ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

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Vote Here: https://goo.gl/forms/ESVJBptEgdE54Hoy1

How to vote: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields. 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).

Tracks Master List: https://pastebin.com/FiYDYCHj
Albums Master List: https://pastebin.com/RB81mE8b

Playlists for your consideration:

Spotify Tracks Playlist
Youtube Playlist (non-Spotify Tracks)

Spotify Albums Playlist

Midnight PST on Friday, January 25th, 2019 (i.e. Saturday morning in the UK).

Some late noms not in the Master Lists yet? Please confirm if/when up to date.

Singles playlist update gonna have to wait till monday but it is coming

Is this also the lobbying thread?

good question!

I would think so.

Some late noms not in the Master Lists yet? Please confirm if/when up to date.

― Jeff W, Saturday, January 5, 2019 2:04 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oops, was c+p error. Should be fixed now.

voted.

While you're voting, don't forget to nominate your favorite metal and heavy rock albums here:

ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2018: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Jan. 19th, 2019!

Can we make it a non-binding rule to lobby for the tracks-albums nominated by others, against parochialism ?
I intend to put the track playlist to good use, on shuffle right now (Touch Absence - Lanark Artefax, nice stuff).

Don't want to lobby for anything, just want to say that I've been listening to the Youtube tracks playlist and there is loads of great stuff on there I haven't heard before.

Dang missed the nomination deadline... shouldn't affect my albums poll but my tracks poll will suffer

I think you can do write-ins.

I believe I will limit my campaigning to the Tropical Fuck Storm album, which I wrote about here. My favorite track from it (which someone nominated!) is Rubber Bullies.

^ Hopefully there won't be catastrophic vote-splitting on the TFS front. I think I'll vote this year, very likely for "You Let My Tires Down."

I don't expect them to make a dent in the tracks poll tbh. I'm putting my chips on the album poll.

i'm now thinking i should have nominated their Stayin' Alive cover

I had that exact same thought.

'Rubber Bullies' was my nomination but yeah between that and 'You Let My Tires Down' is a tough call for me - the album has really grown on me but I'm not sure it'll make my ballot, there are definitely far too many things I want to vote for album-wise this year...

I second the campaigning for Tropical Fuck Storm, although I'll certainly be adding to the track votesplit effect

I add to it a campaign for Trust Fund, who bowed out with one of the (all-time imo) great British indie records, with a bit of help from Mitski's producer. The standout track is probably Abundant, which will also be high up my ballot

added context for that song/video/album: it was all made knowing they'd break up the band afterwards ;_;

here's a bunch of global pop favourites i want to highlight

albums:

Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos: one of the most consistently exciting pop groups in the world at the moment headed in a more mellow and somewhat balearic direction for their latest album without losing anything. single The Bamboo Princess is a modern take on Homogenic-esque orchestration + beats while last year's single Melos is jazzy guitar + dnb breaks + a gamelan breakdown, reminiscent of Tortoise of all things. they also have consistently excellent music videos!

Busiswa - Highly Flavoured: a terrific gqom album that's exciting and varied the whole way through. about as good as pop music gets

Mlindo the Vocalist - Emakhaya: gorgeous and extremely chill afropop ballads perfect for a summer night. single Macala is a highlight and closes the album on a more energetic note

tracks:

Koutei Camera Girl Drei - Toronto Lot: a 6 minute pop-techno mini-epic, sort of like if Silent Shout had a soaring jpop chorus. parent mini-album New Way Of Lovin' is certainly worth a listen too

BTS - Idol: after successfully breaking into the US market and at the height of their career so far, BTS made a somewhat radical departure from their usual sound with Idol, which heavily (and successfully) incorporates south african gqom, which isn't a sound that has much presence at all in either korean or western pop so far and the resulting fusion doesn't quite sound like anything else in pop at the moment

NCT U - Baby Don't Stop: this is maybe the best rnbass song i've ever heard? all the vocal layering rules so much

LOONA/Olivia Hye ft. JinSoul - Egoist: 2017 kpop mvps LOONA didn't have anywhere near as strong a 2018 but Egoist was still a standout with its off-kilter production and sudden shifts

Hyolyn - See Sea: all tropical house should be this good! effortlessly catchy and i love all the dynamic shifts, especially with the vocals

Oh My Girl - Remember Me: combines a soaring romantic strings kpop girl group chorus with an energetic rap over electro beats in the verse - almost feels like two songs stitched together in the kpop tradition but it flows excellently

Simmy ft. Sun-El Musician - Ubala: sublime afrohouse and my favourite track from Sun-El's various projects this year, highly recommended if you loved Akanamali last year

Burna Boy - On the Low: there's probably going to be major vote splitting for Burna Boy tracks but this non-album single was my favourite

I'm sure a lot of this stuff is amazing but I'm going to give the lobbying a miss and I don't really see the point of voting for anything I didn't hear in 2018. Like there's enough stuff I *did* play to death and I'd rather my ballot was a reflection of why my 2018 was actually like, rather than a lot of stuff hastily crammed in January 2019.

i love the lobbying and hate reality

I screwed up thinking the deadline for nominations was today meaning my tracks ballot will be even more meaningless than usual :(

Bobbins crew a man down

the hasty cramming is the most fun part of this whole thing

for me at least. anyway enthusiastically seconding the simmy and burna boy tracks though i'm voting for "ye" from the latter

I've never voted in this before partly because I'm always so burnt out on keeping up with new music by Dec/Jan that I can't be bothered to do any exploring come polling time. Will probably make an album ballot just to see if anything I like places though.

eris drew: "hold me (t4t embrace mix)": as featured in the recent sprinkles-esque techno thread, debuted on a split with octa octa, would seem almost too eager to please (or rather i loved it so immediately that i'm a little suspicious of it) with the "mardis gras" sample and yet it's this perfectly balanced patch of weather

talaboman: "dins et llit (superpitcher remix)": this is exactly what you'd expect a superpitcher remix of talaboman to sound like, slow motion raving on the forest floor, thank god

four tet remixes from the edge of the universe sidebar: bicep, "opal" / daniel avery, "quick eternity". i prefer and am voting for the latter

tessela: glisten: b-side to a lanark artefax remix, sharply bladed techno

keysha: stop it!: don't even know if i'm going to vote for this bc it's old but i think more ppl should hear it :D

toni braxton: long as i live: i'm still impressed that toni braxton put out an immortal single that stands with her best work in 2018

forgot this one: peach: "silky": love the way this track moves, how it keeps blinking and whirring through several atmospheric changes

also, when the vocals come in >>>>>>>>>>

mewithoutyou: "julia (or, holy to the lord on the bells of horses)": this is the lead single for my favorite album of the year so i'm a little split on whether i'm gonna vote for it in the tracks poll, but before i even heard the album i thought this was so massive and their best song yet, just a total bath of guitars

That Peach track is wonderful it's true.

i'll be honest i never manage to narrow down the songs into a ballot i can actually submit, i love the lobbying thread because it gets me even farther from actually submitting a ballot

it sounded awful, but this was just a first response!

wrong thread!

Anyone with an interest in Richard Youngs should check out his new Arthur Russell-esque AMOR album. It's a December release and as with most of Youngs' stuff now it hasn't got much attention. It's really lovely.
spotify:album:1K3rgeE3jhJzeNZ8q56YzU

^^^ yep it's good

talking about youngs, i liked "red and blue bear" from last year a lot but i don't think i nommed it

put together a rough version of my ballot tonight. altho it's not likely that anything that i hear this late in the game will make it onto my final list, especially given how many tough cuts i already made up to this point, i still look forward to checking out ppl's lobbying selections :)

Noticed one error on the album list, the artist name "Jaakko Eino Kalevi" is misspelled as "Jaakko Eino Kaveli".

waka jaakko flame

Also, there are two albums there by "Johnny Greenwood" and "Jonny Greenwood", I presume it's the same guy?

