ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

this is the most annoying apostrophe in rock, maybe? discuss

xp

yeah fkn Radiohead

Several things with 5 votes, actually. That seems to be the threshold this year.

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76 PROJECT PABLO "I Want to Believe" (226 points, 6 votes, 2 first place votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP

idk even what this is...off to the internet!

huh, would've expected that to get more than 6 votes (nb: it did not make my ballot)

Never heard of it, fuck cassettes though.

quite good techno/bobbins of the Todd Terje school imo
try "Follow It Up"

v cool graphics this time btw

project pablo is a terrible name but i will give this a listen

this is some

'deep'

'vibes'

hopefully the countdown will be full of this stuff

Fugazi-looking dude in the photo

Wow, with that name and cover image I never would've pegged it as techno, more like DIY hipster noise or something.

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Fugazi coombes

I do not possess whatever emotion Project Pablo is trying to make me feel with this music.

Great rollout art though!

Yeah, I can get with this. Charmingly amateurish.

idk even what this is...off to the internet!

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 January 2016 14:41 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permali

Hah, for some reason I had it in my head that you had told me about this on Facebook. Must have been Michael B.

I'm a bit so-so about this. Not sure about the lo-finess of it. Some nice melodies but the careworn production standard doesn't do much for me.

all dap due to gr80 for the art btw

Two #1s and four voters averaging ~#9 on their ballots. We may not see a more loved album (by the few that knew it) this year.

the careworn production standard doesn't do much for me

This is my favourite part. Charming is right.

think we might xp

If an ILXor made this for a compilation, I'd dig it - I guess I'll adjust my expectations accordingly

I mean, it kind of sounds like something one of us would do, so

never heard of project pablo before but this just sounds like music made by wankers who fetishise cassettes

i mean, it's perfectly listenable though, not bad, but i don't need my music to sound like a fucking cassette

it's got a nice homemade vibe about it. what nonplusses me about music like this though is whether the lo-fi clunk was borne out of necessity or if it's just some guy just putting his productions through a bunch of digital patches.

Now that I've listened to some more of it, there are songs that are just fine and others that are like a serrated knife in the eye.

The Soichi Terada compilation kinda filled my need for this emotion, this year.

lmao i googled and they ARE cassette fetishists

why are canadian electronic producers all so annoying?

track 3 was the one i meant i'd dig if it was made by an ilxor fwiw, track 4 is just really annoying

Kind of wonder how people would react if they had no knowledge of it being a cassette release.

last track is the pick

i don't want to get too much into the cassette debate (my stance: yeah, fine but i don't have a player, so) - but i can kind of imagine this sounding nice on a cassette. There are people like Bass Clef who does everything analogue and mixes down to cassette,so I think he's therefore justified in releasing things on cassette.

Kind of wonder how people would react if they had no knowledge of it being a cassette release.

― Evan, Monday, January 25, 2016 2:57 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i had no knowledge until after i listened. it is p obvious tho on account of the production sounding like ass

this wasn't just released on cassette though was it?

last track is the pick

― ogmor, Monday, January 25, 2016 2:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this isn't so bad!

don't mind the production at all myself but then my ideology and lex's tend to conflict on this issue so idk pick a side

consciously making a cassette sound is quite an annoying aesthetic decision, rather than just keeping it lo-fi

ah didn't vote for it but that project pablo record was great!

<3 "the feeling"

That Kurt Vile album was a snoozefest, 8 votes for 225 pts probably means it was way down the list for most people who voted for it. At least I hope so.

I never got around to that Kurt Vile due to lack of inspiration, and that's despite liking some of his past albums which were also made fun of here. How do the fans of it rank it?

god why do you care so much if people like cassettes

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75 BRANDON FLOWERS "The Desired Effect" (226 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 150

today is a write-off huh

Lurker revolt.

jesus

Great album. I didn't know he had it in him.

No one ever answered my question in the other thread whether this guy is the son of Mike Flowers, but I guess he's not?

he's the cousin of Tim Flowers, Tuomas

Tuomas Flowerrs??

I dunno who's that?

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iirc time travel developed from a sequel to LJ's "rolling dilettante convocation" & the idea was supposed to be a free-for-all of stuff that wasn't being discussed elsewhere, ie there are no criteria for participation (martian's were obviously jokes). Obv the stuff that gets posted there has ended up being shaped by the sensibilities of the ppl who do participate, because that is what happens in communities. so time travel has become a vague "I know it when I see it" aesthetic.

Would relentlessly troll that thread by posting about Merzbox on it except I don't have the time.

there are no rules to time travel, only paradoxes

kaitlyn aurelia smith has a new album out in april, i haven't got round to listening to the whole of the one that placed in here but the new one is lovely

my argument for rolling threads is that until an artist achieves a certain critical/commercial mass OR is somehow an outsider to their home genre, starting a thread for them is usually just asking for tumbleweed. i feel like there are lots of general threads around where you can bring them up in a non-genre context.

Yet it seems the only discussion of it happened in a thread where literally every criteria for participation (except "likes Delia Derbyshire") is a massive turn-off to the point of being exclusionary.

It was also discussed (though briefly) in the rolling ambient thread.

http://cdn.yamibuy.com/images/201510/source_img/10417_G_1445033936368.jpg

(Oops I started reading this, forgot what thread I was on, and decided it was the time travel thread when I read all the time travel discussion. Still an amazing cracker box.)