ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

I've had 3 votes place so far.

I also voted for 'Love And Affection For Stupid Little Bitches' but yeah I guess it would have probably shown up by now

I didn't think anyone cared about Tinashe any more.

CFCF is a lock, don’t sweat it.

Pressed for time but: I get Pom about feeling KM being a scam, but boy did I fall for that record.

last years tinashe album was sooooo good
probs prefer it to aquarius

"this experimental music is a scam" = "my kid could paint that" = dumb

I didn't think anyone cared about Tinashe any more.

yeah tinashe burned through quite a lot of goodwill with the releases following aquarius but last year's effort was surprisingly decent.

lol brad I would be surprised if anyone other than you and I had even listened to the khidja & balabas album

I mean obv in a just world it would be top five or something

I didn’t vote for Black Dresses this year because I was still processing and enjoying WASTEISOLATION and then they released a million other things and it was too much. I love an album every 2-3 years.

Turns out... I did, Tim. But didn’t it come out in 2018?

"this experimental music is a scam" = "my kid could paint that" = dumb

It’s ok when it’s me doing it though. Also lol @ calling it ‘experimental’.

all art is a scam ultimately. none of it is real.

lol brad I would be surprised if anyone other than you and I had even listened to the khidja & balabas album

― Tim F, Tuesday, February 4, 2020 2:11 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my assumption as well! everyone itt listen to the khidja & balabas record

i guess it came out in november 2018 but imo whatever

It is awesome and everyone should hear it, yes.

listed as 2019 on spotify. listening now

I didn’t vote for Black Dresses this year because I was still processing and enjoying WASTEISOLATION and then they released a million other things and it was too much. I love an album every 2-3 years

I get that, yeah. I mostly can't deal with over-prolific artists myself, and didn't spend much time with Thank You partly for this reason, but I thought LAAFSLB was really really good. Think I was so confident it would at least sneak in is because I figured it would have the imago-tt tag team behind it, but now you've revealed your lack of vote I'm much more convinced it's not made it.

Yeah I think k&b only got a wide release last year.

Xp Aaah it is really good, I kind of regret not voting for it. I still think it has a chance.

Hooray for Liturgy and glass beach placing today!

Glad I placed the Andy Stott high, probably got it in. Now listening to the Holly Herndon for the first time and thinking damn I should have placed that higher

Yes excellent to see the glass beach album place

some good stuff, enjoying this k&b record - what's their story?

'love and affection...' just missed my final 25 iirc

I reconsidered on listening to this album. It did take a while tho.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:10 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah tinashe burned through quite a lot of goodwill with the releases following aquarius but last year's effort was surprisingly decent.

― ||||||||, Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:11 PM

too long but it had so many bangers. It's great for road trips!

i voted for theon cross btw. And Tinashe i think! She just announced her new tour.

This Chemical Brothers is good; thanks for getting me to listen!

Another vote for Tinashe here. Going into the the year I didn't really have that much interest in new music from her, but I checked the album out after the positive reaction on her thread. I think it's better than Aquarius.

i too voted for the theon cross as well as the nerija (as well as a few other unmentioned jazz albums)

lol brad I would be surprised if anyone other than you and I had even listened to the khidja & balabas album

― Tim F, Tuesday, February 4, 2020 2:11 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my assumption as well! everyone itt listen to the khidja & balabas record

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:16 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i heard it and liked it, prefer khidja on their own though. also prefered tapan's atlas ep for ethno-electro-acoustic aural journeys

https://tapan.bandcamp.com/album/atlas

Chemical Brothers! My first pick to place

I'm prepping for tomorrow and, now that we're in 10 vote territory but not in the last stretch, the diversity is super striking. I kinda guarantee there will be at least one album you like and one you've never heard of to place tomorrow and a cursory listen suggests there's a lot of great stuff to discover and champion.

(Actually *second*, I also voted for Purple Mountains)

Did anyone not vote for Purple Mountains?

Someone upthread said they wanted to like the Rapsody album more than they did, I'm in that boat too. The rapping was great, the production was a bit too all over the place.

a very nice discovery, that glass beach album. it's a little all over the map, i like that open aproach full of surprises. the kind of prog i can appreciate. it's also full of melodies. the concept of writing songs which in themselves change about every 30 seconds or so makes me think of a roxy music on speed. the wee bit of autotunes used is absolutely ok even for me. and i have only listened to 5/15 tracks. looking forward to the rest. there is also a grain of the light-heartedness of early weezer in this. a real pleasure. so fun.

I just can't get into the emo vocal style though

yeah that's the only thing that blocks me a bit

so cringey

Did anyone not vote for Purple Mountains?

there aren't many distorted guitars on that one

I don't understand English that well, so it's not my thing

Catching up: I picked Rapsody from yesterday and glasshousebeachcandy from today to listen to. Liked them both (and ‘Eve’ a lot) on first play but man they need to pass a law limiting album lengths to 50 minutes max. glass beach might also benefit from being remade with gazillion dollar production values.

Looking forward to the objections to listening to Purple Mountains expanding to "I don't like any music whatsoever, so I passed on it."

I don't care if the mountains are black, white, purple

notes? don't care for 'em

notes? more like nopes

Seems I voted for just Andy Stott and Sault from last batch. (My favourite of the two Sault options. Looks like the other did just fine without 26 points from me.)

i do have some actual criticisms of PM that you may be uninterested to hear when it wins the poll on thursday. suffice it to say for now that it's impressive ilx has found a more maudlin and doomish album than that low one last year to latch onto. not that either album is bad, obv!