ILM 2015 Albums Poll: Thread of Stats, Ballots and the Gaz Coombes Nation

Full Results

Non-self-explanatory stats:
Enthusiasm: Average points per ballot, divided by the max it could have (50).
Popularity: The Spotify Popularity score for the album, if it's on Spotify.
Crit Consensus: How much love there was for the album on other critics' EOY lists

Genre Stats

For every genre in Glenn's big map of the universe that had at least 10 albums with at least one vote, I compiled a top 10 list. Not all the genre assignments make sense, but hey. I also tried to work out genre-subgenre relationships, so votes for "indie r&b" also count towards "r&b".

Voter Statistics

All your old favourites:
Hivemind score: this is the average points total for the albums on your ballot; how your ballot was ordered doesn't change the score.
Fuxxor Quotient: the proportion of albums on your ballot that were in Pitchfork's EOY list.
Antifuxxor Ratio: Hivemind divided by Fuxxor Quotient. A high ratio means your taste is much closer to that of ILM than to that of Pitchfork. A score of infinity means you're awesome.
Populism: the average Spotify popularity of the albums on your ballot that are also on Spotify.
Loneliness: the proportion of your albums that nobody else voted for. This year's loneliest voter is...not a surprise.
Blood Sausage Index: The average points total for albums that didn't appear on a collection of other EOY lists. Essentially, whether you love music that nobody outside of ILM cares or knows about.
Crit Consensus: How well the albums you voted for fared on other critics' EOY lists
Top neighbour: essentially the voter whose ballot intersects most with yours.
Top genre: the genre you gave the most points to, according to Glenn's automagically generated genres.
You should probably read: The non-ILM EOY albums list that intersects most with yours.

My ballot - bold did not place

Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Patrick Cowley - Muscle Up
Eek - Kahraba
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
f(x) - 4 Walls

CFCF - The Colours of Life
Tal National - Zoy Zoy
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys
Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy - Sintetizzatrice
alva noto - Xerrox, Vol. 3
Laura Cannell - Beneath Swooping Talons
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Grimes - Art Angels
GABI - Sympathy
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba - Ba Power
Vision Heat - The Chosen Themes: Program 1
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg - Ambsace
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do
Panda Bear - Meets the Grim Reaper

*~~thanks for your hard work seandalai~~*

weighted ballot, bold placed:

Grimes - Art Angels
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Joan Shelley - Over and Even
Best Coast - California Nights
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up
Low - Ones and Sixes
Marie Davidson – Un Autre Voyage
Anna Thorvaldsdottir / International Contemporary Ensemble ‎– In the Light of Air
Helen - The Original Faces
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite
Colleen - Captain of None
Dorthia Cottrell - Dorthia Cottrell
Disasterpeace - It Follows OST
Laura Cannell - Beneath Swooping Talons
Horsebeach - II
Steve Moore - The Guest OST
Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Makaya Mccraven - In The Moment
Christina Vantzou - No 3
Dexter Story - Wondem
Chuck Johnson - Blood Moon Boulder

Cant remember my ballot

My ballot - bold did not place:

Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning
Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night
Low - Ones and Sixes
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Royal Headache - High
Anonymous 4 - 1865: Songs of Peace and Hope from the American Civil War
All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
Nervous Curtains - Con
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
Yells At Eels - In Quiet Waters
Kult of the Wizard - The White Wizard
Hills - Frid
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Blur - The Magic Whip
Sunder - Sunder
Marriages - Salome
Lizzo - Big Grrrl Small World
Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
Liturgy - The Ark Work
GNOD - Infinity Machines
Novella - Land
The Chills - Silver Bullets
Leila Abdul-Rauf - Insomnia

Mixed ballot. DNP bold, sole voter bold+italics.

Weighted:
01 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs #2
02 Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo #130
03 海朋森 (Hiperson) - 我不要别的历史 (No Need For Another History) #318
04 Holly Herndon - Platform #21
05 She's So Rad - Tango #446

Unweighted:
Angel Haze - Back to the Woods #34
Beauty Pill - Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are #117
Chinese Football - Chinese Football #710
Dawn Richard - Blackheart #5
Dumblonde - Dumblonde #44
Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing - Scrying In Infirmary Architecture #396
Heavy-K - Respect The Drumboss 2015 #84
Honey Cocaine - The Gift Rap EP #129
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show #7
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl #78
Julia Holter - Have you in my Wilderness #10
Le1f - Riot Boi #331
Malportado Kids - Total Cultura #305
Mareko - Hong Kong Food City #710
Missy Mazzoli - Vespers for a New Dark Age #466
Rionegro - Rionegro #710
Ron Gallipoli - Agrokomplex #710
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do #105
Torres - Sprinter #175
Years & Years - Communion #37

8/25, though also 5 sole votes (mainly for CN/NZ/CO stuff; ty to the other votes for 海朋森 & GPOGP). Done in a rush & thought I'd voted for Abra in the tracks poll so swapped out her from this, & I thought I'd voted for the Vince Staples.

