ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

http://i.imgur.com/P4QgnAH.jpg

Ballot: http://goo.gl/forms/NslNEoxWlZUCjn7Q2

The procedure is simple: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields below. Please copy each line directly from the nominations lists; do not number your ballot. You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.

(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.

(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).

Albums master list: http://pastebin.com/NaacanKt
Tracks master list: http://pastebin.com/seLnGhSz

Spotify albums: http://spoti.fi/2hqBCES
Spotify tracks: http://spoti.fi/2gHaKAm

Youtube albums: http://bit.ly/2h2nLrg
Youtube tracks: http://bit.ly/2hbblOi

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 20th, 2017.

Allez hop!

I've spotted a few doubles in the albums list:

Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
bent knee - say so
steve lehman - selebeyone

Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
Aurora Aksnes - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

That's the only one that would throw off tabulation, I suspect. So y'all pick one and go with it.

In addition to the Spotify and YouTube lists, here's (I think everything?) else that was nominated that is NOT on those lists, with links so you can listen.

Singles:

Autechre - "Eastre"

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/73326-autechre-elseq-3

Autechre - "Latentcall"
https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/73328-autechre-elseq-4

bodin & jacob - "Meena Gupta"
http://www.deejay.de/Bodin_%26_Jacob_Mahoney_Ep_TRAFFIC009_Vinyl__248426

Cavern of Anti-Matter - "Tardis Cymbals"
https://soundcloud.com/cavern-of-anti-matter/tardis-cymbals

Christian AB - "Oulton Road"
http://www.deejay.de/Rinaldo_Makaj_Josh_Tweek_John_Dimas_Christian_Ab_Giammarco_Orsini_To_The_Moon_Phase_I_ELM1005_Vinyl__225175

concretism - "Beneath the City Streets"

https://concretism-cis.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-city-streets

EDND - "Fields of Cabra"
https://soundcloud.com/labareda_label/ednd-fields-of-cabra

Fifth Harmony - "Big Bad Wolf"
https://soundcloud.com/727worldtour/big-bad-wolf-by-fifth-harmony

Freescha - "What in the Rad"

https://radcult.bandcamp.com/album/what-in-the-rad-bad-fuckin-times

High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees (album title on youtube playlist)
http://www.dragcity.com/products/here-come-the-rattling-trees

Hybrid Palms - "Pacific Image"

https://soundsofthedawn.bandcamp.com/album/pacific-image

Jute Gyte - "Funereal Like A Life In Wait"
https://soundcloud.com/blckhrzns/jute-gyte-funereal-like-a-life-in-wait

Lotic - "Formation (Election Anxiety/America Is Over Edit)

https://soundcloud.com/lotic/formation

Mesarthim - "Type III" 

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/type-iii-e-p

OPTO MYSTICS - "Jue Da"
https://soundcloud.com/bambamthe3rd/sets/opto-mystics-v-i-c-a-r-i

Orgullo Primitivo - "Copper Flavored Rendezvous"

http://placeholderforstuff.tumblr.com/post/155170793743/posting-this-for-a-couple-of-weeks-so-people-can

Papa M - "Walking on Coronado"

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/papa-m-walking-on-coronado

Power Monster - "The Grid"

https://powermonster.bandcamp.com/releases

Risk Of Grounding - Twenty-Something
https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/risk-of-grounding-twenty-something

Scrap Brain - "BPD"

https://scrapbrainhc.bandcamp.com/track/bpd

Sea Nymphs - "Cut Yourself Kidding"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-sea-nymphs/id1177144334

The Silver Rider - "Charlie"

https://soundcloud.com/silverrider/a1-charlie

Supa Bwe - "No Napkins"
https://soundcloud.com/supabwe/fight-me-sunny-woodz-no-napkins

Elizabeth Veldon - "four painted benches at aubury boating pond with their backs to a blue hut"

https://elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/track/four-painted-benches-at-aubury-boating-pond-with-their-backs-to-a-blue-hut-2

Albums: A to F

Rez Abbasi & Junction - Behind the Vibration
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-vibration

ABC - Lexicon of Love II (not available in US but added to spotify playlist for those of you non-murricans who can get it)
http://www.abcmartinfry.com/

Alla - #feedthedragon volume 3
https://soundcloud.com/feedthedragon/ftdvol3-11614

Ichiko Aoba - Mahoroboshiya
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VIJL-60179

Aphex Twin - Houston, TX 12.17.16 (full set added to the youtube playlist)
https://soundcloud.com/givigelashvili/sets/aphex-twin-houston-tx-121716

Jon Armstrong - Burnt Hibiscus
https://orendarecords.bandcamp.com/album/burnt-hibiscus

Autechre - elseq 2-5 (elseq 1 is on spotify)
https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/73330-autechre-elseq-15

Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum
http://www.nikbaertsch.com/sound/?soundid=1619

Battle Trance - Blade of Love
https://battletrance.bandcamp.com/album/blade-of-love

Beaunoise - Pianoworks
https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/pianoworks

Behold the Arctopus - Cognitive Emancipation
https://beholdthearctopus.bandcamp.com/album/cognitive-emancipation

Bent Knee - Say So
https://bentknee.bandcamp.com/album/say-so

Bergegas Mati - Pop Neraka
https://gerpfastkolektif.bandcamp.com/album/pop-neraka

Lea Bertucci - Axis/Atlas
https://clandestinecompositions.bandcamp.com/releases

Beyonce - Lemonade (I have most of the pertinent videos on YouTube, but not all)
http://www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/

Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
http://www.dragcity.com/products/epic-jammers-and-fortunate-little-ditties

Olivia Block - Dissolution (sample on YouTube album playlist)
https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/dissolution

Blood Bears - Blood Bears
https://bloodbears.bandcamp.com/

Jakob Bro - Streams
http://player.ecmrecords.com/bro-2499

Bronze - Live in San Francisco
http://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/bronze-live-in-san-francisco

Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro - Alegria de Casa
http://anzicstore.com/album/alegria-da-casa

Joe Colley - No Way In
https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/no-way-in

Lourenço Crespo – Nove Canções
https://lourencocrespo.bandcamp.com/releases

Maxwell August Croy - Kaniza
https://psychictroublestapes.bandcamp.com/album/maxwell-august-croy-kaniza

Andrew Cyrille Quartet - Declaration of Musical Independence
http://player.ecmrecords.com/cyrille-2430

Kris Davis - Duopoly (several tracks on YouTube playlist)
https://krisdavis.bandcamp.com/releases

Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matthew Garrison - In Movement (two or three tracks on youtube)
https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1461051533

Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura - The Grand Celestial Purge
https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-celestial-purge

Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux – Two Changes ("A Different River Once" on YouTube)
https://soundcloud.com/cvx/sets/two-changes

The Display Team - Shifts
https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com/album/shifts

Julius Eastman – Femenine
http://frozenreeds.com/?p=300

Eaves - Verloren
https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/album/verloren-ptp2001

Eternal Tapestry - Sleeping On A Dandelion
https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-on-a-dandelion

The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi
https://newatlantisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/espiritu-zombi

Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense - Moving Still
https://jonathanfinlayson.bandcamp.com/album/moving-still

Flaga - Book of Angels Vol . 27 (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8341

Flava D - FabricLive88 (youtube of Flava D at Fabric on the playlist tho')
https://www.fabriclondon.com/store/fabriclive-88.html

Albums: G to M

Gate - Saturday Night Fever (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://mie.limitedrun.com/products/565811-gate-saturday-night-fever

GLYPTOGLOSSIO - GLYPTOGL05510 (sample on YouTube album playlist)
https://glyptoglossio.bandcamp.com/releases

The Fred Hersch Trio - Sunday Night at Vanguard
https://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Night-Vanguard-Fred-Hersch/dp/B01GKQNODM

M. Geddas Gengras - Interior Architecture
https://intercoastalartists.bandcamp.com/album/interior-architecture

Howe Gelb - Future Standards
https://howegelbmusic.bandcamp.com/album/future-standards

Glass Hammer - Valkyrie
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/glasshammer13

Guayaba - Black Trash / White House
https://aguadeguayaba.bandcamp.com/album/black-trash-white-house

