ILM 2024 Listening Club

Same playlist as before:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3LepUxNYiFuV00PWeQ3Hap

our 2023 thread: ILM 2023 Listening Club

Every song from 2023 has been moved to this archive playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nDuSiSubdcuTA1u9Fh9sd

YouTube, Tidal, Apple playlist copies are welcome and encouraged; please post here.

Oh also new Fabiana Palladino produced by Jai Paul. And new Discovery Zone… I won’t hog the thread and add them yet but yeah probably should listen to those too.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), jueves 25 de enero de 2024 4:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

You know what forget the Bullion track, I’m leaving it clean until I can decide which song I want to throw in. I’m seeing so many updates

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), jueves 25 de enero de 2024 4:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

oooh i look forward to hearing the discovery zone! need new thread though??

― blazin' squab (NickB), jueves 25 de enero de 2024 7:17 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Oh wow. Had no idea that track even existed.

Thanks Moka

― groovypanda, jueves 25 de enero de 2024 8:07 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ILM also loves a bit of Nia and the new track finds Ms Archives in a more reflective mood

― groovypanda, jueves 25 de enero de 2024 8:14 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

anyone starting a matching playlist on Tidal? I would but work often keeps me too busy to keep up regularly and Tidal doesn't do collaborative playlists

― Roz, viernes 26 de enero de 2024 12:34 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

and I reckon "Lucky" by Erika de Casier should go on it:

― Roz, viernes 26 de enero de 2024 12:37 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was just about to post that one! But then let me post another good Danish one: Astrid Sonnes dubtechno/chamberpop hybrid Say You Love Me

― Frederik B, viernes 26 de enero de 2024 14:06 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

enjoying this record

― nxd, viernes 26 de enero de 2024 15:34 (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

new thread! Erika de Casier, Nia Archives and Astrid Sonne added to the playlist.

Moka, you need to check the link for 2024 as it currently goes to forks 2023 playlist.

ILM 2024 Listening Club
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kWbwhTo9c6hueUu8xplzV?si=c9ff4e976117430a

Oops jaja

Forgot forks did the opening thread

So the Carly Rae Jepsen + Bullion track wasn’t as good as thought would be, still excited for his upcoming album.

Submitting Mk.Gee - Dream Police instead, which actually could pass for the sort of ghosted, slightly psychedelic sophistipop Bullion does.

Shannon and the Clams — “The Moon Is in the Wrong Place”

Drums & drones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKxj5jctiI

NYC flutist on New Amsterdam records releases nifty pop song with fun arrangement featuring loads of, well, flutes:

Alex Sopp, "The Hem & the Haw"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkI39XuNrwI

fun title, fun song:

Allie X - "Off With Her Tits"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigWc6mtBBY

that Alex Sopp track is great

I like the theater kid energy of the last two, so allow me to keep it going. This single came out last year but the album just came out last week. Glammy art-pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFsJuYb42hw

Playlist updated!

Haha the tune on that Allie X feels like a kind of homage to "Don't Go" by Yaz(oo)! And even shares a bit about getting/calling the doctor.

Changing my Mk.gee song to Alesis. Album released yesterday and that song is even better

“I want” is also gorgeous… listen to the whole thing.

yeah mk.gee album is really good. i think the singles ("are you looking up?," "dream police," "candy") are the strongest, but not by much. really like the two you've highlighted, moka.

I've only been lurking/listening in these threads so far, but I finally have a song to contribute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyD2NVgRN8Y
Julia Sabaté - Dalia

That chorus, man.

Wow, that was intense, me gusta.

This is an album I'm really looking forward to - new Clarissa Connelly coming in April on Warp Records. She's a Danish musician and perhaps is something like a medievalist version of ML Buch. Her last album (The Voyager, 2020) is well worth checking back on if you missed that, but this is the latest track to drop from the new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_dcXr6u64

the end of that is quite interesting, i will need to remember to check out the album when it's out

Loving this one too - think they're an Australian producer, this is kind of somewhere between underworld and Saint etienne, so in the Real Lies ballpark I guess? Anyway, dreamy vocal dance stuff, bodes well for her album....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnnJNGJKz6s
Pina Tesla - Above The Clouds

Am late to where I'm going because I had to walk around the block to listen to it one more time

There’s no Mk.gee thread and I think this is the only thread were there has been any discussion of the 2024 album so I’ll use this thread to suggest listening to his performance at the Jil Sander fashion show in Milan. It’s lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4CHtRLfNEU

I love how much of the music in this thread is Danish, so let me add one more. My favourite Danish indie-pop band Kindsight has a new album on the way. Recommended to fans of Alvvays and all that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj6yRUeGCYo

Posted this in the Tinashe thread and loving it now so think it deserves to be added to the playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlV8zVUgdLM

― groovypanda, miércoles 6 de marzo de 2024 09:45 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Agreed!

