ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

remind me how far we're going

not digging today as much as yesterday but hopefully we still have some more to come right?

It’s incredible how consistent and vast the quality of his posthumous work is.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:27 PM (twenty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is otm. I can't think of another example of someone's posthumous work being this good.

planning on getting to 21 though it's gonna happen in fits and starts until 7 as i have meetings and am about to go for a jog.

First, though, I notice that genre list doesn't include any country...

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#33 – The Highwomen – s/t (326 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)

Rolling Country 2019

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/the-highwomen-album-review.html

Hate, hate, hate this.

*heart eyes emoji*

My #1! I was getting worried.

good album

one more and then a pause

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#32 – Little Simz – Grey Area (330 points, 13 votes)

Thread of Little Simz

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/little-simz-grey-area/

Really excellent album 😎

xp

I didn't spend enough time with this. I'll correct that presently.

Good album, no more, no less.

All four of them are vv different which was a concern that it might not work but all are so phenomenally good at their best and they brought it all together on this.

Awesome! My #10. Brilliant, harrowing and varied record, and it absolutely flies by too. Simz is quite the forceful presence

One of my votes there (Little Simz) - my favourite rap record in quite a while

I'm beginning to think the Frozen II soundtrack isn't gonna make it :(

Listened to The Highwomen album a lot when it came out. Talented artists making good music, and I'm very glad they exist and are getting some well deserved attention, but as I've said elsewhere, it all feels so calculated and serious. The few places where they sneak in some levity ("My Name Can't Be Mama", "Don't Call Me") are among my favorites.

I discovered the Simz in early Jan. and it *just* missed my ballot. Reminded me a lot of Whack World.

listening to Danny Brown in the hope this is the album that clicks and... Nope I still don't get it. Always found his stuff quite flat and uninteresting. Is this really considered 'weird' for hip hop? IDGI

The Danny Brown Voice™ is considered 'weird', don't know about the rest.

why did i just listen today the american football record? so beautiful.
really glad that the highwomen made the top.

xp just sounds a bit nasal.

Brandi Carlile's love song on this album one of the intensest I've heard in years.

Seems like 2019 was her year.

listening to Danny Brown in the hope this is the album that clicks and... Nope I still don't get it. Always found his stuff quite flat and uninteresting. Is this really considered 'weird' for hip hop? IDGI

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:02 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is by far least weird album he's ever released

Produced the Tanya Tucker too.

does it need to be “weird”?

Smoke + Drink from a few albums back was a fun Danny Brown party anthem I'll give him that

excited to see the placement of the danny brown-produced tanya tucker album, gotta be top 10 right?

xxxxp there's "levity" in a bunch of other Highwomen tracks - loose change, heaven is a honky tonk, redesigning women...

I'll concede that the opening track is a little "calculated and serious," in that it's a rewrite of a classic song. maybe also the closing number, wheels of laredo... which also appeared on the Tanya Tucker album, no?

xp no but it needs to be interesting. someone up thread described it as 'weirdo hip hop' but it sounds pretty strait to me

As Paul McCartney said, that would be something.

Xxxpost

hadn't hard of Little Simz. Liking it so far.

this is by far least weird album he's ever released

Exec produced by Q Tip (and a few tracks produced produced by him)

I would have liked to have included Little Simz.

Highwomen feels like a compilation, and is a little calculated in places (Redesigning Women), but songs like 'Cocktail and a Song' and 'My Only Child' connected emotionally for me.

Men I Trust reminding me of nothing so much as latter-day Connan Mockasin. This is not necessarily a good thing, but it does mean it's at least a little bit odd

Fucking what how long is this album oh my god

haha I know right, was just thinking same thing

it's 71 mins which was avg for cd era no?

Therein lies the rub…

32 feels pretty high for Little Simz given the tumbleweed rolling across the thread for that album.

I mean I could elaborate

OK I'll elaborate a bit. The distorted screams in 'Boss' are the most metal thing I've heard all year, 101FM is a bop, Venom feels like it is actually rising up to strike at your throat and Therapy, for all that it eloquently disses the therapeutic process (which I reckon still has a lot to offer young Simz), has this sort of gripping catatonic don't...need...therapy self-knowingness that turns it into a really, REALLY compelling confession. The rest of the album is great too and there's no filler. Might be my AOTYSF

― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 21 March 2019 13:09 (ten months ago) link

Yes to Highwomen! In a year where my listening became almost exclusively streaming and my experience of music ever more flattened out, several tracks on here sounded like standards. Love Little Simz too (not seen much Top Boy chat in here - she's great in that too).

VENOM.

I completely missed out on hiphop last year, for some reason. Liking the Danny Brown one so far.

Little Simz veers into spoken word delivery too often for my taste

Voted for 'Boss' on the tracks poll, but came late in the year to Little Simz so didn't have much of a chance to get to know the whole album, but might not have voted for it anyway, as the other tracks I heard didn't stick out so much as that one.

It's my favourite and one hell of a launchpad but the whole thing is very strong I think