Guillermo Klein - Los Guacho V
http://sunnysidezone.com/album/los-guachos-v

Thomas P. Heckmann - Lost Tales Volume V
https://carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-tales-vol-v

Sarah Hennies - Gather and Release
https://sarahhennies.bandcamp.com/album/gather-release

Angela Hewitt - Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67613

High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees (album title on youtube playlist)
http://www.dragcity.com/products/here-come-the-rattling-trees

Michael Hurley - Bad Mr. Mike
http://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Michael_Hurley/release/Bad_Mr._Mike

Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith - Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1455090156

Keith Jarrett - A Multitude of Angels
https://www.amazon.com/Multitude-Angels-4-CD/dp/B01LZG46LB

Eyvind Kang + Tashi Dorji ‎– Mother Of All Saints (Puppet On A String)
https://tashidorji1.bandcamp.com/album/mother-of-all-saints-puppets-on-a-string-eyvind-kang-tashi-dorji

Karda Estra - Time & Stars
https://kardaestra.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-stars

Steve Lehman - Selebeyone
https://stevelehman.bandcamp.com/album/s-l-b-yone

Lenguas Largas - Abba Daddy
https://lenguaslargas.bandcamp.com/album/abba-daddy

LIZZ - BUCUR #003
https://www.mixcloud.com/algo_rhythm/bucur-003-lizz/

Will Long and DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
https://boomkat.com/products/purple-blue-long-trax-ep-1

Sarah Louise - VDSQ Acoustic Series 12
https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/album/vdsq-acoustic-series-volume-12

Male Gaze - King Leer
http://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/male-gaze-king-leer

Map 71 - Sado - Technical - Exercise (samples on YouTube album playlist)
https://map71.bandcamp.com/

Joe McPhee - Flowers
https://cipsela.bandcamp.com/album/flowers

Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - 25.7.12
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/joe-mcphee-chris-corsano-25712

Morgan & Dilloway - Live In A Basement To No One
https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-basement-to-no-one

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Rising Grace (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://player.ecmrecords.com/muthspiel-2515/home

Albums: N to Z

​Newagehillbilly - These Are Not The Final Days
https://newagehillbilly.bandcamp.com/releases

Nurse with Wound - Dark Fat
https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/dark-fat

Washington Phillips - Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
http://www.dust-digital.com/washington-phillips/

Psychemagik Presents Ritual Chants (about 1/2 on YouTube)
http://www.eskimorecordings.com/newsdetail.php?idn=4867

Pulse Emitter - Through the Portal
https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-portal

Quttinirpaaq - Dead September
https://quttinirpaaq.bandcamp.com/album/dead-september

Rosali - Out of Love
https://rosali.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-love

Vanessa Rossetto - Adult Contemporary (samples on YouTube album playlist)
https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/adult-contemporary-c-40-nrr30

Vanessa Rossetto & Matthew Revert - Earnest Rubbish (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=21901

Sao Paulo Underground - Cantos Invisiveis (about half is on the youtube playlist)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cantos-invisiveis

The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land
https://abc-mary.myshopify.com/products/the-sea-nymphs-on-the-dry-land-cd

Seiko Oomori - Tokyo Black Hole
http://oomoriseiko.info/

Sendelica - The Cromlech Chronicles
https://sendelica.bandcamp.com/album/the-cromlech-chronicles

Michael C. Sharp - Exagmination
https://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/exagmination

Michael C. Sharp - Living Delights
https://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/living-delights

Skyshaker - The Brogue Wars
https://soundcloud.com/non-records-1/skyshaker-the-brogue-wars

Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks (sample added to YouTube album playlist)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks

Tyshawn Sorey - The Inner Spectrum of Variables
https://tyshawn-sorey.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-spectrum-of-variables

Space Camp 1991 - Space Camp 1991
https://aloecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/space-camp-1991

Spain - Carolina
http://www.spaintheband.com/discography?id=11089

Spectrum Control - Hunters at Cyber Dawn
http://shop.fieldhymns.com/album/hunters-at-cyber-dawn

Staraya Derevnya - Kadita Sessions
https://weakiediscs.bandcamp.com/album/kadita-sessions

Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers
http://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/sunwatchers-sunwatchers

Thumbscrew - Convallaria
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/convallaria

Tommy Awards - Sessions II
https://soundcloud.com/origin-peoples/tommy-awards-side-a

Tropa Macaca – Vida
https://soundcloud.com/the-trilogy-tapes/sets/tropa-macaca-vida

V/A - Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae (some tracks added to YouTube)
https://efficientspace.bandcamp.com/album/sky-girl-compiled-by-julien-dechery-and-dj-sundae

V/A - Synth Love Affair vol. 1
https://future80s.bandcamp.com/album/synth-love-affair-vol-1

Mike Wexler - Syntropy
https://soundcloud.com/three-four-records/sets/mike-wexler-syntropy

Lucinda Williams - Ghosts of Highway 20
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Highway-20-Lucinda-Williams/dp/B018KAOVEW

Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family - Beginning of a Memory
https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Memory-Wilsons-Happy-Family/dp/B01DO5WOFQ

Zalys - Fragments of Live (title track on youtube playlist)
https://zalys.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-life

Zomes - Networks 3: Thresholds
https://soundcloud.com/zomes/sets/networks-3-thresholds

wanna take this opportunity to rep for the Sarah Louise album linked above, it's not on Spotify but u can stream it all on Bandcamp and it is one of my favorite solo guitar records of the year, and exceptionally strong and distinctive and fully formed for what I think is a debut

Just some quick metrics on wrapping up this king hell OCD project:

Spotify singles playlist is 1206 songs and 90 1/2 hours long; YouTube singles playlist is 103 songs; 21 loose singles available elsewhere.

Spotify album playlist is 9863 songs and 741+ hours long; YouTube album playlist is 474 songs; another 98 or so albums available elsewhere.

It's a brave new world.

And yes, we should use this thread for recommendation, stanning and general conversation!

Can this also be the thread where I admit that I forgot to nominate some of my favourite albums? I'm gutted that I had lots of nominations left and still forgot to nominate Corrine Bailey Rae. Same goes for the All Saints album.

I only ended up using 13 nominations myself, and I'm one of the runners.

I'm 100% tempted to vote for Quttinirpaaq again >:{D

there's a lot of stuff i want to recommend but i guess i should start with my favorite k-pop song of the year, "galaxy" by ladies' code https://youtu.be/hcgT1eq3CLM

Wait why is Wet - You're the Best and The Internet - Girl in the noms? These are mid 2015 and I loved them but I think I voted for that last year.

Also I thought I saw The Avalanches - I wish I was a folkstar in the noms and apparently it's not there... a shame I would have nommed it completely oversaw that one... best song in the album imho. Will have to pick another one.

I think this might be the third (fourth?) year in a row I see Shura - Touch on the noms. We keep trying to make it happen and it never gets anywhere... I think I put it in my top 3 last year... going for What's It Gonna Be? this year... maybe it does better.

i nominated "girl" because i first heard it in (spring) 2016 when it had a brief/modest run on r&b radio.

"year of impact" etc

Ah! I would have voted for it but it was hard enough as it is.... had to narrow down from 75 songs.

Ulysses, your list of tracks not in Spotify or Youtube doesn't include Thomas P. Heckmann's "Astraphobia", which I nominated... So here's a link to it:

https://thomaspheckmann.bandcamp.com/track/astraphobia

The tracks list also includes Nao's "Bad Blood", which I nominated for the 2015 poll... But I think that's okay according to the rules, cos it didn't place then? And it was included on Nao's album, which came out in 2016.

