The campaign thread for THE 2010 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™

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GROUND FLOOR

One of my noms: Teddybears ft. The Flaming Lips - Crystal Meth Christian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psvbWeQ6QxA

Others...

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood: Vimeo
Micky Green - T.L.: Youtube
Niki & The Dove - Mother Protect: Youtube
School of Seven Bells - I L U: Vimeo
Sky Ferreira - One: Youtube
Smalltown Romeo ft. Shad - Boom Ha: Vimeo
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light: Vimeo
Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain: Youtube

Testing:

DJ Erick Rincon - Manos Arriba 2.0

Fuego - Que Buena Tu Ta Ft. Deevani
Juliana - Estupido
Juliana - Pesadilla de Amor
Mohamed Hamaki – Haga Mosh Tabeaya

Most of the albums I've nominated don't lend themselves to finding tracks on youtube or the like.

everyone who listened to the new mcr album please join me in trolling voting it #1 album of the year 2010 kthx.

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

Bubble Club's Violet Morning Moon might actually take #1 on my ballot, so gorgeous.

Please check out this tribal guarachero mix:

http://www.myspace.com/crabbespace/blog/541028116

A peculiar new Latin variant in electronic dance music, with its own distinctive rhythm, though people more informed could probably tell me that it sounds like x y z previously exisiting dance music genres. Actually, I hear it as very compatible with certain Central Asian, North African, and Arab music. I've found it immediately accessible.

I know several people here have got on the Voice of Seven Thunders tiny bandwagon, but I can't stress enough just how awesome this record is. Check out opening track, "Kommune", on Youtube. The rest of the album is up there too, and "Cylinders" (watch it here) gives a good idea of the sound when they open up a bit more. My favorite album of the year by a fair bit.

Please, everyone who has not heard the Sun City Girls album, I implore you to check it out. Not on Spotify, but there is one track on Youtube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6laU_9L7sI

It deserves your vote.

name of that album is Funeral Mariachi btw

also wanna give a brief shoutout to Rangda, Swans, and Alastair Galbraith.

oh no, I just realized I've been conflating School of Seven Bells with Voice of Seven Thunders for months now.

The Miracles Club - Light of Love
Honey Owens from Valet doing blissed-out house

humbly suggest someone noms:

film school - fission
blank dogs - land and fixed
nightlands - forget the mantra
callers - life of love
love is all - two thousand and ten injuries

This is Khaled Abdul Rahman, just straight up mainstream khaleeji music:

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

There's not a bad song on the album.

Anyone with a softspot for the refined 80's dance revivalism of, say, Les Rhythms Digitale's Darkdancer (1999) really owe it to themselves to check out Grum - Heartbeats. I'm fairly surprised at its absence from many year end lists where it clearly belongs. I'll allow myself one inline video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0Ef1Fs2Hw

Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light

my fave from that Grum album is Turn It Up but there are four or five really solid singles in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAp1jjDNtKk

not gonna plug the entire kanye album (1. overrated, 2. doesn't need a higher profile) but i'd love to see "Power" do really well on the tracks poll. i think it's been underrated all year on ILX; can't think of a more powerful (ha ha ha) 1 minute 43 seconds of music released this year -- plus, the video's incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE

Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light

I'm not even a big Scissor Sisters fan, but holy shit is this song incredible.

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:35 PM

I might actually cry if it doesn't place.

Two Grum songs being repped for, and neither is the one I'd be most inclined to vote for. That would be "Through the Night."

I had a hell of a time picking just one for a mixtape I made a few months ago. And yes I'll be voting for Invisible Light.

Jacques Greene - (Baby I Don't Know) What You Want | YouTube
More Night Slugs brilliance...

Marcos Cabral & Shux - Lifetime Groove (Marcos Cabral & Shux Edit) | YouTube
I heard this on one of the monthly Aeroplane mixes and couldn't stop listening to it for a few months.

Tracks:

Madvillain, "Papermill" (single): Warm and incongruous, like great Beefheart. Might be time to revive this thread: ('60s)Manfred Mann - C or D?

Muja Messiah, "Leech Lake" (from M-16's): Love Mu's humor, but Minnesotans need to hear this for the local references--like five Hold Steady songs crushed together.

