ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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]

good album imo

yesssssssssss

yessssss first vote of mine to place

Johnny Fever good call on Justin Townes Earle way back.

album could go on forever tbh

That album sounds like the skeletons of deep, percussive house jams and it's amazing.

Cool. I wasn't even aware he had an album out this year.

didnt vote for that but everyone should watch the beautiful video for footwork imo

http://youtu.be/70CeiEJi1OI

Not on UK Spotify boo

Theo Parrish - Fallen Funk

yes theo!!!

"be in yo self" is stunning, whole album is - still enjoying getting into it, it's barely a month old

i like his shirt on the cover too

shirt/hat/beard combo is excellent

it is one long-ass album, still digesting it myself

Slight pet peeve, but "I don't like j-pop", like "I don't like American pop", doesn't mean anything.

People who dig Khun Narin's mixture of 'world' music and psych could do worse than check out The Dur Dur Band release from last year. Not really the same thing at all, but I really like this.

This was a great year for instrumental albums

http://i.imgur.com/YnSsgU0.jpg

64 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Brill Bruisers [269 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]

more like Water Treaders

i love that cover to bits but have never got anything else about this band

Nah, this was a good record...best one since Twin Cinema...but in the end I realized I just didn't care as much now as I did ten years ago.

OK back to Theo then. The tracks linked above are all seriously good. Is it all programmed? Painstaking stuff if so.

Ha! I'm lukewarm on this album, but I've seen plenty of good to great live shows by them. The anti-indie hatred here seems kind of outdated, and not a little creepy.

I could hang with a full disc of Theo (listening now), good stuff.

Surprised to see 2 first place votes. Good album, but spotty. Best of the year?