ILM's 2025 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING & CAMPAIGNING THREAD

And now it's time to vote! Here's the link: https://forms.gle/kJJfZ6rx2tsBnVG29

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT PST on Wednesday, January 21st, 2025. (note non-traditional day!)

The procedure is simple: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields below. Please copy each line directly from the nominations list; do not number your ballot.

You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.

(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.

(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).

NOMINATIONS
Track Nominations
Album Nominations

PLAYLISTS

Tracks on Spotify
Albums on Spotify

If anyone has a playlist on another platform, post the link in the thread and we'll add it here.

This thread is also for campaigning - convince/cajole/threaten the ILM community to check out your favourites. Just keep it easy on the Youtube embeds so the thread stays loadable, if you're posting more than one track please link instead.

The EOY team this year is me, moka, emil.y...and maybe you? We're looking for one volunteer to help with the album poll rollout - if you think you can help, shoot me an ILXmail.

Silverfish proffered a groovy Youtube tracks playlist in the other thread:

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxCtzm7x4qCKBvDI-zsM8ydC_DeeBZ7

Voted

Nation of Language - Inept Apollo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjCgSSepzrA

Song feels like it could have been released in 1984.

The Spotify tracks list is as complete as I could get it, maybe 20 or so that I couldn't find. It comes in at 970 songs, running 66 hours and 18 minutes. If you're curious, that is up from last year's 917 nominees running 64 hours and 43 minutes.

Voted!

I think my top three tracks will be a combination of these three, and if I don't do a bit of campaigning, I'll end up with three for three in the 'only one vote' poll.

Boy Sayso ft. Emarvellous & MAXOO - Rice & Peas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_c7dcC77nE

The 3-step rhythm began really working for me this year, and this hiphop/3-step hybrid was amazing. Reminded me of classics like Lapaz Toyota, yet still felt fresh and new.

Cocojoey - Trust In Events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2NiQ7G7cq4

I don't entirely get why this wasn't the big hypertrash banger of the year. Entire album is pop at its best.

No Joy feat. Fire-Toolz - Jelly Meadow Bright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXie0A23LM0

No Joy does the traditional shoegaze freak out, except it's with Fire-Toolz, so there's both death metal and juju in there as well.

I do already have slight buyer's remorse, can I send in a slightly modified ballot?

Big fan of this - sounding like a remix downloaded from an MP3 pop blog (possibly mine) in 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spI46ET_W74

Small observation: in the tracks list, I believe the entry

Goldfrapp - Strange Things Happen

should really be

Alison Goldfrapp - Strange Things Happen

(ie the solo artist, not the duo)

I don’t have a clear picture yet of what my track votes will look like. Still collating and listening and paring things down. But a few songs I discovered from the tracks noms that I’m really enjoying (thank you nominators):
- Judeline - Chica de cristal
- Max Dean - Can’t Decide
- Le Sserafim - Spaghetti
- Jennie - Like Jennie
- Jade - Plastic Box
- Jason Isbell - Bury Me
- Charley Crockett - Lonesome Drifter
- Japanese Breakfast - Picture Window
- Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (can’t remember if this was actually nominated but the ones that were got me to check out the album)

The below are ~probably~ going to be my top two, some classic electro vibes and a short burst of DIY chaos. Despite it being January already I may be on the look-out to fill out my "tracks that aren't just from the albums I'm voting for" ballot, so please lobby!

8485 & Danny Brown:

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

No Peeling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwr_5jRYRk

emil.y, one that you (and others) might find interesting is in my top five tracks of the year, Minor Science’s “Mortals.” Tim F described it (paraphrasing!) as nu-metal transmuted into leftfield house banger, and that gets it down to a T. I honestly couldn’t stop listening to it this year and everyone for whom I’ve played it has been bowled over, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smDTaXVjra8

Okay, that slaps! Immediate YES from me.

I want to promote the Darryl Johns self titled album

I dont know where I came across his music, maybe THE ALGORITHIM but its my most listened-to album of the year.

His trajectory is interesting - he is this jazz bass guitar prodigy who just got sick of the stuffy world of jazz and just wanted to do his own thing. He’s played with Mac Demarco (this came out on his indie label) and with power pop band The Lemon Twigs (my fave album of ‘24) for a bit. There’s some live sets online that are fun but pretty shambolic. Gigs that seem very much off the cuff. He and the band can really play, but live he can’t really sing — and he usually seems a bit drunk or high. That said, it kind of fits the vibe he’s going for on this album; it’s a laid-back punky rebellion against the hyper-disciplined jazz world he came from.

