https://i.imgur.com/RScD6Tq.jpg55. Mogwai - As The Love Continues163 points / 5 votesVideo from the album: “Ritchie Sacramento”MOGWAI - Classic or Dud?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
Hey Loraine James cool
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
GYBE, Arab Strap, Mogwai, Low...this poll has become an interesting way of learning which late 90s indie bands have been canonized
― rob, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
Mogwai with their number one album.
Last year was weird.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
Yay, Loraine James! First one of my votes to appear.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:13 (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
xpI actually meant this annual poll in general; there were a bunch last year too iirc. This isn't a criticism btw, and I remember wondering back then who was going to end up in this echelon, so it's not at all a dismaying sign of my aging that it's happening, I like it
Not sure what I think of the James, but I enjoyed this youtube comment:
S James8 months agoWhat an absolute beautiful melody and such mesmerising vocals from Eden Samara. My daughter has done it again. Mum is so proud of you ❤️
― rob, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
Mogwai have never been on an ILM EOY have they? It's a really good record and everything Mogwai related last year was very heartwarming.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
Aw, that's so sweet. Not all of the album is as dreamy as that track, there are a bunch that hit harder and some nice sketches and bleeps in the mix as well.
xp
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
Mogwai have absolutely been on ILM EOYs in the past! Pretty sure I pulled teeth to get Music For A Forgotten Future into the 2011 tracks poll (actually I forget if it made it...) but nothing they've done since then (the Hardcore Will Never Die cycle) has gripped me...at all, really
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
Ah that's good to know emil.y, I was thinking "I don't want to listen to an entire album that is a vaporous as this." I'll add it to my now absurdly lengthy thanks to this poll queue
the Parker is sounding fantastic, will have to lash myself for not checking this out when people were raving about it in the jazz thread (in my defense I think his covidiocy was also being discussed)
― rob, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
Music For A Forgotten Future finished 73 :)
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RurZcIS.jpg54. Joy Orbison - still slipping, vol 1164 points / 6 votesVideo from the album: “Sparko”Joy Orbison
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
man, Joni Mitchell should give up smoking already
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
Disappointed that 'Sparko' isn't an electronic cover of 'Smoko'.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
would have been a good twist if that was Joy Orbison and that's her birth name
― rob, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
i voted for "running like that" from the james album in the traxx poll, loraine's mom is otm. didn't vote for the album but glad it placed.
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
Wasn't expecting the Mogwai album to place at all but glad it did! Might be my favourite thing from the band I've heard
― vexingvexillologist, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:21 (two years ago) link
Spent all day working outside listening to Heisei No Oto and Howie Lee and Vijay Iyer and enjoyed them all, good job ilm
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:21 (two years ago) link
summoning a vibe switch
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
More!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mdFwE9q.jpg53. yu su - yellow river blue168 points / 5 votesSong from the album: “Melaleuca”yu su
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Sorry guys busy morning! I’ll speed it up!
ooh good album that narrowly missed my ballot
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
Feels like another "vibey" stretch. I guess Mogwai probably isn't that vibey but I can't really see myself getting up the motivation to try a Mogwai album in 2022.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0rXEeKn.jpg52. Bicep - Isles168 points / 7 votesVideo from the album: “Apricots”Bicep thread
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
It’s bobbins day
What I instead summoned was a vibe intensification
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
voted for yu su, lovely album
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
Yu Su album is super cool with a lot of variation in textures and styles
― Indexed, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
another ilm fave who i had no idea dropped an album this year. add it to the pile along with saint etienne and vanishing twin
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
Liked what I heard from this Bicep, but kind of felt that I'd already got what I needed from them with their debut.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
yeh another i enjoyed and left without going back to
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
Soon entering the top 50 and this is a gallery of illustrious unknowns so far for me, with two votes only (Eris Drew, Kabza de Small). I did hear and like Altin Gun and there's maybe 1-2 other things I've checked and that's it. Will give me plenty of listening ideas.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
never liked bicep, every time I've tried to listen to them in the past I get this stadium rave vibe that I just can't get with, something a bit nu-big beat about it all. maybe that's just me though. Will give this a listen but i can't say I'm looking forward to it much
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
The thing I admire about what Bicep do is that they make me nostalgic for a time and scene I wasn't ever a part of. I think that's kind of impressive, tbh.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CVPxDt3.jpg51. Nite Jewel - No Sun169 points / 6 votesVideo from the album: “This Time”NITE JEWEL thread
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
Oh, I love this record! Also there's an RA podcast interview with her which is super fascinating, all about the history of professional mourners and her musicological studies of divas, totally recommended if your ears have a spare hour
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MVUPalR.jpg50. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses170 points / 6 votesVideo from the album: “Price of Blue”Wye Oak
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Love that Nite Jewel record. The album didn't make my ballot, but the Sun Ra cover was my only vote in the tracks poll.
― aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
Head of Roses is one of those deceptively simple, outrageously good albums. An artist executing exactly what she does well to perfection.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
god i love this album. too low!
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
Nite Jewel is TOO LOW. One of the most pristine, beautiful and expressive records of the year.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
honestly, this flock of dimes album and the last wye oak album (louder i get, etc.) are probably my two fav-ever wasner-involved projects to dae
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
Flock of Dimes sound like somewhat Low-ish in that video. Never heard of them.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
I meant to spend more time with the yu su album
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
I'd say FOD sound more like next year's winner than this one's
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
this/last's even lol
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
I was going to say, what do you know that we don't?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
no no, that was a prediction!
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
A double one in fact
― imago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link