ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

my #2 also!

tried to map out the rest of the top 20 and it feels like there's a lot of room for surprises

Door is great, the album is great, and the so was the last Chairlift one. Feel like people still dismiss Chairlift (and Caroline by proxy) as just that band who had a song on an iPod ad or whatever.

I love “Door”!

But l came here to post something about the Zero 7<>Zero12finest thing upthread:

So... the current sound in South African pop-house is "sped-up Zero 7"?
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), woensdag 29 januari 2020 16:53

xp I can't hear the similarity between Zero 7's laid back jazz-inflected trip hop and BRYC, but you might be hearing something I'm not
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), woensdag 29 januari 2020 16:56

xp idk the last chairlift album was pretty patchy but something is a classic

'Door' charm is very immediate if you aren't against her style from the outset. The supposed tweeness at the start is countered by some fabulous rumbling bass further in (try and listen first on good headphones) and aside from CP throwing p much everything she's got at it I love those lightning strike synths towards the end.

Oh plus the way that repeating 'I'm running through' line creeps in halfway through - loads of cool little details all through the track really. I do find it all equally sinister and comforting but I suppose that is the point.

Door is better than anything else I've heard by her, admittedly.

Seriously though there are very few locks for the Top 20.

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19: Grimes and i_o – “Violence” – 342 points – 11 votes – 1 #1 vote”

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Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Singles Jukebox

whoa

thought the ilx response to this song was more muted than this suggests but... great song

ty beastcrawl, that is precisely what I was getting at

also I liked "Akulaleki" a lot

oh here's the weird part of the results at last

this was really not very good, very grimes-by-numbers

Old Town Road and 1 or 2 Eilishes are locks I'd think.

Will likely make next year's 77 as well.

grimes showing up makes me wonder if one of the taylor singles going to sneak in lol

i don't think anything from lover has that momentum beyond the title track

that's the one i'd figure is most likely yeah

but also this is def not grimes-by-numbers. idk i may just be in a weird position bc all the advance singles from the new grimes album suggest i will LOVE it despite *wrings hands, gestures broadly*

I'm fairly sure I'll like it more than Art Angels so here's to hoping.

"Door" is great, my fave solo Polachek thing by a long shot

violence is definitely a better name for a baby than warnymph

yeah this is a great one, i think it combines her various more recent musical explorations w/her earlier style very well.

Definitely surprising. My sense was that everyone had soured on Grimes and that the response to the new songs was fairly muted.

Not a bad tune, doesn’t feel worthy of Top 20 though.

Violence is great. I’m so pleased Grimes came back strong.

I'm not a Grimes hater and tbh want the album to be good to shut people up but Violence is extremely thin gruel.

the grimes album leaked a few months ago now (in finished quality, not the earlier unmastered one) and it's not great imo but if you liked the advance singles then you'll probably get something out of it

no idea how this made it into the top 77 but We Appreciate Power didn't make it back in 2018's poll. That song absolutely steamrolls this one

the Grimes song is better than most of her other material but still pretty much okay

Violence hell yeah

here's another one gunning for that purple mountains "wait, HOW many singles were they nominated for again?" vibe

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18: Weyes Blood – “Andromeda” – 345 points – 10 votes – 1 #1 vote

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Weyes Blood

I was excited about the upcoming Grimes back when We Appreciate Power was released. Every other thing she's done since then has disappointed me.

"we appreciate power" is good and fun in an obvious way but there's so much more texture and depth to the production of "violence." feel like i'm getting lost in it every time i play it

Oh cool.

no idea how this made it into the top 77 but We Appreciate Power didn't make it back in 2018's poll. That song absolutely steamrolls this one

Every other thing she's done since then has disappointed me.

― silverfish, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:24 PM (five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

even "my name is dark"????????????????????????

i would have desperately liked the new grimes album to be good despite her public heel turn but alas

"violence" just doesn't have any of her usual hooks and while the production's more polished than usual thanks to i_o it comes across as blander too

Not bad for an ex-noise bassist.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO0qgvFU8AE9prz?format=jpg&name=small.

this is my fav song from the weyes blood record so i'm glad it came out on top

There's something about "Andromeda" that I really don't like, I can't really explain it. I only started liking the album when I started skipping it.

same xp

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queen

I love how blown out Violence sounds, it’s like a dense fog of powdered scrap computer hardware

when i was going through my skinny puppy phase in december i would pretty much only take a break to listen to the new grimes songs and they exist in the same world imo

I feel all the promise of this top 20 is slipping away with every favourite deep cut off third favourite indie record pick.

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even "my name is dark"????????????????????????

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:25 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hadn't heard this yet. This is pretty good.