ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

Vote Here: https://forms.gle/ZxTDQ6DSz7n1WNo39

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).

TRACK NOMINATIONS
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ALBUM NOMINATIONS
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Playlists for your consideration:

Spotify Tracks Playlist
Spotify Albums Playlist

Voting will close at midnight PST on Friday, January 24th, 2019 (i.e. Saturday morning in the UK).

gonna start with "Crash Pad" by George Clanton and Nick Hexum of 311, one of those things that shouldn't work but does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHj8O_2evk

Another way of thinking about mixed ballot: each record in the unweighted part gets exactly half the points of the lowermost weighted record.

The Spotify albums playlist reached maximum size, with just ulysses' final EIGHT noms outstanding, as far as I can tell. LOL. The remainder is here for now: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6YYa2YH7Sfyo4Qpz7vhwKE

Looks like Johnny Fever's early "8/30" batch didn't make it the database, except for later duplicate noms.

Spreadsheet, rather.

I encourage any fans of musical theater to check out this demo of a song written (but not used) for Frozen II — it’s epic, and an absolute jam:

Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Patti Murin - I Seek the Truth

Anderson-Lopez, the songwriter, plays piano and sings the main (“Elsa”) part; Murin, who plays Anna on B’way, sings the “Anna” part.

Here's an excerpt from Edmund Finnis's The Air, Turning, for orchestra:

https://soundcloud.com/edmund-finnis/the-air-turning-excerpt

Softly ecstatic pastoralisms, very much rooted in the English tradition (from Vaughan Williams to Peter Maxwell Davies, Howard Skempton and beyond) with more than a dash of late Sibelius in its lexicon yet never so overwrought as to elicit skepticism. Nary a jolting dissonance in earshot, so post-Schoenberg naysayers shouldn't be afraid. To Richard Skelton fans: picture a more classically, academically-minded take on the man's aesthetic.

This is but an excerpt of many, as the album (also entitled The Air, Turning) features five additional compositions: a ghostlier, less immediately melodic work for violin solo, a slightly more nerve-wracked and chromatically contrasted piece for chamber orchestra, followed by an essay for string orchestra that flirts with light spectralism, as well as a more forceful series of four duets for clarinet and piano (featuring the ubiquitous Víkingur Ólafsson) and, in closing, a lyrically lavish mini-violin concerto that breaks no new ground but exudes an aura of its own. You can hear the latter's third movement here:

https://soundcloud.com/edmund-finnis/shades-lengthen-3rd-movement

All of it, I think, can rightly be called beautiful in the old sense. 'Boomkat classical' enthusiasts will likely enjoy this.

Looks like Johnny Fever's early "8/30" batch didn't make it the database, except for later duplicate noms.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:01 (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fixed, thanks for catching!

Yes, ty!

I'd like to take this opportunity to urge you to VOTE & CAMPAIGN for your favourite METAL albums of 2019.

This way:

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 7th of February)

do i vote for this great song? i first heard it in 2019 and it's from a 2019 album, but as a single it had been out since '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuind6upxyc

Is 2019 the "year of impact?" Then sure.

Also, I'm listening to this song for the first time and I might vote for it too. My tracks ballot is going to be crazy this year because I wasn't really following along closely in 2019.

Hmm... I didn’t realize “Me vs. Us” was released in 2018 (I nominated it). It certainly “impacted” me in 2019! (when it appeared on her album)... but if it’s deemed ineligible, so be it.

Can the rule be something like — if a track was released as a single the previous year, but didn’t place on that year’s poll; and then appears on an album released in the year being polled, it’s eligible?

That's generally how it's always worked, but I'm not in charge anymore. I bet it's fine, though.

Seeing as my nominations were culled from Spotify by malevolent reactionary forces within Spotify I have struck a deal with Bob at YouTube to put them in their own playlist. Not sure how long it will last as industry insiders are already tracing this post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQPDp64kjw&list=PLYcYugGx0D5HOun6h6JQy3VD00vcbwT3T&index=1

It may be too late, it was coming from inside the house! Lets try again

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYcYugGx0D5HOun6h6JQy3VD00vcbwT3T

Thanks, saer <3

I've never campaigned before but when i nominated something that would seem to be in ILM wheelhouse, maybe this year should be different.

Clairo - Sofia:
https://youtu.be/L9l8zCOwEII

I guess I'll do a bit of campaigning too... I nominated both the album Tierra del Fuego and this track from the Mexican techno producer Tayhana, because she's pretty much the best completely new artist I've heard this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0o42VXjAnQ

I dunno if this even counts as techno, the synth riffs sound like they could be from some 90s horrorcore rap with their heavy, creepy vibe, and the beats are almost overwhelming in a way that recalls juke/footwork... It's really cool to come across an artist who has such an unique, fully formed sound straight off the gate on what is (AFAIK) her first official release.

Hmm... I didn’t realize “Me vs. Us” was released in 2018 (I nominated it). It certainly “impacted” me in 2019! (when it appeared on her album)... but if it’s deemed ineligible, so be it.

Can the rule be something like — if a track was released as a single the previous year, but didn’t place on that year’s poll; and then appears on an album released in the year being polled, it’s eligible?

― Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp), Sunday, 5 January 2020 05:27 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If it's on the nominations list you can assume it's eligible (unless it placed in a previous year and we didn't spot it). Then it's up to you to decide whether it feels "2019" to you.

looking forward to this rollout

How did Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close get into the tracks list btw? It's from 1995!

How did Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close get into the tracks list btw? It's from 1995!

Wow, I didn't notice that, otherwise I definitely would've said something, as I even have the 1995 album it's on.

big shout out for my fave video of the year from Sakanaction on the tracks list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxqYUbNR-c0

There's a double nomination on the Albums list:

DAWN - new breed
Dawn Richard - new breed

I'm not sure which you should go with as technically it was released under DAWN but past releases were under Dawn Richard

Thanks for catching - that could have messed things up. I picked the "Dawn Richard" version.

i think she was tired of being called "Richards" or whatever and has been trying to pivot to DAWN

I don't mind either way - the tracks were all entered as "Dawn Richard" so I went with that for the album too

Wisely, she ditched the triangle in place of the A pretty quickly.

there's another double nomination on the album list -

Caretaker - Everywhere at The End of Time Stage 6
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6

got it, thanks

voted! (+ decided to go ahead with including "me vs. us" lol)

👍

Sorry - the Maren Morris track labeled as "Feels" in the list should actually be "The Feels" (I botched the title when nominating).

(I doubt anyone will vote for that track but me, lol)

Also, one of my other noms (Summer Walker - Come Through) didn't seem to make it onto the list(s).

Hoping I'm not the only one to vote for this gorgeous slice of Manasseh produced laid back reggae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xrtkT_p0tQ

I just want to rep for a couple of my favourite songs real quick

https://youtu.be/5KBV_Kpcnbo

Purple Pilgrims - Sensing Me

Out on Flying Nun. I've been talking this act up in a few places. Video has a real strong goth component, which was not my impression at all from listening to Perfumed Earth--more like a trippier/spacier take on Arrival-era ABBA (the album's next track, "I'm Not Saying", makes the connection explicit). The chorus is undeniable imo and thr production lives up to copy which cites the duo's preoccupation with 'synthesized nature and ancient futurism'

https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/track/monoliitti-on-nyrkki-2

Multishiva - Monoliitti on Nyrrki

A complete 180 from Purple Pilgrims, this is some crazy-ass Finnish doom nuggets. I was into their 2017 album Time Messer as a sort of cross between High on Fire and Oranssi Pazuzu, but their new EP ups the game considerably, esp. on this howling slab of nightmare psych. They've pretty much fused BM fierceness with Hawkwind-style space rock, along with some Amon Duul II, and, idk, maybe Motorhead on a bad acid trip? If this EP had been just a little longer (only 25 minutes) it would absolutely have been in the top 3 of my albums ballot

Sorry - the Maren Morris track labeled as "Feels" in the list should actually be "The Feels" (I botched the title when nominating).

― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 04:14 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also, one of my other noms (Summer Walker - Come Through) didn't seem to make it onto the list(s).

― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 04:24 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fixed, thanks

Vote for everything by clipping. and These New Puritans

shiiit i assumed someone else would nominate Brighde Chaimbeul - The Reeling and now i'm sad i didn't myself. wonderful album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqG6g55eJU

Haven't seen much love for this, it's so sweet and summery and is an ideal post Christmas pick me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QS8vOsV4tw

We're all voting for Jogging, yes? OK yes good. That'll do for now

I know you will all vote for Go for the Top by Girl Ray so this post is totally superfluous. Anyways. Here the three North London girls flirt a little with the jazz flute and create a pop song with a melancholic melody that adds a little sunshine to these dark winter days.

https://girlray.bandcamp.com/track/go-to-the-top

Of course I meant Go to the Top.

"But imago, what's Jogging?"

"It is the veritable spirit of the age, my friend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGiQ_-Ktpvc

Hey, I'm interested in voting for the first time. Just curious, is there a minimum number of albums for a ballot?

I should be able to fill it up anyhow. I might've only had around a dozen 2019 albums I was excited about before, but I've already discovered a bunch more from dipping into all this.

There’s no minimum. You could, for example, cast a single vote for Taylor Swift

oooooo. Though I couldn't give the album any more than 50 points, could I?

There’s no minimum. You could, for example, cast a single vote for Taylor Swift

― rob, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:12 (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

RIP fondly remembered voter taytayfan

oooooo. Though I couldn't give the album any more than 50 points, could I?

― maffew12, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:17 (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nope

sean- would you kindly confirm that I chose “Weighted” for my albums ballot, which I submitted yesterday? That was my intention; but then I second-guessed whether I had done it right or not, after submitting.