mixed, bolded didn't place

Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Angel Haze - Back To The Woods
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Years & Years - Communion
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Abra - Rose
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
Miguel - Wildheart
Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Kehlani - You Should Be Here

Future - DS2
Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds
Holly Herndon - Platform
Jam City - Dream A Garden
Teedra Moses - Cognac & Conversations
Sasha Go Hard - Nutty World 2
Flava D - More Love
Natasha Mosley - Rose Hall
Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Jlin - Dark Energy

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Grimes - Art Angels
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Below The Sun - Envoy
Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Mylène Farmer - Interstellaires
Skriptonit - Dom S Normal'nimi Yavleniyami
Torres - Sprinter
Alina Orlova - 88
Jupiter - Bandana Republic
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material
Sarsa Markiewicz - Zapomnij Mi
Priest - Priest
Say Lou Lou - Lucid Dreaming
MC Anyuta - Iz Lichnogo Opita
Rangleklods - Straightjacket
Dilly Dally - Sore
Neuromonakh Feofan - V Dushe Dram, V Serdtse Svetlaya Rus!
Srub - Chthon
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Abra - Rose
Liturgy - The Ark Work

Weighted.

mixed ballot top 3 ranked rest unranked

Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Future - DS2
Young Thug - Slime Season

Boosie Badazz - Touch Down 2 Cause Hell
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
EXO - Exodus
f(x) - 4 Walls
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
JME - Integrity>
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Migos - Yung Rich Nation
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Young Thug - Barter 6

impressed that i voted for albums that were 78'd AND 79'd

Weighted, bolded didn't place

Floating Points - Elaenia
Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
Dj Sotofett - Drippin For a Trip
Patrick Cowley - Muscle Up
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
FFS - FFS
Bitchin Bajas - Transporteur
Vakula - Voyage to Arcturus
Jim O’Rourke - Simple Songs
Ptaki - Przelot
Boof - The Hydrangeas Whisper
Hunee - Hunch Music
Junior Loves & Scientific Dreamz of U - The Dreamcode
Fort Romeau - Insides
Sheer Mag - II
Palmbomen II - Palmbomen II
JLIN - Dark Energy
André Bratten - Gode
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
F Ingers - Hide Before Dinner
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Todd Rundgren, Emil Nikolaisen & Hans-Peter Lindstrøm - Runddans
Christian Mistress - To Your Death
DJ PayPal - Sold Out
Bambi Davidson - Brunswick

Thanks for all of the hard work. Once again, this was a great time. Far and away my favorite lists. So much great stuff to be found.

Mixed - bold ones DNP

Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Colleen - Captain of None
Gabi - Sympathy
Jlin - Dark Energy
Abra - Rose

Algiers - Algiers
Circuit Des Yeux - In Plain Speech
Dej Loaf - #AndSeeThatsTheThing EP
DJ Sotofett – Drippin For A Trip
Eartheater - RIP Chrysalis
Elysia Crampton - American Drift
Helm - Olympic Mess
Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U Ahn-Sahm-Buhl — We Are Not The First
Jam City - Dream A Garden
JME - Integrity>
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Paper Dollhouse - Aeonflower
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
Real Lies - Real Life
Smurphy - A Shapeless Pool of Lovely Pale Colours Suspended in the Darkness
US Girls - Half Free
Zelienople - Show Us The Fire

Not sure I can find my tracks list, but this was my weighted album vote.

Domenique Dumont – Comme ça
Future - 56 Nights
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
DJ Richard – Grind
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
Föllakzoid - III
Abra - Rose
DJ PayPal - Sold Out
Container - LP
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Honey Cocaine - The Gift Rap EP
Mark Fell and Gábor Lázár - The Neurobiology Of Moral Decision Making
Tinashe - Amethyst
2 8 1 4 - 新しい日の誕生
Migos - Yung Rich Nation
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
Helen - The Original Faces
Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Miguel - Wildheart
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
DJ Sotofett - Drippin For a Trip
Holly Herndon - Platform
Hong Kong Express - HK

weighted

Beauty Pill - Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Future - DS2
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Rico Love - Turn The Lights On
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Young Thug - Slime Season 2
Kane Mayfield - The Return Of Rap
Sun Club - The Dongo Durango
Miguel - Wildheart
Sara Bareilles - What's Inside: Songs From Waitress
War On Women - War On Women
Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money
SiR - Seven Sundays
Brett Eldredge - Illinois
Boosie Badazz - Touch Down 2 Cause Hell
One Direction - Made In The A.M.
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart
Future - Beast Mode

usually enjoy the tracks roll out way more than albums, but lots of great stuff i hadn't paid attention to in the 77 this year and given another fortnight roisin murphy, algiers, kehlani, dumblonde and eek all would have probably bumped stuff off my ballot.

so big thanks to the poll runners and voters

ooh heartless bastards, i loved the mountain is the new one in the same vein? better/worse?

mixed

Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Young Thug - Barter 6
Colleen - Captain of None
Miguel - Wildheart
Kranium - Rumors
Floating Points - Elaenia

Burna Boy - On A Spaceship
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Domenique Dumont – Comme ça
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
Future - Beast Mode
Grimes - Art Angels
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Protoje – Ancient Future
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do
Young Thug - Slime Season 2

6/25, bold placed in top 77, sole voter for Nicole Sabouné, Elza Soares, and Irfan.

