ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

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:

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#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

woop woop

The Slum of Legs album is really, really great

Amazing work!

well this is totally new to me

pazuzu is real good but didn't hit me as hard as the last one

had to do a few long winter walks across town and this was perfect company

LIBERATE the slum of legs

This was such a cool surprise from the nominations thread.

I had never listened to Clipping more than one song at a time and I got curious enough from Pain Everyday and Dälek is my only reference here, but from half the album I'd say my main obstacles would be that he sounds too rigid, constrained by his desire to impress and experiment, overall too many ideas and too few that make for great music. Something Underneath made me smile, but a little bit in that last-verse-of-"Way Cool" fashion - where you're impressed but you don't return to it. There is definitely atmosphere, creativity and talent though.

I stuck to my No Voting For ILXors guns this year but this is cool! reminds me of Too Pure era arty indie bands in a good way

as i said before, having a truly stellar opening track meant i voted for SoL elsewhere, but I am extremely cheered to see it manifest herein, it is very great work all the way through, hurrah for our glorious sitemod

multila is a desert island disc for me but man I have a hard time getting into the last few vldadislav delay albums, too much jackhammering or something

I think that, objectively, I should have voted for Hayley Williams downballot but I was so disappointed in it relative to the Paramore work that I couldn't bring myself to do it.

Voted for this. SoL album sounds like a lost indie gem from the mid to late 80’s in spirit. Really cool to see it here represented in the center of our poll.

I wont post #36 until emily delivers a speech.

Holy shit Rakka made it??? Nicely done everyone.

Or until I finish taking my bath. Whatever happens first... be back in a little bit.

slum of legs!! i was the #1 voter. exuberant and joyous experience listening to this.. made me happy the first time i heard it which was in the pre nomination thread and every one of the many many times i've played it since.

'RUTHE14ME' on the slum of legs album is actually perfect.

i think that's my choice cut but it's real strong start to finish

also it only took the entire singles roll out and the albums roll out so far for something i voted for to actually place!! was getting worried i'd jinxed it.

congrats, emil.y!

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#36: Hum - Inlet - 324 points - 11 votes - 2 Nº1 votes

Thoughts on hum?

https://humband.bandcamp.com/album/inlet

“Here’s the real gut punch though: Inlet, the first Hum record in 22 years, is better than it has any right to be. In fact, it’s excellent. It’s what all reunion albums should strive to be. Inlet doesn’t necessarily play it safe, but Hum do play to their talents – while avoiding bizarre experimentation that has made other acts look like tourists in the towns they helped construct.”
https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-hum-inlet/

TOO LOW but higher than I expected!

here's that heavy-as-magma shoegaze bliss you all ordered. didn't vote for but do appreciate. excellent, excellent comeback

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK? If that's a joke placement then that's really mean. If not, I'm fucking blown away. Jesus.

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!11!!!

the beginning of that hum album - a band i have never heard of - sounds like loveless reloaded. does it go on like that?

(not joke placement of course)

Hum were on my ballot too

TOO LOW >:[

I was just catching up with the thread and ready to join in with the "clipping is too low" crew and now I'm just PERPLEXED.

speeeeeech

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I spent a major chunk of my teen hood obsessing over Downeard us Heavenward and this lives up to it, the highest praise I can offer

I'm actually crying FFS, bloody ilx

My personal AOTY, and I'm not even an OG Hum fan. I just found myself listening to it over and over, bathing in the warm fuzz

it is really endlessly heavy and bathable

hum album is all-time great. too low

oh thank god i voted for it

last two placements have really exposed the limitations of 25-album ballots for me. love 'em both

Loved this album, which is still all I've heard from them apart from "Stars".

This is a great stretch of list.

This sounds more like Smashing Pumpkins than Loveless to me, but maybe the point is that Smashing Pumpkins sounded like Hum -- Illinois fuzzpop, the drums sounding like a pile of boxes falling over -- anyway, didn't hear this this year, it really hits for me, but it would take repeated listenings to know whether I'm actually into it or it's just a nostalgia vibe