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I would hope that Bunji Garlin's Differentology would be a strong contender for a top five place this year: http://youtu.be/u5g4EsftP8I

On the off-chance that anyone missed the thread about it, check here:

we ready, we ready, we ready: Bunji Garlin's soca gesamtkunstwerk "Differentology"

Shiina Ringo - Irohanihoheto

Driving, but dreamy, with a bridge that evokes 60s movie soundtracks.

There's also some heavy literary allusion going on. From Sarah/frecklegirl:

Song info: Theme song for the Fuji TV drama “Kamo, Kyoto e Iku. ~Shinise Ryokan no Okami Nikki~ [Kamo, to Kyoto. ~Diary of a Proprietess at a Long-standing Inn~]”

Info: This song’s title is the first line of a famous Heian-era Japanese poem and refers to flowers, which are brightly colored, sweet smelling, but temporary. It contains every syllable in the Japanese syllabary once, so this first line also doubles as an ordering system; “Iroha” has the same meaning as “the basics” or “the ABC’s of” something. While the characters directly transliterated read “Irohanihoheto,” the modern pronunciation is “Iro wa Nioedo.”

http://lavendral.wordpress.com/category/%E6%A4%8E%E5%90%8D%E6%9E%97%E6%AA%8E-ringo-shiina/singles-%E6%A4%8E%E5%90%8D%E6%9E%97%E6%AA%8E-ringo-shiina/

assume no embedding?

I wasn't going to be strict about it. Maybe in moderation?

lol ok sweet this is probably the only song i'll stick in this thread so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mBJaqS700

titica - don't touch me

first heard it a week ago bcz of her champion jon bogart, only mention of titica in ilx history is a bogart quote, i might go and make a thread having only listened to this incredible song holy fuck

lol w/e

It won't imbed if it's https instead of plain http.

well alright if u insist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mBJaqS700

A couple of mine are not on Spotify:

Fabrika - Ne Rodis' Krasivoy (Not Born Beautiful)

http://youtu.be/HuSf1UcFRq0

The only real challenger to Bunji for my single of the year. Half reggaeton-inspired chart pop, half accordion-driven Soviet kitsch. It's an impossibly sweet song and probably the best thing they have done in five years.

Charisma.com - Hate

http://youtu.be/ffH_Mp74xh4

Fabulous deadpan Japanese electro-rap.

Ivan Dorn - Nevospitanniy

http://youtu.be/q7EUnomoM00

I've been tipping Dorn for a while as the one Ukrainian star who could transfer relatively easily to Anglo-American pop but didn't see Nevospitanniy's expertly executed transition to contemporary British-influenced dance music coming.

Omardath Maharaj - Bacchanal

http://youtu.be/WwJLTmZTqoI

The Pungalunks haven't been on great form for a while but they produced the best chutney single of 2013 in Bacchanal.

These Lulu James are not available on (U.S.) Spotify, and I hope people have heard them. This is rhythmic music with well done vocals. Once again, isn't it better that I don't try to be a music writer?

Closer
Step by Step

She is great. Awesome live at unknown this year, too.

In fact I just decided I'm kinda done with 2013, just want there to be a lulu james album already =)

I would like very much for there to be a Lulu James album, but I've waited this long. No need to rush things at this point.

Closer is my favorite of her three 2013 singles.

One of the best Colombian salsa bands put out the best salsa album this year and this song even has a video to go along with it:

El Hijo

(I think I'm going to do a retrospective Grupo Niche playlist over Christmas break.)

The original has grown on me, but I prefer this slowed down, very different sounding remix:

Rudimental - Waiting All Night (Kindap Kid Remix)

Also not on Spotify, for me.

