ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

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

DJP, by mezzo you mean her singing voice? I assume it was all her voice. loved the vocals, in particular on "cherry on top"

xp for some reason i associate you with the whole balearic revival etc thats been popular on this board for the last 5 years or whatever

am listening to Bangerz rn, catching up where I left off yesterday, might skip str8 to top 20 though? tough call to only come back later to the lower-ranked records

xxp I found it weird how many critics acted like yeezus was the only sensible choice for album of the year. On the New Yorker podcast SFJ basically said you'd have to be dumb or obtuse not to recognise it as such. Which for an album that flawed, if occasionally spectacular, seemed off. If you're going to condescend to people who don't like an album then pick a more consistent album. If it was as all good as the opening of On Sight he might have had a point.

Shaking the Habitual feels like a fairly natural progression from Silent Shout after the detour of Tomorrow in a Year, although maybe one they could only have made with the latter in the can? Not sure.

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mbv or vw getting the top spot would be aok with me

mbvwtf

i dont know where i fit in with mordys list

have i graduated from valuable new poster yet

xxp I found it weird how many critics acted like yeezus was the only sensible choice for album of the year. On the New Yorker podcast SFJ basically said you'd have to be dumb or obtuse not to recognise it as such. Which for an album that flawed, if occasionally spectacular, seemed off. If you're going to condescend to people who don't like an album then pick a more consistent album. If it was as all good as the opening of On Sight he might have had a point.

critics have always been weirdly enraptured by the idea of the flawed genius tho right? one of those things where you point out where it drags musically or isn't enjoyable or is hugely problematic and they respond "but that's the POINT"

no, no it isn't. i mean i love the knife album but i'll be the first to say that the 20 min drone serves no purpose to me and can get tae fuck. flaws are not inherently interesting!

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

6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City (1,397 points, 39 votes, 8 first place votes)

Spotify

:'(

rip ezra i will always remember u

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good ass record

Yay! (That it's not higher.)

thank god this is as far as it made it.

rip alfred's ezra hair flipping gif tumblr

my #1

tbh I don't care what's #1 now as long as it isn't this.

in yr face m0rdy sry but this is <3felt still love u boo

TOO LOW

this isn't funny enough

*mumbles something about Mums and West Country holiday resorts in flood season*

my impression is that the oddness people associate with Shaking the Habitual has something to do with the lack of verse-chorus structure to the songs

i can't wait for ilx to have the same #1 overall as the grammys

Hey, what's that slurping noise!?

*penny drops*

Ahhhh...

hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa thank fuck this wasn't top 5

twee indie pests i refute you

maybe their best yet. i dunno, theyre all great. fuck all yall haters

do they still sound like paul simon?

Beyoncé won a Grammy?

DJP, by mezzo you mean her singing voice? I assume it was all her voice. loved the vocals, in particular on "cherry on top"

I mean Kristina Wahlin, the Danish mezzo-soprano who sang on "Tomorrow, in a year"

contra is their best. this is pretty good

Kacey my #1, Paramore my #3. good showing!

Approve of VW, approve of this album. Y'all some tiresome motherfuckers itt at times.

I still feel that Vampire Weekend turned into the band that everyone who made fun of them over the first two albums claimed they were all along.

I dunno, the ilx predict-a-trons have done too good a job, I'm finding this part of the roll-out the least interesting. Who cares if something is number six or number five when you already know what's making up the top ten?

i love this album so much. was my co #1 with chance for much of 2013.

i'm a huge VW stan but i think this is just leaps and bounds better than their previous two records. a massive leap. it's hard to listen to some of their old songs... this album is so much richer.

Wow. I thought that was a shoe in for Top 3 given all the ilxor love it had in the thread.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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