ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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saer ive played botanist in plug.dj before when you were in

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link

I've heard some of it and it's quite interesting as a curiosity, but how does this differ from his other work?

― diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:31 AM (2 minutes ago)

black metal harshness dialed back on flora relative to past efforts. i'm glad to see it show up, though it wasn't one of the year's standout metal albums for me. prefer installments III and IV tbh.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link

I was similarly misled, this cover is completely incorrect and should be changed by trading standards. it's true about madlib though

ogmor, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link

ogmor you're a plug regular too you have no excuse

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link

oh no, a trojan horse:(

― saer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:35 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sorry, I should have qualified that this foliage was less that of deepest woodland and more heathered clearing... I'm sure there'll be something on here for you. Maybe.

tangenttangent, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link

yessssz

gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link

Found some footage of saer
http://youtu.be/u8pZkDTKTNw

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link

Almost got distracted thinking about this album, but have sprung free from the foliage and just about made my train

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link

Kew Gardens metal also a description I will borrow

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link

i prefer botanist when less about the astral blissout, more some creepy little wrigglers in the underbrush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IrJb2YMlV8

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

this is another album with a number, sadly.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link

I reckon VI is all about the astral creepy wrigglers blissing out in the undergrowth tbh

Latin numbers, too!

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link

this album had better be triffic!

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link

'astral blissout' is really one of the highest modes music can achieve

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link

xp i think you might want to expand to those of us that can't see board 77

nxd, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link

I probably wouldn't think to associate this with botany without the many cues, but I like the idea of black metal devoted to small organic forms rather than, what seems to be more typical, the sublime on a grander scale.

jmm, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link

it's a cool concept. like swamp thing meets hammered dulcimer meets black metal. i will def check this new album out.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

kind of want him to team up with Konono No1 or something and have an electrified tuned percussion face-off

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

Kassem Mosse and Botanist are both albums I've listened to once and enjoyed but not revisited yet. Hoping for some more metal to place but I don't think any of my atmospheric/prog-BM picks will make it.

Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

it would be quite a strange year if lots of metal placed, but it's not beyond the realms or reality. lots of high-profile releases as Cosmic Slop mentioned, but I don't know why it would happen this year necessarily and not previous years.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

I could see it happening due to there being fewer niche-consensus releases in other genres (if that's the case)

Simon H., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

The Wizard may show. Ruine is a glorious outside shot. Fever's given Botanist nearly an hour. Very mice of him.

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link

while we're still on botanist, less blissfuly still:

deathcap, track II from botanist III

still probably more discernable as emotive post rock than black metal, even with "experimental" tag enhancement, but i love the bright, spiky tone of the (clearly) hammered dulcimer. much less fuzz besotted than on later albums. puts my mind to pinhead, or the final act of audition maybe.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link

I could see Earth or Yob placing. ScottO))) and Swans are dead certs, although I don't think of them as bona fide metal records.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

tbh i only expect scott 0))) now dog latin

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

These are great contendo, will check later :)

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link

swans yeah tho not metal (despite being in metal poll)

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link

Maybe Fever has given us this long coz it's the only metal :D

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link

totally enjoying having time to listen to this album in its entirety right now

nxd, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/e54S2gh.jpg

56 STEVE GUNN Way Out Weather [286 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link

would be nuts if none of the metal poll top ten didn't make it but possible

10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1
6 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's
4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's
3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1

xp

nice!
1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link

oops the nice shoulda been for the steve gunn

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link

this is a post-Fahey guitar guy, right?

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link

xxxp Soft Pink Truth still a possibility (FALSE I know but still), there are plenty of Matmos/ ILM's very own D Daniel fans around aren't thera?

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link

that'll def place, Neil.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

nice, enjoy thiks record a lot

ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link

Never heard of Steve Gunn before but I like the album cover.

Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link

SPT not really a metal album but will place quite high. Also incredible. Wonder if I'd like Steve Gunn...

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link

I'd prob be more stoked about Godflesh placing than any of the top 5. Though tbh I only voted for Earth and J Gyte. (Xp to CS)

I'm loving a lot of this bottom third though

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link

I dont expect any to place bar scott 0)))

Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

this is a post-Fahey guitar guy, right?

it has elements of that but it's expansive guitar-based singer songwriter stuff - richard thompson or eleventh dream day are probably good points of comparison. excellent record, which has grown on me more with every listen. try Tommy's Congo

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link

xpost feel like Earth is most likely to place other than that.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link

sleepy americana

ogmor, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link

I think I'm the only regular on the ILX Brigade thread who was not totally into this Steve Gunn record, but I'm happy to see it place

xp hmm listening to this thru a Richard Thompson lens may increase my appreciation

sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link

love this album so much

example (crüt), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link

Wonder if I'd like Steve Gunn...

― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:14 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's touring with War on Drugs if that helps...

tangenttangent, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link

steve gunn is nothing like war on drugs if that helps

example (crüt), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link

wow, this is very, very nice. superficially maybe in real estate territory (?), but the overt raga folk & retro psych elements make it so much more relaxed, inviting & lush - richard thompson otm. i was for a while keeping tabs on things vile & violators-related, but appear to have completely missed the boat on gunn. fucking LOVE this.

- sincere thanks, a fan

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link

Guilt by association not always foolproof :P

ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link


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