ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

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

It reminded me of the Sleep comeback, but this one is both heavier and better imo

xp, haha. nice heavy guitar sound. it goes into the direction of metal without being metal. a lttle like a crossover of loveless and gish (i say that after two songs). exciting stuff.

I have to ask because I'm honestly not sure! .. is emil.y that surprised that Hum placed?

Should we be surprised? This seemed like a big hit around here when it came out.

This is a great stretch of list.

― jmm, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 18:37 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I am loving the rock, metal, noise and indie takeover! The rest of youse will have your top 30 soon enough but let's enjoy this haha

lol Evan, emil.y is not surprised by Hum

Never listened to hum before - first track sounds like a cross between smashing pumpkins and om?

Not a joke placement em! It’s a terrific album!

there will be hugs?

If only ILM still liked Boris. This would have been a great time to place

Oh it wasn't about hum was it. ha

xps

The closing jams of tracks 2 and 3 of the Hum album are just such jams

oh man "smashing pumpkins meets om" is a great description

https://i.imgur.com/d9uvHoF.jpg
#35: Grimes - Miss Anthropocene - 329 points - 15 votes

Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

“Grimes’ first project as a bona fide pop star is more morose than her previous work, but no less camp. Her genuineness shines through the album’s convoluted narrative, and the songs are among her finest.”
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/grimes-miss-anthropocene/

hmm

People still listen to Grimes huh. Not sure I registered this album coming out or just couldn't give it any attention

trust Grimes to ruin everything

good time for emil.y's speech imo

love this album, feel even weirder about it now that musk is richest shithead on earth

Hey at least we successfully cancelled Grimes from ruining our tracks poll.

10 hardcore dissociation anthems

well we had a good run

(humanity i mean)

did we?

save us moka

https://i.imgur.com/9RmbuVI.jpg
#34: Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry - 330 points - 10 votes - 1 Nº1 vote

Pa Salieu: Send Them to Coventry

“His backstory is writ large, from the title down: Pa Salieu moved to his family’s native Gambia as a baby to live with his grandparents, before moving to Coventry aged ten. An entangled journey through the city’s streets saw his closest friend AP killed in 2018 and Pa himself shot in the head a year later. His reflections are open and often close to confessional, especially on ‘More Paper’ or ‘Block Boy’, but the defining mood on Send Them to Coventry is joy. The giddy shock of the possible emanates from nearly every track, with Pa constantly pushing out at the boundaries of his musical horizons, and when you’ve been confronted with a reality that seems to want to limit your very capacity for joy, that is some testament to Pa’s spirit.”
https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/pa-salieu-send-them-to-coventry/

ahahaha

this is a great record

Sorry for the confusion, Evan, lol.

With Hum, I keep reading things that make me interested and then other stuff that makes me not interested, so I still haven't checked it out. I never knew their earlier material so I don't have that to fall back on. I like heavy fuzzy sounds, but not sure I want to listen to something that sounds like the Smashing Pumpkins?

hum album is one of those records where you'll know whether you're into it within seconds of the first track starting imo

TOOO LOW

my #2

need to hear this

wow what a contrast in life experience between the last two artists

was expecting betty in the tracks poll but great to see the album here

xp to voodoo
heh mine too/two

i gotta hear this record wow

this Hum reminds me more of MBV with Om's drummer than anything else

Moka is a saint lol

I feel pretty confident that Brad will like this one

just realised i was taking the train to coventry every morning when frontline was released at least