ILM Top 77 Albums of 2020 Afterparty: Stats, Ballots and Catnip

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2020

You can catch up on all your 77 Album listening (with the exception of The Microphones) via our finalized playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/76m1OSG2OzW0Kgzx4RAxN2

Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fdDXcD-H9kK8y4Y396bW3e6LTcYRhi26p-18RfSoBYs/edit?usp=sharing

Voters:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OzTFfxq8dDBL39qmZqjYOjbJ6SHodlw8gM5oE1u1jq8/edit?usp=sharing

Final List:
#01: Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? - 1343 points - 39 votes - 8 Nº1 votes
#02: SAULT - Untitled (Rise) - 932 points - 31 votes - 3 Nº1 votes
#03: Taylor Swift - Folklore - 919 points - 25 votes - 2 Nº1 votes
#04: Haim - Women In Music Pt. III - 906 points - 28 votes
#05: Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters - 830 points - 30 votes
#06: Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia - 721 points - 24 votes
#07: The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form - 716 points - 22 votes - 3 Nº1 vote
#08: Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine - 715 points - 20 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#09: Taylor Swift - Evermore - 682 points - 18 votes - 5 Nº1 votes
#10: SAULT - Untitled (Black Is) - 612 points - 21 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#11: Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now - 587 points - 18 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#12: Owen Pallett - Island - 531 points - 17 votes - 2 Nº1 votes
#13: Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour - 464 points - 14 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#14: Wizkid - Made in Lagos - 448 points - 12 votes - 2 Nº1 votes
#15: Kate NV - Room for the Moon - 446 points - 14 votes- 2 Nº1 votes
#16: Autechre - SIGN - 440 points - 16 votes
#17: Azana - Ingoma - 440 points - 15 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#18: Horse Lords - The Common Task - 438 points - 16 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#19: Beatrice Dillon - Workaround - 432 points - 16 votes- 1 Nº1 vote
#20: Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 - 432 points - 13 vote - 3 Nº1 votes
#21: Tiwa Savage - Celia - 431 points - 16 votes
#22: J Hus - Big Conspiracy - 423 points - 14 votes
#23: The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? - 415 points - 16 votes
#24: CS + Kreme - Snoopy /howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought 412 points - 13 votes - 3 Nº1 votes
#25: playboi carti - whole lotta red - 406 points - 15 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#26: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher - 405 points - 14 votes
#27: Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song - 391 points - 15 votes
#28: Katie Pruitt - Expectations - 388 points - 12 votes
#29: Destroyer - Have We Met? - 361 points - 12 votes- 1 Nº1 vote
#30: The Microphones - Microphones in 2020 - 356 points - 14 votes
#31: The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers - 354 points - 10 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#32: Ariana Grande - Positions - 353 points - 14 votes- 1 Nº1 vote
#33: Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA - 342 points - 9 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#34: Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry - 330 points - 10 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#35: Grimes - Miss Anthropocene - 329 points - 15 votes
#36: Hum - Inlet - 324 points - 11 votes - 2 Nº1 votes
#37: Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs - 321 points - 14 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#38: Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi - 317 points - 9 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#39: clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned - 314 points - 12 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#40: Vladislav Delay - Rakka - 302 points - 10 votes- 1 Nº1 vote
#41: Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor - 300 points - 14 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#42: Actress - Karma & Desire - 299 points - 14 votes
#43: Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques - 298 points - 10 votes
#44: Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind - 297 points - 10 votes
#45: Simmy - Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars) - 291 points - 13 votes
#46: KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl - 285 points - 14 votes
#47: Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark - 280 points - 10 votes
#48: Soccer Mommy - Color Theory - 267 points - 11 votes
#49: Julianna Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle - 262 points - 8 votes
#50: Theo Parrish - Wuddaji - 255 points - 12 votes
#51: Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead - 254 points - 8 votes
#52: Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways - 251 points - 8 votes
#53: Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud - 250 points - 7 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#54: Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan - 249 points - 8 votes
#55: Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders - 248 points - 11 votes
#56: K-LONE - Cape Cira - 247 points - 8 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#57: Annie - Dark Hearts - 246 points - 8 votes
#58: Victoria Monét - Jaguar - 240 points - 9 votes
#59: Brandy - b7 - 239 points - 12 votes
#60: Pharaoh Overlord - 6 - 232 points - 7 votes
#61: Brandy Clark - Your Life Is a Record - 230 points - 10 votes
#62: DJ Python - Mas Amable - 216 points - 7 votes
#63: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - 210 points - 6 votes
#64: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - 204 points - 8 votes
#65: Adrianne Lenker - Songs - 200 points - 9 votes
#66: Autechre - Plus - 200 points - 8 votes
#67: Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - 199 points - 8 votes
#68: Moodymann - Taken Away - 192 points - 10 votes
#69: Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower - 190 points - 7 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#70: Ulla - Tumbling Towards a Wall - 190 points - 7 votes
#71: Charles Webster - Decision Time - 190 points - 6 votes
#72: Nubya García - Source - 190 points - 5 votes
#73: Deftones - Ohms - 188 points - 6 votes
#74: Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn - 188 points - 5 votes
#75: Poppy - I Disagree - 187 points - 6 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#76: Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown - 184 points - 10 votes
#77: Selena Gomez - Rare (Deluxe) - 184 points - 8 votes

78 to 100 is fantastic albums!

