ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

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.)