(was top five for me!)
― Dan S, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Ogmor, it may be that there are more tracks that sound recognizably like songs with verse-chorus structure. Maybe gives more people a way in as opposed to the more meditative loops and burbles plus mantras from the earlier albums.
― Moodles, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Thought the Melanie Di Biasio album would've shown up by now.
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
there are some really sweet cuts on this kelela album
― imago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
I really really liked Thugger's Beautiful Thugger Girls and I'm slightly surprised ILM didn't care this year
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
aw this was my number one, a genuine travesty that it isn't higher tbh
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Kelela album is good. I had to warm up to it because her earlier stuff was so lackluster and overrated. This time she delivers the goods.
― Moodles, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
so many layers of sound to get lost in
― Dan S, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
At last. Obligatory 'too low'.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, February 1, 2018 10:42 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i voted for it, but too low on my balot. i think if there's one lesson i've learned is that i should do a mixed ballot. the stuff on the bottom of my ballot is often stuff i like a lot, but in a weighted ballot, i might as well have not voted for them at all.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Had an unweighted ballot but Kelela would've def been top 5 for me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
after Octo Octa, GAS, Bicep, and Kelela, the top 10 is going to be a let down for me
― Dan S, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
took a while to get into a couple of the cuts in the middle part, but now those slow-jamz-as-ambient tracks are some of my favourite songs
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
Just to backtrack a little, I don't get the love for Octo Octa's LP. I found it to be mildly enjoyable, often kind of bland.
And where's Dauwd ? Or Chloé?
xps
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
wow today rocks, lots of good albums
― marcos, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
dauwd was on my ballot, but i'm p sure he came in @ ~#197
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
where is lady blacktronicka
― brimstead, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
where's waldo
― brimstead, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
And where's Dauwd ?
i like it but the dauwd album is way more bland than octo octa
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
shocked at the absence of gaz coombes and yer granny on bongos
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
I forgot to vote for Melanie De Biaisio so I really hope it isn't sitting at #79 or something. By all rights it should have been on my ballot.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
i’m in and out of meetings all day today
"I think the Bicep proposal is a good start--oops, I mean. . ."
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
rounding out our trifecta of albums with cover art featuring artists posing with their heads back:
https://i.imgur.com/iSlM783.jpg
12 KEHLANI "SweetSexySavage" (632 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)spotify
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
Nice
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
yeah that's another great record
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
nothing but hooks
― ufo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
sweet
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
great album
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
hell yes
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
was that yr #1 brad?
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
hope that imago is working on his richard dawson victory speech btw
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
good album
― imago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
and as for kehlani... ;)
― imago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Kelela and Kehlani!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
it doesn't look like it's going to place so: i'm bummed that beach house 3 didn't make it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
yessss, Gas! so, so excited to see him live in the US in March, scroot scroooooot
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
The xx and Kehlani were my first 2017 album crushes. I growsed about her album's length but this made it easier to excerpt.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
One way or anotherI'mma love youSlidin' under covers, undercoverThey don't wanna see it happenBut we say, "Fuck it"They don't wanna see it happenBut we say, "Fuck it"
re: length, it helps that the songs are all really tightly constructed
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
yeah this breezes by
― imago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
I owe that a few more listens, I recall really enjoying it
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
i saw a review of beach house 3 that described it as a trap version of a sophistipop album so of course that description could only disappoint
― ufo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
lol yeah i didn't get that description. it is really great but idk why it was released in october
― sophistipop 2 (stritram), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
It's the K stretch! KLO next?
Pleased that Kehlani (voted for) beat Kelela (couldn't get into). KAS my #1
― Jeff W, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
OK the Slowdive album is way too high at this stage.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
i think the only lists that have kehlani over kelela are this and spin's, which is a quasi-ilm list
― sophistipop 2 (stritram), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
although separated by all of 2 points
― Dan S, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
idk, i love the slowdive record. v rich and textured, progresses significantly from where they left off. every time i listened to it i found it remarkable, i'd only feel it was too high if it were like no. 1
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
"no longer making time" especially took me to a place that was distinct from, say, "blue skied an' clear" or "alison" but had just as much depth
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
it did miss my ballot though lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link