Big K.R.I.T., "No Wheaties" feat. Curren$y & Smoke DZA (from K.R.I.T. Wuz Here): Like a present-tense rap "Glory Days" but blissed-out mellow.

Toki Wright, "Freedom Song" (from BlackMale): Blunt and probably "corny" by board standards, but the "brother" stanza is chilling, especially coming after Minneapolis's murder rate spiked.

Strong Arm Steady, "Two Pistols" feat. Mitchy Slick (from In Search of Stoney Jackson): More Madlib production but with a "my neighborhood is so tough" humor about places where you probably actually need to be "bulletproof like the Pope car."

Janelle Monáe, "Tightrope feat. Big Boi (from The ArchAndroid): Great funk song from a band as good as Nas & Damian Marley's, maybe underrated because the video stinks?

E-40, "Lightweight Jammin'" feat. Clyde Carson and Husalah: (from Revenue Retrievin' (Day Shift)): Good to have an ILX consensus jam so joyful.

Ha, all that trouble to search and I read the name wrong--Manfred Krug is the sample, not Manfred Mann.

YouTube has a lot of him.

I mean read the name wrong in the thread, I had a vague idea who Manfred Mann was.

Albums:

Busy Signal, D.O.B.: Very good album, roundly ignored, with sweet covers of Phil Collins's 'One More Night' and the Commodores' 'Nightshift' only the most obvious entry points. Start with "My Money (Money Tree)," where he sings in four or five different voices, in and out of the Auto-Tune he doesn't appear to need.

AG, Everything's Berri: Something about the New York that hip hop left behind, or the living that the dead cut adrift. Start with "Infected," which shows how much humor can bubble up out of depression.

Major Lazer, Lazers Never Die - EP: Every track is great except the non-remix opener (which somehow wastes both Busy Signal and M.I.A.). Start with "Good Enuff (Cash Flow Dub)" feat. Collie Buddz & Lindi Ortega, which gives their "Cash Flow" beat a great new melody and lyric.

Nas & Damian Marley, Distant Relatives: Marley's melodies, production, and arrangements have never been surer, while Nas is very charming struggling with big themes cool rappers avoid. Start with "Africa Must Wake Up" feat. K'naan, a gorgeous slice showbiz (with one of the few bands I noticed this year) in support of the Recent African Origin model.

M.I.A., Maya: Best punk album since I don't know when, ranking with Jamboree or Combat Rock if not It Takes a Nation and Double Nickels. Start with "Steppin' Up," her EinsturzendedubstepMutabarukaFugazi opener, which informs the listener that she is fact the proprietor of the establishment in which you are dancing.

that AG album is amazing, weird depresso dusted NYC stuff, love it

Olenka and the Autumn Lovers, And Now We Sing: London, Ontario folk outfit. Their lead singer was born in Poland, and their new album beefs up arrangements and walks the line between old world folk and more traditional indie baroque stuff. I love the grain in her voice, even if I don't love the new one as much as their first pair of EPs. Check out Odessa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zfn6_uQF94

Probably my favourite track of the year. Blue Hawaii are based out of Montreal. Blooming Summer was initially released on cassette but is available on CD and for free digitally through their label's website. The entire tape is drifty electro stuff, not dissimilar from Washed Out and that lot, except where last year's troupe trafficked pretty heavily in hazy nostalgia, the vocals on this cut through the haze in particularly Bjork-y ways. Like a more desperate and emotionally affecting White Hinterland perhaps? Also, the members of Blue Hawaii are half of Braids, whose album Native Speaker finally comes out in a month and is totally stunning in completely different ways.

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

Bonjay are from Toronto. Saw them live in October, and if possible the reggae/dancehall/electro/soul/godknowswhat is even more immediate in person. Their entire EP, Broughtupsy is pretty fucking wonderful.

Wow, that's really great! I just listened to the Braids album a few days ago and like that too, so I'll be keeping my eyes on these people. xp

Finally, Valley Maker is a quiet gorgeous folk album that Austin Crane made for his masters thesis. Vaguely based on the book of Genesis, but not really in any religious sense...more of a literary one.

