ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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44 LOOΠΔ/ODD EYE CIRCLE "Girl Front" [187 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/tyInv6RWL0Q

girl yeah

Oh yeah, voted for both of these.

not really down with this kind of comfort techno

I am *totally* down with this kind of comfort techno.

Bicep voter here

Also I love the comments on that Bicep youtube: "The video is all the sesh gremlins skaggin on the bus back from life festival but they haven't quite stopped trippin and its a real grim overcast morning and so they're havin a bit of a shite trip cause they've gotta go back to their government housing estate which sucks but that's the way it is folks..."

One of the kpop tracks I didn't vote for, not because I don't like it, just hadn't listened to it enough. I've barely kept up with the various Loona constellations the last year, but enough to get that they've been weaving an interesting web of sounds and looks.

xp haha wow, does saer have a second YouTube account?

Did Childish Gambino send all the posters running for the exits?

Getting a bit of a Rotary Connection vibe from the first section of the Kamasi Washington.

Got halfway through the Destroyer and wondering how anyone could possibly vote that level of limp pastiche as their #1.

(That's not me being down on the KW by the way, it's nice)

i support bicep's rave nostalgia album but it isn't for me. 'just' was v good, so was 'celeste'

im angry that dan bejar uses the name "destroyer" tbh

yay loona, goood track

that 'girl front' is the best k-pop to place so far imo, i voted for 'new' though

Destroyer is a good name.

im angry that dan bejar uses the name "destroyer" tbh

It made more sense before he shortened it from Destroyer? I Don't Even Know Her!

Save us, Johnny Fever!

Destroyer is a good name.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:45 PM (sixteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course!

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43 ATELJE "50/50" [197 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/MXRtT7_eE3U

oh this is studio right

Basically.

yeh i dug this track earlier last year, completely forgot about it!

my number one

most west coast sounding thing he's done in 10 years

Lissvik has really let himself go. I can't believe I turned off L'Rain to listen to that.

Is the whole L'Rain album in this vein? Because this is astonishing.

also, as someone recently pointed out on the thread, "atejle" is swedish for "studio", from the same etymology as "atelier"

On one hand this is very light and bouncy and "west coast," but on the other hand it sounds like a mid-90s Blur album cut.

yeh xps

down with demand
and down with the maaaan

Tinseltown is one of the good songs on one of the year's most disappointing records.
I must protest, dunno where ILM got the idea that there's anything disappointing about that record, it's as good as most Destroyer records, that is, it's not as good as Rubies or Kaputt or Nighthawk, but it's pretty damn good!

47 DUA LIPA ft. MIGUEL "Lost In Your Light" [179 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes]
this otoh I have no idea what the appeal is and there is so much compression on her voice it's hardly human

I should've voted for 'Zephyr' over '50/50' really - the former is as good as his stuff from ten years ago if you prefer his long instrumental meanders.

Pretty much all mainstream pop is mastered like that now and TBF Dua Lipa has a good enough voice that she'd probably benefit from a lot more space in her records.

Is the whole L'Rain album in this vein? Because this is astonishing.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 6:54 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if anything parts of it are even better. 26 minutes you won't regret

Meant to vote for Atelje but did tracks ballot in a rush and forgot (same for Oktoberklubben although don't imagine that will place).

Great track and as mentioned the most Studio thing he's done in years.

i voted for 'zephyr' instead. also voted for oktoberklubben, but i'm guessing i'm the only one

The brightness of the production does that Lissvik record no favours at all, particularly the vocals - part of the whole appeal of West Coast was the *haze*, this just feels like its sitting there in the unforgiving bright lights.

you're an unforgiving bright light

I liked the Atelje album from a year or two back, but this is pretty weak
kinda want to punch this guy for singing "ring the alarm" :/

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42 LITTLE BIG TOWN "Lost In California" [202 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]

good time to kill...

too low

my favorite campaigning discovery, alas discovered too late to actually uh vote for it

that 'girl front' is the best k-pop to place so far imo, i voted for 'new' though

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:44 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh hey what's up karl. hope "new" places but it's seeming rll unlikely at this point

oh I didn't know Atelje had done new stuff. The dubby album he did a while ago was amazing

my favorite campaigning discovery, alas discovered too late to actually uh vote for it

This for me too, but I've compensated by listening to it 1000 times in the past two weeks

This sounds like closing credits music for a Julia Roberts movie.

The outro measures are kinda neat, tho.

ok mr. i voted for jason isbell xp

How am I wrong?

This sounds like closing credits music for a Julia Roberts movie.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:13 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a complment!