ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

Acid Brass is a fun time!

tornado wallace album is a++++

feel kinda bummed no one said "hey man this record is very gr8080, you should listen" to me at all last year

― gr8080, Monday, January 29, 2018 1:32 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude should change his name to like Cool Breeze Wallace or something

― gr8080, Monday, January 29, 2018 1:36 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol :)

carti way too low. room-enveloping ear candy.

― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, January 29, 2018 10:22 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I knew Magnolia, but I'm just listening to this for the first time. "ear candy" is otm

Hannah Peel was my main discovery from last year's poll, but I could not get into this one. Sounds like she's jamming with a high school band

visible cloaks placing at the end of today feels like a refreshing warm face cloth after a strange and sometimes stodgy 16 course meal

glad hannah peel made it, archid orange dwarf reminds me of arthur russell's instrumentals

Yay, Ex Eye! First of my votes to place.

Best discovery of the day is Louise Burns.

So, although I apparently hyped Ex Eye early on, I ended up forgetting about it and never buying it. Listening now, though, it's great and I don't know why.

like a refreshing warm face cloth after a strange and sometimes stodgy 16 course meal

But then you realize the cloth is as starchy as the dim sum meal was. (I know stodgy is not a synonym for starchy, but I couldn't help mentally substituting the latter in place of what you wrote.) Mostly good stuff so far, just nothing I'm that excited by.

nuh, visible cloaks is just water, light and vapours, it’s basically music for breatharians

digging visible cloaks

this is a really nice track off it, actually a bonus track but it’s maybe the most accessible thing

visible cloaks with miyako koda - valve (revisited)

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I have no chance of evolving to that level in this lifetime.

i can't keep up w/ the rollout in real time, checking in during lunch and just have to ask: is there a different Hold Steady than the one i know? because i don't know how you get to the Hold Steady i know from Hurray for the Riff Raff

i can def hear craig finn yelling "HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF" but yeah otherwise no

Fuck I posted a bad link - let’s try again:

visible cloaks with miyako koda - valve revisited

This one completely passed me by and I like Colin Stetson

― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, January 29, 2018 12:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. Good stuff.

A couple thoughts after tonight's listening session

Aimee Mann is undoubtedly closer to my own personal taste than I suspect most of these picks will be yet it doesn't really grab me.

L'Rain sounded interesting based on the first few tracks. Saving this one for later.

Not feeling Louise Burns or Hurray for the Riff Raff at all.

I don't think I've listened to any Spoon before. First few tracks were not bad. Might revisit.

The popularity of Waxahatchee still escapes me.

Tornado Wallace sounded okay. Maybe a bit too background-ish for me to care.

Hannah Peel is the one I listened to all the way through. Nothing spectacular but enjoyable enough.

Just put Visible Cloaks on. This sounds very nice so far. Might be a keeper.

Got one of my picks in (Ex Eye). Most likely the only one I'll get even though I have unreasonable hopes for my 2# due to this board's passion for women-made indie rock and I'll end up being sad.

Ex Eye is awesome

Visible Cloaks are cool

nuh, visible cloaks is just water, light and vapours, it’s basically music for breatharians

I tried the L'Rain album after she appeared in the tracks poll; it was a little bit shapeless for me to truly love straight off the bat but I'll persevere with it.

Enjoying Louise Burns!

weather station record is great, sad i slept on this.

i like the swearing in it.

My picks already faring much better than on the tracks list -- L'Rain, Waxahatchee, Aimee Mann. Happy about the latter's Grammy win, though I don't hear it at all as a folk album.

Love love love the waxahatchee album but I get why some ppl might think the arrangements are boring. Idk, it's the kind of personal songwriting that I find really powerful and immediately likeable. Hear You is especially a jam

very symmetrical album art itt

gr8080 otm re: tornado wallace

into this hannah peel joint, somewhat surprisingly, as I was kind of expecting vocals. points off for lacking a paul buchanan cover tho

I adored the last Hannah Peel album but the new one isn't for me at all

would like to rescreen whilst baked, for sure xp

Glad Hannah Peel made it! Visible Cloaks was on my radar but just never really grabbed me enough. Feels like a more abstract retread of OPN's R Plus 7's sound palette. On that record I remember a score of moments, but on Reassemblage, not one comes to mind. That said, the followup EP Lex is better.

liking this Tornado Wallace record, I think "Trance Encounters" has turned up on some recent-ish Prins Thomas/Lindstrom beardo disco mixes

Prins Thomas remixed "Trance Encounters"
https://www.deejay.de/Tornado_Wallace_Lonely_Planet_Remixes_RB069_Vinyl__303424

ah nice, thanks

i:Cube too on that EP! he always does great remixes

Most important discovery for me from the nominations process was Hannah Peel's *previous* album (which I had somehow completely missed last year). The new one is fine too though.

Instant love for Visible Cloaks. Thank you.

Yeah 'Awake But Always Dreaming' is one of the best and most overlooked records of the last few years, the new one isn't at that level and definitely has more of a side project feel to it. But it's a fantastic side project.

I'll take the opportunity to alert Hannah Peel-newcomers to her group work with The Magnetic North. Very different (more acoustic elements, folky vibe, high concept), but also very good.

https://i.imgur.com/j7wQ94x.jpg

60 WILEY "Godfather" (266 points, 9 votes)
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I'm not really paying attention but that's TOO LOW probs

p good album

i havent heard this. youd forget about wiley tbh

Hey first one I had on my ballot. It's just banger after banger so the whole album is pretty exhausting listen as a whole, but in 2-3 song chunks it's awesome.

Also nice to see a banging Darq E Freaker production on a mainstream album

yeah I don't really sit thru albums much so it's just been in my playlists all year, bangering away being greeat

It's the album he should have made a decade ago but it's still str8 banging for all its victory lap/old people's home tendencies.

Also nice to see a banging Darq E Freaker production on a mainstream album

That track is great but he seems like a weird choice of producer to single out?

https://i.imgur.com/3nDwfix.jpg

59 COLLEEN "A flame my love, a frequency" (266 points, 10 votes)
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