Also, Aphex Twin's "Houston, TX 12.17.16" is still included in the albums list, even though it was determined in the nomination thread that it's a 12-inch single.

it's in the tracks list as 'Aphex Twin - no stillson 6 cirk mix2'

Can this also be the thread where I admit that I forgot to nominate some of my favourite albums? I'm gutted that I had lots of nominations left and still forgot to nominate Corrine Bailey Rae. Same goes for the All Saints album.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 4:13 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm amazed this album didn't get nommmed, thought it was an ilm favourite and assumed it was a lock. Should have checked as I'd have thrown it in too

wanna take this opportunity to rep for the Sarah Louise album linked above, it's not on Spotify but u can stream it all on Bandcamp and it is one of my favorite solo guitar records of the year, and exceptionally strong and distinctive and fully formed for what I think is a debut

it is a lovely one indeed

Acts with four or more tracks nominated fwiw:

12
Young Thug

10
Rihanna

8
A Tribe Called Quest
Kanye West

7
Frank Ocean
Rae Sremmurd

6
The 1975
The Avalanches
Britney Spears
Chance The Rapper
Jute Gyte
Mitski

5
Alkaline
ANOHNI
Beyoncé
Drake
Shura

4
Chairlift
Crying
Dawn Richard
Drive-By Truckers
Esperanza Spalding
K. Michelle
Katie Gately
Kero Kero Bonito
Kevin Gates
Miranda Lambert
Popcaan
Radiohead
Schoolboy Q
Underworld
White Lung

YG on 4 too

re: all saints
kinda felt like 'one strike' as a track vote > album by far for me

Also, Aphex Twin's "Houston, TX 12.17.16" is still included in the albums list, even though it was determined in the nomination thread that it's a 12-inch single.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:35 A

i nominated one of the tracks from this for the tracks poll, but by the tracks individual name

I didn't want the other track to be nominated only this one.

So y'all pick one and go with it.
I vote the former, i.e. just Aurora - but is it not possible to edit the list now?

I uploaded the txt files as an anonymous user, so I can't update them afaik. And if I upload a new one, the new link would be buried down in the middle of this thread anyway and nobody would ever click on it.

I'm sure moderators can change the link in the opening post if you ask them?

Fuuuuuuuuuuck I forgot to nominate the Rattle album fuck fuck fuck.

JF can you get the Pastebin links at the top of the thread changed to my ones from the voting form? I can update those.

These should work:

TRACK NOMINATIONS
On Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/seLnGhSz
On Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-iNq5d1fRVm_DN8Jcc_qaCf62n9oKc6knaDsJxZgJxk/edit?usp=sharing

ALBUM NOMINATIONS
On Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/NaacanKt
On Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DQnnvLAIbO6p1-tHSS07XlDLC-Vt-YO_cgq97Ux2yU0/edit?usp=sharing

(and they're up to date as of this morning)

I'm amazed this album didn't get nommmed, thought it was an ilm favourite and assumed it was a lock. Should have checked as I'd have thrown it in too

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:41 AM (five hours ago)

Yeah, I was putting my album list together from the final list and just assumed it had been nominated. Two of the KING related songs were picked (one of them by me!) but the album was sadly overlooked. I would have definitely given it some votes. It's a lovely record.

there's going to be a separate campaigning thread right

??? what would we do here then?

just checking - is this the campaigning thread then

yes

oh another k-pop thing i'll rep for is my preferred shimmering reggae jam from this summer https://youtu.be/PYGODWJgR-c-

Unless I missed it, I didn't see any mention of the brilliant album by Cellars anywhere. The lead single, Nighttime Girl could well be my favourite song of the year. It's pure earworm and the harmonies on the wordless chorus are everything I love about pop music. https://youtu.be/yPCCioS75jY

oranssi pazuzu - vasemman käden hierarkia. the most kickass 17 minutes of music that one of music's most kickass years had to offer. LIYL psych, metal, doom, prog, space, being overwhelmed, terrifying vocal harmonies, riffs, drones, ambition, execution, consummation in fire

spotify link

Bombino - Timtar
A new discovery for the year. Psychedelic Tuareg goodness. Not dissimilar from Tinariwen, but with a fat, almost reggae-ish lope. Absolutely fantastic

Formerly of Calle 13: iLe - Rescatarme. Great singing and sometimes very good songwriting, but I pretty much give up.

Spotted another double in the tracks list:

Brita - Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Britta Phillips - Wrap Your Arms Around Me

Double Britney too ('Slumber Party' twice) which means I was wrong upthread and she only has a mere 5 tracks (yet somehow none of them are 'Clumsy' or 'Hard To Forget Ya' dam, best from her since 'Blackout' for sure)

I'm amazed this album didn't get nommmed, thought it was an ilm favourite and assumed it was a lock. Should have checked as I'd have thrown it in too

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:41 AM (five hours ago)

Yeah, I was putting my album list together from the final list and just assumed it had been nominated. Two of the KING related songs were picked (one of them by me!) but the album was sadly overlooked. I would have definitely given it some votes. It's a lovely record.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 2:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For a full 5 minutes there I thought we'd somehow forgotten to nominate "We Are King"

seandalai has temporarily extended the nominations period to accomodate slackers, but the grace period ends at midnight UK time. Do that here.

Tomorrow, I'll harangue a mod to update the info in the top of this thread with correct links to finalized master lists for albums and tracks.

Tomorrow, I'll harangue a mod to update the info in the top of this thread with correct links to finalized master lists for albums and tracks.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:16 (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

already done (thanks mod)

Wait, we're posting late entry noms here?

do it in the other thread where everyone else is doing it

Yeah, the 'here' in JF's post contains a link to another thread.

Or, *the* other thread.

Back to campaigning.

Any of the four Kero Kero Bonito tracks nominated is worthy of your vote, but this paean to doing squat, with perfect accompanying video is my favourite.

Not on playlist:

Samo DJ - LKF
https://soundcloud.com/the-trilogy-tapes/samo-dj-lkf

pretty dope

I've found a better link for concretism's "Beneath the City Streets" on soundcloud (bandcamp had just a 44 second excerpt):

https://soundcloud.com/concretism/beneath-the-city-streets

Your usual woozy, hauntological, nuclear-fallout-tinged electronics, then.

You can also subtract one track from Rihanna's total of ten, since "Nothing Is Promised" has also been nominated as the Mike Will Made-It track it actually is.

Can't believe 4 Underworld tracks were nominated and none of them are 'If Rah'

I guess I could rep on the album I think no one else but me will vote, here's the title track:

Zalys - Fragments of Life

Zalys has made several albums of this kind of deep, droney space ambient, and her new one is not that different from the previous outout, maybe a bit darker... But if you like these kind of beatless, glacial & melody-free cosmic moodz, her music should certainly hit the sweet spot, so it's all good.

Not on playlist

Album:

Nuova Camerata - Chant
https://improvising-beings.bandcamp.com/album/chant

also as noted on the other thread, you fuckers broke the spotify album playlist.

here's the new runoff playlist: ILM's Top 77 Album Nominations for 2016 - Pt. 2
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6V8doLO9ar1WIh9n3IYcsG

Not on either playlist:

Album:

Draze - Seattle's Own
https://soundcloud.com/thedrazeexperience/sets/01-draze-seattles-own-feat

JusMoni - As Saffroniaa
https://soundcloud.com/jusmoni/sets/jusmoni-as-saffroniaa

Kilbourne - Sourland
https://kilbournebaby.bandcamp.com/album/sourland

Gate's 'Saturday Night Fever' (from The Dead C's Michael Morley) deserves way more love than it is getting. A twisted, fractured, mutant take on the disco classic, all chopped up to pieces. Listen to Hijack, which sounds like Third Eye Foundation with Ian Curtis on vocals and William Basinski behind the wheel.

never was a dead c fan, but i do def like "saturday night fever", even if i wish it sometimes wasn't so self-consciously weird!

Wow that sounds like it might be amazing!

Had no idea there was a new High Llamas album in 2016. Not on Spotify, though, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

take it to the Drag City thread (where you'll have a chance of being called an entitled simpleton for wishing DC artists were on Spotify)

KING wasn't nominated?

serves me right for being too busy to nominate stuff. I assumed it would've placed well - it seems like a very ILM end of year album

oh, never mind. it was nominated. haha.

Highest-rated albums on albumoftheyear.org not nominated:

Virginia Wing - Forward Constant Motion
Touché Amoré - Stage Four
Common - Black America Again
Jamie T - Trick
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
MUDCRUTCH- 2

I'm amazed this album didn't get nommmed, thought it was an ilm favourite and assumed it was a lock. Should have checked as I'd have thrown it in too

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:41 AM (five hours ago)

Yeah, I was putting my album list together from the final list and just assumed it had been nominated. Two of the KING related songs were picked (one of them by me!) but the album was sadly overlooked. I would have definitely given it some votes. It's a lovely record.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 2:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What album is this?

