ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

quick mod check in: i've updated all the images for the first day with Moka's supercool pictures, so maybe "load all" and re-explore.

I've also fully updated the album playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7N1gQj4VAAJEEHY4MbZNOW?si=sP0D_I0UQLy5b5wdHyik1w

Someone's going to have to explain the appeal of this Carla dal Forno

Something to tidy us over while we wait for Demen to give us a sign, maybe.

read my first post in the dedicated thread. alternately, 15 emo bands at once + instrumentation/arrangements that spill over into jazz, chiptune, bedroom pop, musical theater
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:17 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sounds utterly horrible. I'm in

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:23 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ILM needs an excelsior thread, also DL otm

glass beach albums is wide-ranging and totally nuts, but i will say you can probably estimate how much you're gonna like the record by how you feel about that first song

This Berman stan didn't vote in the albums poll at all b/c he didn't listen to enough albums. Sorry, folks.

I am liking this glass beach album of course, halfway through, but Weatherday remains my 2019 choice for This Sort Of Thing

having heard both, imo Weatherday isn't even close to Glass Beach's level

Ooooh the Caterina Barbieri is more my speed

https://i.imgur.com/3CDIT0w.jpg
#49 – Chemical Brothers - No Geography (244 points, 7 votes)

Chemical Brothers s/d
https://earmilk.com/album-reviews/641632/the-chemical-brothers/no-geography/

i didn't listen to this one because the title offends me

didn't realize the chem bros were still making music!

The Chemical Brothers album is so killer, I was not expecting to love it as much as I did.

Didn't even remotely consider voting for it but a pleasant comeback, to be sure.

I extremely love Moka’s Chem Bros image here.

yeah this was surprisingly good, I think ditching the big-name guest vocalists & refining the album to about 45 minutes paid off pretty well

First of mine to place. One of the few albums which lives up to best album since hype.

this is a great record

had no idea, will check now

One of the few albums which lives up to best album since hype.

I thought Further also lived up to the hype too but you could sense they were trying to get away from themselves, taking cues from stuff like Orbital and krautrock...all of which worked, but it didn't necessarily feel like a Chemical Bros album the way this one does

Excellent album and also mixed in places so don't listen on shuffle

https://i.imgur.com/Bn39Gsu.jpg
#48 – Hatchie - Keepsake (266 points, 11 votes)

Hatchie
https://www.popmatters.com/hatchie-keepsake-2638925014.html

I don't get glass beach and stuff that sounds like glass beach, "glass beach" is a good name though.

I think I heard this one... or did I? Hmmm.

forgot to vote for this, an album of bangers

whoa weird I was just listening to this album for the first time now

Chems album rules

I wish I liked this more than I do, but as discussed in the tracks poll it behooves one to see her play the songs live.

glass beach album 2nd half is appealing more than the 1st - very good work so far

I never got around to really *getting into* the full hatchie album but its second half is devastating. Especially the final 90 seconds or so of Keep. And Stay with Me. And Secret.

Shit maybe I should spend more time with if

I'm one of the seven people who voted for Purple Mountains and I have no previous emotional connection to Bergman or any of his music and only bothered to check it out when I heard he'd died. The fact that there were only six people more committed than me is insane.

gotta be fake, I'm with emil.y

Hatchie is my first vote to place. The album perfectly lived up to the promise of her EP for me. Apart from the singles, Secret and Unwanted Guest are the two standouts. Keep is a great closer too.. ah I just love the whole thing. I was sad to see she was so overlooked in most of the end of year lists.

I was one of the Purple Mountains #1s. No idea what happened, but he did so well in the singles poll I guess I can only shrug.

Bergman or any of his music

Damn, dude was way more versatile than I thought.

I likewise had no previous connection to Berman's music (pretty sure I had only heard "Random Rules" before). I came to the rest of his catalog and poetry through this album, which I think is a landmark.

the purple mountains placement will be revealed as fake when he wins the whole poll

it will then be revealed that taylor swift was 51

https://i.imgur.com/8CajDQN.jpg
#47 – Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q. (268 points, 9 votes)
Liturgy
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/liturgy-haqq/
Needle Drop: https://youtu.be/NMsEzAg_E7o

lol

weird

Yay :) My #2

@ the fact that it placed, that it's this high, and that you provided a link to Fantano for our convenience.

Taylor was 2 spots higher than PM on my ballot

oh i liked the art work by these guys
this similar then i guess?

i was a non-believer until this one. still kinda am but it's a good record

It's crazier, the whole album is some kind of black metal / cosmic jazz fusion, drenched in harp and vibraphone. I absolutely love it.

sweet

holy crap! I didn't vote for this but I nearly did, v glad it placed. their best album

It's cool, and mostly sidesteps the kind of avant-metal I just not-so-subtly dissed on the 2020 rolling metal thread.