ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

also new fans of cfcf should absolutely check out his mixes from this year

https://soundcloud.com/cfcf/night-bus-4-memory-of-night-bus

https://soundcloud.com/cfcf/liquid-colours-nts-special-081219

'On Vacation' is another really good album that CFCF did, which came out on Mark Barrott's International Feel label just to link this back to previous polls. Barrott formerly made a living as music consultant for the Sheraton Hotel chain iirc, I like to think he would have been putting Liquid Colours on permanent global rotation in their spa rooms if he still had that job

Played a few tracks from Japanese New Age, quite nice - I liked the Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix one best so far, on Phonogenix's discos page there is a hard rock 12" released in 1984 which I didn't really expect. But why not eh?

Also discovered that the Japanese house is a real thing, though in general I far prefer the Asda, even though I don't shop there anymore after I got banned following a run in with a self-service check out machine that got mouthy

I've loved the breakbeats revival. the cfcf album is good but my fav instance (& what wld have been my #1 had I voted) was default genders' main pop girl 2019, which had no vapourwave sheen or whiff of kitsch but, yknow, songs, and even I'm not immune to songwriting when it's that good. some great records yesterday - erika de casier, sault - but iowa dream, man!, it was so unexpected, such perfect tender wintry walk in the park music. greatness is one thing but when you really need something and it's there, it's hard to express the sense of gratitude. and from someone who'd already done that for me so many times before. he's a good sport

My favourite jazz album of last year's was Marilyn Mazur's awesome (and aptly named) Shamania, but wonder if anyone else here voted for it at all? Frederik?

― Tuomas, 5. februar 2020 23:13 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Late answer, was out yesterday. No, I never got into Shamania. Also, a few days before the release I heard her play a few tracks with the great avant group Selvhenter, and the album kinda paled in contrast.

Also agree with the poster upthread about Shabaka and the Ancestors still being the best thing he has done. My embarrassing opinion this year is that the London jazz thing I responded to the most was the Sgt Pepper Tribute Record they did...

Arthur Russell was sounding really charming yesterday, the song Everybody Everybody in particular. Will hear the rest today. Nilufer Yanya album also seems v enjoyable based on the first few tracks

Copeland

only i love this record that much. it won’t place

Agree with beard papa on CFCF - just pale and tedious from what I heard. Listen to Djrum's 'Tournesol' which I nominated instead.

CFCF has a great write-up and is a lovely idea; almost better to leave it there than spoil the illusion with listening

You're not wrong.

pale is the point! it's so light it's almost translucent xxp

CFCF is exactly the kind of music I should be really excited about, but so far haven't been able to connect with it, I'll keep trying though.

wow what an incredible run down yesterday

lots to check

forgot how much this cfcf album reminds me of in sides at times

?!

Iowa Dream title track a real joy

listen to cfcf in the bath

bit of cleansing drum n bass while you wash your bum n face

haha

Iowa Dream title track a real joy

― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:34 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is this your first encounter with Arthur Russell?

had to doublecheck that arthur russell was mentioned in the best discographies thread (he was, correctly)

btw predictably i LOVE the cfcf record

Awesome, I knew you would :D

Have hardly encountered Russell before - as tt said, that song on the sub-2-mins poll was more or less the introduction. Seems like there's a lot to discover though!

oh wow, welcome!!

It's not the case with CFCF, but tbh I often end up enjoying artists' playlists more their actual albums. Spotify's secret weapon! Well that along with driving musicians into lifelong poverty obv.

― ymo sumac (NickB)

Seconding this sentiment in general, but also bumping CFCF's playlist/mixes specifically.
His "Night Bus 4" mix was actually nommed in the albums poll (I voted for it).

Checking out this mix

only just got to the part of the rundown that has the erika de casier album on it. it might be a while until i get to the rest of the list as this record has stopped me in my tracks and i'm prob gonna a listen to it for at least the rest of the day.

The Erika de Casier album has really grown on me over the past month.

Imago, there's a really good doc about Arthur Russell that provided the context I needed to finally comprehend what was going on with his music. I wouldn't say I'm a die hard now, but it means a lot more now.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1168662/

Have hardly encountered Russell before - as tt said, that song on the sub-2-mins poll was more or less the introduction. Seems like there's a lot to discover though!

― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:13 (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

!!!

lj, i want you to listen to world of echo right now

ok maybe that'd be a bit much at first but you gotta go through the discog, it's so rich

wait lj hasnt heard world of echo?

top 20 coming up!

I will in the next few days, promise. But first...

Some of you might find our next winner unbearably white.

https://i.imgur.com/ZwSdQre.jpg
#20 - Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride (442 points, 11 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-828746/

i was predicting this would be at 20 lol

gross

booooooo

set this bad album on fire

hehe

here i'm gonna say something nice about it: "stranger" is one of my absolute favorite vampire weekend songs. unfortunate it takes forever to get to it

a better album cover with mokas addition!

I'm also going to say something nice about the Vampire Weekend album:

It has not and will never harm as many people as Rush Limbaugh

at least it was first out today

I didn't mind about 2 or 3 songs. But I did mind the others, which isn't a good ratio

wampire veekend

umpire weak end

I still can't get over the ethnomusicological journey that led them to make the opening track sound like a pastiche of Green Day's "Time Of Your Life"