Tiffany Evans - 143 (I Love You)

what kind of casually epic structure is this? how many verses, bridges, pre-choruses and hooks can she bless us with? you already think it's a joyous summer jam and then she just goes and takes it to another level four minutes in. i've no idea on the status of her career, as far as i can tell she made a couple of awesome trax in 2012 then gave birth and all went quiet apart from this valentine's day mixtape - the whole thing is pretty good, this is its highlight (well "u got a woman" is kinda incredible too but technically 2012)

(the sample is ini kamoze, i believe)

FKi ft. Young Dro - 211

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

this joint is trippy as hell but in a solid non-hipster/cloud-rap way

i like that tiffany evans tape a lot.

i will rep for this album by EMMA LOUISE
http://watchoutfor.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/emma-louise-vs-head-vs-heart.jpg

fey pop from queensland is not usually something one ought to get too excited about; but her breathy, heavenly singing commands (imo) a little more presence than the average detached MPDG, and the arrangements are delicate and intricate. if thom yorke's singing was the thing that put you off in rainbows, then this album might be for you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX4SvSx6Fb8

https://play.spotify.com/album/6PM47OzoNGqc96KDDksQi8 --- this must be an international version of the album because it has old single "Jungle" at track 1. the first track is actually "17 Hours".

Will mention a couple of albums:

Inna - Party Never Ends http://youtu.be/rVQiV_vSGzE

The appeal of Romanian dance-pop seems to have fallen away rapidly this year and Inna's album wasn't even released officially in a lot of markets but it's probably my favorite pop record of 2013. It sounds almost exactly like her other ones - mershy house beats, big hooks, borrowed Latin themes, etc but was one of the year's simple pleasures along with the Avicii album.

Etienne Daho - Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvée http://youtu.be/g9DBLGWrEAY

Only came out about a week ago so it might be a bit early to judge but this could be Daho's best album since the mid nineties. Very heavy on the strings, giving it an Initials-BB-era Gainsbourg vibe in places.

QUALITY INSTRUMENTAL SPACE ROCK RIGHT HERE (if that appeals to you, you should listen to this)
bonus: it turns into a completely different song for the last minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMHswWOn88

SUNGOD - Comrade Voyager
There are only 77 views of this track on youtube, so you get extra points for being obscure (the whole album is really good too)

ALSO -- doing my part for the weirdo bloc, this grasscam vid of the BITCHIN BAJAS is as close as you're going to get to them bc drag city is tyrannical but if you are interested in warm droney electronics/slow pastoral sounds, try to look past their name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWX9V894so
BONUS -- this video was shot by an ilxor!

Pastiche/homage doesn't typically go over well during poll season on ilm, but this Navid Izadi track "Feelin' Purple" just fell in my lap and I love its Prince-ness.

http://youtu.be/BtBjEDtKKM4

Bump. Look, listen, add. I know this is partly the thread of lost causes, but it doesn't have to just be that. Good for highlighting tracks missing from Spotify (if anyone listens).

I thought I had added Sakanaction's Music. Superior Japanese indie dance pop.

It's not available on Spotify in the UK fwiw.

I didn't have space to nominate it, but I do think the It Hugs Back album Recommended Record is well worth checking out!

https://soundcloud.com/feedthedragon/start-feelin?in=feedthedragon/sets/feedthedragon-volume-two

^Alla - Start Feelin

I know v little about Alla's previous incarnation as a nu-Tropicalia band from Chicago that specialized in genre hopping and postpunk weirdness (I read a review of their first album that mentioned Tuxedomoon quite a few times) but this year they took off in an entirely new direction, drawing from R&B and techno. Their first Feed the Dragon mixtape is my album of the year, but this is from the second--released last week, tho this particular track has been up for a couple of months as a preview--and though it is a bit more scattershot and diffuse, the mixtape has a distinct candy-store style maximalism which makes it an intriguing listen. Start Feelin is the central track for me, and though it is p minimal w/r/t verses and choruses, I feel like that just gives the song a sort of nebulous mystique, not unlike that of 'Adorn.' The structure is all flow and ebb with drop-like builds that almost seem like they had been recorded backwards finally reaching the joyous chorus parts

I've posted these guys on the experimental R&B thread a couple times to a resounding 'meh' but this is easily top 3 for me so I figured I'd post here about it. Thanks to La Lechera for telling me about these guys in the first place!

2013: yeh there's good music
campaign: fuck off

It's a campaign. It has nothing to do with art.