Either Corinne Bailey Rae or All Saints, but its a moot point since they both got in under the extended deadline

Yeah, it was Corinne Bailey Rae. KING worked on four of the songs on the album. It's a lovely record that has now been nominated.

Biggest discoveries from the nominated albums list for me so far.

Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp (this is everything I want from indie music in 2017)
Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat (the title track is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in a long time)
Noname - Telefone (not sure why it took me so long to give this a listen. Amazing production and she has so much personality)
Ngaiire - Blastoma (every year I discover something great that Monotony has recommended. It's a been a good year for mellow R&B)
Mitski - Puberty 2 (this didn't blow me away when I heard it earlier in the year, but hearing all the excellent songs on the playlist made me reconsider. Love it now)

I won't list the songs as I've been through the playlist and found around 80 songs that I'd never heard before that could all make my final tracks list. I always forget what hard work this is.

I have to rep for Mogwai - Atomic. Their last few albums have been lackluster IMO, but this one is amazing. It runs the gamut from old school post-rock to dark synth prog. Very much worth a vote!

Another album I gotta stan for is Comet Control - Center of the Maze... It's kind of hard to describe. I'd say that it's upbeat psych-pop pretending to be heavy metal. The last track of the album, Artificial Light is especially good and was nominated.

As far as pop music goes, most of the stuff I liked this year is already well known to ILM ppl (Angel Olsen, Mitski, Tegan & Sara), but I never see Amason talked about much and they released one of my favorite tracks of the year, Airport. It has great female-fronted vocals and is extremely catchy. I've listened to it probably almost 100 times this year and it still hasn't gotten old.

Another cool track that I think is a bit obscure is Black Marble - Iron Lung. Really solid indie pop that has a New Order vibe. Another track I should mention is The Ravonettes - Where Are You Wild Horses. They did this thing where they released a new track every month in 2016, and that one is easily the best of them. I really like it.

I'll let imago evangelize for Mesarthim but they are also great: they're very much metal that people who aren't into metal will like.

OK that's my big campaigning post. I might mention more stuff later, but I really wanted to makes sure the above mentioned got some attention.

xp Love that Baltic Beat album.

There's a great live set on Soundcloud

http://testpressing.org/2015/12/the-phantom-baltic-beat-live-at-unsound/

people that like Baltic Beat should also check out the Wolf Mueller & Cass. album

voted.

you know what, I just realized I forgot to nominate that Vince Clarke/Paul Hartnoll album 2Square - probably not something you'd put at the top of the list, but it was a good one!!

I would encourage people to listen to Tkay Maidza's album Tkay and particular "Simulation", which is the biggest and most joyous of her singles yet. She placed previously at #38 in the 2014 tracks poll and it would be wonderful to see her in the chart once again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQgnttisUc

Please no embeds.

I don't know if it's been heavily discussed elsewhere on ILX where I'm missing it but I didn't hear the Battle Trance album Blade of Love until the end of November and it is likely in my top 15 albums
https://battletrance.bandcamp.com/album/blade-of-love

Outside of everything i like that everybody likes, i would strongly urge an open minded listen to the Wang Li (Jaw harp)/Wu Wei (Sheng) album Overtones “Les harmoniques du ciel” which was certainly one of the best live shows I saw in 2016
https://open.spotify.com/album/7kyhXgMlqL9J7nOWFWgoCu

I also very much dig Kaoru Watanabe's album of wooden flute and taiko... jazz? "new music"? "classical"? "world", if you were being particularly lazy (dude is from St. Louis)? I think it's just great and occasionally piercing; try "Iki" and "Bloodlines"
https://open.spotify.com/album/5GwdCguatKaHlkVPXa2IYx

Also "Prism" (off the Kaoru Watanabe album)

my favourite rapper of 2016 and the only artist i feel like making an effort to rep for itt is CARDI B, that east coast lit thot. i love her and she gives the best life advice

rule number one: if you ain't payin that's a no
rule number two: tricks wait at the door
rule number three: don't you tell me bout your kids
cuz i don't give a fuck, n*gga, i'll tell you how it is
rule number four: you ain't never fuckin raw
no matter how much money is involved, fuck you thought?
rule number five: i need unlimited supply
whatever i want - you buy
rule number six: when we in the club, don't be takin no pics
pay for the liqs, you ain't gettin no kiss, n*gga
i ain't your bitch, n*gga - you ain't shit, n*gga
no hugs, no love, you's a trick

rule number seven: when you take me out to eat
after that day, you can't see me for the week
rule number eight: you can't call me babe
boy, we don't relate, let's get that shit straight
rule number nine: i ain't tryna wine and dine
i'm just tryna shop, bust a nut then goodbye
rule number ten: when that bank account ends
i find a new trick, let the new games begiiiiiiiin

TRICK
WASHPOPPIN

two songs dramatically enhanced in their remixes by synth strings:

- kda feat. tinashe - just say (ashley beedle remix) https://youtu.be/Ws31m5JVIb4
- classixx feat. t-pain - whatever i want (young john da wicked producer remix) https://youtu.be/Ir2nF3K4nhw

(h/t ||||||| who i think repped for both of these)

also:

- dedication - let me rock you: drums sampled from heaven 17's "let me go," house piano stretched over the skeleton, basically every sound i love all in one beautifully organized slow motion ecosystem
- avalon emerson - the frontier: idk track of the year prob. dense interlocking percussion over which a synth floats and shimmers. a landscape imo
- bucie feat. black motion - rejoice: should prob be included with the songs enhanced by synth strings i posted above. my fav pop house thing
- oliver heldens & throttle - waiting: h/t deej, my other favorite pop house thing though in a totally different dimension from bucie
- flava d & miss fire - happy: from one of my fav mixes this year. super crisp garage. ohh. happyyy
- omar-s - heard'chew single: supermassive

Sorry about the youtube embed earlier. I don't read the board with pictures or videos showing (much better this way ime) and thus always I forget to remove the "s" so that those don't embed. I'll second the "Waiting" shoutout.

lil peep - kiss is gonna be hi on my list fyi

ARE WE DOING THIS

WE'RE DOING THIS

I don't know if it's been heavily discussed elsewhere on ILX where I'm missing it but I didn't hear the Battle Trance album Blade of Love until the end of November and it is likely in my top 15 albums
https://battletrance.bandcamp.com/album/blade-of-love

It's really good! I mentioned it on the classical thread but idk if it's been discussed much elsewhere. It only came out at the end of August so you're doing OK, btw!

voted

I don't read the board with pictures or videos showing

I hope you turn the feature back on for the rollouts, because gr80 makes dope graphics! (I'm on albums rollout this year, so it's just covers themselves, prolly.)

It's Saturday! Vote Vote Vote Vote.

wait i thought we had 100 years to vote

anyway i should rep for my favorite track of the year:

dj sotofett - "current 82 (12 mix)": 13 minutes of being folded into the sea

that dj sotofett is one of my favorites too

fans of that track might also enjoy dj python - sunset drive, which also churns beautifully

btw deej was right, the tink tape is awesome and it's all i've been listening to for the past month

oh whoops, it wasn't nominated lol

i don't have the energy to stump hard for these albums but here are 3 that will almost certainly top my list that ilxors in general maybe least likely to know?

Dori Freeman - Dori Freeman: beautiful appalachian americana about longing (youtube video of opener 'you say'
A-WA - Habib Galbi: 3 israeli sisters (incidentally w/ the last name haim) mix heritage yemenite music w/ electronic + hip-hop influences (youtube music video for 'habib galbi' first Arabic song to go #1 on israeli pop charts)
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina: amazing singer from Mauritania does Moorish pop w/ her husband on guitars and it's blissful psych desert-blues ('Na Sane' music video)

First read the Dori Freeman blurb as "beautiful appalachian americana about logging" and thought that sounds pretty cool. Longing is a bit played out as a theme but I'll give it a listen.

Cosign the Noura Mint Seymali tip.

cosign on the Noura Mint Seymali record, great stuff

lol xp

noura mint seymali is amazing yes. also microtonal!

If I'm going to campaign for one underheard thing this year, it will be Sidibe's mini-LP 'You Got the Luck'. 7 tracks of glorious 80s/90s style pop/r&b from a singer whose voice reminds me at times of Carly Rae and whose musical inclinations draw from Janet and Sade.

