ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

scrolling up to the conspiracy: I have ballots from both Brad and Alfred, but Alfred's is unweighted

― seandalai, Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:47 PM

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Yeah whoa

octo octa ✔️
crj ✔️
ldr ????
big thief ???
purple mountains ??
weyes blood ?

I think Big Thief might come in #2 but we'll see.

no way is weyes blood no. 1, i overdid it

I fell! Automatically! In love!

gross Alfred thanks for stinking up the thread with that gif

i think ILM is in the pocket of big purple this year

"happy not knowing" is also my favorite crj song of all time. it sounds like kiss and emotion at once

I'm with you on that one, actually.

"real love" is also my favorite crj song of all time etc.

Not a quality issue for me, but dedicated did kinda generally feel like it ought to have come out in between kiss and emotion

There's a 25% increment in points between 5 and 4. So the remaining 4 records tower above the rest in preference, which is I suppose is normal in every poll.

Specifically my preference.

They moved out West.

They forged a nautical friendship.

They covered Joni Mitchell together.

They had vastly different songwriting capabilities.

But which would finish higher in the ILM poll?

We awaited judgement...

I'm feeling a deja-vu. Didn't #4 place already?

I predict Weyes Blood next

Or not lol

https://i.imgur.com/zjKY8xj.jpg
#04 - Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (918 points, 27 votes, 4 number 1 votes)
Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (May 3, 2019)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/big-thief-ufof/

OHH U GOT ME

surprised it's this low

My #1!

damn

I am glad that this competent indie rock isn't any higher.

Vote splitting will do that I guess!

well that's it for my ballot see y'all later

Def had that down as either #1 or #2.

man, did this one take a while to sink in; glad I invested. "Cattails" and "Jenni" were the icebreakers.

CRJ is great. 'I'll Be Your Girl' is my favourite off this for its irrepressible chorus, but I'm sure I need to listen to the whole thing much more.

Surely Big Thief has been votesplit? Oh, maybe not...

Tuomas, it's safe to return.

I'm secretly hoping Thee Oh Sees sneaks in there and surprises everyone somehow... but yeah not gonna happen

i think the release of Two Hands both highlighted this album by 2019 being such an impressive twofer achievement and yet probably also split the vote a bit idk.

"Steange" is the sleeper track that y'all should check out.

'everything he needs' was made for driving aimlessly around with someone you're falling in love with and i used the whole album for that purpose last year so how could i not vote for it

Mmmm but surely our number 3 had placed already no?

https://i.imgur.com/xnKCYBC.jpg
#03 - Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (952 points, 27 votes, 5 number 1 votes)
Purple Mountains (RIP David Berman, August 2019)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/12/purple-mountains-purple-mountains-review

UFOF too low

... well now i hope weyes blood wins

Wow, LDR and Weyes Blood, huh?

They moved out West.

They forged a nautical friendship.

They covered Joni Mitchell together.

They had vastly different songwriting capabilities.

But which would finish higher in the ILM poll?

We awaited judgement...

― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:56 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i am not gonna complain about ldr anymore though i've sworn an oath

Everything hinges on this tbh

The weird thing is, I kind of felt like ILM wasn't particularly enthusiastic about Titanic Rising

okay this is surprising. thought those were def gonna be top 2

was this the second fakeout

not discounting that tbh

I'm predicting #2 is JPEGMAFIA and #1 is Nick Cave or Tool

Has to be Weyes Blood. And that would make a great number one. LDR... You do not like to see it.

i just assumed weyes blood was gonna be #1 from the start, did not realize people liked the ldr anywhere near as much as it though

This is not a joke placement. PM is our numero tres.

Ok. let's get this over with.

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#02 - Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (961 points, 29 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell/

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#01 - Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (1158 points, 33 votes, 4 number 1 votes)
Weyes Blood
https://music.avclub.com/weyes-blood-ascends-to-new-musical-heights-on-the-lush-1833816081