1: a sound i heard
2: a cd i bought
3: somethin i downloaded
is music dead?

We all die.

We all troll.

We all want someone to make us whole.

"troll"? gtfo ! difference of opinion
2013
1985
1968
1979
2003

Alla ignored again :/

Everett True wins in the end

some bee in my bonnet i had there!
didn't even make sense to my evil twin or the empty whisky bottle :/
oops!

New Houria Aichi album is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgC2_FSM7SQ

Just listened to Krystal Klear's "Addiction" (for the first time outside a mix context). British pop is so good right now.

Or I'm developing an early case of senile dementia.

This Torres album is really brilliant and this track is proper stop-what-you're-doing wow material

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

I feel like it would be unwieldy to talk about nominations much on the nominations thread. This should really be a campaigning and discussion thred. Anyhow, I am mostly liking Forest Swords (which I only heard because it was added to the ILX electronica (sic) playlist), but I find most of the rhythms tiresome. I like just about everything else about it though.

thundercat - o shiet it's x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM37CHcAkqI

best song on the thundercat album (which sucked & sounds entirely unlike this great song) crazy likwid bootsy collins bass 80's funk miracle & lowkey the best molly song of 2013

travis porter - err damn day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOEq6sqiMl4

one of my favourite rap songs of the year that i kept coming back to for its laid back vibe & amazing melodic chorus. part of me thinks travis porter could make outkast level rap music and i think this is the closest to that sound that i've heard them go, maybe it's the organ in the beat

uncle murda ft. rocko - wu wuu wuuu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFKbjskTRo

this is a classic bc it seems like it would be too dumb or repetitive but they pull it off

lady - money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEjJMq00Qgc

this is just a throwback r&b song that someone posted on ilm back in like february, just a really well-written song that kicks my ass every time i hear it

(Incidentally, I just want to say that the reason I made the thread title so big and obnoxious was to keep it from geting mixed up with the other poll threads, including the initially mis-titled metal poll thread.)

Gunplay "Bible on the Dash"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOys4uYn-b0

srsly, Falling Off The Grid gets rly rly amazing when that electric piano countermelody kicks in about 2/3 thru

haha I am listening to it again and have made several hasty alterations to my ballot - it is now at 11 and will only go up from there

<3

ok and the Melt-Banana album is *fucking amazing*, miles ahead of Cell-Scape or anything else of their recorded content I've heard, just so well-written and joyous

Argh, god, I didn't get a chance to hear that last year, will make sure I rectify that in 2014.

It's on Spotify, and is immediately pencilled in at...ooh, 12 on my albumz ballot

I don't use Spotify, though. Kind of feeling like my principled stance is ever more pointless, but then I remember that unless I want to pay them a tenner a month it's practically useless anyway.

Well, then, idk. I bought the Chrome Hoof album from their bandcamp the other day because it's not on Spotify or anywhere else - maybe more artists shd basically follow that method, reclaim their rights from labels

Chrome Hoof album, btw and fyi, nowhere remotely near as mindmelting (or thrilling) as Crush Depth, but still comfortably within my albums ballot - has some lovely moments

melt-banana - hive  #8 in metal tracks poll

so some of you would definitely have enjoyed metal poll if you had been following
imago has enjoyed it i think

lol @ melt-banana showing up in a metal poll, maybe call it the loud guitars poll next year

melt-banana album was in decibel magazines albums of the year list.

who do you think covers this type of thing?

ha fair enough

plus you're the one to complain; you are the only who doesn't like "real metal" and only likes metal that has passed the art school qualifying exam :P

this Colette song, "Best of Days", is pretty cool

just saw the Hot Fruit video and now completely regretting my decision to only vote for tracks i'd heard in 2013.

Is it fair to say it's like a bizarro version of Shaking the Habitual? Here's the bandcamp album http://hotfruit2012.bandcamp.com/album/thats-cute-thats-weird-thats-fucked-up

So I kind of told a lie about not voting for albums only heard in 2013, too. Yeah. MB is really really good.

I been adding frantically to my ballot these last coupla days. Still have 2 or 3 vacant album slots which I probably won't fill now.