I just nominated the whole thing in Albums because I couldn't settle on a single track.

mad at myself for not nominating thao, flock of dimes, 'good as hell' by lizzo, or the title track from the dierks record

Oh shit! Is Good As Hell not on the list?!

We have failed, ILM.

nxd bringing it with his/her track nominations. I particularly liked the ones by EATQS and Euglossine.

Barli is another find (so far) from the playlist.

I have a theory about Barli, and it's that she previously recorded under the name Ruby Goe, but there are a couple reasons I don't want to state that as fact...

All of Ruby Goe's previous internet presence has been wiped (except for tracks on streaming services).
I don't want to be accused of some "all black women singers look the same to you?!" shit.

But for real, I'm 99.95% sure Barli = Ruby Goe.

cosign on the Noura Mint Seymali record, great stuff

lol xp

― sleeve, Saturday, 7 January 2017 20:53 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one of the best for def

I hope you turn the feature back on for the rollouts, because gr80 makes dope graphics! (I'm on albums rollout this year, so it's just covers themselves, prolly.)

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, January 7, 2017 12:10 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best of both worlds pro tip: comtinue to read ilx with images off but open said dope graphics in a new tab

i always enjoy the imgur page of all the graphics in one place

Not that it matters much but I'm pretty sure C. Diab's No Perfect Wave first came out in 2015. Actually yeah I even nominated it back then.

http://i.imgur.com/iiSlwjD.png

Finally finished going through the tracks playlist this morning, lots of great discoveries all the way through, good work everyone! I'm definitely finding it harder to get my ballot down to 25 than in the last couple of years, even with a self-imposed ban on overlaps with my albums list.

I'll the the one to rep for:

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy (she worships synthesisers by the sea shore)

Wednesday Campanella - Aladdin (Thriller x Freestyle x J-Pop)
Poli Genova - If Love Was a Crime (Bulgaria's Eurovision Entry, Europop with BIG FLUTE BREAK)
The Gloaming - The Pilgrim's Song (the closest that traditional Irish music has got to a new Planxty ("it's basically Irish jazz, isn't it?") in years; felt this year's album was a bit too reverent but this is beautiful)
MJ Guider - Evencycle (dream techno that takes you up into MIND CONTROL MIND CONTROL MIND CONTROL)
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Kids (this is the Stranger Things track I keep coming back to)

another vote for sotofett here

Definitely co-sign Poli Genova.

A couple of things i'd highlight:

Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht: Beautiful, spartan Dutch electro-folk album
Serebro - Slomana: This year's model from Russia's masters of melancholy pop
King Bubba FM - Calling In Sick: Shirking anthem from one of Barbados' top soca producer-turned-singers
Ne Tvoe Delo - Best Hits Debut album of emotive synth pop
Pharaoh - Fosfor: Russian trap with black metal vibes
Vremya I Steklo - Navernopotomuchto Hugely catchy Ukrainian europop
Mujuice - Amore E Morte Wonderful Casiotone/Magnetic Fields/Postal Service-style lo-fi bedroom pop
L'One - Yakutyanochka Endearing tropical house rap from the coldest city on earth

calling in sick is fucking great; I found myself whistling the chorus for more or less the whole last week of the year

My tracks ballot (minus "Sorry") in Spotify Playlist form.

I have a new project (maybe the phrase 'life-consuming folly' would be better) in which I'm making a mix for every year since 1860. The rough 2016 mix I just put up works well-enough here as it contains 47 tracks which are nearly all nominated here, either on their own or on an LP.

https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/centuries-of-sound-2016/

whew I got my tracks and albums down to 25 each but I like doing weighted ballots so getting a good sense of ranking will take some re-listening and thinking bout stuff.

also wanted to mention:
Hazel English - Never Going Home -- very pretty indie pop, kinda like Beach House imo.

shout-out to Brigid Mae Power, outstanding folk artist from Galway. voting for that LP for certain.

some good discoveries for me from the spotify list:

Elka
36
Lake Ruth
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard

Quttinirpaaq - Dead September
I nominated this but someone in the other thread correctly pointed out it's actually 2015 and was in the running for votes last year.

Also the Sky Girl comp is on Spotify and it rules.

The Martha album is super catchy pop-punk/indie-pop and needs your vote.
https://marthadiy.bandcamp.com/album/blisters-in-the-pit-of-my-heart

my favorite discovery from the nominations thread was Andrew Pekler's Tristes Tropiques. worth a listen for anyone who's into experimental electronic/ambient music.

sorry "experimental" is a lame descriptor. idk. it's good.

This is what I wrote about Tristes Tropiques:

I saw Pekler’s music described not as “ambient electronic” but as “abstract electronic” and I can’t think of a better descriptor. It’s a broken soundscape that feels vaguely familiar while never settling into place. It’s like a video game with bad draw-in problems; paths and surroundings shift and appear from nothing, are granted solidity, and they fade back to grey mist. Tristes Tropiques is another album I would have given time nor attention to before this year. With a constantly changing present it pulls the attention to the now. No prediction is safe or right or true.

I used to love Pekler's Sad Rockets jazz project, but I haven't listened to him in 15 years, could check this one out.

I love that Hazel English track. My friend Adam went to see her show a few weeks ago and said she was the tiniest person he's ever seen.

fans of that track might also enjoy dj python - sunset drive, which also churns beautifully

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, January 7, 2017 11:10 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is lovely thank u karl

the traumprinz track that topped the ra list ("2 bad") is similarly nice in a "it has the exact right amount of things in it" way

King Bubba FM - Calling In Sick: Shirking anthem from one of Barbados' top soca producer-turned-singers

Love this

"2 bad" is a very pretty track, but putting it at the top of a list just seems gauche. as a rarity it's charming, as an anthem it's cloying

xpost

the ra blurb is definitely egregious in attaching The State of The World to this pretty and weightless thing

I'm not very metal at all but the Alcest album is pretty nice (though arguably itself not very metal either).

I'd love to see Calling In Sick place high.

xpost

i agree that listing "2 Bad" at the top of the RA poll puts too much of a spotlight on it, but I don't think in general they rep for tracks that could be described as anthems, do they? I really liked the whole 28 min EP that it's from, 2 The Sky

btw karl..., thanks for bringing my attention to Bjorn Torske - Fugelkongen, it's amazing!

i would like to suggest "Pink Sunglasses" as the Miranda Lambert single worth rallying behind.

also, sounding my trumpet as a vote submitted

glad you like "fugelkongen," dan. dense, hallucinatory dance music with a psychedelia reminescent of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

since we're talking about the original track, does anybody know what the string sample is in the gammal mungolian mix of "fuglekongen" is? it's killing me

"2 The Sky" from that Dj Metatron EP is so good. Have that on constant loop.

Voted. No tracks ballot this year because I couldn't be arsed - but enjoyed more from 2016 than I thought I did.

Just noticed on the albums master list that both "Nicki & the Dove" and "Niki & the Dove" are included. Could the tabulator pls ensure that any votes for the former are combined with the latter? thx

also, now voted!

Could the tabulator pls ensure that any votes for the former are combined with the latter? thx

Will do

Also: THREE (and a bit) DAYS left to vote!

I thought polls closed on the 20th?

Oh wow I got super confused there, all along I had assumed it was this Friday and hadn't bothered to check. Sorry for CAPS.

Ha! If it ended this Friday, I think we'd be in big trouble. I haven't even got my own ballot together yet.

seandalai- i emailed you

fyi "Bernardino Femminielli - Plaisirs Américains” is showing up on the noms list as just "Femminielli - Plaisirs Américains” (no Bernardino)

also this is a dope song and you should all vote for it

lmao who nommed this

470.Gilbert Gottfried and Mario Cantone - Baby It's Cold Outside

^ it's amusing!

I may have voted for Plaisirs Américains. Tres Tellier.