78 Caribou - Suddenly
79 Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History
80 Gigi Masin - Calypso
81 Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion
82 Katie Gately - Loom
83 The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
84 Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies
85 Christine and the Queens - La Vita Nuova
86 Fireboy DML - Apollo
87 Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
88 Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
89 Ka - Descendants of Cain
90 Plone - Puzzlewood
91 flo milli - ho, why is you here?
92 Amaarae - The Angel You Don't Know
93 Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2
94 Lila Iké - The ExPerience
95 Kylie Minogue - Disco
96 Shackleton & Zimpel - Primal Forms
97 Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things
98 Disclosure - Energy
98 Elder - Omens
100 Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019
101 Loma - Don't Shy Away
102 Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger On McNichols
103 Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
104 Thiago Nassif - Mente
105 Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
106 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
107 Tricot - Makkuro
108 Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
109 lyra pramuk - fountain
110 Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
111 The Strokes - The New Abnormal
112 Moses Sumney - græ
113 Gillian Welch - Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1-3
114 Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
115 Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha
116 Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B
116 Fleet Foxes - Shore
118 Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams
119 Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
120 Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019
121 Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun
122 The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
123 Shinichi Atobe - Yes
124 Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
125 Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks

Goon cru impact in 2021 enough to get something to #25... my how things have changed

Ballot (bolded unplaced)

1. SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
2. Amaarae - The Angel You Don't Know
3. Katie Pruitt - Expectations
4. Megan Thee Stallion - Good News
5. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
6. Annie - Dark Hearts
7. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
8. Poppy - I Disagree
9. Taylor Swift - Folklore
10. Tiwa Savage - Celia
11. J Balvin - Colores
12. Victoria Monét - JAGUAR
13. Omah Lay – Get Layd
14. clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
15. Brandy Clark - Your Life Is a Record
16. Don Toliver - Heaven or Hell
17. Allie X - Cape God
18. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
19. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
20. J Hus - Big Conspiracy
21. Nomcebo Zikode - Xola Moya Wam'
22. bad bunny – yhlqmdlg
23. Little Big Town - Nightfall
24. Yaeji - What We Drew
25. Selena Gomez – Rare (Deluxe)

80 Gigi Masin - Calypso 174 6 2 0.58

disgusting savages, all but six of you

BTW I totally would have voted for Neil Cicierega in my top 10 but I was using the Spotify playlist to sort my votes and completely forgot to add it back in when I submitted my ballot.

my mixed ballot, few more placed than expected so some nice surprises there :)

Plone - Puzzlewood
Simmy - Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars)
Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind

AbcyÇwÖk - AbcyÇwÖk
Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion
Eyeliner - Drop Shadow
Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha
Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan
Isolating - Perennial
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Koyil - Healing Cycles
NNAMDÏ - BRAT
Onipa - We No Be Machine
Pantayo - Pantayo
Pole - Fading
Sadness - Shrine
Sewerslvt - Draining Love Story
Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs
special interest - the passion of
Sven Wunder – Wabi Sabi
Various Artists - Cherrystones Presents Critical Mass Vol. 2: Hearts Of Champions
Various Artists - Chill Pill 2
Vladislav Delay - Rakka
White Poppy - Paradise Gardens

i forgot to vote, but here's what i would've voted for

Against All Logic “2017-2019”
Armand Hammer “Shrines”
William Basinski “Lamentations”
Bing & Ruth “Species”
The Chap “Digital Technology”
Chronophage “Th’Pig’Kiss’d Album”
CS + Kreme “Snoopy”
Destroyer “Have We Met”
Beatrice Dillon “Workaround”
Kiko Dinucci “Rastilho”
Horse Lords “The Common Task”
Ka “Descendants of Cain”
Landowner “Consultant”
Magik Markers “2020”
Protomartyr “Ultimate Success Today”
Roomful of Teeth “Michael Harrison: Just Constellations”
Slum of Legs “s/t”
Sunwatchers “Oh Yeah?”/ “Brave Rats”
Windy & Carl “Allegiance and Conviction”

bing & ruth was my big ambient album of the year. it's almost all farfisa, and i am a sucker for organ tones. RIYL organs.
chronophage was my favorite "indie rock" album of the year as i define it, in the sense of shaggy sloppy american indie rock of the '90s. the dude's vocals might be too much for some people.
everyone should listen to the kiko dinucci album, it's like tropicalia but stripped down but not soft/quiet - lots of excellent guitar playing and gang back-up vocals
ka and protomartyr albums were both more of the same from very consistent acts, which probably hurt their respective votes
landowner is just a good frantic spazz-out post-punk band with deadpan vocals about urban planning

Submitted unweighted, Bolded unplaced

Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
The Westerlies - Wherein Lies the Good
Katie Pruitt - Expectations
Osunlade - Basic Sketches for Beginners
Brandy - B7
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions
Brandy Clark - Your Life Is a Record
Lonnie Holley - National Freedom
Selena Gomez – Rare (Deluxe)
Miyamoto is Black Enough - Burn/Build
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Roomful of Teeth - Wally Gunn: The Ascendant
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Hayley Williams – Petals for Armor
Jake Blount - Spider Tales
Owen Pallett – Island
Kazumi Totaka et al - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Soundtrack
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Eris Drew - Fluids of Emotion
Haim - Women In Music Pt III
Gil-Scott Heron & Makaya McCraven - We're New Again
Azana – Ingoma
Ariana Grande – Positions
Simmy - Tugela Fairy (Made of Stars)
Tiwa Savage - Celia

mixed, bold did not place

Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies
Autechre - Plus
Autechre - SIGN
Destroyer - Have We Met?
Filmmaker - Eternal Return
DJ Plead - Going for It EP
Richard Devine - Systik
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Nihiloxica - Kaloli
Pharaoh Overlord - 6

