starbucks mater
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
I know a bunch of Arvo Part, rules
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
Wait, did you forget to vote too?
― peace, man, Friday, February 11, 2022 9:54 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
did not want to make a year-end list at all
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
Wolf Alice's Restaurant music
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
while Moka tortures us, I will disclose that I was underrating the Dawn album, I sincerely apologize and hope to do better in future
― rob, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
Arlo Parks is good and there's stuff way more boring to me here.
― Chris L, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
(Although much less than there used to be in previous years tbf)
― Chris L, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
Revisited the GYBE album. I sometimes just forget to listen more to things that I know I will enjoy in familiar ways vs things that may be new or complex or challenging but it's completely solid and all holds together really well and satisfyingly.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
Was looking at the 2019 poll just now -- forgot that Weyes Blood somehow beat out LDR, Purple Mountains, and Big Thief! Maybe another upset year but Low does feel like the frontrunner.
― Indexed, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
Aw, I was really hoping L'Rain would break the top 10. If we're taking apologies for underrating albums right now I think he could give one, too :P
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
Sorry I was on a meeting! Torture over
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3RsXijU.jpg10. Tinashe - 333441 points / 18 votes / 1 #1 voteVideo from the album: “X”Tinashe - Aquarius (out October 7 2014)
worth the wait, thank you Moka
― rob, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
Nice. I voted for the last 3, all good. I agree that Second Line is not my favorite of hers, but it works on its own terms. The L'Rain album I may be slightly overrating because it's the album that introduced me to L'Rain overall, so my vote is probably really for both albums. But she's pretty awesome. And 333 always seems over too soon, even though it's like 47 minutes.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
tinashes best album
― Spottie, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
"X" is p good.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6heZbPP.jpg9. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee464 points / 17 votes / 2 #1 votesVideo from the album: “Savage Good Boy”Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Tinashe my #1
I didn't vote.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
Japanese Breakfast was number one. As I mentioned in the tracks list, this band meant everything to me last year. Really happy and surprised to see them so high.
Tinashe is great. This and her last album are the best things she's done.
― kitchen person, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bkhRfLf.jpg8. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend465 points / 14 votes / 3 #1 votesVideo from the album: “The Beach”Wolf Alice
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
this was my favorite album of the year for about two months, delivered completely on the promise of their first two records by submerging itself in a form of alt rock that's closer to a melancholic dreamspace than pure rock fury (tho it has some of that too)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
My favorite Tinashe album, too!
Agree with kp that it's great to see Jubilee this high. Feel like she was always underrated here. Did her first two albums place at all?
― Indexed, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
always find myself connecting really hard to about 3-4 songs on every wolf alice album and this one was no exception. "how can i make it ok" was a very much deserving placer in the traxx poll
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
The previous Wolf Alice album grew on me a lot, but it was always overshadowed by Don't Delete The Kisses. This one was brilliant all the way through and made me kind of understand why the NME kept calling them the best British band going.
Soft Sounds From Another Planet did place in our 2017 list Indexed, but much lower down. In the 40s I think?
― kitchen person, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eH1Wi30.jpg7. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence502 points / 16 votes / 3 #1 votesVideo from the album: “He Said She Said”Chvrches
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
Tinashe my #1I did vote
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
yes!!!! my aoty
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
Great album. I never knew they had an album this good in them.
― kitchen person, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
not sure i voted for any of these but the tinashe record really is outstanding
― nxd, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AnANJIl.jpg6. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever509 points / 16 votes / 1 #1 voteSong from the album: “I Didn’t Change My Number”billie eilish
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
Tinashe's journey from brief fling with chart-topping super stardom to this phase of her career is pretty wild
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
Didn't find an in to this Eilish album but may not have tried hard enough
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
Feel like the 11-30 range is always my sweet spot in these polls, then we get into the kind of music that I hear (and appreciate!) while trying to decide if I'm too old to pull off these dusty rose-colored slim fit chinos (I am).
― beard papa, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
I've said this elsewhere but:
- the CHVRCHES album singlehandedly revived my interest in them in a band after years of going "well they're all right I guess but ultimately *yawn*", every single song is fire- I would argue that few, if any, songs on Happier Than Ever reach the heights of Billie's previous singles but the album is way greater than the sum of its parts and much, much better than the debut
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
Think I voted for everything in the top ten so far.
After lowering my expectations for the Billie album based on the singles, I ended up loving it more than the debut.
― kitchen person, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
God today's rollout is making me depressed
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
yep
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
I think it's been mentioned by other posters on other threads, but I agree that it's bemusing how Eilish's debut is massively popular and Grammy-winning when the EP and the second album are much better.
I'm assuming Arooj Aftab and Floating Points make it into the top 5 from here?
― aphoristical, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
I do think the need to state "why would you listen to female-fronted pop music when you could listen instead to this guy farting into a tuba for 4 hours" is an impulse worth interrogating
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Nala Sinephro made it! Had no expectations of that one placing, but I'm stoked others recognize how gorgeous and well produced it is. Definitely play that one on your best system/cans sometime
― octobeard, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
The Floating Points record is one where conceptually it should have been one of my favorites, but it just left me empty and it didn't even make my ballot. I'm sure it makes top 5 though...
― octobeard, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
table/imago otm
― Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note I'm (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
do think the need to state "why would you listen to female-fronted pop music when you could listen instead to this guy farting into a tuba for 4 hours" is an impulse worth interrogating
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, February 11, 2022 1:52 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
You tell that cloud!
― Evan, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ceZ1atL.jpg5. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World559 points / 17 votes / 1 #1 voteVideo from the album: “Secrets (Your Fire)”https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=110343
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 February 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
Mercurial World the only album on this list i truly love
― Murgatroid, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
maybe i just don't like music anymore
― Murgatroid, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
Honestly, in the context of what's to come, too low. I wasn't completely impressed with the whole, but I was VERY impressed with parts. I think they have greater in store. They're a sort of music I expect and demand ILM to champion.
― imago, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
can't believe birthday ass made top 4
― nxd, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
This list has been 50% 50 year old rockers and 50% instrumental introversion and some posters still have the gall to complain about a few pop albums showing up.
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
No way Floating Points is in the top 5, although from the discussion on the album thread there would be riots.
Lots of alternative rock music today, huh.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link