"Jaakko", "Eino", and "Kalevi" are all popular male names in here, you racist. :)

Jaakko homo

A few of my favourites from this year:

ЛУНА - Спящая красавица - hypnotic Ukrainian electro-pop

Nego do Borel - Me Solta - hyperactive funk carioca. The video is divisive for a variety of reasons but the song bangs

Clement Froissart - Peupleraie melancholy French synthpop. All done a million times before but still strangely affecting

Talisto - Te Llamé ft. Diego Adrián & Ms Nina Woozy neoperreo reggaeton from Argentina via Stockholm

Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой Simple, charming Russian indie-electro-pop. I think Totibadze releases songs at a rate of about one a year but, when she gets around to it, they tend to be good.

For albums, my favourite by a mile was Monetochka's:

Monetochka / монеточка

I also really enjoyed Angele's oddly calming Belgian pop-reggae despite the Trenchant Social Commentary and Nicole Dollanganger's Tumblr-goth folk

I'm definitely into that first one you posted. I'll rep for a little bit of stuff soon!

The Makaya McCraven album (Universal Beings) has sounded better and better to me the more time I've spent with it. I'd start a thread but I don't think I have anything very smart to say about it. Anyone even a little jazz-curious should check it out though. It's very approachable and the production approach of mixing and looping live recordings is super effective.

I never know what dancehall might appeal to non-partisans, but two newcomers, Koffee - Toast and Rygin King - Tuff, are battling it out for my top slot.

Vote for Nyan Cat!

some percys

Man Power - Barranquilla Trifle (Ruf Dug Zouk Remix) - everyone said "Neutron Dance" was a sucessor to "Inspector Norse" but it is actually horrific and chintzy and this is so much better - just totally gleeful, shamelessly buoyant dance music that sounds properly tropical

Farao - Marry Me - the album didn't quite match the heights of this but if you're looking for a substitute for Susanne Sundfor circa "Ten Love Songs" then this is definitely for you

Bo'vel - Check 4 U - this is old but it was reissued this year and it's everything I like in music - r&b vocals, a slow groove and thick humid bass - 2018 feels like a big year for a streetsoul revival thanks to certain NTS Radio shows and this is possibly the pinnacle of the sound

Feeling like a personal failure for forgetting to get "Gold Purple Orange" on the tracks list.

had the nominations on shuffle for a few days now, heard some great tunes

highlight of all those that i hadnt heard before; 'hera in the valley' - listened to it about three times in a row now top stuff

home sick, should finally finish the singles playlist.

the first year I actually think "yeah, I'll nominate/vote!" and I miss the nomination deadline

good thing there's so much great stuff already there ;)

latest v cool discovery: the jean grae/quelle chris album

Jean Grae/Quelle Chris is so much fun, definitely voting for it

thirded; it's a killer album and maybe the first time i really fully embraced Jean Grae

Okay, I'm done with the singles playlist. Here's everything that's available on US Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5An136hLul4w2N80GQ92rA?si=2vJObQ-4SrGLniMFddMGqg

66 songs that are not on Spotify but that are on YouTube are available here and I recommend you give them a listen... some hidden gems!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqiswAZfVPo7ukF0c4p8B55JCRt0jEA3

Here's links to all the nominated songs that are not available on either Spotify or YouTube:
? “November Air” - https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/november-air
Army Of Moths “So Long” - https://armyofmoths.bandcamp.com/track/so-long-3
Child's Pose “Feral” - https://childspose.bandcamp.com/track/feral
Dazion “Dragon Wave” - https://soundcloud.com/safe-trip/sets/st013-dazion
Flowers “Long Song” - https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/long-song
Nick Omiccioli “The Field Well” - https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-omiccioli/the-field-well-2017-for-chamber-winds
Nick Omicciol and newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble “Haunted Seas” - https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-omiccioli/haunted-seas-2018-for-amplified-soprano-string-quartet
Barbara Panther “Feminine” - http://barbarapanther.com/
Caroline Park “Imagining Entering (but will leave you to it)” - https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/track/imagining-entering-but-will-leave-you-to-it
SARANA “Rodan” - https://noisebombing.bandcamp.com/track/rodan
Seahawks “Tears of the Deep” - https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/tears-of-the-deep
Star Period Star “The Pragmatist” - https://starperiodstar.bandcamp.com/track/the-pragmatist
Sterbus “Mate In 4/4” - https://sterbus.bandcamp.com/track/mate-in-4-4
Sunwatchers “Loop #2” - https://sunwatchers.bandcamp.com/track/loop-2
Tomoe Tazikawa “うすいいのり” - https://soundcloud.com/headzpromo/amphora
Terre Thaemlitz “Names Have Been Changed (Sprinkles' House Arrest)” - https://boomkat.com/products/deproduction-ep-1 (clip)
Total Mom “Uncomfortable” - https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/uncomfortable
They Might Be Giants “Last Wave” - https://vimeo.com/253025437
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Albatross (Blend)” - https://soundcloud.com/kfw/fleetwood-mac-albatross-blend
Peter J. Woods “Feral Leather” - https://peterjwoods.bandcamp.com/track/another-form-of-feral-leather

Cavern of Anti-Matter's “Mannequin Metric” is the only nominated song that's nowhere to be found to stream; I recommend everyone vote for it just to see what happens.
https://www.discogs.com/Cavern-Of-Anti-Matter-Play-In-Fabric/release/12680815

If anything you have nominated (or something you saw someone else nominated) isn’t included anywhere above, please drop me a note via ILXmail and I’ll fix it.

THANK YOU! for this, this is the first year i am trying to at least give everything a phantom of a shot and this makes it 100000% easier <3

(been doing the singles in alphabetical order since the spotify list first went up; gonna do a second pass on everything added in the past week or so that i may have missed; halfway through "T" now)

also i am very out of the loop so some of these "discoveries" may be well-trod but Negative Gemini, Otha, Pillow Queens, Saloli, and SOPHIE have been very pleasant surprises that might make my ballot(s)!

(also The Beths, Black Dresses, Camp Cope, Carla Del Forno, Kristin Hersh, MNEK, and Perfume and a few others, it's actually a very long list)

and to think i haven't even gotten to the beloved upthread Tropical Fuck Storm yet!

i'm gonna rep hard for George Clanton itt

glad it's helpful Will! I'm finding lots to enjoy myself.

NEGATIV GEMINI is awesome and never that ep never got the hype it deserved.

her LP Body Work is the one I keep finding myself going back to, it's better each time I listen to it

“Mannequin Metric” is the only nominated song that's nowhere to be found to stream; I recommend everyone vote for it just to see what happens

yes, do that ;-) S'really good, honest. Just Tim on his own doin' a folky, atmospheric piece, with harpsichord and bells and very subtle electric guitar and electronics.

Alternatively y'all can come round my house to listen to the record.

I doubt this will have all that much traction on ilx, but I am in love with the band Anatomy, and nominated both the album and this track: 'Anatomy Theme'. I guess they would fall under sad queer post-punk artrock noise?

For the psych fans, Kuunatic from Japan toured the UK this year and fucking killed it, I nominated the track Roho Ulio Toweka.

For the KPop fans, both G-Idle - HANN and Gugudan - Not That Type are worth checking out - not sure how much they got talked about on the rolling thread.

I also noticed that someone nominated the Spook School's 'Still Alive' this year, which I would vote for but it was my #7 last year - anyone into queer indiepop please vote for it, I can't really vote for it two years running!

ulysses, just curious, do you have a subconscious mental block against the word "tracks" or... ?

Oh shit, it's time to VOTTTTTE

JF, i suppose i do!

The Youtube playlist isn't bad at all! Manageable size too

I have far too many albums to vote for, but not many have individual tracks nominated too, so I reckon I'll probably be quite open to tracks-lobbying, btw.