Katie Gately - Loom
Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Sonia Calico - Simulation of an Overloaded World
Blacksea Não Maya - Máquina de Vénus
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Actress - Karma & Desire
Fractions - NITE NRG
Phase Fatale - Scanning Backwards
Azusa - Loop Of Yesterdays
Ital Tek - Outland

my ballot, bold didn't place

1 Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
2 SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
3 Autechre - SIGN
4 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
5 Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
6 Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn
7 Horse Lords - The Common Task
8 Domenique Dumont - People on Sunday
9 clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
10 Cavern of Anti-Matter - In Fabric OST
11 Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
12 Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
13 Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark
14 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
15 Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
16 SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
17 Madeline Kenney - Sucker's Lunch
18 King Krule - Man Alive!
19 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G.
20 Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
21 Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
22 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
23 Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - III
24 Actress - Karma & Desire
25 Autechre - Plus

whats up

75 Dollar Bill - Live at Cafe OTO 19.12.19
AceMoMa - A New Dawn
Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Bergsonist - Middle Ouest
Bill Orcutt - Warszawa
CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought
CV & JAB – Landscape Architecture
D. Tiffany & DJ Zozi – Phase Ur Reality
DJ Python - Mas Amable
Eris Drew - Fluids of Emotion
Horse Lords - The Common Task
Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom 47
Krust - The Edge Of Everything
Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
Loraine James - Hmm
Magik Markers - 2020
Mark McGuire - Earth Star Musick
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun
playboi carti - whole lotta red
Polo G - The Goat
Roscoe Mitchell - Splatter
Russell Ellington Langston Butler - Emotional Bangers Only
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Tricky - Fall to Pieces

DNP sole vote

Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Pharaoh Overlord - 6
Shelly's Gone - Shelly's Secret
Ada Rook - 2,020 Knives
Patricia Taxxon - Rosa
Psalm Zero - Sparta
Owen Pallett - Island
Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Patricia Taxxon - Gelb
Arch Garrison - The Bitter Lay
Slift - Ummon
Good Sad Happy Bad - Shades
Brandy - B7
Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata
Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer
Mystras - Castles Conquered And Reclaimed
Black Dresses - Peaceful As Hell
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Azusa - Loop Of Yesterdays
Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration
KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
Miyamoto is Black Enough - Burn/Build
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
Stabscotch - Twilight Dawn
Backxwash - God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It

aw, tt and I are bezzie m8s again

sorry for not voting Liturgy, they actually had a chance!

https://surfacetoairmissive.bandcamp.com/album/shellys-secret

Here's my weighted ballot, bolded the ones that placed:

Jasmine Infiniti – Bxtch Slap
Nubya Garcia – Source
Exquisite Corpse - ∀∃
Veera Neva – Avaruuskaipuu
Park Hye Jin – How Can I
Tygapaw – Get Free
Deena Abdelwahed – Dhakar
Mieko Shimizu – I Bloom
Cinthie – Skylines – City Lights
Simmy – Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars)
Various Artists – No Justice No Peace (Naive label comp)
Jo Johnson & Hilary Robinson – Antenna Echoes
Ellen Allien – Auraa
Lady Blacktronika – Drum Control
Avalon Emerson – DJ-Kicks
The Yazz Ahmed Quintet – When We Were Live
Tiiu Helinä – Vähinä
Jo Johnson – The Windmill on the Hill
Various Artists – NAAFI X (NAAFI label comp)
DakhaBrakha – Alambari
Gary Bartz & Maisha – Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions
Beatrice Dillon – Workaround
Ulla – Tumbling Towards a Wall
Eris Drew – Fluids of Emotion
Moses Boyd – Dark Matter

I listened a lot of techno and house EPs and LPs in 2020, those genres didn't seem to fair so well in the poll, so most of my ballot didn't place. Was there even a single techno record in top 77? Beatrice Dillon, I guess, if you count it as techno.

Mixed, bold didn't place

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
Horse Meat Disco - Love & Dancing
Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
Allie X - Cape God
Various Artists - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997
The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers

Sports Team - Deep Down Happy
Earth Trax - LP2
Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
Emily A. Sprague - Hill, Flower, Fog
Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Prins Thomas - Traens
Taylor Swift - Evermore
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
U.S. Girls - Heavy Light
The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form

lol would've been awesome to see the Neil Cicierega album in the countdown

I'm really, really surprised that the Jasmine Infiniti album only got 1 vote besides mine. Like I said in the poll thread, BXTCH SLÄP is a stunning debut album, and I would've though that kind of dystopian, hard-hitting but also melancholic techno is right up ILM's alley? Definitely the album of the year for me.

forgot to listen to the neil c album last year but really enjoyed mouth moods
will check

Doesn’t look like my ballot was tallied, weird as my tracks were.

