ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

the Octa Octa track def my fave of the bobbins

If you’re into “work it” or you are not but love hearing about gear or the music making process search a youtube video of her at the red bull music academy. Apparently she does all her music on minimal, analog gear (gets some approving nods from Tatsuya Takahashi in the background) and she comes off as very charming. Also seeing her get in and out of character for this song is cool.

I'd be surprised if "Power Up" didn't make it but I am v far from a kpop expert xps

This track makes me think of those dumbfuck FIVERR subway ads

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/mg_advert_depression_comp.png
http://i.imgur.com/gB4ZIrn.jpg
http://mikekosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fiverr_poster.jpg

also this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html

all very jay mcinerney all over again

seeing she's from mtl makes this make a lot more sense

― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:27 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I had the same reaction

octo octa is amazing though, as is that EP

We're going down to 29 today, 13 on Thursday and the top 12 on Friday.

This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.

Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half

Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?

29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
52: Autechre – “all end”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

it's been 17/20/20/20 in the past instead of 17/16/16/16/12 yeah

This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.

we used to not do Fridays because the euros would be out during the top 10 but now everyone's old and/or has smartphones

work it = britney's work bitch but make it goth

glad to see good bobbins still placing

Let's Eat Grandma are definitely in that 'bands I refuse to check out based entirely on their name'. May as well call yourselves 'Eats Shoots and Leaves'

<3 that octo octa split EP and all the breaky stuff like it that's been coming out these past couple years

dog latin i feel that

wait do euros get fridays off? why do i live in this country again?

Still thinking Talaboman is the highlight of the poll so far. I'm liking the Simmys from today though.

They don't xp

Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?

― pomenitul, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:34 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it just reminds me of something one of my partner's (Mtl) art students might make--or to put it another way, I think the Mtl connection makes it easy to decide the lyrics are parodic. also, I was pretty sure I was correctly identifying her accent, but wasn't 100%

Gotcha. I'm always a wee bit bemused by what the ROC makes of Montreal.

Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half

― imago, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:33 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you don't like a relentless stream of good house and techno then idk man

Just not built for it -_- soz

this year's rollout has felt a bit less surprising overall, feels mostly like highlights from albums that'll certainly do well too, bobbins stuff aside

no idea what's going to do the best of what's left though

tbf the bobbins fugues are the reason i fell in love with this poll (cf. lindstrøm & prins thomas in 2009)

i love catching up with the year in bobbins since it's not something i really keep up with and this year's been more to my taste than usual

work it is cool!

"if someone w/ music theory chops beyond grade 1 cld pin down what is going on with the beat/flow interplay I wld be v curious because I am a slave to it"

This is very good - it sounds like, while the vocals are on beat, there are huge swathes of the song where everything else is offbeat, including the clicks and hi-hats. But the bass shifts between being on and off the beat every eight bars or so. It gives the whole thing a swing that's largely absent from a lot of post-Lex Luger rap.

Luv the image of a Euro ILXor sitting in an mostly empty club early on a Friday night and following the final rollout of these tracks by glow of an iPhone, nursing a vodka tonic, while sad German techno throbs in the background

yep, song has huge pockets, feels caught in a constant yet subtle ectoplasmic shapeshift xp

Listened to the Talaboman/Superpitcher thing bc of jmm's praise and it was actually what I needed rn. "Nobody" was my Mitski vote btw but I do like "Geyser" a lot. I'm sure the Autechre track is great; just waiting to have a concentrated hour when I can listen.

xps lol i used to do that but at the pub!

40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!” – 206 points – 8 votes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 14:23 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me listening to “moo":

http://kafkaskoffee.com/junk/Abyss/Abyss_AlienWaterWall.gif

HOT TAKE - everything that's placed today is good. Even the Beach House song feels more interesting than they've been for a while.

"hes glued to his phone"
I JUST WANT TO SEE WHERE EVERYTHING IS EMBARRASSING CAME

xxp What movie is that gif from?

Actually fuck Ty Dolla $ign.

strong day

xxp What movie is that gif from?

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 11:12 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the abyss iirc

I think something about the bass sound on "Smoko" bugged me a bit on first listen but I'm on board with the second listen. I like it well enough but this is just straight-up punk rock, right? It's ... interesting that it would be a 'viral hit' (acc to the Internet anyway).

I'd never heard Smoko before but if it's a viral hit, I would assume it's down to the video

Sometimes a song is more than its parts. All about the vocals/lyrics on too of garagey Fall-esque backdrop

Meanwhile I've been reduced to listening to all end. I guess it does have a few variations. Some sort of faint counterpoint has emerged 9 minutes in

I think my initial reading of the song was completely wrong. I’ll need to listen to it again now that I know what smoko means.

ok lol there's an oral history on it going viral: https://www.redbull.com/au-en/the-chats-smoko-interview

wait what did you think "smoko" meant?! xp

A red bull is the last thing I want during my smoko.

The song itself is as straightforward as a large sausage roll. Over a simple bass riff and the whiny shout of “I’m on Smoko”, it calls some of the yob factor of the Cosmic Psychos, the larrikin spirit of Dune Rats and, if you squint hard enough, some Eddy Current Suppression Ring-inspired riffs. “All of us have always loved those bands, so obviously our music is influenced by theirs," says Sandwith. “We’re also super influenced by bands such as Drunk Mums, Jurassic Nark and Mini Skirt.”

convinced they made those influencing bands up and refuse to believe otherwise

On third listen/video, "Smoko" should be #1.

"aah, what time is it?"
*from the background*
"is it SMOKO?!"

^^ excellent delivery on that part