ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

quality cover!

Surprised KRIT was so low. I'd have thought that was one of the consensus raps albums of the year.

PP II is a great album, for which I voted

one of my favorite albums of the year

what's a good track to check out

Wow! surprised to see Psychic Paramount make it. Happy, but sincerely surprised.

btw i somehow missed the voting for this so whenever i say i like an album just imagine that it's a couple of places higher on the list

Yay! to The Psychic Paramount.

Have been meaning to check this out for ages, but it's not on Spotify...can anyone point to a track or two on Soundcloud/Youtube?

i totally missed the voting too :(
will not allow that to curb my opinions here, however.

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xp wasn't a great year for rap albums really

Woohoo, another one I voted for! This album really respects the sound of the inside of my head.

as I remember it, Outloud required me to have access to the actual files, which meant I was rarely in a place where I could use it. if this is inaccurate, please feel free to correct me elsewhere.

― fffv, Monday, January 30, 2012 8:07 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You can post tracks from Soundcloud now too.

― two lights crew (seandalai), Monday, January 30, 2012 8:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You can, or you can also hang out and talk nonsense while letting other people pick some fine tunes for you to listen to.

ha i don't really remember which tracks are which because they have really indistinct titles ... try this: http://youtu.be/4s1ppHxvzIg

Probably should have voted for that, but found it really exhausting to listen to all that much.

hopefully that didn't embed

I didn't listen to Psychic Paramount enough to vote for it. Will give it more of a go now, I think.

as I remember it, Outloud required me to have access to the actual files, which meant I was rarely in a place where I could use it. if this is inaccurate, please feel free to correct me elsewhere.

― fffv, Monday, January 30, 2012 8:07 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You can post tracks from Soundcloud now too.

― two lights crew (seandalai), Monday, January 30, 2012 8:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You can, or you can also hang out and talk nonsense while letting other people pick some fine tunes for you to listen to.

― emil.y, Monday, January 30, 2012 8:12 PM (16 seconds ago)

or you can listen to the stuff jeff plays

That Psychic Paramount record is fantastic!

gah i really need to listen to that record

i cut the psychic paramount from my ballot at the very end so glad it still placed

I posted a track from it in the Chicago thread once but no one ever responded ;_;

Sorry, don't remember it!

all this outloud talk and yet none of you folks are ever on there when i go on (except J3ff T who i suspect is on there 24/7)

when are the parties at??

So have all the PP II voters chimed in already?

what's the name of the music style of the psychic paramount? post-rock-without-the-calm-part-before-the-crescendo?

noise?

psychedelic noise?

Usually a few (or more) people in there during evening hours my time (US Eastern).

midnight uk time -3am seems to be the busiest time in outloud. the house cru used to do before midnight but dunno where they all went the past few months.
bump the outloud thread and people will join though

ok thanks i think i must be showing up too late at night

Hey, I voted for this too. What the hell?

they feel kinda math rock-y to me but with psychedelic overtones

outloud certainly changed jeff's taste in music

second time i've used the phrase "math rock" on this thread, apparently i'm really pining for the return of math rock

okay Psychic Paramount is fantastic

emil.y even turned him twee

DJP <--- hates metal, luvs math

Alright! we got DJP on board.

So have all the PP II voters chimed in already?

― EZ Snappin, Monday, January 30, 2012 12:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I voted for this one, it has a great sound and a continuous rolling swagger. A bit exhausting as a full listen though, I've mostly been playing individual tracks on my radio show and they work really well.

listened to two psychic paramount tracks and i'm into it. kinda like a dronier, dancier tortoise, but harder & better than that sounds? actually i like it in some of the same ways i like liturgy.

DJP loves Iron Maiden

C'mon is the first Low album I've really *loved* since Things We Lost In The Fire.

I'd assumed that Veronica Falls album was bullshit tweepop but maybe I should give it a shot.

Wait, people are talking about me on here. I'm confused! Why is this happening? And yeah, I used to have a pretty serious outloud addiction,but I'm trying to curb it.

Heh, for some reason I assumed Veronica Falls was like some The Head and The Heart type folk that was made by dudes that were making Vagrant style emo four years ago.

n/a, would I like Psychic Paramount?

the various designations of "metal" are seriously the most vexing thing to me

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

64. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (290 points, nine votes, one first place vote)

P4K: DNP
P&J: 132

Spotify

"Veronica Falls" sounds like Hollywood sadcore to me.

I just call(PP) mind blowing, loud psychedlic noise. I believe they were labelled post-rock in their formative years.

See I like PP II as a full album because it maintains the heavy swirl and general noisy loud feeling for a sustained period. One track is great but it's more effort for me to get into- and then out of- that mood than it is to just kind of let it go for 40 min or so (or however long the album is, not sure exactly, am at work computer atm) I can see how people wouldn't have the patience for it, but that's part of what I like.

Hollywood sadcore goes for the dreamy slow vibe, doesn't it? That's nothing like what V. Falls do.