Not that it would have made a huge difference to the results.

what was the one thing on "wtev"'s ballot?

weighted, bdnp

CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought
Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
Jon Hassell ‎– Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Loscil - coast/range/arc//
Helena Hauff – Kern, Vol. 5
Vladislav Delay - Rakka
Schwefelgelb - Der Puls Durch Die Schlaefen
Identified Patient - Nerve Deposit
Leafar Legov - Mirror
Boof - Rebirth Of Gerberdaisy
Bufiman - Albumsi
Phase Fatale - Scanning Backwards
The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers
Patricia Kokett - Bizarr
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - III
Geins't Naït & Scanner ‎– GN / Scanner
Die Wilde Jagd - Haut
Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things
Hum - Inlet
The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
Kate NV - Room for the Moon
Sepehr - Shaytoon
Exhausted Modern - Year of the Rat
Andras - Joyful

i would like to personally apologize to my felow gigi-heads b/c unless i edited my ballot in the google form (which i may have idk) i forgot to vote for him and am therefore personally responsible for gigi missing the 77

I didn’t vote because I needed more time to catch up with the last few stragglers of 2020, but if I had, it would have looked something like this, maybe (all albums):

Actress – Karma & Desire
Alison Cotton – Only Darkness Now
Anja Lechner & François Couturier – Lontano
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Armand Hammer – Shrines
Christian Mason – Zwischen den Sternen
Förfallet – Förfallet
Franz Liszt – Années de pèlerinage (Suzana Bartal)
Galya Bisengalieva – Aralkum
Helena Hauff – Kern Vol. V
Klangforum Wien – Scelsi Revisited
Liza Lim – Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Lowrider – Refractions
Maurice Ravel – Le Jardin féérique. Œuvres de musique de chambre
Paysage d’Hiver – Im Wald
Philippe Pierlot, Lucile Boulanger, Myriam Rignol & Rolf Lislevand – Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe et ses filles
Sunken – Livslede
Svartsyn – Requiem
Tigran Mansurian – Con anima
Turia – Degen van licht
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Wailin Storms – Rattle
Xavier Dayer – Chamber Music
Yann Robin – Inferno; Quarks
Younghi Pagh-Paan – Seidener Faden

I'm really, really surprised that the Jasmine Infiniti album only got 1 vote besides mine. Like I said in the poll thread, BXTCH SLÄP is a stunning debut album, and I would've though that kind of dystopian, hard-hitting but also melancholic techno is right up ILM's alley? Definitely the album of the year for me.

― Tuomas, Friday, February 5, 2021 2:13 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i checked this out based on your post in the other thread and i haven't gotten far into it yet but i am liking it so ty for your stanning

Katie Gately was so close ;_;

My ballot, weighted, bold DNP:

White Boy Scream - Bakunawa
Lauren Bousfield - Palimpsest
Katie Gately - Loom
Pantayo - Pantayo
Shopping - All or Nothing
UKAEA - Energy Is Forever
Massicot - Kratt
special interest - the passion of
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Sly & the Family Drone - Walk It Dry
Yumah - Follow the Road
Loraine James - Hmm
Ada Rook - 2,020 Knives
Dorcha - Honey Badger
evicshen - Hair Birth
The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
Silvia Tarozzi - Mi specchio e rifletto
Louise Bock - Sketch for Winter VII - Abyss: For Cello
Zeroh - BLQLYTE
Horse Lords - The Common Task
AbcyÇwÖk - AbcyÇwÖk
Backxwash - God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
Aki Onda - Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking To Me
No Home - Fucking Hell
Yeong Die - Threshold Value

I was fifth least hivemindy and fifth most lonely. My closest neighbour was Raymond, who I don't think has been my neighbour before but his taste is awesome so I'm pretty happy about that.

unranked, bold dnp bold/italics sole voter. very exciting to break into the top 20 antifuxx0rs this year!

Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
Armand Hammer - Shrines
Ariana Grande - Positions
Autechre - SIGN
Black Foxxes - Black Foxxes
Blake Mills - Mutable Set
Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Empty Country - Empty Country
Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse
Hum - Inlet
Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Ka - Descendants of Cain
Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia
Loma - Don't Shy Away
Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself
Moodymann - Taken Away
Natalia Lafourcade - Un canto por México vol. 1
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
SUMAC - May You Be Held
Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Touché Amoré - Lament
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach

SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
Hum - Inlet
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Slift - Ummon
The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger On McNichols
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Behold...The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
Kiana Ledé - KIKI
Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
Deerhoof - Love-Lore
Touché Amoré - Lament
Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach
Autechre - SIGN
Bindrune Recordings - OVERGROW TO OVERTHROW
playboi carti - whole lotta red
Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts VI: Locusts
Horse Lords - The Common Task

80 Gigi Masin - Calypso 174 6 2 0.58

disgusting savages, all but six of you

― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, February 5, 2021 2:03 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I suppose you were the other #1 besides me (hence all my whining on the other thread)

It was also map's album of the year iirc but not sure if a ballot was submitted or not

my mixed ballot, had 11 place (in bold). lone votes in italics.

Kassa Overall - I Think I'm Good
Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry
playboi carti - whole lotta red
Drakeo The Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
Ka - Descendants of Cain
Wizkid – Made in Lagos
Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
BbyMutha - Muthaland
Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind

Shackleton & Zimpel - Primal Forms
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Duval Timothy - Help
Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
Moodymann - Taken Away
Secret Drum Band - Chuva
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
Headie One x Fred again - Gang
Tiwa Savage - Celia
Andras - Joyful
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
King Von - Welcome To O'Block
flo milli - ho, why is you here?
chubby and the gang - speed kills

i was the lone vote for my #1 song and #1 album lol, happy to carry the torch for these unjustly unloved gems

My list, BDNP:

