ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Surpised at how low it is. On the other hand, I'm thinking it'll proabably have one of the higher enthusiasm scores.

before this album my fave track by them was "that's what you get"

I mean, fair enough, Paramore have their fans and that's all fair and all good and it's not for me and all that stuff. 8th best album of the year? Go to sleep.

bridges 2 of the sort of sub-interest groups and surprises people in these polls (e.g. kaputt)

Trolls and people with no taste?

lol

I loved this album but was the first of theirs I'd by heard. Are any earlier ones worth checking out?

brand new eyes yes but also each album is a massive improvement on the previous

Would definitely have had Paramore high on my ballot if I'd heard it before the tracks rollout - had never liked the band before so sadly paid it no attention.

xp i was thinking indie pfork fuxxors and gr80s

uhh the front third includes "Ain't It Fun"

what even IS the ILM demographic? i've made the mistake of calling it out before, don't think it exists

A bunch of white people? Or is this a foolish assumption that I've been making for ages.

Yeah, I checked out Brand New Eyes last week. It's great, but still such an enormous leap between albums.

i still say Riot destroys Brand New Eyes, thought they were on the path of indefinite diminishing returns before this album

haha I almost put the Kacey Musgraves interview album on the Spotify playlist, oops

it's definitely hazier and more difficult to pin down than ever before, but if there was a coat of arms back in the early days you may as well have put the MBV and Daft Punk logos on it

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha this is fair

although - daft punk did loads of expensive fancy collaborations designed to get votes in EOY polls and Grammies and so forth; Kevin Shields mastered some tapes, recorded some overdubs and STILL got (some) people excited

xp and the Grow Up/Daydreaming double whammy

http://i.imgur.com/WZgulaX.jpg

7 THE KNIFE Shaking the Habitual (1,371 points, 41 votes, 7 first place votes)

Spotify

Grow Up is great. I think I had that second on my tracks ballot, after Last Hope.

hot damn, great album

Also it looks like the streak of the last two years where my faovrte album of the year, Paramore, is also the number 1 for ILM has been broken. And I didn't even vote in those years.

I loved "Full of Fire" without warming to the other experiments, but I understand how it could be someone's #1.

daft punk did loads of expensive fancy collaborations designed to get votes in EOY polls

Yeah, because nobody actually likes Giorgio Moroder.

WTF?

too low yo! I demand a recount.

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I loved "Full of Fire" without warming to the other experiments, but I understand how it could be someone's #1.

basically, while also forgetting that "full of fire" existed until the tracks rollout

i'm rooting for vamp to go #1 overall

I thought most people were disappointed with The Knife album?

i'm rooting for vamp to go #1 overall

― Mordy , Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:21 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

I'm rooting for it to get shut out of the top 5

Still haven't heard this in its entirety but have basically liked-to-loved everything I've heard from it. Well, this week, all my attention-span failings get RECTIFIED. Even the long-form sound-experiments (ESPECIALLY the long-form sound experiments; I'm one of the weird fucks who thinks Tomorrow, In A Year Disc One is their crowning achievement)

i cant even remember if i voted for VW but i'd rather see them at #1 than daft punk

The Knife album cover (and the music inside, to some extent) reminds me of Remain in Light

i actually kicked the knife album off my ballot due to it not needing my help but i am very much pro it. "wrap your arms around me" is as beautiful a song as they've ever made

of the top 10 choices, it's worrying that the better ones seem to be coming in the bottom half :/

theres no way that's happening though

listen i like that vampire weekend record but it's kind of patchy i don't care how many feels you've caught on bushwick rooftops

Yeah, because nobody actually likes Giorgio Moroder.

WTF?

― emil.y, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no i mean everyone fkn DOES like Moroder &c, hence VOATZ

idk never been much of a daft punk fella although discovery obv bangs

VW at #1 would be incredible

yay, the Knife!

(iirc, ILM's very first poll had Britney Spears and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless tied for first place. I don't think our demographics have changed that much over the decades.)

Bought this when it came out, played it a few times but didn't really go back to it until November. Now I just love it more and more each time I play it (skipping a couple of tracks of course)

The long break between Brand New Eyes and s/t was interesting because you didn't really know what band would come back to greet you. Sure Hayley is the central force, but on BNE she co-wrote almost all the songs with Josh Farro, and then to assume the switch to doing all tracks with York would work out just as well..

ready, ready to loose a privilege

I loved this album but was the first of theirs I'd by heard. Are any earlier ones worth checking out?

"riot" and "brand new eyes" are both great, and i'll even ride for about half of the debut - the new one's where the lyrics, especially, made a huge leap forward, and the synthpop/r&b influences started to poke through. they've always been a great singles band, though - "decode" is such a jam

I should have put the knife higher, maybe even #1. Amazing work.

Yeah, because nobody actually likes Giorgio Moroder.

WTF?

― emil.y, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no i mean everyone fkn DOES like Moroder &c, hence VOATZ

idk never been much of a daft punk fella although discovery obv bangs

― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:23 PM (21 seconds ago)

What you're suggesting is that the 'expensive collaborations' are 'designed to win votes'. Rather than, say, Daft Punk actually liking the people they're working with. Which is an incredibly fucking stupid thing to say.

Kacey Musgraves is very talented and I'm glad she exists; I'm not ever going to say "oh hey, I want to listen to Kacey Musgraves today" but she's good

I liked Paramore more when they had a bratty single that I would periodically stumble across on pop radio

Knife album goes to some weird places but is one of the most satisfying listens I had all year; "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" is clearly in their top 10 songs ever AFAIC

i'm on #teamvdubs but only out of eagerness to witness the reaction

(I kind of wish they'd held onto the mezzo they recorded "Tomorrow, in a year" with, that would have been a really cool texture to weave into some of the songs here, or if they'd intercut her doing hocket and/or arpeggios into the boiler drone piece)

The more I listen to Shaking The Habitual, the more I find myself wondering what people found so odd about it. Yes, it's abrasive in places, and yes, it does have a 20-minute drone track on it and a track which consists of a vocal and a bedspring being bowed. For the most part, though, it just comes across as a very edgy pop record to me.

o emil.y c'mon must i go outta my way to post ;)s and label my facetious asides as such. my point was that daft punk releasing an album would have been an *event* in itself, as with mbv, but they made it even more of one with numerous high-profile collaborations, p much ensuring blanket exposure and beyond-planets hype

anyway, yeah, whoo, these last few albums q a dope collection, shame abt top 5

Just catching up with the last few, but LJ please listen to "Rollin' & Scratchin'" right now.

had no idead i had my own sub-interest group