ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

TUNE

Also I quite like the LDR album but she is really bad at swearing convincingly.

Haha, I love that lyric because she's so willing to be that ridiculous and overwrought. There's a lot of humor in even her saddest songs.

As I said yesterday, the only track I don't love on an otherwise stellar EP. Has a nice rhythmic hook but forgets to have a TUNE imo. As I say, I'm otherwise completely in favour

Ch. Adigéry bis: aight, I need to hear the rest now.

i'm a huge hypocrite bc if all three nominated adigéry tracks place i'll be pretty happy

also god "all mirrors" is the best song ever

i would like to be directed to the levi's commercials that sound like "up all night"

oh this is the Charlotte Adigery song I know. Put this in a thousand DJ sets this year as it mixes with loads of stuff.

This was also my least favorite track on the EP but listening to it again yesterday I warmed up to it considerably. It’s still my least favorite but what a great EP.

Ch. Adigéry bis: aight, I need to hear the rest now.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:02 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

C'est vrai! Saw an interview with her on Belgian telly, she's so personable.

Mutant Disco otm. Sounds like it could have been taken from a Lizzy Mercier Descloux album

Has a nice rhythmic hook but forgets to have a TUNE imo

This is disgusting sellout behaviour fwiw.

oh I'm liking this Sault track much more on its own than when I gave the album(s) a listen

I can't resist the plaintiveness of its chorus melody, but, yes, she misreads "Sylvia Plath" as persona and Sylvia Plath the poet.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:57 AM (twenty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is very otm.

ILM really loves Lou Reed:

https://i.imgur.com/UZlgbVF.jpg
45: HAIM- “Summer Girl” - 214 points - 8 votes
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HAIM

The Singles Jukebox

 “I’m not exactly the least biased observer when it comes to Haim’s music. I owe a good portion of my close friendships and my longterm relationship to the Twitter fandom they cultivated around the time of their first release, when I was a tiny baby in college. But, still, I think my respect and affection for them doesn’t disqualify me from having a valuable opinion on them. In this case, I can especially appreciate “Summer Girl” as the rare Haim song celebrating longevity and long distance in all of its pangs and nuanced happy moments. Written for Danielle Haim’s partner during a serious illness, Summer Girl is a painfully sweet momento of that moment when we realize exactly what we are  to other people and walk toward that version of ourselves. There’s an easy breezy quality to the song that’s underpinned by the fear and trauma that can visit a relationship. To be a summer girl, here, is less about wilding out for yourself in global warming record highs (still an admirable pastime), and more about how we can find strength by viewing our own selves — malleable, fragile, messy — as the strength and release someone else needs. This shift in perspective creates love for both ourselves, and the vessels of care and affection in our lives *collective ‘awwwww’*” - Nellie Gayle

“Songs about summer love take place at the beach, on bright sunny days, end at parties; they are flirtatious, playful, even dangerous; they sound like the rush of falling in love at an irresponsible pace, but being too young and dumb to give a care about the eventual season’s change. To be sure, these songs are great, but “Summer Girl” is so arresting and gorgeous precisely because of its subversion of this formula. It begins after the thrill of the chase has already subsided, and focuses instead on the emotional intimacy and complexity that percolates afterwards. When Haim whisper, “I can see it in your face/I’m relief/I’m your summer girl,” it’s the portrait of romance so intoxicating that pillow talk doesn’t require talking at all in order to understand connection — no matter how brief. The meandering saxophone soundtracks this all sublimely, tinged with bittersweetness as if to ruminate on the nature of love that, by definition, has an expiration date. I know I’m young and supposed to be at some club hooking up to whatever song of the summer dominates the airwaves, but this year, all I want to do is lay in an open field gazing at stars, surrounded by nothing but the sound of crickets chirping, the crackle of bonfire, and this song playing in the background as I fall asleep in a stranger’s arms.” - Wayne Weizhen Zhang

RIP LJ

my second-fave Haim single of the year, but I forgot to vote for either :/

or decided "Now I'm In It" didn't need my help, can't remember which

RIP LJ

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:09 AM

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After striking out yesterday, i voted for Bags, All Mirrors and Patenipat from today's run.