1. Vladislav Delay – Rakka
2. Windy & Carl – Allegiance and Conviction
3. Matt LaJoie – Everlasting Spring
4. Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi
5. Ichiko Aoba – Windswept Adan
6. Paysage d’Hiver – Im Wald
7. Actress – Karma & Desire
8. Jim O’Rourke – Shutting Down Here
9. Hum – Inlet
10. The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase
11. Bára Gísladóttir – HIBER
12. Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown
13. Bill Callahan – Gold Record
14. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song
15. Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle
16. Owen Pallett – Island
17. Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
18. Bulbils – 15. The Easter Bunny
19. Anna von Hauswolff – All Thoughts Fly
20. Thomas Köner – Motus
21. Slum of Legs – Slum of Legs
22. Killah Priest – Rocket to Nebula
23. Clarice Jensen – The Experience of Repetition as Death
24. Suso Saiz, Susanne Kraft – Between No Things
25. Revenant Marquis – Youth in Ribbons

most of my non placements I totally get, the Bonny Light Horseman and especially the Blake Mills albums should absolutely have been in the mix though

ooof two votes for protomartyr, brutal

as my closest neighbour LBI will check your votes i haven't heard :)

Weighted, bold DNP, italics sole voter

Cavern of Anti-Matter - In Fabric OST
FELBM - Tape 3 / Tape 4
Plone – Puzzlewood
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
The Emperor Machine - Music Not Safari
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Various Artists - The Isolation Tapes (Castles in Space)
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
The Night Monitor - Spacemen Mystery of the Terror Triangle
Brandy - B7
Throwing Muses - Sun Racket
Belbury Poly - The Gone Away
Katie Gately - Loom
A Certain Ratio - ACR LOCO
Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation
JoJo - good to know (Deluxe)
Brandy Clark - Your Life Is a Record
Allie X - Cape God
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Melodien – Apeiron
Katie Pruitt - Expectations
Meridian Brothers - Cumbia Siglo XXI
Ariana Grande - Positions
Onipa - We No Be Machine
Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs

Likewise nxd :) Quite some things in your list I don't recognize, I'll search them out!

also jeff w
glad some others enjoyed that plone album as much as me

Top 5 in indie fuxxors et #7 in anti-fuxxor. sunglasses**

weighed

Waxahatchee - St Cloud
Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure
Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
Armand Hammer - Shrines
Laura Marling - Songs for our daughter
Destroyer - Have We Met
Juliana Barwick - Healing is A Miracle
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals
Adrianne Lenker - Songs
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Yaeji - What We Drew
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Charli XCX - how i’m feeling now
Amnesia Scanner - Tearless
Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

Pleasantly surprised to see Plone and Thiago Nassington bubbling under

Nassington? Fkn autocorrect. Fkn booze

I'm really, really surprised that the Jasmine Infiniti album only got 1 vote besides mine. Like I said in the poll thread, BXTCH SLÄP is a stunning debut album, and I would've though that kind of dystopian, hard-hitting but also melancholic techno is right up ILM's alley? Definitely the album of the year for me.

― Tuomas, Friday, February 5, 2021 2:13 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i checked this out based on your post in the other thread and i haven't gotten far into it yet but i am liking it so ty for your stanning

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, February 5, 2021 9:21 PM bookmarkflaglink

Yay, stanning works!

Ranked, bold placed

Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs
Yerin Baek - tellusaboutyourself
Loona - [12:00]
Taemin - Never Gonna Dance Again
Blackpink - The Album
Oneus - Lived
K/DA - All Out
Irene & Seulgi - Monster
Everglow - -77.82x-78.29
Wonho - Love Synonym #1:Right for Me
Suzanne - The Distance Between You and Me
Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry

bold did not place:

clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2
The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives
Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs
Jessie Reyez - BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Owen Pallett - Island
Algiers - There Is No Year
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
IDLES - Ultra Mono
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams
Purity Ring - WOMB
Disclosure – Energy
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Selena Gomez – Rare (Deluxe)
tricot - 10
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot
Phantogram - Ceremony
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

(I only do ranked ballots)

<3 thanks to the poll-runners, I seldom vote in these things (and absolutely abstain on years when I've released something).. thanks for the kind words everyone and to Josh for the #1, love ya Josh

I don't have any comments on the results except that I like Jessie Ware and I'm glad she won, feel grateful for having been introduced to Hum and Horse Lords, think Caribou and Sumney were underrepresented

oh hi other protomartyr voter :) xp

as I said on the other thread I have a no ilxors policy but several ilxors put out great records last year, y'all know ho you are <3

WHO lol

ho you calling a who

Bold unplaced, italics sole voter, parentheses for unplaced entries are place/points/voters/#1s.

Maria McKee - La vita nuova (302/50/1/1)
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
Aksak Maboul - Figures (162/96/3/0)
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Selena Gomez – Rare (Deluxe)
A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around (284/82/3/0)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles in allem (334/44/2/0)
Poppy - I Disagree
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Shopping - All or Nothing (219/72/2/0)
Christine and the Queens - La Vita Nuova (85/162/7/0)
Riz Ahmed - The Long Goodbye (495/26/1/0)
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry
The Bug ft. Dis Fig – In Blue (334/44/2/0)
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs
Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark
CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought
Georgia - Seeking Thrills (223/70/3/1)
R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages (277/54/2/0)
Carla Bley - Life Goes On (714/4/1/0)
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter (103/134/6/0)

First time I've been sole voter for my #1 for both albums and tracks ("Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris") I think! It should be said that I have on occasion sent unranked ballots from a surfeit of conscience; I always regret that kind of attempt at evenhandedness in the rollout/rooting/gnashing of teeth phase however, and have tried to give it up.