(sorry, I’m really being a pain this cycle...!)

lol taytayfan was classic

Sam Sparro ft. We Are KING - Out of the Blue

Going on Spotify only here: should the title of this track be "Outside the Blue"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa35jTdSbAM

En Avant de Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor (Breton: War-raok Gwengamp, English: Forward Guingamp), commonly referred to as EA Guingamp, EAG, or simply Guingamp (French: [ɡɛ̃ɡɑ̃]), is a French association football club in the commune of Guingamp. The club was founded in 1912 and play in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football, having won promotion from Ligue 2 following the 2012–13 season, the club was relegated back to Ligue 2 at the conclusion of the 2018-19 season finishing in 20th. Guingamp plays its home matches at the Stade de Roudourou in the city. It is unusual for a commune of 7,280 inhabitants to have a professional football club, let alone one that plays in the first tier. Also the stadium has a capacity of 18,000 spectators, roughly 2.5 times the commune's population.

Damn... That's the second year in a row I missed the nominations thread... How do I manage it??

I take it it's too late to submit some faves?

there is this thread which usually takes care of that but unfortunately it wasn't updated this time...

ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

there are some SERIOUS soca mega-hits missing from the tracks list and while I know it's largely my fault, it's unacceptable.

I think they accepted write-ins last year, but that's the poll-runners' discretion. It really is entirely your fault if you don't check ILM threads during December/early Jan, though, not just "largely" your fault.

alright, it's all my fault. although I'm surprised some of the other soca thread regulars didn't submit 'Run Wid It' and 'Famalay'

ah what the hell, I've submited my ballot anyway. Good to see an embarrassment of riches when it comes to afrobeats on there to make up for a lack of soca

lol dog latin, on the Afropop thread I reminded everyone to nominate their faves, specifically with you in mind, and yet here we are.

i missed ALL the polling threads last year. I think my eyes are so used to seeing these types of threads from previous years now, they skip past them while scrolling.

There was a very short thread on Stella Donnelly early last year. I really feel like her wonderful album Beware of the Dogs deserves more attention, especially the opening song Old Man which was one of my most played tracks last year.

https://youtu.be/b5rug_Z5BWA

the stella donnelly song im gonna vote for is 'tricks,' which was the single and deservedly so. a lot peppier than most of the stuff on the album, it takes aim at a very particular kind of jerkass. and the guitar is great.

might do some proper campaigning later but just wanted to mention that this year's Battles album is a fuckin blast, as I am only just now discovering

yeah it's good!

the pop-like song structures and density of vocal guests kinda makes them sound like a nerdier Chemical Brothers, which I am not mad about!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VH5miuMXNY

In the modern times, there is even a restaurant named after the club's name. Such example is the national dish Ćevapi restaurant at the heart of Sarajevo called Ćevabdžinica "Željo".

is that the same. Metamatics who was on Neo Ouija and did Spook Tinsel Shoal?

the pop-like song structures and density of vocal guests kinda makes them sound like a nerdier Chemical Brothers, which I am not mad about!

good way of putting it though the Chems aren't cool enough to score Jon Anderson

sean- would you kindly confirm that I chose “Weighted” for my albums ballot, which I submitted yesterday?

― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 02:20 (twenty hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

You did indeed

I'll recommend a couple of thematically-linked things:

Over the last few years there has been a boom in Ukrainian artists combining folk elements with electro / R&B / rap - most prominently Onuka, who did the interval show at Eurovision in Kyiv. There's a bunch of great stuff in this vein from 2019.

Zventa Sventana ft Ivan Dorn - Muzha Doma Netu (Husband's Not At Home).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tY4OK-Dg_s

Alina Pash's Bosorkanya (Witch) plays up the occult / folk magic element:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFFCbN49jG0

Pash also appears on Padlo by Alyona Alyona, who started out as a primary school teacher in rural Ukraine making viral videos and within about a year was one of the country's top rappers. Her album, Pushka, is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hiIhJNc8o

I'd like to big up 'Shuga' by Sefa. The 'shug-AH, shug-AH, gimme that - shug-AH' refrain has been going round my head for months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcT0fhSpG0

Stuff I want to boost:

This one has gone down well on the Shambhala thread, two women from Toronto

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

Got this one from the UK grime/rap thread, this man is suuuuuper quick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLlskM33v18

And yeah this has to be in there, surely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkTyEsCNL4

Oh and this too, if it really counts as a song, idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waiwJ5rW4xw

Adigery's Paténipat is also very good.

Yeah that's been on regular rotation at my house

gonna give this a bump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2j4jD2kDA0

I've no barometer of what's popular in the wider sphere, nor on ILM but I hope everyone's voting for these:

Rema - Dumebi (one of the year's absolutely monster afrobeats hits)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thIH-e2pWQM

Beyonce - Before I Let Go (excuse if this is really obvious... I take it we're all over this? It only hit 77 in the UK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVLsVj7BebE

XXP: I was just contemplating which Charlotte Adigéry nom(s) to choose/jettison earlier. Couldn't decide. I hadn't heard her before the playlist!

I love the Dizzee/Ocean Wisdom tune. Definitely voting for that.

Here’s my CD-80 distillation of the Tracks playlist, consisting mainly of stuff I had previously missed. Will probably vote for most of these. https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/1hkQ1rRIgwpazmusZTnz0B?si=-LYbd-HlQ1yY_o78Lmm_6g

Filmmaker is almost certainly the artist I've listened to the most this year. I nominated this album but could have easily nominated any other one of his, I just love this stuff. Dark, crunchy, reverby electronic. It all kind of sounds similar so it's hard to pick a standout track but at the same time I can't get enough of this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip0rOXlwut4

ballot submitted

the one item I want to share with everyone is Chanctonbury Rings, which is a great collaboration between Justin Hopper, Sharon Kraus and Belbury Poly. It's mostly spoken word with mystical electronics, exploring the occult history of the English countryside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgExKIpy4ZA

ooh thanks

shoulda coulda woulda - it escapes me that my favourite single for the year Danny brown dirty laundry wasn't nommed - oh well

I should've nommed juneunit's s/t but I discovered it too late (thanks to the 'Fork, incidentally – gotta give credit where credit is due).

High Lights is one of my best discoveries of poll season, will be bunging it plenty of points. It's so weird and assured and cool

Given the noms thread is locked I'll use this thread to give a shout-out to or something, breastcrawl and rob for some excellent nominations.

some local (or somewhat local) tracks ballot suggestions from me:

Sampa The Great - Final Form
Sampa's album The Return (also worth a listen and/or vote) sees her examining her personal relationship with Africa, and more particularly with Zambia, her nation of birth, and Botswana, where she was raised. This is honking braggadocio built around the Sylvers’ “Stay Away From Me" - it's probably not my favourite of her songs but it's her most forthright and packs a punch.

Ngaiire - Shiver
I've done plenty of talking to myself in the Ngaiire thread over the past half-decade or so and it still baffles me that she hasn't crossed over beyond Triple/Double J circles given the quality of her voice, which she here employs to literally bellow demons out of haunted corners and cobwebs. Allegedly her new album is coming this year.

Chela - Losing Belief
This is the sort of track that, you know, I'd hoped might turn up in the Popjustice end of year list or something just to give it a bit more of a boost. Chela's a Kitsuné alumna who came storming back this year with a new EP, entitled Delivery. This single was its highlight - in the face of adversity and winding synth patterns, Chela decides the best course is to spit out affirmations in a militaristic fashion.

J-E-T-S ft. Tkay Maidza - Real Truth
A collaboration between Jimmy Edgar, Machinedrum and the "U-Huh" should-be-superstar was always going to slap.

Thandi Phoenix - Cleopatra
"Say It", covered by the Singles Jukebox, is probably the more obvious hit, but I liked the kinetic nature of "Cleopatra", which feels like it has about three different choruses.

I really like that Ice Cream track! Saw the Alina Pash track on another thread and will definitely be voting for that one.

I guess I should rep for some stuff before everyone gets their ballots in, I'll do a couple of tracks first:

* Tóc Tiên - Không Ai Hơn Em Đâu Anh (KAHEDA)
Mentioned this a few times before, but this is my big pop banger of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4s65RAAKQ

* Porridge Radio - Lilac
Intense emotional indie/DIY shout-along from B-town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BrQzmBF1w

Some recommendations from me:

Jenny Hval - High Alice clear highlight on The Practice of Love imo
Kelsey Lu - Poor Fake See also Kelsey Lu - Blood
Richard Youngs & Raül Refree - Time Is An Avalanche spirals
Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie & Sam Shalabi - Oglon Day 1 pitter-patter

Lankum - The Livelong Day
There's a thread called rfi-traditional irish music that sounds a bit like drone rock that only I seem to post to these days. If you like the sound of that, you may like the sound of this.
The Wild Rover
The Dark Eyed Gypsy

Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
Lush, deep, beautiful chamber jazz.

Blue Crystal Fire
(I Am A) Horizon

Just realized I had mistaken the “catching up” thread / playlist for the “EOY Noms” playlist / thread, sheesh. Having a rough go of the EOY threads rn

main thing i want to advocate for is the kpop track of the year which is red velvet's "sappy" (though it's in japanese its still from a korean group)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJ3Pq74H4c

I'm a little biased against local-ish-to-me acts, but as with Stella Donnelly and Sampa the Great above, I've come to realise, song by isolated song, that I like Julia Jacklin's 2019 longplayer quite a bit. Not least this nominated track that doesn't seem to involve a third chord until a few minutes in, and which came with this amusing one-shot promo clip I first saw by chance on TV at 3:00am last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZFyqzTCt-I

Speaking of 'Ju-' acts, thanks also to whoever nominated Jute Gyte's Dissected Grace. It's beautiful and I now find myself a member of #TeamJuteGyte2019

Welcome aboard! That was one of mine. I like Jute Gyte usually, but especially when he's writing blissful shoegaze epics.