ALBUMS (mixed)

1. Max Richter – Sleep (101)
2. Algiers – Algiers (33)
3. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa (53)
4. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2)
5. Tamaryn – Cranekiss (94)
6. Nicole Sabouné – Miman (477) sole voter
7. EEK – Kahraba (72)
8. Elza Soares - A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (520) sole voter
9. Holly Herndon – Platform (21)
10. Irfan - The Eternal Return (748) sole voter

Africa Express - Terry Riley's In C Mali (316)
Auscultation - L'étreinte imaginaire (177)
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (26)
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was (106)
Empress Of – Me (131)
Escort - Animal Nature (308)
Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds (258)
Hama – Torodi (613)
Helm - Olympic Mess (113)
Kate Boy – One (510)
Lotic – Agitations (272)
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters (140)
Roomful of Teeth – Render (470)
Soichi Terada - Sounds from the Far East (300)
U.S. Girls - Half Free (83)

weighted, Tim F top neighbour:

Grimes - Art Angels
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Natasha Kmeto - Inevitable
Miguel - Wildheart
Years & Years - Communion
DJ Richard – Grind
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Hunee - Hunch Music
Jam City - Dream A Garden
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Joanna Newsom - Divers
U.S. Girls - Half Free
Abra - Rose
Björk - Vulnicura
Fifth Harmony - Reflection
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars

Weighted (Bold placed)

Grimes - Art Angels
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
2 8 1 4 - 新しい日の誕生
Abra - Rose
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up
Angel Haze - Back to the Woods
Visionist - Safe
Two White Cranes - Radisson Blue
Eyeliner - Buy Now
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
Helm - Olympic Mess
Julia Holter - Have you in my Wilderness
Liberez - All Tense Now Lax
DJ Richard – Grind
Holly Herndon - Platform
EEK - Kahraba
Helen - The Original Faces
LLLL - Faithful
Honey Cocaine - The Gift Rap EP
JLIN - Dark Energy
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
Laurel Halo - In Situ

LOL, much bold, very placed

ShariVari's ballot has quite the punchline lol :D

haha Great poll, sad that Helena Hauff didn't make the top list, but I'm more amused that on the voter list I'm the only person who has a fave genre as hauntology!?

i noticed someone had "shiver pop" as well. is that just like susannesundforcore or whut

i have apparently joined the indie r&b hive

Weighted, bolded placed.

U.S. Girls - Half Free
Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
William D. Drake - Revere Reach
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
Mr. Fried Burger - Mr. Fried Burger, I Resume?
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Joanna Wang - Bob Music
DoNormaal - Jump Or Die
The Chap - The Show Must Go
Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers EP
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Holly Herndon - Platform
Midday Veil - This Wilderness
Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs
Mastery - Valis
Sassy Black - Personal Sunlight
Liturgy - The Ark Work
Thighpaulsandra - The Golden Communion
Dominique Leone - San Francisco
PC Worship - Basement Hysteria
Chance The Rapper & Lil B - Free Based Freestyles

xp

Given that the indie r&b top 10 spans:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2204.0 points)
Grimes - Art Angels (1761.0 points)
Miguel - Wildheart (1380.0 points)
Chvrches - Every Open Eye (628.0 points)
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys (522.0 points)
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album (514.0 points)
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon (405.0 points)
Beach House - Depression Cherry (373.0 points)
Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper (310.0 points)
HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC (256.0 points)

it's one of the bigger hives around

My weighted ballot, bold items DNP:

Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Elle King - Love Stuff
Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Container - LP
Special Request - Modern Warfare (EPs 1-3)
Floating Points - Elaenia
Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo
Frank Bretschneider - Sinn + Form
Sam Binga - Wasted Days
Stephan Bodzin - Powers of Ten
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs I-IV
Kolsch - 1983
Miguel - Wild Heart
Beauty Pill - Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are
ADR – Deceptionista
Hunee - Hunch Music
EEK - Kahraba
DJ Richard – Grind
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
Jamie Woon - Making Time

Weighted, bold did not place, italics sole voter

Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Quttinirpaaq - Dead SEPtember
Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon
Alameda 5 - Duch Tornada
Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning
Zu - Cortar Todo
Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart
Teeth of the Sea - Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
Wand - Golem
Flavor Crystals - The Shiver of the Flavor Crystals
Turzi - C
Black Cilice - Mysteries
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
Nervous Curtains - Con
RA - Scandinavia
Hills - Frid
Sundays & Cybele - Heaven
Ozric Tentacles - Technicians of the Sacred
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
Pharaoh Overlord - Circle
Lamp of the Universe - The Inner Light of Revelation

