Its unlikely I will have heard any of these albums, so it only seems fair to comment if anything good pops up in any skipping through!
― saer, Monday, 4 February 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
too low
― flopson, Monday, 4 February 2019 05:18 (five years ago) link
oh this is starting at a weird time, but it's good for me
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
A friend of mine pointed out how much his voice sounds like David Gray and I can't unhear it.
― kitchen person, Monday, 4 February 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link
Great, now I can't either.
Tunes are still better tho
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link
dang the borad is genuinely dead, huh
past midnight on the east coast and monday's tomorrow. the internet is dead
maybe less so for people who watched the super bowl i guess
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 February 2019 05:22 (five years ago) link
i wasn't looking at ilm because it's always dead at this time even though i'm always wide awake
there were a few good tracks on Freedom but it didn't really click for me overall, i'm not really sold on the sort of loops he builds his songs around i guess?
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link
on first listen his delivery and vocal melodies remind me of richard ashcroft
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
that gap between everyone here falling asleep and everyone in the uk waking up is usually when i'm updating the third eye blind thread really stoned
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 February 2019 05:31 (five years ago) link
Freedom jambs so right
― flopson, Monday, 4 February 2019 06:03 (five years ago) link
save us johnny forks
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Monday, 4 February 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
I can sort of see comparisons to Gray, Ashcroft, but his voice is much more interesting-sounding to me
― Dan S, Monday, 4 February 2019 06:42 (five years ago) link
Good timing for antipodeans and commuters in Europe / the UK but not many others. Anyway, looking forward to this rollout despite the dull first cab off the rank.
― monotony, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:18 (five years ago) link
This album is comfort food - listenable, if you're not engaging too much, and maybe suitable for the sleepy nothingness of a rainy morning commute (hai), but...yeah that's all
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link
I haven't turned it off yet, which feels like sufficient praise
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
uhh... what time.. uh?
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 4 February 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
forks sleep posting again
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 07:51 (five years ago) link
forks should continue to post the rest of the rollout at the least expected times
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:56 (five years ago) link
i'm here for it
strangely, i listened to that amen dunes album this afternoon, for the first time in ages. i've listened to it about 10 times and i still have no idea if i'd recommend it to another person. but yet i keep coming back.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 4 February 2019 07:59 (five years ago) link
Comfort food ftw.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 08:18 (five years ago) link
On an unrelated note, are there any iOS apps that make browsing ILX on mobile less of an early 00s experience?
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 08:27 (five years ago) link
here you go
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Monday, 4 February 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
Zing Touch is the official ilx app
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Monday, 4 February 2019 08:31 (five years ago) link
Awesome, thanks.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 08:32 (five years ago) link
Totally going to miss the first ten of these before I wake up tomorrow.
― octobeard, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
i'm down for one reveal at 5am for the next 76 days
― nxd, Monday, 4 February 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
I don't mind this tbh, sounds like something that could've been runner-up in Ptolemaic Terrascope's AOTY in 1993
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
comfort food just another way to say you like something when you fear the wrath of the tastemakers
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 February 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
^^ da troot
― . (Michael B), Monday, 4 February 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
any predictions out there for what's going to win this year?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
Monáe?
― Tuomas, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
kacey musgraves seems like the most obviously likely to me but i think there's plenty of room to be surprised too
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
fingers x'd for mitski
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
musgraves or 1975
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
You could always vote or start compiling a shortlist! The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 9th!
while you wait!
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
as much as i love the 1975 i'd be really disappointed if they do better than they did in 2016 with a worse album but i could see it happening
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
if they'd won in 2016 it would have been a triumph (though king winning certainly was anyway) but if they win this year it's just 'lol i love them but come on it was only like the 20th best album this year'
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
fair points - think theyd be the favourite to win this still tbh
― nxd, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
I thought Christine & The Queens would have been a contender for #1, but they didn't feature strongly in the tracks so have tempered my expectations.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
It'll be an 'M': Musgraves, Monae or Mitski. For all the love I can't see 1975 reaching the top spot.
Autechre cracking the top 20 would be sweet.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
beach house will be up there im sure
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
thought ILM cooled on Beach House?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
i don't think beach house have ever been hugely popular here but 7 is the first time i've really been into them
i expect the top 10 will probably include low, cardi b and julia holter in addition to most of those mentioned, but i could see monae just missing it, a lot of people seem to have cooled on it since its release
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
I feel like most people who are going to vote for it are going to put it very high on their ballot, so I think there's a very good chance of this. I just don't know what the exact overlap between people who post in all the autechre threads and people who vote in this poll is.
