ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

wait there was a joanna newsom album in 2015

tape distortion can be used to great effect. see kyle hall.

i double-dog-dare all of you to listen to track 4 of the dick diver album

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73 BARONESS "Purple" (228 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 117

Dick Diver
Origin Melbourne, Australia
Genres Indie pop
Years active 2008–present
Labels Chapter Music

i think i am done w/ indie pop from australia

can't even imagine a life where i'd knowingly listen to an australian indie band called dick diver

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, January 25, 2016 10:43 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i didnt see this post otm

YEAH

You can do interesting things with tape aesthetics.

Not that I have one but I thought this was pretty cool. Guy gets cool sounds on his demo tracks.

we have metal

blah

good cover art on metal albums is ubiquitous enough to be almost boring but baronness cover is pretty neat

metal: the real scandinavian pop

we have metal huh

I couldn't have imagined being relieved to listen to Baroness today. I loathe this cover art.

my feeling about baroness is that, while in theory i could have a place for a 2015 alice in chains in my workout playlist, in practice the final fantasy ambiance nixes it.

who the fuck is this brandon flowers dork

yeah the cover art makes 0 sense to me

I still double dog dare everyone to listen to track 4 of the dick diver album

the killers' guy xp

i tried and five seconds in my kid immediately shot it down

Baroness is a band that I've wanted to like, but it just never completely clicks for me.

Not my thing, but I've always loved Baroness cover art.

Artist John Dyer Baizley has a gallery.

project pablo is great, was p high on my ballot iirc, i may have even been one of the #1s on some strategic shit. if you are really allergic to any lo-fi i guess i can't convince you of its merits but it's really best thought of as a light spritzy melodic house trifle. it's like a lemon soda by the pool, and one of the best attempts at mixing house + the am gold softpop pallet. the production and sound design is really good and well-suited to the music imo; it sounds bright but not murky or excessively melted-in-the-sun, the drums aren't loud cause they don't have to be but have a good scrappy breakbeat feel. the one thing that annoys me about it being lo-fi is it doesn't sound great played at loud volumes, the one time i played it out i had to cut it halfway. also i'm sure it's not really a cassette, as in they didn't bounce it off a cassette on the mp3 you're listening to.

flopson otm also it isn't even that lo-fi ffs

i mean yall making it sound like some ariel pink the doldrums or some shit

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72 EEK "Kahraba" (230 points, 7 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP

this is fucking amazing

love this record
gutted to have missed them in december

I didn't manage to vote for it because 2015 was so, so, so, so great, but it's on my extended ballot - my #33

Dont hate dick diver, sounds basically a lot like the chills

Track four is kinda goofy and a bit syd barrett *shrugs*

wild, relentless fire music. so much fun

Oh, great! Didn't make my ballot as I just hadn't heard it as an album enough, but was definitely rooting for it.

Yes! This was incredible! Played the 11 minute opening track in my office last week and everyone left. Wonderfully mad.

my number 3, such a rush

this is everything I wanted out of Omar Souleyman and didn't quite get

I've never gotten a headache this quickly before, so I guess there's that.

How do you do it: "77 logged in users active in the past five minutes"?

This is amazing. More than makes up for Dick Diver.

Great on record. Better live.

Eek gets a thumbs up, dont know why i didnt get round to listening to it before.

ha eek is dope

I haven't heard any of the records that have placed today but this is the first one that's actually intrigued me.

The first track on the Eek album is very funny and would be a lot better if it had a discernible bass line

this live video is intense ty

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71 FOUR TET "Morning/Evening" (230 points, 10 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 104

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i haven't given this a proper listen but i assume it's Nice like all his stuff

This Four Tet thing is very polite so far.

Baroness gonna run out of secondary colours soon.

Hm, I like a bit of metal but they always struck me as a bit of a feeble-sounding band, metal watered down with hard rock, which doesn't work so well for me. Someone I know said that this album is good though.