Other songs en francais nominated by this moi: Bonnie Banane's queasy 'L'appetit' and Hypnolove's breezy 'La Piscine'

Talking of songs en français, I got really into this Belgian rapper Shay in the last couple of months - voted for her "PMW" single but tbh the whole Jolie garce album is brilliant, hooks and charisma throughout

I agree w Karl on "2 Bad", I like it but number one of the year with a write-up like that? nah m8

I will limit my stumping to Jeff Rosenstock's WORRY, which I should emphasize will definitely not be of any interest to those w/ no patience for pop-punk and/or rock music generally. It inspired me, for better or (likely) worse, to try and make music for the first time in a decade. You can read lots of words about it in lots of places but you're better off just downloading it (donation/PWYC) from his label.

worry is gonna be real high on my albums ballot. it's at least as good as or better than btmi!'s vacation which is his other great record.

the mini punk rock opera on side two of worry is prob my favorite thing that i heard last year

yeah I stitched "Blast Damage Days" onwards into a single mp3 and I listen to it once a day at minimum

That second half is so good. It's easy to click on "To Be A Ghost..." and end up listening to the whole rest of the album.

he played a surprise acoustic set here in TO between Christmas and NYE and it totally made my holidays, "To Be a Ghost" was probably the highlight

https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death <--- this album rules

lol she made my #1 track of the year but I forgot to nominate it

that is a really good album thank u djp

~voted~

I think I actually prefer the first Emma Ruth Rundle album but yes it is a very excellent listen

what boxedjoy said but some of the songs on the new one are a real fucking punch in the guts

Do you love pop?

Do you love CRAZY pop?

Do you want something with a ZILLION watts of energy and insanely proficient composition/playing skill?

Are you easily bored or unimpressed?

Neil Cicierega and Joanna Wang (Spotify) would like to help.

Their albums Spirit Phone and House Of Bullies are unrelenting rides of thrill, and the linked singles are highlights.

So, that's a psychedelic metal monster AND a brace of melodic marvels! Whatever will he recommend next?

Some hip-hop IN SPACE, obv

voted!

https://jennybesetzt.bandcamp.com/album/tender-madness <--- this album also rules

Voted aye

voted

anybody have some recommendations for some ambient/abstract/minimal/nu-age albums I might have missed?

here are a few that I already know & love:

Andrew Pekler – Tristes Tropiques
Jeremy Bible – Music for Black Holes
Sarah Davachi – Dominions
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – Schaum
Pulse Emitter – Through the Portal
Steve Hauschildt – Strands
Qluster – Echtzeit
Guenter Schlienz – Augenblicke
Sarah Davachi – Vergers
Matthewdavid’s Mindflight – Trust the Guide and Glide
Les Halles – Sentient
Steve Roden – Striations
Robert Crouch – A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth
The Haters – Fire
Bethan Kellough – Aven
Stuart Chalmers – In the Heart of Solitude
Overtone Ensemble – Longitudes
Ondness – Quase Driven
36 – The Infinity Room

(I also like the KAS/Suzanne Ciani thing fine)

Try some Michael C Sharp, crut

https://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/exagmination

(He took down Living Delights !)

crut i'm sure you already heard these but:

klara lewis - too
mj guider - precious systems (really recommend this for any seefeel fans btw)
loscil - monument builders (and this one's been scratching my labradford itch)

oh also:

huerco s - for those of you who have never

voted. first time in history that i found the tracks ballot a lot easier to do than the albums one. was really clutching at straws about albums. maybe i'm popist after all..

I know both of the albums I'm going to vote for. 3 of the tracks are easy, haven't decided on the other two yet

ooh I gotta hear that Steve Roden, love his work

Best ambient stuff I head this year was the C. Diab album, No Perfect Wave. It's basically treated guitar, but it has that same sense of grandeur and fragility as some of Richard Skelton's stuff.

glad I have another week here

anybody have some recommendations for some ambient/abstract/minimal/nu-age albums I might have missed?

XAM Duo!

Völur is terrific so far.

The Light In The Attic compilation Microcosm is great crut (and kind of a follow up/companion piece to their I Am The Center comp)

https://aloecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/space-camp-1991

The Space Camp 1991 album is pretty good ambient-experimental also

Völur is terrific so far.

Völur is terrific so far.

Good morning!

https://rlv.zcache.ca/vote_on_sunday-re1fd1c258381422a9e0be554a27a487f_v9wxo_8byvr_324.jpg

I'm planning on it!

Can I vote often? Alternatively, two stooges needed.

Holy moly this Ashtray Navigations record is great! Drone improv bliss.

Gah, I just accidentally sent my ballot without my albums list - will I be able to re-send it?

OK have sent it properly completed - Pollrunners, please ignore my first ballot! Sorry for the mix-up.

I voted! 30 albums, no tracks ballot

only your top 25 will be counted though fyi

Best ambient stuff I head this year was the C. Diab album, No Perfect Wave. It's basically treated guitar, but it has that same sense of grandeur and fragility as some of Richard Skelton's stuff.

― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Friday, January 13, 2017 10:26 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is stunning; thank you

https://aloecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/space-camp-1991

The Space Camp 1991 album is pretty good ambient-experimental also

― Drugs A. Money, Friday, January 13, 2017 9:08 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is really great too!!

The new Biosphere album is really good, but I'm sure you already know about that. Besides that, the two Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith albums, and the Zalys cosmic drone album I mentioned upthread, this was my favourite ambient record of the year:

https://virtual1.bandcamp.com/album/uvunayatu

Omni Vu Deity is an alias for Ishq for their "4th world" project, but this isn't some corny "ethno techno" music a la Deep Forest, just some good use of percussion and well-chosen samples besides their typical brand of colourful ambient pads. Lovely stuff, IMO.

Five days left to vote!

https://postmediaottawacitizen2.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/sign-that-encourages-voters-to-vote-strategically-is-set-up.jpeg

heard 'Calling In Sick' being played out at the weekend. Regret voting before I had time for this one to sink in. At least I voted 'Oh Yay' by Olatunji nice and high to make up for it

oh yeah Tuomas this Biosphere album is right up my alley, thanks for that. I didn't know he'd released something this year. I also like the new Lustmord that was nominated.

VOTED. I think.

Ha, I was trying to see if I could guess where in Canada that photo was from, figured it had to be an Ontario city, and it just felt like Ottawa somehow. Sure enough, it's from the Citizen.

https://i.cbc.ca/1.3272256.1444918886!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_940/anybody-but-harper-farmer.jpg

i voted!

I was shuffling through the tracks playlist to make sure I didn't overlook anything and, I know I listened to the Ngaiire album at some point this year, but "Fall Into My Arms" kind of blew my mind today.

Oh gawd, just got to Jute Gyte on the playlist...

Jus' kidding LJ. "Harvesting of Ruins" was alright actually.

:)

best recent discoveries from these lists...well, I'm not finding so much on the tracks list, but that's the one I've been trawling the most! otoh tt and i have gotten about 1/10 of the way down the albums list and found both Katie Dey and Noura Mint Seymali who are amazing. Trouble is, my albums top 25 is now incredibly hard to break into (both of the above might yet do so, but by no means certain)...but tracks is still totally up for grabs.

I guess...Jamila Woods was p good, and the new Kim Gordon too.

"fall into my arms" is very beautiful yes and yet i still don't think it captures how transcendent it is when she performs it live

Voted! It always feels like such a huge relief to get it done.

This track was nominated, but is missing from the list:
Kungs Vs Cookin' On 3 Burners - This Girl
Reference: ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

listening through the tracks list now. same synth flute sound on Earth Trax "Flute Track" and Occult Orientated Mind "Blue Austral"!

whoa this Fox/Soper Duo thing is intense! usually i find this sort of collab dry and dull but this is fire

Greg Fox being one of the best musicians on the planet probably helps

I was hoping that meant Kate Soper. Will check out though.

yeah I voted for F/S D

i couldn't listen to everything forgive me. i voted. btw:

Jute Gyte - At The Limit of Fertile Land
Jute Gyte - Funereal Like A Life In Wait
Jute Gyte - I Am In Athens And Pericles Is Young
Jute Gyte - Monadanom
Jute Gyte - The Harvesting of Ruins
Jute Gyte - The Sparrow

is this a joke

just an imago obsession i think

we are legion

are people voting for Floating Points - Kuiper on tracks or albums? i feel silly putting it on both ballots but would also feel silly if my vote didnt count since i went with the wrong one

is this a joke too

Frank Ocean - Ivy
Frank Ocean - Nikes
Frank Ocean - Pink + White
Frank Ocean - Seigfried
Frank Ocean - Self Control
Frank Ocean - White Ferrari
Frank Ocean – Solo

Jute Gyte and Frank Ocean fans be terrible strategists. They Are Outside Troy And Agamemnon Is Pissing Himself.

