ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

Tuomas Flowerrs??

I dunno who's that?

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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.
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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

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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.

this is some limp, limp fare

not saying you should always judge a band on their bandname but

the project pablo stands out to me because out of a lot of stuff cut from similar cloth on 1080p and mood hut, much of which is screamingly white, it is definitely more relentless with the hooks.

ppl who meant to vote for jaonna newsom record did ctrl+f diver and made a mistake imo

project pablo was def growing on me (a little) by the time brandon knocked

speaking of white, that dick diver image is doing a good job of making me not want to listen to them ever

You can do interesting things with tape aesthetics. Part of the appeal of early Boards of Canada was the subtle tape flanging sound weaved in that highlighted the sense of nostalgia for childhood. For me at anyrate.

However, choosing to EQ as though you forgot about the high-bias switch? Not so interesting.

i was just kidding above! actually the albums poll is ruined now like everyone said

from this early stage it is ruined and everyone likes bad music and bad formats and everyone is bad and should feel bad and something something variable bit rate magnets

Don't worry. All will be right with the world again when Gaz places.

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

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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