ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

I'm with alex in mainhattan in a sense: there were hundreds upon hundreds of albums released last year, and this is allegedly the best of them all? Naturally, I disagree.

xp that's about the best thing about haim. imagine they would have been another boygroup, jesus.

another derivative, mainstream sounding pop band made of girls, so what?

apart from the sexism in this that's been dealt with, "another"? there are only five all-girl bands in the 77, that's quite a small proportion.

Haim at number 1! Hahaha. Only real surprise for me was seeing Vampire Weekend at #6 (and Sky Ferreira at 5, I had no idea ILM loved her that much) I expected VW on the top three based on the comments surrounding the release.

I have not spreadsheeted it this year, but there seem to be metric fucktons of female solo artists.

(I have no idea how a metric fuckton differs from an imperial fuckton, to be honest.)

just another guy named alex in manhattan, making dumb remarks

five all girl bands? what are the other ones apart from savages and haim?

Marci Beaucoup is a grower and Pimpire is >>>the nights gambit.

oh and tegan & sara, i guess

I have not spreadsheeted it this year, but there seem to be metric fucktons of female solo artists.

25!

"another....band made of girls" is horrifying, jaymc

I think I wasn't clear. I don't find "derivative," "mainstream sounding," "pop," or "made of girls" to be inherently derisive terms, so I find it silly that AiM is using them as though they were.

five all girl bands? what are the other ones apart from savages and haim?

tegan and sara, yamantaka // sonic titan, f(x)

YT//ST aren't all female, I'm pretty sure. Though the two main songwriters are.

25 solo + 5 bands + (who knows how many band members) = 30/77 = really amazingly close to parity. 25 is fully 1/3 which is way better than most publications' lists.

Haha I totally thought Yamantaka / Sonic Titan was a project of Boredoms dude.

that F(x) album has been my fave discovery from this poll, need to start paying attention to the K pop thread.

Curious now how many all-dude bands placed apart from Daft Punk & Vampy W/e?

YT//ST aren't all female, I'm pretty sure. Though the two main songwriters are.

wikipedia implied the core of the band was a duo (both women) with other "supporting members", and 90% of the promo shots just seem to consist of the two main members

xp i will never understand how it can be sexist to say that a girls band is a girls band, that is maybe a tautology but what the hell does it have to do with sexism? may i say that i love women or is that sexist as well? thinking about it the only world imaginable without sexism in this sense is a world without sexes. is that what you dream of, lex?

Haim? HAHAHAHAHAHa' HAIM ?? half ridiculous,half sublime.
much better than v. weekend, that's for sure.

Saying that you "love" "women" is totally sexist, though. That can fuck right off.

25 solo + 5 bands + (who knows how many band members) = 30/77 = really amazingly close to parity. 25 is fully 1/3 which is way better than most publications' lists.

yeah i think ilx has always been pretty good like this (another reason i respect this EOY list more than most!). TONS of female frontwomen in mixed bands, it felt like

*counts*

seven i think? plus prob some more females in mixed bands who aren't the frontperson

lex did you include DJ Sprinkles in that number

l never understand how it can be sexist to say that a girls band is a girls band, that is maybe a tautology but what the hell does it have to do with sexism?

it's sexist because you mentioned "girls" as if their sex were a reason to dismiss them

Plus by my count 12 (?) mixed-gender acts

My Bloody Valentine
The Knife
Paramore
These New Puritans
Chvrches
Goldfrapp
Arcade Fire
Quadron
Young Galaxy
Factory Floor
Thee Oh Sees
Melt-Banana

Is that all?

xp i will never understand how it can be sexist to say that a girls band is a girls band

b/c every other descriptor you used for haim was meant in a derogatory way

xp yes re: dj sprinkles

this album is so monumental to me. i know it disappointed a lot of people but it's just an album that needs an incredible amount of time to sink into, to wrap your head around. the amount of ideas here is overwhelming. i can understand if people didn't want to do that but trust me, it was so worth it for me. i could actually rarely listen to it except all the way through as an album - it just made so much sense that way.

how i feel about the laura marling lp

ILM list also includes a lot of females who didn't get much or any EOY list love from major publications: i.e. amel larrieux, k. michelle, ariana grande, f(x), quadron, fantasia, y // st, charli xcx

MY GOD IT'S FULL OF GIRLS!

