ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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strychnine soubds like a good name for a thrash metal band

quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link

This is a damn fine record.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link

good dogs

o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link

I mean, if you're into neo-trad country and people like Justin Townes Earle and Ryan Bingham let you down every time by missing the mark, then this is a must-hear album.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

xps to dog latin there are multiple bands named strychnine after a cursory google search - sadly, none of them seem to be thrash metal

i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

the last real estate album is one of my fav indie rock records ever but i couldn't get into this one at all

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 26, 2015 11:59 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this was the first one of theirs to really leave me cold--it's nice enough but i think the formula just sort of played out for me

call all destroyer, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link

I liked the Call Super album a lot (the woodwinds are such a nice touch), but when I listened to it at my parents' house on their system that has a sub woofer, it sounded amazing

rob, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link

i listened to the real estate record a lot earlier in the year and then i made the mistake of listening to it at the dentist while i was getting a cavity filled and now i can't disentangle those 2 experiences in my mind so i don't listen to it anymore

ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link

I enjoyed "Atlas" but yeah it's not half as good as the one before

Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link

xp hipster dentist or bring your own music

nothing but rap and country (diamonddave85), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link

both, but the latter in this case

ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/ZUDV3aG.jpg

70 NINOS DU BRASIL Novos Mistérios [258 points, 9 votes]

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link

I like the Sturgill Simpson album. I think it's getting a little overpraised because he hits a lot of critics' sweet spots -- he's the anti-brocountry guy who writes about metaphysics, etc. He interviews well. But there are several good tracks and I like his voice despite the mumbles. Good job reinventing "The Promise," too.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

!!!

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

xp

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

xp

(The album Sturgill's reminds me most of, both in terms of its execution and its place in the critical firmament, is the Mavericks' What a Crying Shame.)

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link

lol nino du brazil album has a track called "sepultura"

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link

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A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link

sss

ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link

Sepultura would be a good name for a militantly popist ilm poster

quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link

expected Ninos to be higher but whatever. great album

sleeve, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link

so babymetal is like this year's farrah abraham except it didn't place as well.

billstevejim, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link

mice

nothing but rap and country (diamonddave85), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link

Can confirm that anyone tempted by the Ninos du Brasil track that placed won't be disappointed by the album.

lex pretend, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link

strychnine is this thread's saer, I hope

ear sirrom (imago), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link

So happy I could share the "Carnivale under the influence of ayahuasca" sound with ILX.

excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link

i don't get the connection between babymetal and farrah at all

ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link

fell hard in love w ninoS du braSil after "sombra da lua" showed on the tracks rollout. whole album is hypnotically immersive, i get all sucked in & spaced out every time i put it on, no matter what else i'm doing (or trying to).

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link

xp

one's babymetal and the other's a babymama

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link

Vg

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link

Dancing!

tangenttangent, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link

whole album is hypnotically immersive

This is very succinct and very true.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/xC27b0b.jpg

69 OUGHT More Than Any Other Day [262 points, 7 votes]

Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link

ok i've never even heard of this one

ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link

Yay! First one voted for. This Heat-ish post-punk dream poetry Americana.

tangenttangent, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link

now THIS is some "indie" I can get behind, have not ever heard of it before but I'm liking this first track, getting vague Thinking Fellers/Polvo vibes?

sleeve, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link

(from Canada, apparently...)

tangenttangent, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link

o yeah I can hear This Heat a bit as well, no wonder I like this

sleeve, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link

Yes! Ought are pretty much one of the only straight up rock bands I give a shit about this year and the album is outstanding. Perfect cross between Television, early Radiohead and maybe some early 90s rock thing. it would all be 'been there, done that' were it not for their urgency and the sincerity of the lyrics. Best song is Habit followed by the title track. Was really high on my ballot And one of my big regrets of 2014 was not seeing them live when they played London.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link

Ought also reminds me a little of Talking Heads, something to do with his voice and phrasing.

Dan S, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link

xp

I discovered them literally two nights after their London gig this year - definitely a disappointment to be rectified in 2015. Concur with those two best tracks, plus Around Again.

tangenttangent, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link

It's definitely a combobulation of lots of postpunk bands - the greyscale mood included, but if Ought had come out with this record in '79 it'd be up there with many of my favourites easily

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link

ought album is gr8! not hearing so much direct television or radiohead influence, but yeah, maybe as the more traditional pop/rock element being squozen out through thinking fellers & this heat type art weirdo filters. pere ubu! or a more long-term interesting version of tyvek. not so fond of "habit" cuz i like the herk & jerkier punk stuff best.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link

It's hard to do austere rock without being boring. Ought manage it very well I think.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link

hadn't heard this, but this is super cool - hearing a little karate in this too maybe?

the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link

Thinking fellers wAs my abiding thought too after listening to this . Didn't really do all that much for me tbh but i'll give it another shot I guess

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link

That line about 'stick your head underwater and breathe in deep' will never leave my psyche. What a disturbing thought.

diss strychnine (dog latin), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link

On the other thread, someone asked about what records sound like Ninos du Brasil, and I was gonna mention the Sultan project by Burhan Öçal & Pete Namlook. Obviously the origin of their sound is completely different (Turkey instead of Brazil), but they have a similar combination of dense polyrhythmic percussion riffs and heavy synths (heavier than on Namlook's ambient albums), so NdB fans might enjoy that shit too.

Tuomas, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link

Sturgill Simpson's record is very solid--I voted for it--but I preferred his last album. This one is a bit more ambitious (especially lyrically) but the last one was rawer and had a couple tracks that I think are better than anything here.

Regardless, do check him out. For how much this board was willing to cross over for Pistol Annies, Brandy Clark, and Kacey Musgraves, one would think Sturgill would be popular here; he pushes many of the same buttons, putting a modern spin on traditional sounds.

Indexed, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link


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