans

Soooo many of the DJ Sprinkles tracks are available on itunes on their original records, but they are almost always the "Album Only" tracks.

i hate itunes, but it frustrates me that you can find dj sprinkles' albums easily available for purchase online.

sorry, "can't find."

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

― uberweiss, Thursday, 30 January 2014 00:14 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 <3 <3

the most otm post of this entire thread everyone else go home

I am going to give that album a full, focused listen because of some of you all's vociferousness, but my impression is that 1975 fans have given up on life are just eating whatever is lying around

Unexpectedly divisive band.

love that uberweiss post.

1.5 songs was not enough to tell me much abt the 1975 beyond the fact that whoever recorded that snare drum sound should be incarcerated.

will get back at it tomorrow

Today is the first time that I was aware that These New Puritans released an album that was worth checking out. (I've seen their name bandied about but have never actually heard their music, so I guess I just missed all the hype.)

uberweiss otm

how's life, check your ilx email

also those prince-y guitar licks in "m.o.n.e.y." which act as sort of curled responses toward the vocal melody, uh literally everything about "talk!" the pitched delivery of which made me ecstatic for a week, i've also come around to "she way out" bc of how much i like the phrase "two phone everything." "is there somebody who can watch you" sounding delicately strained from a larger and mostly silent mark hollis song and honestly i can't think of another song about feeling like a terrible brother

i promise to focus as much on the individual textures of the paramore record

I didn't write about this one tho, ppl were noticing that I was blurbing my favorite albums instead of doing my day job (oops)

― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:52 AM

this was me, today

not feeling inspired to listen/write w/this run, oh well. Hecker was on my long-list ballot but I honestly prefer something like that Yo La Tengo album with all of its same old same old if I'm listing my records of the year. gonna do a quick Spotify run through looking for surprises...

OK this PSB record is very cool, glad I'm listening

fab to play Classixx and this mix back to back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJS2FZtC6Ao

PSB became kinda blaring on track 2, moved on to the Marling which is good... L says it reminds her of Shawn Colvin & also Joni Mitchell.

particularly dig Marling's guitar playing, my kind of strummy intensity

chillwave oldie but goldie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuxE7TjYuo4

classix was on my first ballot but i dropped it for floorplan when they added it to the nominees

haha I remember that Pictureplane song...always heard Bowie singing "Seven Years of Tibet" over it.

There's a really good EP in the sprawl of the 1975 album which they had the good grace to release before the actual album

Looks like only me and johnny crunch voted for The-Dream, damn shame since it's his best album since Love/Hate

at the risk of opening the floodgates of Terius stan album rankings, that is crazy talk

omg ban dayo

>:)

Looks like only me and johnny crunch voted for The-Dream, damn shame since it's his best album since Love/Hate

― 龜, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:17 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is insane but its solid and i def gave a sideeye to the lex taking shots @ it upthread

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)

― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:30 PM (2 hours ago

uh, sorry, I didn't vote for your puritans band. I don't know them. They have never done anything for me.

the most silent of swells

lol oops, got wires xed

imago is gonna go have a talk with his people and make sure he's getting solid exit polling info

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2012/11/07/07-megyn-kelly-decision-room-2.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

Thread has convinced me to take out my stopwatch for the next time a metal album places

I voted for TNP too! ..although it was not high on my ballot

I guess the Oneohtrix Point Never album wasn't a hit with ILX? I was expecting it to show up somewhere, but at this point it doesn't seem likely

the most silent of swells

http://www.charleslay.com/uploaded_images/jimmy_truck-784553.jpg

and I'm not talking musically -- they literally have done nothing for me: they haven't played a show i booked, or paid me to do their taxes, or even shared smokes or snacks with me. People often talk about music "not doing anything for them," so I decided I would vote only for music that has literally done things for me. Mainly because I didn't listen to any 2013 albums, I made my ballot totally out of financial self-interest.

Thread has convinced me to take out my stopwatch for the next time a metal album places

― 龜, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the infamous occasion upon which j0rdan unveiled two albums 9 minutes apart and then waited 11 minutes to post the next one will heretofore be known as 9/11

never forget

Omg sd

let's lol