I nominated one of his industrial-electro-lullabies this time around (tt: "wtf this is ambient!"), but Dissected Grace is awesome too!

if you like melodies, and chords, and sweet synth textures, and nice things, and romance, you might like The Scary Jokes btw

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

between us tt and I nominated two of the best tracks as well (death, thrice drawn and no leverage/no pleasure) if you want to pick sides (just like with jute gyte lol) (i might end up voting for all four songs, we'll see haha)

This was easily my most listened to reissue compilation this year and hoping it gets some love from the Balearic/Ambient/New Age ilxors

‘Broken Belief’ brings together a selection of recordings by Japanese multi-instrumentalist Toshfumi Hinata drawn from a body of work originally recorded between 1985-1987.

Attending Berklee College of Music after spending time living in both the United States and the United Kingdom, Hinata would study under the tutelage of pianist Patricia Laliberte, graduating from the esteemed American school in 1982. Returning to Japan after becoming disillusioned with his classical training, Hinata experimented with many different forms of music. Moving away from depending simply on acoustic instruments, he would instead become entrenched in the possibilities of the latest analog synthesizers being developed at the time.

Toshifumi Hinata’s initial idea was to make his first album with just a Prophet 5 and Linn Drum Machine. Tweaking filters and creating intricate sequences, Hinata would record various sounds on analog tapes and overdub many different layers; recording violin, piano and other accompaniments separately later on. It would become a method of working for the musician which he would apply almost entirely throughout this period. A deeply submerged process; one in which he would seek, as he himself puts it, to "weave musical images".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os1Kv6Y9Jlk

if you like melodies, and chords, and high cardiacs/opeth fantasies, you might like wilderun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBntCIvFM8c

also,

imperial wax - turncoat. it's cool what the guys from the fall are doing now

little simz - boss. stop fucking with my heart

waste of space orchestra - wake up the possessor. one person handles all the vocals on this song, if you can believe it

clipping - la mala ordina. your third act falls apart

holly herndon - SWIM. one thing tt and i do agree on is that this is the best track, possibly that she's ever done

prince rama - love in kontrol. this from ShariVari's nomination array is another favourite of ours - a mini darkpop odyssey

vote Balloon, vote High Lights, peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7KEhdLXOg

The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Bologna, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 53 min. 9% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 12 min, while 16% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 5.4 km, while 7% travel for over 12 km in a single direction

Prince Rama - Love In Kontrol

Definitely the best band i've discovered via news reports of their lead singer claiming to have been savaged by raccoons in Central Park.

lol what

I enjoyed Ioanna Gika's album, "Thalassa" this year and I haven't seen much mention of her on ILX. Uh, I guess I'd call this dark ethereal synth pop. She toured with Chelsea Wolfe, but aside from their live set up and somber/romantic tone, they didn't share much in common. Anyway, the production on this album is kind of thin sounding and doesn't do the songs justice, but there are some top notch tunes here. I recommend starting with Out of Focus and trying Roseate next if you liked that.

Given the noms thread is locked I'll use this thread to give a shout-out to or something, breastcrawl and rob for some excellent nominations.

oh I missed that post, thanks Tim! and thanks breastcrawl too, who was the reason I heard a bunch of those noms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZG1lrDBBQ

I love County, so maybe not a well balanced review...!
Not a modern, flash new stadium but then that's half of the appeal. It's a proper football ground.
Depending on where, or if you sit in the Main Stand, walking from the turnstile to your seat you cross the players tunnel, as the players come out they'll shake hands, sign autographs, and where else would you get a club manager stopping for 'selfies' with young fans minutes before kick off?
For me, the game against Fylde September 2016, when Scott Spencer equalized, was the highlight of County's non-league 'adventure' and the start of what felt like a turn around for club and team. (Typically County eventually lost 2-1 to a late free kick scored by an ex-player...)
My Edgeley Park highlights - The whole 1996 - 97 league cup semi final run.
My worst Edgeley Park moment - 1-0 home defeat against Dartford, all but sending County down to Conf. National / division 6 regional football.

I saw three beings walking out of midfield towards me...

Retro-synth-electronic artist Andy Fox released a small EP that I have been listening to a lot called Dataismo. It's only 3 tracks and they're all great, it sounds kind of like Art of Noise making Italian disco. Here's my fav. track --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6sN7MJ47E

I forgot what post or list or whatever brought this my way, but Kokoko!'s Fongela has been a lot of fun and pretty wild. I think I listened to it for the first time while biking in the city and it was a perfect soundtrack

huh it's actually Fongola, original nominator must have typo'd

^ I hadn't heard their their nominated track ('Buka Dansa') until 48 hours ago, but I pretty much immediately put it on my tracks ballot. I should totes spend some quality time with the rest of it...

I made a yt playlist for the year - 99 tracks, not sure how many are nominated, also presented in chronological order so could be some odd transitions, some videos are nsfw

Purple Pilgrims - Sensing Me

Out on Flying Nun. I've been talking this act up in a few places. Video has a real strong goth component, which was not my impression at all from listening to Perfumed Earth--more like a trippier/spacier take on Arrival-era ABBA (the album's next track, "I'm Not Saying", makes the connection explicit). The chorus is undeniable imo and thr production lives up to copy which cites the duo's preoccupation with 'synthesized nature and ancient futurism'

https://purplepilgrims.bandcamp.com/

― PLEB AF (Drugs A. Money), Monday, January 6, 2020 2:02 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'd not heard of them before, but they'll be playing in my town in a fortnight. I should probably see them live, shouldn't I? Have you?

Really like the album on first listen btw. 'Ruinous Splendour' (w/ Roy Montgomery) is a standout.

I thought it was a relatively disappointing year for country music. Loved Wildcard but it's at best Lambert's 5th best solo album. Most of the other critically acclaimed releases were too conservative and unmoving for my liking. I will probably vote for The Highwomen somewhere toward the bottom of my ballot.

One that I discovered during list season and would strongly rep was Michaela Anne - Desert Dove, a dusty, reverby, Southwestern country rock record that reminds me of Emmylou Harris's Elite Hotel at times. I'm voting for the album but also nominated the song "One Heart":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukl8yi10g3U

A few tracks I want to briefly stump for

Martha, "Love Keeps Kicking"
The whole album is wonderfully nimble and wry but this title track was a huge anthem for me all year, cause, you know, it really never stops kicking the shit out of you.

Sha Sha ft Samthing Soweto "Abondaba"
Of all the songs I heard on the wonderful rolling Sun-El and co. thread, this was the one that brought be right back to "Akanamali" levels of chills down the spine. Gorgeous, starlit, etc.

Fat White Family, "Kim's Sunsets"
A lot of people seem to hate these guys for some reason I can't quite fathom, but I liked a lot of their most recent album and this was the clear highlight for me, a blissful mid-tempo number with an impossibly lush arrangement and an infectious build.

Origami Angel, "The Title Track"
The platonic idea of uptempo emo, in 151 seconds.

Clipping, "Blood of the Fang"
Daveed Diggs gets ragged on for having a clinical, academic style of rapping, but if you aren't dazzled by the final verse (3:00), I don't want yr ears.

lmao i forgot to nominate my actual song of the year

lol what was it

mandy moore "when i wasn't watching"

not that i would've expected *anyone* to vote for it

Fireboy DML's "Jealous" might be my favorite of the year, a perfect example of how effortlessly beautiful and elegant but still super catchy Nigerian pop can be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00R4dOtzDIA

Campaigning for albums feels kind of fruitless in January, but the Resavoir album is about half an hour long, and in an overwhelmingly good year for jazz, it persisted as a personal favorite. Recommended if you ever liked any of the Tortoise-related Chicago jazz-ish scene plus 70s stuff like Phil Ranelin or Steve Reid

I should probably see them live, shouldn't I? Have you?

I haven't. Not even sure they've ever played anywhere near me, but I mean, I'd go if I could

"Sensing Me" is v nearly my song of the year, but I love the whole album and will be voting for that as well

Just submitted, and noticed that the form says rollout will start on the 21st, which is three days before voting closes.

I forget who nominated Jimmy "Duck" Holmes's Cypress Grove but this is my kind of blues. Really hitting the spot right now, so thanks.

I got lots of bobbins recs I want to share, but probably one of my favorite albums of the year is also one of the best mixes of the year:

Kölsch - Fabric presents Kölsch

Probably one of the most pristine, beautiful and consistent mixes I've heard all year, and it's all new material in album form. Best thing he's done since 1977, and as a complete work I think this eclipses it. Not sure yet where it will be in my ballot but certainly the top half of it.

Aside from all the metal stuff, which I'm already repping for in the appropriate thread, may I also suggest Dmitri Kourliandski's Non-lieux? Kourliandski is a composer of contemporary classical music and usually writes for traditional instruments, so Non-lieux gives us a glimpse of what resonates through his mind when samples and electronic devices take over. Its first soundscape is to baroque music as The Caretaker is to British dance bands of the 1920s and 1930s, but it soon moves into an even busier and more abstract sphere of its own, which spins and diffracts itself for a fascinatingly disconcerting hour. And if you think hauntology is passé, well – duh?

https://dmitrikourliandski.bandcamp.com/album/non-lieux

Just submitted, and noticed that the form says rollout will start on the 21st, which is three days before voting closes.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:48 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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which is to say: thanks, corrected

Feels kinda late but I probably should give a push to some things I actually nominated...

Kit Sebastian. Haven't seen any mention of it here apart from in a handful of pasted-in EOY lists. It shares some vibes with the Altin Gün record (also on my ballot) in that they both draw upon an Turkish psych. Fuzz-bass and M/F vocals in multiple languages. Hurrah!

People Like Us has been doing the plunderphonic collage thing forever, but The Mirror is downright purty in its layering of often familiar source material.

Carl Stone, on the other hand, I've only come to this year. Finely sliced and diced samples FTW.