There's only one song I regret forgetting to nominate

https://youtu.be/hX0468_fj1M

'HANN' was a kpop thread favourite, i'm considering voting for it. 'Anatomy Theme' and 'Roho Ulio Toweka' are both pretty cool too so thanks for those emil.y

Not many of my favourite tracks will make it in all probability, but depending on how much ILM likes monstrously climactic emo gothgaze and Joy Division keyboards (paging DJP!) I think Snape - Waiting For Death could have its fans

I'd also like to root for the following widescreen-metalcore-falling-into-a-Cardiacs-blender brilliance, from an album that I hold very dear: The Armed - Luxury Themes - jawdropping, I'm sure you'll agree

Next, and also from albums I love, are two take-or-leave ten-minute jobs. You know me by now. Machine Girl - A Decent Man is digital hardcore that swallows the Vision Creation Newsun pill halfway through, and Thumpermonkey - Make Me Young, Etc is PROGGE - a swelling, symphonic paean to the end of the world that stands alongside the mastery of prime Genesis and *waffles on for thirty increasingly awful paragraphs*

And Young Dreams - My Brain On Love is probably my favourite pop song of 2018. Genre: BAROQUE VAPORGUM. Pure Shambhala

My best discovery from others' track nominations is undoubtedly Jimothy Lacoste - Subway System, which doubles as video of the year, breakout UK star of the year and a worthy ILM poll successor to Blue Pedro I HOPE. FFO comedy rap that's actually good, and metro systems the world over

lol, I probably will throw Jimothy a vote. Will check out your other recommendations too, I only know JL and MG.

And I'll certainly check out yours - not sure I've heard any of them yet!

'I Can Speak Spanish' is the best Jimothy fwiw.

My biggest discovery so far listening to the nominated tracks on shuffle is Joanna Wang - I Dream We Will Be Together Again. So simple and elegant and amazing.

I'm amazed you're not already a JW fan!

had somehow not even heard of her up until a couple of days ago

what

check out her previous two albums this instant

I have no fondness for what little I've heard of Trippe Redd elsewhere, but Alison Wonderland lures him into a soup-y, sticky treacle of a song that sneaks up on you and turns everything it touches into something irresistible Alison Wonderland - High

For a promotional occasion like this, it's fortunate that Emilie Nicolas - Feel Fine gets to the best part of the song right away.

This song would get many #1s if performed by Dua Lipa. The ready-to-go-big video is already there, but somehow it hasn't blown up yet Glowie - Body

Singing 'German' is fun and EO knows it EO - German

Grime veteran D Double E always manages to make his creative choices surprising, playful and addictive in all their simplicity, year after year. Gorgon City x D Double E - Hear That

dear ILX: i got to the end of the alphabetical song list and this came on

Муся Тотибадзе — Останусь с тобой

WHY DO I KNOW THIS SONG?????????

was it used in something? a tv show? commercial? I KNOW IT AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I KNOW IT

Voted

In my desperate searching for why I know this song, I have determined that it is a cover of a 90's Russian pop song, but that still doesn't explain why I, a Canadian who has never been to or delved into the pop history of Russia, know it.

Russian memory hack

smitten with "I can speak spanish"

Damn, I guess I just figured someone (anyone?!) would've voted for the closest thing to a good New Order 2018 single - The Liminanas' "The Gift" (featuring Peter Hook!). Granted, it's not apex New Order, but definitely in the top end of "Waiting for the Siren's Call"-era New Order.

Also, there are two albums there by "Johnny Greenwood" and "Jonny Greenwood", I presume it's the same guy?

― Tuomas, Monday, January 7, 2019 9:24 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes it is

the closest thing to a good new order single last year was krystal klear - neutron dance

That's true in that it is similar to a specific good single by new order but false in that it is bad

so lowest common denominator it's a jam because of not in spite of its australiosity, blew up in 2018, v powerful hair and energy in the vid: the chats - smoko https://youtu.be/j58V2vC9EPc

that is a superlative video

Smoko is excellent and I’m bending my normal aversion to ‘year of impact’ to vote for it.

“neutron dance” hate itt is only going to make me vote for it harder

moonshake miner on the flip is so much better than neutron dance though, huge joy bomb

the whole ep is great but "neutron dance" is the standout, it's no "inspector norse" but it's still a fantastic new order rip

Decided I was wasting too much time internally debating placement/inclusion for my ballots so just voted.

just a couple recs for songs and albums i'm gonna be voting for highly:

Superchunk - Black Thread -- the cathartic closer to the best Superchunk album in 25 years.

Sada Baby ft. Drego - Bloxk Party -- goon-friendly voters would do well to rally around this one, the most fun rap single (and video) of the year

H.C. McEntire - Red Silo -- No relation to Reba, the best song from the Mount Moriah lead singer's solo album. a warm love song with strikingly specific lyricism and a fantastic organ tone.

Petal - Magic Gone -- sweet and melodic indie rock with real emotional oomph. brad started a thread but no one commented, ce la vie. but this record is gorgeous and worthy of attention if you like Big Thief or any of the boygenius brigade.

Hermit & The Recluse - Orpheus & The Sirens - Ka's latest, and it's a unique thrill to hear him emerge from his hermetically sealed world (production is handled by Animos). it's still pitch black, but has a sweeping cinematic quality that Ka usually works hard to avoid.

yeah that petal record is great, kiley one of the best indie rock songwriters going right now (...if not the best). i regret not pitching it to pfork lol

Decided I was wasting too much time internally debating placement/inclusion for my ballots so just voted.

― silverfish, Friday, January 11, 2019 9:37 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always end up doing this too and usually have regrets. E.g., I'm listening to the Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids album right now for the first time in a while and wish I'd put it much higher

oh, I'm sure I'll have regrets, but I'll always have those no matter how long I wait to cast my votes. Also, as far as regrets go, leaving that DJ Koze album off my ballot probably won't haunt my dreams.

I heard that neutron record when I got locked in the changing rooms at superdry in birkenhead and I overheard some people saying "this is Limmy"

I've not heard of anything else on the list even though theyve all got 26 million views on youtube, though even my nan is up to 225K subscribers now this is why I dont go online much which is how I ended up in superdry in the first place

I am really out of the loop this year, its been great to catch up thru the noms list, a lot of great stuff this year.

One thing that I nominated this year that I would campaign for is Ghoomar I love the chaotic chanting swirl the song ends up in. Its my favourite bollywood hit this year.

Adikia ft. Mon-Sala, Yas Lo, Sofa, Yeboyah, Nisa, Donatella, F - Koskematon

I guess I should rep for this song, since it's probably gonna be my #1, but dunno if anyone else is gonna vote for it, since it's (partially) in Finnish... "Koskematon" is pretty much the Me Too -anthem of this country, with a whole bunch of fucking tough up-and-coming local rappers doing their take on sexual harrassment and self-determination. "Koskematon" is "untouchable" in Finnish, and the chorus goes something like "the daddies try to get on my skin / but they get seized up / you know the fact is / the matriarchate is untouchable". As for the rest of it, I'm sure you can figure it out from the (rather awesome) video, and a couple of the choruses are in English.

Oh and the PERFUME album is really underrated! "Let Me Know" is low key a classic Perfume single.

xpost to Tuomas: Love it! Aw, there's "Kvinnenes Kulturhistorie" at 0:17, Tootikki + Tove at 1:04, but most of the remaining masks and references elude me, shamefully. I guess it's Nurmi there, running, before getting a new face? Would love some pointers towards other parts. Thanks!

lol this downtown boys selena/pretenders cover is amazing: https://youtu.be/GO-KkVgxhK4

The first mask is Tarja Halonen, the former Finnish president (who also used to be the head of Seta, the national LGTBQ organisation back in the '80s). The second is Tuutikki and Tove Jansson, as you know. <3 Third is Sofi Oksanen, probably the most popular living novelist in here at them moment, and an outspoken feminist. The fourth statue is of Paavo Nurmi, a runner who won several medals in the olympics in the 1920s, so the mask they use is of Enni Rukajärvi, a snowboarder who's won silver and bronze in the olympics. The fifth statue is of Lenin, which for some reason we have in Helsinki, so the mask they put up is of Hertta Kuusinen, one of the most prominent communist politicians from the '40s to the '60s. So basically all the statues are of Finnish historical men, replaced with masks of respected women in the same profession.