my ranked ballot, bold DNP

Loma - Don't Shy Away
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger On McNichols
Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry
Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Wizkid – Made in Lagos
Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
Azana - Ingoma
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Owen Pallett - Island
Fireboy DML - Apollo
Hum - Inlet
The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
Adrianne Lenker - songs
playboi carti - whole lotta red
Moses Sumney - græ
The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
Poppy - I Disagree
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
Charles Webster – Decision Time
Destroyer - Have We Met?
Tiwa Savage - Celia
Ariana Grande - Positions
Blake Mills - Mutable Set

folklore would have been #26

i didn't even know there was a gigi masin album this year so after all the complaining about him not placing i guess i better check it out

High five to the first-place vote on Still House Plants btw! Didn't anticipate that given that it fell to me to nominate it, fairly late.

Weighted ballot, bold placed

Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
Kate NV - Room for the Moon
Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan
Tricot - Makkuro
Zeroh - BLQLYTE
Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies
Elder - Omens
Mystras - Castles Conquered And Reclaimed
Mamaleek - Come & See
Duma - Duma
Botanist - Photosynthesis
Stabscotch - Twilight Dawn
Behold...The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse
Nazar - Guerilla
Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson – Rain Shadow
Gezan - Klue
Kiko Dinucci - Rastilho
Ustad Saami - Pakistan is for the Peaceful
Andrea - Ritorno
Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz
Nihiloxica - Kaloli
Kaatarya - Toda Historiá pela Frente
Armand Hammer - Shrines

Doesn’t look like my ballot was tallied, weird as my tracks were.

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 5 February 2021 19:15 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I only see a tracks ballot in the system, no albums ballot :(

Here's me (Bold DNP but is amazing):

Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure
Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers
Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs
Taylor Swift - Evermore
Molero - Ficciones Del Tropico

Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brothahood - LIVE
Bergsonist - Middle Ouest
Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova
Pedro Magina - Olimpia
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Henry Texier - Chance
Four Tet - Parallel
HAIM - Women in Music, Pt. III
Moor Mother and Nicole Mitchell - Offering
Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks
Josephine Foster - No Harm Done
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Group Rhoda - Passing Shades
Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra - Dimensional Stardust
Mark McGuire - Earth Star Musick
Various Artists - For the Love of You
Mica Levi - Ruff Dog
Katie Gately - Loom

The first Heathered Pearls albums is one of my favorite ambient discs ever

Everyone should check out both of this years John Carroll Kirby albums for supreme organic loungey ambient chill out piano goodness

Yes I should! I loved Tuscany from 2019

Unweighted:

Sarah Albu and Vergil Sharkya - Intoxidation
Alien Radio (François Houle, James Meger, Joe Sorbara) - Clichés, Vol. 1
Aziz Balouch - Sufi Hispano-Pakistani
William Beauvais - Faces in the Stone
Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
Alabaster dePlume – To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - Force Majeure
Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word
Horse Lords - The Common Task
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun
Liza Lim - Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl - Artlessly Falling
Christian Mason/ensemble recherche - Zwischen den Sternen
The Nels Cline Singers - Share the Wealth
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Owen Pallett - Island
Tony Price - Interview/Discount
Linda Catlin Smith/Mia Cooper/Joachim Roewer/William Butt - Meadow
Nick Storring - My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell
SUMAC - May You Be Held
Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Dan Weiss - Natural Selection
Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach
John Zorn/Julian Lage/Bill Frisell/Gyan Riley - Virtue

weighted, bold DNP

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Owen Pallett - Island
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Kate NV - Room for the Moon
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
Annie - Dark Hearts
Moodymann - Taken Away
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Kylie Minogue - Disco
tricot - 10
LEYA - Flood Dream
Simmy - Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars)
Creeper - Sex, Death and the Infinite Void
Bartees Strange - Live Forever
Andras - Joyful
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
Azana - Ingoma
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks

I'm pretty sure I voted for 25 albums but I only have 24 here - probably missed out the last one while copying, can't remember what it was

Roz, you were my neighbor. Still not sure how that gets determined.

Weighted ballot, bold dnp

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Billy Nomates - Billy Nomates
Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Horse Meat Disco - Love & Dancing
Madeline Kenney - Sucker's Lunch
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
Mimi Goese & Ben Neill - Life You Are
Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
John Craigie - Asterisk The Universe
Slum of Legs - Slum of Legs
Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
Roy Kinsey - KINSEY: A Memoir
Future Islands - As Long As You Are
The Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain
A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around
Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
Lori McKenna - The Balladeer
Orgōne - Connection
Moodymann - Taken Away
No Joy - Motherhood

I'm lots of people's neighbours apparently (hi!). also not sure how it's calculated but maybe has something to do with how my top 11 all placed, ha.