MIKE - the production sucked me in: some seriously roughly hewn sampling. Overarching lyrical theme of mortality and grief this time. He has a terribly search-resistant name so I've little sense of whether there's any love here.

Hannes Kerschbaumer - Schraffur [and other works]. Music for a variety of mostly small ensembles in a somewhat percussive post-Lachenmann et al vein, perhaps? Conventional instruments often rendered largely unidentifiable. More forward momentum somehow than some 'squeaky door' chamber music. I'd say the same for Ryan Carter (which was happily already nominated by pomenitul, IIRC.)

that Kölsch mix is fabulous, thanks octobeard

please don't let rosalía be the sole/token spanish-language representative.

reflect on what you've heard. dig deeper if compelled. surely you'll find more.

my humble suggestion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxOTsiV4tkQ

j balvin & bad bunny - "la canción"
a somber, contemplative reggaetón piece that's at times haunting

Some songs that I have warmed up to in the recent weeks:

Dj Spinall - Dis Love
Rosalía & Ozuna - Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi

Although I've listened to the long version all year, I must say the edit of Akulaleki is perfect.
Samthing Soweto - Akulaleki

The rest has been largely discussed on the afro-centric threads.

Also, I take this as proof of the Atlantic divide: a magnificent song and Beyonce's presence are not enough to make a global hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXrhqhW2kiU

So much catching up to do! In the meantime, people should check out the Emily King album if they haven't already. I thought it was going to be this year's We Are King on here but her thread had a modest following. Really gorgeous album that has stayed with me all year.

seconding that one

People Like Us has been doing the plunderphonic collage thing forever, but The Mirror is downright purty in its layering of often familiar source material.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, 11. januar 2020 05:17 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wow, this is incredible! It's going on my list

gonna vote today, but first gonna stump for some of my favorites of the year

albums:
Yves Jarvis - The Same But By Different Means - An astounding bit of bedroom pop that's been climbing steadily up my ballot. If you liked the Helado Negro record (which i LOVED), but wish it was pricklier and more genre-fluid, this is the one for you.

Polo G - Die a Legend - It’s been a long time since I’ve been blown away by a new rapper like I was by Polo G in 2019. As dark as the subject matter can get, Polo stays afloat with crisp melodies that mix the emotional honesty of Lil Durk with the radio-ready slickness of Wiz Khalifa. His verses emerge fully-formed, telling full stories about his neighborhood that are equal parts harrowing and thrilling. He’s already mastered the art of the rap ballad, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.

Raveena - Lucid - Someone started a thread a while back, but it's definitely worth keeping this record in mind. the coziest, bubbliest, sweetest R&B album of the year.

G.S. Schray - First Appearance - In the year we lost Mark Hollis, this instrumental came closest to scratching that Talk Talk itch. Expansive, emotional soundscapes.

Tracks:
ShooterGang Kony - "Charlie" - The year’s most cold-blooded mob banger starts with the line “fuck the police and your mama if you ask me” and only escalates from there. Rhyming without affect over hiccuping bass, Kony mercilessly ethers cops, R&B singers, and women named Ashley before threatening to shoot you with a gun that sounds like Fozzy Bear.

KEY! - “Miami Too Much” – My favorite Atlanta rap song of the year gets its power from its hilariously specific central conceit, with KEY’s impassioned vocal selling the bit: “If you seen that ass, you’d make a song too.” How often must someone visit Dade County before it becomes an irreconcilable difference in an otherwise healthy relationship?

Spellling - “Real Fun” – Gleefully dramatic and overflowing with evil-sounding synths, “Real Fun” synthesizes Neneh Cherry, Bauhaus, and Cabaret into something that sounds like a villain’s theme in an animated musical that hasn’t been written yet.

Yhung T.O. - “Lately” ft. Lil Sheik - Easy, breezy, beautiful Bay Area rap, carried by T.O.’s dulcet tones and Sheik’s unrepentant dirtbaggery. The beat by Armani Depaul is one of my favorite retro-facing rap beats in a while, complete with smooth digital strings and security-pad synths.

Also, gonna second dyl's recommendation of "La Canción," beautiful song.

Some trippy ambient/drone/nu-age/psychedelic soundscapes y'all might have missed:

Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma – Intemporel
https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/intemporel

An absolutely legendary collaboration IMO — Sarah Davachi, conjurer of the most subtle and sublime drones of our age, meets 70s French new age wizard Ariel Kalma. They go real deep on this one. "Adieu La Vie" is my psychedelic drone ideal.

Andrew Pekler — Sounds From Phantom Islands
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-phantom-islands

Serious "fourth world" music, similar to his album Tristes Tropiques from 2016. There are some field recordings and some bubbly/rustling synths and some sparse bending seventh chords. I don't know how to fully describe this one honestly. Songs that sound like Earthbound maybe? It is magnificent.

Pulse Emitter – Calming Winds
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/calming-winds

The notes on Bandcamp say "This music is made to be calming and restorative," and it works tbh. Custom ambient synth patches that morph and melt into the infinite distance. This guy is just the best. This isn't on Spotify though :'(

Thore Pfeiffer – Umland
https://thorepfeiffer.bandcamp.com/album/umland

I listened to this one a lot back in the spring. It's springtime music.

also pomenitul that Dmitri Kourliandski album is really good!

^ "Adieu La Vie" is certainly on my tracks ballot! Still absorbing the remainder of the longplayer.

Glad you like the Kourliandski, crüt.

That Thore Pfeiffer album has been on my list for a while so I'll be sure to listen to it before voting's through.

MIKE is sounding really good btw.

Are there many regular posters on ILM who do not participate in the year poll as a matter of principle ?

I can't find Sharon van Etten's "Comeback Kid" in the two files. It was nominated though. Can we still add it?

I've made a top 29. This is going to hurt...

Sad I didn't nominate Jim O'Rourke's magnificent 4CD 'To Magnetize Money and Catch A Roving Eye'. Only got around to it last week but it's a stellar icey drone pack.

This year I'm going to submit an unweighted ballot. It's not as though more than 3-5 of my picks will place anyway.

And yeah, that O'Rourke drone tetralogy is pretty awesome.

I'm a lifelong O'Rourke lover, even though I can't keep up with all his steamroom releases. This is great though.

I'll probably go for unweighted too.

Are there many regular posters on ILM who do not participate in the year poll as a matter of principle ?

― Nabozo, Sunday, 12 January 2020 16:17 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Might be lack of interest rather than principle but there are definitely regular ILMers that have never voted. There are even some that write up their own EOY lists but don't vote.

the 'taking my ball home' approach

wouldn't want your vaunted favourites muddied by the hoi polloi

Just noticed that the wrong version of Bella Alubo’s “Agbani” is in the Spotify playlist. It should be the original version, not the remix, which is quite different and not as good imo.

This is the “proper” version, all 2 minutes and 16 seconds of it:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FMfhIVHE8dCThiGrix2vX?si=qwcRDxWkRAGda8AIRhZZJQ

Whoops. Seems I got careless in my impatience to hear everything. Sorry.

Rapsody's "Ibtihaj" ft. D'Angelo, GZA was new to me until it came up playing Singles noms on shuffle, and now it's getting my vote. The hook isn't as strong as the rest, but the rest makes up for it and then some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhMk_wLm07E

Great track, GZA's still on top of his game. Kind of wish "Cleo" also got nommed.

That's good, 'Oprah' was my great Rapsody discovery from the list though

Have also been delighted to make the acquaintance of fromis_9 - proper Kpop, proper batshit maximalism

Oprah's awesome - that Rapsody album is very underrated.

May give the whole thing a try, yes

I'm only about halfway through the tracks playlist! Every song is getting a small, fair crack as usual

A quick plug for the 4 of my nominees that aren't on Spotify. All of these are retro-futuristic / electronic, and all but the last is an instrumental.

The Home Current - https://thehomecurrent.bandcamp.com/track/red-ice

Pulselovers remixed by Panamint Manse - https://pulselovers-cis.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-marsh-remixed-by-panamint-manse

Gabe Knox - https://aumegaproject.bandcamp.com/track/square-wave-symphony

Bernard Grancher & Laetitia Sadier remixed by Gabe Knox - https://soundcloud.com/gb-bg/limmodere-bien-etre-de-limbecile-gabe-knox-remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MK7ERsksLs

PATERSON — Two city police officers chased down a 27-year-old suspect in the 5th Ward on Tuesday afternoon, tackling him as he tried to escape by climbing a fence, authorities said.

The incident took place about 12:45 p.m. after a resident alerted police about a man in a sheepskin coat and ski mask with a gun near the heavily trafficked corner of Market Street and Memorial Drive, said Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale.

Officers Erik Marino and Joshua Serrano spotted a man matching that description on 16th Avenue, Speziale said. When he saw the approaching officers, the suspect began to run, cutting through a lot and heading for a fence, police said.

I nominated a few albums from the Polish label, Instant Classic. There's a thread on them here.

Alameda 5 - Eurodrome (personal standout is "Cdte")
Innercity Ensemble - IV ("Suave Machines")
ARRM - II - ("Birth")

I think this is a label started by a couple of self-professed record collecting music nerds. If you're familiar with Stara Rzeka, you have an idea of where it's coming from. I kind of hate to lump it all together, but there's a common aesthetic to it all: I pick up on elements of psychedelic, punk, free and/or spiritual jazz, maybe retro, "hauntological", industrial, sometimes noisy elements. The biggest trait their releases all share is an adventurousness / fearlessness to the music. Each album is a journey for the listener. It's all kind of dreamlike and trance-inducing. I enjoy listening to these albums in a way that my attention drifts to and from it (it's great music to work or think to). I listen to them over and over at work, while walking, and on public transit. I guess I would recommend to fans of Alice Coltrane, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Swans, Sunwatchers, Kikagaku Moyo, Kim Gordon, and maybe Pyre Corner Audio, although it's definitely all pretty guitar based stuff.

