ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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love this record. I know that this sounds like a knock on it, but I like that it helps me go to sleep. It's been a magical cure for anxiety these past few months, clears my head as soon as I put it on.

Roz, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link

this album did not click with me

example (crüt), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link

great album. I'm down w/her particular spaced out gauziness so much.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/mxzKH5X.jpg

15 CARIBOU Our Love [618 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes]

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link

I find "Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping" to be very memorable, particularly. But yeah Ruins is much different while still sounding very much like Grouper.

Evan, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link

The Grouper one didn't stick with me either, but I love most of her releases up to and including Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link

pitchfork review of "our love" almost made me stop liking it

gr8080, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link

too high

brain floss mix (sleeve), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link

rarely made it past the first 2 songs on this one since they were way better than the rest

ciderpress, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link

Some other Grouper tracks that are memorable: Disengaged, False Horizon, Poison Tree.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link

But lex is mainly correct, it's atmospheric.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link

this album did not click with me
― example (crüt)

Grouper album made me want to torch all of Spotify. Not sure if that counts as 'clicking'. Something snapped, leastways.

Caribou album is a fine thing, but I think it was at or near the bottom of my ballot.

Jeff W, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link

Wherefore art thou, Hot Chip?

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link

could someone tell me what is going on musically with Second Chance?

campreverb, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link

people need to stop listening to terrible, bland, twiggy indie dance music.

pig∞n (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link

caribou was good for 2 records

young thug squarepants (imago), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link

i will never stop

ciderpress, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link

Maybe I was just distracted by the name change, but I liked the Daphni record better than anything he's done as Caribou (liked the first Manitoba records, tho).

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

Caribou sounds like clothes shopping music to me now.

Evan, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

Maybe I was just distracted by the name change, but I liked the Daphni record better than anything he's done as Caribou (liked the first Manitoba records, tho).

What about Sun?

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

Sun is unlistenable.

I think at one point I liked Andorra a bit though.

pig∞n (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link

many xps
grouper is enjoyable for me on account of the lack of traditional song structure/aimlessness
i don't find it that interesting to listen to in the car or pay much attention to or whatever but when i need to chill, sure i'll listen to grouper

groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link

I'm trying to remember the name of an IDM artist I used to like who was somewhere in the same ballpark as Manitoba and active circa 2002-2006, and had a track with the word 'fishermen' in it. i know that's very vague, but it was a really good record, very melodic and playful. any ideas?

pig∞n (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

But I'm listening to Sun right now! Actually it works primarily on a dancefloor or a festival, strange that he didn't produce the track with that context so explicitly in mind.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link

I think I had heard various DJs play Sun a half dozen times or so before I realized it was a track from Manitoba man.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/2GwU7Gs.jpg

14 MR TWIN SISTER Mr Twin Sister [620 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link

wait, who?

Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

Whoop Whoop. Did not expect.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

This was the most unexpected directional shift I've known a band to undergo in as long as I can remember. Also, it was a good idea because this is a fucking great record.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

someone tell me about this album

gr8080, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

intriguing.

how's life, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link

They used to just be called Twin Sister and made some nu-gaze/dreampop stuff, but they changed their name due to conflict and began making smooth balearic Sade-like grooves.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link

Mr Twin Sister

Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link

I had a feeling this would place. Gorgeous album.

Kitchen Person, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

xpost this is a good album - bits of it are like a dreampop Sade and there's one track that reminds me of prime Underworld

Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

"easy glistening" sounds about right on first blush

Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

I love how the album changes mood in the second half. It's almost like a different band.

Kitchen Person, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link

I haven't checked this out, looks like I'm missing out on something.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link

I think this should appeal to my balearic crew, to my sade crew, to my dixon crew, all crews welcome in fact.

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The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link

'Out Of The Dark' sounds immense on good phones, another better-than-actual-Hercules&LA type track

nashwan, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link

mr twin sister >>>>>>>>

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link

Had this one high on my ballot, but started doubting that it would place. Glad it did though.

MarkoP, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

got this very late in the year and wound up voting for it, great record

call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link

Amusing fact: the original Twin Sister who claimed the name is the self-proclaimed "greatest Star Wars funk band”, performing in full costume at fancons.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link

love this record so much!!

j. winters (josh), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link

missed this completely but seems like a thing I'd enjoy. going to check it out!

Roz, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

"Out of the Dark" still demands an extended mix. 3:20 isn't enough.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

Relistening to this album, I gotta say TOO LOW (I don't think it was even on my ballot, though, so fuck me).

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

it's deliberate riot provocation imo xp

nashwan, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

oh hey i don't know this but it looks promising

example (crüt), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link


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