i didnt expect this makaya mccraven to be so post rocky and tortoise/chicago underground duo-ish― Oor Neechy, Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Jeff Parker plays on it!
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
She’ll win it hands downxp
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VfeDmtG.jpg#19: Tracey Thorn - Record - 482 points – 13 votes - 3 first place votes
Tracey Thorn
Dave Simpson: "The lyrical mix of emotion and wisdom is matched by the elegant dignity of the soundtrack, and producer Ewan Pearson places Thorn in the lineage of classy electronic torch singers from Alison Moyet to Marc Almond."
Rob Sheffield: "In her excellent new solo album, with the droll title Record, the Everything But the Girl chanteuse tells tales of mid-life angst with the same wry wit she's had in her voice since she was a sullen Brit-punk kid."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
I would def buy Tracy Thorn Saves The World
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
Yay for Tracey in the top 20!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
a delightful, proper album that gathers detail and momentum as it goes. also one of the ilmiest albums i've ever heard
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
i have been putting off listening to the daphne and celeste all year and i'm sorry!!!
Totally deserved placement for Tracey Thorn. Record is one the best albums of her career for me. Up there with Walking Wounded, A Distant Shore and Out Of The Woods.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
I never got round to the D&C album. I liked the first Max Tundra single but wasn't blown away, is there a notable step up? (I also liked their early bratty stuff if that has any bearing on matters.)
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/15EtQFH.jpg#18: Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love - 483 points – 13 votes - 3 first place votes
Yves Tumor
Jayson Greene: "Yves Tumor’s latest album is a benchmark in experimental music. It is searing and borderless, music that is aware of oppressive confinement, and music with an intoxicating urge to be free."
Spyros Stasis: "What pushes Safe in the Hands of Love beyond the producer's previous works is the emotion that the record transmits. No matter if the synths are harsh, or the rhythm section arrives with the perfect groove, this is a work filled with an emotive purpose, and it is that core that makes it such a wonderful listen."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
^^^ this album is fucking awesome
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
ok so... this daphne & celeste record is basically uk perfume so far
10/10
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
lol why did i write uk
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
us perfume*
love the Yves Tumor
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Be sure to vote in this year's metal poll. It's the 10th anniversary and we just extended voting out til the end of next week.
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST
(Brad! Don't act like you don't know us xp! We also just added your AOTY to the noms list)
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
you ruining Brad's ilm cred? may as well out Simon too!
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
lol i have neither time nor interest in participating in the metal poll this year sorry y'all
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
emil.y - I loved that first single, but I still think it’s a step up. It’s much more varied than can be portrayed without hearing the whole thing though. It has a Captain Beefheart cover!
Yay Brad, glad you’re loving it
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
tried to engage with the yves tumor record several times but it kept pushing me away.
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
uk perfume
The UK Perfume were a shitty indie band iirc
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
D&C is more a UK thing than a US thing tbf - even discounting Max Tundra being British, the duo were way more of a thing here, we've adopted them haha
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Also thanks tt, I'll give it a listen. Not doing the intense listen-along thing with the rollout but am marking potentially cool things to check out later.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LSmXeSd.jpg#17: MGMT - Little Dark Age - 486 points – 16 votes - 1 first place vote
MGMT - Little Dark AgeCongratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album
Landon Macdonald: "The true follow up to Congratulations, the record that is doomed to enjoy the benefit of the regret of the music writers who panned Congratulations and also to enjoy the inevitable backlash against the backlash. The record is more than good enough to earn these accolades."
Robert Ham: "Working again with Dave Fridmann and with some key assists from likeminded popster Ariel Pink and MGMT touring member James Robinson, the album feels like it’s alternately melting and lifting, warming and woozy."
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
wow
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
dece album but really?
Good stuff emil.y!
The Yves Tumor track that placed in the tracks poll was great. I wasn't so hot on the album but maybe the sequencing threw me? I'll revisit it
Oh look what's this. Very psychedelic start to the day
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
That is inordinately high.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
Maybe I'll write-in Simmy in the metal poll...
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
teh
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
I called this placing. Such a surprisingly great return after the disaster of the last album. My favourite record of theirs by a long way.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
Not sure why people are surprised by this placing? They scored two in the tracks poll so obviously there's a lot of ILx love. I mean, it's almost certainly not good enough to be this high, but I'm going to feel that way about most of the rollout, so eh...
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
I gotta say, bits of the MGMT impressed me somewhat but I couldn't imagine voting for it. Maybe it's a grower
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
They do have amazing videos though
Yup (this was somewhere in my top 5)
― enochroot, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
too low
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
― imago, Thursday, February 7, 2019 10:30 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was what i thought and then i fact-checked myself too hard!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
lj are you a perfume fan
https://i.imgur.com/qcHzvem.jpg#16: Mr Twin Sister - Salt - 492 points – 16 votes - 1 first place vote
Mr Twin Sister
Landon Macdonald: "But over-scrutinizing Mr Twin Sister’s capacity for vibe-setting feels like witnessing a rare bird in its natural habitat: attempting to examine them any closer risks disrupting the simple joy of watching them exist."
Larry Fitzmaurice: "With genre far in their dust, Mr. Twin Sister are crafting pop that begs to be heard. In an album every bit as dance-driven as it is jazz-infused, Mr. Twin Sister deliver something that challenges norms while thriving in their power. "
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
god this album is so good
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
my #3
my no. 2
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
agree w ufo that this is their best album, grew on me massively
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
I don't really know Perfume but they seem cool? Anyway back to your peak ILMing
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
lmao would have been p funny if mgmt had beat TS
― ||||||||, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
nothing on this one that i like as much as the first track on the self titled but still good
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
great record
quintessentially ILM band (see also eg junior boys, kelley polar etc)
― ||||||||, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
(Did Yves Tumor place in the tracks poll?)
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link