ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

haha!

so here's another one that has, as far as I can see, no discussion on ILX at all... of course, it's awfully hard to search, so show me where the party's at

http://i.imgur.com/rrV9G8r.jpg

44: Peach – “Silky” – 202 points – 7 votes
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amazing tune!

xp though a search did lead me to this choice matt post:
Simon Reynolds is a gobshite

belated note: "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" sounds to me like "Wake Me Up When September Ends"

oh this is on midland's label?

Love this one, that snaky dual synth line just ended up stuck in my head for ages and it made my ballot at the last minute.

i talked about this one on ilx but only briefly and prob only i. year-end threads

only in*

anyway, totally bangs

I'm generally not seeking out anything like this during the year, so I'm thankful to get the introduction in the EOY rollout. This is delightful.

(not that I'll likely ever hear it again after Friday)

Is that Autechre track worth investing an hour in? Skipping through it it sounded like it was just an hour's worth of ambient drift?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 5:37 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

“all.end” works a little better in the context of the nts sessions as a finale of totally exploded sound (which is why i didn’t vote for it despite spending a lot of time with it). but yeah, it’s worth spending time with

Silky is one of those tracks that in the hands of a different producer could have been something enjoyable but ultimately forgettable and (yes) probably wishy-washy but she's taken real care to craft a particular sound that feels unique. I don't think I've heard anything that sounds quite like that tiny-xylophone-in-a-bottle refrain anywhere else. Something about it's propulsion and the care of the sound design reminds me of peak-Booka Shade as well.

Hadn't heard this before. This is good.

The Peach track, that is

Love this! Matt DC OTM about the sound design.

this is nice enough but why am i getting the urge to sing popcorn by hot butter over the top of it

Because 'Popcorn' is one of the greatest songs of all time and this is also good?

love the neil cicierega mix with 'bodies'

it's always nice to come across tracks like this during EOY season, i don't really keep up with this sort of thing but there's always a few gems like this to enjoy

yeah that wasn't necessarily a knock! :D xxp

http://i.imgur.com/cJmwBEV.jpg

43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow” – 202 points – 7 votes – 1 first place vote
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Beach House

a flash in the pan― Stephen Bush, Saturday, November 18, 2006

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25111

“Lemon Glow” has dripping, reverberating guitar and a portentous vocal. It’s high drama of the Siouxsie and the Banshees gothic rock mode, but, in the hands of Beach House, is less theatrical and more unsettling. A stubbornly recurring loop oozes underneath Victoria Legrand’s dissipating vocal. For all its intensity, the song is striking for its lack of affect and its willful refusal of clarity or definition. This is staring-at-the-wall-when-you-can’t-feel-anything music. The percussive finale is not a crescendo but a doubling-down. – Jonathan Bradley

Does the Dead Sara title fakeout: not lemon Pledge, like you’d expect, but more citrus incense: a thick haze, reverbed well past the uncanny valley and sickly-claustrophobic, like breathing the air inside a weighted duvet. It isn’t enjoyable, necessarily, but carries more genuine atmosphere than I thought Beach House, the epitome of background music, was capable of. - Katherine St Asaph

i loved this album but this track felt pretty weak/odd as a lead single and i only enjoyed it in context of the album, surprised to see it show up

This act has long since gazed itself to death.

So far most tracks strike me as adult and urbane.

They could use some deathgaze, come to think of it.

xp

I wanna hear a 2 chainz remix of this

Peach: Bangs indeed, much more my kind of electronic than miss Hauf or Talabomachin. It's really about the first part and that sample for me though.

For a second I thought that was the same Stephen Bush that is now the Political Editor of the New Statesman and much cited on the UK politics threads but I think not. Stranger things have happened.

ha ha - Beach Trap House

I don't think I've heard anything that sounds quite like that tiny-xylophone-in-a-bottle refrain anywhere else.

It reminds me of Vitalic's 'Fanfares' a bit but, different agenda tho it may have, can't say it compares favourably with that myself.

I like this Beach House song but I tend to think of them as an albums act

Fanfares is all about the military snares and nothing without them deserves to be compared to it, favourably or otherwise, IMO.

here's our third glittery and jittery and ostensibly undiscussed identical stranger to round out the early morning dance party

http://i.imgur.com/xCOmeMr.jpg

42: Kasper Marott – “Keflavik” – 202 points – 9 votes
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oh another great dance track i only know because of EOY threads!

another vote for 2 Chainz over Lemon Glow here

cool tune
the sun is glittering off passing cars perfectly with this

I voted for this. Glad that other people also like it.

I didn't expect a track named after the Reykjavik airport to be italo disco. It's cool.

damn there was actualy some ILM discussion on lemon glow, but we had to go TSJ

I group this Kasper Marrott tune and 'Neutron Dance' together in my head but this one just sounds so much better on headphones or a big system. It's like a more euphoric update of 'Squance' by Plaid, or a signpost to a modern electrohouse that isn't awful.

I didn't expect a track named after the Reykjavik airport to be italo disco. It's cool.

― Nabozo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:56 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinda think that's the Platonic title for an italo disco track in 2019

voodoo: you want to provide a link? the only lemon glow convo i found was of the "this rocks" variety.

(also, never forget)

Ha, Will, I was totally the oldest person at Migos and Rae Sremmurd.

YT's algorithm suggests a TED talk titled 'Pop Music Is Stuck on Repeat' as a palate cleanser after this track.

this one caught my ear big time on the nominations playlist, it's fun

http://i.imgur.com/nOjYUs8.jpg

41: The Beths – “Little Death” – 204 points – 7 votes – 1 first place vote
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The Beths