ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

Sea World sounds like nitrous oxide

getting hopeful john luther adams might place

― gr8080, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 6:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if I were voting today I'd have become ocean high on my ballot, doubt we'll see it tho

shit I forgot to vote for that! so beautiful.

was anyone else into steel hammer or is that just me?

Wow! I didn't think Gigi Masin had made such an impact on here, there were a few amazing retrospectives from last year (also that Vangelis Katsoulis & the Ariel Kalma ones) but this one the best by miles.

Feel if it's got the saer okay, I'll give it a spin

Too low

nice of you guys to not have any of the albums i voted for in the countdown yet so that my entire ballot can place in the top 40

I don't get the fascination with the next one at all, but people seemed endlessly fascinated with it.

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

45 LEWIS L'Amour [367 points, 11 votes]

year of impact I guess

yeh never got too much with this music
But the story seemed real cool

lol

lewis story seemed hokey to me - why are people so fascinated by ~mystique as though that makes an artist's music better - and i thought the album was dull and pretty standard for what it was

whats the story behind this one?

he's garth brooks

he looks more like Richard Madeley

The story was offputting. The record itself was pretty fine.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/light-in-the-attics-lewis-lamour

Lewis <3 Glad to see it place.

Don't know anything about the last couple

God, this is even more dull than I remember.

lol xelab

man, huey lewis looked great when he was young!

someone dig up that murgatroid post re this album

the Lewis is great, 'romantic times' is just as good. didn't vote for it bc i stuck to music strictly from '14.

this is really lovely so far, don't think it needs a mysterious origin story to prop it up

Totally bought into the story and love the album too. Romantic Times is great too but the other songs I've heard of his are pretty bad.

got it

Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid) wrote this on thread Lewis - "L'amour" on board I Love Music on Aug 10, 2014

Oh, so now that the backlash seal has been broken, I can say that this stuff sounds like music white dudes caress their nipples to

HA!

Wasn't really into the Lewis until I caught this shot from the publicity campaign - after this I was on board

http://i.imgur.com/gx02Q7C.jpg

I think I put this at #2 on my ballot, mostly because on the day I voted I was sick at home and this was just the perfect music to listen to in that situation. So soothing.

I had it at #2 as well I think.

is that really lewis tho

Wasn't feeling Romantic Times, really.

L'amour very easily floats out the window in the wrong settings but there are a few songs on there I find gorgeous at all times.

i enjoyed l'amour quite a bit, though i wouldn't rush to include it among the year's very best. and the backstory isn't all that important, imo. the music's no less lovely and haunting without it.

The backstory put it in the spotlight but it didn't influence my opinion of the record, either.

Hearing the backstory vastly improves this for me. Nothing like a bit of nebulous memento mori to make an album sparkle.

Lewis seems like a very shy Bryan Ferry who doesn't know any drummers.

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

44 ONE DIRECTION Four [372 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]

Too low, but glad it beat Lewis.

<3

so is this their best album then? i still haven't listened to any of them in full

lol JF

so jack white lost some weight huh

i like how harry styles dresses just like todd trainer of shellac in 1991

xxxxxps
I am bit of a sucker for a backstory, I was listening to that Luciano Cilio re-issue and can't separate some of the fragile beauty of his music from the fact that he topped himself. Maybe it is purely cosmetic, but sometimes it does seem to add something.

is this for real

yesssss. One Direction was in my top 20 but if i made my ballot now it'd probably be in my top 10. the closing trio of non-bonus tracks is incredible, especially "Clouds."

why wouldn't it be? xp