I made this my #1 album. I wonder if anyone else loves the album as much as I do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIbGik0Sys

hey imago, I'm not voting for this cos I preferred her other record tbh, but this thing that emil.y nommed might be up yr crazy street:

https://soundcloud.com/blue-tapes/blue-eight-katie-gately-pipes

it's a long-ish piece that is pretty interesting throughout, but the section from the five minute mark onwards is particularly good

Still didn't get to hear all of the other release. I guess I could've nominated Pipes for the tracks instead, but it's a 14-minute tape release so I think of it more in line with albums, if that makes sense? Like as a suite or something rather than a track?

Well I'm glad it's in Albums coz it'll cause fewer agonising selection calls when I doubtless freak to it later

I know no one really gives a shit about a capella music and that these guys have been linked before as objects of derision, plus I don't really believe in "campaigning" per se, but this song by Pentatonix is amazing:

http://open.spotify.com/track/5SzDZJAxd49lckDqJpADTj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuESB9yhgvE

Looking for more info on Hot Fruit, never had the pleasure of visiting Reddit before, but this confirms it's one of the worst places ever http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe/comments/1d0wg2/hot_fruit_falling_off_the_grid_i_dare_you_to/

dl, there's more talk about Hot Fruit on ilx here: can we talk about this video

DJP, that Katie Gately Pipes record is a cappella! Okay, so not in a barbershoppy way, but there's nothing but vocals on it. No other instruments, nuh-uh. It's really good.

ha well guess what I'm playing now

It's not too late to check out Matthew Shipp's Piano Sutras.

"Challenging" but it coheres. And surely not more difficult than a lot of what people listen to around here. And Shipp has got to be one of the best, most distinctive pianists around.

(I like how this thread gets increasingly more business as polling nears completion. Would have been more useful earlier.)

Melt-Banana is reminding me of that insane Estonian band from Eurovision

this katie gately thing, holy christ :D

holy christ

haha! how many minutes in are you?

8 now and it's the face of God frankly

if this was in the traxpoll it'd threaten my number 1 slot without any fuss whatsoever, this is just completely nextlev

so, uh, thanks :D

it just keeps on going doesn't it?

I have seen the way and the light and the truth. EVERYONE LISTEN TO THIS QUICKLY https://soundcloud.com/blue-tapes/blue-eight-katie-gately-pipes

Haha, glad you like it - and thanks Nick for mentioning it here.

no genre, only kickass piled on kickass piled on deeply psychedelic kickass

in hindsight it would've been a fine track for the time travel crew to rally behind

recklessly put it at 3 in my albums poll even though it isn't an album

my man! :)

I know it's too late to campaign but I just wanna ask if I was the only person who really liked the plastic ono band record? Surprisingly sprightly geriartrock fun from an 80-year old Fluxus vet & friends. Yoko is a great presence, and the little nod to "Walking On Thin Ice" in "Bad Dancer" is one of my Moments Of 2014; I'm having trouble kicking it off my ballot, but there's other stuff that I like equally as much that has a hope of making it.

also every time I listen to it I think to myself that I hope they go full balearic for the next one B)

just had my mind expanded by katie gately.

Damn, I'm really wishing I'd put the track in tracks rather than as 'the release' in albums. It ended up being fairly low on my ballot b/c of that, when we maybe could've had a last-minute surge if I'd thought about it properly.

not as way out there as pipes, but this is another really good katie gately song off the s/t ep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUUCHDD06TI

here's another lovely accapela record from 2013. huge personal fave, and it seems nobody on ilx gives a damn about it. flora by aya nishina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg2_iv3eoyU

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Flora/9455926

Yeah, that Katie Gately album is cool. Was a last minute addition to my album votes.

Discovered a Kurt Vile track I like through the noms Spotify list (not sure how I feel about that), also good stuff from Pional and Fantasia.

Looking forward to the countdown.

Justin Velor ft. Leee John - Back to the Source: Maybe my favourite throwback-80s-house song ever. The long album version is even better (it's on Spotify).

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This is amazing on a decent soundsystem - wish I'd heard it earlier!