ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

forget whether I voted for the album or "Frontline" but yeah great song. We had a good run of no repeats but Kelela is a good one to break the streak with

oh this is why LMK seemed low, love this

i enjoyed a fair bit of the LCD album but it was way overrated in most EOY stuff. How Do You Sleep was one of the real duds, it's such a slog

oh this is why LMK seemed low, love this

Huh, they both have 7 votes. Just ballot placement thangz, I guess.

Didn't check out the Algiers album last year but from what other ilxors had said about it I thought I'd like it a lot more than I actually do. It just seems a bit full of rock stodge.

Oh Baby - sounds like the cover looks. terrible. 1
Shadow - dreary, whenever i look in the middle distance I see a carpet warehouse. they must see something better but no idea what. 3
Ogre - this is from that episode of Star Trek Original Series where they go to a planet of ancient greeks and the one with the red shirt gets vaporized again. would be a 5 but its always good to see Spock smiling so an extra half for that. 5 and a half.
Red Flavor - the Korean version of the music they play on Norwegian airlines for three hours straight when you are delayed on the runway because Norwegian Air have the lowest priority at the gate. 1
Magnolia - Quite like the production, its even a little bit genial! 6

Mondo Grosso - first 40 seconds or so are alright, vocals are completely characterless and then it gets sappy and overdone and whatever was there disappears. 4
Did You See - no idea 2
Pour Aisha - first artist on list I own a record by (not this one), the sounds are nice but really it needs a touch of Riquelme to think about reaching bank holiday deckchair status. its growing on me though 7
The Underside Of Power truly dire. when you complain about music in a coffee shop and then in 10% of them it plays this which is much worse than the other sort (the vampire one we had from before) 0
frontline - bearable i guess 4

:D

'frontline' is a really cool trip

Mondo Grosso - first 40 seconds or so are alright, vocals are completely characterless and then it gets sappy and overdone and whatever was there disappears. 4

I'm fine with this take as long as a saer track makes top 10.

love u saer

lmao at the notion of Algiers getting coffee-shop play

Pour Aisha - first artist on list I own a record by (not this one), the sounds are nice but really it needs a touch of Riquelme to think about reaching bank holiday deckchair status. its growing on me though 7

I have to say I find this extremely disappointing.

tbf there are a few communist coffee shops out there

you guys really like kelela, huh?

it was in Blods coffee corner!

pour aisha is quite nice, goes straight into my bobbins playlist

saer has the best dawson take

https://i.imgur.com/dQmD4iX.jpg

30 ALVVAYS "In Undertow" [250 points, 8 votes]
https://youtu.be/T1n72aCdwdU

I guess this is my day huh? lovely band.

I voted for the album, but this is a nice opening track.

alvvays are pleasant i guess but there's nothing interesting about them at all

lol i was about to say alvvays are alvvays pleasant

Surprised to see this place so high. The second album didn't quite hit me in the same way the debut did. This is definitely is one of the highlights.

there are a million songs about accepting something is over and being OK alone but I like the particular formulation here, and the closing "no turning....ba-aaaack" always gets me

Second one I voted for, love this. Both albums have been completely overshadowed by their lead singles for me though.

my only strong feeling about alvvays is that I think it would be super fun to be in this band

The second album didn't quite hit me in the same way the debut did.

Me either, until one night when it just did. Now I kind of favor it over the debut.

I said this on their thread but the blossoming of the rhythm section is a big plus over the debut

The opening melody of this song immediately makes me think of "I Think We're Alone Now" on 100% of my listens.

Alvvays is pure sugar, nice in small doses, but too much can be a bit overpowering. luckily, their albums are short!

I think part of the reason I didn't connect with the second Alvvays as much is because I spent most of the year listening to the Japanese Breakfast album which is everything I love about this kind of indie music and so much more. Probably my favourite album of that style in 10 years. Antisocialites wasn't quite at that level (as lovely as it is).

my favourite of this style in recent times is the previous Japanese Breakfast album, Psychopomp. there wasn't really anything in this style that i liked much this year

that dawson tune was so rough jeez what is wrong with you people

my new gimmick is going to be posting "this was my #2" after every reveal

mondo gross0 tune is v good

i nominated Ogre but forgot to vote for it

https://i.imgur.com/mM1Zef6.jpg

29 LOOΠΔ/YVES "New" [250 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/LIDe-yTxda0

hahahahaha holy shit

I've fallen totally in love with this song in the last 4 days.

it's so fucking good!!!

also this is a bit weird but every time I listen to alvvays a small part of my brain recalls hearing news of the singer's father's death when I was young (he was a pretty famous musician in Canada, esp where I grew up) and it adds a slightly tragic tinge to all their stuff (so many xps)

I voted for this! It was one of my best discoveries from the Spotify playlist. A great headphones song.

it was an unusually wonderful year for k-pop and i'm so delighted that the countdown is reflecting this

ALL MY LIFE
BY MY LIFE

wow did not see this placing so high!!!

all my life
LIFE LIFE LIFE

lol, xp

is this the act that's also some sort of wild multimedia project?

From what I understand, LOOΠΔ is the overarching group and before they release a proper debut all the sub-units of LOOΠΔ are being introduced one at a time.

It's like K-pop Turquoise Jeep.

this is my favorite of the kpop entries so far

Is this the most k-pop there's ever been on one of these lists? Nice surprise

much prefer this to the other loona