ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

The album was the final one cut from my ballot, so I placed the single a bit higher on my trackballot to make up for it. Good song, good band. Album not as good as last one.

Think if you're expecting a bunch of anonymous deep house saer you may be disappointed.

― ewar woowar (or something),

Im not expecting anything!

Cool start imo! Also, great graphics idea!

corny

That comment from flopson a few years back about listening to tUnE-yArDs is like accidentally walking into a room where someone is vigorously masturbating has never really left me I'm afraid :/

nicki (or more accurately, young money as a "movement") almost always rubs me the wrong way but i still gotta give lookin ass a few more listens before i dismiss this outright. it didn't do much for me at all when i first heard it and I much prefer the hot stylez version

5&6 is prob my fave on the album but i think 'in conflict' deserves acclaim as a complete statement more so than chopping it up into pieces. in any case, this is gorgeous

i voted for water fountain though i'm not generally so taken with 'nikki nack'. 'WhoKill' and 'birdbrains' had a stridency and vitality 'nikki' is missing, though there's enough quality on here to not dismiss it entirely (Time of Dark, Wait for a Minute, Left Behind and Rocking Chair are other standouts). Nikki sounds like an artist trying to decide what they want to say next, which is fine. I'm into merrill for the long haul. Water Fountain is pretty massive tho; prob the best white girl struggle track of the year.

I lump Tune-Yards in with Fiery Furnaces and Planningtorock - woozy electronic indie which I admire for its originality, but find just too abstruse to listen to for more than a couple of tracks.

I had a bunch of anonymous deep house on my ballot fwiw.

'in conflict' deserves acclaim as a complete statement more so than chopping it up into pieces. in any case, this is gorgeous

Yes!

^looool xps to mikomcha

this is bad sry, graceland for the '10s. also haha dl it is nooothing like fiery furnaces, spot of female vocalist lumping mebbe

Cool start imo! Also, great graphics idea!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 19, 2015 8:21 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag PostPermalink

thanks! i learned from the pro ;-)

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Can't disagree with that statement, though Owen was one of three (I think?) artists that I voted for in both the albums and tracks categories.

merrill and company's optics and first blush sound are very theater kid / upstate bobo... which she is! But she's also a very intelligent and thoughtful composer with a great voice. So i get why people dismiss her out of hand and on a cursory listen but it makes me sad all the same.

That comment from flopson a few years back about listening to tUnE-yArDs is like accidentally walking into a room where someone is vigorously masturbating has never really left me I'm afraid :/
--MikoMcha

LOL. i actually like this track, assuming it's the one in an iphone commercial?

http://i.imgur.com/xsg1fr0.jpg

74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua" [210 points, 6 votes]
http://youtu.be/VO5BOLIV2S4

can't wait for the first country songs to appear and inspire teeth gnashing

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Yes!! @ this placing, but now that it did...too low!

yay batucada!
one of my favourite tracks of 2014 :)

gonna maintain a dignified silence thru the country section, although iirc kacey musgraves last year was q good so maybe i'll say nice things, who knows

this ninos stuff is r cool

Nice! Voted for this one.

didn't vote for this bit voted for the album, the whole thing is incredible.

batucada? sounds like my kind of bag. not heard this yet though.

Will maintain a dignified silence thru the country section because it is unlikely that I'll have heard most of them!

also these dudes have no press photos I could find lol

ooh, what is this?

re: tune-yards

corny

― The Reverend, Monday, January 19, 2015 9:23 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't even argue w/ this! I always found her so precious and quirky and incredibly grating and even though this whole album sounds like children's nursery rhymes or something and even though "Why Must We Dine On The Tots" is appalling and cringeworthy, I really liked the album in spite of all of this.

incredibly addictive brazilian drum-orientated piece of brilliance

brazilliance

Never seen the video before, feeling a bit crazy watching this!

yh this is pretty good

lol nobody called out my 'graceland for the 10's' comment, probably too asinine tbh, tune-yards not one for incorporating actual tribal/outernational musicians for probable cost purposes, just their sound :P

whoa and now this ninos track hits overdrive

this is jammin'

i am very into this ninos du brasil track that i'd never even heard of before. can imagine it dropping at 4am in a techno set and blowing my mind

tune-yards - not as messy as what i recall of her first album but still intolerably ~quirky, infantilised etc

"infantilised"!

Hoo, I wish I'd have voted for this track.

At work so I can't hear this Brasil track and really wishing I could.

All the Tune-Yards songs I've heard put me in mind of a really irritating, in-your-face kids TV presenter, there's a kind of non-stop yammering to it all.

Looking forward to the Brazilian one though.

lol nobody called out my 'graceland for the 10's' comment, probably too asinine tbh

this sombra track is pretty hot.

ninos track only gets rly rly good in the last minute but it is worth 5 minutes working up to it

sorry for making you sad forks

There's a bit of a Liquid Liquid thing going on with this track, obviously.

the whole album is like equal parts minimal techno & carnival percussion with a dash of no-wave skronk here and there

this track is like my 4th favorite one on it too

these guys are italian btw

nicki song makes me feel too embarrassed to listen to more than 20 seconds.

Sure Arto Lindsay is proud. xps

the whole album is like equal parts minimal techno & carnival percussion with a dash of no-wave skronk here and there

sounds liek the best thing ever made tbqh

xp whoops - got thrown by their name and genre ha

it's okay imago; i'm coping.

italliance doesn't work as well :(

ninos track only gets rly rly good in the last minute but it is worth 5 minutes working up to it

Build up is always worth it, no point in a cheap payoff.

spoken like a tru bobbins-head :)

"Vermillion" still bangs

true!

it's silly that 2014 was ten years ago like how

Three of the albums in my current top five "ever" came out within months of each other, summer to early autumn 2014. I didn't find them until much later but the season has taken on this beautiful retroactive glow now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eh8DLrjinc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thvOBC2jlz4

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

Not wanting to reignite a nine year old argument, but every year I save a handful of votes for things I discover on the nominations list. It's a fun part of the process for me and it feels nice supporting someone else's choices. Plus it's not like my ballot is the absolute definitive list of my favourite tracks of the year anyway.