ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018

this against all logic is quite fun. I think it wld be more enjoyable if it were less familiar

Enjoying the Laurel Halo. Not sure why but never really checked out much of her work before

And looking forward to listening to Universal Beings based on comments upthread

I really loved Laurel Halo's "Quarantine" album from '12 but everything shes released since has been unappealing

me = Sweetener voter

Random thought I had overnight: could Khruangbin yet place? I didn't vote for it, but I thought the record was well liked round here.

Universal Beings is, along with Neneh Cherry and Saba (thx Pom!), the best discovery for me so far this rollout.

I really loved Laurel Halo's "Quarantine" album from '12 but everything shes released since has been unappealing

For me it's the opposite, I hated the vocals on that record, but her subsequent instrumental releases have been more appealing, with Raw Silk being the best.

I didn't check out Dust in 2017 cos I heard it has vocals too... Are they as grating as on Quarantine?

dust is my least favourite laurel halo record and you'd probably find it grating

If you heard Laurel Halo's earlier stuff (Hour Logic, King Felix) before later stuff you'd know she was a decent singer (when choosing to be). RSUW is the first thing I've liked by her in years either way.

Yeah, I've no doubt the vocal style she chose for Quarantine was intentional, but that doesn't change the fact it sounds awful.

her vocals *are* more pleasing on dust

it’s kind of a v fractured pop record tuomas. took me forever to like it but i sure like it now

I liked Quarantine but on the whole there's something about Halo's productions that don't jibe so well with me

Is the poll finishing today as usual?

Yes.

I'm......quite enjoying the Ariana Grande album?

Until Breathin comes along and shits all over everything

But hey - the title track is GREAT!

it's kind of sad that the Keith Emerson/Robert Berry album isn't gonna place, way to respect a deceased legend guys

lol

it surprises me 0 percent that you like the awful pharrell tracks

(the title track is p good given the circumstances)

lol I was gonna say, calling 'breathin' the nadir appears, from a perusal of reviews, to be a massive challop

call it as i hear it yo

the title track is one of the better pharrell tracks and i liked "successful" a fair bit too because it sounded like animal crossing music. "breathin" is way better though even though it's basically just a dangerous woman leftover

Shame not to see Szun Waves place. It's probably the one I've most often foisted on people this year. And I'm guessing I'm largely alone with my Good, the Bad & the Queen love. God, I feel old.

I also voted for TGTBATQ

And Sweetener

I liked TGTBATQ! But didn't vote for it. But it's good Albarn (as opposed to most Albarn these days)

I feel a) old and ii) grubby for voting for Albarn. Glad I'm not alone!

really looking forward to Autechre placing #1 today

I have had an excellent realisation btw

i think that autechre song i started playing during the tracks poll is still going on

if gaz coombes can crack the top 20, then there’s every chance albarn has made it too

New TGTBATQ is dreeeary. I liked the single though.

tbaf to it, it is kind of a concept album about dreariness

And I am kind of dreary.

getting paul simonon and tony allen to play on an album full of dreary plodders is borderline criminal imo

The Clash could plod with the best of them.

they fought the plod but the plod won

loool

i think that autechre song i started playing during the tracks poll is still going on

― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili)

haha clean hit

i was the first place laurel halo voter and it's my favourite thing she's done; astonishing record.

i didnt expect this makaya mccraven to be so post rocky and tortoise/chicago underground duo-ish

Someone should've told me earlier

Yeah, got strong Horse Lords vibes on the one track I've heard so far

FYI on mccraven: dude tapes his live sets and then remixes them after for loops and effects.

The title track is so gorgeous

Whole album is gorgeous tbh! my fave is likely Black Lion.
it's not quite as good but "where we come from" which is ALSO from 2018 is definitely worth listening to as well.

looks like I am going to be a euro ilxor sat in an mostly empty club later tonight, following the final rollout of these albums by the glow of my phone, nursing a vodka tonic pale ale, while sad German techno some underground rap nonsense throbs in the background

we've just had a new ikea open today, could follow it from there

i feel like a little kid waiting impatiently at the gates of the candy factory here. when do we see inside the top 20?

to be honest, the early part of these rollouts is more interesting, when more surprises pop up. The final 10 or 20 feel a lot more inevitable, what with all the guessing that's already happened.