ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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ledge, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 09:34 (nine years ago) link

lol

MikoMcha, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link

btw - hooray for Gigi Masin! Amazing collection of tracks, and great work by the Music From Memory guys for putting this together.

MikoMcha, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link

dj q - great album albeit one i felt like i should have gone back to a lot more than i did? like, i enjoyed it in a low-key way but it never turned into an addiction. "notice me" and the epic "through the night" are highlights

DJ Q is like Funkystepz for me in that his tunes (instrumentals especially) are like mini-Autobot components of a whole and they just don't sound right on their own. Like nearly everything on the album is good and I think I voted for it but I keep thinking about how much more thrilling they'd be pitched up in the mix and all piled on top of one another. As someone who came up through records like the Brown album and Exit Planet Dust, I like dance albums to feel like DJ sets and the album didn't capture the rushiness of his own sets, when it quite easily could have done.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link

OTM. Q's tracks have a consistent vibe and are relatively short for dance tracks, so a mixed album (possibly with a separate-track vinyl release for DJs) would have been a lot more useful.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link

My highlight was 'Trust Again' FWIW

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link

Yeah the thing that prevented me loving Ineffable more is that it wasn't clear to me why I was listening to discrete album tracks from the best DJ in the world. It's still a great album but can't compete with one of Q's better MoS or Nocturnal sets let alone seeing him spin live (best night ever still).

Tim F, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link

Voted for Fennesz and Alvvays from yesterday's run, I liked the Katy B and Lee Ann Womack albums as well, the latter is completely out of my wheelhouse but yeah it definitely deserves to place.

Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link

Just saw that Avi Buffalo split - wonder if anyone but me threw a vote to At Best Cuckold. (The other worthwhile indie-pop record, which I forgot about for a bit just now.) Really hit the spot for jangly self-loathing.

― Simon H., woensdag 28 januari 2015 1:35 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I threw it a vote. Loved their debut album, the second one was really good too. No way it'll pop up here though.

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link

just struck me that unless ariana grande places in the top 40 (which i think...possible but unlikely?), she'll get shut out completely. no track, no album, not even a guest spot

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link

Still getting over the fact that "Bang Bang" finished higher on the tracks poll than anything on her album.

Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link

I'm beginning to think that nothing I voted for will actually place in the top 77. :( I guess Neheh Cherry or Mirel Wagner or Meshell Ndegeocello still might appear, though their chances feel a bit slim already.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link

Also, it was probably pointless to vote for two classical albums, because the only classical that has any chance of making it in these polls is indie-friendly crossover stuff like that Winged Victory album.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link

or Clean Bandit

;)

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link

I think Neneh Cherry has a good shot at making it!

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link

really really hope mirel wagner does! i actually counted up everyone who loved it in her thread. it came to less than the total votes albums around this mark are getting though :///

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link

Ian William Craig?

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link

Fingers crossed for Gazelle Twin, Lamb, and Mr. Twin Sister. Its today or never.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link

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40 LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence [390 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link

It's a great album and it took me a while to realise it. Was top 10 for me.

Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

people still rate this person hm?

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link

'shades of cool' was quite haunting, haven't heard the rest

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link

Lana Del Rey
Straight in at number 40
Video Gaaaaames

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link

dont feel comfortable with this albums promotion of violence

lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link

the mk remix of "west coast" was a biiiiiig tune for me in 2014. i need to keep more up-to-date on house remixes of LDR if not her source material

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link

sort of admire that she's retreated even further into her thing though

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link

great album, played it a tonne this summer

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link

Had this in the bottom half of my list, big improvement on her first album.

Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link

i liked the original "West Coast" a lot, shocking more because it was the Black Keys guy than because it was LDR.

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link

the mk remix of "west coast" was a biiiiiig tune for me in 2014. i need to keep more up-to-date on house remixes of LDR if not her source material

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 2:15 PM

Not heard the MK remix but did play the Zhu one a lot this year

groovypanda, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link

virtually no difference from her placing in 2012:

40 LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence [390 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
35. LANA DEL REY Born to Die (392 Points, 11 Votes)

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link

my first album vote to place

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link

This album was a massive grower for me. Was really disappointed with it the first couple of listens but I kept coming back to it and ended up putting it in my top 10. I was surprised how well it did in all the end of year critics lists.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link

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TIE-38 ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire for No Witness [390 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link

The Angel Olsen was solid and good but somehow I never got DEEP into it

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link

she's good

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link

ooh a tie!

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link

The Lana Del Rey album has a couple of good songs on it; unfortunately one of them is called "Fucked My Way To The Top"

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link

i vaguely assumed that song was a 'lol this is what people think of me' satire like "Blank Space"

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link

Really like Angel Olsen's voice but the songs just didn't stick at all. Thought she would be a lot higher.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link

i know nothing about Angel Olsen. Who is she and what does she do?

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link

thought i'd like angel olsen, didn't hate it but the songs really didn't stick and the scratchy arrangements weren't enough to keep me persevering...

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link

Yay Angel Olsen! Third vote placed.

tangenttangent, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link

Really like Angel Olsen's voice but the songs just didn't stick at all.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link

Never really got into the first Lana Del Rey album but love this one. There are some bad songs but the good ones are amazing.

silverfish, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link

know nothing about Angel Olsen. Who is she and what does she do?

kinda leonard cohen, kinda roy orbison, kinda pixies. this album was great and her writing is wonderful, best song is probably 'hi five'. such a warm, human album. still didn't vote for it though

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link

"cruel world" tho

indie fuxxor albums i have secretly spotified (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link

(re: LDR)

indie fuxxor albums i have secretly spotified (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link

I feel like a lot of people who loved Video Games but were really disappointed with her first album really like Ultraviolence.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link


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