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), miércoles 6 de marzo de 2024 02:12 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also this one suggested by groovypanda on the other thread is great:

Open Space x Laura Groves - Tied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpQ3hbhERI

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), miércoles 6 de marzo de 2024 02:19 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bolis Pupul album just came out and this was the lead single...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwaWx-3fGiA
Bolis Pupul - Ma Tau Wai Road (with Salah Pupul)

very knife-ish that song

really loving that Bolis Pupul record, i might like the song that plays before that one ("Spicy Crab") even more but it's all pretty great really

this album is totally owning my shit right now.

Thanks for the Mk.gee song on this list. That leapt out at me the other night and I went and listened to the album, it's good! Solid songwriting and really inventive sonics and musical settings, talented guy.

Moka, you might like this new single from the Marias, a group from LA maybe best known for featuring on Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOlqJHvAZo

Previous releases have had a woozy sound reminiscent of Men I Trust and other Gorilla vs Bear shambhala but this song is a little more direct (it reminds me somewhat of the French discopop band L'Impératrice, who incidentally also released a new song last week)

Funny you mention it, I follow your “2024” playlist and I was just listening to it a few hours ago while driving and that one caught my attention.

I do know about them… been very loosely following their work since the Superclean EP back in 2017 and even had a couple of their songs on one of my bar’s playlists.

Liked their first album too, had no idea a new one was coming out this month, so thanks fir the heads up!

Oh wait not this month, in May.

Also yeah agree on the love for the Bolis Pupul record. Mau Tau Wai Road and Cantonese the ones I liked the most.

Austin posted this on King Krule - i love this hipster shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0use0rJR-DU
Mount Kimbie - Empty And Silent (feat. King Krule)

very enjoyable krauty vibe with signature krule vox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqSWVqC_i4g

Happy Friday

hi ty for the shout. catching up in here. can i big up dina ögon over here too? or is that too much?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2-wGcpx4zc

dina ögon - "det läcker"

it's my current favorite anything. hits better than water some days.

oh sry, no description re:dina ögon-
erm, the pertinent 10,000 maniacs revival i've been clamoring for, except it's swedish?

(pleasing for you to be making a bassface at 2mins45sec to maximize overall enjoyment)

trip hop revival hots up and once again it's aussies - this time roza terenzi and pals under the name step ball chain...

https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/pillow-talk

ugh sorry - step ball chain is obviously the label, the band is trickpony

(it's been a long day)

Anyhow, sneaker pimps vibes

/\/\i look forward to that whole thing!

i know someone else here has heard chanel beads because i heard their wonderful "police scanner" single on the 2023 tracks noms. they've got a couple other new tracks + are gearing up for an albun in april. here's "embarrassed dog"-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIff2wH24H4

i'm intrigued. def go back to "police scanner" icymi.

Updated! Trickpony not on spotify

Liking this one a whole lot - makes me think of Tirzah and Insides but it's very much its own thing: warm, intimate, a furtive sort of beauty...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obGXbRYnCc0
deep heavy fear - doorway

Two I liked released today:

R. Missing - Get Careful Darker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzjVQbOi0BQ
Darkwave in the style of "Italians do it better". I'll always be a sucker for this kind of vibe.

Nourished By Time - Had Ya Called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTootvsdLDM
The whole EP is great, Romance in Me also a highlight for me but this is the one that I liked the most on first listen.

deep heavy fear - doorway

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB)

Dig this!

i'm intrigued. def go back to "police scanner" icymi.

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin)

Liking this too

really like the new album from anysia kym. soulful glitch-hop with some 2-step mixed in.

"#71 (again and again)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ai-AYViKT4

"pool of life" (produced by 454)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzJ-jfua_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkSy1nEbdpY

apparently this is AI generated - Guys what is wrong with my cat? It's on spotify as well, with the artist credited as AnotherLaughingMan. I think a lot of the AI generated art that I like takes as its subject matter limitations in understanding or an unbridgeable gap between different ways of perceiving the world, makes the fact that it always sounds slightly 'off' into a virtue?