― silverfish, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
a certain australian art-punk group have top ten ambitions imo
in fact, highest-placing australian album is an intriguing subplot
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
which are the others in contention? i'd be surprised if tfs don't place but i'd be even more surprised if they made top 10
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
mostly i'm just hoping wednesday campanella have a respectable showing at around ~50 again like last year
― ufo, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
― imago, Monday, February 4, 2019 2:37 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I like 'I'm on Smoko' too but this is stretching it tbf
;)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
The 1975 would be my guess but it is very much a guess.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Was surprised by hte massive 1975 love in the singles thread so I guess they win this, which would be boring!
― abcfsk, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
sons of kemet lp is out of print, impulse need to get their act together
― ogmor, Friday, 8 February 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
xp yeah but everyone except their biggest fan (turrican) thought that the new chvrches was a massive letdown
― ufo, Friday, 8 February 2019 08:50 (five years ago) link
Second Chvrches album is great, new one is shite but the one thing an ILM poll does NOT need is more watery electropop.
I scrolled through the entire Top 10 after getting in from the pub but somehow missed Sun-El Musician at #9. When I saw Kasey at #2 I thought he'd won and celebrated like he'd just won the World Cup.
The Low record is clearly good but, I dunno, I just hope I'm rarely in the frame of mind to actually want to listen to it.
Thanks to everyone who organised it. For all the US dominance it actually felt like a more globally diverse list than we've had in a while.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 February 2019 09:03 (five years ago) link
There were people that thought the second Chvrches album was shite too. They were also wrong!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 8 February 2019 09:12 (five years ago) link
Was almost quite enjoying the Tracey Thorn record until that 8-minute thing turned up and drowned me. Morning is not the time for Yves Tumor so I'm onto MGMT now. I mean the album starts quite strong (in an objective, not-entirely-for-me sense) but will it be able to sustain itself beyond the first four tracks?
― imago, Friday, 8 February 2019 10:13 (five years ago) link
I love the Julia Holter album even if it was the first time she didn't make an album that was better than her last one. I might be on my own on that one.
I agree. HYIMW was her best yet.
― . (Michael B), Friday, 8 February 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
I know Metal is niche around here but we do take a loose definition of the word and its really a noisy/heavy rock/metal and subgenres poll which means we have nominations . It's also not US-centric at all and many non-English singing bands get in.
So if everybody could just take a wee look at the nominations and if you like anything please vote.
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
So where DID Koenji Hyakkei place?
― *there's (Noel Emits), Friday, 8 February 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
they got like 92 points iirc, 2 votes
― imago, Friday, 8 February 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
good album
― imago, Friday, 8 February 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
this Low album... Well it certainly sounds different from what I've heard from them before. A bit like listening to a Low album but with a really trippy cold
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Monae album has some great deep cuts - So Afraid, for example
― imago, Friday, 8 February 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
It's quite difficult to complain about Chvrches not placing when Charlie Puth sucked the credibility out of the roll-out pretty much near the beginning.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican),
The second album was great and was worthy of making the top 20 that year. The new one deserved to miss out. I'm surprised it got as high as it did!
― kitchen person, Friday, 8 February 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
i think he's complaining about a poll he didn't vote in again
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
if i'd known charlie puth would've kept turrican away from this thread, i would've voted for it
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
charlie puth is good now
― mh, Friday, 8 February 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
Charlie Puth's transformation from "terrible joke" into "legitimately decent pop musician" has been fascinating. I liked the singles off of his album a lot when they came on the radio, something I never would have guessed/imagined would happen after that terrible Fast & Furious song.
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
I actually have no Charlie Puth opinions but mentioning his name is apparently a powerful ward
― mh, Friday, 8 February 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
i dug into Puth when he placed here and I'll agree that the the front half up until Patient is surprisingly good. It's when he dips into adult contemporary that he loses me completely; the james taylor duet is terrifying.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
But yeah, I associated him in 2016/2017 with the worst of pop and took to calling him "The Puth"
still kinda gonna keep calling him "The Puth" i think
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
was that him who duetted with meghan trainor on that truly awful song?
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
yes, will not embed out of self preservation but it includes the phrase "let's marvin gaye and get it on"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
"Puth" - the sound you make when you spit out something that tastes horrible
― . (Michael B), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zywVsz0.jpg
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
It's true. If you don't vote in metal poll, you're a cop
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
The prog-rock synth that blows up midway through So Afraid is one of my favourite moments on the album.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 February 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
haha you're just trying to get imago to listen, right?
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
It's a fantastic album, everyone should listen to it.
