ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

I think this may be her brightest, "happiest" release

Why has this thread been so quiet compared to the tracks one? Where is everybody?

I'm at work.

You can listen to a song in four minutes and immediately post an opinion, engaging with an album you've never heard takes a lot longer.

So far the L'Rain album is the only one that I've listened to prior to the countdown. I think that's a new record low for me. So lots of catching up to do.

i didn't understand this laurel halo record *at all* but i did enjoy listening to it. feels like her songs are made out of some weird thick fluid instead of solid matter, like the music's been written on dough that's slowly being stretched and kneaded right in front of your ears. some good songs all the same though - 'do u ever happen', 'moontalk', 'jelly'

"Syzygy" is great, too. the desultory vocals and extremely loose arrangements on this album are very appealing to me

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52 FUTURE "HNDRXX" (241 points, 10 votes)
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Why has this thread been so quiet compared to the tracks one? Where is everybody?

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus)

You can listen to a song in four minutes and immediately post an opinion, engaging with an album you've never heard takes a lot longer.

― Matt DC

Yeah, Matt DC OTM. But also people seem to be having arguments in that "thread to complain about hyped shit" or whatever it's called, instead of having them in here. I thought those types of threads were supposed to be more for venting than for the usual scrapping we have on the actual rollout threads but it seems to have taken over.

Inane comment: the 'phone off the hook' noise on the Halo track from the threads poll got on my tits to such an extent, I haven't even bothered with the album.

hndrxx grew on me. good mix of pluto era future with new future

xp

oh that explains it. This thread is usually mobbed and lots of arguments

some big names so far = should be a few surprises to come :D

I'm trying to be nice on this thread! Plenty I don't like today. But what's the point in being a dick?

anyway these are early days. higher placements = higher stakes and more argument tbh

HNDRXX a good 20 places or so lower than I'd expected, wonder if the other one will make the list at all.

HNDRXX made the bottom reaches of my ballot, mostly for the sublime stretch between Damage and Fresh Air

haven't listened to it in full nearly as much as I thought. or nearly as much as the self-titled one tbh, cause that one is perfect gym music

i didn't understand this laurel halo record *at all* but i did enjoy listening to it. feels like her songs are made out of some weird thick fluid instead of solid matter, like the music's been written on dough that's slowly being stretched and kneaded right in front of your ears.

― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, January 30, 2018 10:04 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great description

Wed Camp easily best pop record of the year for me - was also my #1, ufo! Yay.

I believe e.mily and I campaigned really hard for "Jeanne D'arc" (the video of which I still recommend people to watch) to make the tracks poll a few years ago but it didn't happen. :/

I listened to all of the Ryuichi Sakamoto album, enjoyed it a lot, I should check out more of his stuff.

Made an effort to go three tracks into the Manchester Orchestra album but I just can't listen to this kind of music anymore.

Currently listening to Wednesday Campanella and enjoying.

Voted for the Colleen album.

the Sakamoto collabs with Alva Noto are also excellent fwiw

this Wednesday Campanella album is really nice

i bought 'thousand knives' this year so that's where most of my sakamoto listening went

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51 WOLF ALICE "Visions Of A Life" (242 points, 10 votes)
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oh that is a lot lower than i would've guessed

Yeah I could see that sneaking into the Top 20.

great album, almost certainly voted for it

wool phallus

yeah much lower than i expected, one of the best rock albums of the year. love Heavenward, Don't Delete the Kisses, Planet Hunter and St. Purple & Green especially

I've never been able to get into any of Future's albums in full but HNDRXX had a decent ratio of good songs to not-so-good ones for me.

I wonder what the highest placing rock album will be? paramore don’t count obv

charly bliss obv

unusual wrinkle in that the Future album that placed is not the one with his big singles poll entry

think it's between Slowdive, Charly Bliss and Algiers but i'd guess Slowdive

oh is the slowdive a rock album? I mean if you insist

yes

oh yeah I’d forgotten about slowdive

Wag on Drugs?

A+ typo

i mean it has a coldplay song on it xp to imago

got some amazing comparisons lined up for later

does st. vincent qualify as rock anymore? haven't heard the new one

naw it's pop

got some amazing comparisons lined up for later

― imago

:D

Surprised Dua Lipa placed so low. Thought that would be nailed on Top 20. Certainly one of the better pop albums I heard all year.

Voted for both Dust and Hendrxxx. I also prefer Incredible to Mask Off, though both songs ended up on my track ballot. Both albums felt to me a bit like 'career artist adding new wrinkles to their art, without necessarily forming them into a masterpiece yet' So their placements seem about right.

*cough* LCD Soundsystem *cough*

that album is already TOO HIGH

Voted for LCD as well, same thing really :)