ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

Such a great, moving album.

I listened to it for the first time this morning and really enjoyed it.

another one I was worried wasn't gonna make it. "I Live Now As A Singer" kills me

I hope Chelsea Wolfe will make it.

That's some nice fragile hippie stuff. Reminds a little of vashti bunyan.

Nice fragile hippie stuff is about right. Could not get into it at all. Do you all live out in the country in giant mansions and play these albums on your porch stereo?

No but I do occasionally fantasize about being in a beautiful place out in the country.

I live in a basement and play these albums in the dark lol

that seems like it would work really well

sooo are Girlpool not going to place? I know there's a few of us who stan for them here but I can't imagine them getting this high up.

this was really enjoyable but i haven't spent enough time with it yet, might have voted for it if i'd heard it sooner

I was the no. 1 voter for this. Played it once in January, slept on it all year, rediscovered in November and pretty much curled up inside it and have not really emerged since. Diaphanousness. And it is a perfect length.

like a more succulent version of the first Tracey Thorn solo album

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22 SACRED PAWS "Strike A Match" (434 points, 14 votes)
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Nice fragile hippie stuff is about right. Could not get into it at all. Do you all live out in the country in giant mansions and play these albums on your porch stereo?

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:58 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup!

Wow! great album, really didn't think it would place this high

voted for the title track not the album but this album is a delight, nice to see it so high. i always love the sort of vocal interplay they have

Oh, sacred paws

Haha.

lol

i think the Julie Byrne was my most listened to record of 2017. never really got tired of it

my #5.

thrilled that it placed so high.

Cool, I voted for both 'Paradiso' and 'Strike a Match'.

Lots of acts I haven't heard today.

damn i really thought capacity would be top 5, so many people in the thread were saying it was their aoty. it was #2 on my ballot; i chose a more recent infatuation as #1 but it's probably my most consistently revisited. fifteen seconds into the first track and i'm transported, every time

Wow, Chino Amobi is something else so far. I wasn't focused on the spoken word parts but the music sounds like something legitimately new and exciting. In a very oblique way, it's maybe recalling something of the feel of Ground Zero for me!

I can hear that for sure, good call

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21 J HUS "Common Sense" (445 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes)
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love the classic afro-pop influence on the sacred paws record.

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017 (Wednesday Recap)

77 AIMEE MANN "Mental Illness"
76 L'RAIN "L'rain"
75 ELDER "Reflections of a Floating World"
74 PLAYBOI CARTI "Playboi Carti"
73 THE WEATHER STATION "The Weather Station"
72 YOUNG MARCO / VARIOUS ARTISTS "Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)"
71 LOUISE BURNS "Young Mopes"
70 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF "The Navigator"
69 THE NATIONAL "Sleep Well Beast"
68 SPOON "Hot Thoughts"
67 BJÖRK "Utopia"
65 TORNADO WALLACE "Lonely Planet"
64 EX EYE "Ex Eye"
63 KESHA "Rainbow"
62 HANNAH PEEL "Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia"
61 VISIBLE CLOAKS "Reassemblage"

60 WILEY "Godfather"
59 COLLEEN "A flame my love, a frequency"
57(tie) RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - "async"
57(tie) MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA " A Black Mile to the Surface"
56 DUA LIPA "Dua Lipa"
55 KING KRULE "The OOZ"
54 WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA "SUPERMAN"
53 LAUREL HALO "Dust"
52 FUTURE "HNDRXX"
51 WOLF ALICE "Visions Of A Life"
50 KAREN GWYER "Rembo"
49 JULIEN BAKER "Turn Out the Lights"
48 ULVER "The Assassination of Julius Caesar"
47 ALVVAYS "Antisocialites"
46 LEE ANN WOMACK "The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone"
45 VARIOUS ARTISTS "Mono No Aware"
44 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "Rest"
43 JAPANESE BREAKFAST "Soft Sounds from Another Planet"
42 LANA DEL REY "Lust For Life"
41 ALGIERS "The Underside of Power"

40 BLANCK MASS "World Eater"
39 GAUSSIAN CURVE "The Distance"
38 FOUR TET "New Energy"
37 THE CLIENTELE "Music From The Age Of Miracles"
36 JAMES HOLDEN & THE ANIMAL SPIRITS "The Animal Spirits"
35 ST VINCENT "Masseduction"
34 THE WAR ON DRUGS "A Deeper Understanding"
33 ALICE COLTRANE "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda"
32 TAYLOR SWIFT "Reputation"
31 LAURA MARLING "Semper Femina"
30 SAINT ETIENNE "Home Counties"
29 CHARLI XCX "Pop 2"
28 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "American Dream"
27 MOSES SUMNEY "Aromanticism"
26 BIG THIEF "Capacity"
25 MOUNT EERIE "A Crow Looked At Me"
24 CHINO AMOBI "PARADISO"
23 JULIE BYRNE "Not Even Happiness"
22 SACRED PAWS "Strike A Match"
21 J HUS "Common Sense"

Yeah, Paradiso is the only 2017 album that genuinely made me think 'I have no idea how to assimilate this'.

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Yesterday > Today > Monday

Today & Monday > Yesterday

just charli and chino for me today but some great records

they shud collab

Paradiso isn't really my thing but it sure stands out on this list

three of mine placed today, all from my top 10.

so...good day

Nice little run at the end with Chino Amobi, Sacred Paws and J Hus.

Common Sense is hits from start to finish, was really surprised that it's nearly all one producer with the diversity in the beats. a perfect summer album

Didn't listen to Paradiso as much as I had Airport Music For Black Folk in 2016, but glad a NON artist is crossing over!

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Still hoping for Chelsea Wolfe to make it

But I'd be amazed now if it did.

Unless the goth vote got out

Chino Amobi maybe the most viscerally thrilling album I hear this year. It sticks out like a sore thumb in the ballot I sent but it's genuinely exciting, had it top 5 maybe top 3 I'm not sure

Now you're making feel guilty for not having voted.

xp

PARADISO scratched an itch I've had for that type of record that's persisted for a while now.

did djp vote this year?

40 BLANCK MASS "World Eater"
In my top 10. Love this record so much

39 GAUSSIAN CURVE "The Distance"
Pretty, bucolic, agree it could use vocals or something else to make it "whole"

38 FOUR TET "New Energy"
I love this record unabashedly, probably more for the nostalgia (as it harkens back to his Rounds/Pause era style in a way)

36 JAMES HOLDEN & THE ANIMAL SPIRITS "The Animal Spirits"
Kicking myself for not having this on my ballot. Listened to it too late, but it's excellent and glad it's here.

33 ALICE COLTRANE "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda"
Surprised to see this here. Also very good. Not enough room on my ballot sadly

28 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "American Dream"
Wow, surprised this is so high! I liked it, but don't hate it like a many of you. Kinda wish it wasn't here to make room for something new though.

27 MOSES SUMNEY "Aromanticism"
In love with this record, not just the singles. In my top 5

26 BIG THIEF "Capacity"
Just missed my ballot, lovely record. Title track is my fav

24 CHINO AMOBI "PARADISO"
YESSSSSS