ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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I prefer not knowing what the hell kind of music it is immediately when I've never heard of something (as is true of Call Super). Part of the fun!

not feeling the real estate. think their sound worked better for me when it was fuzzing in through chillwave-contemporaneous vhs nostalgia, buried vocals, tape hiss, etc.

I suppose I'd like to hear those sounds in more surprising contexts these days. A bit of an easy option to take. xps

― xyzzzz__, Monday, January 26, 2015 9:06 AM (11 minutes ago)

"i don't like this and want to seem important saying it"

Suzi Ecto was definitely one of the more interesting electronic albums this year, and very accessible

Crystalline clearwater ambience embroiled in benign laser warfare.

This is oooookay.

call super is kind of techno with a fuggy cloud-forest vibe and maybe a bit more focus on sonic detail than beats

The Call Super album is fantastic and I have Lex to thank for recommending it on more than one occasion.it seems to take on different properties depending on where and who I listen to it with. Sometimes it's a really lush ambient album with dub inflections, other times it's something a lot more tense/intense than that.

this sounds like something i would like a lot, whoops

I somehow missed that Call Super album entirely, will give it a spin tonight.

I feel I am gaining a good bit of internet notoriety in this msg board by damming it, yes..xps to contend idiot.

ok nm then!
i'll guess

contend idiot.

lol, you've sure got a way with words

la lechera, i think the idea is that fans of whatever record will chip in and explain/enthuse xp

lol I couldn't remember how the rest of it went, couldn't be arsed to press back. The only thing you are right about.

I am gaining a good bit of internet notoriety in this msg board by damming it
First mice, now beavers itt!

We heart u really Julio, u know that.

I suppose I'd like to hear those sounds in more surprising contexts these days. A bit of an easy option to take. xps

― xyzzzz__, Monday, January 26, 2015 9:06 AM (11 minutes ago)

"i don't like this and want to seem important saying it"

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, January 26, 2015 12:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't even totally understand this convo but wow this came off dickish!

Cool list so far. I haven't heard any of most of these, but they all look interesting.

Very pleased BM made it.

do like the call super album quite a bit, though it's well outside my usual wheelhouse. can't comment on dog latin's observation that it takes "on different properties depending on where and who" cuz it's new to me, but "dovetail" gets a lot of mileage out of the tension between that metallic snare and the pillowy synth clouds it drills against. loving "sulu sekou"'s clarinet, too.

mica levi - surprised in a good way to see this; one of the best films i saw last year, and one of the best uses of its score within that. the strings in the pool scenes...not just sinister but stately. the film's slow pace suited it, but the score went a long way to holding interest which might have otherwise flagged. i have not been tempted to hear the soundtrack by itself.

nora mint seymali - never heard, would be interested to hear, any track recommendations?

real estate - never heard and god willing will keep it that way

call super - woo, second of my votes. love the mood and the way different details dapple over the beats. very organic-sounding - not as hermetically sealed as voices from the lake but a similar vibe. also, wonderfully generous melodically. not an album for identifying tracks in isolation and the quality is very consistent but "dovetail" and "hoax eye" are both very pretty indeed

call super also did good work under the ondo fudd alias last year too

Moreso than the singles thread I'm inclined to actually seek out some of these winners

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71 STURGILL SIMPSON Metamoden Sounds in Country Music [256 points, 10 votes]

i don't even totally understand this convo but wow this came off dickish!

― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Monday, January 26, 2015 9:27 AM (4 minutes ago]

you missed a couple steps in there, but mea culpa, retracting

i discovered this sturgill simpson album via critics' year-end lists. i've been enjoying it in a low-key way, i like the gravitas of his voice though his enunciation is on ariana grande levels of non-existence. don't think it's on the level of the post-miranda lambert wave of female country artists though, doesn't grab me emotionally in the same way

I've heard of this. Is the title ironic or something?

(i'm quite happy that miranda lambert, almost certainly, and angaleena presley, i hope and expect, will have beaten simpson here)

i enjoyed the couple tracks i've heard from this record, will listen in full at some point

I've heard of this. Is the title ironic or something?

― quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:36 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Must be. This makes my eyes hurt.

Saw Sturgill Simpson open for Willie Nelson at the end of December. His band had a lot of power and energy, especially the lead guitarist who cranked out continuous hot doggin' riffs through the whole set. Good stuff, I'll have to at least give this a listen.

even though im sure this is a lot of people's "one critic-influenced [country/metal/insert oft-maligned-to-varying-degrees genre or subgenre here}" album, goddamn it's great

People kept telling me about this and I kept not getting why. And yeah that goddamn title

Hoping now we have had the token metal,indie and country to appease their fans and prove how oh so eclectic we are and theres no more sp we can have more pop, rnb, rap, bobbins type music like the mostly excellent tracks poll.

i need to give this a listen on cruts recommendation

strychnine soubds like a good name for a thrash metal band

This is a damn fine record.

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good dogs

I mean, if you're into neo-trad country and people like Justin Townes Earle and Ryan Bingham let you down every time by missing the mark, then this is a must-hear album.

xps to dog latin there are multiple bands named strychnine after a cursory google search - sadly, none of them seem to be thrash metal

the last real estate album is one of my fav indie rock records ever but i couldn't get into this one at all

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 26, 2015 11:59 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this was the first one of theirs to really leave me cold--it's nice enough but i think the formula just sort of played out for me

I liked the Call Super album a lot (the woodwinds are such a nice touch), but when I listened to it at my parents' house on their system that has a sub woofer, it sounded amazing

i listened to the real estate record a lot earlier in the year and then i made the mistake of listening to it at the dentist while i was getting a cavity filled and now i can't disentangle those 2 experiences in my mind so i don't listen to it anymore

I enjoyed "Atlas" but yeah it's not half as good as the one before

xp hipster dentist or bring your own music

both, but the latter in this case

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70 NINOS DU BRASIL Novos Mistérios [258 points, 9 votes]

I like the Sturgill Simpson album. I think it's getting a little overpraised because he hits a lot of critics' sweet spots -- he's the anti-brocountry guy who writes about metaphysics, etc. He interviews well. But there are several good tracks and I like his voice despite the mumbles. Good job reinventing "The Promise," too.

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(The album Sturgill's reminds me most of, both in terms of its execution and its place in the critical firmament, is the Mavericks' What a Crying Shame.)

lol nino du brazil album has a track called "sepultura"