Tim F wrote about some songs from 2019 here

Shuffling the album playlist around Xmas I several times wondered "oooh, who's this?" and it turned out to be Alameda 5!

The Alameda 4 album from the other year was incredible (the numbers refer to how many players are performing) - this one is yet to completely click but there's a lot to like

Eurodrome is my least favourite Alameda album by a long ways :(

LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR STUPID LITTLE BITCHES by Black Dresses is on Spotify now, so I added it to the playlist.

sweet, everyone go listen

As posted on the Rolling Afro 2020 thread:

To show and celebrate the embarassment of riches South African music had to offer in 2019, I made a playlist with all the nominated South African tracks and albums (including two tracks by non-SA artists with significant input by SA artists/producers: “That’s For Me” and “My Power”).

First the 36** nominated tracks, from “Sondela” to “John Cena”, and after that the 9 nominated albums, from Sho Madjozi down to Tresor, coming full circle. I arranged both tracks and albums in an approximation of stylistic order.

(My original intention was to give a bit of context and highlight some tracks and albums, and I might yet do that, but I’m happy to have this playlist sorted. So feel free to explore away, even if you’ve already voted or decided on your ballot. There’s a lot to enjoy!)

Here’s the playlist:
ILM 2019 EOY🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA

**Missing is Heavy K ft. Moonchild Sanelly’s “Yebo Mama”, which is not on Spotify. This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmdn52afm2U

(...and a note regarding Kwiish SA’s “Iskhathi”: The original vocal version that I love so much seems to have disappeared completely (I think there was a rights issue). The “Vocal Version” that is on Spotify (and this playlist) is no longer the original vocal version with, you know, actual vocals. There is a video version with re-recorded vocals by Vukani, but it’s not nearly as good.)

There’s more, again see the Rolling Afro 2020 thread: I also made a separate playlist with the nominated [non-South African] AFROPOP tracks and albums. Again, it’s tracks first, albums second, 51 tracks and 19 albums to be precise.

It’s “pop” in the broadest sense: My focus was on the stuff that’s featured on the Afropop thread, but I also included more leftfield stuff: DJ Nigga Fox, Hama and the four (!) Nyege Nyege Tapes albums that were nominated, and music that’s more within the remit of the Global Outernational thread, by KOKOKO!, Blick Bassy, Salif Keita, and Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba. Plus I included an Afropop cut of The Lion King: The Gift. And yeah, I basically excluded Afrodiasporic stuff.

Ultimately, it’s all a bit arbitrary obviously, and I might have missed some things, but whatever. So binge away, or maybe you’d like to shuffle, skip and cherry-pick. Hope you’ll find something to enjoy!

Here’s that playlist in full:
ILM 2019 EOY🔶AFROPOP NOMS

just stumbled across that KOKOKO! song while rifling thru the playlist - it's so great! DRC represent!

^ Innit!

Speaking of Sho Madjozi, I've been contemplating for some days how I might squeeze her into my tracks ballot.

I forgot that DJ Nigga Fox is essentially African too. I think that album might survive my final cull.

Yeah, so much for my no-Afrodiasporic-stuff “rule”, I guess. (Lisbon is pretty close to Africa tho!)

Slight typo in the noms list: 'Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairavoyance'.

Another one: 'Toshio Hosokawa -Gardens'.

Ah, I noticed one too in the Tracks noms: the correct name of the artist is Obongjayar, not “Obangjayar”.

man which billie eilish song am i gonna vote for

Just vote for the same one I had at #1 on my ballot. Easy.

h'okay, voted.

folks don't vote until you've heard the 6-hour Underworld album

Louise Burns made the album 77 a few years ago with Young Mopes and I'm hoping that last year's Portraits might do the same this time. The absence of a Blue Nile cover on this one might hurt her chances, I guess, but the Carlile-core of the rest of it should be sufficient compensation: https://open.spotify.com/album/3QLtE1LINSmpm5b2ITlZ5g

i'm sure i'll love the underworld album when i dig in and i'm equally sure a ballot that i cast tomorrow would look significantly different from what i just submitted. There's just a lot more to do and listen to so I'm gonna keep it movin'

that's fair, just check out this tune at least, might wind up as my #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtU2Yi2xgGE

yeah, that's grrrrrrreat

the five nom'd billie eilish trax are a v good selection of her output this year!

Louise Burns made the album 77 a few years ago with Young Mopes and I'm hoping that last year's Portraits might do the same this time. The absence of a Blue Nile cover on this one might hurt her chances, I guess, but the Carlile-core of the rest of it should be sufficient compensation: https://open.spotify.com/album/3QLtE1LINSmpm5b2ITlZ5g

― monotony

Brilliant album. It'll be high on my list.

As for Billie Eilish, I love the album but Everything I Wanted is my favourite song she's done. It really hit me hard in the last few weeks.

if there's only one track to hear from Underworld's Drift, it's their 47-minute epic collaboration with the Necks, "Appleshine Continuum"

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

I haven't started on my albums ballot yet, and last night I had an actual nightmare that I hadn't nominated 'Ancestor Boy' by Lafawndah. I think that means I should at least provide a link for people to listen to it: https://lafawndah.bandcamp.com/album/ancestor-boy

I love the album but Everything I Wanted is my favourite song she's done. It really hit me hard in the last few weeks.

same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5abCZWdmQ

Always enjoy Eartheater, but 'Solid Liquid Gas' (final track on her album Trinity) is probably my favourite thing she's done since Guardian Alien. Headrush trance synths meet chest-rattling bass, it's love and desire as this volatile flux state - a delirious loss of control, a surrender to the elements. RIYL Glasser, Gang Gang Dance

_I love the album but Everything I Wanted is my favourite song she's done. It really hit me hard in the last few weeks._


same

eartheater rules

just realised we forgot triad god :'(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86L6qv3F9UU

Wassup! Salut! Hei! How are you doing? I am scoring a goal! Well done mate

Love the Joy Crookes track

Two face(t)s of South African amapiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldyCVP02VM
Zero12finest ft. ThaMagnificent2 - Baby Are You Coming?

Bangs so hard it’s got its own thread.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbpv1TajH-o
DJ Stokie ft. Loxion Deep & Kabza De Small - Senorita

This glorious flute jam doesn’t even need a thread. It’s a whole vibe, as they say.

here's some enormous psych-power-pop that gets year-of-impacted into 2019 (from late Dec 2018)

Damn, albums ballot is ROUGH GOING this year. Some things will be sacrificed

Anyway, voted!

If it only took you six minutes to sacrifice said things it can't have been that bad.

;)

ah man, i shoulda listed baby are you coming. bah.

bah indeed!

The reason no one has been stanning for Burna Boy’s African Giant album is that everyone already knows it’s the best album of the year, right?

Intense, effortless, hooks for days.

Also, “Anybody” and “Killin Dem” are two of the year’s best tracks.

Come poll time, ILM collectively forgot Weird Al's most recent album and its singles, somehow, though we all had fun with them.

__I love the album but Everything I Wanted is my favourite song she's done. It really hit me hard in the last few weeks._


same_

thirded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy36CiqEOPA

This is probably just a recreation of a Fresh & Low record but its Christmas and St Paul still isn't back from the Asda

2019 gave us the ultimate proto ideal of hyperactive Japanese idol pop in this song form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgUm0xYI6fU

^that’s their ‘Phil Spector’s Christmas Album’ for sure, and I’d love it if everyone voted for it. But I voted for “Namadempa”, which is their “River Deep Mountain High”

my dempagumi.inc track of the year was "inochi no yorokobi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTTnyA38NfE

Voted!

just over six days left to make like Johnny Fever and vote!

Voted. Ruthless shortlisting gave me exactly 25 albums and tracks each on the first which was pleasing. Not had time to listen to the (new to me) noms at all though.

Voted!

Jvcki Wai taking over the mainstream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBouh6xLbdo

still working on it

After going through a lot of the playlist, I've come across about 50 incredible songs that all could make my final list.

Highlights include:

Tove Lo & Kylie - Really Don't Like U
Wafia - Flowers & Superpowers
J-E-T-S - Real Truth
Lauriana Mae - Something Real
Amber Mark - Mixer
Ari Lennox - Shea Butter Baby
Kasper Marott - Drømmen om Ø (Forever Mix '19)

Oh and you guys might be on to something with Balloon.

This isn’t really my scene bc of how little new music I listen to any given year but here are my albums of 2019, maybe they were nominated idk, I just want to share


http://jklol.net/albums-2019.html

a little late with the stumping but:

Tapan - Ghana - tribal acid from the deepest mystical space of 2019, atmosphere so thick i wanna bite into it

Identified Patient - Geen Syndroom - catchy industrial sludge that inspires a sleazy dancefloor

Kontravoid - Too Deep - fun gothy EBM with romantic new wave heart

and an album:

RAP - Export - deserves its mixtape designation not just because the tracks are mixed, but the way its strong emotional core makes what could otherwise be showy or forced shifts in genre totally natural and necessary. its rhythmic/textural/melodic sensibility collapses dub, industrial, post-punk, techno, folk, synth-pop into something really affecting that avoids pastiche

i didn't actually listen to 25 new albums this year but am catching up on stuff and will submit something at the wire

^^ I'm catching up! plowed through a lot of shuffle play on the albums last night

thanks to whoever nominated that Cari Gari, cool stuff

Voted, although I'm now worried I missed a line break between the #6 and #7 entries on my albums ballot... If it helps for me to re-send it please let me know!

voted a few days ago; enjoying the feeling of total regret now

voted. Made me realise how little new music I've heard this year

Yeah, I was off my game in 2019. I mainly voted for things I already knew and liked well enough. I figure there will be more surprises than usual for me in the results.

no one mentioned amaarae's "like it" itt because we all obviously voted for it, right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai0RgtrRGSY

if you didn't i recommend resubmitting your ballot

also deej put me on to this but i ended up being the person who nominated it so: check out the chorus of the year in tems' "try me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEp-P2-rqY

going through a bunch of stuff i missed this year and man how does sun-el musician do it

Brad, have you heard Tresor x Msaki’s “Sondela”?

i have not!

and holy shit this is the loveliest thing

because it's the way i process this stuff, here's a playlist with everything thus far recommended on here (minus saer's youtube jungle of goodness and breastcrawl's amazing african deepdive):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/691SUlhpp95dk9jakydCze?si=wbaqxVYsTwGy5Uqnv-Ol6A

You meant to say “double deepdive”, right forks?