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hadnt heard this Prins Thomas flip of the De Lux tune and it is making my day awesome

Talaboman Superpitcher remix is sweet

who the fuck nominated this Audrey Chen asmr track that sounds like someone gagging on spaghetti?? My night is ruined now.

Thanks, Tuomas! (multixpost)

Seconding imago's shout-out for stellar indie-pop band Trust Fund. It is just the cutest and most dynamically hook-y final album imaginable. They continuously progressed their sound throughout their short career, but this is particularly ambitious and crushingly personal and the songs sink in and stay for months. I really hope more people hear it and love it.

I do like Trust Fund (and have played w/ them several times) but seem to always miss the full albums. Will make sure I check it out but have so many albums in the running I doubt it'll make it with such a short time to go.

Poll-runners, what is the policy on write-ins? I nominated an EP for the albums list but would prefer to vote for a single track off it - I know I'll likely be the only vote but I like having my ilx ballot be as "accurate" to my year as possible.

Aaaw, it's lovely you've played with them! Maybe its charm will still work in time... Any standouts to speak of from your favourite albums this year? xp

I voted :)

I should have nominated the Alva Noto album.

xp: this poll runner says "if it feels good do it"

Write-ins are not guaranteed to be counted (if everyone's ballot was all write-ins the system would break down) but in practice they always are.

My ballot will include one write-in because I accidentally nominated a different Laura Veirs track than I intended to, but I don't suspect the impact that this will have on the results will be all that dramatic.

It's my own fault for slacking off re: nominations, but I just noticed that no one put up Amen Dunes' "Blue Rose." Oh well, I guess I'll just get him on my albums ballot.

i like the two four tet remixes upthread but also listened to the originals they were based on and the differences are not especially pronounced? i might prefer the unremixed daniel avery track. (remember when people were praising four tet's remix of that eric prydz track left and right, writing thinkpieces about people's reactions to it in clubs and blahblahblah and then it turned out when you listened to the original all the good/interesting/'innovative' parts were actually there all along, just nobody had bothered to notice b/c no one expected anything good to come from eric prydz? good times.)

I love this Yubin, "Lady" track. Much thanks to whomever nominated it. I included it in the weighted top 4 of my mixed tracks ballot.

Tracks ballot in tonight, btw. I'll come back and do albums in a day or two.

i think i will submit my ballot soon. here are some tracks i like a lot that i will probably vote highly for.

kash doll - for everybody :: "if a girl answers (don't hang up)" for 2018, but actually even better. (it actually first came out in 2017 but got picked up and re-released by republic a year later.) one part knowingly over-the-top catfight, an equal part tough love, plus a lucid rumination on sexual politics lurking just beneath the surface. in the moments when the bass falls back and the piano line descends to a vamp on its more somber chords, my mind inevitably wanders to the man, un-pictured yet firmly and sadly at the center. i've heard very little else from this artist, but of what i've heard nothing grabbed me anywhere close to how this did.

gerardo ortiz - egoísta :: i worked in texas for a month this year, giving me more opportunity than i usually have to listen to spanish-language radio and otherwise experience latin music in spaces where it's not just a crossover curiosity but an all-consuming phenom. i don't think i'll ever quite forget driving down the highway late at night hearing the hauntingly ethereal cumbia of raymix's "oye mujer" or seeing the way the glorious peal of ozuna's supernatural voice delivering the "te boté" chorus got an entire packed club moving. but surprise, it's actually this, a romantic ballad over a beautiful-tho-conventional banda arrangement that had me coming back the most. i wish i had better reasons to justify it, but it really just comes down to that chorus: enormous and booming, unfurled so immediately like a revelation from the mountaintops. completely gorgeous.

kurt vile - bassackwards :: i'm so glad he finally managed to release a great song that doesn't sound like one of his older great songs for the first time in who-knows-how-long. (don't tell me if there's actually another song of his i've overlooked that sounds just like this -- i prefer my ignorance.) a lush, unrelenting arrangement i can just let myself completely sink into, plus a beautifully freeform, wandering lyric: "there was no format because, well, we like it like that."

marsha ambrosius - old times :: every year there's always a handful of r&b singles that i feel are more slept-on than they should be, even here, in favor of bigger hits and buzzblog-friendlier work alike, so i do feel the need to echo the love i've seen others express here-n-there for songs like jacquees's "you", mariah's "with you", and toni braxton's "long as i live". and then there's this, a hauntingly sublime rendering of our need to hide those we love from the world, unsure whether we're actually protecting them or shielding ourselves from heartbreak -- or trying both but accomplishing neither. marsha's vocal is pained and impassioned, at times broken like a sob, and when the anguish collapses to the final fadeout, it gives way to a mood not quite serene but also certainly not resigned.

VOTED

I'd like to rep for:

Emerson Kitamura - Rock Your Baby: a cover of the George McCrae classic that doubles down on its potential as a lullaby. Balearic? Soporific? I think it's really beautiful.

DJ Koze - The Love Truck: the B-side of "Pick Up", Koze doing what he does best IMO; certainly this is better than most of his album.

ZHU and Tame Impala - My Life. The collaboration nobody asked for and, as one wag puts it, "I can't believe they made a whole song based around the Windows 10 eject USB sound effect" but I love getting lost in this.

And finally, as all of the above are a bit on the smooth side, how about some funky 70s-style crime caper 'n' car chase music from Calibro 35?

just voted!

Voted (again) for albums. I'm done now!

Emerson Kitamura - Rock Your Baby: a cover of the George McCrae classic that doubles down on its potential as a lullaby. Balearic? Soporific? I think it's really beautiful.

oh this rules, thank you jeff

A little lobbying for my most-listened song of the year. The Regrettes doing a song from Hamilton turns out to be the perfect Taylor Swift pop-punk song Taylor has failed to write.

The Regrettes - Helpless

i'd like to get into a bit more detail on my recommendations, but i would strongly recommend that anyone who hasn't already listened to the dj koze album do so..

I heard that neutron record when I got locked in the changing rooms at superdry in birkenhead and I overheard some people saying "this is Limmy"

― saer, Friday, January 11, 2019 6:30 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stellar post imo

Voted.

Voted; it was fun!

seandalai, I submitted my albums ballot a second time because there were two things I couldn't live with leaving off. Disregard my first attempt please!

yep, got it

who the fuck nominated this Audrey Chen asmr track that sounds like someone gagging on spaghetti?? My night is ruined now.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, January 12, 2019 12:10 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yeah this was a fun discovery on the playlist

did 20/20 instead of 25/25 this year because i'm lazy and didn't nominate some stuff

twin sister - top and bottoms

twin sis crew vote for that one ok?

assuming it was nominated..

It's probably too late to rep for anything now, but for what it's worth here are a few tracks I intend to throw votes at:

Raveena - Honey - Raveena is an Indian-American singer making soft, delicate, Strother-sister R&B and this is my pick of her numerous singles which I presume are leading into a longer project of some sort.

Georgia - Started Out - I had no cognisance of Georgia before this single but apparently she had a bit of a push, as "Georgia Barnes", a few years ago as a Kate Tempest-type on Domino records. Anyway she's using a mononym now and is instead mining the "wonky underwater Kylie" aesthetic of Tove Lo's "disco tits".

Brame & Hamo - Roy Keane - this was my pick of songs I'd not previously heard from the Mixmag list. It's basically just the Keane Brothers' version of Dancing In The Moonlight with a donk on it. Lots of fun and certainly less hackneyed than Toploader.

Delta Goodrem - Think About You - A lusty single with sound design that at once reminds me of Selena Gomez' Revival and parts of the last Kelela record (no, really), with one of my favourite dumb couplets of the year: "In a crowded bar, or a restaurant/Everybody doesn't know that you've got nothing on".

that one wasn't nominated xp

i just voted for the album instead

yeah i voted for jaipur

"Echo Arms" because it is not on the Mr Twin Sister album and then I can not feel guilty for voting for both, please

Jaipur for me (but album also).

