ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

WHOA that was cool

My eyes! Well done gr80

haha wow, a landslide

oooooh nice

if susanne had actually pulled it off it would have been our weirdest album winner ever imo

Damn.

so the Sundfor album huh

The single was such a snooze I didn't bother.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 1, 2018 2:12 PM (eleven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you should bother although potentially you would think the whole album is composed of snoozers

Amazing!

Great work organisers!

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2 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Music For People In Trouble" (826 points, 26 votes, 2 first place votes)
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1 KENDRICK LAMAR "DAMN." (1,253 points, 37 votes, 8 first place votes)
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Where'd the gif go?!

The single was such a snooze I didn't bother.

This music for people in trouble, it's not for everyone. It's a motherfucking vibe.

thanks as always everyone, this was great, and i usually find the albums rollout kinda boring compared to the tracks

lmao simon

Ha, nice gif! Had no idea people had rallied around the Sundfør album aside from "Undercover". The SZA felt more of an event than either of these, but they have the weight of their past few albums behind them.

gr8080 this was your finest hour, excellent job on the mid poll fakeout as opposed to the poll ending fakeout.

Kinda expected Father John Misty to be a fake #1 in lieu of all the rockist comments

yeah thanks again to gr80 and all the other poll runners

kind of hilarious to think of these two titles together

i think the Kendrick album felt like an even bigger "event" than TPAB but ymmv.

Some of the songs/melodies on this Susanne Sundfør record have a real primordial feel. Not talking about John Grant's chanting either, just the songs. Earthy, thunderous in all its surface 'low-key'-ness. Coming back to the album is really an emotional experience. It's also of perfect length, always making you curious enough to listen to the end. She's still the best melody writer in the world, maybe best singer.

I was expecting a fake #1 to just be all those unreleased Prince tracks.

Fuck yes that gif! Amazing work.

music for people in trouble is fine but i really dislike reincarnation and the sound of war and the highs don't come close to ten love songs. a lot of really surprising results this year

thanks to the poll runners!

Thankig u gr80 and poll runners. Great work allround.

yes, thanks!

the right album won. i listened to well over 100 albums this year, a lot of them great, but none of them quite accomplished what kendrick did.

wow i just saw that gif in full, great work!!

imo the sundfor album was a huge step backwards from ten love songs. Undercover's great though

I like DAMN. more than TPAB, there, I said it.

I pretty much knew back in April this was AOTY, couldn't conceive of anything coming along that would be more exciting, and that hasn't changed one bit since then.

Love the steel guitar on Reincarnation (and preceding track)

ILM's TOP 77 ALBUMS OF 2017
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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"

20 BICEP "Bicep"
19 DESTROYER "ken"
18 MIGOS "Culture"
17 GAS "Narkopop"
16 THE XX "I See You"
15 OCTO OCTA "Where Are We Going?"
14 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH "The Kid"
13 KELELA "Take Me Apart"
12 KEHLANI "SweetSexySavage"
11 LORDE "Melodrama"
10 PARAMORE "After Laughter"
9 KELLY LEE OWENS "Kelly Lee Owens"
8 FEVER RAY
7 RICHARD DAWSON "Peasant"
6 JLIN "Black Origami"
5 SLOWDIVE "Slowdive"
4 CHARLY BLISS "Guppy"
3 SZA "Ctrl"
2 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Music For People In Trouble"
1 KENDRICK LAMAR "DAMN."

V cool gif. Thanks pollrunners!

Jlin and Gas are both sounding v good.

thank you JF, gr8080, and seandalai for your amazing work. year-end shenanigans is always one of the most fun things about posting in this board, and y'all make it happen.

Listening to the Sundfor now...I like the sax.

Kind of shocked Nite Jewel completely missed. I was convinced it would definitely make top 10. That album is tite! What happened?

btw gr8080 the fever ray alb is called Plunge

thank you and well done to everyone involved in the tallying and roll out!

well done grady, jf and seandalai. Amazing gif to end with!!

a reminder to join in seandalais other poll. Voting ends Saturday night

The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

the susanne record is a little sleepy, and it's way less direct, but the songs are just as strong as their counterparts on 10 love songs. just need a little time to get under your skin.

Thanks for the poll. Amazing scenes. These two albums soundtracked a trip to Iceland last October; part of me is forever listening to 'Undercover' on the coastal planes between Eyjafjallajökull the ghosts of the sea.

I got, I got, I got, I got ballots, stats, etc: ILM's Top 77 Albums Post-Poll breakdown thread

thank u poll dudes u rock!

the woodwinds on Good Luck Bad Luck, Bedtime Story, and No One Believes in Love Anymore are definitely some of the highlights

mountain goats at 78, knew I should've voted for that one

oh man mountain scroots w/ the #78

177 Haim - Something To Tell You

how the mighty hath fallen

Thanks to gr80 and seandalai

What's not to like about "The Sound of War"? My favourite track on a beautiful album (my #6).

Thanks so much for another great poll gr80/sean/forks!

I found DAMN. really hard work. Perhaps that's the point? I will continue to persevere. "HUMBLE." started to click when I listened to it on the tracks playlist recently.

Yeah thanks a lot to the people involved

Many thanks for your hard work, gr80 and all the pollsters