ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

Thanks for an amazing rollout. I was surprisingly hivemind-y this year.

Honestly there isn't any point trying to convince Pom of this because 'generic' is one of those words that people throw around when they don't like the music enough to engage with what might be distinctive about it. A listen to Blackheart probably isn't going to change that.

Gutted that Sudan Archives didn't make the rollout by the way, stunning record.

lol ilm you so crazy

I was joking about being to r&b as Tuomas is to rock. There are quite a few r&b albums I genuinely love, so I appreciate the reply, Drugs. I'll be sure to check out Blackheart.

Anyway, I didn't expect to jive with the hivemind's #1 so: good job, ILM.

Burial wuz robbed.

He has a track about that

I like Burial a lot but I couldn't with a clear conscience vote for a compilation w/ tracks I've known for years already.

xp lol

Belated thanks to the pollrunners, and a shout out to Moka for the lovely images.

Seconded!

And congratulations to Marissa for winning the poll

lol

A+

What's she up to these days, other than hanging out with LDR and releasing ILM's AOTY?

I had hoped she's in a better place now, but stumbling on this, I fear that that is not the case. She hasn't gone off the net because of us after all :(

:(

Playlist is fully updated and put to bed. This year, Spotify got everything on the 77 album and singles lists except JME.

ILM’s Top Albums of 2019 Countdown

#01 - Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (1158 points, 33 votes, 4 number 1 votes)
#02 - Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (961 points, 29 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
#03 - Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (952 points, 27 votes, 5 number 1 votes)
#04 - Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (918 points, 27 votes, 4 number 1 votes)
#05 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated (687 points, 21 votes)
#06 - Octo Octa - Resonant Body (685 points, 22 votes)
#07 - Tinashe - Songs For You (626 points, 19 votes, 4 number 1 votes)
#08 - Ariana Grande- Thank U, Next (551 points, 17 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
#09 - Big Thief - Two Hands (544 points, 15 votes)
#10 - Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (524 points, 18 votes)
#11 - Taylor Swift - Lover (504 points, 16 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
#12 - Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY! (501 points, 16 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
#13 - FKA Twigs - Magdalene (493 points, 18 votes)
#14 - Burna Boy - African Giant (492 points, 15 votes, 4 number 1 votes)
#15 - Caroline Polachek - Pang (488 points, 16 votes)
#16 - Dawn Richard - New Breed (486 points, 15 votes)
#17 - Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love (484 points, 18 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
#18 - 100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs (479 points, 15 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
#19 - These New Puritans - Inside the Rose (462 points, 15 votes)
#20 - Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride (442 points, 11 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
#21 – Charli XCX - Charli (423 points, 13 votes, 2 #1 votes)
#22 – Holly Herndon - Proto (420 points (nice), 15 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#23 – Charly Bliss – Young Enough (414 points, 16 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#24 – Underworld – Drift Series 1 (391 points, 12 votes, 3 #1 votes)
#25 – Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe (378 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#26 – CFCF – Liquid Colors (365 points, 12 votes)
#27 – Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee (364 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#28 – SAULT - 5 (354 points, 17 votes)
#29 – The Comet Is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (354 points, 17 votes)
#30 – Richard Dawson - 2020 (352 points, 14 votes)
#31 – Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall (344 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#32 – Little Simz – Grey Area (330 points, 13 votes)
#33 – The Highwomen – s/t (326 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#34 – Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream (323 points, 10 votes)
#35 – Danny Brown – uknowhatimsayin¿ (317 points, 13 votes)
#36 – Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz (316 points, 11 votes)
#37 – Lingua Ignota - Caligula (311 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#38 – Erika De Casier – Essentials (306 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#39 – Kelsey Lu - Blood (301 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#40 – Sunn O))) – Life Metal (293 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#41 (TIE) - Kim Gordon - No Home Record (288 points, 10 votes)
#41 (TIE) - SAULT - 7 (288 points, 10 votes)
#43 – Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (284 points, 10 votes)
#44 – Shura - Forevher (278 points, 9 votes)
#45 – Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code (278 points, 8 votes)
#46 – Solange - When I Get Home (277 points, 12 votes)
#47 – Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q. (268 points, 9 votes)
#48 – Hatchie - Keepsake (266 points, 11 votes)
#49 – Chemical Brothers - No Geography (244 points, 7 votes)
#50 – Glass Beach - The First Glass Beach Album (242 points, 8 votes)
#51 – Lambchop - This (is what I wanted to tell you) (234 points, 8 votes)
#52 – Carla dal Forno - Look Up Sharp (228 points, 8 votes)
#53 – Koffee – Rapture (224 points, 7 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
#54 – Clairo – Immunity (223 points, 9 votes)
#55 – American Football – American Football (223 points, 7 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
#56 – Various Artists – 環境音楽 Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990 (222 points, 8 votes)
#57 – Samthing Soweto – Isphithiphithi (220 points, 7 votes)
#58 – Thom Yorke – Anima (216 points, 8 votes)
#59 – Moodymann – Sinner (216 points, 6 votes, 1 number 1 vote)
#60 – Andy Stott – It Should Be Us (214 points, 9 votes)
#61 – Sacred Paws – Run Around the Sun (212 points, 8 votes)
#62 – Rapsody – Eve (211 points, 8 votes)
#63 – Barker – Utility (210 points, 8 votes)
#64 – Miranda Lambert – Wildcard (208 points, 8 votes)
#65 – Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel (204 points, 7 votes)
#66 – Tyler, the Creator – IGOR (202 points, 8 votes)
#67 – Caterina Barbieri – Ecstatic Computation (200 points, 7 votes)
#68 – The National – I Am Easy to Find (195 points, 8 votes)
#69 – Sampa the Great – The Return (194 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#70 – Blanck Mass – Animated Violence Mild (189 points, 6 votes)
#71 – clipping. – There Existed an Addiction to Blood (188 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote)
#72 – Jme – Grime MC (187 points, 7 votes)
#73 – Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis (184 points, 6 votes)
#74 – Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (183 points, 6 votes)
#75 – Better Oblivion Community Center – s/t (182 points, 6 votes)
#76 – Laurel Halo – DJ Kicks (182 points, 5 votes)
#77 – Cate le Bon – Reward (181 points, 6 votes)

