ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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i am assuming there's some conceptual angle i would need to read about to "get" b/c otherwise yeah it sounds like some guy's demos

call all destroyer, Monday, 26 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link

Such a misleading album name.

Dinsdale, Monday, 26 January 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link

I'm yet to understand the work of Dean Blunt. He's like Oneohtrix to me - hugely popular with the publications/sites I follow but I just can't get my head around or relate to what's going on with it.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link

I keep meaning to start a thread of indie/hipster culture referencing black metal. It seems to be quite the thing these days.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link

Deafheaven

ear sirrom (imago), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link

I like that Dean Blunt album, reminds me of AR Kane's wasted, hazy vibe

Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link

The Soft Pink Truth had the best black metal this year

The Reverend, Monday, 26 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link

^

ear sirrom (imago), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link

(& Myrkur!)

ear sirrom (imago), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link

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

61 FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB Piñata [275 points, 9 votes]

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link

77 BABYMETAL Babymetal [236 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
76 CHER LLOYD Sorry I'm Late [239 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
75 MICA LEVI Under the Skin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [242 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
74 NOURA MINT SEYMALI Tzenni [243 points, 8 votes]
73 REAL ESTATE Atlas [254 points, 9 votes]
72 CALL SUPER Suzi Ecto [255 points, 11 votes]
71 STURGILL SIMPSON Metamodern Sounds in Country Music [256 points, 10 votes]
70 NINOS DU BRASIL Novos Mistérios [258 points, 9 votes]
69 OUGHT More Than Any Other Day [262 points, 7 votes]
68 WARPAINT Warpaint [262 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
67 FUTURE Honest [262 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
66 KHUN NARIN Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band [263 points, 10 votes]
65 THEO PARRISH American Intelligence [267 points, 10 votes]
64 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Brill Bruisers [269 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]
63 LEON VYNEHALL Music for the Uninvited [271 points, 13 votes]
62 DEAN BLUNT Black Metal [272 points, 9 votes]
61 FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB Piñata [275 points, 9 votes]

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link

xp yaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssss

i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link

nice start!

voted ninos & warpaint, gibbs/madlib just missed my ballot.

gr8080, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link

that was my #4 iirc

i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link

Ehhh that's ok I never got that into it, maybe I should give it another shake.

The Reverend, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link

I missed most of the rollout today but enjoyed catching up - voted for Khun Narin and Noura Mint Seymali, have previously enjoyed Call Super, Ninos du Brasil and Dean Blunt, still need to check out Theo Parish and Mica Levi...

Oh, and HB JF!

seandalai, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link

77-61 was a ride and a half

Dean Blunt's songs remind me of those 'Best of MP3.COM' posts on WFMU. They've definitely got something about 'em. Can't imagine why a label would want to release them in album form though.

Jeff W, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link

You know we're all getting old when there's more bobbins on the albums thread than in the tracks poll.

Matt DC, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link

Enjoyed the diversity of today's list. Had only heard 8 and only voted for 2 (Cher Lloyd & Sturgill Simpson).

Indexed, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link

i also found the dean blunt album inscrutable but i wasn't as quick to dismiss it as BS as you guys are. i ended up really liking it. it starts out kinda singer songwritery then gets noisy & then dubby.

flopson, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

catch-up on the last few...

rev otm re: honest. it's not perfect, but it's got a ton of great tracks, not just the 1 or 2 that so many wanna grudgingly acknowledge. a slight disappointment after pluto, sure, but not some smoking crater.

love the khun narin lp! preordered, have happily spun it countless time since. made for lolling about on sunny days.

remember enjoying the freddy gibbs/madlib album, but it's been a while. need to catch up on the rest (except new pornographers, who bore me silly).

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

Ooh, just missed the rollout. Good work so far, guys.

Voted for: Babymetal & Ninos du Brasil
On longlist: Dean Blunt (was never that likely to make it but still a good record)

I heard a tiny bit of Noura Mint Seymali and Khun Narin but not enough to consider putting them on my lists, I liked what I heard, though.

I probably should check out Ought, but for every interesting point of reference someone then brings up a deathly dull comparison to counter it with.

emil.y, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link

seriously great start.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link

madlib totally off my radar, i will check that

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

Albums results are much better than singles so far.

MikoMcha, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link

Dean Blunt ended up my 27, Babymetal my 31. The appeal of the former faded fast after a while. I kind of liked the moments most on Black Metal that could've come out on Sarah Records.

All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link

more bobbins on the albums thread than in the tracks poll

Much of the heralded bobbins material I've sampled this year has been a bit too "tracky", both in construction and intent as DJ tools. Past EOY bobbins have made more concessions to song form.