Three days left!

http://socialdriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gotv_joanne_zamore.png

are people voting for Floating Points - Kuiper on tracks or albums? i feel silly putting it on both ballots but would also feel silly if my vote didnt count since i went with the wrong one
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:01 (eight hours ago) Permalink

Tracks here fwiw

Looks like it's only been nominated as a track

Balls, I forgot to vote for Kuiper. And I did basically only do a tracks ballot so I could vote for that and Melanie di Biasio.

I'm setting a terrible example by waiting so long to vote (except I guess no one would've known that if I didn't hit "submit post" just now).

um what the hell is Darq E Freaker, it's amazing. south london lvl-up'd the trap game

Voted :-)

Jute Gyte and Frank Ocean fans be terrible strategists

enhh true Gyters only truly care about raining terror on Spotify shufflers

i voted

also not sure if it'll be an issue but just in case, on the tracks list Mark Barrott's name is spelled "Barott" whereas on the albums list it's correct.

Simon otm

Also enjoying Darkher, cheers for that LBI. But really, anyone who hasn't heard Peckham's darq and freaky answer to Mike Will is doing themselves a gigantic disservice

eh i think i'm ok

hey i forgot one album i wanted to vote for, can i re-submit without it being too much trouble for you guys?

Brad ur incuriosity is disappointing. Or do u just h8 uk rap

nomar (and everyone!), you're free to resubmit - just post here to say you've done it intentionally :)

I voted!

okay i resubmitted intentionally!!!

VOTED! (finally)

voted the heck out of my ballot

if nothing else 2016 was a good music year for me, i had to leave a couple albums off that might have been in the top half of my ballot some other years

voted

just remembered i got 'space rock' as my genre last year
hoping for something even better this time round
let the cosmic ballot begin

Putting my ballot together and noticed that the Stabil Elite album is down as Let You Down whereas it's actually called Spumante.

Do I just vote for it as it is on the master list?

It's pretty unlikely to crack the top 77 if no one's noticed until now, so you might as well just vote for it as it is.

Voted!

if nothing else 2016 was a good music year for me, i had to leave a couple albums off that might have been in the top half of my ballot some other years

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 18, 2017 10:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same for me.

7 tracks and 2 albums, and they're in!

having a hard time deciding if I should try to do a tracks list. It will probably just be my favorite tracks from the albums I voted for. Wish I knew more of these songs.

decided not to overthink it. my ballot is in.

OK I guess I gotta put something together, started chopping down the long list last night

Voted. Am I supposed to get an acknowledgement after submitting it?

Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 02 | 06.23.2014
Kendrick Lamar - untitled 06 | 06.30.2014
Kendrick Lamar - untitled 07 | 2014-2016

which one of these goes 'get god on the phone/said it won't be long'

anyone going to vote for

Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This

i started a thread about this song in 2015, and i love it, but not rly 2016 to me

Likely voting for Trampoline instead.

which one of these goes 'get god on the phone/said it won't be long'

02

ty

is the deadline the upcoming midnight-est or the one after?

The Fri/Sat point.

awesome, thank you!

I voted.

which one of these goes 'get god on the phone/said it won't be long'

02

― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Thursday, January 19, 2017 1:21 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, but 06 is the best one!

IMO:

02
07
03
06
05
01
08
04

could be a fun game to guess the working titles from the lyrics

xp 08's my favorite, followed by 05

Voted. Am I supposed to get an acknowledgement after submitting it?

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 19 January 2017 17:29 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What username did you give on the form? I don't see anything from "Dan Worsley".

Resubmitted, got an acknowledgement this time.

wait what kind of acknowledgement are we talkin' about here. i didn't get an email or anything but the form did thank me

i didn't get an email either

nor me

ditto

i didn't get an email or anything but the form did thank me

That's what I got. Didn't get that first time I tried.

cooool

voted

Yeah there's no email, just a thanks for voting page.

Dan your vote is in

i voted

felt very blah about my ballots this year. i felt like i listened to a lot of new music this year but i suppose most of it was contemporaneous. oh well

@LJ glad you like it! Your relentless stanning eventually really did make me dig the last Jute Gyte btw, thanking u from Athens.

np

the endless album trawl has continued. but it might not quite reach the end of the playlist, even with ruthless skipping. nothing has measured up to Darq E Freaker, Noura Mint Seymali or the Fox/Soper duo so far. Darq E Freaker is probably going straight into my ballot, and not necessarily low either. please can everyone listen to it

that came off a bit aggressive. 'if you like crazy trap production and uk accents, you might enjoy it'

and even then most of the mcs are american so

Yeah, that Fox/Sope duo album is insane. Love it. I didn't come across it until after I voted, but I wish I had.

is this gonna roll out the next 2 monday-thursdays in the usual manner?

Barring WWIII, yes.

voted!

voted albums, might get a tracks ballot in later

Fox/Soper Duo is the shit

Last day to vote!
http://postermywall.com.s3.amazonaws.com/posterpreviews/a4383576744ef7d1d829c2a8d983d590.jpg

Voted!

Kinda weird two of the most popular and discussed songs of the year were missing from the songs ballot: David Bowie's Blackstar and Radiohead's True Love Waits. Would have voted for both with the former in my top 5.

Actually the more I think about it, Blackstar (the song) would have been my #1. One of Bowie's best songs ever, perfectly fits in the context of the year, especially the mood. Tis a pity

If no one bothered to nominate it, it probably wouldn't have gotten many votes either.

wasn't blackstar 10th or something in the 2016 poll

Ah, should have nominated this one: Moelogo - Penkele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-VnCcy8rM

Shame.

Voted

Ok, it was ineligible then.

xxpost

yeh just checked, came in at #10 last year so would have been ineligible this year
ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2015

Ah, forgot it was released early. I probably voted for it last year.

The Laraaji & Sun Araw album wasn't listed either, hm...

Or the More Better Days comp. Lots of stuff I might have voted for is missing :(

And no Roman Flügel.

OK, well, whatever - I've voted!

I wonder how much higher a certain YG song will place due to the date of the deadline.

Sorely tempted to put it at #1 myself.

was Hannah Peel - All That Matters nominated?

doesn't look like it. considering the thread about it was so popular, i'm surprised.

Yes it was nommed DL

Are you looking at the pastebin lists?

yeah? i couldn't see it. and i didn't see it when i voted for it. i used the pastebin list

Odd, cause it's there (line 386)

voted!

But how the hell was 'Frankie Sinatra' not nominated?!?

the hannah peel album was nominated but not any tracks from it

i thought most felt frankie sinatra was one of the weakest on the avalanches album

Yeah. I've listened to the album many, many times.

I've listened to Frankie Sinatra twice.

I don't know how to post to paste bin

my iirc was that when Frankie Sinatra came out everyone decided the Avalanches were suddenly awful

@Alfred: Pastebin is just where a copy of the nominations list lives. Voting is via Google Forms as usual.

But how the hell was 'Frankie Sinatra' not nominated?!?

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 20 January 2017 12:33 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're lucky to have a ballot

i like Frankie Sinatra.

ps I was talking about the song 'All That Matters' rather than the album.

you're lucky to have a ballot

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago)

I gave my 'Frankie' vote to Jute Gyte, if that makes you feel better.

I will try to submit at least a little ballot later

I read about Frankie Sinatra in the avalanches thread before ever hearing. Based on the reactions in that thread I was expecting way worse. I was pleasantly surprised that it's an ok song and I don't skip it when listening to the album. I nominated and voted for "Because I'm me", which I wonder if other people listen to much if they hate Frankie Sinatra so much because they probably always start the album at Subways.

I gave my 'Frankie' vote to Jute Gyte, if that makes you feel better.

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 20 January 2017 15:39 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and we're all one big family again :)

But how the hell was 'Frankie Sinatra' not nominated?!?

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 20 January 2017 12:33 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was literally asking myself this same question on the The 2016 ILX Worst Song Poll. I was excited to vote for it there.

