ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

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

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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.

I had Brandy Clark at #15 on my ballot and, while I had held out a small hope that it might do better than this, ultimately I'm just glad it made the countdown.

voted for the autechre and RTJ albums. Had previously listened to the DJ Python, Perfume Genius and Moodymann albums, all of which I like. Pretty good rollout today, will try to listen to the stuff I haven't heard.

RTJ and Python were on my long list.
Been listening to the Jeff Parker and Poppy albums today. Good stuff!

I don't think I had anything place today but I do love a lot of these. good run so far

Hope pretty much lost anything I voted for placed at this point

just scroll up

I wanted to save my daily roundup post for later when I had gotten to sampling all the records I'm interested in that I haven't heard of/checked out yet, but HOLY FUCK this Kairon;IRSE! record is the fucking coolest thing I've listened to in a long, long time

welcome to psych finland

this has been a great roll out so far

yeh its cool, probs the finnish connection but makes me wanna relisten to plenty of circle

GOD I really should be following the stoner/psych thread

if we're very, very lucky there might be a Circle-related thing yet to show up

and then of course there's

if we're very, very lucky there might be a Circle-related thing yet to show up

That would be cool, if it's what I'm thinking. Not sure that would get enough votes though, even some Circle fans weren't sold on it.

oh i think i know this connection!

did you vote for it y/n xp

i don't think pharaoh overlord made it unfortunately. that lokki has flown

KAIRON thing too heavy for me, sounds like Yamantaka/ST??

not bad, just not my preferred version of psych

was not feeling the pharaoh overlord this year but Dark Buddha or Oranssi Pazuzu would be cool

That's weird, the KAIRON didn't strike me as particularly heavy but maybe my barometer for that is a little broken

did you vote for it y/n xp

I did not vote this year. Had a list in progress, but a series of family issues that popped up suddenly meant I missed the deadline. So perhaps I shouldn't even be posting itt.

aw man hope all is okay. you are v much encouraged to post

pharaoh overlord is now my 78 prediction btw ;)

haha, yeah, Kairon IRSE seems more blissed out than heavy to me

idk the first track got real loud and I gave up, "blissed out" to me is, like, Satwa or Paavoharju or something

I suspect tomorrow will be Why Does ILM Sometimes Want To Rock?? day

brandy clark album is stunning except for the annoying centrist randy newman one

I suspect tomorrow will be Why Does ILM Sometimes Want To Rock?? day

― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 1 February 2021 21:05 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

"if you thought Kairon was too heavy for shoegaze, get a load of Hum"

bleah

i think my fave shoegaze of the last ten years was eidôlon

Voted for Lenker and RTJ. Both were extremely well executed, consistent albums that I listened to front-to-back repeatedly throughout the year. I don't find "songs" precious so much as vulnerable.

Feels like Brandy Clark's best album is yet to come--12 Stories is still my favorite by a mile. I do very much like "Long Walk," and her imagery and storytelling on songs like "Pawn Shop" are excellent, but sometimes it can all feel very staid.

I fell hard for the Brandy Clark album late last year finally. “Apologies” is the keeper, with “Pawn Shop” another standout.

Nubya Garcia the only album from my ballot to place today. Great album, think I had it at number 5, very happy that it made it.
The Ulla, Run The Jewels & DJ Python albums were all ones that I considered at some point but didn't make my final cut. Didn't like the Moodymann album as much as I expected to but I'll probably go back to it.
Lots of things already that I've not heard and in some cases never heard of. It's going to be impossible for me to keep up with the whole thing in real time but I've listened to the Jeff Parker, most of the Kairon;IRSE and about half of the Selena Gomez and enjoyed them all a lot. Will give Charles Webster a shot next.

Interesting rollout so far. The things from my list that made it (Lido Pimienta and RTJ) feel right in their placement. Nubya Garcia, Ae's PLUS, Moodymann, Adrienne Lenker and DJ Python were all things I enjoyed this year, but not enough to put on my ballot. If anything, this year feels a bit weird with so many things showing up that I enjoyed and listened to more than once.

(no one has called the artist/album combo for #78 as of yet)

There's no way it's Bob Dylan, but that would be hilarious.

I have a hard time gauging just how popular Soccer Mommy is here, but that popped into my head as a #78 guess.

gonna be nigh-impossible to guess the 78 until more albums have placed, but this already feels high for lil uzi vert - eternal atake, so that'll be my revised guess.

my only guesses for tracks were preemptive self-pity, and I haven't hit that point yet in this rollout

I am totally overwhelmed by the amazing roll-out as I am pretty much disconnected from current music. The Nubya Garcia is the only one I would have voted for, my fave from that album is the title track, what a great dub jam.

Of the stuff I didn't know - almost all - I am totally blown away by the cosmic Ana Roxanne, phantastic out of the world stuff.

Besides that I am intrigued about the Charles Webster (not a lot happening in the first tracks but more than in Burial which I find boring), the Moodyman (great soul flowing nicely), the Autechre (there is a lot to chew there, my connection to sound sculptures is much stronger than to real sculptures) and the Brandy Clark which seems to be up my alley if she doesn't go too much into country territory. I also dug the Deftones and the Adrienne Lenker in small doses.

Great poll up till now, yes the first day of the album roll-out is always the best!

Alex, I have some bad news for you re: Brandy Clark