I was underwhelmed by the album but All Mirrors is extraordinary.

i would like to be directed to the levi's commercials that sound like "up all night"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:04 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was probably thinking of this one

https://youtu.be/7XwqaqqVrtg

I really like HAIM, but I feel like it's been diminishing returns with them since the debut.

didn't vote for any of the haim tracks from last year. regardless this is the breeziest song ever, which contrasts nicely with their arranged-to-death second album

Dull as ditch water, this. Not in an annoying way, it's just completely forgettable.

i was probably thinking of this one

https://youtu.be/7XwqaqqVrtg

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:11 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

oooh this kinda rules

I didn't vote for any of the Haim singles, but I did like all three of them more than anything on that forgettable second album. Now I'm In It deserves to place too.

This is fine.

Would fit on an ILM's most okay-ish 77 Tracks of 2019 list.

Did Sault fans like the Vanishing Twin album?

I love the first Haim album as much as the next person but 'Summer Girl' is so flimsy.

Xpost: that Levi’s song is “Makeba” and it’s also pretty cool for me so I’ll take it the comparison in very good light.

this clairo song is pretty nice! something i would've really dug circa-2009, like a long lost mid-period tegan and sara song. i should've listened to this record i guess

also it sounds a lot like my favorite band now, now

The Clairo album is great. There are better songs than Bags on there IMO.

Did Sault fans like the Vanishing Twin album?

― Indexed, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:15 PM (three minutes ago

I liked both but I dont hear that much of a similarity

https://i.imgur.com/vCJ4tCY.jpg
44: FKA Twigs - “Sad Day” - 222 points - 6 votes - 1 number 1 vote
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FKA twigs

Pitchfork BNM:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/fka-twigs-sad-day/

“Now, in “sad day,” the fourth teaser track before MAGDALENE drops Friday, twigs beckons for her lover as he steals further away. She begins with a bohemian gentleness that may just turn his head: “Taste the fruit of me/Make love to all you see,” she coaxes in her lovely falsetto, a woodland sprite urging the wanderer back into the forest. But even she must admit that shadows loom; soon enough, with a heavier and almost wry intonation, twigs allows that he’d act “foolishly” to still love her, that she’s “made him sad before.” Crackling digital effects suggest insistent rain, and a sly, scratchy bass drop pierces the optimistic haze. twigs’ co-producers on the track—Nicolas Jaar, Skrillex, Noah Goldstein, Benny Blanco—flex their thumbs in these heavy synth instrumentals. The wistful, future-shock distortion of her vocals alludes to her own defiance and anger, before she slips effortlessly back into airy entreaties. twigs’ eyes are open and her heart is tired.” - Stacey Anderson

I found myself enjoying various FKA Twigs songs individually (including this one), but couldn't take the album as a whole.

well at least it's my favorite twigs song on that record (which as with the rest of her recorded output did not stick with me at all)

I like Vanishing Twin but only learned about them during campaigning, so they didn't quite make my ballot. I like SAULT better though.

That "Makeba" song is sweet, maybe I should buy some Levi's.

i'm guessing "cellophane" will place higher and i will try to not be a bummer about it

There's only one song I like on that album and this certainly isn't it

not as gaga as everyone over the twigs alb, but this one is good.

also, i'd like to welcome moka to the turbo team.

I love this song! such an ear worm.

Hahaha what is the turbo team?

EP1&2 >>>>> Magdalene > LP1 > M3LL155X

FKA Twigs I will never understand, like the Andrew Yang candidacy.

Hahaha what is the turbo team?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:27 AM (fifty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

the team of those who post results fast so nobody has time to ask for the next one