^^ voting highly for sacred paws
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
if I may do my bit for Sacred Paws, I absolutely loathe it, which usually helps to push something up the 77
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
you loathe it imago? strong words. i'd be interested to know why
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
cough cough
thread to dis hyped 2017 releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
he hates drums, or something
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Speaking of excellent Scottish bands, I'm very surprised to see just a couple of mentions of Glaswegian kosmik funk marvels Golden Teacher on ILM. Their album was apparently recorded live at the city's famous Green Door Studio and spans a huge range of styles from disco to dub to spaced-out Lindstrom-esque fuckwizardry and it's REALLY REALLY good
This is the lead track, and maybe the most obviously accessible song on there. It goes interstellar after that youtube.com/watch?v=GFpnkgd6iok
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
Re-TROS seconded although my fave Re-TROS jam is "At Mosp Here"
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
kraut dance thingie that bests anything on the new LCD Soundsystem album
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
*obliterates into tiny shards
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Kinda astonished that Dave "Question Time" has never been mentioned on ILM. Devastatingly powerful and on-point, my track of 2017 by a country mile. https://youtu.be/4ff6CjYBhoI
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:01 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, Sacred Paws
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Just skimmed through the nominations, was Lingua Ignota All Bitches Die not nominated?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Doesn't look like it. You can vote for it in the metal poll though!
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
really encourage everyone to check out Wednesday Campanella - Superman. imaginative & idiosyncratic dance-pop with great energetic vocal performances from KOM_I & a similar all-over-the-place vibe to Art Angels except much more rooted in dance music. lead single Aladdin almost made last year's tracks 77, it's sort of like Thriller-meets-freestyle
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
this is great :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
Just skimmed through the nominations, was Lingua Ignota All Bitches Die not nominated?― Siegbran, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkDoesn't look like it. You can vote for it in the metal poll though!― o. nate, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:13 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It was not nominated in the metal poll either it seems (or rejected as it's indeed not metal?). Anyway, absoluetely great record. This combination of Diamanda Galas-inspired apoplectic singing/howling + early/medieval music + doomy electronics is right up my alley.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 10:56 (six years ago) link
Oh, wow, that's really something. Her cover of Bad Boys!
― etc, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
@Siegbran - simple error on my part, I've added it to the metal noms list
― Simon H., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
I agree it’s unclassifiable and not metal, but it contains enough metallic characteristics for me to vote for it there in good faith and thematically it’s plenty dark to fit in there.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I seem to always be several months behind Suiyoubi no Campanella's releases (or is it always Weds Camp in English now? This is a recent development and I get confused easily), so it's not had time to settle in as a full favourite, but they really are such a great band, deserve way more recognition around here.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Also, yeah, Aladdin kills.
yeah Wednesday Campanella has been the official english name for a little while now. it's been really impressive how they keep getting better & better, while being so prolific. i'd imagine ilx would be all over them if it weren't for the language barrier, it's not like the jpop thread gets much traffic
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Tbh I don't think anything's topped Jeanne d'Arc for me, but they've definitely upped their game in terms of writing out-and-out bangers.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
agreed that "jeanne d'arc" is still their best, always happy to hear new music from them, though.
thanks davey for nominating Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness, lovely stuff
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Feel duty-bound to observe that Cleric - Retrocausal is now on Spotify and would make a nice if slightly terrifying addition to the second albums playlist
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 08:16 (six years ago) link
it wasn't nominated! but the single "grey lodge" was and has been added... that was the only single that I couldn't find anywhere, so thanks!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
it certainly was nominated ffs
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
so saltyit's on the Youtube playlist yes? fine.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
sorry. long day
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
it was a another extremely year for women in country music. For starters --
Sunny SweeneyAngaleena PresleyNicole AtkinsNikki LaneWhitney RoseNatalie HembyLee Ann Womack
not sure if I'll find a place for all of them but their albums are all outstanding, some even classic.
