Decibel list is missing a LOT. Including loads of stuff that other ILXors itt haven't caught
― imago, Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
victory over the sun, fortress of the olden days, psalm zero, lychgate, mamaleek, azusa, salqiu, couch slut, biesy, hail spirit noir, fucking MYSTRAS, molde volhal, crisis sigil, wyrmwoods
all unmentioned, all worthy. it's always been a good year
― imago, Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
oh man i missed a new couch slut record? what am i doing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
this is possibly going to be an interesting list year. Other than Fiona Apple I don't know what the consensus albums are. Folklore? Rough & Rowdy Ways? Jessie Ware? Phoebe Bridgers?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
unless the critics have gotten more interesting, yes
should be charli obv
― imago, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
should be Brandy!! haha
― imago, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
UNCUT's AOTY has anticipated the ILM poll winner for the past 2 years! This will not continue:
75. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song74. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown73. Doves - The Universal Want72. Tamikrest - Tamotait71. Andy Bell - The View from Halfway Down70. Bill Fay - Countless Branches69. Honey Harper - Starmaker68. Steve Earle & the Dukes - Ghosts of West Virginia67. Matt Berry - Phantom Birds66. Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises65. Garcia Peoples - Nightmare at Wit's End64. Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink63. HC McEntire - Eno Axis62. Aoife Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction61. Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface60. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas59. Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle58. BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff57. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice56. The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public55. Khruangbin - Mordechai54. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately53. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension52. Hen Ogledd - Free Humans51. Haim - Women in Music Pt.III50. Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started49. Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain48. The Necks - Three47. Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club46. Roger & Brian Eno - Mixing Colours45. Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was44. Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness43. Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant42. Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine41. Keeley Forsyth - Debris40. Brigid Dawson & the Mothers Network - Ballet of Apes39. The Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain38. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman37. Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip36. Destroyer - Have We Met35. Shabaka & the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History34. Rose City Band - Summerlong33. Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun32. The Flaming Lips - American Head31. Afel Bocoum - Lindé30. Cornershop - England is a Garden29. Songhoy Blues - Optimisme28. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels27. Kevin Morby - Sundowner26. Rolling Blackouts CF - Sideways to New Italy25. Nubya Garcia - Source24. Moses Sumney - Græ23. Paul Weller - On Sunset22. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters21. James Elkington - Ever-Roving Eye20. Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You19. Brigid Mae Power - Head Above the Water18. Frazey Ford - U Kin B the Sun17. SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)16. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques15. Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death14. Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers13. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush12. Moses Boyd - Dark Matter11. Jason Isbell - Reunions10. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter9. Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease8. JARV IS... - Beyond the Pale7. Bill Callahan - Gold Record6. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud5. Thundercat - It Is What It Is4. Drive-By Truckers - The New OK3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher2. Fleet Foxes - Shore1. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
― technopolis, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
idk, we are getting a bit old here
― imago, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
Ok, now that it's shown up on two lists - is that Jarvis Cocker record really that good? Or is this just a lot of folks glad to have him back around?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Xpost Yeah, it’ll be up near the top.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
Jarvis is our Bob Dylan
― imago, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
The Jarvis popalbum is hrrrrm fine; the Keeley Forsyth and Brigid Dawson albums from the middle of the Uncut list are both really glowering and wonderful and poss a bit neglected here
― technopolis, Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah that Brigid Dawson record is so good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
6 Music's Albums Of The Year
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
MOJO:
75. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy74. U.S. Girls - Heavy Light73. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Reunions72. Wire - 10:2071. Field Music - Making a New World70. Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess69. The Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain68. The Homesick - The Big Exercise67. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown66. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman65. Beck - Hyperspace64. The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public63. Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open62. Ren Harvieu - Revel in the Drama61. Chris Forsyth with Garcia Peoples - Peoples Motel Band60. Doves - The Universal Want59. Baxter Dury - The Night Chancers58. Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club57. Songhoy Blues - Optimisme56. The Magnetic Fields - Quickies55. Tim Burgess - I Love the New Sky54. The Waterboys - Good Luck, Seeker53. Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink52. SAULT - Untitled (Rise)51. Don Bryant - You Make Me Feel50. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension49. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas48. Nadia Reid - Out of My Province47. Tricky - Fall to Pieces46. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets - Live at the Roundhouse45. Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You44. Pearl Jam - Gigaton43. Blake Mills - Mutable Set42. Bill Fay - Countless Branches41. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush40. Thurston Moore - By the Fire39. HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III38. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels37. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia36. Drive-By Truckers - The Unravelling35. Rose City Band - Summerlong34. Maria McKee - La Vita Nuova33. The Necks - Three32. Coriky - Coriky31. Taylor Swift - Folklore30. Sam Lee - Old Wow29. Thundercat - It Is What It Is28. Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease27. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques26. Khruangbin - Mordechai25. Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip24. Moses Boyd - Dark Matter23. Shabaka & the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History22. Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance21. Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow20. Nubya Garcia - Source19. SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)18. Toots and the Maytals - Got to Be Tough17. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter16. Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer15. Frazey Ford - U Kin B the Sun14. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice13. Moses Sumney - Græ12. Idles - Ultra Mono11. Paul Weller - On Sunset10. The Flaming Lips - American Head9. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher8. Run the Jewels - RTJ47. JARV IS... - Beyond the Pale6. Cornershop - England is a Garden5. Fleet Foxes - Shade4. Bill Callahan - Gold Record3. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death2. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters1. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
This is not a terribly exciting list and as ever there's approx a 60% overlap with Uncut but there's some great stuff tucked away in the specialist top 10 lists (each compiled by a single writer).