This is the first time I've had so many albums place btw - the one good thing about 2020 was that it gave me way more time to listen to records in full

ballot never sent

1. Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind
2. Moses Sumney – græ
3. Pantayo – Pantayo
4. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
5. Actress – Karma & Desire
6. Brandy – B7
7. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
8. Yves Jarvis – Sundry Rock Song Stock
9. Black Dresses – Peaceful as Hell
10. Songhoy Blues – Optimisme
11. Kali Uchis – Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞
12. Flo Milli – Ho, Why Is You Here?
13. Tiwa Savage – Celia
14. Katie Gately – Loom

Backxwash – God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
Doves – The Universal Want
Eddie Chacon – Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom
Material Girl – Tangram
No Joy - Motherhood
Polo G – The Goat
The Black Watch – Brilliant Failures
Tink – Hopeless Romantic
Tricky – Fall to Pieces
Tricot – 10

your neighbour is just the person whose ballot overlapped the most with yours iirc

Weighted, bold DNP, italics sole voter

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower
Katie Gately - Loom
Keeley Forsyth - Debris
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
Aksak Maboul - Figures
Kate NV - Room for the Moon
Jonnine - Blue Hills
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
Witch 'n' Monk - Witch 'n' Monk
Moses Sumney - græ
Delphine Dora - L'inattingible
Ulla - Tumbling Towards a Wall
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
K-LONE - Cape Cira
Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
Brigid Dawson & the Mothers Network - Ballet of Apes
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Jennifer Castle - Monarch Season
Nyx Nótt - Aux Pieds de la Nuit
Tara Clerkin Trio - Tara Clerkin Trio
Hilary Woods - Birthmarks

Quite a weird order and would now rate Theo P, Slum of Legs, CS + Kreme, Azana and poss the Beths above a load of these. But I voted early and in quite a wintry mindset

(would also now chuck loads of points at the Bug/Dis Fig and Mary Halvorson albums, which are fantastic but didn't get anywhere near the 77 anyway)

Poor plucky Loom; poor neglected græ. 2011nostalgia is my neighbour. Hi 2011nostalgia!

I love that Keeley Forsyth album (and EP). I discovered it from the track nomitations playlist. Thank you!

The latest version I have, I may have bumped Simmy up

Keleketla! - Keleketla!
Victoria Monét - JAGUAR
Lila Iké – The ExPerience
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019 shocked
Wizkid – Made in Lagos
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Omah Lay – Get Layd
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Nubya Garcia - Source
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – Shaman!
Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History
Sevdaliza - Shabrang
Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
Kali Uchis – Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞
Nihiloxica - Kaloli
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2
Katie Pruitt - Expectations
Mas Musiq & Aymos - Shonamalanga
La Chica - La Loba
Simmy - Tugela Fairy (Made Of Stars)
Rubio - Mango Negro
Empress Of - I'm Your Empress Of

thanks to the pollrunners and other voters; lots of stuff i need to check out. here was my weighted ballot

Owen Pallett - Island
R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
playboi carti - whole lotta red
The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - Ashioto
Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019
$ilkmoney - Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85
Smino - She Already Decided
Empty Country - Empty Country
Ka - Descendants of Cain
Horse Lords - The Common Task
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun
Neil Young - Homegrown
Armand Hammer - Shrines
Pink Siifu - NEGRO
Boldy James & The Alchemist - The Price of Tea in China
Autechre - SIGN
Tara Clerkin Trio - Tara Clerkin Trio
DJ Taye - Pyrotek
Destroyer - Have We Met?
Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
Bulbils – 15. The Easter Bunny

Greetings, fellow Bulbils voter :)

my ballot, no formatting because I always make a mess of it:

Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019
Loma - Don't Shy Away
Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
PVRIS - Use Me
bullion - we had a good time
Katie Pruitt - Expectations
White Poppy - Paradise Gardens
Andras - Joyful
Bad Boy Chiller Crew - Full Whack No Brakes
CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought
Blake Mills - Mutable Set
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B
Domenique Dumont - People on Sunday
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Maria Minerva - Soft Power
Various Artists - For the Love of You
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Katya Yonder - Multiply Intentions
Actress - Karma & Desire
Johnny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - A Heart So White
V. Kristoff – Sydra
Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Arca - KiCk i
Taylor Swift - Folklore

big thanks to the pollrunners, and to ILM for a really interesting set of results that will keep me busy all this week!

Big up the pollrunners, and big up wtev who had me as their closest neighbour despite voting for only one album. I'd be intrigued to know what it was.

CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought
DJ Python - Mas Amable
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
Actress - Karma & Desire
Headie One – Edna
Ulla - Tumbling Towards a Wall
Shackleton & Zimpel - Primal Forms
Beatrice Dillon – Workaround
Actress – 88
Cucina Povera and Haron - Plafond 6
Romeo Poirier - Hotel Nota
Jon Collin and Demdike Stare - Sketches Of Everything
Susannah Stark - Time Together (Hues & Intensities)
Folder - New Path
XYR – Pilgrimage
Cucina Povera – Tyyni
Kübler Ross - Kübler Ross
DK - Live At The Edge
Square Fauna - Meet The Fauna
Smagghe and Cross – 1819
Pontiac Streator – Triz
ILX - Cough Pill Nation

just realised by skilful deduction that wtev voted for an album that I personally sequenced :D

(and which paolo skilfully contributed to along with about 17 others of you)

wau I totally missed there was an ILX comp last year

I'm wondering what the top would look like if everyone had voted unweighted.

I guess you just order by number of votes

...in which case Wizkid would have been part of a 6-way tie at #35.

I'm just jumping back to the geoffreyesss "ballot didn't send" kerfuffle - I think his ballots would have got Katie Dey into the tracks poll and Katie Gately into the albums poll. Our poor beautiful Katies, so tragically missing out ;_;

what a kate-astrophy

For the second year running, I didn't vote, as I spent a lot more time listening to older music and barely tried to keep up with current stuff.

If I had voted, I'd have included from the Top 77: SAULT (Rise) / Haim / Dua Lipa / Roisin Murphy / Taylor Swift (both) / Brandy Clark / Nubya Garcia.