Musically, this album is hard to pin down — it’s this strange, vaporwave-adjacent mix of smooth jazz and pop, like 80s sitcom theme music crossed with the funky soft jazz they used to play on old TV weather forecasts. Johns plays everything here. Ibthink he runs his guitar through a MIDI interface, so sometimes it sounds more like a synth, and his vocals are pitch-shifted and warped until they feel almost gaseous. It’s like he’s created a new micro-genre: Zoomer Jazz. Or maybe Mall Prog fits better. Most of the album is instrumental which are all quite loose and joyful invoking a kind of tv jingle memory but couched in these slightly off-kilter arrangements. Or sometimes it sounds like pop hits from an alternative 80s being played on a warped cassette (like the “Jessies Girl” sounding “Im So Serious”).

For me, this hits pleasure receptor parts of my brain that are irresistible. Instant mood enhancer for me. Nostalgia feels (with maybe something a bit “off” also) without any baggage. It makes me happy for reasons I can’t fully explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK2ItHcBMs4

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

darryl johns is so good, his album was technically 2024 so i didn’t think about him at all for my eoy lists, but he really does hit that nostalgia sweet spot. kind of like the lemon twigs but for the 80s. “i’m so serious” and “maggie and me” often run through my head

Heh he played bass for The Lemon Twigs for a bit

I'll blurb a few of my submissions for y'all.

Quick access to all 15 of these 15 songs in YouTube right here

1. Nova Twins - Hide & Seek

What better way to begin the madness than a stop-start blast from the pre-eminent representatives of the New New Wave of British Heavy Metal? Bask in the glory of the 4-on-the-floor stomp of the bridge, as it sets the stage for the maelstrom of 🤘ROCK🤘 that awaits…

2. Scowl - Tonight (I’m Afraid)

Although not as punctuationally-ridiculous/awesome as the Human League’s “Love Action (I Believe in Love)” or the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)”, I applaud this Santa Cruz cadre for excellent use of parentheticals. Get ready to thrash all over the room when it all goes supernova around the 1:50 mark, like when Bowser drives over a gold question mark to fly past Waluigi on Toad’s Turnpike. Another ‘must see live’ band.

3. Niis - The Bow

Gee whiz, why would songs of this style be appealing in a year like 2025? Basically structured like the Scowl song in reverse, where instead of slamming on the gas pedal about 2 minutes in, we get a break_d__o___w____n 📉, both in tempo and in disposition. Niis, which I learned is pronounced “Nice!”, are part of a hardcore scene with newcomers Die Spitz and Babe Haven, both of whom were awesome live, but damn, if only it could have been a trio.

4. Seaside – Butter

No, it’s not a BTS cover, you goofballs, although repurposing titles from songs streamed a billion times would not be a horrible idea! For a band that normally plays in the dreampop/strut-rock sandboxes, this punky explosion was quite the departure. I love how each of the 3 different chord progressions build upon each other, like aftershocks of an earthquake.

5. Master Peace - There’s No More Underground

Bridging the worlds of landfill, pop punk, and indie sleaze into a Ramones-esque sampler platter, I'm still kicking myself for missing his hella cool London live show in late '24 by one week (I really need to check schedules before deciding when to travel to Europe). The super-brief mosh part near the end is like a campfire when the wind blows it right at you.

6. Ash Molloy - will I ever learn?

Time for some CanCon (complimentary)! In headphones, the production choices are somethin’ else, especially as the chorus hits, when the Alternative Nation-era pop-rock guitars blast off like a space shuttle. On the surface, the lyrics seem quite opaque, but then I read a profile of Ash, and she said the goal was to shine a set of halogens on the scourge of creepy, abusive rapists who get away with their transgressions again and again, quoting actual statements made by said creeps during court depositions, news conferences, and campaign stops. As for your question, Ash, I really want to believe that we will.

7. EEVAH – Lullaby

Time for a slow-burn cinematic stairway to the clouds. ASMR whispers from a higher power, it’s the Sistine Chapel of weightlessness. I could see this as a first dance at a wedding, or the “raising fists in the air as you scream with joy” post-vows celebration. Those guitars are ladders to other galaxies. And that ending - great to hear Santigold’s influence via the Midlands!

