ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018

I suspect 95% of the hard rock/metal that's gonna place just did, but it's been nice to see nonetheless

mariah carey too low
cardi b too high

lol nothing i voted for has placed yet

i failed to vote for the mariah record AGAIN and i'm appropriately disappointed in myself

people really should give the mariah a chance - it's so concise and perfect

starting to agree with the people who think it's her best

(my faves have always been glitter and mimi (and, mostly bc of ilx lol, memoirs) and it stacks up with any of them)

it's as good as memoirs for me

Here's the day's results in case you're as bad as me as keeping it in yr memory:

77: Amen Dunes – Freedom - 189 points – 7 votes
76: Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel - 190 points – 7 votes – 1 first place vote
75: Charlie Puth – Voicenotes - 192 points – 6 votes – 1 first place vote
74: Jean Grae & Quelle Chris – Everything’s Fine - 202 points – 11 votes
73: Senyawa – Sujud - 204 points – 6 votes
72: Wednesday Campanella – Galapagos - 206 points – 7 votes
71: Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place - 208 points – 8 votes
70: Kadhja Bonet – Childqueen - 208 points – 9 votes
69: Ghost – Prequelle - 214 points – 6 votes
68: YOB – Our Raw Heart – 214 points – 8 votes – 1 first place vote
67: Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth - 216 points – 10 votes
66: Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu - 221 points – 10 votes
65: Skee Mask – Compro - 225 points – 9 votes
64: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – Dirt - 227 points – 8 votes
63: Mariah Carey – Caution - 228 points – 11 votes
62: Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy - 230 points – 10 votes
61: Andrew WK – You’re Not Alone - 233 points – 8 votes – 1 first place vote

That Mariah Carey album is her best in twenty. I heard it this morning, and, man, its brevity and sharpness and her use of polysyllables never stops impressing me.

do we have enough Koenjihyakkei fans on here for that album to place

right, sorry. here's a somewhat streamlined breakdown in case folks want to run their itemized responses.

61: Andrew WK – You’re Not Alone
62: Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
63: Mariah Carey - Caution
64: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt
65: Skee Mask - Compro
66: Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu
67: Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
68: YOB – Our Raw Heart
69: Ghost - Prequelle
70: Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
71: Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place
72: Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos
73: Senyawa - Sujud
74: Jean Grae & Quelle Chris – Everything’s Fine
75: Charlie Puth - Voicenotes
76: Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
77: Amen Dunes – Freedom

damn we're already seeing stuff with 10+ votes. how many ballots did we get in total?

Yeah I’m not a huge Mariah fan, but I do think this is a pleasant/enjoyable album.

this was such a good year for albums that i'm really enjoying the rollout this time

also moka's images continue to stun

the WK one is so good I almost want to listen to it

I got 3 in today, but no idea how many others I'll see (some I'm certain of, others I'd be really surprised).

of my ballot only the low and the julia holter will place, i think. big question, will they hit the top ten? i hope so.

I only got 1 in but I'm expecting as many as 12 to place based on these results

i forgot the beths, they will make it too, maybe even the breeders.

sometimes i forget just how long mariah has been mariah. She's got a duet with Gunna on Caution. When Gunna was two months old, Mariah was releasing her third album.

i didn't vote for anything so far but it's mostly good stuff

Nicely varied results so far, three of my votes placed, happy to see Hailu Mergia especially.

Really keen to hear these three:

72: Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos
73: Senyawa - Sujud
74: Jean Grae & Quelle Chris – Everything’s Fine

i forgot the beths, they will make it too, maybe even the breeders.

― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, February 4, 2019 2:03 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilm's gonna have the good sense to include the breeders imo

their absence from year-end lists last year still inexplicable 2 me

I like the Mariah a lot, but hadn’t listened to it enough to vote for it. The conciseness def works in its favour.

For those of you who are enjoying the Andrew WK album, can I recommend Adebisi Shank?
https://adebisishank.bandcamp.com/track/big-unit
https://adebisishank.bandcamp.com/track/turnaround

Adebisi Shank

do do do do do

wonder if anyone else voted for the Amnesia Scanner album

xp lol!

hah I can hear why you recommended that

I might actually check 'em out, sounds dope so far

wonder if anyone else voted for the Amnesia Scanner album

― mh, Monday, February 4, 2019 4:24 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o/

my man

I can see Low, Julia Holter and The Beths all making the top 10.

I heard one of Mariah’s new songs on Spotify shuffle; before I looked up the artist, I was sitting there aghast wondering what the hell had happened to Dawn Richard’s voice and hoping she was seeing a good ENT.

I don’t think I’m going to check out the album.

First time listener to Hailu Mergia. This is great! Sampling some of the older stuff and pretty amazed at the regeneration/update. Title track in particular is phenomenal.

The accordions were an unexpected delight on the new album

very surprised Cardi B was so low, would have probably expected her to make top 10 here? it didn't quite make my ballot but it was very solid and even made me enjoy "Bodak Yellow" in context

Cardi B was a case of "this is not for me, but I fully get why other people dig it".

solid pop record that gradually unsticks from your attention imo

i haven't heard any andrew w.k. but the one adebisi shank song i've heard is anamanaguchi-style chiptune? is that what andrew w.k. does?

andrew w.k. is an approach to life

oh damn I would probably have tossed Cardi a #1 sorry for not ilxing

Ha, I played Andrew WK right after you played REO Speedwagon in plug one time, rushomancy, and you said it was a ditting segue.

*fitting

i don't think i'll ever understand the love post-i get wet andrew wk gets here

mariah was another one i thought might do a fair bit better here based on the general love for it, took me a while to get into but certainly one of her best albums. might have voted for it if i'd gotten into it sooner and spent more time with it. "the distance"/"giving me life" was a really nice section in the middle

i haven't heard anything from andrew w.k. other than i get wet, btw

talk about not living life to the fullest

i'm more of a glass half full guy, something to aspire to you know? that's what 'glass half full' means iirc

wait a second, that is what glass half full means. goddammit, joeks

yay @ Kadhja Bonet, such a good album