Genre tag : krautrock, most likely to read the Quietus

did not place

sole vote

25 is savage

Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
William D. Drake - Revere Reach
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Joanna Wang - Bob Music
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Thighpaulsandra - The Golden Communion
The Chap - The Show Must Go
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Mr. Fried Burger - Mr. Fried Burger, I Resume?
U.S. Girls - Half Free
Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
Liturgy - The Ark Work
Mastery - Valis
Beauty Pill - Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Czarface - Every Hero Needs A Villain
Lychgate - An Antidote For The Glass Pill
PC Worship - Basement Hysteria
Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side Of Tape
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - IX
The Eccentronic Research Council - Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine... I'm Your Biggest Fan
RA - Scandinavia
Matchess - Somnaphoria
Dominique Leone - San Francisco
Consumer Electronics - Dollhouse Songs
Container - LP
Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
JME - Integrity>
Eek - Kahraba
Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
Ron Gallipoli - Agrokomplex
JLin - Dark Energy
Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
The Pre New - The Male Eunuch
Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers EP
Death Grips - Jenny Death
Zu - Cortar Todo
PC Music - PC Music Vol. 1
Milo - So The Flies Don't Come
Grimes - Art Angels
Mew - +-
Voice Coils - Heaven's Sense EP
Frisk Frugt - Den Europæiske Spejlbue
Elysia Crampton - American Drift
Clarence Clarity - No Now
Marina And The Diamonds - Froot
Le1f - Riot Boi
Zarelli - Soft Rains
Lil B & Chance The Rapper - Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape)
Frank Bretschneider - Sinn + Form
Erykah Badu - But U Caint Use My Phone
The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ
Myrkur - M
Wilco - Star Wars
Grasscut - Everyone Was A Bird
Ho99o9 - Horrors Of 1999
Midday Veil - This Wilderness

Very pleased to note that the two highest-placed albums with only 4 votes were the Joanna Wang and the Dodheimsgard. While we are few, yet have we passion.

some of those genre classifications are quite wacky, possibly due to being a bit out of date e.g. julia holter is on the freak folk list but not the chamber pop one?

drone top 10 is v good though imo

xps haha how is dawn richard not #1 in the indie r&b list?

Weighted, bold did not place (every year I end up getting mad about this and insisting it is the correct and only way to do it, but oh well)

Angel Haze - Back to the Woods
Holly Herndon - Platform
JLIN - Dark Energy
Marie Davidson – Un Autre Voyage
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
Malportado Kids - Total Cultura
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs I-IV
Beards - Nature Proper
Maison Book Girl - Bath Room
MXLX - I Aim to Understand Nothing
Liberez - All Tense Now Lax
Karen Gwyer ‎– Bouloman
Shopping - Why Choose
Helm - Olympic Mess
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Sauna Youth - Distractions
Giant Claw - Deep Thoughts
Cantaloupe - Zoetrope
Tricot - A N D
海朋森 (Hiperson) - 我不要别的历史 (No Need For Another History)
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
Arc Pair - Grammar
Eyeliner - Buy Now
Paper Dollhouse - Aeonflower
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous

The last few were very difficult to pin down, think I would probably swap out the last two for other things now.

No particularly notable stats for me in this one, though most likely to read being Thump was annoying given how much I hate Vice, and I'm not sure what is "hip pop" about my ballot.

The genre classifications in EchoNest are done per artist rather than per album, and I guess they don't have information about some artists. In short, it's all glenn's fault. But without glenn we wouldn't have genres at all so.

DAM managing the ultimate poll outsider achievement of placing his top 4 and nothing else :D

Angel Haze is hip pop apparently xp

i should clarify i'm not complaining, just find it amusing

thanks to everyone who was involved in putting all of this and the tracks poll together btw!

Also LJ, for future polls, can you not do that strikethrough thing for the other records you liked? It's really garish and is totally message-board manspreading. Yes, lots of us like more than 25 albums in a year. I actually wouldn't mind it if you just wrote it in a paragraph form without bolding, it could encourage more discussion of things you like, but doing it the way you have is just I LIKE MORE RECORDS THAN EVERYONE ELSE I AM IMPORTANT LOOK AT ME.

yes emil.y otm this annoyed me in the trax ballot thread too. EVERYONE had to winnow their ballot yknow

Well, except the people who only voted for Gaz Coombes. They know exactly what they like and don't need anything else.

i'd be interested in seeing everyone's extended ballots, should they have had the inclination to rank more than 25 records, but noted, i won't do it next time

Bold = placed
Weighted
Top neighbour: gman59
Most likely to read: Kerrang
Favourite genre: free improvisation
xps Wow, someone else voted for ADR! High five to Paul.

