ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

Isn't there a thread for pics of musicians and their synths?

http://i.imgur.com/azBbKXS.png

I voted for and named this album.

I hear more traditional guitar-bass-drums arrangements and climaxes, with a power pop bass. Tedder can't resist electronified white gospel rave-ups.

You're still distracted by the flourishes. I'm talking about the very skeleton of the songs. (It had already begun to take that turn before OneRepublic ever happened, but he's ballooned the style certainly.)

Back to Ineffable, though...this is great!

think Rev needs a bit more erence for his feat of boosting tbrr

http://i.imgur.com/rJIpNt7.jpg

42 LEE ANN WOMACK The Way I'm Livin' [380 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

his next album's called '43' '77'

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i like that cover it looks like something King Tee would have if he had a new album

i would be interested in hearing this just based on that cover

YES

This album took a while, and it's not as indelible imo as There's More Where That Came From, but the singing and playing are first-rate.

was about to say the same, awesome cover!

Really hoping the rest of the album sounds like "All His Saints".

That is an awesome cover.

I like the cover too. I agree with standing next to cars

fyi everyone i'm clothes shopping with my gf right now and the store is playing warpaint

Where's the best place in the forest to find cars saer

Tedder is one of the chief architects of the very blocky strict measure for measure pop that dominates both top 40 and country radio that sounds like they just dragged and dropped songs into being using Logic. I won't get into it all here—in fact I may never get into it because it seems to go nowhere anytime I do—but it's a formula I don't like at all.

It sounds like you're saying "he writes pop songs using the rules for constructing a pop song", which I don't believe is what you're trying to say.

Well hey, "Chances Are" is some good old slow country too. I'm guess Lee Ann isn't beholden to the big pop country sound? Please don't betray me, album. I want to like you.

It sounds like you're saying "he writes pop songs using the rules for constructing a pop song", which I don't believe is what you're trying to say.

No, you're right. I may elaborate someday, but not now.

this song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_xgDDrvzo

No, you're right. I may elaborate someday, but not now.

I hope you do, and that when you do this baffled expression leaves my face

sometimes i want to like this kind of thing. maybe when i'm 55 and living in grand junction with a dog and gin.

1D are pretty approachable

lee ann womack record most devastating record of the year

excellent journalism from our j0rdan on that front:

http://rankings.gawker.com/the-dumb-faces-of-one-directions-four-ranked-1661231846

lmao love it

xps
It suits me as 41 yr old with a dog and a carton of Tesco wine, that song sounded really lovely and I need to dig more country really.

btw Noura Mint Seymali is ungodly good wow

i worked a concert recently and got to hear lee ann womack sing an emmylou harris song, she sounded gorgeous. haven't heard any of her singles in a while so i had kinda forgotten about her.

oh i dialed the album up on spotify, couldn't get past the jesus song tbr but the rest sounded aight. her voice is great.

Her 2008 album had a couple of bangers. Try "Solitary Thinkin'."

Really glad this list broke out of its ambient/Balearic/dreamy indie pattern in such style.

I reckon Q would be quite happy at beating Katy B and One Direction fwiw.

oh i dialed the album up on spotify, couldn't get past the jesus song tbr but the rest sounded aight. her voice is great.

jesus can you save me
from going crazy

http://i.imgur.com/OmwYt29.jpg

41 EX HEX Rips [380 points, 15 votes]

I love this record and this band. Shame it wasn't released until the fall as this is amazing summer driving music.

I still haven't gotten around to that one. Which is good because I CAN just wait until summer.

oh shit this rules

Yay! Does nothing particularly novel and has none of Mary Timony's standard magical fairy-dust but still manages to be a terrific record.

This had never clicked for me, but this afternoon it sounds WHOA MY GOODNESS.

yes to this

So far...

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]

60 TUNE-YARDS Nikki Nack [278 points, 11 votes]
59 KELIS Food [281 points, 13 votes]
58 KASSEM MOSSE Workshop 19 [282 points, 13 votes]
57 BOTANIST VI: Flora [285 points, 10 votes]
56 STEVE GUNN Way Out Weather [286 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
55 RONIKA Selectadisc [288 points, 10 votes]
54 MOODYMANN Moodymann [291 points, 12 votes]
53 SUN KIL MOON Benji [292 points, 9 votes]
52 FENNESZ Bécs [306 points, 12 votes]
51 A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN Atomos [309 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
50 ALVVAYS Alvvays [314 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
49 GIGI MASIN Talk to the Sea [323 points, 9 votes, 2 first place votes]
48 WILD BEASTS Present Tense [326 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
47 KATY B Little Red [342 points, 16 votes]
46 YOUNG MARCO Biology [355 points, 15 votes]
45 LEWIS L'Amour [367 points, 11 votes]
44 ONE DIRECTION Four [372 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
43 DJ Q Ineffable [374 points, 17 votes]
42 LEE ANN WOMACK The Way I'm Livin' [380 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
41 EX HEX Rips [380 points, 15 votes]

Did I vote for Ex Hex? don't remember, it was in the mix but might have been bumped. Anyway this is the first album to place that I've heard in full.

i kept trying to like that Ex Hex album and it just wasn't coalescing.

totally missed A Winged Victory placing! love it.

I don't know that it's the best thing Timony's done, but in the right mood...

ex hex album is lots of fun, but i don't know you how you write a song like "beast" and not just start singing "radio on" at the end or something

ok i got bored of ex hex, dj q next, don't know why i skipped over this before, it's excellent. reminds me there's a todd edwards album due this year i think.

the ex hex album is just really well constructed pop rock, in some ways it's more like a Cars record than Helium

It's 1979 in 2014.