― omar little, Friday, 12 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
right on
― brimstead, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
all right, i'm prob not going to do this v well bc i'm tired and hate writing about music atm but here are some things i really want to rep for (some of these might seem obvious but i can't tell what anyone's aware of anymore):
1. any and all dua lipa singles
2. goldlink's "crew," the first time i've cared about a goldlink song (it might simultaneously be the first time for a ton of ppl tbh), the hook is so gorgeous
3. k-pop was improbably rich this year, it's hard to figure out what to include in my ballot, but, in addition to red velvet's "red flavor" (not their best single ever but extremely worthy, it's all technicolor pops), i would like to draw ppl's attention to the non-stop glitterings of iu's "palette" and the asymmetrical synth longing of yves' "new" (k-pop mvps of the year are loona, the greater mothership group from which yves' "new" descends; check out odd eye circle's "girl front" as well)
4. mama, "unmask me," particularly the ashley beedle vocal mix, a song i forgot about until tim nominated it, perfect, glowing, vulnerable house
5. little big town, "lost in california," see tim's comments here: "It Is Happening Again": Tim writes about songs from 2017
6. sasha feat. poliça, "out of time," which at the moment i feel like i'm the only person who really *loves* this song, it's sort of an "everything in exactly the right place" house jam for me: the vocal, the groove, the synth washes, everything interlocking precisely so as to convey you toward an unspecified destination, driving toward a sun-melted horizon that you never seem to actually approach etc. etc.
7. h/t to d-40 for pointing my way toward distruction boyz' gqom is the future and particularly the track "omunye", the synths feel like they're divebombing
8. radio slave, "another club," house needs almost nothing to work
9. another h/t to d-40 for 03 greedo, whose catalogue is overwhelming and hard to isolate a single song from, but regardless the one that resonated most with me was "never bend", i think of all the songs of his i've heard this is the most cinematic union between production + greedo's constant invention and revision of his own hooks
10. heavy-k feat. bucie and nokwazi, "inde," bc it is the best music in the whole world
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
the extremely syncopated synth blinking in "girl front" reminds me of mary jane girls "candy man," i only just picked up on that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
oh i forgot about jacquees "at the club", star of the 2017 r&b thread
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
dropping by to say that the nominated L'Rain track is kind of incredible, cheers to whoever put that on
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
as is the album it's from :o
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
That Octo Octa album is really good.
― How do I feel a complaint? (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to this a lot right now - Leif - July V - Sort of like Steve Reich makes downtempo acid techno.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
Lost in California is incredible, can't believe I didn't get to it before voting
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
I've got to say, some of the late entries, which I'm just getting around to sifting through, are pretty high quality. I liked Kelly Moran's Bloodroot, which I guess is prepared harp or something like that? (Not curious enough to search right now.)
― How do I feel a complaint? (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
xp, I agree, that Octo Octa album is great!
I also really love the Sasha/Poliça track that Brad recommended above.
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
Some things that nobody mentioned:
(3) Trio of synth-popPerfume - Houseki no Ame (it's Perfume, it's great obv)Johan Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren ft. Sally Shapiro and Tommy '86 - Aurora Over Odega (Remix) (Relive the glory days of ILX)Charlotte Adigéry - 1,618 (the older sister, bit more hip and experimental)
(2) Two new age albums ft. cosmic enlightenmentThe Swan And The Lake - Clouds (new)Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millenia Music (old)
(1) One album with "One" in the titlehttps://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/album/penelope-one (very Poliça, bit of Kelly Lee Owens, bit of Low is my super lazy comparison)
(0) ???Mariam the Believer - Crust (art-pop odyssey to soundtrack progressive romcoms and picnics)
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 14 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
keep meaning to post my picks but would like to give due deference to LOONA Girl Front, that is a jam
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
gonna repeat myself but with a little elaboration
L'Rain
the most astonishing debut in a while. psychedelic art-soul from the heavens. only 26 minutes long. whatever your taste you need to hear this. whoever nominated it, you are an angel
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
I know ILX doesn't have a Bollywood massive, the way we have k-pop and afro-pop groups, but I'd still want to mention my favorite this year: Guru Randhawa - Suit Suit. Probably won't make the list - and that's probably not that unfair - but still one of the only times of year where people will listen to Bollywood tracks.
― Frederik B, Monday, 15 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
yeh found l'rain after the bandcamp eoy listits a real joy
― nxd, Monday, 15 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
been digging around the noms list and I just want to shout about this track 'Volumes' by Minor Science which is this wonderful slow-pulse techno track with these cool little vocal snippets that grows and grows into an absolute BANGER of a tune. thanks to whoever nominated that
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
billy woods' album Known Unknowns is fantastic and well worth a listen.
Also the Buddy track Find Me was great: https://youtu.be/NWTNbDkalAQ
Other tracks I am campaigning for:Blanck Mass - PleaseFour Tet - Two Thousand and Seventeen
― octobeard, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, January 15, 2018 3:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this track rules
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
Gene on Earth's Pulse Mode is the sound of riding of a bmx on the top deck of one of the trams at Blackpool pleasure beach while finishing off a can of brexit half-inched from the budget astral plane
― saer, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
Thank you or something for nomming Skee Mask, which has led me to discover (a) Skee Mask; and (b) Stenny.
― Tim F, Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link