And no Roman Flügel.

ah crap, yeah I LOVED his track and Koze's remix on the Pampa comp. Crap that should have made my list too.

The remix is nominated, I voted for that. But his album was great, really sorta jarring and captivating sound-design. Almost harsh and beautiful at the same time, ultra close-up.

i voted :)

I assumed someone was going to nominate the Phantogram album so I didn't bother nominating anything

It's the only thing I would have put on my ballot that didn't make the nomination list

why do people gate Frankie Sinatra? album only gets started at that point. is it because it has trace amounts of hippie-ska in there? I think it's fun and kinda masterful in how they cut up Wilmot's vocal in the way they did. I probably would have voted it.

I don't think I'm going to vote this year. My mental health has been all over the place and I just haven't really listened to much or taken anything in properly. ;_;

aw

if there's even five things you really loved and can think of right now it might be worth chucking them in. but really, best to you and take care above all

just wanted to say I always enjoy listenng to emil.y's tracks noms

voted!

The sample on 'Frankie Sinatra' is great. Pretty sure the reasons for disliking it are too do with everything else about it (reminding people who don't like Gorillaz of Gorillaz etc.).

I don't hate the track, but the beat is very plodding and circus-y compared to the rest of the album. I also find Danny Brown's verses to be pretty grating. I like the MF Doom verse.

The rest of the album is so easy going and groovy, makes Frankie Sinatra feel misplaced, but I'll still listen to it once in a while.

why do people gate Frankie Sinatra?

I assume you mean "hate" and it's because it's a terrible song that makes "The Salmon Dance" sound like the greatest party jam ever recorded.

Sorry to hear that emil.y. :( agreed with the above - there's always something totally great and unknown on your ballot.

I'm definitely going to be compiling this right down to the wire. I tried to be organised this year but now it's here and everything is chaos again.

Will vote for Deerful, emil.y - in fact everyone should :)

Voted. Could only find 20 tracks that I really felt for, which means I probably have heard way too little k-pop, azonto, etc. Might have been a slightly happier 2016 if I had.

"Frankie Sinatra" veers perilously close to electroswing which is imo the worst genre in the history of music

oh I hate electroswing too but c'mon.

anyway, I'm also sad emil.y's not voting. sorry to hear it's not been going great. really hope things improve for you this yesr

Voted! As ever, the final cuts were very painful indeed.

i know it's kind of a dumb thing to do but what happens if you list something that wasn't nominated, does it just get ignored or does it break the rest of your ballot

For me, Frankie Sinatra reminds me more of Eminem's "Comedy" singles than Gorillaz or Electroswing, which is a sound I can do without. In particular, it reminds me of Obie Trice's "Got Some Teeth".

Kicking myself for not nominating a lot of stuff I figured would be accounted for. Definitely made the final ordering easier, but I didn't end up getting a full count as a result.

King, "The Greatest" doesn't seem to be on the tracks document. It is on the Spotify playlist

King, "The Greatest" doesn't seem to be on the tracks document. It is on the Spotify playlist

― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, January 20, 2017 2:14 PM (fifteen seconds ago)

Oh no! So would have voted for it if it was, indeed, nominated. Was surprised to see it missing.

youre doing a real disservice to got some teeth there xps

Actually, I started looking through the lists and I might be able to put together top tens for both. Any more than that and I'd be entering into the realms of "in another year I probably would have given this a lot more time so let's just vote for it on principle", which is a stupid way of doing things.

I would have voted for "The Greatest"

"The Greatest" was on last year's list, fwiw. I didn't vote for it this time. But if we decided it's eligible two years in a row, hey, I have a new #1.

i know it's kind of a dumb thing to do but what happens if you list something that wasn't nominated, does it just get ignored or does it break the rest of your ballot

― marcos, Friday, January 20, 2017 4:47 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rather than be a dick i just followed the rules

okay, who was the idiot who forgot to nom dedekind cut?

The Greatest placed last year iirc so not eligible.

If you vote for something that wasn't nominated then either it just gets skipped and the rest of your votes are counted as normal or I add it to the noms list as a write-in - no guarantees though, especially for late ballots.

voted in two steps, first for albums than for tracks, i hope that was ok. seandalai et al. thanks for organising this poll. 2016 was quite a good year for music i thought. i had no problem to vote for 25 albums or tracks. i am intrigued for the results.

Any chance there will be an extension on this?

grrr, thraed of missing 3 wheel-ups

Okay, I voted. Not particularly inspired choices but glad I can rep for my faves.

\m/

We are finalising ours...

Voted.
Note: the track "Skin Tight" is incorrectly credited to "Mr. Eazi & Eugy", this should be "Mr. Eazi ft. Efya". If it finishes at #23 in the rollout (who's to say), it's only fair Efya receives fair credit.

Dammit, I always plan on listening to a snippet (at least) of all 1300+ tracks before voting, but I think I got through only 600 or so this year, and it didn't change my ballot much. As with past years, I'll console myself with the knowledge that like all polls its just a snapshot of demographics, and not an objective distillation.

good lord imago do you wait to the last minute in every poll?
Surely you formed your faves throughout the year? Im not sure hearing an album once in the last few weeks of a year can really be an album of the year.

oh i've long heard everything i'm dicing over. still 4.75 hours left brah

voted, but god i wish i'd got round to making some tracks noms

Any chance there will be an extension on this?

There's usually a soft extension that runs until seandalai wakes up Saturday.

*sniggers*

yeah there's a good eight hours in it still

K thx JF. That's all I need.

man, you can do some dramatic things to your ballot if you really listen to the music

mostly involving katie dey

Voted!

Voted!

Voted!

Voted!

The left-hand hierarchy is enjoined!

The remix is nominated, I voted for that. But his album was great, really sorta jarring and captivating sound-design. Almost harsh and beautiful at the same time, ultra close-up.

― MikoMcha, Friday, January 20, 2017 10:59 AM

Oops. Well, my tracks ballots here have not exactly been as well thought out as the album ballots. Blarggh Hope it places high

well, i've been pretty out of things here lately, so i'm glad i happened to look tonight and saw that the deadline was like right now and threw together a ballot. of course, i didn't participate in nominations, so i had to hunt through my top 40 tracks/albums to get enough to fill out the ballot, but i guess that just means i voted for some things other people voted for. glad i stopped by tonight, would've hated to break my streak of voting every year!

a little late because of a work crisis and a wine situation but I've submitted a ballot if it's not too late to consider

Boxedjoy indeed.

Ok we're closing up now

:(

Got mine in last night after midnight, hope it counts. (If not, no problem)

Impromptu stay over last night so didnt get my vote in lol. If Yodok III falls one vote short of winning the albums poll, thats on me.

Aww man I want to see Lamp's ballots

me too :(

i want to see his hot takes on what places

speaking of which, we begin on monday right

gr80's doing tracks this year, but that's my understanding.

Impromptu stay over last night so didnt get my vote in lol. If Yodok III falls one vote short of winning the albums poll, thats on me.

damn I missed that one in the nominations list... might have voted for it

lol fuck I completely forgot to vote despite my earlier campaigning :/

these neverending rollouts mess with my sense of time

(blaming myself, purely)

How many ballots did you get?

144

fewer than previous years but not by much (record was 163)

last year had more because of the lol gaz coombes voters?

can't be ruled out

Sorry to be a humourless twat, but can someone please walk me through the Gaz Coombes joke? I've been vaguely puzzled at it for a year or so. Is it just "lolz indie music"?

"joke"?

I never understood it either.

No joke at all.

Noodle Vague was just a very big fan of Supergrass and he is the cousin of the singer - Gaz Coombes.

Sorry to be a humourless twat, but can someone please walk me through the Gaz Coombes joke? I've been vaguely puzzled at it for a year or so. Is it just "lolz indie music"?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:48 PM

Basically, yes.

"gaz coombes" is a funny name.

what is this year's funny thing then

thought it was Jute Gyte?

j/k

The 1975

never mentioned it but i voted as well!

Results rollout starts today, right?

yep today gr8080 time

Cool!

ILM's Top 777 Tracks of 2016

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p089rfmk

James Acaster tries to convince comedians that 2016 is the greatest year for music, ever.

hard to convince anyone that the year bowie, prince, and leonard cohen died is the best year for music ever, no matter how many great albums came out.