ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

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

http://i.imgur.com/YAD8Gmv.jpg

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?

(Xpost)

Tuomas you've single-handedly justified this album's placement.

Some good songs on this record, but I didn't think the one that made the tracks poll was one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/v/WN2F6WQk8zk&fs=1&hl=en

some sort of metaphor whereby ILM, music, the EOY poll and Kitchen Person are played by Collymore, Flowers, the ball and the divot, but I'm not sure in which order

hi Tuomas, Tin Flowers is your mom

no youtubes!

god why do you care so much if people like cassettes

― hi-nrg candidate (crüt), Monday, January 25, 2016 10:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think people are upset that an artist might purposefully fashion the production to sound cassette-ish as a gimmick.

Forks, what time are you planning on starting the proper rollout?

i love this album, surprise

sozzles fevesy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Flowers
Early life
Brandon Flowers, the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981, in Henderson, Nevada, to Jean Yvonne (née Barlow) and Terry Austin Flowers.
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/x-files/images/8/86/The_Truth_Is_Out_There_tagline.jpg/revision/latest%3Fcb%3D20070529002506

http://www.opinionatedbastard.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/truthisoutthere.jpg

actually, David Bowie said that

god why do you care so much if people like cassettes

― hi-nrg candidate (crüt), Monday, January 25, 2016 10:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think people are upset that an artist might purposefully fashion the production to sound cassette-ish as a gimmick.

― Evan, Monday, January 25, 2016 10:20 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Perhaps. Also, I lived through the cassette era. I owned several hundred of them. It's a terrible format. To see it fetishized is on par with people talking about how fun it is to suck mashed potatoes through a straw.

that project pablo release is available on 12" too and it sounds great.

there's a song on this record that wholesale samples "smalltown boy" how could i not love it

and mp3 so ppl like evan can jizz on it xp

i am actually just getting around to transferring a number of my old cassette mixes to spotify playlists right now (#pvmic); it's a great way to rediscover old songs and evocative sequencing. there's a specific way i like to hear King Pleasure into Eddie Jefferson that brings me back to junior high

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

75 DICK DIVER "Melbourne, Florida" (227 points, 7 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 129

Wait what did I do?

xps

hadn't heard the flowers album before. assumed it would sound a lot like a killers album but it has that gaslight anthem / working class rock sound

brandon flowers' great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather christopher flowers died in wiltshire in 1622

I tend to be wary of cassettes, because they often combine two tendencies that I hate in music production: senseless lo-fi aesthetic (how is releasing your music on a format that objectively has worse sound reproduction capability than CD/vinyl/digi a good thing?) and indulgent retro fetishism/obscurantism.

I remember being down with the opening track on this Dick Diver album and then not liking any of the rest of it.

project pablo record is fun, track 2 is my favorite

enjoying the lex vs. canada narrative that's developing in these threads

poll

had "waste the alphabet" on a few playlists but hadn't got round to listening to this one yet

Not nuts about project pablo, but i did enjoy the cfcf and keita sano records on the same label

Made it 4 songs into Kurt vile, he sounds almost as bored as I felt

the brandon flowers album was surprisingly great

and mp3 so ppl like evan can jizz on it xp

― mattresslessness, Monday, January 25, 2016 10:25 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You realize I'm not taking any sort of position right? Was only speculating. Thought I was being pretty careful, too.

get over yourself

project pablo record is fun,

yea i am digging it, idk if i'll listen to it more than once but whatever

uhhh

Dick Diver is 74 presumably? Never heard of this.

I'm liking Project Pablo too.