ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

yep, that’s more or less their 1971 Anadolu Pop album with some of the song titles translated into French or English.

(re: Moğollar)

xp to rob

i had given up on this one! amazing album

NICE

didn't vote for Rakka but it's HEAVY

i do love the radiohead-ish note that several of the hayley williams tracks strike, it sounds refreshing in the context of every previous paramore album and her voice sounds incredible in that environment. and also my "big disappointment" is really a matter of perspective; this record came out after two basically perfect paramore albums, even though it probably shouldn't be compared to the scale of paramore

Interesting - haven't checked in with mr delay for a while now, am curious!

description makes it sound like werner herzog thee album

― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 10:01 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is

the common denominator of the universe is not harmony but chaos, hostility, and murder--the guy that recorded vocalcity

simmer is good

oh I like this!

excited 2 hear this

if you put an F at the front of every song name it becomes a list of frustration gibberish words my dad would mumble when trying to fix something under the sink

Oh wow, I'd put Rakka in the "no hope now" column. Also voted for Tumor. Hurrah, etc!

didnt expect this to place!
another one i voted for
intense and relaxing

Getting Ben Frost / Tim Hecker vibes from this

https://i.imgur.com/C092kiA.jpg
#39: clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned - 314 points - 12 votes - 1 Nº1 vote

Clipping - Midcity (noise rap)

“It's a particularly threatening chapter of horrorcore that renders even some of the more severe acts that came before almost cartoonish by comparison.”
https://www.allmusic.com/album/visions-of-bodies-being-burned-mw0003420014

holy shit too low

This album is so fucking good

Wow, this is much lower than I would have thought. Amazing album.

TOO LOW

I don't even like clipping and this seems too low to me

although that said putting it next to Vladislav Delay feels neat

I think it should be a top 10 album but tbh I’m surprised it appeared at all, let alone that it got 12 votes

the last one placed iirc?

Yeah I'm really surprised at how low this is, starting to suspect that some things on my list that I thought were sure to appear won't.

I love Clipping and have always loved Clipping, but I admit that I haven't given it the time it deserves because I haven't had a good context for listening (basically bc I'm not driving anywhere).

I'm listening to the Theo Parrish record for the first time now and it's sick.

It definitely felt like talking about clipping. over the past year was me having a tea party for myself and my clipping. action figures with Simon and imago parachuting in every now and then to say “fuck yeah”

clipping. action figures

incredible merch concept would buy

https://i.imgur.com/t92aJa5.jpg
#38: Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi - 317 points - 9 votes - 1 Nº1 vote

WASTEMENT: Oranssi Pazuzu, Dark Buddha Rising and Waste Of Space Orchestra

“This blown-out, bad-trip soundscape is a sensory assault that will alter your perception of what black metal can do entirely.”
https://www.kerrang.com/reviews/album-review-oranssi-pazuzu-mestarin-kynsi/

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such an amazing and insane album

My #1 and favourite album of the last few years let alone 2020

Yeah it's metal, but it's also one of the greatest art-rock albums I've ever heard. Think of it maybe as a seamless psych experience, albeit a very dramatic one. Press play and Ilmestys will be rampaging through your village soon enough

Also, the best band in the world

Everyone should listen to "Uusi teknokratia" at least.

every time i revisited it i liked it less :(

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 10:52 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I liked the initial singles as they were released, but the album really fell flat for me, and I became less and less interested with time, too. "Simmer" is the one that still pops from a production-standpoint, but the vox feel overwrought in a lot of places.

One really great thing about this campaign and period has been seeing Hayley just jam in these youtube/insta/twitter clips and showing new musical sides to herself. That has been pretty awesome and hopefully I can get as much into her recorded solo music at one point. And ofc more Paramore as well.

Also FINLAND

This was my #4 which in retrospect is definitely too low. Such density, so sonically gratifying.

finland has faired well

and all with music which its most noteworthy poster would love so much

get in!

my #4

The only FINLAND i voted for this year was Cucina Povera. Have enjoyed Oranje Palumbo in the past though

https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/mestarin-kynsi btw ;)

Thank you!

Oops forgot that bandcamp link sorry!

I hope emily likes our next one:

https://i.imgur.com/ZDPnNV5.jpg
#37: Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs - 321 points - 14 votes - 1 Nº1 vote

what is going on in your musical life
Thread for awesome stuff on Bandcamp that costs money but is still awesome

https://slumoflegs.bandcamp.com/album/slum-of-legs

“Their self-titled debut album, on Nottingham/Bristol label Spurge, is their first release since 2015, but Slum Of Legs’ component parts circa singles ‘Doll Like’ and ‘Begin To Dissolve’ – Krauty/proggy discord, post punk jags, indie pop froth, feminist rhetoric equally exaltatory and condemnatory – remain in place on these ten numbers.”
https://thequietus.com/articles/27907-handle-slum-of-legs-noods-radio-new-weird-britain-review

I think this is my first vote to place. Great driving kraut/black metal/industrial maelstrom. xp to Oranssi Pazuzu

Oi oi!

speeeeeech