ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

I meant buried not muddled.

tbc Lady isn't in the countdown. It was just offered up as a helpful suggestion.

Isnt the gigi masin a resissue? how come qualify

I mainly found it odd that people complained about Ronika's pastiche and then had all kinds of good things to say about Lady, which is nothing but that.

Typical that the first time I've been not that excited about a Wild Beasts album that they make their first appearance in the end of year list. Easily their weakest album for me. They promised they weren't going to do something different to the last couple of albums but I didn't really hear it. Still think Limbo Panto is their best, bring back the pomp!

Isnt the gigi masin a resissue? how come qualify

It's a compilation of mainly unreleased material.

imago - sorry for real

http://i.imgur.com/3fh9hlS.jpg

46 YOUNG MARCO Biology [355 points, 15 votes]

nice!

yh sorry too h3lg, terrible argument against music. feel rly guilty still

sweet!
biology is awesssssome

nice!

another one that just slipped off my ballot wtf. i guess i didn't find it as exciting as young marco's mixes or singles but it was still excellent listening.

young marco is def a new direction for YMCMB

terrible argument against music

new board description.

Lol M@tt

omg M@tt hahaha

yay Young Marco!

nu-balearic crew represent

Sea World sounds like nitrous oxide

getting hopeful john luther adams might place

― gr8080, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 6:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if I were voting today I'd have become ocean high on my ballot, doubt we'll see it tho

shit I forgot to vote for that! so beautiful.

was anyone else into steel hammer or is that just me?

Wow! I didn't think Gigi Masin had made such an impact on here, there were a few amazing retrospectives from last year (also that Vangelis Katsoulis & the Ariel Kalma ones) but this one the best by miles.

Feel if it's got the saer okay, I'll give it a spin

Too low

nice of you guys to not have any of the albums i voted for in the countdown yet so that my entire ballot can place in the top 40

I don't get the fascination with the next one at all, but people seemed endlessly fascinated with it.

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

45 LEWIS L'Amour [367 points, 11 votes]

year of impact I guess

yeh never got too much with this music
But the story seemed real cool

lol

lewis story seemed hokey to me - why are people so fascinated by ~mystique as though that makes an artist's music better - and i thought the album was dull and pretty standard for what it was

whats the story behind this one?

he's garth brooks

he looks more like Richard Madeley

The story was offputting. The record itself was pretty fine.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/light-in-the-attics-lewis-lamour

Lewis <3 Glad to see it place.

Don't know anything about the last couple

God, this is even more dull than I remember.

lol xelab

man, huey lewis looked great when he was young!

someone dig up that murgatroid post re this album

the Lewis is great, 'romantic times' is just as good. didn't vote for it bc i stuck to music strictly from '14.

this is really lovely so far, don't think it needs a mysterious origin story to prop it up

Totally bought into the story and love the album too. Romantic Times is great too but the other songs I've heard of his are pretty bad.

got it

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid) wrote this on thread Lewis - "L'amour" on board I Love Music on Aug 10, 2014

Oh, so now that the backlash seal has been broken, I can say that this stuff sounds like music white dudes caress their nipples to

HA!

Wasn't really into the Lewis until I caught this shot from the publicity campaign - after this I was on board

http://i.imgur.com/gx02Q7C.jpg

I think I put this at #2 on my ballot, mostly because on the day I voted I was sick at home and this was just the perfect music to listen to in that situation. So soothing.

I had it at #2 as well I think.