ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

Standout track on the Toro y Moi is "Still Sound":
http://youtu.be/0Gqh4e1S6j0

i always feel like a freak when people go on about that cover being to gross/terrible because i actually find it kind of arresting.

a cover only buffandmaxsmom could love

lol

it is terrible/gross but i assume that's the point.

alright this next one is gonna be the last one for like an hour or so while i get ready for work and head over, will pick up from there

doesn't make it a bad cover imho. i hate looking at it - but that could also make it good?!
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yeah, I'm sure they meant the cover to be awful and foul, but that still doesn't mean I have to like it

http://i.imgur.com/r5VB1.jpg

(tie) 69. Wild Flag — Wild Flag (273 points, 10 votes)

P4K: 49
P&J: 4

Spotify

btw the wild flag cover is 1000x worse than the toro y moi one

ha otm

outstanding record, don't get the cover but i sort of like it for some reason.

Wait, I thought we*weren't doing the MS Paint versions of the album covers?

kind of feel like i don't love the wild flag album as much as i should but i should also spend more time with it, i think it's one of the albums i lost when my old hard drive crashed and i didn't redownload it

it's like a bloodstain making out with snuffaluffagus

I voted for the Wild Flag album -- it's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's really fun.

^^cosign

Thought Toro Y Moi would be so much chillwave, but its actually excellent funky dreamy pop and totally doesn't deserve that tag. Elise is a grrrreat track.

I like that cover too.

haha i've literally just talking to my housemate (an illustrator) about how the art of the album cover has been lost

Thought Toro Y Moi would be so much chillwave

That was his deal at the very beginning, but he dropped it rather quickly.

That Wild Flag album cover reminds me of Abacab by Genesis...

Glad to see Robag Wruhme place - one of the last things I checked out from the nominations list, absolutely loved it.

love the Toro Y Moi album ("How I Know" is a great song), also I love the cover - the most beautiful one I've seen all year and gonna stan for it 4eva.
hopefully Chaz finally will recover from the "chillwave" tag he's getting slapped upon, it's just unfair for him to be written off just like that by lazy journalism

Actually played the Toro Y Moi quite a bit when it came out but completely forgot about it come the end of the year. It's perfectly pleasant.

Causers Of This was actually a better album IMO, I still regret I didn't give it #1 back in 2010 poll, as it would push it to the 77th place (afair)

Toro was low on my ballot. "Still Sound" and "New Beat" are total jams

btw nothing has come up on this countdown which IMO is better than When Saints Go Machine

(I probably ranked WTT higher on my ballot but, as I said, I would bump WTT up several spots were I to redo it)

(er WSGM I mean, acronyms are the devil)

Nothing I voted for has come up yet but I've particularly enjoyed first listens to the Barbara Panther and Robag Wruhme albums, both of which might have had a shot at slipping in at the bottom of my ballot if I'd heard them earlier.

Didn't vote for it but glad Toro y Moi made it

Loved the first Toro Y Moi album, I spent quite a bit of time with this one, but decided I'm not that into it in the end. 'How I Know' and 'New Beat' were cool tracks, but in general I thought the Freaking Out EP was better, kind of a return to form.

yup i voted for the EP; like the LP but not really enough to put it on my ballot

alright y'all i'm back

the next album was one of NPR's faves of the year

oh wait nevermind that's the album after this one

http://i.imgur.com/bu7xL.jpg

(tie) 69. Low — C'Mon (273 points, 10 votes)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 72

Spotify

They should put out a dance remix album and call it "C'mown!!!". I can think of at least one ILXor who'd buy that.

Anyway, I decided many years ago that I'm not really into Low, but I'll give this album a shot.

Starting to feel like there's a big difference in the music represented on this album poll...

Maybe I'm just growing out of my Low fandom after all thse years, but that album didn't do a whole lot for me.

kind of remember liking some dance remix of Low...spring heel jack maybe?

I didn't like it as much as Drums, but still some great tracks 'Try To Sleep' in particular.

xp yeah the Bombscare EP which is approx. 12 inches from my shoulder as I type

preferred the Retribution Gospel Choir album to this I think but Low still bring it live (or did last summer when I saw em)

I actually have some free time this week plus I voted in the albums poll so yeah, stoked for the madness and suchlike

glad Liturgy got some ILM shine, also Wild Flag but thought they'd be higher, maybe even top 30?

oh yeah, "c'mon" is the other album i loved that was nominated. "nothing but heart" is the keeper for me.

http://i.imgur.com/wokGw.jpg

68. ILX Presents Lulu (276 points, 11 votes, one first place vote)

P4K: DNP
P&J: DNP

lol

woooo

yaaaaay

which person who appeared on the album gave it their #1?