ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

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Starts of posts that, themselves, effortlessly summarise the spirit of ilx

woah this blue nile cover is lovely

Don't know anything about Elder's previous releases but I listened to Reflections of a Floating world for the first time last week and it made a pretty strong impression on me. I need a few more weeks to see if that'll hold up (I'm still pantingly struggling to catch up with 2017 – I don't know how you guys do it).

Based on admittedly vague assumptions of what'll come next, Playboi Carti should probably be higher imho.

Genre names are for bureaucrats, dream thieves, pedants and phone usersp

after many a false start, the playlist is up and running.

carti way too low. room-enveloping ear candy.

didn't mean to imply that getting severely stoned was the only way to unlock the elder record; just projecting my personal experience onto it, which is that every time i listened to it high i rode the chuggling groove into infinity, is all

My first vote to place. Young Mopes is such a gorgeous record that I discovered late on through the overlooked albums of 2017 thread. The whole album is great, The Blue Nile cover at the end is like a nice little bonus.

public service announcement

thread to dis hyped 2017 releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

not been much real dissing so far!

no, true, that was pre-emptive

Based on my current listen, the Weather Station album picks up after 'Thirty'

I loved her last record, so I was a built in audience for this one. The Blue Nile cover is but a perk.

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70 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF "The Navigator" (206 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote)
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xp - Slightly disappointed that 'Moonlight Shadow' is not a Mike Oldfield cover after all this Blue Nile talk.

excellent, i was the #1 voter on this one

another nice album that didn't hit me the way I gather it hit others / was meant to hit me

I listened to it but 'Living In The City' was the keeper for me. I must have played it a hundred times in the last year

she's released a series of excellent albums but this is the first one that seemed to really catch on. it was the right year for this one to come out, in terms of everything going on in the united states. it's one of the better concept albums i've heard, though it's a bit looser in the concept than some perhaps.

Disappointed this isn't higher, but I'll take it.

That's a high points per voter average.

i rated Pa'lante at the top of my tracks poll, should have rated Living In the City too. it's great throughout though and the former one seemed like the representative rallying cry for the LP as a whole.

those are two great songs that kinda towered over the rest of the album for me.

I really tried hard to get into this album after reading some interesting reviews and the positive reactions on here. There were some great moments, but overall I found it too uneven.

Just joining now, L'Rain is definitely TOO LOW, was totally anticipating it being a surprise hit. At least it made it, I would've been horrified if it had missed out.

my response to Living In The City was basically "oh cool, there's a female Hold Steady now" lol

lol

wow that's mean

jesus christ lj

if you're gonna be that cruel save it for the bitching thread

my pazz and jop application portfolio increaseth

you're also like, incredibly wrong

guess the craig finn album is prob gonna miss the countdown...

just kidding, i didn't listen to that

*lj hears extremely vu-indebted track* "oh wow this is a female hold steady"

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69 THE NATIONAL "Sleep Well Beast" (206 points, 6 votes)
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nice

worst national album in however many years, still pretty good

i liked the singles but the album left me cold :\

carin at the liquor store, the system only dreams in total darkness, guilty party, all great tracks, but the whole album was sort of a chore to listen to.

the system dreams in total darkness is one of their best songs, pretty boring overall though

"turtleneck" is the worst "we're gonna rock out again" song i've heard in a while

Fake results this early?

carin at the liquor store, the system only dreams in total darkness, guilty party, all great tracks, but the whole album was sort of a chore to listen to.

These, "Dark Side of the Gym" and "Born to Beg" are the only ones that made it onto my phone, pretty poor showing by their standards.

this young marco italian dream house thing is outstanding

y'all are severely underrating "i'll still destroy you"

enh that one struck me as a little try-hard miserablist even for them, will revisit tho

the "it's just the lights...coming on" part is like the ultimate national part of a national song

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68 SPOON "Hot Thoughts" (206 points, 7 votes)spotify