ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

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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God, Ancestral Recall is so fucking beautiful. The end.