ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

Has anyone completed her crossword yet?

lambert record is great, think i voted for it? not a masterpiece like the last one but they can't all be

one more and then i'm out for awhile; expect a few PM options to appear.

enjoying caterina barbieri!

I guess with Ecstatic Computation placing, at least one thing from my ballot did. Which is nice.

thank u for bringing it to my attention!

nm i did not vote for it. only thing to place from my ballot so far is cate le bon

fontaines dc didn't speak to me at all.

the national album was incredibly impressive, but i had a hard time sitting through the whole thing. not in kansas and you had your soul with you were my choice cuts.

re: tyler - count me as a flower boy-preferrer too, but igor certainly had its moments. never thought i'd describe tyler, the creator as background music, but here we are. still, i liked it enough for it to sneak in my personal top 50.

PM options

Eh?

I am indifferent to Fontaines DC overall, but I do like "Boys in the Better Land."

This countdown is so much less contentious (and, I guess, less heavily trafficked) than the tracks rollout!

― dad genes (morrisp)

You can listen along with the tracks rollout and give immediate responses, and that doesn't really work with albums. You've got to either know them already or have a larger amount of time to spare.

Just catching up, not heard many of today's albums so far but Igor was one I voted for - I hadn't clicked with anything Tyler had done since that first mixtape so it was a pleasant surprise how much I enjoyed this. Sounds like I should give Flower Boy another listen though.

The clipping. album is an odd one for me, bits of it I found really effective but as a (quite long) album it just didn't hold my attention.

this clipping. album. you guys could have told me! I was expecting some harsh Dälek type stuff but this is truly excellent

listening to the clipping. album for the first time now, really liking it

I voted for the Miranda Lambert album just on the last two songs, which I've listened to again and again and again and again and eventually I'll listen to the earlier songs again

haven't heard (of) any of the earlier albums, well I've heard of the national but never heard them

Hooray for Matana Roberts, basically.

Wildcard on this second pass sounds like a companion to Platinum, not really a copy but in the same vein (complete w/the "bad shit is gonna go down" duet w/the slightly lesser country star). it's really a good one. likely would have voted for it if i'd spent more time listening. Mess With My Head is A+ for sure.

So despite liking and voting for Clipping I didn't actually know anything about who was behind it until today and am surprised to find out it's that guy from Hamilton.

The clipping. album is an odd one for me, bits of it I found really effective but as a (quite long) album it just didn't hold my attention

I skip the interludes and "La Mala Ordina" a lot, not because I dislike them but because I'm often anxious to get to the next song and don't often have the luxury of time (related note: meetings suck)

La Mala Ordina is fantastic I think!

one of those tracks where the features are absolutely critical to the narrative

DJP otm about Clipping.

Associating enunciation and wordiness with corniness is suss

And ahistorical!

Like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFYrRkGiVN0

that's why it's corny, it sounds like something that came out when i was in college. but ILM loving music that sounds like it came out when they were in their early 20s is very on-brand.

Mess With My Head is A+ for sure.

― omar little, Monday, February 3, 2020 1:18 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

pretending to like lil xan to own the olds

lol

Spotify playlist has spoilt #63 if anyone's keen to see. Forks must have not noticed he got xposted and hurried off. We're all behind you Forks lol :D

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#63 – Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album) (208 points, 8 votes)

clipping. sounds exactly how I wanted all these anti-pop consortium / dälek / cloudead bands from the early 2000s to actually sound like. fair to say certain attitudinal parallels with Algiers in some ways?

finally, some bona fide rock n roll

oi stop doing his job for him, he'd have been back soon

fair to say certain attitudinal parallels with Algiers in some ways?

imo yes, also some goth cred to both

haha, the clipping album ends with a performance of Annea Lockwood's 'Piano Burning'!

I only had time to listen to two Clipping tracks, but Shabazz Palaces was my immediate comparison

I *loved* most of Clouddeads stuff tbh but I get the comparison.

Whatever you do, don't listen to it hungover xp about piano burning

Weezer TOO LOW

I listened to The Tragic Epilogue recently and it sounded even better in 2019 imo

dälek are all-time but clipping are a very different thing I think

Whatever you do, don't listen to it hungover xp about piano burning

― tangenttangent, Monday, February 3, 2020

:)

Better Community Oblivion Center is a good album, grew on me after writing it off as ok-ish initially, although still clearly the lesser of Phoebe Bridgers' side projects, and obviously her debut album was the best album of 2017. New album coming soon!

Dylan Thomas is a massive song though and I was hoping to see it place on the track poll

that's why it's corny, it sounds like something that came out when i was in college. but ILM loving music that sounds like it came out when they were in their early 20s is very on-brand.

― na (NA), Monday, February 3, 2020 8:32 PM (twenty-two minutes ago)

#63 – Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album) (208 points, 8 votes)

― enochroot, Monday, February 3, 2020 8:50 PM (four minutes ago)

Overjoyed that JME made it, I voted for it for 'Pricks' alone.

I feel like a lot of those anticon backpacker acts were biting off more than they could chew (and believe me I really wanted to like them). clipping at least sounds convincing and effortless

Pricks is the secret SOTY yeah

I'm still trying to work out if that's a fake #63 because it is then A+++ punchline.

xp the abstract electronic music in the clipping album is a great accompaniment to his voice

clipping = tech nerd lit fiction airlock nightmare read by world's calmest seer, dälek = impassioned emo shoegaze hop of the most dramatic order, both = legendary