ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

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 :)

*shudders at prospect of more LCD records to come, in search of elusive masterpiece*

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50 KAREN GWYER "Rembo" (246 points, 11 votes)
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awfuckenright!

oh this is good

great album

indeed

I completely failed to get into the headspace for this every time I played it.

Yeah this was probably my favourite from the 'women of electronica who's name begins with K' genre this year, excellent stuff

Wins at track naming in 2017 too

^^^yes

yea this is good

Great great album but the track list always mocks me for having an unmade bed

another cool one. good year for women on the 77 so far

oh rembo rules :)

another cool one. good year for women on the 77 so far

― Simon H., Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:32 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

finally some good roles for women

Think I voted for a track but not the album, KG is great tho'.

the name of the album bugged me for the longest time, I was thinking rambo? dembow? but she had a kid a while back so my best guess now is it’s toddler-speak for rainbow

aw

Btw go and see her Londoners cos she is amazing live and she was talking about moving overseas iirc so

Wish I'd voted for the Wolf Alice album. Only discovered how great it is after Don't Delete The Kisses placed last week. It really is a huge leap in quality from the debut.

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49 JULIEN BAKER "Turn Out the Lights" (248 points, 7 votes)
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I would have expected this to place much higher.