Voted for: Mica Levi, Ninos Du Brasil, Warpaint
Pleased to see: Babymetal, Noura Mint Seymali, Call Super
Discovered: Khun Narin

non-masturbatory prog excursion (Sanpaku), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link

Ehhh that's ok I never got that into it, maybe I should give it another shake.

― The Reverend, Monday, January 26, 2015 3:04 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah ditto for pinata

interesting start for sure, didn't vote for any of 'em

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link

Albums results are much better than singles so far.

Havent heard any of them so far and im on a train with no headphones, so its already a more pleasant experience. I own some records by one of the artists! tho not the one featuring here, which I havent heard, he lost me a while back though:(

saer, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link

Voted for: Mica Levi, Ninos Du Brasil
Pleased to discover: Khun Narin, Babymetal, Noura Mint Seymali

MikoMcha, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link

Oh, and I voted for Dean Blunt.

MikoMcha, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link

Khun Narin seems like a wild choice, when and where was this discussed?

MikoMcha, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link

I own some records by one of the artists! tho not the one featuring here, which I havent heard, he lost me a while back though:(

― saer, Monday, January 26, 2015 1:33 PM Bookmark

Theo?

The Reverend, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link

oops, forgot to say who, but yes Theo

saer, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link

listened to bits of khun narin and noura mint seymali over dinner, enjoyed them all but utterly lack the grounding in their contexts to make any qualitative judgments

shocked @ my own ballot for apparently leaving off theo parrish - there were about 10 albums that kept moving in and out of the last 5 spots and it seems on the day i submitted, theo moved out and leon vynehall moved in. if i was making it now theo would be way up the list because that album is endlessly engrossing; vynehall just pushed my tasteful breezy summer house buttons - i find his productions smooth in just the right way, those tasteful strings on "inside the deku tree" and "be brave, clench fists". glad they both made it.

absolutely hated the music dean blunt made as part of hype williams, he has also inspired a lot of bad writing that makes me want to listen to him even less.

i have had the freddie gibbs album in my itunes for months without being moved to play it, it sort of has this dusty air of ~real hip-hop for j dilla fanboys about it whereas i would rather have rae sremmurd and junglepussy in my life.

lex pretend, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link

I can confirm that the Call Super album does indeed sound fantastic on a big system, really intricately textured and pretty but with some serious low end at the same time.

Most intrigued about the Noura Mint Seymali and Khun Narin albums though.

Matt DC, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

it sort of has this dusty air of ~real hip-hop

lol I admit this being the reason why I like it so much.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link

"no thread for ขุนนริทร์ศิลป์พิณประยุกต์ (Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band)?"

A thread title that's completely logical and yet it's also clear why I never clicked on it.

MikoMcha, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link

i have had the freddie gibbs album in my itunes for months without being moved to play it, it sort of has this dusty air of ~real hip-hop for j dilla fanboys about it whereas i would rather have rae sremmurd and junglepussy in my life.

Vibe is sort of dated, like something that would have sounded brilliant 10 years ago. Feel the same way about RTJ.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link

it used to have the rather inscrutable title "no thread for ขุนนริทร์ศิลป์พิณประยุกต์ ?" xp

seandalai, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link

Voted for Cher Lloyd; I like the Future album but recognise its flaws. I love "Butterflies" and need to hear the rest of the Vynehall album; ditto Ninos du Brasil after the tracks poll.

Couple of things I've never heard of popping up which is nice to see!

Predicting that D'Angelo wins in a landslide.

bae sremmurd (monotony), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link

i almost never click on threads with the 'why isn't there a thread for ____?' titles, i don't know why but they annoy me

ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link

xxp There's also: Psychedelic Rock that's not Psychedelic Rock

Lee626, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link

Wowwwwwwwwww Sturgill is way low. A lot of these are way lower than I expected. Pouring ones out for Menace Ruine, Botanist, Torn Hawk, and Earth...

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link

i almost never click on threads with the 'why isn't there a thread for ____?' titles, i don't know why but they annoy me

― ciderpress, Monday, January 26, 2015 4:49 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the first couple times they happened they were incredibly obnoxious, but when they happen now i tend to assume they're knowing parodies of the form

diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Monday, 26 January 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link

What? No thread for MAGIC!?

Lee626, Monday, 26 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link

Voted for Khun Narin and Warpaint. Sturgill and Noura Ment Seymali were near-misses for my ballot

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 26 January 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link

i think botanist will still place- am i deluding myself?

Mordy, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link

Voted for Khun Narin and Real Estate (even though Atlas not as strong as their previous albums). Cher Lloyd just missed the cut.

Lee626, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link


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