ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

Only one Autechre, regrettably

"Look At Her Now"

this is a good song

https://i.imgur.com/QXCV1cc.jpg
#76: Jeff Parker - “Suite for Max Brown” - 184 points - 10 votes

Rolling Jazz Thread 2020

“The veteran guitarist has created an effortlessly detailed album, full of tradition and experimentation that spans generations. It lives at the vanguard of new jazz music.”
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jeff-parker-suite-for-max-brown/

Killer album, this.

Enjoyed this one a lot.

Moka, great job, but would it be possible to include Bandcamps and such? Happy to help out with this as well, to wit:

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/suite-for-max-brown

Need to go back to this one

Nice! Glad I put this back on my ballot at the last second

Huh, I don't know this one at all. Will check it out, though.

If people want a single track to check out, I think "Go Away" is my favourite here

Maybe include the Bandcamp links in the recap list at the end of each day?

Liking the ‘Safe As Milk homage’ aspect of the images.

Oh, he's the dude from Tortoise! I was a little wary of "jazz guitar" as a description but I'm on the third track and liking it a lot so far.

Jeff Parker album is real nice! the opener/single got a lot of play in this house

agreed that "go away" is probably the best track, but the smaller sketches are also really great and flow very nicely. my favorite of those is probably "del rio," which sounds like the ending music to a bittersweet sitcom episode in the best possible way

also for some reason this has me optimistic blake mills will do well

I suppose it could still place, but I might have gone for the Rob Mazurek album over this one if forced to choose between 2020 albums from extended-Tortoise-universe players

great music this for my first coffee of the day

For once the album I voted for at the bottom of my ballot also made the bottom of the countdown.

pretty

I'm definitely not as keen on the stuff that goes proper guitar jazz but I will be returning to parts of this.

This is pretty interesting fare. V much enjoyed the short wonky minimalism blast of Metamorphoses. This won't be the last time something with Parker on it places but nice he's got a whole spot to himself

Oh wow, 10 votes just to scrape the list! I'd like to retract my earlier guess at Cut Copy being number 78 then.

Our lowest vote-counts are in this initial run and it’s 5.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 1 February 2021 15:08 (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Love the Jeff Parker album, and anyone who's listening for the first time and liking it should definitely check out his previous one on International Anthem, which is even better imo:
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-breed

TOO LOW. Jeff Parker album is a treat.

https://i.imgur.com/HxPLlDL.jpg
#75: Poppy - “I Disagree” - 187 points - 6 votes - 1 Nº1 vote

Poppy C/D

“The album tosses the singer’s pop aesthetic into the shredder with heavy metal and industrial rock.”
https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review-poppy-i-disagree-obliterates-the-niceties-of-genre-convention/

xp
ha did you see this tweet too, imago?

An entry in the year-end lists:

Top 10 albums from 2020 that Jeff Parker contributed to

(ranked by his role) pic.twitter.com/yEqDuLwiBO

— jeff (@jazyjef) December 7, 2020

I didn't! But I knew about a couple of 'em :)

way too low

Wait, Jeff Parker is in Clipping. too? I'm so confused now.

(Also surprised at Poppy's low showing)

Sorry Brad. I'm sure I'll vote for her in the future, she is going to do great things. I saw this as a kind of finding-her-voice album. I did like it.

Poppy album is so much fun

he's a guest musician on this year's clipping album yes xps

yeh liked this album a lot, guess these first 3 placings all being released in january of last year tells a story

Wait, Jeff Parker is in Clipping. too? I'm so confused now.

He plays on the song "Eaten Alive" on Visions...

enjoying the jeff parker, was too lazy to listen to it before now, so thanks for the gentle kick up the aris

Sorry Brad. I'm sure I'll vote for her in the future, she is going to do great things. I saw this as a kind of finding-her-voice album. I did like it.

― imago, Monday, February 1, 2021 8:35 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"the future" citation needed

Pre-pandemic 2020 albums definitely feel like they're from a different era

i disagree is definitely poppy finding her voice and figuring out what kind of music she should be making but it is also filled front-to-back with ten slappers

Didn't check out this album either but I liked the direction her singles took so I will

bonus tracks on the deluxe are great too

xp Or rather I am, right now, and it sounds good! Metal and bubblegum, two of my favourite things

“Concrete” was my song of 2020 and I own the Poppy LP (waited patiently for months during a pandemic to get it on vinyl to boot) but it never had a sniff of getting into my Top 25. That’s how good a year it was.

I had this album in my top 10. I secretly suspected it might be the #78 victim so I'm glad to see it here.

yeah important to stress that it was an amazing year and there will be lots of albums I liked or loved in this 77 that I didn't vote for

Also this makes me glad I decided to break my rule of no overlaps between the albums and songs lists, otherwise this might not have made the countdown.

okay the Max Brown title-track is the absolute star of the show, and it made me wait the whole album to hear it haha

that's where i'm at too
top stuff

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