8. Dizzy Fae – Magnify

A wonderful collision of dreampop and Garridge, Fae seeks to assure that her vocal is as percussive and onomatopoeic as the clanging around her. While the bassline reinvents AMSR, it’s that drum track, which is so synthetic it's like your 808 had its own 808, that really carries it to the sky.

9. TEHYA - trap door

This pop-forward blast of rhythmic adrenaline is loaded with melodic hooks, sing-to-rap-to-sing switches in a real Smörgåsbord of vocal styles, percussive drop-outs, and instrumental motifs, including a pre-chorus that allows me to make my second reference to Santi White when she was still allowed to be called Santogold.

10. chlothegod - Digging Around

I'll hand it over to the titular Chlo to explain the (pop) punk-leaning track:
“‘Diggin Around’ symbolizes the monotonous task of self-work. While I often have fallen victim to the pseudo-freedom that inciting chaos brings, I had to take 2 steps back and a deep breath while I reflect on the harm I have caused myself and others. Really uncomfortable but necessary shit. 'Nothing changes if nothing changes' type beat.”

Backed by dry-as-fuck tom fills that wandered over from a Rural Alberta Advantage studio sesh, and a rising intensity of the pre-chorus leading to a tasteful-yet-shouty refrain (not to mention a post-chorus - we have a 4-leaf clover here!), it's just so God-damned joyous in its open release.

11. Beth McCarthy - Drama At The Disco

Subtlety? Restraint? Classiness? “I don’t know her!”

I hear you: "Pref, what in the hell are you doing to us?" OK, screw it, let’s embrace the cheesiest, poppiest, scream-alongiest 3 1/2 minutes you’ll hear this year.

Ever wonder what would happen if someone dared to mash-up The Fratellis and Chappell Roan? No? Well, whatevz, here we are! The change from 6/8 to 4/4 totally hits my pop-side-of-prog sensibilities, as does the unnecessarily-loud pounding drums and back-up gang vocals, bonkers lyrical scenarios, and fearlessly-guileless “Look! Geddit?” references to what might be the last enduring rock hit of the monoculture. If this is where Pop is headed, count me in (just don’t throw the tequila on the rocks at me).

12. Pistol Daisys - Crying in Marseille

Everything is exaggerated in another example of OTT melodrama, disco-pop edition: the synth sounds (round, bouncy, and consuming everything in their path); the vocals (shouty and emotive to the Nth degree, dig the way singers Lorna and Belly nearly channel James Hetfield on the end of the chorus with “Marseille-yuh!”); the drums (apparently not big enough, so they added handclaps and fuckin’ woodblocks); and thankfully, the gloriously-ludicrous lyrics (“That night in Toulouse, we had nothing to lose…”). Their follow-up single “Honey” is equally as more-ish, an “OOPS! ALL TOWERS!” Tarot deck you didn’t know you needed.

13. Sophie Kelly - Sparkling Wine

My wife's blasting of Olivia Rodrigo's “Vampire” during the “Spooky Szn” round of my Non-ILX Music League subliminally prepared me to appreciate the New Melodrama, and fully submitting to the very Meat Loaf-esque idea that the three-plus minutes I'm currently hearing is “The! Most! Important! Song! Ever! Recorded!”. The guitar runs and textures that pop up in the 2nd verse are rad as hell. Another stellar example of taking 3 different chord progressions and having them build on one another like rock formations, with it all dropping out for a stripped-down ending that will remind you of that uncomfortable voicemail that you know you should have cut off a minute ago, but you just had to keep going.

14. crushed – starburn

I know it’s silly to let outside affirmation affect you, but when I saw that Yasi Salek of “Bandsplain” also listed this as one of her yearly faves, I was repeating her own vernacular, “Let's fucking go!”, in a similar So-Cal lilt. The emotional flip-side to EEVAH’s “Lullaby”, this is all ethereal vox and subtle guitars that remain Earthbound, all while feeling like levitation is eminent.

15. Moon Panda - Space Elevator

The gorgeous chorus, those synth progressions, & propulsive rhythm are evocative of the R&B of the mid-’90s, while the vocal melodies are just devastating in their beauty. You can guess that I also love when weird sounds show up in something more on the understated, chill level. This is almost up there with Little Dragon’s “Feather”, Cibo Matto’s “Moonchild”, and Beyonce’s “Love Drought” in the exalted hierarchy of cosmic liftoff music.