Anyone who was digging the Blue Hawaii, you can get their album and also both releases by the equally wonderful Grimes (Geidi Primes and Halfaxa - more sound collagey with songs over top) and Sean Nicholas Savage's Mutual Feelings of Respect and Admiration (disco? lo-fi? something?) for free/by donation at Arbutus Records

Considering that I don't think I've been able to get anyone to even acknowledge the existence of this track all year, it's a pretty hopeless nomination, but I really like its unique jittery fractured bachata underpinning and the surprise turns it takes into melodicism.

Jowell & Randy - No Fue Una Noche Normal

& this has grown on me a lot. It's much better than the album version, even with Kameda's bass malfunction at the beginning here. I am starting to think the delayed entry of the bass works well in this song. Sports was another disappointing studio album, but several of these Ultra C versions of songs from the album help redeem that material.

Tokyo Jihen - Zettaizetsumei

(Worst costumes ever though, and I hope she decides not to make the band look like crap next year.)

Bouncy poppy song with 70sish riff(s?). Definitely more from the pop side of Tokyo Jihen (and more so in the live version, I think) than the prog/punk/art rock side.

Bubble Club's Violet Morning Moon might actually take #1 on my ballot, so gorgeous.

yup. i started listening to basically every track on the nominees list the other day and i have been unable to progress to the c's yet because this track is so unbelievable. everyone, plz listen to it.

Screaming Females - I Don't Mind It | YouTube

Really strong poppy-punk track from a New Jersey band that I had never heard of before.

there's a thread here for them! haven't heard them yet myself.

everybody who likes El Guincho's "Bombay" track should really check out the full length, only heard it a week ago and it it easily in my top ten for the year.

I'm gonna write about it in my thread eventually, but I fear it being dramatically overlooked in the poll because people never heard it, so please do me a favour and listen to Shy Child's Dark Destiny, prob my 2nd favourite song of the year.

I didn't make it through the whole thing.

Without giving away too much about the voting returns, I will say that not enough people are voting for this one in tracks...consider it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4cec5cR78

^^^^ yeah good tune.

i already wrote abt a bunch of my noms on ilx here: i know everybody else has already forgotten abt it but can we have one chillwave thread that isnt entirely ¡LOLwave! or w/e

I love this, though it may strike some as overwrought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplXehnMvNo

Actually check this one out as well/instead:

Zinja Hlungwani - Nwa Gezani My Love

The standout track on the Shangaan Electro comp, possibly my #1 for the year and a colourful video.

A little anti-campaigning: I'm sorry I nominate the new Calle 13 (and even voted for it). I haven't been listening to it much, but I have it on again now and it's not that good. Not completely unworthy of being heard, but not especially good.

ok, so I'm going to gradually post the lesser known of noms here, hope you'll like them!

at first my fav chillwavs (and related) tracks of 2010, I don't remember them being mentioned in the chillwave thread either (my fault, I guess):

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (Toro Y Moi Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6dXrOvk8c

Clive Tanaka y su Orquesta - Neu Chicago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSeoeFoA7c0

Games - Everything Is Working
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bjdMPlZaDo

Toro y Moi - You Hid
OK, this one is neither lesser known (I think?), nor it's "chill", but it's going to be the #1 on my ballot, so it deserves an embed. A sad, subdued and fragile track, resonates with me so powerfully I can't express.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kxdGKKYDIw
Some of you may prefer this, Pet Sounds-influenced acoustic version.

I'm going to speak for Cassie Fan Club, k?

Cassie Fan Club's pick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whnVJacuOY
Cassie - "Skydiver"
One of Cassie's most beautiful songs. Opens with a big rush of joyous synths, then really vibrant drums kick in and you know you're in great hands. As always, Cassie's delivery is perfect (she knows just where to pause in a phrase).
This is a totally euphoric song about falling head over heels in love--it's not obnoxiously bouncy and obvious like lots of other odes to falling in love, the lyrics are also more poetic. Cassie understands the pain love will ultimately bring her; she just can't resist the pleasures of its sweet beginnings.
Written by genius James Fauntleroy ("No Air," Britney's "Mannequin," Diddy-Dirty Money's "Shades"), who works with JT as a member of The Y's.

oh, and our bonus CHILLY must-have: JoJo - In The Dark