Francis Poulenc/Louis Lortie/Hélène Mercier/BBC Philharmonic/Edward Gardner - Piano Concertos; Aubade
Zomes - NetWorks Album 2: Phase Portraits
Sevish - Rhythm and Xen
Sonoluminescence Trio - Telling Stories
Nechochwen - Heart of Akamon
Allison Cameron and Contact - A Gossamer Bit
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Mew - + -
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Elder - Lore
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Bird Calls
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Voice Coils – Heaven’s Sense
ADR – Deceptionista
Paciens Trine - Revelation Spike
Arc Pair - Grammar
Mastery - Valis
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba - Ba Power
Ghost - Meliora
David Cross and Robert Fripp - Starless Starlight
Krallice - Ygg huur
Genevieve - Escapism
Floating Points - Elaenia
The Visit - Darkness Into Light

25 albums is enough! albums are long

could you post my ballot seandalai?

I felt like I was really enthusiastic about new music last year, but them struggled to come up with 25 albums to vote for

BradNelson balloteth thusly:

Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
mewithoutYou - Pale Horses
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Miguel - Wildheart
Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess
Young Thug - Barter 6
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Third Eye Blind - Dopamine
Baroness - Purple
Horrendous - Anareta
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
The Front Bottoms - Back On Top
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers
Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
Beauty Pill - Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are
Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Abra - Rose
Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires

thank u!

and with Cosmic Slop it was so:

Ghost - Meliora
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper
Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre
Regarde les hommes tomber - Exile

Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask
Baroness - Purple
Envy - Atheist's Cornea
Föllakzoid - III
Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
Godspeed you! black emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Jess and the Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Sannhet - Revisionist
Sumac - The Deal
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Wand - 1000 Days
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
Zombi - Shape Shift

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Miguel - Wildheart
Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
Björk - Vulnicura
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Grimes - Art Angels
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
Marina & The Diamonds - FROOT
Robert Forster - Songs To Play
Say Lou Lou - Lucid Dreaming
Years & Years - Communion
Destroyer - Poison Season
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Best Coast - California Nights
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Erykah Badu - But U Caint Use My Phone
Floating Points - Elaenia
Abra - Rose

weighted:

Oneotrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Grimes - Art Angels
Abra - Rose
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Jlin - Dark Energy
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Helm - Olympic Mess
King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1
Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo
Special Request - Modern Warfare (EPs 1-3)
Elysia Crampton - American Drift
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Fis - The Blue Quicksand is Going Now
Future - DS2
Lotic - Agitations
Visionist - Safe
Miguel - Wildheart
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
DJ Richard - Grind
Rabit - Communion
DJ Nigga Fox - Noite e Dia
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs I-IV
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Egyptrixx - Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power]

and thanks again to all of you involved in running the poll!

Weighted Ballot. Bold did not place. Bold Italics, sole voter.

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Neon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
Floating Points - Elaenia
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
Grimes - Art Angels
Destroyer - Poison Season
Marianas Trench - Astoria
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Joanna Wang - Bob Music
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Jeff Bridges - Sleeping Tapes
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
Royal Headache - High
Westkust - Last Forever
Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Vanessa Carlton - Liberman
HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Miguel - Wildheart
FFS - FFS
Haiku Salut - Etch and Etch Deep
The Go! Team - The Scene Between

I'm most surprised to find that apparently someone else also voted for Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards.

oh, right. time to see who won

yo i hate to be one of those guys but could u post mine? i sent super last minute and didn't save a copy.

Jlin - Dark Matter
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Sons Of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do
Junglepussy - Pregnant With Success
Algiers - Algiers
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Elysia Crampton - American Drift
Young Thug - Barter 6
Nidia Minaj - Danger

Angel Haze - Back to the Woods
Bilal - In Another Life
Dej Loaf - #AndSeeThatsTheThing
Erykah Badu - But U Caint Use My Phone
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
Floating Points - Elaenia
FKA Twigs - M3LL155X
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
Lotic - Heterocetera
Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth
Miguel - Wildheart
Natasha Kmeto - Inevitable
Shamir - Ratchet
Vijay Iyer Trio - Break Stuff
Vince Staples - Summertime '06

I'd quite like to see the all-time list reconfigured to take in the relative size of the voter base. The albums are overwhelmingly from the last few years but that's mostly because way more people are voting.

― Matt DC, Friday, January 29, 2016 2:35 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I can do this maybe at the weekend. I looked into it for the tracks all-time list and it wouldn't have made a big difference iirc.

It is the right thing to do though.

weighted ballot. I voted largely based on what I had played most over the last year. now I'm feeling kind of indifferent about some of my list, so maybe that wasn't the best methodology.

