Ilad June 16, 2010

By this point in my life, I have a pretty good idea of what I like musically and what I don’t. Sometimes, this leads me to have an affinity for records that others dismiss as somewhat repetitive, containing a collection of tracks that are difficult to distinguish from each other. Usually those are the records that I spend a few weeks or sometimes months raving about before they eventually fall off my radar and I move on to something else. While I still appreciate those albums, there is something to be said for diversity and its correlation to the shelf life of an LP. As I sit back now and reflect on all of the records I listened to in 2009 in an attempt to extrapolate my personal favorites, something that many music bloggers and journalists are doing at this point in the year, I find that my list is dominated by albums that kept me on my toes from track to track. These are records that I tout to my friends but am hesitant to give them a track to check out for fear that they will never really understand the entire work unless they hear it all together. This week, after giving multiple spins to ILAD’s upcoming release, the aptly titled Here/There, I have a new record to add near the top of that list.

Ilad: “Extraordinary Machine”



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