ILM 2019 EOY🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA

ILM 2019 EOY🔶AFROPOP NOMS

But uv cuss

Voted.

Bravo! I'm hoping to deliver my ballots before the actual deadline this time, seeing as I've some work time to kill today.

My ballot is entirely unweighted or I would have never gotten it done.

My twenty years younger self would be appalled at my future self for sending in an unranked ballot, but it's the only way I can get it done on time.

https://m✧✧✧.med✧✧✧.com/max/1400/1*haLEoqIV1aYxIsF76T_✧✧✧@2✧.j✧✧✧

https://i.redd.it/qv5dy8ji3s011.png

Voted last night! I feel relieved.

i am so close to finishing my ballots and will probably be working on them down to the wire lol

brad hinting that they're voting for all the haim there

lol, i am probably voting for "now i'm in it," the new best haim song

Going through the playlist, I realised that I hadn't paid much attention to the Haim singles this year. They're all pretty strong but yeah, Now I'm In It is by far the best.

LJ, what have you done.

i think i voted for two HAIM tracks; i may be part of the problem

now we're all in it

I voted yesterday and am now listening to the Kim Gordon album and realizing I should have put it much higher on my ballot. So people should listen to this and then vote for it. "Hungry Baby" is so good, I should have nominated it in tracks.

noted, thanks

no one mentioned amaarae's "like it" itt because we all obviously voted for it, right
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 21, 2020 5:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It was on my longlist but had to make way for a fourth Wizkid song.
Seriously, there's so much competition for tracks, even if you were sticking to afro nominations.

Rina Sawayama - STFU!

whoa, hello cousin of the poppy record

Oh yeah, that Rina single is awesome. Really excited for the album out in April.

voted!!!!

& if you haven't voted yet then don't forget to copy&paste your ballots into an email to yourself or other document before you hit submit so we can compare notes once rollouts are done :)

oh yeah. Will do

Voted! You got it right? I don't think I got an email yet

Pretty sure emails aren't sent routinely. (Hopefully -- I don't recall getting one myself.)

They're not, unless you messed up your ballot somehow (spoiler: I did).

voted :)

http://woodrivernewsletter.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/8/0/17805591/448339905.jpg

Got both lists down to around 30 but really struggling this year to cut those final five or so from each list

it's been a great year, i've got about 35 totally brilliant songs that i've gotta somehow turn into 25

idk if anyone's going to vote for it at this point but i always find myself surprisingly receptive to julia michaels singles and "deep" is probably her best yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eciqirTIk

i didn't do much trawling through the noms this year because... well, i think i've got a solid list that really reflects what i was attracted to this year (even though i kinda felt like i didn't pay attention at all). but i did see this black coffee remix on the list and think "well, black coffee fucking rules, i'd better listen to that" and eight minutes later i'm weeping

submitting my ballots tonight, see y'all on the other side

this Yemi Alade record is awesome, thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZvJ1nAxJYc&

Only two dislikes on youtube tells a story and both of those were from my nan

She's denying it; textbook nan that

📹

i didn't do much trawling through the noms this year because... well, i think i've got a solid list that really reflects what i was attracted to this year (even though i kinda felt like i didn't pay attention at all). but i did see this black coffee remix on the list and think "well, black coffee fucking rules, i'd better listen to that" and eight minutes later i'm weeping

Got some tough decisions myself in the tracks poll. Albums won't be so hard

Do I only have room for one 90s revival rock song? And if so, will it be Goon flawlessly channeling the Dandies...or Swervedriver channeling...Swervedriver?

just realized i nominated the kontravoid album titled too deep and not the track, i apologize to the many ilxors whose votes i no doubt swayed who won't be able to vote for it. album is good too tho

Voted. Trying not to stress that my nominations didn't get through...

They didn't get through? :(

wow. that black coffee remix is amazing.

The remix of Luxman’s “Thandaza”, also nominated by kruezer2, is beautiful as well.

finalising my ballot tonight and trying to figure out whether to put "god control" at #1 or not vote for it at all

https://www.theme-junkie.com/wp-content/uploads/save-60-24-hours.png

The following is listed twice in the albums list:

Toshio Hosokawa -Gardens
Mario Caroli, Ukho Ensemble Kiyv & Luigi Gaggero - Toshio Hosokawa: gardens

Poll-runners take note: accidental vote-splitting because of this could cost it its top ten spot.

Don't toy with my hopes like that (I didn't notice the latter and went with the former).

I checked and it was your completist and accurate self who nominated the latter ;) (I'm going w/ the former)

i nommed:

chief keef & zaytoven - glotoven

but its not on the album nominations list, can i write it in?

http://ekladata.com/yNMElJOR2Z9UczUeGhkqFA53KoM.gif

They didn't get through? :(

Not sure. It's always good to check with seandalai if you're unsure, but you can probably still vote for them as write-ins

Voted!

i've been listening to a playlist i made out of my longlist for the past four days and every time i come across a track that i just won't have room for i get real sad, in this particular instance it was call super/parris "chiseler's rush"

ballot sent!

it was all whirlwind heat and flash... but I voted

working on it, will submit tonight

voted for albums. Will try get a tracks ballot done

kiss me i voted

Some kick and rush required here too. The new J Hus and Master KG albums will have to wait.

^likes SA so much they've started using rugby metaphors

speaking of grime, I hope enough of you have heard the JME album...

Voted

few things make me feel more detached from ILM than looking through the tracks nominations and seeing 8 million Mark Ronson songs

the Angel Olsen one is good; I almost voted for it.

few things make me feel more detached from ILM than looking through the tracks nominations and seeing 8 million Mark Ronson Purple Mountains songs

but who knows maybe I'll like 'em

dammit Mark Ronson

hey sean, how many ballots you got so far?

also, how did two Bat For Lashes songs get nominated and neither of them was "Jasmine"

ditto 3 clipping. songs and none of them are "Nothing Is Safe" or "The Show"

La Mala Ordina imo

or hell, all three, Blood Of The Fang might pick up more overall points idk

I would have put every song on the album on the nomination list except maybe "La Mala Ordina" and "All In Your Head"

sleeper track is "He Dead"

I mean if any track had been the sole nomination I'd have voted for it

well yeah

to be clear that album is far and away my favorite of 2019 and I am going to spend most of the rollout of the results annoyed that the rest of ILM doesn't agree with me

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/RUGBY-SCRUM-STATS-final-4.jpg?strip=all&quality=100

xp to imago

It's getting a lot of points from our house and has quite a few fans elsewhere. It'll definitely make the 77. Have you heard Splendor & Misery yet btw? That's high on my decade list let alone 2016

getting you lot back in the cricket at least lol breastcrawl

I am going to spend most of the rollout of the results annoyed that the rest of ILM doesn't agree with me

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, January 24, 2020 12:33 PM (two minutes ago)

is there some other way to spend the rollout?

It's getting a lot of points from our house and has quite a few fans elsewhere. It'll definitely make the 77. Have you heard Splendor & Misery yet btw? That's high on my decade list let alone 2016

Yeah I've gone back through their catalog and listened to everything once, which is why I said on Twitter:

FYI I think I am prepared to declare @clppng artists of the decade

— DJP (@djperry1973) December 20, 2019

tbh imago, i know nothing about rugby. nor cricket.

but high hopes for the EOY scrum nonetheless

xps

Fair shout DJP. I was mostly on board until S&M which was some leagues-above stuff

here's to a fair game with no gouging or high tackling

is there some other way to spend the rollout?

There's what I've done the past few years, which is forget to vote and then spend the entire rollout making fun of the music other people like

a time-honored tradition tbh

i voted!!!!

It's always tougher than I think it'll be, this voting lark. Will get my ballot in tonight, though.

Sorry DJP, but while I like the clipping. stuff I know, I haven't listened to this album so it won't make my ballot ;_;

No worries! Go listen to it but don't worry about the ballot

got my albums done and my tracks down to 26, what do i get rid of

spoiler: clipping made one of my ballots

Voted!

(nb no clipping)

i voted!

i even did a tracks ballot which i usually never bother with

Right, my ballots are almost ready to go but I've put a few write-ins on my tracks one. I say this most years but I use my ilx ballots as a record of my listening over the year, and I like participating more than I have a desire to "win", so I really don't mind if the write-ins don't get counted. Sorry to the runners if this is annoying though.

I forgot to vote for 2 albums that were high up in my shortlist so i'll need to resubmit. I'll also submit a tracks ballot this time

resubmitted albums ballot and also included a tracks ballot this time

Voted!

I wish DJ Khaled ft. Cardi B & 21 Savage's "Wish Wish" had made the nominations list -- my favorite Cardi appearance of the year.

Also guys please give pomenitul a hand and vote in
2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 7th of February)

Thanks, Neech.

I will try to get a list in tonight.

karl is otm above about the RAP - Export album, it's great

Only gone and done it, mates.

