ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

loooooool I had not seen that before

I wonder if the Jlin album is going to switch more people onto footwork or if it's being included more as an example of avant-electronica and being thought of in similar terms to things like Holly Herndon? Obviously it can be treated as either / or.

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idk I've probably listened to more avant-electronic stuff than ever before this year, whereas I was already into footwork.

but I don't know if I'd posit her as a gateway into that

for all my 'waaah it's only metal for people who don't like metal itp', I listened to the Ghost album all the way through yesterday and my god is it glorious. definitely my favourite discovery from the poll so far.

every track is catchy and structurally poppy but coated in metal-camp. whoever said scooby-doo up thread wasn't wrong, bit that's obviously a strength. looking forward to playing this all next Halloween

My favorite non-musical discovery of this year's poll is the Papaganda videos Ghost made in 2013: The Olde One, What Happens in Vegas. High camp indeed.

i wish i liked ghost more. guy's voice is a dealbreaker

If you don't like the current Papa Emeritus, just wait till the next album.

Devin Townsend? :D

well that'd probably kill me

still think Addicted was cruelly denied the acclaim Ghost got

Townsend is a Canadian progressive metal shredder? Iyo, he made a better hard rock pop album than Meliora? Queuing this up.

I like "The Way Home!".

This today, Ginger Wildheart tomorrow

Oh ha, I did like that one but "Awake!!" was the one I was enjoying at that moment. Got titles mixed up.

Louis, you need to listen to Rwake's Xenoglossalgia like right now..."Calibis/So Fucking Tired" probably ahould've topped your tracks ballot

*Calibos

just wanted to give a little thanks for that levon vincent album in this list, it is such a fucking TREAT

Yes, it's excellent.

The Helena Hauff album, which didn't place but got a lot of love, is superb too.

I'm surprised the Emily King album didn't place. that was 2015 right?

I've been bingeing on Domenique Dumont, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and Neon Indian. Would love to know if there were threads on ILM for them that sparked more interest.

kaitlyn aurelia smith was talked about on the noise dude ambient thread and last year's rolling time travel

can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT
time travel 2015 -> 2012 <-> 2102 <-5102 levart emit

maybe it's even time for her own thread tbh, cos she's got a new album coming out ~next month(?)

Nice, thanks!

what is the time travel thread anyway? I've never figured it out.

time travel is a feeling

it's a place to post music that you think might contain clues as to what the time travel thread is

its not what it will be

re: what is the time travel thread anyway?

arty / avant / experimental music for timelords that doesn't fit easily into other rolling threads.

to get the most from the thread: you need to match at least one of these requirements

a: be a timelord or dr who fan and appreciate the work of delia derbyshire
b: be a fan of imago
c: have a philosophical interest in temporality (and how it relates to music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporality
d: read The Wire magazine

ha I am an imago fan and have occasionally read The Wire but I'm still lost

Just open yr skull, pour in the music, and let it ferment yr mind grapes

experimental music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_music

see the meta box at the footer of this wikipedia entry

"Experimental popular music genres"

Art pop Art punk Art rock Avant-garde jazz Ambient Drone metal Electronic Experimental metal Experimental pop Experimental rock Glitch Free jazz Intelligent dance music (IDM) Industrial Krautrock Math rock New-age No-fi No wave Noise rock Rock in Opposition (RIO) Post-rock Progressive rock Punk jazz Vaporwave Witch house

i.e the thread should be: Rolling Experimental & Avant Music Multi-Genres

As confirmed by your sweeping list of genres, "experimental music" can mean a lot of different things to different people. I don't think it works as any sort of genre marker.

or I could have read your last sentence idk

TT is the best rolling music thread name since rolling rap threads stopped having good names (thanks to edward, iirc Louis originally named something characteristically horrifying like Post Psych Non Avant Zero Math Chunk Wave). thread also has some of the best contemp music on the board. if the vagueness of the name alienates nebbish bedwetters that can't click on a bandcamp link without knowing what rigidly defined category of music to expect then that's a feature not a bug. imo there is a p obvious sensibility running thru the thread that i would describe as non-pretentious outsider music, often outgrowths of broadly defined 'rock' scenes. you could also just think of it as the thread where Edwars III, emil.y and lj post weird stuff they are freaking out about.

^the soft sell ;)

ty flopson tho that is v accurate

This is pretty much my entire argument against rolling genre threads in a nutshell:

That Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith album was easily in my top 5 albums of the year.

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.

But TBH I didn't discover that record through ILX - that was one of the rare suggestions that Spotify Hipster Boyfriend got really really right (and why I persist with him). I guess if that says algorithms (as bad as they are) have a better hit rate than "genre" for me that really speaks to me of the uselessness of genre.

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.)