1 - Molly Nilsson - Zenith (371)
2 - Vince Staples - Summertime '06 (8)
3 - Tove Styrke - Kiddo (49)
4 - Grimes - Art Angels (4)
5 - Abra - Rose (32)
6 - Holly Herndon - Platform (21)
7 - Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2)
8 - Dawn Richard - Blackheart (5)
9 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (3)
10 - Jam City - Dream A Garden (112)
11 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete (9)
12 - Lotic - Heterocetera (272)
13 - Aïsha Devi - Of Matter and Spirit (347)
14 - Marina & The Diamonds - FROOT (170)
15 - Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (26)
16 - Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside (27)
17 - Empress Of - Me (131)
18 - Helen - The Original Faces (54)
19 - HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC (63)
20 - Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up (65)
21 - La Bien Querida - Premeditación, Nocturnidad y Alevosía (807)
22 - Le1f - Riot Boi (331)
23 - Dilly Dally - Sore (718)
24 - U.S. Girls - Half Free (83)
25 - Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh (335)

Here is my weighted ballot. Appreciate everyone's hard work, and have some new discoveries!
Top neighbor askance johnson (hi!).
*-sole voter

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (13)
Chvrches - Every Open Eye (18)
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv (165)
Vetiver - Complete Strangers (266)
Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect (75)
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again* (477)
Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges & Claws (365)
The B-52's - Live! 8-24-1979 (520)
Hop Along - Painted Shut (39)
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (1)
Julia Holter - Have you in my Wilderness (10)
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There (286)
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier (58)
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon (36)
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late (79)
Metric - Pagans in Vegas* (719)
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (90)
Sharon Van Etten - I Don't Want To Let You Down (300)
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love (31)
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free (381)
Joan Shelley - Over and Even (64)
The Chills - Silver Bullets (104)
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy (306)
Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance (125)
Cassie Ramone - Christmas in Reno* (844)

unweighted, bold DNP

Angel Haze - Back to the Woods
Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah - Stretch Music
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Dam-Funk - Invite the Light
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Erykah Badu - But U Caint Use My Phone
FKA twigs - M3LL155X
freddie gibbs - shadow of a doubt
Future - 56 Nights
Future - Beast Mode
Future - DS2
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
Junglepussy - Pregnant With Success
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kelela - Hallucinogen
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Miguel - Wildheart
Le1f - Riot Boi
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do
The Internet - Ego Death
TheeSatisfaction - Earthee
Young Thug - Barter 6
Young Thug - Slime Season 2
Vince Staples - Summertime '06

top neighbor - rob! that's cool i always keep an eye out for your posts, rob

Marcos is a good top neighbor.

― The Reverend, Friday, January 29, 2016 12:00 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

v cool thanks reverend!

weighted

Future - 56 Nights
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Future - Beast Mode
Drake & Future - What a Time to be Alive
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Young Thug - Slime Season
Lil Chris - Made It Thru the Struggle
Future - DS2
yfn lucci - wish you well
Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
The-Dream - Crown EP
Young Thug - Barter 6
Autre Ne Veut - Age of Transparency
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
freddie gibbs - shadow of a doubt
Wiz Khalifa & Ty Dolla $ign - Talk About It In The Morning EP

i did not think shadow of a doubt was as good as pinata but i still dug it

top genre: chillwave

NOOOO

closest to karl arlk rlak etc. It was a balearic heavy ballot but I didn't save it down.

didn't get a lot of sleep last night. if one more person had given Gaz the number one he would've been sat high up in the chart just above his spiritual brethren New Order. i just don't get it. he's the foremost songwriter of real fucking indie of his generation and some people just didn't have the guts to stand up to the relentless poptimist bullying on this site and give the bloke his props

looool

*gets scared off*

noodle vague is on another level, v impressive

The album on this list that I really, really, REALLY liked that I keep forgetting to talk about is the Failure album. I enjoy it A LOT when I'm listening to it but tend to forget that I own it ;_;

oh fuck i forgot to vote for failure

that album is stunning

what a failure!

all-time list ordered by points/total ballots

1 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (2012) 1909 15.39516129
2 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) 2204 14.99319728
3 D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah (2014) 2105 14.72027972
4 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2015) 2025 13.7755102
5 Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (2015) 1967 13.38095238
6 Grimes - Art Angels (2015) 1761 11.97959184
7 Haim - Days Are Gone (2013) 1792 11.56129032
8 Dawn Richard - Blackheart (2015) 1688 11.4829932
9 Taylor Swift - 1989 (2014) 1624 11.35664336
10 FKA twigs - LP1 (2014) 1509 10.55244755
11 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012) 1293 10.42741935
12 Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) 1355 10.26515152
13 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010) 1252 10.26229508
14 Lindstrøm & Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool (2010) 1244 10.19672131
15 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011) 1311 9.931818182
16 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013) 1532 9.883870968
17 John Talabot - Fin (2012) 1218 9.822580645
18 My Bloody Valentine - MBV (2013) 1520 9.806451613
19 Katy B - On A Mission (2011) 1288 9.757575758
20 Dawn Richard - Armor On (2012) 1174 9.467741935

2010 - 122 ballots
2011 - 132 ballots
2012 - 124 ballots
2013 - 155 ballots
2014 - 143 ballots
2015 - 147 ballots

good showing for Dawn and Kendrick

Thanks! Miguel jump is interesting.

john talabot fin remarkably got no number ones too iirc

I would've definitely voted for that ChillxWill if I'd heard it in time (not that it would've made any difference).