Beatrice Dillon is no.1 in the "electronica" list with K-LONE, Soft Pink Truth, Luke Abbott and Katie Gately also in the top 10. L'inattingible by Delphine Dora in the "underground' list is gorgeous in a vaguely Broadcast + Focus Group vein; Apká! by Céu is a lovely bit-overlooked trinket from the "world" list.
Also there's a nice Moses Sumney feature in the middle of the albums list with some nice photos of Moses Sumney taken by Moses Sumney.
― technopolis, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
lol @ that #1.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
I love that K-Lone album. beautiful record!
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's so lush
― technopolis, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
I'm just looking forward to the Quietus and RA lists, tbh. The rest just have no appeal to my tastes, at this point.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
the Keeley Forsyth and Brigid Dawson albums from the middle of the Uncut list are both really glowering and wonderful and poss a bit neglected here― technopolis, Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:03 (one week ago) linkYeah that Brigid Dawson record is so good.― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:09 (one week ago) link
― technopolis, Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:03 (one week ago) link
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:09 (one week ago) link
I have it on right now and it's dope!! Getting some Cate Le Bon vibes, at least from this number ("The Fool")
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
Also looking forward to the Picadilly Records compilations one as I usually find some amazing stuff on there every year xp
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
Here's the Musicophilia end-of-year list:
https://www.twitter.com/musicophiliamix/status/1331894795778859008
― Soundslike, Thursday, 26 November 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
I'll try that again...
The fifty-three months the year of 2020 have been... yeah. But musicians have carried us through.From the 300 LPs and EPs from 2020 I bought this year, here are my very favorites. I'll link to every album's @Bandcamp page in the thread below.What were your favorites? pic.twitter.com/7YXjbacQTG— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) November 26, 2020
― Soundslike, Thursday, 26 November 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
https://time.com/5915313/best-albums-2020/
tiwa savage!
― ufo, Saturday, 28 November 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
Interesting list. Ungodly Hour is good, but it’s not all that.
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Ugh at Grimes and Taylor Swift on that TIME Top 10 but otherwise a very solid list. Tiwa Savage and Fiona Apple, Chloe x Halle and Makaya McCraven make me particularly happy.
Top 10 songs list also online, good choices but not many surprises... makes me wish they had a top 50:
https://time.com/5914984/best-songs-2020/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
Grimes totally deserving, IMO. Excellent album
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
the grimes album was quite mediocre but the taylor album was her very best
― ufo, Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Amanda Petrusich's favorite album of 2020 ... is from 2018:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/the-best-music-of-2020
― alpine static, Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
ok in what world does the time track list not have many surprises. i don't think many other lists are going to have any south african house tracks
― ufo, Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
xp the Etran de L'Aïr album is dope and placed pretty high on my 2018 list iirc
― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 November 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that Time tracks list is ridiculously eclectic (even by ILM standards). These past few linked write-ups keepmentioning “the pandemic” too much, though (IMO). How about we forget about it for a few minutes while we enjoy music? I get that covid provided a certain context for these writers, but I can’t relate to that.
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
Maybe I’m an anomaly, but I don’t reflect on any the music I loved this year and think, “Ah yes – this was perfectly suited for these times of isolation,” blah blah.
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
HAIM seemed that way to me tbh
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
The Charli XCX album is the one true quarantine album.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link
yeah that one too
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:32 (three years ago) link
Allow me to rectify: not that many surprises - for me - as I had heard every song in that top 10. I actually love how eclectic it is for a top 10 hence I’d love if we got a top 50 following that same spirit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:52 (three years ago) link
Anyhow... another one:
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:59 (three years ago) link
Oops shared above already sorry
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 November 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
Just voted in the Pitchfork Readers’ Poll, where I can be assured to see few of my picks show up in the final accounting (if last year’s performance is any indication of future results).
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
I soured on the Imperial Triumphant after repeated listens
Yeah same here
UNCUT's AOTY has anticipated the ILM poll winner for the past 2 years! This will not continue:/
Ha! I loved R&RW way more than I expected but no way is it coming anywhere near my ballot
Yeah, that Time tracks list is ridiculously eclectic (even by ILM standards)
Ehh I feel like this list only works tbrr if you need TIME magazine to clue you in on "Yo Perreo Sola" or "#WAP" in 2020. Is "Uwrongo" a p cool Afrobeats track? Because Yo Perreo Sola basically sucks
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Reggaeton is getting super dreamy lately but you'd never guess from what's crossing over into the Anglosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRl7siIfcPc
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
Obviously not “WAP,” but most of the others.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
I'm giving it the twice over; it def covers a lot of bases, its true
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
"uwrongo" is cool and not really afrobeats as that generally means west african stuff. south african house like "uwrongo" is a totally different scene that hasn't had anywhere near the same level of attention from the western music press (so, basically none) so it's very cool to see it show up there
― ufo, Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
Yeah I was giving it a couple listens, its great!
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
uwrongo is great and it got extensive love on the afro thread, didn't it?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
nope, sun-el. #onethread
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
rolling stone's top 2 is probably bob dylan and taylor swift
― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
sitting in a tree
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
^^ very enjoyable, thanks for posting
i need to make a point to listen to that regularly in 2021
― alpine static, Monday, 18 January 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link