ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

i should've voted
sorry :(

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62 DEAN BLUNT Black Metal [272 points, 9 votes]

Thought this was a good album but it didn't really stick with me.

I can't make heads or tails of this (though I only started listening to it for the first time ten minutes ago).

Track titles are great. I'm really hoping now it sounds like Lush meets 50 Cent.

there's something impressive about how similar all his records sound regardless of the sounds he uses

I tried to listen to that album but couldn't make it halfway through.

I don't like the ALL CAPS naming convention for tracks, but I shouldn't let that blind me. This is fine.

This sounds like something a friend would record and then play for you and you have to say nice things about it because he's your friend but down inside you and he both know it's not very good.

I'd be very frustrated if Aphex won, but I doubt he will. My bets are on #6

/nomorepredictionspromise

i am assuming there's some conceptual angle i would need to read about to "get" b/c otherwise yeah it sounds like some guy's demos

Such a misleading album name.

I'm yet to understand the work of Dean Blunt. He's like Oneohtrix to me - hugely popular with the publications/sites I follow but I just can't get my head around or relate to what's going on with it.

I keep meaning to start a thread of indie/hipster culture referencing black metal. It seems to be quite the thing these days.

Deafheaven

I like that Dean Blunt album, reminds me of AR Kane's wasted, hazy vibe

The Soft Pink Truth had the best black metal this year

^

(& Myrkur!)

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61 FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB Piñata [275 points, 9 votes]

77 BABYMETAL Babymetal [236 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
76 CHER LLOYD Sorry I'm Late [239 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
75 MICA LEVI Under the Skin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [242 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
74 NOURA MINT SEYMALI Tzenni [243 points, 8 votes]
73 REAL ESTATE Atlas [254 points, 9 votes]
72 CALL SUPER Suzi Ecto [255 points, 11 votes]
71 STURGILL SIMPSON Metamodern Sounds in Country Music [256 points, 10 votes]
70 NINOS DU BRASIL Novos Mistérios [258 points, 9 votes]
69 OUGHT More Than Any Other Day [262 points, 7 votes]
68 WARPAINT Warpaint [262 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
67 FUTURE Honest [262 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
66 KHUN NARIN Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band [263 points, 10 votes]
65 THEO PARRISH American Intelligence [267 points, 10 votes]
64 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Brill Bruisers [269 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]
63 LEON VYNEHALL Music for the Uninvited [271 points, 13 votes]
62 DEAN BLUNT Black Metal [272 points, 9 votes]
61 FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB Piñata [275 points, 9 votes]

xp yaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssss

nice start!

voted ninos & warpaint, gibbs/madlib just missed my ballot.

that was my #4 iirc

Ehhh that's ok I never got that into it, maybe I should give it another shake.

I missed most of the rollout today but enjoyed catching up - voted for Khun Narin and Noura Mint Seymali, have previously enjoyed Call Super, Ninos du Brasil and Dean Blunt, still need to check out Theo Parish and Mica Levi...

Oh, and HB JF!

77-61 was a ride and a half

Dean Blunt's songs remind me of those 'Best of MP3.COM' posts on WFMU. They've definitely got something about 'em. Can't imagine why a label would want to release them in album form though.

You know we're all getting old when there's more bobbins on the albums thread than in the tracks poll.

Enjoyed the diversity of today's list. Had only heard 8 and only voted for 2 (Cher Lloyd & Sturgill Simpson).

i also found the dean blunt album inscrutable but i wasn't as quick to dismiss it as BS as you guys are. i ended up really liking it. it starts out kinda singer songwritery then gets noisy & then dubby.

catch-up on the last few...

rev otm re: honest. it's not perfect, but it's got a ton of great tracks, not just the 1 or 2 that so many wanna grudgingly acknowledge. a slight disappointment after pluto, sure, but not some smoking crater.

love the khun narin lp! preordered, have happily spun it countless time since. made for lolling about on sunny days.

remember enjoying the freddy gibbs/madlib album, but it's been a while. need to catch up on the rest (except new pornographers, who bore me silly).