Me too! I count that as one of my favorite discoveries from this poll (even though it didn't place).

Weighted ballot; non-placers bolded:

Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife (#14)
Dawn Richard - Blackheart (#5)
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show (#7)
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (#2)
Heavy-K - Respect The Drumboss 2015 (#84)
Skales - Man Of The Year (#252)
Abra - Rose (#32)
Years & Years - Communion (#37)
Miguel - Wildheart (#6)
Burna Boy - On A Spaceship (#152)
Tiwa Savage - R.E.D (#572, sole vote)
J Hus - The 15th Day (#251)
Dumblonde - Dumblonde (#44)
Tinashe - Amethyst (#116)
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album (#23)
Young Thug - Barter 6 (#16)
f(x) - 4 Walls (#55)
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs I-IV (#135)
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (#1)
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable (#35)
Jamie Woon - Making Time (#510)
Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge (#119)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (#3)
Sevyn Streeter - Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1 (#200)
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys (#22)

I hope we'll all give the Drumboss proper respect come 2017.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Floating Points - Elaenia
Neon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
Andrew Bird - Echolocations: Canyon
HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
Grimes - Art Angels
Destroyer - Poison Season
Young Thug - Barter 6
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
Vetiver - Complete Strangers
CFCF - The Colours of Life
Young Galaxy - Falsework
Miguel - Wildheart
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Cool Uncle - Cool Uncle
Better Off - Milk
The Internet - Ego Death
Dungen - Allas Sak
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Christine and the Queens - Christine and the Queens

weighted

I self restricted to 20. This was weighted somewhat but I forget how i did it.

I know that these three got lion's share:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Dawn Richard - Blackheart

And the rest broke up somehow.
AFx - Sc
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Baby Dee - I Am A Stick
Sam Lee & Friends - The Fade In Time
T.I. - Da’ Nic
Erykah Badu - But U Caint Use My Phone
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Maxo - Chordslayer
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
Holly Herndon - Platform
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Bicep - Just EP
D’Angelo - The Spotify Sessions Live
Shamir - Ratchet
Laura Cannell - Beneath Swooping Talons
Vince Staples - Summertime ‘06
Africa Express - Terry Riley’s In C Mali

My ballot, weighted; bold did not place:

Joanna Wang - Bob Music
FFS - FFS
The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet
Soko - My Dreams Dictate My Reality
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Domenique Dumont - Comme ça
Herbert - The Shakes
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Wire - Wire
Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
Helen - The Original Faces

Thanks to seandalai et al. for your compilation efforts — I enjoyed the countdown and stats. I listened to a few hours of the albums playlist on shuffle before voting and didn't hear anything that truly "grabbed" me — it was interesting to hear such a variety of music this way, but it also somehow made taste as such seem totally arbitrary. This is probably part of why I've typically tended to latch on to particular artists and follow them for a long time, at least until they start really disappointing me (or perhaps I change in some way). I also don't have the consistent investment in new music that a lot of ILMers do, though I admire it.

Joanna Wang was my favourite discovery of the entire polling season, so your efforts were by no means in vain

voted for all of the albums that imago struck through, also voted for gaz coombes, holly herndon, oneohtrix point never and all nine autechre live albums because i know more about music than imago so was granted extra votes

interesting to see that xelab and calzino are neighbours on this list, they sound like they should get to know each other irl

My (weighted) ballot:

Sam Binga - Wasted Days
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
Abra - Rose
Future - Beast Mode
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
Tinashe - Amethyst
AFX - Aphex Twin Soundcloud Dump
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
Future - 56 Nights
Kelela - Hallucinogen
Julio Bashmore - Knockin' Boots
Flava D - More Love

Zoomed through the rollout thread last night – most intrigued by Hop Along. Thanks to all the organisers!

unweighted, bold did not place. in which i out myself as a fan of tame impala's last record.

2 8 1 4 - 新しい日の誕生
Arca - Mutant
Björk - Vulnicura
CFCF - Radiance & Submission
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Container - LP
Empress Of - Me
Kelela - Hallucinogen
Fort Romeau - Insides
HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
Grimes - Art Angels
James Ferraro - Skid Row
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Julia Holter - Have you in my Wilderness
Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Neon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
Tame Impala - Currents
Yumi Zouma - II EP

Looking back over my ballot, I remember Algiers was 26 on my list. I decided to place Fall Out Boy ahead of it because I felt sorry for it, but Algiers is the better record.