Gutted I forgot to nominate Ought's 'Disgraced in America':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN4MEzle8Hs

Instead will vote extra hard for the album, as I recommend you all to do. Post-punk w/ a singer who echoes Scott Walker what is not to like I dare ask you.

Most beautiful song of last year was Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore's extended take on the Child ballad Fair Annie: https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/track/fair-annie

that raveena track is very beautiful

It can be the 2nd-most beautiful

that Baird/Lattimore is excellent, thank you!

that raveena track is very beautiful

― dyl

Yeah, that was one of my favourites when I went through the playlist.

I also fell in love with:

Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой
Rina Sawayama - Cherry
Faye Webster - Kingston
Le SuperHomard - Paper Girl
Claire Laffut - Verite
Vendredi sur Mer - Ecoute Cherie
Tessa Violet – Crush

These were all new discoveries for me that might get my vote. Also realised I'd totally been sleeping on the new Dumblonde song and the Lindstrøm/Ronika collaboration. No idea how I'm going to get my tracks list down to 25!

ooh those are great picks monotony, thanks for sharing - "Honey" is especially great. never would have expected delta to come out with a single that sounds like kelela also

"Power of Two" must be the best non-album Mr Twin Sister track, no?

tessa violet's schtick and subsequent singles are instantly stale but dang if "crush" didn't hit a sweet spot for me

xxp nor did I, but it was one of the year's most pleasant surprises. There's a remix by Initial Talk that really accentuates its Mariah-in-the-90s-isms that's kinda fun too.

That Fabiana Palladino single is great - I think she and her brother have both served as touring bass players for Jessie Ware, but I wasn't aware she was releasing her own stuff.

Pulse Emitter - Xenharmonic Passages
https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/xenharmonic-passages
exotic tunings, big synth-wizard bells tolling outward towards infinity - listen to "chateau, night"

That Fabiana Palladino single is great - I think she and her brother have both served as touring bass players for Jessie Ware, but I wasn't aware she was releasing her own stuff.

― monotony,

Oh cool, I didn't know there was a Jessie Ware connection. The Spotify playlist gets off to a strong start with Shimmer next to Jessie's Overtime. When Sticky came on as the third song I immediately knew I was going to be in trouble having to narrow my long-list down.

Rocco was definitely playing for her in the Devotion days and I think Fabiana has more recently. Of course they're both descended from bass-playing royalty!

Voted for the first time! I will actually nominate stuff next year which is a warning more than anything else

I already voted (and I'm with Matt on preferring my ballot to reflect my actual year of listening) but dang that Raveena track is sweet! And the newer one, "Temptation," is the lead single from her debut album, per NPR.

wow @ Raveena's "Honey"

OK, have voted. As ever, the last few cuts were incredibly painful.

Oh it was more than the last few surely, I didn't play too many but there were some rough times in there. Not boding too well

Talisto - Te Llamé ft. Diego Adrián & Ms Nina Woozy neoperreo reggaeton from Argentina via Stockholm

― ShariVari, Monday, January 7, 2019 4:26 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is great!

I'll just accept that there's no way to do an in-depth examination of the year when you've started checking stuff mainly in November. I'll be excited to discover everything that I have missed during the roll-out. Thanks to the team for the huge amount of work ! Hope you're all still having fun.

Oof, I am really struggling with getting things into any order. Arrrrgh.

You could do an unranked ballot!

I have an irrational aversion to unranked ballots. Fine with half and half, but I always feel like there is a definite difference in how many points I want to give to things near the top and things near the bottom.

i think mine will be halfsies with only two to five ranked this year

oh right I actually have to vote in this so I can maybe see 2/25 things place

my album ranking has been determined long in advance, with 'bolters' fitted in where appropriate (e.g. those aforementioned kyle gann or jean grae/quelle chris albums)

my singles ranking will be done but it's going to be an intense time. the last couple of days i've only be able to listen to a 2019 album, which hasn't helped. scary jokes campaign begins here

I always end up doing a top 7 or 8 or so ranked and the rest unranked. I feel like deciding whether a song is my 10th most liked or 15th most liked is pretty much impossible anyway. I guess ideally what I would like is some sort of tiered ballot (something like my top 5 ranked, then a group of 10 unranked followed by another group of 10 unranked with less points)

The Bill Wurtz track in the master list was erroneously nominated (by me) as Mount Saint Helens Is Going To Blow Up but actually Going should be About, I don't suppose this makes any difference to anyone but I feel it should be recorded here

most of yuz probably already voted or at least have your list-to-shorten good to go, but if you haven't heard it yet, Sloppy Jane's 'Mindy' is one of the wildest songs I've heard in a while. Ping-pongs between bratty and brooding, with an uncomfortable, paranoia-inducing guitar bubbling underneath the whole time. The album, Willow, has quite a few highlights on it, but this track's my fave. (and apparently the track came out in 2017, but, uh, year of impact? or something? idk it's on the album and nobody even nominated it last year).

Just a warning, the video borders on not safe for work/life (especially if your work has a moratorium on delightful John Ennis cameos), and definitely don't look up anything from their live shows from work. I had only heard the music and started looking them up on lunch break a few weeks ago and whoops nudity.

hokay, voted

Fabiano Palladino track is heavenly

thanks to whoever nominated

I did 10 ranked, 15 unranked for both ballots this year. Last year I was disheartened to albums that I liked a lot and put on the bottom of my ballot only get like 5 or 6 points. So now they'll get more.

just realized a couple days back that i never listened to the top 77 trax from last year -- i prob saw the number of good-but-not-great tunes in the top 10 and kept putting it off until i just forgot entirely. now that i've gone back and listened to it all i can happily say that as always there were plenty of gems that i wish i'd been able to discover organically thruout that year. several of the dance tracks especially, particularly those lower on the list. looking forward to what this year's poll brings!

Voted. Unweighted is a godsend.

Voted!

I just wanna campaign for this one because it's not on Spotify and too good to fall under the radar:

Sky Ferreira - Voices Carry (Demo)

There are 7 of the 9 songs from the robyn album nominated but the only one i like isn't. I think "ever again" knocks the rest out. Weird.

Robyn fans are terrible strategists.

centrists are having issues everywhere it seems

Nego do Borel - Me Solta - hyperactive funk carioca. The video is divisive for a variety of reasons but the song bangs

Heard this while out in Rio a few weeks back and have become obsessed with it.

Though the funk track I heard absolutely everywhere was MC L Da Vinte & MC Gury's "Parado no Bailão". I kept turning to my BF and saying "hey it's the track played on coke bottles again."

i feel that Robyn point even though I nominated a track myself. I think everyone has their favorite cut.

Voted albums. See if I can't around to putting some tracks together.

here's that 2017 Top 177 btw... added a few tracks that were missing!
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/09SJC7fVyKoOx6mBnRrgFV

xps Added the Sky Ferreira track as a possible earlier after listening to the YouTube playlist.

Other favourite find so far is that fantastic Raveena track

the burna boy album is outstanding, i'm glad i got into it before i submitted my ballot

Yes, Burna rules. I hope people aren’t sleeping on Simmy’s Tugela Fairy album. Gorgeous South African house, produced by Sun-El Musician (who had his own very good - and nominated - album, but Simmy’s is even better imo). I feel fans of (We Are) KING will find a lot to love here too.

