ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

To be fair to Tuomas, I initially thought Angel Olsen was "one of those Olsen sisters" too. I think because I knew there was a third, more 'credible' Olsen sister out there somewhere.

xpost lol, which is more ILxbaity: Röyksopp ft Susanne Sundfør or a Robyn GAS remix?

I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around how conservative indie/rock is now

You're not listening to the right indie rock.

the synth tones in this are basically irresistible to me

junior boys ft miguel coming 2017

Looks like St Etienne didn't release anything this year xp to emil.y

in case anyone wanted to go there there's an 18-minute dub of this song https://youtu.be/4iX8tZTv0yg

Yeah, I wanted to like the Angel Olsen record, but it sort of felt like every song had the same verse melody

the college station I advise has every Olsen song from the new album and it drives me mad

*on rotation, I should say

Royksopp still around? oh

Like somebody said earlier in the year, Never Ever sounds exactly like what you'd expect a collaboration between Röyksopp and Susanne Sundfør to sound like. It was my number two.

completely missed this one
love the outtro

yeah it's great, easily their best thing since "Monument"

really love the last two tracks

whole song is like these ecstatic colorful geometries crashing around you

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Disappointed that this wasn't a cover of the All Saints song... It's quite okay, but I do wonder when when ILM EOY lists will stop to be populated with 1980s-sounding dance pop, feels like this has been going for 10 years or more? There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?

Cannot restate 'you're not listening to the right indie rock' enough. Also, if there are literally hundreds of albums like that Comet Control song, um, can I please hear them? I mean, I've heard as much 90's space rock as anyone should, and this feels more glorious than p much all of it, but maybe I missed a few hundred albums here and there?

That last one really reminds me of how much I dislike shopping (haven't been since Primark in Southport almost 3 years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/8ntiDwk.jpg

34 RADIOHEAD “Daydreaming” [260 points, 9 votes]
https://youtu.be/TTAU7lLDZYU

imo this song is a 4/10 but the video is 9/10

Radiohead still exists?

one of the prettiest radiohead songs for sure

I expect a lot of complaints about moaning but this really is a lovely song, restrained in ways I didn't know they were really capable of

I do wonder when when ILM EOY lists will stop to be populated with 1980s-sounding dance pop, feels like this has been going for 10 years or more? There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?

― Tuomas

Thanks for letting us know. There hasn't actually been that much 80s-sounding dance pop this year.

This is the best on the album imo. Not amazing, but not bad either

lmao a bunch of radiohead trax are gonna place

or at least this and "true love waits"

There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?

yeah like that alex anwandter track that's two places above it

This is the best song on the album by far. I actually quite like it. Rest of the album's a bit of a dirge but this is worth hearing

don't think true love waits was nominated, just this and burn the witch?

yeah like that alex anwandter track that's two places above it

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson)

thank you -- was gonna say. And Rokysopp. And several of yesterday's selections.

don't think true love waits was nominated, just this and burn the witch?

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:10 AM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh thank goodness

i like the album but i briefly got a "half of that vampire weekend album placed in the tracks poll" vibe

That Royksopp song is awful and a terrible use of a great singer.

i think this board has mellowed on radiohead considerably anyway, though maybe the albums poll will prove me wrong

That Royksopp song is awful and a terrible use of a great singer

I didn't care for this when it showed up in the nominations playlist, but listening now and pretending it isn't Susanne Sundfør is making it much more palatable.

FUCK RADIOHEAD

lmao

would be surprised if the Radiohead album didn't Top 10 at least, even if it didn't place particularly high it probably got on the most ballots

I got about 40 seconds into that and went and put on Paramore's Daydreaming instead.

Going by the results of the Pitchfork top 30 albums poll, I think the album will probably be right up there.

Same with the Mercury Music Prize poll.

FUCK RADIOHEAD

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:15 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gross dude, they're kind of old and weedy

i think this board has mellowed on radiohead considerably anyway, though maybe the albums poll will prove me wrong

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:13 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the decline of ilx is REAL

I got about 40 seconds into that and went and put on Paramore's Daydreaming instead.

Lol, aaw. Not a bad idea

p sure they've always done very well on ILX polls? how would this signal a decline? xp

Cannot restate 'you're not listening to the right indie rock' enough. Also, if there are literally hundreds of albums like that Comet Control song, um, can I please hear them? I mean, I've heard as much 90's space rock as anyone should, and this feels more glorious than p much all of it, but maybe I missed a few hundred albums here and there?

― left hand hierarchy (imago), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:58 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sure you and emil.y are right about that and I'm sorry for writing off the entire "genre." idk what a better shorthand would be, acclaimed indie? the random indie that crosses my radar? as a lapsed indie listener, I remain surprised at how lots of it these days has turned into a kind of ritualized folk music, reproducing the same touchstones over and over

I wasn't really exaggerating about "hundreds of albums"--dude bought 10-20 records per week and while his tastes weren't entirely narrow, he did buy anything that could even remotely be described as space rock. those bands have all dissolved in my memory into a stew of astronomical references. idk, have you heard 7% Solution's first album?

I don't think I've ever heard a Röyksopp song that I've liked more than "Poor Leno"

there is nothing wrong with hating radiohead, can't they just fuck off, finally.

LOL Lex is that Radiohead's font?