Which would have made my only non-placing selection Lonelady, an album I think might have done well if more people had heard it.

And yeah thank you so much ILX POLL CREW

that container lp was rad
cheers for the reminder to ho back to it davey

I had a hard time with the Lonelady; its weird because I think if I had encountered it about two months prior, when I was listening to a lot of second-tier no wave and early On-U and stuff like thay, it wouldve clicked with me...but I decided to give it a listen just coming off the metal poll, and it seemed a little slight.

xp to Tim F

weighted

Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
JME - Integrity>
Björk - Vulnicura
Elysia Crampton - American Drift
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
DJ Richard – Grind
Kelela - Hallucinogen
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Why Be - Snipestreet
Teedra Moses - Cognac & Conversations
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Arca - Mutant
JLIN - Dark Energy
Lotic - Heterocetera
Sevyn Streeter - Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1
Dej Loaf - #AndSeeThatsTheThing
Chino Amobi - Anya's Garden
Future - DS2
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap

ought to mention that i'm pretty unenthusiastic about my #1 and i guess albums this year in general. listened to Electrik Red yesterday and wondered when i last loved an album as much as How to Be a Lady. i must be forgetting something.

ah forgot about American drift! amazing record!

is Tim F's 23/25 a record?

weighted - don't quite remember the order of the bottom half

Swervedriver - I Wasn’t Born To Lose You
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
Björk - Vulnicura
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Blur - The Magic Whip
The Chills - Silver Bullets
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Low - Ones and Sixes
Evans The Death - Expect Delays
Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up
Destroyer - Poison Season
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There

I was happy to see so many that placed. I never knew about ILM til last year and it's already helped make priorities of a few albums I probably wouldn't have spent much time with otherwise.

Welcome and thanks for voting!

curious about Tim F's ballot and why it is so close to consensus? were you just not listening to stuff unless it was heavily repped on ILM?

cart before the horse, pal

hey calzino good call on nominating that Scott Dubois album, "Winter Light". Superb jazz album.

Weighted, DNP in bold:

Björk - Vulnicura
Miguel - Wildheart
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Kurt Vile - B'lieve im goin down
Best Coast - California Nights
Regnmoln - Regnmoln
Cepheide - Respire
Snoop Dogg - Bush
Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
Leila Abdul-Rauf - Insomnia
Taiga - Gaia
Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Nick Hoppner - Folk
Destroyer - Poison Season
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Grimes - Art Angels
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
JLIN - Dark Energy

Weighted:

Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
The Staves - If I Was
Miguel - Wildheart
Selena Gomez - Revival
Cam - Untamed
Grimes - Art Angels
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Ryn Weaver - The Fool
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Samo Sound Boy - Begging Please
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Adam Lambert - The Original High
Teedra Moses - Cognac & Conversations
Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
Mew - + -
Fifth Harmony - Reflection
Abra - Rose

So many more albums I loved too: Beach House, Jam City, Years & Years, Long Beard, Czarface, Sea Lion, Fall Out Boy, Dawn Richard, Carrie Underwood, Van Hunt, Eric Church, Future, Brandon Flowers, Gretchen Peters, Janet Jackson, Tobias Jesso Jr., Enya, Olivia Chaney, Tinashe...

And albums I wanna hear/give more time to after the poll: Neon Indian, (f)x, Low, Angel Haze, Algiers, Chelsea Wolfe, Jeremih, Roisin Murphy, Oneohtrix Point Never, Julia Holter

Weighted:

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Jam City - Dream A Garden
Colleen - Captain of None
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Smurphy – A Shapeless Pool of Lovely Pale Colours Suspended in the Darkness
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
Jonny Nash - Exit Strategies
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Low - Ones and Sixes
Young Galaxy - Falsework
Valet - Nature
Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Marriages - Salome
Natasha Kmeto - Inevitable
Grimes - Art Angels
Best Coast - California Nights
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect
Eartheater - RIP Chrysalis
DJ Richard – Grind

what a great year. Also thanks again to all pollrunners!

I don't remember my exact ballot but it looked something like this

1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Hop Along – Painted Shut
3. Vince Staples – Summertime ‘06
4. Future - Beast Mode
5. Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
6. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit & Think…
7. Young Thug – Barter 6
8. Miguel – Wildheart
9. My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
10. Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
11. Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
12. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
13. Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife
14. Phony Ppl – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
15. Ty Dolla $ign – Free TC
16. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
17. Lower Dens – Escape From Evil
18. Future - DS2
19. Kurt Vile – B’Lieve I’m Goin’ Down
20. Future - 56 Nights
21. Dawn Richard - Blackheart
22. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
23. Snoop Dogg – Bush
24. Jay Rock – 90059
25. Dr. Yen Lo – Days With Yen Lo

boxedjoy, nice to see to a vote for the Smurphy album...

imago you checked that meatraffle album yet, think you'll dig it

it's a good one that.