If it’s full AI it’s seriously good

Adding Teilz - Type of Girl which has been stuck on repeat

was skeptical when pitchfork gave the new empress of album best new music, since i had heard literally nothing about it until then, but yeah, it hits. faves are "cura" and "facil," warped, ethereal club anthems both, with "cura" borrowing a bit from jersey and "facil" with stuttering, chopped up dembow drums

"cura"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsdDwNkiVz0

"facil"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxKHUAxLxUU

catching up+that "pool of life" is some pretty ethereal business. not quite sure what to make of it, but it's a fascinating listen every time.

can the 'Guys what is wrong with my cat?' song be added to the playlist? it is on spotify, credited to AnotherLaughingMan.

Does it not appear? i added it yesterday

Oh wait I just checked and it wasn’t there… I magbhave added it to a different playlist by mistake! Thanks for the heads up.

thanks Moka!

Empress of record is seriously good

thanks y'all for mentioning that^. I'd never listened to her before and I really like what I've tried so far

i've liked some of her music in the past, but the new one is much more surprising and fleshed out than anything she's released before

Yeah, I’d liked a few of her previous singles before but this feels like a significant step up

Good to see James Massiah making tunes again after a bit of a quiet period, this one's killer imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQEUSBuq1Rw
James Massiah - Charlie

Most accessible Little Snake track yet! Cyriak needs to be the one to make the music video for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagwoD3PtaY

Thanks to Rob Harvilla for allowing me to recognize the opening sample

is it funk flex? loved the tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DLrhb-078

фрози & joyful - bounce (I just wanna dance)

Lol what is this I like it

welp imo they put the best tracks out as pre-release songs, but it doesn't matter because the chanel beads album still delivers. very hazy, pleasantly druggy vibe. weird songs... they'll have these huge choruses, but it'll only hit once during the song's runtime. kind of that wire pink flag ethos of "you get the idea so we'll just stop here." short album too; 9 songs, 28 mins. very solid 4 mics.

Fluke are back with new single Insanely Beautiful and this is the pick of the mixes for me, adding vocals from Leah Clever and bringing a more menacing, trip hop vibe to proceedings

Fluke - Insanely Beautiful (Leah's Mix)

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

Added.

Also adding Brittany Howard - prove it to you. Very simple but loved running to it yesterday. Love the house beat on real (?) drums.

Really digging the new Maruja EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfR_l7c5MHk

that maruja stuff is wild. i'm being... yelled at???... but it's like a lost ecm session again or... ???

huh. ya. very hypey.

seb wildblood+kali mija have a 2 song ep out. i really like the synthy space bass groove on "never look down." kind of reminiscent of the vitesse x/george clanton thing from a bit ago-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijfOnOYQjo

idk where else to post -and it's too early for me to suss out a highlight- but the fabiana palladino album is damn good.

digging the 'heart racers' ep by kanii, riovaz, and nimstarr. they're all producers and vocalists so idk who is responsible for what, but the ep is a great bit of late night pop. feels very anti-trend in the underground, but i can't get enough of the keyboard sounds.

"tell me" is my fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IConY8MK8ZM

"heart racers" is the hit (42 million spotify streams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqiPY1kqs9A

Oh good ones! Both songs sound cool.

“Tell me” is reminding me of a 70s? song that I can’t quite place.

it's reminding me of mj "leave me alone"

Oh yeah that’s definitely it!

yeah that's the clear inspo

Maybe also a bit of Stevie Wonder in there. But yeah, good discovery! Love it.

Amery - Hotwire the Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlq1dO35r3c

One half of the band Born at Midnite. Album still not out but dig both singles released so far.

And Peggy Gou continuing on the 90’s nostalgia path with Lobster Telephone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOdnqOOd2ZI

Super chill Kenyan r&b

Maya Amolo - let it flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1uaSnOQQw

first listen love on that one. i did not anticipate the "drop" at all!

as for me, i had some other stuff i wanted to share in here but lol okay kaya-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRPFlR9ozY
"the groke"

now i haven't kept up with her since the second album so i am entirely unsure if this is an intentional joke or what.

but guys, lol this jams.

90s revival continues and okay kaya has wandered into that 120 minutes-curated sound of allegorical triphop-soundtracked worlds originally pointed+laughed at by heroes like luscious jackson or the "my woman" bloke. i intentionally did not post the proper music video for two reasons: it's full of, uhm, weird imagery and it's possibly nsfw. so yeah.

whatever the hell it is, it's been on repeat for the past 20 minutes.

