ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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the word 'cunt'
richard dawson

so proud to be british rn lol

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link

I couldn't connect with Richard Dawson in any way, either, and I was unable to listen to any whole Swans song, but I voted for Gazelle Twin, Scott Walker and K. Michelle, so this all seems fine. And pleasantly incoherent!

glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/eb1QW10.jpg

22 SHABAZZ PALACES Lese Majesty [536 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link

I can see why the Richard Dawson record is niche, but by jove, if you like it you're probably going to love the chuff out of it.

All The Craigers Gonna Craig Craig Craig Craig Craig (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link

less of the c word m8

wins, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

think it's time I come to terms with the fact that Menace Ruine is not gonna show up

Dinsdale, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

Oh Fuck I meant to say microcosm above

xelab, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link

I like the "chuff" in Brit vernacular much better than the other c-word.

Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link

np xelab - compliment returned!

i'll go insane for Shabazz Palaces right

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link

THE STREETS IS UNDEFEATED

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link

Is "Under Cover of Official Right" not gonna place?

monster_xero, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link

Thank God

Though I am thinking that we will not see Neneh Cherry or Orlando Julius now :-(

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link

Probably no Meshell Ndegeocello nor Reagenz

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link

either.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link

Nor Hollie Cook. :(

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link

or chronixx

Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link

The first time I heard the Richard Dawson title track, I thought it was unlistenable garbage. Voted this album in my Top 10. Funny how that happens.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link

really dig the atmosphere of this album, had to cut it from my ballot though

example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link

I feel bad for not voting for Meshell or Neneh even tho I listened to both quite a bit.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

I think we will see Neneh but not Meshell.

Tim F, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

wish Dawson hadn't bitten quite so much of the "Lean On Me" melody for the title track, really like the album though

Shabazz Palaces rules, obv

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/Qw80FPg.jpg

21 NENEH CHERRY Blank Project [545 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link

But on a positive note, I'm loving the Gazelle Twin tracks on Youtube, and I just ordered the album from Amazon. This kind of stuff is often the verge of becoming too gloomy and abrasive for me, but thankfully it stays on the good side just by an inch. Love her beat programming, so hard-hitting.

(xxxpost)

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link

haha lol

amazing album obv

Tim F, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link

Yay, thank god for Cherry! Her comeback has been one of my favourite things in music during the last couple of years.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link

catching up from city number three

dj quik - "life jacket" and "that getter" stood out to me but overall it felt less like a disappointment than a minor work that came and went rather than something that left its mark on your listening like his previous two

gazelle twin - yesssss, i voted for this. huge volte-face from her "thread of knife-like music" debut - have never heard any music that captures body horror so effectively, and i appreciate the way it feels like a horror film. sounds better the louder it is. she's a super-interesting person too.

[run of Difficult Old Man Music; if i was slouching on the sofa at home alone i might give any of this a go but i'm in a hotel room in france with a shitload of work to prepare so i'll just skip to the bit where i go "hmm i admire it" then never ever listen to it again]

K. MICHELLE - YASSSS BISH YASSSSSSSSSSSS my #1 my #1 she is the realest and the rawest

"judge me" - bravura opener that makes me realise i want to hear her do a bond theme at some point in her career
"build a man" - how to reconcile the depth of your feelings with the shittiness of men pt 1: frankenstein fantasies
"drake would love me" - how to reconcile the depth of your feelings with the shittiness of men pt 2: fan fiction, and musing on what exactly we use pop stars and celebrities for (see also ne-yo's "single")
"god i get it" - how to reconcile the depth of your feelings with the shittiness of men pt 3: resignation, acceptance. "god i get it / i'm a mess and i admit it"

why did shabazz palaces call their album by a french phrase but not spell it the french way? lèse-majesté. their first album was too awkward and unlovable for me

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link

ha i knew neneh would show up despite the handwringing. i never really expected meshell to but i'm slightly gutted about mirel wagner. anyway neneh's album is good, i was very impressed on release, but it completely fell out of regular listening and i was never motivated to get it back in there

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link

why did shabazz palaces call their album by a french phrase but not spell it the french way?

because

http://31.media.tumblr.com/db480ce9173e2053bb641b7f9c9051ee/tumblr_n949eloIYn1r4h022o1_500.jpg

The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link

This album has a really unique feel, IMO... It doesn't sound like anything's that's hip these days (AFAIK), but neither does it sound like any of her older records (which did sometimes have a bit too much of following-the-latest-trend quality). It's like she re-emerged as a whole new artist.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link

I have really no idea what rev dislikes about the toni/babyface production - it's one of the greatest appeals about it to me. Just really creamy and lush. I don't hear how it's any different to prime toni/babyface material either.

