ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

love rest but never could connect w/ most of we are monster.

what is isolee? is it DANCE MUSIC?

ayyy isolée. apparently i didn't vote for it but i should've done. love this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVyV_fqei4

yeah madchen mit hase is one of my fav tracks in all of dance music

though i haven't really heard an enormous amount of dance music tbh

this one is like a big ol' cushion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBfhQisZDpg

65. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Alpinisms (2008) [234 points, 15 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/AlpinismsAlbumCover.jpg

haha amazing i've just come back from seeing school of seven bells live!!! (they were fab.)

as i was saying to kate during the show, i love that despite their raison d'être being pretty girly harmonies, you can still tell that the deheza sisters are grown-ass women. and as a trio they have such an incredible sense of build and release.

this song is superb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-SNwyxsBM

Great record! First one I voted for to place.

My second placing! Such an excellent album, I keep returning to it.

wow don't see the attraction of that at all. all the music is v familiar & rote, like factory settings reproduced in concert the wway they've heard others do that sounded ok, and a melody that's a pastiche of folk & "world" music but disconnected and totally non-edgy. i liked the name so that was a letdown.

Yup, I voted for this too. Would've been top 3-4 had I ranked these fellas.

New album's destined to place in the eventual 2010-14 albums poll, judging by these tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKTnN_91eg

jsut listened btw so snap judgement made in ignorance and all that

64. ROBYN Robyn (2005) [234.5 points, 9 votes]

http://musicremedy.com/webfiles/artists/Robyn/Robyn-05-big.jpg

I own this album but never fully got it - some nice tracks but it didn't stick in my mind. Maybe needs another try.

xposts to School Of Seven Bells

lj i know u don't listen to rap & u slag off indie and dance above so what genre are these great artistic statements being made in, prog & metal?

alright so my parents are all "lol let's go out to dinner!" so i'll be back later with the FINAL FOUR (of the first 60)

again, apologies to all british

enjoy

or if johnny f is around and wants to post the final 4 he can go ahead and do it

how did i never notice that fucking robyn is wearing a fucking keffiyah on her album cover smh smh

so glad it placed relatively low and not like top 10 or anything

xp re SVIIB: For me it's a comfort album, it's not making a grand statement or inventing new landscapes. I put in on when I want to relax and just sink into pleasure. For me it scratches a similar itch to Ashra or Steve Reich, though obviously it sounds quite different.

Are you sure that's a keffiyeh and not just, like, a bandana?

lj i know u don't listen to rap & u slag off indie and dance above so what genre are these great artistic statements being made in, prog & metal?

A lot of them are being made in rap, indie and dance! My main concern is that ILM is unfairly weighted towards certain genres, but I don't want to have the debate now.

(Metal has a lot of good'uns, yes, but not a great deal more than most other genres! Hell, I think if New Amerykah wins this poll it'll have deserved it, although I'd personally rather Third took it)

Also, there's more rap in my taste now than at any other point in my life

someone gave you a rap cd today?

Hey Johnny I know you're not a retard but if you do post the final four, make sure to subtract one from the number next to the album on the excel spreadsheet

NEUNAME BE ZINGING

this NEW SO7B track is possibly better than anything on their debut btw

and fuck - there's a rap album at 5 in my ballot! really!

School of 7 bells is my first vote to place! cant really understand anyone not being into that album tbh, for me it does all that stuff that old skool 4AD did for everyone that wasnt me (yeah im looking at you, Lush)

oh wait duh FOTL placed already. fine its my second one then

0 for me so far

Don't worry about me Jordan, watching The New World and if Terrence Malick films are anything, they are fucking long.

Just checked back here - so glad Kelley Polar made it - I think that album helped to make a bunch of things (such as a love of disco strings and claps) click for me.

I dug out the Liars album the other day and it's much better than I originally gave it credit for. I remember thinking it sounded like a poor-man's Boredoms or an Animal Collective rip off, but there's so much more going on.

I also dumped that Liars album very quickly, haven't listened to it in years. Maybe I should dig it out again.

i watched the DVD with the music videos

I'll take it down to 61 y'all. Woo hoo!

63. ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS I Am a Bird Now (2005) [235.5 points, 8 votes]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/I_Am_a_Bird_Now.jpg

Drums Not Dead opened up incredibly after I saw them play tracks from it live - saw them play it in Leicester Square and it was awesome. IF I'd voted it would be Top Ten.

That's a great cover. Still trying to make something of the music.

Such a great album! And only $13.99, the same price as his recent album "The Crying Light." Come talk to me, Jason! I'll help you find other great alternative rock music.

I never heard it but it feels like ancient history when that came out.

I am a Bird Now is one of those albums that just blew me away. I remember putting it on for the first time and just falling in love with it straight away.

62. THE FLAMING LIPS Embryonic (2009) [236 points, 11 votes]

http://expresion.metro951.com/files/2010/01/FlamingLipsEmbryonic340B72.jpg

^^opening track and Powerless are awesome, but rest hasn't really grown on me too much - what am I missing? apparently this is one of the great art-pop statements of recent years...

While quite breathtaking at various points (Hope There's Someone being an obvious pinnacle of any musical genre this past decade), I find I Am a Bird Now a little uneven and occasionally a bit over the top for my tastes . I find The Crying Light a more accessible record that I go back to more regularly. I realize I'm in a serious minority.

I haven't properly listened to this yet, but from what I have it sounds like a real hodgepodge of experiments, akin to the kind of thing the Focus Group does. Not necessarily a bad thing.

i haven't listened to embryonic much yet, since i figured the lips were at the point in their career where they're just cruising on reputation and decent pophooks, but it's actually a refreshing slide back into their psych roots