Oh I love this one, very groovy and the video is cool too.

i was really hoping to hear more from ms ray very soon+this does _not_ disappoint. oh my!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ytbjPzhTxs
ms ray - "signs"

ms ray is actually cooking up a serious potion, i'm convinced. this song is incredible. i made a playlist of her entire output so far.

it came out a little while ago, but short of making a separate thread for her I'm not sure where else to post this - Elyanna is a Palestinian-Chilean singer whose album WOLEDTO I've been enjoying, and "Ganeni" is a highlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMN1zILdLTs

James Massiah ep out today, so fucking great! Somewhere between grime, the emotional heft of Real Lies, and the outsider vibes of Nourished By Time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGSxQD1tGOc

https://jamesmassiah.bandcamp.com/album/true-romance-ep-2

Somewhere between grime, the emotional heft of Real Lies, and the outsider vibes of Nourished By Time...

If ILM was a witches’ brew, this would be the recipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHU6-jqEowo

Kontravoid - Losing Game feat. Chelsey Crowley

kontravoid with chelsey crowley of nuovo testamento doing ebm/freestyle/italo. i think it's catchy enough to cross over to non-goth club heads

The new Alex Anwandter (Javiera Mena-adjacent queer Chilean discopop singer) album is excellent, parts of it sound like classic Phoenix to me (but in Spanish).

Lead single is "Gaucho":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOgZyTVA3H4

New one from The Parade!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G24IZlNwJyw

BAUR - Toleransi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0SaLAI75Fo

it's been in rotation for a while, but this temani hill just gets more+more vicious with each listen. especially these days, that belting "reality so far from me" coda sticks around comfortably and dammit, bring back the top 40 ballad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2uj1YNpmY
temani hill ― "you & i"

New one from The Parade!

― groovypanda, Friday, June 7, 2024 3:50 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCiw8EtvJjo

Stacks — On The Heels

i posted this on the label thread, but i want more people to hear them

Updated!

there was a stacks song from 2022 (i think?) that i really loved. pretty sure i also found that one via a karl post

feel like the new album by brijean could be an ilx favorite. echoes of mr. twin sister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPaR8co_WA

Didn’t know Brijean had a new album out. Have liked what they’ve done in the past. This sounds great.

feel like the new album by brijean could be an ilx favorite. echoes of mr. twin sister

been thinking the same about this Rinjin tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzC2UcAERU4

For grab-bag indie pop/rock I really like the new This Is Lorelei album. This is one of the singles, “I’m All Fucked Up.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maK9mipXQAY

yeah this is Lorelei is fun, kind of like the magnetic fields on a sugar high

Brand new Young Marco business on Music From Memory, lovely ambient pop stuff with John Moods under the name Dead Sound, much closer to his work with Gigi Masin than that stuff he's been doing on the festival circuit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaiseOuAuk
Dead Sound - Coming Home

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-void

Cool find! Liked almost everything I’ve heard from John Moods. Had no idea he had another project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqs08jDHnWk

Rishi's Rain by Tot Taylor (wrote songs for Mari Wilson and Virna Lindt in the 80s)

i wanted to post the brand new temani hill in here but don't wanna seem too spammy. she's really got some momentum though, i like it even more than "you & i"!

mostly wanted to post because there's a new mk.gee single and i like it, but mostly because it sounds like hejira―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urjCv8-GoVs
mk.gee ― "lonely fight"
i think the album had better highlights, but i also can't say no to joniwave.

So this is apparantly 'dangdut', traditional but still very popular South Asian music, so named because the drums sound like they say dang dut. But a dangdut/hiphop hybrid, which sounds like k-pop at it's most awesome. Absolutely obsessed with it.

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

Love it! My kids say it's very popular on TikTok. And, it's 5 years old so doesn't really belong here. But still, love it.

Oh, lol, a TIKTOK hit. So that's why it's played on Danish radio all of a sudden :)

Yeah, not 2024, but great song!

Cool song. Should I add it considering year of impact?

