ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

Also I didn't listen to the entire Polachek album but... she is a very conventional singer? I am not quite sure what people are reacting against other than "sounds like she studied voice at some point"?

to piss on oneself is not to disrespect beverages

How dare you not include the AFRICAN GIANT in the top 10.

There's no odd timbre in her sound and she isn't doing anything particularly weird or unexpected with her voice that I've noticed

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― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:03 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm as hell

I've been waiting for years for Nigerian pop to get an international breakthrough, but when Burna Boy finally achieved it, I found the record... a bit boring... Very tasteful?

Burna Boy is good, not too far off my ballot

sustained excellence can be boring, i guess

the Polachek album is good, i never really got transported by Chairlift before but this one is enjoyable.

Also getting four number one votes and missing the top 10 is insane.

Fred, did you slip “Killin Dem”?

voted for the Hval album and went back to her earlier work expecting it to be markedly different or worse based on what i'd read but it all sounds great, sorry to be late to the party

skip

ya this is 3rd or 4th time I've tried to see what the fuss is about wrt African Giant and I don't get it. It's...ok at best. The autotune is a dealbreaker for me sadly.

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― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:03 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm as hell

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:06 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes its a good record, didn't quite make the cut for me

Imagine still complaining about autotune in 2020.

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Sounds intriguing.

it's funny. i don't even notice autotune in songs any more. it's like reverb to me

Eh, when your annoyingness is built off of a foundation of smugfuckery that smacks of disdain for your source material, I'm not going to get on board unless I hate the source material.

I don’t know that that’s true, but get how it could seem like that. I thought their annoyingness stemmed from their youthful over-exuberance. They don’t seem disdainful to me (I think the music is genuinely great) except in the queering of wealth.

If anything there's not enough autotune on African Giant, lol.

there is some shitty autotune tbh and it puts me off sometimes tho sometimes it works like magic.

🎈🎈🎈

TBF dancehall and afrobeats = two best possible uses of autotune.

but seriously Fred, “Killin Dem” is “tasteful”???

Imagine still complaining about autotune in 2020.

ok? So I have to either like it now or shut up about it, got it thanks Matt

i hate autotune too, i'm with you. it sounds awful and it's everywhere

i've been stuck on 'secret' lately. love the guitar, which sounds sublime and also like the guy playing it learned how to play the week before recording.

imagine complaining about emo vocals in 2020

Secret is great

i wish someone would adjust the settings on their autotune to make it sound a little different. everyone's using the factory default preset

Autotune is mostly bad but it can be good sometimes.

Emo vocals are always bad though.

POLL: emo whine vs autotune bleat vs metal roar

but seriously Fred, “Killin Dem” is “tasteful”???

― breastcrawl, 6. februar 2020 18:15 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean, compared to something like Yawa Dey?

it's not just the autotune. sounds like afropop-by-numbers. bland production, his vocal cadences are generic, his voice underneath the autotune gauze isn't compelling, the guest singing is perfunctory.

POLL: emo whine vs autotune bleat vs metal roar

Write in: Sprechstimme ftw.

y'know, JAY Z warned us in 2009 that autotune could lead to a great depression

imagine complaining about white nationalism in 2020

https://i.imgur.com/DCwha9D.jpg
#13 - FKA Twigs - Magdalene (493 points, 18 votes)
FKA twigs
https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/fka-twigs-magdalene/

yep, auto-tune and white nationalism are the same thing.

thank you for saving us, moka

love this cover art

I've said before and I'll say it again: the first two EPs were extraordinary instances of trip-hop revival, everything since then has been middling, with flashes of brilliance here and there.

*said it

gecs!

emo vocals is the US equivalent of that fake Mockney way of singing that sounds like Lily Allen with a mouthful of food

parklife!

yep, auto-tune and white nationalism are the same thing.

that was precisely my point, very astute of you

https://i.imgur.com/wyFdeK5.jpg
#12 - Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY! (501 points, 16 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
Jamila Woods
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/05/album-review-jamila-woods-legacy-legacy/

I really like FKA twigs as an album artist