Best album from the 2021 ILM EOY album poll that received only ONE top 3 weighted vote

I'd like to be able to go through and listen to all of these, but I know I won't get around to it. I do know that Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel - 'Oumuamua is a good record, though, so I'll vote for that.

ha, two of these are mine, Albedo Gravitas and Diana Rogerson

If I had voted, would have voted for C Tangana (Spanish guy into reggaeton, pop, flamenco and more)

Adele - 30 Black Country New Road seemed the obvious one to vote for.

I'd have voted for Carly Pearce had I submitted an albums ballot

I get two this year as well 😕

thy catafalque or topdown dialectic. gotta hear the carly pearce???

Yeah, Topdown Dialectic is the one I've listened to the most, at least. I meant to spend more time with with ToiToiToi and John Glacier though, so this is a welcome reminder...

My top three all in here - YL Hooi, I Stumble And Then I Fall, bassae

I had Stranger by YL Hooi as my top track of the year and was the only voter as well

I have that YL Hooi record - smudged and dreamy bedroom stuff, a bit like Paper Dollhouse, Penelope Trappes or Cucina Povera but some of the songs eg 'W/O Love' or 'Always In Jokes' have got a bit of an echoey dubiness to them that kind of make me think of a somnambulant Tones on Tail. Didn't vote for it though I'm afraid - apols!

Will check out yr other picks

Lost Horizons was nearly my #1 which I struggle with given what a Bella Union Focus Grouped hodge-podge it will come across to many as and the extent to which I kept listening to it just to try and remember what half of it even went like or trying to find something in it ultimately not quite there but it still ended up very comforting lockdown listening and does feature a bunch of decent guests including Laura Groves, John Grant and Kavi Kwai (who I mistook for Liz Fraser at first).

Kiwi Jr. was my #3, nervous Canadian Pavement pop.

c. tangana album is great, barely missed my ballot. it’ll get my vote here

Kiwi Jr. was my #3, nervous Canadian Pavement pop.

Oooh that sounds nice. Will check it out.

For the people who want to check out Marina Sena rapidly: Voltei Pra Mim, Amíude, Me toca, Por Supuesto

If your top album isn't here and you are intrigued at all by proggy/mathy (but still heavily improvised) modern jazz compositions for g/b/d with an archtop player using an expression pedal and delay unit to bend pitches.

Then pls listen to the Thumbscrew

i have three here, any of them are my favorite record of last year depending on the day: Electric Party (magical comp of obscure/previously unreleased new wave that hits a perfect sweet spot of warm and cool balearic mutant-disco-funk,) Ssiege - Meteora (gorgeous ambientish synth-pop, has an elegant ease to it that is just lovely to sink into,) The Zenmenn - Enter the Zenmenn (fourth world new age pop, good-natured, fun, gorgeous)

C Tangana album is great and gets my vote here. I voted for "Ingobernable" in the tracks poll but didn't have enough time with the album to consider it.

Carly Pearce's album has its moments but is pretty front loaded imo.

Three of mine are here.

https://mariachavez.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-awake-ekawa-peelsa-spring-2021

https://skintraderecordings.bandcamp.com/album/cornell-5-8-77

https://tahnzz.bandcamp.com/album/high-mija

Listening to the Ssiege and liking it. Has a Boards of Canada vibe to my ears.

Kiwi Jr. was my #3, nervous Canadian Pavement pop.

Noticed a few Malkmusian vocal tics by the singer, but overall this reminds me more of early Of Montreal. Also worth checking out The Stevens album Good from about 5 years ago, if you like this. (Really hope The Stevens will eventually make another record.)

Agree w Indexed about the Carly Pearce: yet another About Half Good album, incl. quality impact as well as quantity, that could have been a v. good EP.
Haven't heard all these albums, but voted Sumney: can't unsee the video when I listen to the audio now (well-played, MS), so here's what I said on Hype and Slander_
Some kind of Special Citation, Laurie Anderson Award, whatever you want to call it, should go to Moses Sumney, director and star ov film x album Live From Blackalachia, which takes place during a day and evening in the mountains of North Carolina---no audience, so no "How ya doin Blackalachia" etc., but you are there. A seven-piece band total, I think (three horn players eventually appear in the gloaming, all in good time), opening with what I think of as psych metal then losing me a little in second quarter diffusion of prog-associated balladry, but coming back strong and then some with the rest, incl. slow motion acrobatics of falsetto, my least favorite (and then some) form of singing--even got a little tired of it on prev. Sumney albums---but this is incredible, incl even some use of microtones? reminding me of Arthur Russell's cello bow at times---and visuals are totally appropriate at all times---meant to compare w audio-only, as usual, but this time I couldn't look away.
(Only thing comparable in recent years: The Chicks' Gaslighter, with commissioned videos by female directors for each track, but those are discrete, while this is seamless---despite cut-ins of "low-fi video," like it says in the credits, also times of day and evening can switch, never twitch.)
Indexed later mentioned being reminded a bit of Bjork, and I've since read that Sumney even covers her some times, also seems like Prince is an influence, but not too much in either case (although like I said, he does lose me sometimes---but that's just part of the trip).

two of these are mine, I think. I only voted for 5 albums or so

area 3 is great ambient from the Khotin guy

topdown dialectic - love everything they’ve done, very hard to describe tho. just incredible minimal electronic sounds

I voted for georg-i, it's Bandcamp-only, check it out if you want to hear three tracks of UK bass music with genius sound design:
https://ycolife.bandcamp.com/album/yco002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEMl8LR04m8

The Zenmenn - Homage To A Friendship - feat. John Moods

voted Andy Bell on a whim, stand by it

that indica remix is really nice

Did we have a poll like this for tracks this year?

C. Tangana’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert is iconic and probably the best TDC you’ll ever see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW6L_lTrIFg

Instead of a concert it’s more of your typical house party in Spain. Everyone -except from the amazing guitar player - looks like they’ve been drinking a couple of licorice shots and gin tonics.

*anise shots. turns out anise is the “english” word not licorice.

^^ that video is so great!

looks like "me maten" and "los tontos" from that session are available on streaming services

Which sort of proves how good it is! I don’t have any recollection of a tiny desktop version of the song being available on streaming services.

I like both version of those songs way better than the ones on the album too.

Did we have a poll like this for tracks this year?

No. I usually only run a poll like this just for albums. Feel free to start one for tracks!

C. Tangana’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert is iconic and probably the best TDC you’ll ever see.

This rules. Thanks!

I cautiously hereby suggest / vehemently hereby claim:

If Broadcast were obsessed with the 5th Dimension instead of the United States of America, then

Gloria - Sabbat Matters (1st)

is what they would have made!!

^ Okay, that description could almost have been custom-designed to make me listen lol. Digging the title track, for starters...

Haha excellent! Not sure how accurate it is, but gotta hyperbolize a bit. :-D

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If Broadcast were obsessed with the 5th Dimension instead of the United States of America, then

Gloria - Sabbat Matters (1st)

is what they would have made!!

Great description. I absolutely would have voted for Sabbat Matters in this.

wow! more participation than I expected this year

Fully sold on this Kiwi Jr album now.