Oh damn, was looking through the list and it looks like nobody nominated any of the new Castle Rat stuff. I completely forgot, but I would've voted for 'Wizard'. Maybe I'll write it in but don't want seandalai to kick me off the team.

myaap - fairy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhCC1yW4nlU

^^ def voting for this one

some things I liked a lot and you might too

Florence Adooni - A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity): sprawling, live-giving disco/highlife/acid alchemy, I can't imagine anyone here not loving this
Yasmine Hamdan - Shmaali شمالي Tarweeda (Nicolas Jaar Remix): Hamdan's original already mixes up Palestinian folk tradition and electronics, Jaar stretches and twists it into a big space rollercoaster
CHUU - Back in town: twee, lightest-of-light-disco K-pop that was in my head for half the year and I love unconditionally
Halima - SWEET TOOTH: sexy, sweet Afro-pop/R&B
Throwing Shapes - Throwing Shapes: harp-forward post-rock, kinetic and immersive
Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE: shoegazy rock, reminds me of Gang Gang Dance a fair bit, it's fun to float around in the fuzz

I think of these songs as a perfect triptych of shimmer and swoon:
Kali Uchis ft. Ravyn Lenae - Cry about it!
Halima - Eau de vie
CHAEYOUNG ft. Gliiico - Avocado (song starts at 1:13)

As this came up via Moka during nominations: addison rae - diet pepsi made the Top 77 last year and is ineligible this year.

aha - removed

however! pleasure systems' gorgeous cover of it did come out this year and i nominated it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr50JVWcJRo

oops, sorry for the YT embed!

i also forgot about that rule, apologies

Right now I mostly want to campaign for Min Taka’s “Pyramid”, which answers the age-old question: “what if Olivia Rodrigo but uk garage?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FS4UcxW_kE

- Voters should make sure that they have reached "Bye Bye Snake Eyes" and "Joe Meek Will Inherit the Earth" on Tropical Fuck Storm's album. The former is a fantastic violin-sustained bluesy number carried by the vocals of Fiona, who I found convincing enough to actually nominate the track. The following one is another slow burner with Gareth this time, it features amazing guitar and my favorite solo in a long while. Wish they could do a whole album like that.

- The Juana Molina is one of her peaks. Soft and radical, structured and trippy, and it sort of rocks.

- Isaka (6am) is one of the most obvious South African songs this year. You wouldn't want your top to look too monolithic and anglo-centric now, would you? And if you're curious, there are many things of beauty that were released this year, see two others below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_Y3Vq5yd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-9gZc34v0

oops, sorry for the YT embed!

― donna rouge, Monday, 5 January 2026 01:10 (thirteen hours ago)

i also forgot about that rule, apologies

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Monday, 5 January 2026 01:28 (twelve hours ago)

Me too, though the rule is just "go easy on them" not "don't post any", so both of your posts were in fact fine - mine was more of an edge case with two embedded, I should have turned them into links, really.

No one nominated The Happy Fits (ultra cheesy. hooks for days.) meaning that the one ILX quest I set for myself last year has failed. Goddamn, how do you get people to like bands?

Naledi, even if the band was the best band in the world and hit all the right buttons, there is absolutely nothing that would get me to listen to a band named Tropical Fuck Storm, and honestly, that is entirely on them. Pick a better name.

Minor Science’s “Mortals.” Tim F described it (paraphrasing!) as nu-metal transmuted into leftfield house banger,

Yeah "Mortals" rules, it manages a kind of riff-step that is unrelated to any dubstep/EDM versions of electronic music by people who probably love metal. It has a gnarly post-punk/early '80s industrial flavor to me, in addition to the '90s nu-metal vibe.

there is absolutely nothing that would get me to listen to a band named Tropical Fuck Storm

Well then maybe Total Fucking Darkness is more your speed!

Highly recommend "Desolation Boys" — plucked with gratitude from the Said the Gramophone year-end list.

And speaking of African tracks, I really like "Keep on Lovin' Me (Biko Biko)" by Lady Donli — kind of a modern ZamRock thing.

