ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018

forks should continue to post the rest of the rollout at the least expected times

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.

Comfort food ftw.

On an unrelated note, are there any iOS apps that make browsing ILX on mobile less of an early 00s experience?

here you go

Zing Touch is the official ilx app

Awesome, thanks.

Totally going to miss the first ten of these before I wake up tomorrow.

i'm down for one reveal at 5am for the next 76 days

I don't mind this tbh, sounds like something that could've been runner-up in Ptolemaic Terrascope's AOTY in 1993

comfort food just another way to say you like something when you fear the wrath of the tastemakers

^^ da troot

any predictions out there for what's going to win this year?

Monáe?

kacey musgraves seems like the most obviously likely to me but i think there's plenty of room to be surprised too

fingers x'd for mitski

musgraves or 1975

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while you wait!

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

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'

fair points - think theyd be the favourite to win this still tbh

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.

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.

beach house will be up there im sure

thought ILM cooled on Beach House?

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

Autechre cracking the top 20 would be sweet.

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.

a certain australian art-punk group have top ten ambitions imo

in fact, highest-placing australian album is an intriguing subplot

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

mostly i'm just hoping wednesday campanella have a respectable showing at around ~50 again like last year

a certain australian art-punk group have top ten ambitions imo

― 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

;)

The 1975 would be my guess but it is very much a guess.

Was surprised by hte massive 1975 love in the singles thread so I guess they win this, which would be boring!

The Low album had a broader constituency than i would have expected

tfs had a massive campaign push (courtesy Simon H) with lots of receptive replies, is all

in the blue corner, rolling blackouts coastal fever

in the green corner, the beths (nz = australia, lol)

1975 album was a huge letdown after the last one and it winning would be rly terrible but that is probably my guess

I think it's way better than the last one but still don't think it should win (nor will)

I predict snail mail will get a top five placing

The Amen Dunes record is the only one of his I've liked. The playing is tight.

oh i wasn't counting the beths and completely forgot about rbcf because that's the sort of band they are

low were definitely the most unexpected longtime act over the last few years to have a sudden critical resurgence like that but double negative is also the best of any of those albums

1975 seems like the safest bet. They got the most total points in the tracks.

I suppose Ariana's not in the running?

ariana will do well enough but was pretty polarising here and i'd hope she doesn't do better than she did with dangerous woman which remains underrated

I'm more interested in finding out about good albums I haven't heard so the 77-60 range is where that's going to happen. Not that arsed which order the big albums come in.

feel free to predict what albums you haven't heard of will finish in the 77-60 range

some techno nonsense ;)

j/k i've heard of all the albums

my prediction for 78 is once again something i voted for. maybe suede

My prediction for #78 is Current 93

oof that'd suck

i haven't got around to listening to the c93 yet, usually i would be a voter for it

I actually have no Charlie Puth opinions but mentioning his name is apparently a powerful ward

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.

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

was that him who duetted with meghan trainor on that truly awful song?

yes, will not embed out of self preservation but it includes the phrase "let's marvin gaye and get it on"

"Puth" - the sound you make when you spit out something that tastes horrible

https://i.imgur.com/zywVsz0.jpg

It's true. If you don't vote in metal poll, you're a cop

Monae album has some great deep cuts - So Afraid, for example

The prog-rock synth that blows up midway through So Afraid is one of my favourite moments on the album.

haha you're just trying to get imago to listen, right?

It's a fantastic album, everyone should listen to it.

Love Gritty, hate metal. A true conundrum.

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/

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.

I had never heard of The Armed before and god this album rules.

fuckin the grammys picked a better AOTY than ilm this year

yeah, don't agree

I missed the last part of the rollout, thank you Moka, seandalai, ulysses for all the hard work!

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.

Did anyone post the ordered list (for copy-paste) and do we have the cool Moka-images list ?

Actually I can try doing that myself

ILM Top 77 Albums of 2018

1 Low - Double Negative 1440 45 6
2 Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 1078 30 5
3 Robyn - Honey 933 27 3
4 Julia Holter - Aviary 916 27 4
5 Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 748 25 1
6 Mitski - Be the Cowboy 747 23 1
7 The 1975 - A brief inquiry into online relationships 739 23 3
8 Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 649 18 4
9 sun-el musician - africa to the world 606 19 3
10 The Beths - Future Me Hates Me 602 17 3
11 Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile 586 19 1
12 oneohtrix point never - age of 540 20 0
13 Beach House - 7 539 18 1
14 Rosalía - El mal querer 532 16 1
15 U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited 515 20 2
16 Mr Twin Sister - Salt 492 16 1
17 MGMT - Little Dark Age 486 16 1
18 Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love 483 13 3
19 Tracey Thorn - Record 482 13 3
20 Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save The World 455 13 0
21 Christine & The Queens - Chris 437 16 1
22 Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears 431 14 1
23 Kali Uchis - Isolation 430 13 0
24 SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides 413 15 1
25 Pusha T - DAYTONA 410 12 2
26 Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 398 13 0
27 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs 389 14 0
28 Against All Logic - 2012-2017 380 12 0
29 Ariana Grande - Sweetener 364 11 1
30 Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 359 12 0
31 Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace 356 12 1
32 Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings 350 12 0
33 Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs 340 10 1
34 Tirzah - Devotion 334 10 0
35 DJ Koze - Knock Knock 330 13 0
36 Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism 329 13 0
37 mewithoutyou - (untitled) 328 9 3
38 Parquet Courts - Wide Awake 323 10 0
39 Snail Mail - Lush 308 9 1
40 Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past 306 11 0
41 ashley monroe - sparrow 304 12 0
42 Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita 300 13 0
43 Black Dresses - Waste Isolation 285 7 1
44 Eiko Ishibashi - The Dream My Bones Dream 282 10 0
45 Helena Hauff - Qualm 280 9 0
46 Saba - Care for Me 276 9 1
47 Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics 275 9 0
48 Sleep - The Sciences 270 8 0
49 The Breeders - All Nerve 267 10 0
50 Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood 260 10 1
51 boygenius - boygenius EP 260 9 1
52 Noname - Room 25 257 11 0
53 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 254 7 0
54 Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm 253 10 0
55 The Armed - Only Love 251 9 1
56 Foxing - Nearer My God 247 9 0
57 Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs 243 8 0
58 Jon Hopkins - Singularity 240 10 0
59 Burna Boy - Outside 240 9 1
60 Mount Eerie - Now Only 234 8 0
61 Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone 233 8 1
62 Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy 230 10 0
63 Mariah Carey - Caution 228 11 0
64 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt 227 8 0
65 Skee Mask - Compro 225 9 0
66 Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu 221 10 0
67 Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth 216 10 0
68 YOB - Our Raw Heart 214 8 1
69 Ghost - Prequelle 214 6 0
70 Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen 208 9 0
71 Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place 208 8 0
72 Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos 206 7 0
73 Senyawa - Sujud 204 6 0
74 Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine 202 11 0
75 charlie puth - voicenotes 192 6 1
76 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel 190 7 1
77 Amen Dunes - Freedom 189 7 0

Did anyone post the ordered list (for copy-paste) and do we have the cool Moka-images list ?

― Nabozo

Here you go:

Albums - https://imgur.com/a/FfH9LSQ

Tracks - https://imgur.com/a/gqEoTrs

Thanks Moka !