Simmy's on my tracks ballot. Not heard the album

It’s pretty much perfect. So many great tracks, not a single weak one, and wonderfully sequenced.

i didn't really pick up much from campaigning that wasn't already on my list but i for some reason ignored omar s "games that we play" this year and i really shouldn't have

anyway def voting tomorrow just gotta... figure out an order for my tracks list finally

I've got the flu, so spent a good part of this afternoon listening to tracks bigged up in this thread. There are now six or seven strong new contenders for inclusion in my votes. I struggled last year with new music discovery, having devoted most of my time to building my DJ boxes with old music, so this was most welcome.

both the simmy and sun-el albums deserve space on your lists

the hasty cramming is the most fun part of this whole thing

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, January 6, 2019 11:29 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sun-el was my best discovery from last year's rollout, and the album was my summer soundtrack. The sun-el thread then led me to Simmy, whose tracks are proving damned difficult to whittle down right now (but I've got it down to three).

Damn, I guess I just figured someone (anyone?!) would've voted for the closest thing to a good New Order 2018 single - The Liminanas' "The Gift" (featuring Peter Hook!). Granted, it's not apex New Order, but definitely in the top end of "Waiting for the Siren's Call"-era New Order.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:00 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the closest thing to a good new order single last year was krystal klear - neutron dance

― ufo, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:54 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

check "dark stain" by exploded view (2018)

https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/album/obey

^ brilliant record, in my ballot's top ten

this is the first year i've nominated, and will vote soon. also my first time campaigning !

so, what is my favorite* track (song) of the year ? it's called "trouble" by a band called grapetooth. goofy wonky synth-pop with beastie boys-esque shout vocals, almost like the B boys did a half-assed approximation of a "low"-era bowie track with shaggy but compelling results. the music video is also a real joy imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOpnSldGpU

*not really it's just tons of fun and i haven't heard anybody talk about it round these parts

Don't know the band, but 'grapetooth' is a literal translation of the Chinese name for Spain.

Things you were shockingly old when you learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m5_Jdfpo8

whoever nominated this it kicks a ton of ass thank you

ugh sorry for embed got too excited

xp

does it mean that spain is like a giant tooth full of grapes just dangling off the end of europe ? or is it more like Land of the Purple-Toothed Winos ?

Sooo...due to uh "IT issues" I think we're going to extend the deadline by a week.

Official announcement to follow

Spotify is blocked by local government where I am but I had cause to be in a neighbouring canton where they had spotify booths in many of the local bars, I thought I would give the playlist a cursory listen because playlists of huge numbers of songs is a minor form of incarceration. I started with something called cosmic sheldrake, don't know if i was unlucky but this is truly absymal, I've worked in an office before, I've heard that Imagine Dragon song that sounds like fascism about making packed lunches. And mates, this garbage is the lute playing cousin of that, the kind of compadre that is singing about a local river while making plans to pollute it with toxic dye via a management company in his brothers name

No

<3

wow that Panama Keys remix owns

I've heard that Imagine Dragon song that sounds like fascism about making packed lunches.

haven’t laughed this hard seems like forever, ty

Many xps- loanwords in Chinese don't usually get new characters, so something with the same sound is assigned. grape tooth = putao ya = Portugal, so not Spain, which would be xibanya, 'west class tooth,' yes this is a bit off topic now

"Vyrgin Island" off that Panama Keys release is excellent too

Sooo...due to uh "IT issues" I think we're going to extend the deadline by a week.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:11 AM (fourteen hours ago)

This would be great for me b/c the deadline coincides with both a house inspection and a funeral and I've been stressing about those instead of finishing my ballot. Poor priorities, I know.

I also appreciate this extension, it's been a very busy week

dear saer: i'm sorry i'm not sorry

Yay @ extension!!!

So is this officially official now?

Thanks for the extension guys, I was starting to panic at getting my tracks ballot done, having spent many hours riffling through the spotify play list (thanks forks...). I didn't manage to get many nominations in this year, but while I'm here let me lobby for Julia Jacklin, in particular 'Head Alone', if not just for the delight of the bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3IJT3Ke0Y&frags=pl%2Cwn

Looks like that didn't work, maybe this will?

https://youtu.be/0Z3IJT3Ke0Y

Hello seandalai: When I voted, I chose "mixed" ballot, then stupidly forgot to put the extra line break between the ranked and unranked lists. I'm fine with just ranking the whole thing if that's easier.

whew I was slamming together my ballots last minute style the extension is very welcome, ty!

if you haven't heard it yet, Sloppy Jane's 'Mindy' is one of the wildest songs I've heard in a while.

Thanks for this! I liked the song so much I streamed the album, and liked the album so much I bought it and have listened to it about four times in the last two days. If I get around to voting in this poll, it'll make my ballot.

When is the extension to?

grapetooth are great, i second that recommendation

exploded view also awesome, i'm going to see anika in a couple weeks here with a local dub punk band called cool flowers opening for them, looking forward to it

It's official: voting will now end at Midnight PST on Friday, January 25th, 2019 (i.e. Saturday morning in the UK).

Can a friendly mod update the top of the thread?

Hello seandalai: When I voted, I chose "mixed" ballot, then stupidly forgot to put the extra line break between the ranked and unranked lists. I'm fine with just ranking the whole thing if that's easier.

― beard papa, Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:47 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you vote again and post here, I'll go back and delete your first ballot.

Yay @ extension!1!

Well over a quarter of the youtube playlist is friendly and effusive, top marks to the authorities

Yay @ extension but also boo @ extension as I think I was almost done but now have an extra week to listen to more stuff and then try and work out what I'm going to have to axe to fit it in

oh i had a look and Lee Burton's 1420hz has been deleted from youtube must have had a run in with the authorities in Athens

if anyone wants to re-add it then there is another copy of it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXlLwIGaho

Would it be possible for me too to resubmit my ballot? I did it in a haste, and now I've realised I'd like to add and change a few things, if it's not too much of a hassle?

Voted :)

Think this might be another year where I'm the only one who voted for my #1 track :(

Original post updated to reflect the new deadline by the way.

Thanks for this! I liked the song so much I streamed the album, and liked the album so much I bought it and have listened to it about four times in the last two days. If I get around to voting in this poll, it'll make my ballot.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, January 17, 2019 7:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes it! I found it through a very unlikely acquaintance's sharing it and got kind of obsessed with a few of the songs on there, but I have no idea how he found it or how popular it is or much of anything about them honestly. They've never been mentioned on ILX apparently? I thought I might have been taking crazy pills because virtually everything else ever recorded has been mentioned on here at some point!!

There are 7 of the 9 songs from the robyn album nominated but the only one i like isn't.

The two best songs on the album are the ones that didn't get nominated smfh

Yay on the extension! There were four pretty big albums that I've yet to check out that I wanted to get at least one listen in before voting.

Maggie Rogers - Fallingwater

i’m glad someone nominated this bc it’s prob gonna sneak onto my ballot, the album made me like it even more

i never loved you fully in the way i should
i fought the current running just the way you would
and now iiiiiiiiiiiii

oh nice i had missed that there was a maggie album this year

Atropos, the closing track on the Harmony Rockets album is gorgeous.

xp the maggie album came out today, so you missed nothing

lol

I'm so behind, this extension is very welcome. I can just about manage a 10-album ballot.

Just voted. Let's go Aviary.

voted

thanks for the extension!

having your #1 track fail to place builds character (also indicates lack of shit taste)

Voted. Included one write-in track. Hope that's OK.

Voted, cutting it close.

the maggie rogers album is superlative starbucks music and I promise I'm not saying that as an insult

Voted (er, a few days ago but forgot to mention it)

yes, thanks for the extension to the 25th seandalai!

I nominated “Fallingwater”. It’ll be very high on my ballot - thanks for giving it a shout out Brad.

The album is great - recommended for HAIM fans. There used to be a few of those around here.

I just resent my ballot, which was redone a bit. I hope you can replace my old one with the new?

the maggie rogers album is superlative starbucks music and I promise I'm not saying that as an insult

― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, January 19, 2019 1:01 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm and one of the reasons i like it

I forgot a crucial album in my top 25 and resubmitted (sans tracks ballot this time). Hope it counts, but if not - its not the end of the world.

