ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

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72 (TIE):Anna Caragnano & Donnato Dozzy - “Parola (Rework)” - 160 points - 5 votes

Moka, you've got the track name as the last one! Do you want me to use mod powers to fix up these slips for you while I'm around, or are you fine just reposting w/ corrected info?

xposts

Ok this is good.

But I agree that every artist should have a song called 'margaritas at the mall'.

Fixed it in the original post.

oooooooh this is VERY nice

there was some talk about parola on the bobbins thread, but was sparked by a youtube link and probably no one named the track in a post

Wow, the Purple Mountains is a track I actually voted for, an unusual feeling.

don't think i voted for it cos i couldn't squeeze it on to my ballot but that's a great track

do love donato

Hm, listening to Mt Eerie/Julie Doiron. My partner loves Doiron. I actually like the Daniel, Fred, and Julie album a lot. This isn't really what I would typically put on a lot but it's pleasant. It's good that the video comes with a transcript of the lyrics, since they seem pretty central to this. The understated way the music builds and changes works with the text.

how do i listen to music if it's not arranged in a dynamically updated playlist for me??

*aimlessly bumps into furniture like a roomba*

My fault for not keeping up with Donato Dozzy since Voices from the Lake. How's 12H?

Always love these bobbins picks. Never go into the thread throughout the year, but know they'll always deliver great tunes in the 77.

Same.

alright KM, some of us just want the easy life! *presses a button, obtains a flute of champagne*

yeah, I never feel too guilty about not taking the time to dive into them cause I know many cool ones will always crop up in the rollout without my help xp

I like that both songs in this Tie could be described as 'avant garde bobbins'. Here's the next one:

https://i.imgur.com/atdP1QO.jpg
72 (TIE):Blanck Mass - “House vs House” - 160 points - 5 votes
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Rolling Reconstructed Club Music 2019
Fuck Buttons: Pretty/Noisy band on ATP Recordings: Dígame Más Por Favor

I liked World Eater but Animated Violence Mild was a kitsch too far for me.

this was a good album, can really hear what he bought to fuck buttons

I liked World Eater but Animated Violence Mild was a kitsch too far for me.

Same.

can really hear what he bought to fuck buttons

― nxd, Monday, January 27, 2020 11:49 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

fun out of context sentence

uh imo this is great

I was mostly disappointed with the Blanck Mass album (it's sounds like a caricature of his previous album, which is a bit much for me) but I voted for House vs House because in small doses this can be fun

good music for train journeys

My fault for not keeping up with Donato Dozzy since Voices from the Lake. How's 12H?

― pomenitul, Monday, January 27, 2020 11:44 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haven't spent much time with it yet but a cursory listen was promising. 'cleo' made the top 77 last year i believe and is great, parola rework is his best track since the voices from the lake album tho imo

uh imo this is great

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 27, 2020 9:52 AM (thirty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i do wish it kinda stayed in skinny puppy club music territory though

I thought World Eater didn't push the sound far enough, but this seemed like it was getting there from the one listen I gave this album. I returned to the track 'Death Drop' several times though.

Thanks, karl.

i do wish it kinda stayed in skinny puppy club music territory though

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 27, 2020 11:53 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

did you hear the kris baha album brad?

https://i.imgur.com/8eWKh1y.jpg
71: Cate Le Bon - “Daylight Matters” - 161 points - 5 votes
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Cate Le Bon - classic or dud

The Singles Jukebox

 “The horn and guitar riffs that float through this track lend it a feeling of early spring — stiller than the chaos of winter, but not yet in the full bloom of the season. And with each repeated “I love you” of the song’s hook, Cate Le Bon immerses herself deeper into that feeling, lost in a shimmering dream of things past. It’s a track about sacrificing the realities you live with for beautiful illusions, and it sounds like it too.” - Jacob Sujin Kuppermann

“Despite the surface straightforwardness of all those “I love you”s (even with “but you’re not here”), there’s a woozy kind of contemplative feel to the song itself. It feels more like Le Bon is trying to figure something out than declare anything, which is just about perfect for the overcast, quiet afternoon “Daylight Matters” seems to call for.” - Ian Mathers

I don't know if I've ever listened to any Donato Dozzy before, that track rules.

nice!! xp

did you hear the kris baha album brad?

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, January 27, 2020 9:57 AM (fifty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i did not!

went for reward on my albums ballot but i love "daylight matters" a lot a lot

Oh, the Jenny Lewis song is definitely likeable. Comparisons to late 80s/early 90s AOR sound OTM; I thought of Stevie Nicks. Nice tone on lead guitar.

I love "No Tears Left to Cry" but this Ariana Grande song didn't make a very strong impression for me.

the blanck mass song sounds a lot better in isolation than when I need to sit through 50 minutes of his thing

generally put some harmonizing saxophones on your track and you got me

many xps

where were you guys on the Blanck Mass thread when I was saying that! thought I was going nuts for a few days there

voted for the album. my fav cut was 'home to you,' but the sighing beauty of 'daylight matters' makes it a very worthy 77 selection.

i did not!

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 27, 2020 11:58 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

fix that:

https://cocktaildamoremusic.bandcamp.com/track/a2-living-nothingness

Cate Le Bon: I wanted to like this but it's not a subgenre where generic cuts it for me.

my favorite part of "daylight matters":

come on
come on
come on
come on
come on
come on
come on
come on

I can't really get with anything that's placed so far. We were promised crazy - let's have crazy

fix that:

https://cocktaildamoremusic.bandcamp.com/track/a2-living-nothingness

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, January 27, 2020 10:01 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh hey thank you this rules!

https://i.imgur.com/b2z9dKe.jpg
70: Purple Mountains - “Darkness & Cold” - 162 points - 7 votes
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Purple Mountains (RIP David Berman, August 2019)

Jarvis and Jeremy from Woods brought all the cool guitar parts, all the cool drum parts, all the cool bass parts, all the gorgeous steel guitar parts, all the cool organ textures, the harmonica in Darkness and Cold, the lonesome cowboy falsetto cry in Darkness and Cold, the tranquil horn parts in Snow is Falling in Manhattan, the rousing horn parts in Margaritas at the Mall, the little bit of what I guess you could call "funkiness" in Storyline Fever. They brought everything but David's voice, words, and I guess the chords to the songs. They brought a lot, but still, to focus on just the sound of the record itself is really missing the point when it comes to what I believe is the most thoughtful, most beautiful, most cohesive collection of songs David's ever made. ― del griffith

Never heard of donato dozzy but discovered that track on the spotify playlist and immediately sent it to all my friends.

I've definitely heard some Cate Le Bon tracks I like a lot, but oof that one whiffs.

what's the record for most songs from the same album to make it into the 77? I'm expecting 5 to make it from PM