ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018

So happy that The Beths made the top 10. I love that people got behind this album. My number one and it wasn't even close.

The Perfume comparison is kind of apt given that their song ナチュラルに恋して felt very much inspired by Max Tundra's Which Song, which in term was very much inspired by Scritti Politti's Perfect Way. I remember Max Tundra even trying to reach out to them on Twitter to produce music for them after that song was released.

― MarkoP, Thursday, February 7, 2019 11:04 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even more apt bc "taking notes" is basically "natural ni koshite" all over again

I don't hate this at all! But the love mystifies me a little. I guess the drumming and general musicianship are rly good even if the songwriting is a little by the book

yea I dunno if Nakata's actually heard of Max Tundra but it's abundantly clear now that Tundra was pretty well ahead of his time

Oh my god has blood orange already placed or is Dev Haynes gonna find his way into an ilm top 10

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#9: Sun-el Musician - Africa to the World - 606 points – 19 votes - 3 first place votes

THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists

no way blood orange places

Without having heard it I assumed this would be higher given the love

The Robyn is great, the best of what’s left, along with Sun-El Musician, now that a certain other album isn’t placing (don’t tell it was 78’d...)

great album. sonini was robbed in the singles poll

Haven't given this a proper listen yet, but the singles are fantastic

it’s the best one remaining even...

#78 is the 1975 btw

Big if true

No way Owl City are 78'd

i'll 78 you

Shame not to see Szun Waves place.

this was my #1. i listen to it all the time. and it has a way of becoming the fav record of everybody i show it to.

damn those last three placements are *fire emoji*

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#8: Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 - 649 points – 18 votes - 4 first place votes

Autechre: Classic or Dud?
Autechre - NTS Session 1 POLL
Autechre - NTS Session 2 POLL
Autechre - NTS Session 3 POLL
Autechre - NTS Session 4 POLL
Most ridiculous post about 'NTS Sessions 1-4' album on the Autechre thread

Andrew Nosnitsky: "Autechre’s eight-hour NTS Sessions adds another level of the British duo’s legacy. Though it’s created by a computer, it will bring you to another plane of human existence if you let it."

Mark Smith: "NTS Sessions 1-4 will elicit the same critiques as any Autechre album in the last decade, but it's their best record in many years."

the 1978 !!

gonna listen to this brb

Eight hours of Autechre, Jesus Christ!

lower than I expected!

Is this the longest album in 77 history?

great poll this year love so many albums on this list. really pleased to see sons of kemet so high up.

nice lil run here to kick off the top 10

If you ever wanna do sonic torture on me just lock me up in a room and play that whole album.

lol, as with the singles playlist, the album playlist is now wildly disproportionately autechre based

Eight hours of Autechre, Jesus Christ!

what are two things that will change your life forever

too low

i never did listen to all this, going into Tuomas' Torture Room (tm) now

oh also autechre ! nice. think i managed to listen to this once but over four or five listening sessions.

the noz pfork review is like... one of my favorite pieces of music writing from last year

lol frogbs

I docked Autechre some spots on my ballot because, while brilliant and hugely ambitious (just plain huge, really) it was just too much to wrap my head around. I can only really take them one track at a time.

yeah it's very good, and they are not an easy act to write about xxp

Big step down from elseq and way too unchangingly jammy imo

Is this the longest album in 77 history?

I think Max Richter's Sleep placed a few years back, or did it?

Well, that is nice to see.

GHOST BOX, HOUSE ARREST
STRANGE FRUIT, INFINITE JEST
BLACK DICE, KANDY KORN
PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
THIRD POLICEMAN, PRINCE 'PARADE'
EDUCATING MARMALADE
WORLD OF ECHO, COURT AND SPARK
LELAND PALMER IN THE DARK

forgot about this much better version of "losing my edge" on the daphne and celeste record

:D

whoa

GHOST BOX, HOUSE ARREST

STRANGE FRUIT, INFINITE JEST
BLACK DICE, KANDY KORN
PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
THIRD POLICEMAN, PRINCE 'PARADE'
EDUCATING MARMALADE
WORLD OF ECHO, COURT AND SPARK
LELAND PALMER IN THE DARK

forgot about this much better version of "losing my edge" on the daphne and celeste record

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:17 PM

Sounds more like "We Didn't Start the Fire".
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I hate it

autechre was my number one. I think it's quite possible that I spent more time listening to autechre in 2018 than all other 2018 albums combined. This is them in top form, perfecting the aesthetic they have been going for since Exai.

oh yeah you can def sing that to the dune of we didn't start the fire

xp's I almost started a thread a while back about tracks named "Teachers" (Daft Punk, Soulwax, Mumdance) but we could totally roll it into a list of songs that namecheck a list of bands

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#7: The 1975 - A brief inquiry into online relationships - 739 points – 23 votes - 3 first place votes

the 1975

Ross Horton: "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships isn’t perfect. It isn’t the best album released this year, and it doesn’t have any of the best songs released this year on it"

damn!

try again next year fellas