Adding “FKA Twigs - Eusexua” can’t get enough of it. I’ve listened to it like 15 times since it came out yesterday.

really late on this but figure I would jump in anyway. Small but crucial difference: "Paijo" is Southeast Asian not South Asian, specifically Indonesian. And it's not actually traditional music, but pop music borrowing from classical Malay/Indonesian traditions plus a mix of Bollywood/Hindi and Western music. It's very popular but generally seen as pretty cringey/tacky, usually characterised by cheap synths, skimpy outfits and cheesy dance moves.

I mean, "Paijo" is a cool track but it's very much a modernised version of dangdut and an outlier imo. This is a remake of a classic dangdut track from a few years ago and it's much closer to what mainstream dangdut looks/sounds like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy9K9vFYfZ0

anyway, this has been part of a trend this year of Southeast Asian pop going viral on TikTok. See also Budots from the Philippines, which got Filipino-American Olivia Rodrigo joining in:

https://www.tiktok.com/@livbedumb/video/7396824371005820203?lang=en

Thanks for that, Roz!

really like this song by halo maud ("catch the wave")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01UZJgFnPsk

added!

Adding a song from GOAT. They describe themselves as influenced by afrobeat, heavy metal, anatolian funk and biker rock. It sounds like Sault with a more heavy psych thing going. Two singles so far... can't decide which one I like better. I'm adding Ouroboros to the playlist but here's both:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnfm2_A-UsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIO6TxDH1RE

ooh GOAT is GOAT-ing, thanks!

That GOAT album is fantastic!

Thanks for the heads up Moka

Yeah, thanks for the correction, Roz! South East, not South, and just all around bad of me not to mention it's from Indonesia.

I had initially archived this as too cheesy and derivative, too light, but just came on again and... I'll admit I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJnArpC_mM
Memphis LK - Just The Way You Are

Why does it sound so familiar? Those “doo doo doo” sound like something I had already heard somewhere else. Is it a remix or remake or another thing?

Yeah it’s a bit corny but I like it a lot.

Yeah, it's a cover, original by Milky

Oh yeah of course!

Something from the Kelly Lee Owens album should be on here. How about "Higher"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqtcsYgn9s4

Found this little obscure gem today. Not sure which song to pick from it as the full album flows like a dream/nightmare. I'll pick the most normal sounding song in here but it isn't really representative of the rest of the album:

Michel Banabila - Little Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1Zwmnm_l4

from his bandcamp:
"Banabila returns with a second LP release on Knekelhuis. The renowned Dutch producer is up there among the stars when it comes to ambient music and the so-called ‘fourth world’ legacy. On this eleven-track album, we witness soul-wrenching, kraut-tinted, and early-yet-modernist electronics.

Coming from his heart, these imaginative recordings center around otherworldly voices – fictional characters chanting in a made-up language, imbued with a captivating spirit, transcending linguistic barriers. Through remarkable complexity and technique, 'Unspeakable Visions' is full of sonic textures, together evoking a layered, emotional arc."

great album
think there was some discussion surrounding the record and ai brainfire especially
little star my personal fav too

May as well post this here too... new Florence Adooni is incredible and possibly my song of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Z9ud9tFPw
Florence Adooni - Vocalize My Luv

Cool one! I had “otoma da naba” on my list. This one might be even better!

both on the album, its going to be so good! afro-futuristic highlife, damn yes...

https://florenceadooni.bandcamp.com/album/a-o-e-i-u-an-ordinary-exercise-in-unity

Yeah looking forward to this one. She’s got a really cool sound going on.

great album
think there was some discussion surrounding the record and ai brainfire especially
little star my personal fav too

― nxd

On ilm? The album gives me the same sort of vibes as Fridge’s Happiness which is an album I overplayed in my early 20s.

Also this song in particular reminds me a lot of Nuno Canavarro’s Plux Quba which is one of my favorite 80’s albums.

2024 AOTY So Far

think there was some chat previously too, it's such a great record

gonna check out that recommendation thank u moka

Oh! Need to check the rest of the albums on the lists that mention it. Karl’s list has a couple of albums I also liked. Happy there seems to be a consensus on it being good around here! It took me surprisez it was late and I was feeling sleepy while listening and it perked my ears right away.

hey are we doing this again this year?

Moka, please could start a new ILM 2025 Listening Club thread

Yeah! I’ll do it in a couple of hours. Get your tracks readh!

Ready*

This is slight, but sounded good as I was coming round this morning:

John Glacier, feat. Sampha - Ocean Steppin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRFn2jUQAM

Added! But the thread for 2025 is over here

ILM 2025 Listening Club

Thank you - I knew my search skills weren't up to it!