ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

I'll relisten to early VW, maybe. I think my lazy and hasty impression at the time was of a less-competent Police but it was a lazy and hasty impression. This song at least has memorable hooks. I tend to agree with Guyaquil about the piano/guitar on "Harmony Hall".

the el guincho connect is why i gave "con altura" additional listens and it ended up growing on me.

i would never have imagined that, in 2020, a song produced by el guincho would have a billion plus youtube plays

(late pass but this donato dozzy is dope)

The opening track alone, a country duet based on a time stretched Maori wedding chant from Thin Red Line played as though the guitarist is reading from a tab book and having to flip the page over every couple of verses...

You mean the one with the verses that sound like Green Day's "Time of Your Life"?

hey, it's something unpredictable

a time stretched Maori wedding chant

tbf this is the coolest part of the track. but i get nothing out of the song they built around it

also yes this is enough vw talk lol

whereas the percussion in "Horchata" is integral to the song and ties the whole thing together

BRAD ONE CAN NEVER TALK ENOUGH SHIT ABOUT CURRENT VAMPIRE WEEKEND, IT IS A BLOODSPORT

xxp hm... maybe it had personal resonance to me as I was listening to it just before being told my brother had canceled his wedding

I, for one, look forward to our next Lana Del Rey jamboree.

Horchata is a cute little ditty

I mean, it sounds a bit like Fleet Foxes but you know, it's fine

so many great hooks in "horchata" coming from a thousand directions

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The Fleet Foxes dig would land harder if VW hadn't decided to lean directly into that axis of their musical DNA on subsequent albums

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23: Sharon Van Etten – “Seventeen” – 324 points – 12 votes

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ha!

i didn't vote for this but i find this song incredibly powerful and think sve is a genius. the new record didn't stick with me beyond this and "you shadow" but i have faith she'll find the balance again on the next one

we're hearing different bands DJP. I like Contra (and Horchata) fine but it's a very concise, extremely well crafted 10 track modern indie pop album compared to FOTB which is experimental and sprawling. Rubber Soul vs White Album. I have time for both.

this is a good song, tho i couldn't get into the congleton'd-out album

yeh beautiful track i only discovered end of december

i did like congleton more than i usually do on the angel olsen album

Sharon's album didn't leave much of an impression on me when it came out, but when this came on the playlist it really stood out. Just missed my list in the end. Glad to see it here.

I keep mixing up SVE and Sharron Kraus

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Another song I completely forgot I'd heard last year.

This is well crafted and all but ehhhhhhh

Agree with dog latin re: FOTB. Much more interesting and varied record than Contra, which has grown on me over time, but I also feel is the album where most of the negative stereotypes about VW are at their most accurate.

Seventeen was the first song of 2019 to really knock me out. Rest of the album did nothing for me, but that one’s a true powerhouse.

Wait do some people think El Guincho is a novelty factor on Con Altura? He has a production credit on everything she's done in the last two years right?

Was A Palé also nominated? I like that more now but then it is fresher.

ehhhhhhh

con altura is the most fun. is that flutey synth thing a sample from something popular? sounds like something from a future song maybe idk

did you know that 'seventeen' rhymes with 'bruce springsteen'?

So far I submit that calling these results 'crazy' may well turn out to be the biggest con in ILM history.

Seventeen > Red Bull And Hennessy when doing largely the same vibe.

i'm with emil.y and pomentul on this

I know El Guincho isn't a novelty! I love his work! I just didn't think he was gonna get this kinda ubermainstream acknowledgement in this decade.

xp to pom: did you think this was all gonna be abstract noise songs and yodeling? the lineup thus far alone has been more diverse and disparate than any past yearly poll i can remember.

Look, we all have to play our part.

DJP's riffing on VW is making my day

I didn't know that El Guincho was always her producer! But I haven't followed her very closely aside from the mainstream hits and the ilx placements, so it's not that surprising I was in the dark.

xp to pom: did you think this was all gonna be abstract noise songs and yodeling?

Damn, I take this to mean that Twang by Mason Ramsey missed the cut?

Sharon Van Etten at her best is a fantastic songwriter - her ten or so best songs are up there with anyone's over the last decade - but her albums always feel like a slog and a chore because of terrible arrangement choices.

Seventeen is the good SVE but I wish they'd gone all out and gone full Tunnel of Love with the production because the drums and the synths just sound flat and get in the way of one another. She needs better collaborators.

"Seventeen" was my #3. I thought "Con Altura" was a lock for top 10.

That Ciara song is great. How did I not know she released new music this year?

this is a good song, tho i couldn't get into the congleton'd-out album

co-sign

look i know _I_ voted for Mason Ramsey but i dunno about you

I know El Guincho as a gonzo indie techno producer from 2007 and had no idea he was still at large but doing big pop collabs

I'm sure Seventeen slays live but my god why are indie producers so bad at recording synths properly?

did you think this was all gonna be abstract noise songs and yodeling?

^^^ my kind of poll

basically the songs that get canned at eurovision semis

fun fact, it's el guincho's voice at the beginning saying "Esto vamo' a arrancarlo con altura"