From outside the 77, I'd have picked:
Disclosure - Energy (98)
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter (103)
Siti Muharam - Siti of Unguja (130)
Mourning (A) BLKstar - The Cycle (235)
Dua Lipa & The Blessed Madonna - Club Future Nostalgia (352)
Chip Wickham - Blue To Red (445)
Jake Blount - Spider Tales (495)
Gary Bartz & Maisha - Night Dreamer (689)

Our poor beautiful Katies, so tragically missing out ;_;

Katies 4ever

;_;

Ranked, bold = placed:

Pulse Emitter – Swirlings
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Noveller – Arrow
Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant
Omni Gardens – Moss King
Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson – Rain Shadow
Chris Forsyth with Garcia Peoples Band - Peoples Motel Band
Pharaoh Overlord - 6
Boris with Merzbow - 2R0I2P0
Evan Caminiti – Varispeed Hydra
Hideki Umezawa / Andrew Pekler – Two Views of Amami Oshima
Sarah Albu and Vergil Sharkya - Intoxidation
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
Leo Takami – Felis Catus and Silence
Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things
CV & JAB – Landscape Architecture
Romeo Poirier - Hotel Nota
Bent Arcana – Bent Arcana
Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – Halocline
Matt Lajoie - Everlasting Spring
Grand River - Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes
Domenique Dumont - People on Sunday
Chip Wickham – Blue to Red
Helen Money – Atomic
Sunwatchers - Oh Yeah?/Brave Rats EP

err sorry Pharaoh Overlord should have been bolded too

Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – Halocline

What I heard of this was really good. Two sounds that go great together!

nice to see Omni Gardens make a list, crut, i love that album

Just *had* to go and check. Using raw unweighted votes, the top 10 would be the same albums, just jiggled slightly. Further down, these would seem to be the winners and losers in terms of making the top 77 vs. falling outside the 77.

INTO THE TOP 77 (or 78, given tie) 
					
53=  (78)    Caribou - Suddenly                                        8
53=  (114)   Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never       8
69=  (79)    Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History   7
69=  (85)    Christine and the Queens - La Vita Nuova                  7
69=  (91)    flo milli - ho, why is you here?                          7
69=  (97)    Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things             7
69=  (125)   Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks                                 7
OUT OF THE TOP 77
79=  (63)    Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia                             6
79=  (71)    Charles Webster - Decision Time                           6
79=  (73)    Deftones - Ohms                                           6
79=  (75)    Poppy - I Disagree                                        6
93=  (72)    Nubya Garcia - Source                                     5
93=  (74)    Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn                                  5

Please have a look at the nominations and if there are any albums you like, vote for it/them. No minimum. You have up to 50 votes.

ALL WELCOME.

Please at least have a look at the nominations.

2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & FURTHER CAMPAIGNING thread (open until February 19)

Here's ma ballot! Bold did not place

Reuben Vaun Smith - Warm Nights
Autechre - Plus
SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
FELBM - Tape 3 / Tape 4
Autechre - SIGN
Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
K-LONE - Cape Cira
Siti Muharam - Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar)
Double Geography - Indoor Gardener
Thiago Nassif - Mente
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Admas - Sons of Ethiopia
Girls In Airports - Dive
Fireboy DML - Apollo
Tara Clerkin Trio - Tara Clerkin Trio
Molero - Ficciones Del Trópico
Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records Presents: Kaliedoscope - New Spirits Known And Unknown
Plone - Puzzlewood
Duma - Duma
Nihiloxica - Kaloli
beverly glenn-copeland - live at le guess who?
Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark
Squarepusher - Be Up a Hello
Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
Tiwa Savage - Celia

there's loads in the poll I'd have voted for if I'd had heard them earlier. A feew in my list I've come back to and would rate a little higher too, but oh well.

Pleased/surprised to see Plone make it so high in the list. Didn't think there were that many people repping it as it was a little bit sweet and primary coloured, even for me. Very pleased to see Thiago Nassif not far out the 77 too, although Eddie Chacon is fairly low - thought it had a lot more love here.

Ranked ballot. Bold didn't place.

Destroyer - Have We Met?
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog
Fireboy DML - Apollo
Feminazgul - No Dawn For Men
Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
Taylor Swift - Evermore
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Pyrrhon - Abcess Time
Touché Amoré - Lament
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Stepz - Stepzologi II
Various Artists - Blue Note Re:imagined
Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
Bartees Strange - Live Forever
Robert Haigh - Black Sarabande
lyra pramuk – fountain
DJ Python - Mas Amable
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
special interest - the passion of
Clarissa Connelly - The Voyager
Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Vladislav Delay & Max Loderbauer - Roadblocks
Dirty Projectors - 5EPs
Roomful of Teeth - Wally Gunn: The Ascendant

Oh I missed the Roomful of Teeth album

Feminazgul - No Dawn For Men

I need to hear this based on the name alone

great album

Having now listened to it, I can confirm Feminazgul are not just a pretty band name :-)

Excellent interview here too https://astralnoizeuk.com/2018/07/23/smashing-nazism-through-tolkienist-thematics-with-feminazgul/

I revisited the Chloe x Halle album, and it is quite good... I got tired of it last year, so didn’t include it on my ballot, but probably should have (not that it needed my help!).

I like the DaniLeigh album better, but no one else voted for it :(

totally hooked on pa salieu for the past two days, great stuff.

My K-Lone vinyl finally arrived. Dang, it's a beautiful pressing.