There's no depth to it, it's all surface. Everything is at 10 most of the record. It's so LOUD in a way that doesn't suit the material and is really wearying to me.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 7:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm relistening now and i genuinely can't hear this? it doesn't strike me as unusually loud, i can hear depth...

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link

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]

40 LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence [390 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE-38 ANGEL OLSEN Burn Your Fire for No Witness [390 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE-38 MARK BARROTT Sketches From an Island [390 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
37 SPOON They Want My Soul [400 points, 11 votes]
36 AZEALIA BANKS Broke With Expensive Taste [408 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote]
35 TONI BRAXTON & BABYFACE Love, Marriage & Divorce [414 points, 14 votes]
34 ANDY STOTT Faith in Strangers [424 points, 14 votes]
33 THE SOFT PINK TRUTH Why Do the Heathen Rage? [426 points, 16 votes]
32 ARIEL PINK Pom Pom [430 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
31 JESSIE WARE Tough Love [431 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]
30 FUTURE ISLANDS Singles [432 points, 15 votes]
29 POPCAAN Where We Come From [435 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes]
28 DJ QUIK The Midnight Life [455 points, 18 votes]
27 GAZELLE TWIN Unflesh [469 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes]
26 SWANS To Be Kind [481 points, 16 votes]
25 SCOTT WALKER & SUNN 0))) Soused [482 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote]
24 K. MICHELLE Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? [486 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]
23 RICHARD DAWSON Nothing Important [497 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes]
22 SHABAZZ PALACES Lese Majesty [536 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]
21 NENEH CHERRY Blank Project [545 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote]

Commence with top 20 predictions of course.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link

I suppose it would be nice for there to be more tunes (not just on the TB&B album but generally) that sound as infinity-swimming-pools luxuriant as Babyface's absolute best productions of the 90s ("You're Making Me High", "Diggin' On You" etc.) but for me that's less a problem with L,M&D and more a Santa's Wish List item for music in general.

Tim F, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

i think only war on drugs is left over in terms of "indie albums bound to inspire ilxrage" that will most likely place in the top 20

indie fuxxor albums i have secretly spotified (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

interesting that nobody voted Swans #1

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link

RTJ2! xp

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link

i still have no idea why LJ thinks RTJ2 will be controversial

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link

as someone who doesn't like it at all it's far from an album i'd get all UGH GTFO about

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link

The one thing I regret about skipping the Pitchfork Fest was missing Neneh Cherry. Did anyone see her show? I just finished Viv Albertine's memoir, and learned that 15 year-old Neneh toured with The Slits near the end of their run, contributing vocals.

Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link

ha, fine

Poll took a massive turn for the awesome, will give K Michelle, Shabazz Palaces and Neneh Cherry thorough listens all :)

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link

I think you will like the Neneh Cherry imago.

Tim F, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link

15 year-old Neneh toured with The Slits near the end of their run, contributing vocals.

That's awesome.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link

Thats probably what led to her being on the second New Age Steppers album

YES TYPE all your albums ballot out and post them here (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link

xps to lex yeah most folks on here i've seen who haven't liked RTJ2 are more like "eh, it's not my thing but whatever," than "ew what is this corny fuxxor indie-rap shit"

indie fuxxor albums i have secretly spotified (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link

Except for the Raccoon, but he's gone.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link

Cheers Tim. Today has been really good imo aside from discovering what dicks Ariel Pink and DJ Quik are - so much to listen to!

DJ Quit (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link

run the jewels, D'angelo, taylor, FKA Twigs, Tinashe, charli xcx, caribou, owen pallett, rich gang, war on drugs, aphex, against me, st vincent, nicki minaj, parquet courts, YG
That's 16. Anybody think any of those don't make it?

Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link

the thing with RTJ2 is that while it clearly is the corny indie fuxxor rap album of choice it's not just that and its fanbase is obviously not limited to that so i just chalk it up to dislike of el-p's awkward bashy production and move on

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link

FYI Neneh is on (I think) all of the Rip Rig & Panic albums as well

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link

miranda lambert will make it, probably the juan maclean too?

sigh, just realised mariah probably missed out. and angaleena presley, unless ilm's pistol annies loyalty is stronger than i realise

lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link


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