Voted! Very exciting

The following is listed twice in the albums list:

Toshio Hosokawa -Gardens
Mario Caroli, Ukho Ensemble Kiyv & Luigi Gaggero - Toshio Hosokawa: gardens

Poll-runners take note: accidental vote-splitting because of this could cost it its top ten spot.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 24 January 2020 12:01 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've fixed this behind the scenes - vote for whichever you want but they'll be counted together.

just put a 20-album ballot in, that's all i can muster

voted, went with fully weighted b/c i'm a hardened voter nowadays with less sympathy for the bottom of my ballot

have made the cruellest cut, let's do this

excited to see the rollout, i think this past year has been the least i've ever paid attention to whats popular, on here or elsewhere. very real chance that i haven't heard of multiple things in the top 10

it is done, no looking back

i think this past year has been the least i've ever paid attention to whats popular

I've got a very 'pop' oriented tracks ballot but only really in sound rather than popularity. I've been trying to think of BIG albums and tracks that will definitely place and could only come up with LDR and Billie Eilish.

BELFAP!

Oh shit, I did read you guys coming up with that but now I can't remember what it stands for.

big
eilish
lana
fka
angel
purple

lol belfap

Ah yeah, that's right.

oh shit bollocks, forgot to nom the richard youngs album, one of his best ones too

voted.

okidunnit

quite a lot i forgot to nom and then some of the stuff i did nominate didn't sound all that hot when i came back to it this week. oh well, just a bit of fun so lets be cool

~12 hours left to vote!

voted

only four points between the 1st and 2nd placed track - every vote counts!

fingers crossed for a tie

Voted! Tracks nearly killed me. That Black Coffee track was a late-breaking inclusion.

it's on my list too

voted~

this may be the first time I voted that my #1 album isn’t in the top 77 - it was my top nomination but I didn’t campaign for it and haven’t seen it mentioned here

*first time since I started voting

Voted. A little sad I didn't nominate the Versus album.

https://images2.persgroep.net/rcs/yo0PTxt_ss9PZCJ45GA6K3AZX2M/diocontent/143074203/_fitwidth/763?appId=93a17a8fd81db0de025c8abd1cca1279&quality=0.8

Voted. My feelings yo-yoing between the old lady’s conviction and the little girl’s bewilderment right now. Could do with some black coffee.

awesome last minute discovery: the Khana Bierbood album

I had high hopes for doing a thorough listen to all the nominations, but in the end a short unweighted albums ballot was all I could manage.

voted

Voted. Caught up on a bunch of records in late December and early January, but then looking at the nominations tonight, realized there were some I wanted to hear but hadn't. With Xchuckx E no longer here, I will probably be the only voter for southern soul album acts LJ Echols and Ms. Jody. Oh well.

whew, voted

Voted. I almost decided to skip the tracks this year, but decided to just choose my favorites from those listed (and I still second-guessed the Hell out of my choices). Looking forward to the roll-outs.

Vote went in at 11.59!

just voted, hopefully it's not too late since it's past the deadline. i was going by seandalai's "~12 hours left" post which was about 9 hours ago so i thought there was a little more time

voted! I have had so much going on that I didn't get to spend nearly enough time with the playlists so I expect a lot of surprises. Also disappointed in myself for not ensuring that the When Saints Go Machine album was nommed even if I would have been the only voter.

oh I didn't realise how fine I was cutting it, oops

Yikes, if I do mine now, can it still be accepted?

Voted! Just for tracks. Hopefully it'll count.

Voted as well. Was going to sleep on it, send it in early in the morning. Overslept, completely forgot... Sorry, understand if it doesn't count, but will be sad to see Liturgy robbed of the #1 spot by my stupidity :(

gonna have breakfast, then close the voting - if there are any last-minute holdouts still listening to the playlists at 10x speed, shout!

Me, I’ve had a very busy few weeks (months, really) and haven’t even gone through the playlist but I’ll throw my faves on now. Prob just tracks.

Me, I’ve had a very busy few weeks (months, really) and haven’t even gone through the playlist but I’ll throw my faves on now. Prob just tracks.

Done, thanks seandalai!

really didn't listen to much new music at all this year, excited to see what shows up!

Ok we're done here! Results will start rolling out on Monday.

Did I somehow forget to vote for my favourite album of 2019, Burna Boy's African Giant? Could you check it for me, Sean? Sorry about this - didn't save my ballot.

Prime your engines
Here's the songs playlist for rollout:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5CuMPustDhZD9WnDKSqkuK?si=KMuIbNsfTz6J_WyraDnUvA
Here's the albums playlist:  
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7N1gQj4VAAJEEHY4MbZNOW?si=xEgSWw2ATy2tFtakmyk_5w

i voted last night. was any sort of confirmation sent out?

no auto-confirmation but your ballot did arrive safe and sound

Did I somehow forget to vote for my favourite album of 2019, Burna Boy's African Giant? Could you check it for me, Sean? Sorry about this - didn't save my ballot.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:43 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

looks like you did forget :(

ty! xp

_Did I somehow forget to vote for my favourite album of 2019, Burna Boy's African Giant? Could you check it for me, Sean? Sorry about this - didn't save my ballot.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:43 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink_


looks like you did forget :(

you say... burna
i say... big thief

(actually i don't but)

still pouring one out for triad god

BELBFAP

I voted for an album this time, and there were some other interesting looking ones (I always go straight to Various Artists for anything to do with albums) but I didn't get chance in time due to the weather

For the tracks I voted for 20. 20! I didn't think such a thing was possible, thats almost 1 in 2 and yet I look out at the garden and to me its still in danger of relegation

Some things I discovered late or forgot to nominate:

Kölsch - Fabric Presents Kölsch
Dengue Dengue Dengue! - Zenit & Nadir
Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA

I mentioned the Kolsch record above, which was a shame because I assumed it was nominated. Didn't discover until I put together my final ballot it wasn't there. The Dengue Dengue Dengue is incredible and a late discovery. Had I heard it earlier I would have nommed it and placed it in my top 10. The Lingua Ignota is AOTY material for me... also a very late discovery. Yes it's more metal, and for the first time in a decade of being on here, I am submitting a metal ballot because of this album. It's that good.

Looking forward to the rollout. Sampa the Great and Little Simz were my Burna Boy and Big Thief I suppose.

my life is a lie

sorry friends, i failed you all in the hour of need

why did you drink that hennessy?

if that's the same kölsch who did "all that matters" (and also, amazingly, "calabria"), i may have to give that a listen

lol I was searching my mind for an appropriate line but couldn’t come up with one, but that it’s right there

xp

burna made me do it

If it helps, I like the Burna Bot album and will react positively when it places

*Boy ffs

Oh fuck Lingua Ignota was nominated? I completely missed that

😭

no voting for me this year, haven't listened to enough and while i have some faves, i'll try to shout em out if they make the list/complain if they don't! looking forward to it!

I’ve seen the results and working on the graphics atm. Let me say: I don’t know if the main voters for this year changed or we had more or less voters than last year but the results are crazy. I’m willing to give 100 US dollars to anyone who guess the top 10 tracks. Hell, they’re so crazy I’m willing to give $1000 if anyone gets them right regardless of ranking.

excellent!

sounds really good to me

Best news

I think this is the second time I’ve bothered to vote and the first I submitted a singles ballot, so blame me when everything gets weird?

Here for weird.

This is first year afaik that I actually put more effort into my albums ballot than my tracks ballot (I didn't even go the full 25), mainly because I wasn't as dialed into individual songs that came and went in 2019, so I really have NO IDEA what the results will look like. I voted for Old Town Road, though, lol.

yeah I was trying to think of what might win tracks...my guess would be Old Town Road, Cellophane, Gone or...Don’t Start Now? But I don’t know if any of those really had overwhelming, galvanised support on here

Don't Start Now was my #2, but it had such a late release I'm not sure everyone listened to it 400 times like I did.

BALLOON PLZ

What are the numbers like this year? I was assuming they'd be down because of UK/US despair and hopelessness, but I don't know if that's at all true outside my own mind...

glad to hear some unexpected things may have reached the top 10 -- that's usually the most predictable part!

Old Town Road, Cellophane, Gone or...Don’t Start Now?

i would like to think these are all too obvious to have done that well if the results are a bit unexpected. (i kinda hope so, anyway -- tho i did vote for two of them.)

i guess i suppose "don't start now" will do well. its appeal really seems to be quite broad here.

Disco homage from a hip 20-something woman? It's like ILM microtargeting.

pretty much!

i predict a strong showing for octo octa "i need you"

hope so!

looking forward to the crazy results

Everybody anticipatin'

oh ffs, just realised in my panic to get a ballot in yesterday AM I chopped the Judgitzu track off the top of my tracks list, wah! ;(((

numbers are slightly down on last year but we're still over 100 ballots in each poll

Oh fuck Lingua Ignota was nominated? I completely missed that

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Saturday, January 25, 2020 6:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

😭

― opden gnash (imago), Saturday, January 25, 2020 7:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

cosign the latter.

$1000 if I can hack Moka's computer, I like those odds

https://i.imgur.com/nPwGImG.png

it's not 2013 anymore but reasonably stable I'd say

fun fact: this is the first year there were more tracks ballots than albums ballots

👀

i listened to the kölsch mix/album octobeard mentioned -- quite impressive and detailed work

This is the decade of the track I can feel it

having seen the results across the board, "weird" is very accurate; we're gonna be utterly unique in our end of year results as compared to any other best of lists.

You love to see it

I hope others voted for the William Doyle album. I forgot and it's really good!

Yeah, I also check out the Kölsch mix/album, reminded me of something like a Global Underground trance mix from the early 00s. Even the flightpath cover. That said, it's breezed by and was nice to work to this afternoon.

Looking forward to the rollout. Is it tracks first?

always!

forgot 2 vote

if anything i would have expected the results this year to be a little closer to the broader critical consensus than usual, as this year's critical consensus seemed particularly ilm-friendly

didn’t know mix cds were allowed, seems kinda quaint in 2020

I guess I voted for a live mix but it’s all new songs by the same artist, whatever carry on

These threads are roughly 1000x more interesting to me than whatever happens at the Grammies.

