ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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

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

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

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"

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.

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

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

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

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

Yeahhhh Barrott!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

traditional outraged squawk at shit indie sullying my shoes

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

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

why spoon, why?

Love this album/band

I don't get Spoon

me and my Spoon

some thrill spoon

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

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

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!

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

xp spoonerang

oh, ilm paws

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"

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

Will never ever understand Spoon.

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

Wither, spoons

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.

general comment: this thread needs more saer

for sooth, saer

Transference is their weakest album, IMO.

KTM > GCT > TWMS > GGGGG > GF > ASOS > Transference

Just imagine sitting around thinking up band names and thinking "Spoon? Yeah that'll do."

so much worse than the knife!

i've never shaken my impression of Spoon as "Grunge Beck" based on their Matador-era early music

as in they literally just looked and sounded to me like Beck fronting a grunge band

It is much worse than The Knife actually (and a bit worse than just calling yourselves 'Knife').

the one named after a genesis song is so much better than the one named after a can song, just saying

woo great day so far (even w/ the terrible LDR inclusion). i voted for angel olsen - which i love for its gothicy folk americana strands - and the mark barrott.

spoon sounded okay but kinda boring? idk, i get why preexisting fans might like it.

gonna chime in and say i never liked any previous spoon album in full but this new one i thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end. not sure if that's a reflection of the album or just how my tastes have changed.

every Spoon album has been underrated

Why do so many ilxors vote for shit pitchfork approved indie like the sheeple they accuse top 40 fans of being?
Too many lists look the same because of it.

It's weird to me holding KTM as a benchmark when they're so maddeningly devoted to an aesthetic that won't allow any but minor deviations. The trick is to like the aesthetic.