ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

this made my ballot. lido is so fucking cool. this is a good placement for her - it's a v good album but she's going to top this shortly I think

oh, missed her own thread, linked

also some great remixes floating around

i'm late, but the selena gomez album is really great in parts ("lose you to love me", "vulnerable", "ring", "let me get me"), but still felt like a disappointment bc i feel like she has a masterpiece in her but i'll probably have to wait another 3-5 years for the next attempt. her work with mattman & robin is god-like

I prefer listening to Killer Mike's interviews to listening to RTJ these days

Very surprised RTJ4 placed this low! (though I didn't have ballot room for it myself either)

Lenker s/t is beautiful yet soul destroying and probably best consumed in tiny doses, at least it is for me.

Very happy to see Ana Roxana place!

xps Her previous album won the Polaris Prize yeah

I need to give this one another listen, I liked her album before this.

yeahhhhh! Lido was in my top 10

my Virgo-Libra cusp sister

Check out the A cappella closer, Para transcribir

I like all the Pimienta I've heard but didn't get round to the album, glad to see her place though. Even though I've not heard most of the albums today and can't keep up with listening along like the tracks rundown, I feel like this has been a good day. Nicely varied in genre and a mix of more obscure/well-known stuff.

"te queria" is a jam and a half

charles webster album is so SO good, and "we belong together" is the best song in the world

FLOATING ON AN ETHER

josh thanks to your post I now know lido and I were born on the exact same day lol

love the moodymann lp too, so funky and fragmented idk

love how "Eso Que Tu Haces" starts like a Julianna Barwick song -- kept throwing me off when I'd hear it on the radio

Simon this also means we're brethren! Sept 20 here

but are you all 38

I like that this has been for the most part such a lovefest

https://i.imgur.com/GcbBKXD.jpg
#62: DJ Python - “Mas Amable” - - 216 points - 7 votes

Rolling techno* albums thread for people who are clearly doing it wrong

https://djpythonnyc.bandcamp.com/album/mas-amable

“Mas Amable is basically just one big track. It's a track that shapeshifts constantly. But does it so subtly, so imperceptibly, that every little detail feels natural, free-flowing, unobtrusive—like it never changed at all."
https://www.popmatters.com/dj-python-mas-amable-2645882335.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

I like love that this has been for the most part such a lovefest :)

oh now i have the guess the city thread in my head lol

really sick record i couldn’t fit on my ballot

Had I voted, Lido would have been in my top 5. I love this whole album. Gorgeous melodies, nice mix of Afro-Colombian trad and modern pop — and not in the clunky way such things are often done, but in the way they're done by someone who loves both. And her voice was one of my favorite discoveries of the year.

tried spending time with the DJ Python, didn't really connect with it at the time, then it went out of my radar. its presence in the poll is intriguing me to check it out again, though

Didn't vote for this but 'ADMSDP' is so killer

dug the python album but the ultimate result of my checking it out was getting me to listen to "descanse" 40 times in a row one afternoon

i like this. i also couldn't seem to fit it. i will listen again.

This was low on my ballot but that's more a sign of how much good music there has been this year, because it rules.

I don't recall clearly but p sure I liked prev Python albums a lot more than this one, so I'm a little surprised to see this place

Last one for the day!

https://i.imgur.com/majmchB.jpg
#61: Brandy Clark - “Your Life Is a Record” - 230 points - 10 votes

Brandy Clark's 12 Stories

“Subtlety is her strength and that skill is still evident in her witty, elegant turns of phrase, but the distinguishing characteristic of Your Life Is a Record is warmth. From its enveloping sound to its empathetic tales, the album feels openhearted and comforting, a sensibility that helps the record seem charmingly out of step with the times.”
https://www.allmusic.com/album/your-life-is-a-record-mw0003349625

I didn't vote for DJ Python, but like I mentioned upthread, probably should have. It didn't hook me in like the previous album did, it's a bit more subtle, but it's an album I will probably keep coming back to.

too low!!!!

ahhhh my listening the week before lockdown

I prefer the baby-I'm-burnin' bump of Big Day in a Small Town, but she wrote several small miracles here.

Oh wow, I'd thought ilm had cooled on Brandy Clark so much that her appearance in the eoy poll is a real surprise. I should have voted for it to boost it a little more.

dj python album is cool, easy to get lost in

I don't recall clearly but p sure I liked prev Python albums a lot more than this one, so I'm a little surprised to see this place

― rob, Monday, February 1, 2021 3:00 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i definitely preferred derretirse, which wore its reggaeton influences on its sleeves.

really hoping not the last artist names brandy to place :-)

named

late to this but the ulla album is really good, like vibing out on a beach that is also inside a submarine

didn't really get into any country at all this year

Love love love the Lido Pimienta album. DJ Python and Brandy Clark also great.

i kept thinking huh none of the stuff i voted for is showing up and then i checked and apparently i never voted OOPS

really hoping not the last artist names brandy to place :-)

― brimstead, Monday, 1 February 2021 20:10 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

won't be :)

Voted Clark and Gomez; both feature spectacular songwriting.

I got 1 in today (Moodymann). Interesting first section!

Ah, finally something I voted for (Brandy Clark). Voted for Lenker in tracks only, but all of ‘songs’ is good. Lido Pimienta has a lovely voice - will def check out this LP. DJ Python also sounding promising.

Nicely varied first day.