ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

this is like people who find tree of life "beautiful". do they gaze enraptured at windows screensavers and stock photography too?

do people who listen to drake vibe out to lift muzak?

I don't understand why people let their dislike of Drake as a person or a rapper affect their opinion of his music.

his rapping is on the music! i wouldn't dislike HIM if he didn't make the shitty music.

See, despite my misgivings I actually listened to Take Care in whole and am still pissed I wasted that much of my life. Its not his persona that bothers me, its how limp and lifeless the album was. A couple nice beats, but completely destroyed by his pissing and moaning.

Thora Vukk was in my top 10 list. Glad it made it. I have only heard 3 of the other ones so far. I suck at it but maybe I'll post a first impression on each one when the countdown for today is over.

I dunno, the timbre of his voice is kind of dorky, but the rapping doesn't get in the way of the excellent production.

xp What's not to understand? The artist and the art are inextricably intertwined in a lot of ways. It would be nice to say that you could look at the work objectively without bringing in outside influences, but that's cutting off an entire aspect of the work.

limp and lifeless

otm. just INERT. this is not good sound design - the sonics don't go anywhere or do anything except be ~vaguely~ ~melancholy~

the album's most ear-catching beat is a jamie xx beat - and jamie xx himself was the most horribly overrated british electronic producer of 2011

Drake is a musical canker sore

drake just reminds me of listening to 22 year olds complaining about feeling old

I feel like its a banner day when lex otms me, I feel like we so rarely agree.

Good to see Veronica Falls place. Got a good feeling I missed it off my rushed ballot.

even on the drake remixes i like, like the jojo one that showed up in the tracks poll, or the angel haze ones, even then the production isn't the attraction - it works as a background foil to a compelling persona or narrative, when it works, not as a thing that's remarkable in its own right

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incidentally all these weeks later i'm still getting angry tweets from drake fans over my review - who'd have ever thought drake fans would be whiny lil bitches? taking after their hero ;_;

clearly none of you have ever viewed the aftermath of a party through a haze of smoke

The only nice thing I'll say about Take Care is that the cover art is great.

I don't even love Take Care -- the previous album made more of an impression -- but I guess I always want to defend him because I like the production and mood of his records, and the complaints about his persona or his lyrical POV are irrelevant to how I listen to music.

I think he sounds like a nasally fart

The mood is too one-note though and sustaining it over the length of 75 minutes or w/e is just pure torture.

I have never heard Drake. But I instinctively know I would probably hate him as much as Lex.

The mood is too one-note though and sustaining it over the length of 75 minutes or w/e is just pure torture.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, January 30, 2012 1:01 PM Bookmark

OTM

do people who listen to drake vibe out to lift muzak?

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, January 30, 2012 3:53 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually kinda

I think he sounds like a nasally fart

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, January 30, 2012 9:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The mood is too one-note though and sustaining it over the length of 75 minutes or w/e is just pure torture.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, January 30, 2012 9:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm x 2

oh J0RDAN

wow take care and WTT outside of the top 50 is pretty impressive ilm

What the hell is lift ... oh, lol, Britishes.

And sure, why not.

I was kind of grooving on the beat of the first track, and then he started rapping and it was literally the same phobic physical reaction I have when a mosquito buzzes in my ear, only in this case the mosquito was sadly bragging about how awesome he was

irl lol

take care, more like take that shit somewhere else

i've done my fair share of drake defending this year, so i'll let all this pass

I heard Michael McDonald in an elevator a few weeks ago, I could have vibed to that for awhile longer than the ride took tbh.

alright last one today

i forgot to compile the full list in text, my bad

never forget: "shout out to the asian girls, let the lights dim sum" ;_; ;_;

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61. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (294 points, 10 votes)

P4K: 43
P&J: 38

Spotify

also i stopped using em dashes halfway thru cuz i switched to my work computer which uses windows

file lykke li w/ low in ppl i had no idea put out albums this year

I always want to like Lykke Li more than I actually do

i dont think i knew this album existed (oh lol xps)

yeah, this album was pretty boring.

i discovered recently that one of my favourite songs on the cousin fik album (which i doubt will place) samples lykke li - it sounds immense as a sample and may have to cause me to revise my opinion of her (previously thought she was just a twee menace)

the lykke li album is.....fine

Btw, Lex, your stock "stock photography" put-down of TTOL (this is at least the third time you've used that analogy, iirc?) only makes sense if the film were just a series of context-less images. It's not.

lol this first song sounds sort of like Santigold doing 60s rock

I liked this Lykke Li album a lot when it first came out, but cooled on it significantly as the year went on.

Btw, Lex, your stock "stock photography" put-down of TTOL (this is at least the third time you've used that analogy, iirc?) only makes sense if the film were just a series of context-less images. It's not.

leaving aside the fact that the "plot", such as it is, is incredibly thin and uncompelling, it was more of an aesthetic judgment - it's the clichéd nature and weird, polished, slick shine of the film's visuals

Lykke Li is more of a singles artist than an album artist for me.

I dig the Dave Sitek remix of "I Follow Rivers":
http://youtu.be/pWaJ35iKUO8

incredibly thin and uncompelling

Yeah, we disagree, then.

this is the amazing lykke li sampling track btw

cousin fik - collow you (colombiana mix)

i think the only album that placed today that ive heard all the way through is drake's ://

*follow

agh