If you vote again and post here, I'll go back and delete your first ballot.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:00 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've just voted again. Apologies for any hassle!

i know it's my fault for not nomming anything but im mad at yall for not nomming some of the stuff i wanted to vote for

i know it's my fault for not nomming anything but im mad at yall for not nomming some of the stuff i wanted to vote for

― flopson, Saturday, January 19, 2019 11:21 PM (two days ago)

Yeah, just as guilty, but not seeing Lando Chill's Black Ego was a bit surprising (it's on my list as a write in)

we were talking about fake new order?

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

submitting my ballot today somehow

I've voted, quite surprised by what ended up topping my albums ballot but there were four or five in contention with no frontrunner.

And yes, Keflavik made my ballot, that's just glorious.

lol that was fast but i'm done! can't wait for the rollout

Oh yeah, that Kasper Marrot song is so good. I thought I had my singles list ready to go, but I might need to reconsider. Still haven't found room for that awesome Toni Braxton single either.

Voted! Such a relief to get it sent in. I spent way too long trying to get my tracks list done.

I'm a total sucker for fake new order

Buzzed through the tracks playlist, It seems like 50% afropop, which totally rules?

checks out

I've voted, quite surprised by what ended up topping my albums ballot but there were four or five in contention with no frontrunner.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:56 (three hours ago) Permalink

this was me too, super strong year with no clear frontrunner.

the Kasper Marrot track is great!

ahhh just putting my ballot together now and somehow we collectively neglected to nominate the Internet's album

deeply regret forgetting Britten's theme for Succession as a track nom; hoping he wins an Oscar for Beale Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlgWqcHXD8w

Still haven't found room for that awesome Toni Braxton single either.

Find room!

i agree with above

just making my ballot this morning

damn nobody nominated the 700 bliss album!

anyways, voted!

go dots!

Guided by Voices – That’s Good

this track is awesome, could totally be a "soft bulletin" outtake

That's a terrible sales pitch.

i'm not trying to sell anything !

it just came on as i was listening playlist and that's what the track reminded me of. why is that terrible

E Ruscha V & Woo - Woo Are You

amazing, thanks to whoever nominated this !

The E Ruscha album is really good too, been chilling out with it a lot lately.

oh man i've just started listening my body is a-buzz

playing "osiris" by maisha on bandcamp and "hidden beauties" by ANNA on spotify. wild

i should've done this sooner if i were actually gonna get anyone to vote for these, but..

i love the suba album, 'wayang,' which is for if you want tribal drums and kosmische synth to coax you into an out of body experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClwaqvT3OWw

and on the same label, geins't naït and laurent petitgand's 'make dogs sing' which is sort of a cozy rainy day soundtrack to falling into a k-hole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMAOZmmE6g

i also nominated the job sifre EP het bestaan as an album b/c it's long enough to be a mini LP and every track is great. the one that got me obsessed with job sifre (and his amazing mix series on red light radio) is 'at least we try,' a long, churning, nasty thing that becomes quite beautiful by the end, with a swaying dub bassline and studio-esque melody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjlkP-9CgU

suba sounds good, thanks for posting (dipping into the other two rn)

Mother of Mars - Hera In The Valley

wowwwwwwwww

seandalai, I submitted two ballots - the first has my correct tracks ballot, the 2nd my correct albums ballot. Is that too complicated to merge? Should I submit a third that has both correct?

I did it, finally!

sent!

@Tuomas, beard papa: I've caught up and removed your first ballots
@octobeard: Easiest if you can submit again

In!

Some last-minute repping for a very late 2018 release (mid-December):
https://youtu.be/OhPjmI44y2Y
Pop d'n'b!

Oh yeah, that's a banger! Hadn't heard about it before scanning through the nomination list, when I noticed Shy FX there, so of course I had to vote for it. Junglist massive 4eva!

Oh, I meant to apologise as well - I massively over-nominated in the albums field and ended up shifting a few votes over to the tracks, so I think I had about four write-ins. I actually don't really mind if they don't get counted, but as I said before, this list is my only EoY list, so I try to make it be what I actually want to remember from the year.

Voted!

24-ish hours left to vote!

Voted!

Voted!

Is the rollout starting next week?

Yes on Monday!

I am on deck to make the singles happen, starting Monday. I've seen the early returns and they are SHOCKING; vote now or you don't get to complain when we start posting things you SIMPLY CANNOT BELIEVE (pollsters hate this ONE SIMPLE SONG)

bitch i'm a cow no. 1

laugh now, moo later

we are entering the voterarium. a place of strife and sensation. the night is yet young

voted!

I'm honestly drawing a blank on what song from 2018 could simultaneously be really hated and yet also do really well. God's Plan? Lift Yourself? Baby Shark? This is America?

baby shark and moo are two i'm definitely rooting against in vain

the presence of non-song "this is america" would be a bummer

voted! just in time.

There were quite a few things I was surprised weren't nominated (I was travelling during the noms period so didn't get around to it) but by the same token narrowing each list down to 25 selections still broke my heart.

Voted!

Really short ballot, but I voted.

I'm honestly drawing a blank on what song from 2018 could simultaneously be really hated and yet also do really well. God's Plan? Lift Yourself? Baby Shark? This is America?

― MarkoP, Friday, January 25, 2019 8:54 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From these: one I've voted for, one I wouldn't mind seeing crop up, one I can't fucking stand, one I've never knowingly heard.

My suggestion for a joke top 10 entry is Peach Scone.

I can confirm the results are bonkers, also there’s a huge song that I thought was a top 20 contender and it is not even in the top 77.

Voted!

voted

Did a write in for Jean Grae and Quelle Chris "Gold Orange Purple" and I suggest you do the same!

and voted! that is a great track but i voted for the album anyway so

Voted. No write-ins despite missing the noms because yeah it was a good year. Albums vv strong

Voted!

what level of weird are we talking like weirder than last year when somehow SZA completely missed the tracks poll and "Boys" won? that would be impressive

forks, when you start the rollout thread Monday morning, I beg of you to use the format we've used every year in the post-musically era...and to call them tracks instead of singles. 👍

*title format

voted! god that copy & paste job was hard!

i will totally call all those singles tracks. or vice versa. Wait, what am i doing?

voated

voted!

what level of weird are we talking like weirder than last year when somehow SZA completely missed the tracks poll and "Boys" won? that would be impressive

― ufo

Incoming ballots might change some things, but there are definitely some songs which I didn't expect to make it and which are a nice surprise imho... also yes, without revealing too much, if the ballots received today don't change the scores significantly on the bottom we might indeed have another SZA scenario this year.

I was legit angry last year that the final batch of ballots ruined Taylor Swift getting 78'ed.

Best way to avoid WTF WHO VOTED FOR THIS syndrome is to get your ballot in!

how many more hours to get ballots in?

Oops, I forgot to save my ballot.

‘Go to town’ is the doja cat banger imo

they’re both great

this year feels a lot more open in terms of possibilities than last year and if the results are even weirder than last year i'm looking forward to being surprised then

i'm really confident in my albums list but my songs list felt like a mess even as i was submitting it, and i've technically been working on it for a few months now lol

voted !

sent my ballot, phew!

voted, finally

Incoming ballots might change some things, but there are definitely some songs which I didn't expect to make it and which are a nice surprise imho... also yes, without revealing too much, if the ballots received today don't change the scores significantly on the bottom we might indeed have another SZA scenario this year.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

If it was another situation similar SZA last year, I could see Robyn missing out due to split voting.

i will totally call all those singles tracks. or vice versa. Wait, what am i doing?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, January 25, 2019 6:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just mean the titling format we've been using since j0rdan and I ran it in 2010: "ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 201x"

xp yeah Robyn or Mitski would be my guesses for being vote split to death

damn, i forgot to nominate wolf muller & niklas wandt's instrumentalmusik von der mitte der world

ooh just got my vote in.

voted

Okay third time's a charm. Submitted again and this one is my final tracks/albums ballot. whew!