sigh - fixed that for you:

#57 – Samthing Soweto – Isphithiphithi (220 points, 7 votes)

give him a break, it’s a hard word to spell

it's not "the ASDA"

...and yet so remarkably easy to copy and paste

idk i struggled with it

that’s a phithi

Big Phith?

Re: Dawn Richard, Blackheart is sounding pretty good so far.

fixed in that list, thanks for the edit note... and for the pronunciation!
Iss-peety-peety, yeah?

thanx!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKoDZZvuH8

check the chorus, from 1:00-1:20

My takeaway from the Jenny Hval album is that I would maybe enjoy a Jenny Hval instrumental album

Full version of BASQUIAT massively superior to the edit that made the tracks poll

Is there any poll that you could vote for that in, imago?

Jamila Woods?

Not is v much the only EOY representation Two Hands required. Talk about an album with a highlight

"shoulders," "the toy" > "not"

Lol fine.

I liked the Woods album! Good #1 choice

it's not "the ASDA"

― dogs,

who let the dogs in?

Not is maybe my fourth, fifth favourite song on Two Hands

I mean, it's good and that, but I get the impression it stands out because it's their most hard-rockingest song since the Capacity album after the relatively sedate UFOF record. guitar solo is cool but I've heard guitar solos before and will again

The dog let himself in apparently

that's a pretty accurate ranking. though i wouldn't call it a song. it's more like two separate parts which are in themselves no songs and together neither. it's not called not for nothing.

Maybe I expected (and wanted) a whole album like that

i think not is a far-and-away highlight, but mainly because of live versions, which are almost unbearably intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKmD6-piK2A

ah there's me thinking Not was a song. things are so very confusing these days

Fooled by that old verse-chorus structure

Full version of BASQUIAT massively superior to the edit that made the tracks poll

pretty sure there wasn’t, the YouTube link in the rollout linked to the full length video.

full-length *track

lol

maybe I just liked it way more this time and never noticed it was 7 minutes long

oops

I've had the albums list playing on shuffle a lot since the rollout ended, and it's pretty much non-stop good vibes. It makes a strangely consistent listening experience despite the variety of the list itself. The only things I can't completely go with are the couple of country records, and that's very much my own personal biases at play.

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