ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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huh, I bought that LDR album on itunes a while ago and never got around to listening to it

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link

that's the sort of ennui-soaked profligacy she sings about!

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link

lol

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/PO2ILrF.jpg

TIE-38 MARK BARROTT Sketches From an Island [390 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:49 (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, January 28, 2015 9:46 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is certainly the case for me.

silverfish, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

so who is Mark Barrott?

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link

Yesssss

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link

sweeeeet

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link

xxp Balearic beach hippy house vibes, a bit more purposeful than the nearly-as-good Young MArco album IMO

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link

never heard of it! great cover though :-) :-) would sit nicely next to the botanist record

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link

ah fantastic
missed my ballot but this mark barrott album is beautiful
as beautiful as the artwork

nxd, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link

so who is Mark Barrott?

― Dan S, Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Lives on Ibiza and runs the International Feel label. Ace Balearic vibes

groovypanda, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link

I haven't heard this but really liked Baby Come Home from the Spotify playlist. Not sure I'd need a whole album of that kind of thing though.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link

that track's a bit anomalous TBH, a good opener but the rest of the album is a lot less baggy and more blissed-out Hatchback vibing

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link

I like the cover, and the title! will have to check it out

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link

can someone explain angel olsen to me? i tried and tried but have no idea what's interesting about that record.

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link

yeh baby come home is unique compared to the rest of the album

nxd, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link

yesss that mark barrott album is so so fine. another one that slipped off my ballot bizarrely. agree that it does a lot of what the young marco album did but with more purpose

"dr. nimm's garden of intrigue and delight"

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link

Baby Come Home kind of reminded me of Sebastien Tellier which is no bad thing at all. Might give the rest of the album a go. As others have already said, the artwork is really beautiful.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

can someone explain angel olsen to me? i tried and tried but have no idea what's interesting about that record.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:56 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't vote for it but liked its sound, which is a darker, broodier take on Sharon Van Etten.

It was the AV Club's #1 album of the year. Here's the write up:

More of a slow, warm smolder than an incinerator, Burn Your Fire For No Witness tops this list after creeping into voters’ hearts and minds over the course of 2014. Released in February on Jagjaguwar, Angel Olsen’s second studio LP is an exercise in quiet badassery, solid from front to back with nary a moment of shallow emotion or thin, clichéd “solo female singer-songwriter” sound in sight. Olsen’s Patsy Cline-like coo works with simple but full instrumentation to make songs like “Unfucktheworld” and “Forgiven/Forgotten” statements of both seduction and malice. Olsen is clearly an artist who’s lived through loss, loneliness, and heartbreak, and grown stronger in spite of all the drama, emerging on Burn Your Fire with a passion that’s not only impressive, but downright aspirational. Olsen might not look like a shit-starter, but wrong her or someone she loves, and she’ll harness all her emotion and power to reduce you to ashes with one callous and withering glare. Just because her name is “Angel” doesn’t mean Olsen won’t fuck you up. [Marah Eakin]

http://www.avclub.com/article/20-best-albums-2014-212282

Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

i also really like the front cover of the young marcos album as well.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link

can someone explain angel olsen to me? i tried and tried but have no idea what's interesting about that record.

well if you don't like the basic sound of it there's no point in forcing yourself tbh, but beyond that basic appeal, i only made a real connection to it once i started listening to the lyrics

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link

re: Angel Olsen I think her voice sounds unique in today's world, it has a hyperemotional but not hysterical quality. to me it also sounds like something from the 60s/70s folk era

Dan S, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link

Yeahhhh Barrott!

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link

The Emma Ruth Rundle album won my listening time and vote that would otherwise have fallen to Olsen.

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link

wasn't nuts about some of barrott's cheesier sounds but it's really nice overall

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link

Voted for all of Young Marco, Gigi Masin, Mark Barrett, very glad to see them all placing - played them all a ton this year, great music for being lazy to.

toby, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link

Here's one you all can argue about for the next hour while I drive to work...

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/a0FUdRv.jpg

37 SPOON They Want My Soul [400 points, 11 votes]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link

traditional outraged squawk at shit indie sullying my shoes

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

Count me as another skeptic who came around on Lana Del Ray, fantastic album

Love Angel Olsen as well "Unfuck the World" should have made the tracks poll

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link

horrifically offensive post aimed at Spoon and their fans; subsequent apology

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link

why spoon, why?

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link

Love this album/band

Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

I don't get Spoon

Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

me and my Spoon

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link

some thrill spoon

nxd, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link

I love Spoon and liked this album but it's definitely one of their weaker ones for me.

Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

Possibly favourite spoon song: http://youtu.be/POvLaziUsTo

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link

2014: 37. SPOON They Want My Soul [400 points, 11 votes]
2010: 43. SPOON — Transference (374 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
2007: 6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (203 points, 17 votes)
2005: 3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (221.5 points, 20 votes, 2 number ones)
2002: 37. SPOON - Kill The Moonlight (20 points)

full circle from 37 to 37!

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link

I like spoon fine but stopped paying close attn around kill the moonlight wow 13! yrs ago

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link

xp spoonerang

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link

oh, ilm paws

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link

the track they placed previously was OK, but it was over five minutes long and did not appear to have a chord change or any variation

filing this under "idgi"

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

I love Spoon and liked this album but it's definitely one of their weaker ones for me.

― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:23 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This, basically. "Transference" was better

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

Will never ever understand Spoon.

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

Voted for this, lots of great songs on the record. New York Kiss, the title track, I Just Don't Understand, Rent I Pay...

quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

Wither, spoons

xelab, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

liked this one the one time i played it. never played it again. i've said it before, but Spoon are the best most boring band out there and they suit a certain mood. like, there's a certain time or mood you can be in when it doesn't matter if music's boring. and by boring, i mean they are good at doing a lot with just a dogged insistence on plain-bread rock instrumentation.
another good example of this is the horrors' album from this year (which i liked but doubt will place) - greyscale 80s pop-psychedelia which doesn't so much shock and awe as flow through you. close listening didn't make sense, but it made perfect music for when i was fixing my bike.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

general comment: this thread needs more saer

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link


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