My favourite find from the noms list is Zucha ft. Spice - Amanda. Absolute corker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jE-wsqsNmQ

I really like Minor Science, but not sure "Mortals" is my thing. I do like how unusual it is but ew... nu-metal

Of my picks, here are some that I think might be more appealing to ILM at large:

Darkside - Nothing
I'm sure a lot of people know this record, but it is truly great (and fun). It manages to pack in so many twists, surprises, genres, and references and somehow make them hang together. When the clavinet groove kicked in midway through S.N.C. I was fully in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg

Nakibembe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida - Phantom Keys (Nyege Nyege)
This is just ear candy for me, incredible live performance by a Ugandan balafon group with live dubs.

Valentina Magaletti & YPY - Kansai Bruises
Dense Valentina (who everybody loves, right?) + electronics
https://valentinamagaletti.bandcamp.com/album/kansai-bruises

Ensemble Nist-Nah - Spilla
Hybrid Gamelan ensemble
https://willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/spilla

And I don't think I need to rep for Oren Ambarchi, Lucrecia Dalt, Yasmin Hamdan, Sam Prekop, etc.

Somehow not nominated, criminal (just discovered it yesterday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITy-DDcEGAc

Oh and Nikki Nair once again made the best and most fun dance tracks of the year, I'm sorry I didn't nominate 'IRS Love' as a track, that seems like it would be an ILM fave.

https://nikkinair.bandcamp.com/album/violence-is-the-answer
https://ssscccrrraaappp.bandcamp.com/track/sheeps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWRwgCuSL0

From my own noms, I have a handful which I really really must stan for:

Chimpo ft. Stanna Banner - Cheeky (DJ Polo Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLkBVAeXOhg
This is just so fun. Chimpo and DJ Polo are among my favourite producers in recent years, and it's got that fantastic post-amapiano/afro-house thing. but it's Stanna Banner's Manc-Punjabi delivery that put a big grin on my face every time I hear it.

MÖRDA - Izigi ft Mnqobi Yazo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi-yVp_hT4I
Others might disagree, but from where I'm standing Amapiano fatigue is real. And while the rise of 3-Step has been interesting to observe, I fear that it's largely the same vibe with a different rhythm. Not so MÖRDA's excellent album from earlier in the year. Asante III showcases the possibilities of what is possible within this new genre, and "Izigi" is the highlight. It's a wonderful sound - loads of live instrumentation, but still very much a dance tune. I haven't stopped playing it out.

Lvbel C5 - HAVHAVHAV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tppzgR5ok0
Youse are all sleeping on canine Turkish drill.

Sir Hiss ft. Logan_olm - Don Gorgon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo3Mzr4x9TM
Immaculate UK electro/grime/dancehall crossover track. Knocks the breath out of me.

Tourist - Embrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpmwf12vcr0
Tourist pivots into pretty trance sounds. Huggy, warm, danceable. Love it.

(ulp, sorry if that was too many YTs! I promise that's enough from me for now).

Avalon Emerson released an excellent EP of bobbins earlier this year (which you should totally vote for) and then in November she gave us this Indie pop gem under her '& the Charm' guise (and produced by ILX favourite Bullion to boot)

Avalon Emerson & the Charm - Eden

YoSoyValentina's voice just leapt at me.

YoSoyValentina - Arena

YoSoyValentina - Blues

I like 'Mortals'! And the Miguel track (totally forgot to check his recent stuff). Going thru the playlist alphabetically by artist and over halfway thru but only a couple of other things might make my ballot.

Yeah those YoSoyValentina tracks are great. They came on in the car the other night (I was playing the nominee playlist) and my wife was like, "Who is THAT?" and immediately googled her.

love that Tourist track, downloading the album now. thanks dl!

fwiw i don't really like nu-metal— with maybe an exception made for some of the outliers like Linkin Park and System of a Down, whom I appreciate every once in a while— but i think that the Minor Science track's way of utterly disrupting my expectations and moving from ambient euphoria to nu-metal screaming to a sort of industrial funk in less than a minute, and making it sound *good*, is really exceptional.

I talked about this record a bit on the "best albums of the year" thread, but i really do think that "Eden" is the best track from the Baths record that came out last year. something about the bass coming in when it does, the vocal effects, the utter gayness of it all...really does it for me. it's very well done, definitely worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N6EI_oHL1I

I also just want to again urge people to listen to the Burial single from 2025. i know not everyone is a fan of the more ambient side of their output, but "Imaginary Festival" is much more affecting and successfully atmospheric than "Comafields," which sort of feels more like rote Burial bits hastily glued together, imho.

