ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

It's probably best if everyone logs out now and comes back in a half hour or so while #53 sits here uncommented upon...

lol

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53 SUN KIL MOON Benji [292 points, 9 votes]

well i'm glad it's this low

ha

Errr... whatever the opposite of mice is.

Rats!

hate this dude

this is one of the worst, most unbearable things I heard all year, wanted to kill the guy after about three minutes of his sad-sack routine

omg are they the people who did that hilariously pathetic diss track about that other indie band? lmao didn't realise they weren't a joke act

Hope War on Drugs is next at 52

Glad this album exists if only for provoking the greatest piece of music journalism this year.

And it's nothing to do with that diss track.

xxxxps if you did you'd be giving him ideas for the follow up

Still think Run The Jewels will provoke the angriest and most animated post-placement discussion

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tbh i loved almost everything red house painters ever did but was never able to get in to anything he's done since

his set at pitchfork was kinda nice 4pm wash-over-you background noise i didn't focus on but enjoyed

Still think Run The Jewels will provoke the angriest and most animated post-placement discussion

? nah

panerawave

Matt, you should probably listen to tune-yard's lyrics, or at least read them (and bear in mind that this is coming from the #1 booster of never paying attention to lyrics)

Most of the negative RTJ discussion has been along the lines of "not my thing, glad these dudes made it" with a side order of "El-P still can't rap". If it's the most controversial placement I'll be amazed.

tbh i loved almost everything red house painters ever did but was never able to get in to anything he's done since

otm except i like the first two proper skm albums

his stream-of-consciousness death and bar decorations stuff basically revived his career but it's total garbage imo

There's some great stuff on this album but it's no Perils From the Sea (or any peak RHP/SKM obviously)

tbh i loved almost everything red house painters ever did but was never able to get in to anything he's done since

Same. It's weird, because it's not wildly different, but it just seems like he's been on autopilot for close to 15 years.

xps hey look jason segel and billy crystal had a very angry baby

there is almost no way RTJ2 pisses people off as much as kozelek on any number of levels, though it'll def inspire some grumbling

this piece pretty much summed up how i felt about this ludicrous record:

http://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2014/02/11/sun-kil-moon-benji-sucks/

I liked it better when he wrote actual songs with actual melodies

glad to see steve gunn for some ilx brigade luv

kuhn narin is so awesome, i would have voted for both of those had i voted

I liked it better when he wrote actual songs with actual melodies

yep

Sun Kil Moon hasn't inspired much angry debate, as it's so obviously a load of terrible horseshit whose voters won't be able to defend it

SKM's ghosts of the great highway from like, 2003 i think, is pretty all right, but benji is so far away from that sound it's not even funny

i mean i get it there's a ton of mundanity contrasted with the inexorable advance of death on this record which really resonates with a certain demographic, i just think it's lazy garbage

the self-consciousness of it is really off-puttng

It made me want to listen to 'I See A Darkness' and not any other Kozelek material.

there's also a song on here about kozelek's early sexual experiences which no one needed

a certain demographic

like ian cohen and critics of his ilk who fancy themselves as like, inheritors and/or appreciators of this updike suburban anomie burden

if no one likes this album, how did it manage to get any votes?

haha that review :D

still kind of feel like Tavoris Cloud is his best song from this new period.
Fave Kozelek iteration: Ghosts of the Great Highway

there's also a song on here about kozelek's early sexual experiences which no one needed

This is true.

Ghosts of the Great Highway is a near-classic, April is one of my favorite records ever, and Perils From the Sea, the record he did in 2013 with the album leaf guy, was really good too, but this one didn't work for me at all, i think it's his weakest record.

Matt, you should probably listen to tune-yard's lyrics, or at least read them (and bear in mind that this is coming from the #1 booster of never paying attention to lyrics)

From the moment I clicked 'submit' on that post I knew exactly what some of those lyrics were going to end up being about and reading some of them confirms that - zing revoked.

Her image and aesthetic are still terrible though.

I really like Benji and I found a lot of the songs- Jim Wise, Micheline etc - genuinely affecting. I love the layered guitar work too. That said, it's the only real thing of Kozelek's that I know. I know very little about him as a person or his previous work or the WOD thing.
This album will remind me of lone summer evening bike rides in the countryside near where I live. It's too easy to be cynical about music like this I guess.

Name and shame the voters.

xps hey look jason segel and billy crystal had a very angry baby

― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:20 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying @ this

loool

This record kinda of reminded me of Marc Maron's self-depreciating freestyles on WTF.

my hot tip for no-one in particular: listen to 'two coffins' off the against me! record instead - none of the self-indulgence and 100 times shorter to boot

Sun Kil Moon hasn't inspired much angry debate, as it's so obviously a load of terrible horseshit whose voters won't be able to defend it

― Scrabble: A classic board-game that Mark Kozelek likes to play with his (imago), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:22 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

ugh dude

like i dont give 2 shits abt sun kil moon but how do you post that and not feel immediately embarrassed about it