ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

These women (particularly the rhythm section) are super skilled, but perhaps too much character has been ironed out of the vocals

^this. I'm relistening to the Warpaint album now and I wanna go all JK Simmons on their voices

xp that's insane

I think there's another "metal" album you may like this year lex

― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins),

what would that be? It can't be menace ruine.

there are a lot of great tracks on Honest (plus a couple terrible ones admittedly). feel like you guys are kind of overinvested in the narrative on this one

I really dug this album *skrug*

I think the flat-affect singing on the Warpaint album is the unifying thread across the songs that weave them into a stronger whole.

^yes I like the vocals they add to the hypnotic feeling of the music

I think that was used to better effect on the previous albums though.

scott0 xps

Had written this one off having heard what I thought were unforgivably misogynistic lyrics, but I've just looked them up and was apparently mistaken. Ready to give it another chance... Pretty interesting production so far!

yeah the future album was super disappointing. the title track owns though, which reminds me that totally got snubbed in the tracks poll, goons blew that one

― k3vin k., Monday, January 26, 2015 1:55 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf it was in 2013, when the vote was split between half a dozen great Future hits

Oh no, here we go... I'm out on this one.

yeah the future album was super disappointing. the title track owns though, which reminds me that totally got snubbed in the tracks poll, goons blew that one

― k3vin k., Monday, January 26, 2015 1:55 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf it was in 2013, when the vote was split between half a dozen great Future hits

― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Monday, January 26, 2015 2:00 PM (2 minutes ago)

huh for some reason i thought the single was released in late 2013, i guess it was august

ok i listened to a little bit of warpaint and yes i would enjoy the music a lot more if there were no words/vocals

not because their voices are boring or offensive or w/e they're just not interesting enough to add to the music and words themselves are distracting
would rather just groove along instrumentally

dunno whether i should be surprised future scraped in or slightly pity the fall of a former ilx favourite

the album wasn't that bad at all, "special" and "i be u" are pretty great, but it really had a grab-bag, unsure feel about it

― lex pretend,

Young Thug, you are put on notice.

http://i.imgur.com/4PjnTIV.jpg

66 KHUN NARIN Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band [263 points, 10 votes]

nice

there are a lot of great tracks on Honest (plus a couple terrible ones admittedly). feel like you guys are kind of overinvested in the narrative on this one

― rob, Monday, January 26, 2015 10:57 AM Bookmark

Word. It's not as good as Pluto, but it's like 80% as good as Pluto, which was hardly super-consistent anyway. It got my vote and I'm glad it made the countdown. I feel like this album's rep would be better if most of the best tracks weren't buried in the last half.

"Move That Dope"/"Honest"/"I Be U"/"Covered In Money"/"Special"/"Benz Friends"/"Blood, Sweat, & Tears"/"How Can I Not"/"Sh!t"/"Karate Chop" <--- all great

more mice

Young Thug treads that line between amazing and terrible way more often than Future ever did and has

The Khun Narin album is great.

Khun Narin is great, well done ILX

(xp w/xelab)

Keep forgetting to check out the Khun Narin album despite watching those wonderful Youtube videos repeatedly

what is this?

Honest just had a Carter 3 vibe to me where it seemed like he gave away a classic album's worth of songs to other artists and then threw together some leftovers for his own album

the writing looks Thai?

yep

xp: Thai psych wedding processional music.

I think the flat-affect singing on the Warpaint album is the unifying thread across the songs that weave them into a stronger whole.

― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Monday, January 26, 2015 1:58 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is exactly how i feel, the vocals only get really emotive at a handful of points on the album and every one is full of intention

tzenni and khun - great start ilx :D

Tbh, I was never that into Future's big 2013 features. None of "Love Me" or "Bugatti" or "UOENO" or "Tapout" ever really did anything for me.

The Khun Narin album was okay as a curio but I didn't LOVE the music. Getting 6 people or whatever to do the work of one drummer is whatever...

Noura Mint Seymali and Call Super and Ought all sound promising so far. Babymetal are fun and I officially approve of them but they aren't for me. I still need to check out the Ninos du Brasil album too.

Nice! My #3! LOVED that Khun Narin album. So much fun for a jammy psych album. If you are unfamiliar with the album definitely check out the street videos of their performances. It really gives it a lot of context...not that the context is entirely necessary, but it's interesting.

Where is saer?

― strychnine,

I have done my time! Cant cope with the idea of whole albums of this stuff! Also I didnt nominate or vote for any albums so it doesnt seem right

xp i think that's otm, youtube def played a role in my love of the album. not sure if i'd like it as much just on its own.

Much prefer listening to an actual phin than what Khun Narin is doing tbh. This just reminds me I should've nominated that Soundways comp.

specialest snowflake lol

Honest was okay for me! Just not earth-shattering or enough of a standout to vote for it or any singles.

ur just being honest

^ha! yeah

lagxxn what was that IDigIt link you'd posted of the 10 minute video of thai music you liked or recorded or something?

or ThatsMyJam or w/e that website was

oh yeah that was so good!

Background: Underground mag Newsweek's story on the Khun Narin album.

Here's a couple of the links to street videos of the Khun Nariin band doing their thing:

http://youtu.be/sw01jVL0OsE?list=PL0DtV_dCGOlNOTXfJnuAKxYHj31tPPC5-

http://youtu.be/IYGl-l0Toig?list=PL0DtV_dCGOlNOTXfJnuAKxYHj31tPPC5-

lagxxn what was that IDigIt link you'd posted of the 10 minute video of thai music you liked or recorded or something?

― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, January 26, 2015 2:31 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://youtu.be/RsUaRVW44fU

lol xp same thing!

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

65 THEO PARRISH American Intelligence [267 points, 10 votes]