Ooh, just missed the rollout. Good work so far, guys.

Voted for: Babymetal & Ninos du Brasil
On longlist: Dean Blunt (was never that likely to make it but still a good record)

I heard a tiny bit of Noura Mint Seymali and Khun Narin but not enough to consider putting them on my lists, I liked what I heard, though.

I probably should check out Ought, but for every interesting point of reference someone then brings up a deathly dull comparison to counter it with.

seriously great start.

madlib totally off my radar, i will check that

Albums results are much better than singles so far.

Dean Blunt ended up my 27, Babymetal my 31. The appeal of the former faded fast after a while. I kind of liked the moments most on Black Metal that could've come out on Sarah Records.

more bobbins on the albums thread than in the tracks poll

Much of the heralded bobbins material I've sampled this year has been a bit too "tracky", both in construction and intent as DJ tools. Past EOY bobbins have made more concessions to song form.

Voted for: Mica Levi, Ninos Du Brasil, Warpaint
Pleased to see: Babymetal, Noura Mint Seymali, Call Super
Discovered: Khun Narin

Ehhh that's ok I never got that into it, maybe I should give it another shake.

― The Reverend, Monday, January 26, 2015 3:04 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah ditto for pinata

interesting start for sure, didn't vote for any of 'em

Albums results are much better than singles so far.

Havent heard any of them so far and im on a train with no headphones, so its already a more pleasant experience. I own some records by one of the artists! tho not the one featuring here, which I havent heard, he lost me a while back though:(

Voted for: Mica Levi, Ninos Du Brasil
Pleased to discover: Khun Narin, Babymetal, Noura Mint Seymali

Oh, and I voted for Dean Blunt.

Khun Narin seems like a wild choice, when and where was this discussed?

I own some records by one of the artists! tho not the one featuring here, which I havent heard, he lost me a while back though:(

― saer, Monday, January 26, 2015 1:33 PM Bookmark

Theo?

oops, forgot to say who, but yes Theo

no thread for ขุนนริทร์ศิลป์พิณประยุกต์ (Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band)?

listened to bits of khun narin and noura mint seymali over dinner, enjoyed them all but utterly lack the grounding in their contexts to make any qualitative judgments

shocked @ my own ballot for apparently leaving off theo parrish - there were about 10 albums that kept moving in and out of the last 5 spots and it seems on the day i submitted, theo moved out and leon vynehall moved in. if i was making it now theo would be way up the list because that album is endlessly engrossing; vynehall just pushed my tasteful breezy summer house buttons - i find his productions smooth in just the right way, those tasteful strings on "inside the deku tree" and "be brave, clench fists". glad they both made it.

absolutely hated the music dean blunt made as part of hype williams, he has also inspired a lot of bad writing that makes me want to listen to him even less.

i have had the freddie gibbs album in my itunes for months without being moved to play it, it sort of has this dusty air of ~real hip-hop for j dilla fanboys about it whereas i would rather have rae sremmurd and junglepussy in my life.

I can confirm that the Call Super album does indeed sound fantastic on a big system, really intricately textured and pretty but with some serious low end at the same time.

Most intrigued about the Noura Mint Seymali and Khun Narin albums though.

it sort of has this dusty air of ~real hip-hop

lol I admit this being the reason why I like it so much.

"no thread for ขุนนริทร์ศิลป์พิณประยุกต์ (Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band)?"

A thread title that's completely logical and yet it's also clear why I never clicked on it.

i have had the freddie gibbs album in my itunes for months without being moved to play it, it sort of has this dusty air of ~real hip-hop for j dilla fanboys about it whereas i would rather have rae sremmurd and junglepussy in my life.

Vibe is sort of dated, like something that would have sounded brilliant 10 years ago. Feel the same way about RTJ.