I think I naively assumed there were *generally* more track ballots than album ballots. (Likely because that's most often the case for individual artist polls.) I've learned something from the pretty graph.

Is the decline in the total ballots since 2013 vaguely in proportion to a decline in total unique posters over that period or something?

My tracks ballot is bonkers. Glad to see the rollout will be probably in a similar vein.

77-61: oh cool so glad this made it, what a nice discovery

60-41: ah here are some things I voted for. TOO LOW

40-21: fuck you for liking this garbage

20-1: undeniable bangers

60-41: ah my thing really didn't make it this year huh

lol that too yes

77-61 Back garden bonhomie
60-41 Close quarters combat and escape from rozzers
40-21 Detour through the docks
20-7 Outlandish outfits on the top deck
2-5 Unexpected away victory
1 Penalty box praxis

fun fact: this is the first year there were more tracks ballots than albums ballots

― seandalai, Sunday, January 26, 2020 2:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I didn't get around to do a tracks ballot, so handed in a ballot consisting of one track. (should've added Dawson's 'Jogging' as a second but forgot). It's albums for me mostly, but stoked for the ~weird~ results!

aaaargh don't say that, could be the difference between 11th and 10th #gutted

also lol saer otm

handed in a ballot consisting of one track

Now I regret not doing the same.

I've great regret LJ, but to soften the blow, I think notorious whaaat-I-never-saw-the-voting-thread-that-hovered-on-new-answers-for-decades Dog Latin did vote this time? So 'Jogging' should be a lock for #10.

tbh I think it's higher but we'll wait to be surprised ;)

#teamjogging

haha, i definitely voted this year but missed the noms

Bless :)

handed in a ballot consisting of one track

weighted or unweighted?

Weighted!

I thought I voted for "Jogging" but apparently I just made do with the LP alone in the end. Oh well. Having never declared that early intention out loud, I can still tell myself that I haven't let anyone down innit.

this is worse than the 2 of you who were all 'oh shit forgot lingua ignota' yesterday

What time does the rollout start?

it's typically about 2 hours from now

"jogging" being top 10 is the sort of thing that feels just plausible enough for it to happen? i thought 2020 was generally not as well liked as peasant though so it would still be very surprising to me

I don't like 2020 as much as Peasant but I certainly wish I'd voted for Jogging, as it's a stellar anthem.

^^^^

It's getting a lot of points from our house and has quite a few fans elsewhere. It'll definitely make the 77. Have you heard Splendor & Misery yet btw? That's high on my decade list let alone 2016

Yeah I've gone back through their catalog and listened to everything once, which is why I said on Twitter:

FYI I think I am prepared to declare @clppng artists of the decade
— DJP (@djperry1973) December 20, 2019

I listened to Addiction to Blood once or twice and liked it but wasn't taken with it like I was the second clipping. album, which I still consider just totally jaw-dropping
and which easily makes any end-of-decade list of mine (& which I prob still under-rate tbh). I wonder if clipping. is just one of those bands where the first one you hear will always be your favourite

Then again, I skipped S&M for really dumb reasons so I'm willing to accept as just any gasfaces DJP or imago are making towards my general vicinity

willling to bet Jogging'll be top ten

I have no idea what "Jogging" is? Googling it doesn't help much either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGiQ_-Ktpvc

It's a Richard Dawson song. It's got guitars.

And lyrics o_O

Not my thing, then.

Pom, you didn't vote for it either? An LJ flogging is due ;_;

xp lol vmic

Let's save this for Thursday, folks

And speaking of saving...save us, Johnny Fever!

Or Moka!

True, true

(Friday) xp

Hmm, looking at by tracks ballot, 12 of 25 do have lyrics, so maybe they are my thing after all?

"at MY tracks ballot"

'Jogging' is a little too… prosaic for my liking, and unintentionally makes me feel even more alienated from English culture. Nothing Important is the only Dawson I genuinely love (and 'Hob').

(Sorry, LJ.)

unintentionally makes me feel even more alienated from English culture

Lol this is why I never got into Nothjng Important (though I sometimes wonder if the title track had made tracks poll instead of Vile Stuff)

I don't remember if I voted for Jogging, but I think I might have

Nothjng Important

Wow I'm super overdue for a vow of silence

au contraire you certainly ought to post more!

nothing important aotd obv

I wonder how the Sault vote held up. No mention of them here, but much excitement on dedicated thread. The potential for vote-splitting looked kinda extreme though.

When will rollout start?

usually about now

good, we need something nice to argue about

ludacris sez, start the roll out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t21DFnu00Dc

good, we need something nice to argue about

See, this is what happens when the rollout doesn't start on time.

Save us Johnny Fever!

Lol, otm

I listened to Addiction to Blood once or twice and liked it but wasn't taken with it like I was the second clipping. album, which I still consider just totally jaw-dropping
and which easily makes any end-of-decade list of mine (& which I prob still under-rate tbh). I wonder if clipping. is just one of those bands where the first one you hear will always be your favourite

This seems likely

lol ok

The Highwomen win both the tracks and albums polls. All good here? Cool. Thanks for voting everyone. 👍

Nothing Important is like a conjuring for me but I couldn't get on with Peasant or 2020.

(Would be happy with the Highwomen clearing up, tbh. As it were.)

The Highwomen win both the tracks and albums polls. All good here?

you should see the irate face I'm making right now

What are the Highwomen.

Ok but have you even listened to it? I know how you feel about anything even vaguely country, but the songwriting is soooo good.

I did. It sucked.

Thanks, I hate it.

Or rather, I didn't like it (because it sucked) (dammit I can't even be gracious about it)

Well now I *really* hope it does well.

The tune Redesigning Women is so full of regressive stereotypes about women (Changing our minds like we change our hair color + And if the shoe fits, we're gonna buy 11 + Running the world while we're cleaning up the kitchen) that I was actually quite taken aback considering that it's supposed to be a song about...redesigning women. What the song was trying to do was so far from what it achieved that it turned me off checking out the rest of the project. Open to suggestions if there's better songs on there.

"Cocktail and a Song" is the keeper for me.

Redesigning Women is the only song on the album I routinely skip. I haven't heard it in a long time.

I love country but I did not like the Highwomen album at all. Mostly I didn't like the singing, too mannered.

I wish they done more harmony work and less just all singing the same melody at once much of the time, but 10 of the 12 songs on the album are exactly my vibe. If they'd ditched Redesigning Women and My Only Child, I'd consider it perfect.

so is Moka doing the rollout then

Moka is keeping to their own timeline here. plz be patient as no set time to start was ever announced.

we should just wait another year to start the rollout, for a laugh.

It's the modus operandi for the film poll, and it honestly works pretty well. I can wait :)

2019 is cancelled

I will literally die if this doesn't start in the next hour

highwomen album is incredibly great, i know a lot of people here are allergic to dave cobb's production but it really works on it, rich with shadow but the guitar tones glow through it, making it feel like you've walked into a candlelit room. i've said this before but "loose change" is the best maren morris song of the year, and "if she ever leaves me" is maybe the best explicitly gay country song i've ever heard

i don't even mind "redesigning women" though the lyric is very clunky

"My Only Child" is one of the two or three best songs. Love how she hints at but doesn't directly resolve the question of why...leaves it up to the listener who may have their own experience. Hemby is the strongest piece of that puzzle, with a sharp eye for details and stories. Still listen to Puxico regularly.

The whole Highwomen project felt forced and calculated from the beginning, quite the opposite of the Annies, which have a better handle on real lives and struggles and have far more interesting things to say about them. There is nothing here with half the guts of "Best Years of My Life."

"Crowded Table" might be one of the stronger songs, but I find the four of them singing the whole thing together grating. I'm sure it translates live in some rousing acoustic closer but it doesn't work for me on the album.

hm peering into the highwomen album trying to discover the pistol annies album within seems to be missing the point to me. also i could say that no pistol annies album has a song as devastating as "cocktail and a song" but that would also be meaningless

I absolutely love the Highwomen album, including / especially the title track.

...sorry, I meant “Redesigning Women”! Why did I think it was the title track, lol

It's early morning where Moka is so give her a chance! All will be revealed in due course.

xp (probably because it’s so awesome, the entire album revolves around it for me)

I don't think anyone here is seriously angry with Moka. Take all the time you need (for real)!

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how was this range forgotten:

78-whatever: I guess this really is my shit and only my shit

hm peering into the highwomen album trying to discover the pistol annies album within seems to be missing the point to me. also i could say that no pistol annies album has a song as devastating as "cocktail and a song" but that would also be meaningless

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 27, 2020 9:20 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of contemporary, popular, all-female country acts doesn't seem like a stretch to me. The Highwomen are a much more capital-s Serious group that demanded the industry take them Seriously, much like Carlile (who's very talented, but makes mostly boring music). Like many supergroups, it was a calculated idea--they'd never met or worked together (Wikipedia history below), and I hear that in the music.

"In 2016, when Shires was finishing her record, My Piece of Land, in music producer Dave Cobb's studio, Shires had an idea to create a female country supergroup in homage to the legendary Highwaymen country supergroup (consisting of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson). At the same time, the lack of representation of women artists on country music radio and at country music festivals had been publicly discussed by many, influenced by the Me Too movement and journalists like Marissa Moss. While on tour in her van, while listening to country radio, Shires kept a running list of artists and noticed that there were few women. When she called to request they play more women artists, she was directed to a Facebook page lottery system. Cobb recommended Shires call Carlile, whom she didn't know. Carlile thought it would be fun, and would be an interesting creative project."

the circumstances under which the supergroup was formed only makes the coherence of the album more impressive to me