Voted

Voted

How long have we got left? I had intentions to do my ballot last night but a friend turned up at my door with news, and now I have work this morning so trying to copy and paste on my phone is gonna be tricky...

I sent my votes in via post so as not have them intercepted by the local council

Voted

let's say you have an hour left to vote?

dunno if that helps anyone

Definitely helped - voted!

Sorry for waiting til the last minute :/

get on with it! haha

ok so having put together a singles list in post pub haste last night I awoke late this morning with a start and the realisation that I had somehow omitted my #2 track. I have resubmitted a tracks ballot, although I have no confidence that it matches my previous ballot, if you could see to it that my previous terrible error was corrected then my partner's scorn and disdain for my morning ballot panic will have all have been worth it

'ffs ogmor it's the big garden birdwatch'

I can confirm the results are bonkers, also there’s a huge song that I thought was a top 20 contender and it is not even in the top 77.

My initial guess was something featuring Dua Lipa or off the Black Panther soundtrack but on reflection probably the most likely outcome is ILM giving the hard 78 to 'This Is America'.

Kicking myself for having forgotten to vote for Homerton B.

Le voting est terminé!

Come back Monday for trax rollout

any cryptic forewarnings?

I was so far from understanding my own tracks ballot I gave it up and only submitted an album ballot. Rockist scum that I am.

Aww, I'm sure your tracks ballot could have helped a few things I like, lol

I worry that I've become so suggestible in this regard that I need to see people's ballots before the rollout.

Trying to piece it together from the noms thread is just too bewildering.

any cryptic forewarnings?

― imago, Saturday, January 26, 2019 12:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nope.

While we're wating, you can refresh your memory of the all-time (i.e. 2010-2017) standings:

TRACKS

2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (1676 points, 45 votes, 7 #1 votes)
2012 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (1528 points, 48 votes, 6 #1 votes)
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo) (1357 points, 37 votes, 9 #1 votes)
2016 Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles (1276 points, 37 votes, 5 #1 votes)
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky (1212 points, 38 votes, 3 #1 votes)
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On (1190 points, 39 votes, 4 #1 votes)
2013 Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful (1138 points, 37 votes, 4 #1 votes)
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212 (1111 points, 34 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2011 Lana Del Rey - Video Games (1107 points, 40 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2015 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen (1063 points, 37 votes, 2 #1 votes)

ALBUMS

2015 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2204 points, 62 votes, 6 #1 votes)
2014 D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah (2105 points, 58 votes, 8 #1 votes)
2015 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2025 points, 53 votes, 12 #1 votes)
2015 Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (1967 points, 54 votes, 9 #1 votes)
2012 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (1909 points, 51 votes, 7 #1 votes)
2013 Haim - Days Are Gone (1792 points, 56 votes, 3 #1 votes)
2015 Grimes - Art Angels (1761 points, 53 votes, 6 #1 votes)
2015 Dawn Richard - Blackheart (1688 points, 50 votes, 6 #1 votes)
2014 Taylor Swift - 1989 (1624 points, 40 votes, 8 #1 votes)
2013 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (1532 points, 44 votes, 5 #1 votes)

Maybe interesting: voter #s by year

https://i.imgur.com/kuiIrul.jpg

We're down from the peak of a few years ago (155 album ballots in 2013!) but holding steady.

nice to see things are slightly up from last year at least

man 2013 was regrettable

and with that I declare the great EOY beef open

Ugh my work got busy and I never got to sneak away to do my ballot. I hope it's not my fault nothing good gets 78'd. Buzzing for the results and thanks again to you guys running this!

Also maybe interesting: top 10 normalised by #voters that year. People were really enthusiastic in 2012!

2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse 14.08
2012 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 12.84
2012 Miguel - Adorn 11.65
2016 Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles 10.46
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo) 9.83
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212 9.03
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 on 9.02
2011 Lana Del Rey - Video Games 9.0
2010 Girl Unit - Wut 8.81
2011 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass 8.3

there's no way daft punk are going to do anywhere near as well when the 10's poll comes around right? all the RAM hype feels bizarre looking back

voted for the first time ever after reading the poll results religously for fifteen (!) years

just dipped my toe in the water with an unranked albums list, which I had to recreate after forgetting to copy my first attempt off my work computer

good luck ilm

ufo, have you heard get lucky? song of the summer

Same for albums:

2012 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream 15.4
2015 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 14.99
2014 D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah 14.72
2015 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs 13.78
2016 KING - We Are KING 13.68
2015 Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion 13.38
2016 A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service 13.2
2016 David Bowie - Blackstar 12.96
2015 Grimes - Art Angels 11.98
2013 Haim - Days Are Gone 11.56

2012 again! Miguel also claimed the largest-ever winning margin:

1 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream 1909 51 7
2 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city 1293 40 5

man 2016 was such an amazing year

seandalai btw, will u b open to assist me in running the 2000-09 poll say this summer

i will b

After all my write-ins I still forgot about one of the best songs I heard last year, because I forgot to write it down.

that is excellent news sean, ty

commiserations emil.y i hope i voted for it instead or something

get lucky was a weird hit but i'll absolutely still rep for it

It wasn't nominated! I was reminded of it last night during a youtube binge, kicking myself b/c this is top 5 material for me, for sure.

The track in question is 'Thou' by White Boy Scream

xp to imago, obv

Any chance I could still submit my ballot?? I’ve had it basically ready for over a week but got caught up working really late last night and forgot to send it in

just joshing with you johnny fever; i'm happy to maintain the naming for searchability and legacy use.

any thoughts about including the embedded official youtube with each song? Is that gonna slow down thread loading too much? What do people think?

forgot to vote for albums. top 6 woulda been parquet courts, arctic monkeys, amen dunes, kacey musgraves, blood orange in some order

any thoughts about including the embedded official youtube with each song? Is that gonna slow down thread loading too much? What do people think?

no embeds pls

beautiful images and commentary only

could we get a ruling about no shit music?

Non-embedded YT links would be fine I think?

Yeah, YouTube mini links still don't embed on ilx, so that's what I've used for years.

I submitted my ballot hours ago and already I have massive regrets!!

No-one will give a shit what I think, but I wish we'd do this year-end poll in March/April.

man 2013 was regrettable

and with that I declare the great EOY beef open

― imago, Saturday, January 26, 2019 6:18 AM (eleven hours ago)

I still like listening to Days Are Gone!

I wish we'd do the end of year poll on January first. Also wish we voted for what we listened to in that year instead of what other people listened to and told us about after the year ended. But that ship has sailed many years ago.

Voting for metal poll is now live:

The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 2nd!

the closest thing to a good new order single last year was krystal klear - neutron dance

― ufo, Friday, January 11, 2019 10:54 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOT TRUE. i know i am responding to a two-week-old post, the nominations are over and no one cares, but neutron dance is boring af and the lauer track "power" is an actually fun and engaging new order knock-off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xshp5xPEMY

surprised that album didn't get nommed

Any chance I could still submit my ballot?? I’ve had it basically ready for over a week but got caught up working really late last night and forgot to send it in

― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, January 26, 2019 7:07 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry bout this, but Moka only got the weekend to get all the images in shape for Monday so we had to close up when we did.

you forgot to send me the template for the comedy placements

they're en route pigeon post

the Lauer album is indeed very good and i probably would have voted for it if i'd heard it in time

So, when does the result rollout start?

After they agree on presentation and YT links. Clearly they're just enjoying the fact they know the results and we don't :P

the rollout usually starts a few hours from now, when the americans have woken up

How about the albums rollout?

Next Monday I presume

I'll start a thread around 9 for singles.

so uh is it too late to vote

kinda
ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I forgot to vote too so yet again I will have a little pity party as I read the results

arrrgh I can't believe I completely missed this thrrreeeeaaad

your votes are with us in spirit, unless they're bad

Especially if they're bad, surely?

arrrgh I can't believe I completely missed this thrrreeeeaaad

― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, January 28, 2019 8:31 PM

Jeez dude, voting was even extended by a week this year.