xp no, i said that their music was ok. which is quite positive as most music around is not ok at all.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads21/ClintonBinderFullofWomenReverie1350564061.jpg

nationality breakdown

USA (39): Haim, Beyoncé, Sky Ferreira, Vampire Weekend, Paramore, Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West, Chance The Rapper, Dawn Richard, Oneohtrix Point Never, Janelle Monáe, Kurt Vile, Brandy Clark, Julia Holter, Classixx, Amel Larrieux, Deafheaven, Ariana Grande, Darkside, Miley Cyrus, DJ Rashad, Fantasia, Matmos, Laurel Halo, Waxahatchee, Ashley Monroe, Neko Case, DJ Sprinkles, Ka, John Grant, K. Michelle, Parquet Courts, Ciara, Danny Brown, Kelela, Thee Oh Sees, Bill Callahan, Fall Out Boy, Julianna Barwick
GBR (20): M.I.A., These New Puritans, Disclosure, Charli XCX, Chvrches, The 1975, Boards Of Canada, Holden, Burial, Laura Marling, Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, Fuck Buttons, Maya Jane Coles, Jon Hopkins, Savages, Carcass, Arctic Monkeys, Factory Floor, Cut Copy
CAN (6½): Tim Hecker, Tegan And Sara, Arcade Fire, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Young Galaxy, Rhye (½), Gorguts
DEN (1½): Quadron, Rhye (½)
FRA (1): Daft Punk
IRL (1): My Bloody Valentine
SWE (1): The Knife
GER (1): DJ Koze
NGR (1): William Onyeabor
ITA (1): Donato Dozzy
KOR (1): f(x)
CHI (1): Föllakzoid
NZL (1): Lorde
JPN (1): Melt-Banana

I need to get:

75 MELT-BANANA Fetch
61 ARCTIC MONKEYS AM
33 DARKSIDE Psychic
31 DEAFHEAVEN Sunbather
14 M.I.A. Matangi

Woah. Just got to read the last of the countdown. How about that? I'm actually really pleased. But but where did Floorplan place?

Thanks for a wonderful poll J0rdan and seandalai

the american supremacy is pretty amazing. and there are hardly any non-english native speakers in here. that's a little depressing. föllakzoid are from chile? that's the first band from there i have ever heard of. and they seem to be cool. there used to be vicor jara but he was a political songwriter, iirc.

My Ballot (bolded titles did not place):

1 Iceage - You're Nothing
2 Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun
3 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...
4 My Bloody Valentine - MBV
5 Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
6 The Body - Master, We Perish
7 Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling EP
8 Watain - The Wild Hunt
9 Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam
10 Arcade Fire - Reflektor
11 In Solitude - Sister
12 Full Of Hell - Rudiments Of Mutilation
13 Black Sabbath -13
14 Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
15 Carcass - Surgical Steel
16 Austra - Olympia
17 Queens of the stone age - Like clockwork
18 Kvelertak - Meir
19 Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
20 Anciients - Heart Of Oak
21 Kurt Vile-Walking on a pretty daze
22 Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

I know that I am out of the loop on just about everything (even metal these days) but I am shocked that the Iceage disc didn't get more love as active as their thread was when "You're Nothing" came out...

By Country breakdown of the top 100 albums in metal poll -

44 - USA
12 - UK
9 - Sweden
7 - Norway
6 - Canada
5 - Germany
3 - Japan
2 - France, Finland, Italy
1 - Australia, Austria, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland.

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xp

stay tuned for a sneak preview of ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014!

Cut Copy - these dobbers are australian fyi

Segue - Pacifica
The Necks - Open
Ensemble Pearl - s/t
Akkord - Akkord
Function - Incubation
Miles - Faint Hearted
Mika Vainio - Kilo
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz von Oswald - 1/1
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Kuniko Kato - Cantus

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two:Mississippi Moonchile
L.Pierre - The Island Come True
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
le$ - e36
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back
Alix Perez - Chroma Chords
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
Rabih Beaini - Albidaya
Bonobo - The North Borders
Force Of Nature - Expansions

weighted ballot

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― emil.y, Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:35 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nordic people (including uk, germany, ireland and canada) love metal, 42 albums, somehow that does not surprise me at all.

xp that's about the best thing about haim. imagine they would have been another boygroup, jesus.

― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:56 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry to return to this, but there are a lot of all-male groups that resemble haim, you should explore the canon!

I mean I just

I think you'd breathe easier

If you were given the haim-like man oeuvre

*stands, applauds*

*dies*

oh wow

wins!