Only just now listening to that Afro-Portuguese kuduro comp of various artists Não Estragou Nada

Freakishly, curmudgeon's last two posts mention precisely the things I revisited for ballot purposes today. :)

Voted. Full slate of tracks (and could have doubled it) but only a half-slate of albums. Not sure if that just reflects my listening habits these days, but there were fewer full albums than usual that I returned to over and over last year. I listened to a whole lot of albums at least once, but not all that many more than two or three times.

I'm the same. Somethign happened ten years ago (likely the switch to streaming/playlisting) that made me go from being much more interested in the albums poll to getting much more excited about tracks.

is today the last day to vote or can we vote on Wednesday?

OP says Midnight Pacific Time on Wednesday so assume that means there's about 40 hours left?

Anyway, voted!

As usual far too many amazing tracks to try and squeeze onto my ballot

I'm still an albums person, I was much more cavalier about my tracks ballot (which was fun too). Looking forward to it, thanks to the volunteers.

I'm the opposite! Really overthink the tracks and have a bunch i wish i had room for on my ballot, but with albums i'm just like "ya here's 20 i guess" and the back 10 could be any order.
about to submit said list now.

voted!

I don’t usually campaign for stuff for EOY but these two cuts are in the nominations, and those of you of the noise persuasion might find them fun:

https://niacinamide.bandcamp.com/album/spaces-2-compilation-niacinamide-abandoned-in-their-panic-dystopian-frequencies

https://harshnoisewall.bandcamp.com/track/miasma

Voted! Tracks was especially difficult for me this year. Lots of great discoveries in the playlist.

voted! i am more of an albums guy at this point in my life but i still submitted 25 for each. unweighted because i honestly hate ranking things.

Ugh it's been an hour and I already found a track I forgot to list

lol yeah I totally forgot one album but ah well.

OP says Midnight Pacific Time on Wednesday so assume that means there's about 40 hours left?

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 20 January 2026 15:46 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I confused everyone last time so just to clarify: I'm in the UK and will close voting on Thursday morning, there's about 36 hours left to vote.

ty!

did you all ever find a volunteer? I'm not sure I could commit to it, but I'd think about it if you are still a hand short

trying to scrape together a lonely voter ballot but no promises

Voted! Only eleven write-in votes in the end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

voted!

voted as well!

for anyone yet to vote, don't forget to save your ballot(s) somewhere before you vote so they can be shared in the post-mortem / recriminations threads

voted :)

including one write-in that i forgot to nominate lol

I forget to do that every year, and this year is no exception.

Xp

Managed to vote!

Thank u flopson for nominating sam goku's "xplor-1" which I had somehow completely forgotten though EVEN THOUGH everyone knows that I sam goku's number 1 fan.

getting excited. i hope everyone votes for my noms because they're the best ones

iiiiiiii voted

Very psyched for the rollouts, got my Apple Music 77 tracks playlist created already

ok lets do this thing

*rolls up sleeves, cracks knuckles*

~12 hours left - keep them coming!

Don't forget yr write-in votes for

Badger - Canva (Why?)

way too late to campaign now i guess but this tune has been my happy place for months now, he's kind of like an Aboriginal Australian Nourished By Time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nByNWPpsCU
Keanu Nelson - Place Where I Go

oops sorry for embed

voted zzzzz thank you!!

I voted. Thanks

voted!

me too!

already regretting voting for "tears" instead of "manchild"

Yeah, "Manchild" is the best song from that album.

Just checked your noms dl and two of them did indeed make my tracks ballot xps

There were also a couple of your noms that were discoveries that just missed out so I'll be looking forward to seeing your final ballot

Wahoooo! Influencer! :-D

voted!

closing this down in about an hour - stragglers get on it

voting = closed

Thanks for organising

Roll out starts next week?

Do it the first week of February so we can argue whether the Roll Out should start on the 1 or the 4.

a ludicrous suggestion, ban tipsy mothra

Thank you seandalai. Godspeed on the tabulation.

👍🏽

Just realised I never bumped this thread: in case anyone has this one bookmarked and missed that the rollout has started, we are now in the 30s over at ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2025