ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

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"

their worst album and it shamelessly strays into MOR territory at times but its still a great album that i feel ive underrated

i didnt vote for it but i really should have. im listening to it a lot again lately again

An amazing album. Feels more like a solo album than a band album, though. Every song uses whatever tools it needs to get the point across. So many details I love.

again again again

I love this album. I genuinely believe it's their best.

we got our Something/Anything

BTW I saw someone invoke In Sides in the context of CFCF so I immediately jumped on that album and... this first track sounds like bad Omni Trio

idgi

Everything before was okay but used to irk me a bit. They sounded like a more straight-forward Animal Collective with a Paul Simon obsession. This sounds like their own thing.

this album is great, not at the mvotc or contra level, but still. seeing em live really upped my appreciation for some of the weirder songs on this one (tho, strangely, the show also solidified my opinion that contra is their best)

i'd argue there's way more paul simon pastiche on this record than on their last two, and they never ever resembled animal collective xp

Yeah I gave the In Sides comparison the full interrobang treatment too xxxp

Next please.

Don't understand the MOR critique? It's not like it sounds like Journey. This is by far their weirdest record.

https://i.imgur.com/S0036Qi.jpg
#19 - These New Puritans - Inside the Rose (462 points, 15 votes)
These New Puritans
https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/these-new-puritans-inside-the-rose

harmony hall is the basis for the MOR critique, i think

i'd argue there's way more paul simon pastiche on this record than on their last two, and they never ever resembled animal collective xp

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:39 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Really? First time I heard their first album that was the first parallel I heard - a more palatable Animal Collective with the edges shaved off and some highlife guitars added.
Obvious Bicycle also sounds like something they'd do.

also, whoa

This felt like a step back from FOR to me but the opening track is good and I remember thinking that I didn't hate it in the end - could easily be a grower. There's no V (Island Song) style heroism here but I guess they weren't going for that