ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

i enjoyed this the first time i heard it but never felt the urge to go back to it after that

I liked this more than the other St Vincent albums I've heard but I'm not totally won over. A lot of the things that have been placing yesterday and today are things I've listened to once and thought 'yeah, this is alright'.

I'm giving the Holden album another try, thought it was totally unremarkable on first go.

Oh, I'm liking the Holden quite a bit.

holden/snaith comparisons are otm

never got in to holden before and this is absolutely my bailiwick

I liked him better when he made dance music

eww dance music

^^^

This has been a great start to the day. Gaussian Curve is another one I discovered from the overlooked albums of the year thread. Such a beautiful album.

Delighted to see The Clientele make it, I'd given up hope of them placing. Some days I think it's the best thing they've ever done. The best reunion album this year by some distance.

I had a feeling St Vincent wasn't going to be as high as previous years. Her backlash seems to be in full swing now. I preferred the S/T album, but really not by much. Ignoring the David Byrne album, she's one of the most consistent artists going.

Glad to see Blanck Mass and James Holden.

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34 THE WAR ON DRUGS "A Deeper Understanding" (312 points, 9 votes, 3 first place votes)
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:(

As I said on the Holden thread, I think he's pretty much the only 00s dance producer who stepped away from the dancefloor and became more rather than less interesting.

Destroyer also likely to appear, then, I guess.

see you in another half hour

3 first place votes!

too high!

as a guy who liked Lost in the Dream, lemme just say that Deeper Understanding is bloated and unfocused, with 2.5 good songs left to languish in the 70 minutes of runtime

OK this Holden album is pretty good, don't know what I was thinking before (although yeah nothing on it is as great as his remix of 'The Sky Was Pink').

pretty high bar, that

The War on Drugs are a band that seem appealing in theory but in practice their albums are bloated and unmemorable unfortunately

What's the real number 34 gr8080?

American Dream

I'm shocked, legit shocked, that AWOD has enough of an ILM fanbase.

It's not THAT bad, is it?

they were top 10 in 2014 so this is about where i expected them to show up

as a guy who liked Lost in the Dream, lemme just say that Deeper Understanding is bloated and unfocused, with 2.5 good songs left to languish in the 70 minutes of runtime

― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:15 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this record to me didn't even seem to have a "red eyes" to anchor it, it was just free-floating mediocrity

WOD is another joke entry, yes?

I'm shocked, legit shocked, that AWOD has enough of an ILM fanbase.

another perennial feature of these rollouts is the realizations that there are a bunch of indie rock listeners around here

Father John Misty isn't going to place is he?

Just a bunch?

xp

not really into the new sassy St Vincent. sounds like someone buying way too much into their own hype. an overblown album that plays with ideas of emotion while sounding tremendously flat. and i say this as someone who loved her stuff beforehand. this is her Merriweather Post Pavilion I guess

I liked one of the singles on this WOD album but I can't imagine ever getting through the whole album

my favorite post about war on drugs:

the music this draws from hits me in a deeply nostalgic place, really the sounds themselves and i enjoy this band as a child in many ways and therefore understand their ultimate dullness but like them in a way that i'm not inclined to interrogate.

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:09 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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33 ALICE COLTRANE "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda" (318 points, 12 votes)
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could listen to the groove at the end of "thinking of a place" forever

this rules

OH THANK GOD SOMETHING ACTUALLY AMAZING!!

is that three or four compilations now? not that i'm complaining too much if it's good

I rushed out and bought this based on a 30 second cursory listen on Spotify. It's the kind of thing which once you hear it you wonder how you coped without it. No hyperbole, it's been an aural salve for me over a year of ups and downs. Just plain spectacular. The cover is great too.

single artist comp of stuff that was virtually unreleased prior

cool ok.

imago, you heard this yet?

the Alice Coltrane compilation is so great, and doesn't even have the best tracks from those releases imo!

hearing it now! really liked her appearance on the iirc ten-minute songs poll

first thing i voted for to place

same

ha, I think that's true for me as well

I don't like seeing Alice Coltrane slumming it with such fucking riff-raff tho!

joking, of course

I love Journey in Satchidananda and Translinear Light but this stuff mostly made me think of having to go to the temple and sing bhajans tbh (which isn't really a good thing). I should probably listen for the way it intersects with the gospel and jazz elements and the trippy organ but I probably have too many hangups to really deal with it.