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Friday, 8 February 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
Love Gritty, hate metal. A true conundrum.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
For those who haven't heard it, the Switched on Pop about Charlie Puth's "Boy" is excellent and can be heard here:
http://www.switchedonpop.com/87-the-pure-pop-of-charlie-puth-carly-rae-ft-hanif-abdurraqib/
― Indexed, Friday, 8 February 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
Was almost quite enjoying the Tracey Thorn record until that 8-minute thing turned up and drowned me
Ach, you cannot even listen like a girl? Fair enough; then skip it and play "Babies" and "Dancefloor" after the midpoint on that album at least.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 8 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
I had never heard of The Armed before and god this album rules.
― fffv, Monday, 11 February 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
fuckin the grammys picked a better AOTY than ilm this year
― flopson, Monday, 11 February 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
yeah, don't agree
I missed the last part of the rollout, thank you Moka, seandalai, ulysses for all the hard work!
― Dan S, Monday, 11 February 2019 07:40 (five years ago) link
I had a lot of fun following these rollouts this year. I voted. A few of the albums I voted for made it. Best thing I hadn’t heard is probably Skee Mask (I guess the name threw me off). Also excited by a preview of Szun Waves. Album I was most surprised by not making top 77 was Konoyo.
― beard papa, Monday, 11 February 2019 08:56 (five years ago) link
Did anyone post the ordered list (for copy-paste) and do we have the cool Moka-images list ?
― Nabozo, Monday, 11 February 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
Actually I can try doing that myself
ILM Top 77 Albums of 2018
1 Low - Double Negative 1440 45 62 Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 1078 30 53 Robyn - Honey 933 27 34 Julia Holter - Aviary 916 27 45 Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 748 25 16 Mitski - Be the Cowboy 747 23 17 The 1975 - A brief inquiry into online relationships 739 23 38 Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 649 18 49 sun-el musician - africa to the world 606 19 310 The Beths - Future Me Hates Me 602 17 311 Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile 586 19 112 oneohtrix point never - age of 540 20 013 Beach House - 7 539 18 114 Rosalía - El mal querer 532 16 115 U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited 515 20 216 Mr Twin Sister - Salt 492 16 117 MGMT - Little Dark Age 486 16 118 Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love 483 13 319 Tracey Thorn - Record 482 13 320 Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save The World 455 13 021 Christine & The Queens - Chris 437 16 122 Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears 431 14 123 Kali Uchis - Isolation 430 13 024 SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides 413 15 125 Pusha T - DAYTONA 410 12 226 Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 398 13 027 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs 389 14 028 Against All Logic - 2012-2017 380 12 029 Ariana Grande - Sweetener 364 11 130 Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 359 12 031 Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace 356 12 132 Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings 350 12 033 Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs 340 10 134 Tirzah - Devotion 334 10 035 DJ Koze - Knock Knock 330 13 036 Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism 329 13 037 mewithoutyou - (untitled) 328 9 338 Parquet Courts - Wide Awake 323 10 039 Snail Mail - Lush 308 9 140 Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past 306 11 041 ashley monroe - sparrow 304 12 042 Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita 300 13 043 Black Dresses - Waste Isolation 285 7 144 Eiko Ishibashi - The Dream My Bones Dream 282 10 045 Helena Hauff - Qualm 280 9 046 Saba - Care for Me 276 9 147 Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics 275 9 048 Sleep - The Sciences 270 8 049 The Breeders - All Nerve 267 10 050 Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood 260 10 151 boygenius - boygenius EP 260 9 152 Noname - Room 25 257 11 053 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 254 7 054 Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm 253 10 055 The Armed - Only Love 251 9 156 Foxing - Nearer My God 247 9 057 Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs 243 8 058 Jon Hopkins - Singularity 240 10 059 Burna Boy - Outside 240 9 160 Mount Eerie - Now Only 234 8 061 Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone 233 8 162 Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy 230 10 063 Mariah Carey - Caution 228 11 064 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt 227 8 065 Skee Mask - Compro 225 9 066 Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu 221 10 067 Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth 216 10 068 YOB - Our Raw Heart 214 8 169 Ghost - Prequelle 214 6 070 Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen 208 9 071 Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place 208 8 072 Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos 206 7 073 Senyawa - Sujud 204 6 074 Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine 202 11 075 charlie puth - voicenotes 192 6 176 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel 190 7 177 Amen Dunes - Freedom 189 7 0
― Nabozo, Monday, 11 February 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
― Nabozo
Here you go:
Albums - https://imgur.com/a/FfH9LSQ
Tracks - https://imgur.com/a/gqEoTrs
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
Thanks Moka !
― Nabozo, Monday, 11 February 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link