ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

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Ballot: http://goo.gl/forms/Rtq48gEISQ

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 lists; 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).

Albums list: http://pastebin.com/haqdC3bh
Tracks list: http://pastebin.com/N0yHjMjV

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 15th, 2016.

Allez hop!

http://i.imgur.com/sCEllKG.jpg

Also, our good buddy forksclovetofu has graciously (and diligently!) maintained Spotify playlists for both nominated Albums and Tracks. Buy him a drink!

I'm not worried about repping for my #1 favorite album. It will get EOY love on ILM without a doubt, but I'm gonna do a bit of campaigning for my #2 because it's been criminally overlooked in 2015. Listen to OSHUN's Asase Yaa. It's not on Spotify (which is an additional roadblock), so stream or download it on DatPiff (http://www.datpiff.com/OSHUN-Asase-Yaa-mixtape.704680.html). It's soooo fucking brilliantly good that I almost can't believe it even exists.

I really gotta remember to get all up in the nominating process next year.

Anyway, ballot's off!

hi everyone, vote for ngaiire pls, thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvKkYrMd_vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVM-TLkkNDE
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=19166

Let's keep this thread light on the embeds...campaigning is cool though!

i have a lot to campaign for and i desperately want to embed it all

desperately

I'd like a thread not for campaigning, but for everyone's favorite new discoveries from the Spotify playlists.

can't it be both

Speaking of which:

ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Track Nominations Spotify Playlist: 1,250+ tracks... missing about 250 or so nominated tracks, more or less an 83% hit rate which seems about the same for albums.
ILM'S 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations Sampler Spotify Playlist: 2,000+ tracks.
ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations Spotify Playlist: Complete albums, right around 10k tracks.

everyone's favorite new discoveries from the Spotify playlists.

My latest favorite discovery is Pantalon by Kornél Kovács.

sorry for the embeds, i have images/videos turned off so i'd forgotten how annoying that is

voted!

Let's do this

most nominated artists on the singles front (6 or more songs):

Ashley Monroe: 6
Dawn Richard: 6
Susanne Sundfør: 6
Grimes: 6
Miguel: 7
Drake both with and without Future: 9 (but only 5 as a solo artist)
Kendrick Lamar: 10
Future : 11 (15 if you count the duets with Drake)
Young Thug: 11
Carly Rae Jepsen: 12

hey did we not accept Aphex's Soundcloud data dump as an album? I voted for it that way in P&J.

Is it "AFx - Sc"? I don't know what that is.

If that is it, can it be a little clearer?
I submitted like so originally to the voice
Aphex Twin / User18081971- SoundCloud Data Dump ( https://soundcloud.com/user18081971 )

Yeah that's it:

Is it OK to nominate the Aphex Twin soundcloud dump as one album? I've organised it and listen to it as such on iTunes.

If so, would suggest:

AFx - Sc

as the descriptor, since that's how a number of the uploaded tracks were labelled by RDJ (albeit a minority)

1/30 (pending)

― Jeff W, Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:27 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okeydoke

I've changed it to "AFx - Sc (aka Aphex Twin Soundcloud Dump)" on the nominations list

So basically that whole Carly Rae Jepsen album got nominated?

Shocking "Warm Blood" was not nominated being as it is one of the best songs on there.

Voted!

Would like to make it clear that my vote for D.R.A.M.'s "Cha Cha" is for the OG Koji Kondo version and not whatever the hell it became after it got chewed up by the market (and Drake, butthatsnoneofmybusinesskermit.gif)

(i am pleased that at least three people on this board will understand what all the above means and that's why i hang out here)

Just so it's clear, I can submit my tracks ballot tonight and classify my albums ballot as "Missing" and then submit that later when it's ready, right?

Damn, none of us nominated Meek Mill's "Monster"?

good point, tremendous song

Ok I voted

I've half-voted. I need to listen to some more of these albums, though, because I didn't bother nominating some of what was on my personal list due to the slim chance of any of them placing.

I goofed on one of the 20 songs I just submitted--thought it had been nominated as a song but it was as an album. And two of the 20 I just added myself. Obviously, feel free to ignore those three votes; it's not like they're going to matter.

Voted!

Would like to make it clear that my vote for D.R.A.M.'s "Cha Cha" is for the OG Koji Kondo version and not whatever the hell it became after it got chewed up by the market (and Drake, butthatsnoneofmybusinesskermit.gif)

by sample clearance

Now's probably a good time to remind people to save a copy of your ballots so 60 people don't all ask for them at once when the rollouts begin.

i'm still livid that that happened to "cha cha"

Damn, none of us nominated Meek Mill's "Monster"?

that and the Todd Terje mix of Jaga Jazzist were the most surprising omissions

Everybody listen to Turzi before compiling your albums ballot. Rad French shoegaze/kosmiche, with the first few tracks sounding like a krautrock Myrkur/Dead Can Dance:

http://turzi.bandcamp.com/album/c

the Physics album that I nominated is on Spotify but didn't make forks' playlist. you can listen to it here: https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/only-forever

voted! several of mine are 2014 carryovers that i was unaware of or not particularly enamored by until this year, but i'm being true to my "year of impact" etc.

voting already is criminal

every day i find new stuff on the playlists that i want to add to my ballot

I intend to at least manually skip past every single track on the Spotify List.

gonna rep for a few things that are not on spotify to counter its monopoly over ilm's listening habits, and a reminder that there is so much good stuff that for whatever reason isn't on that platform

flava d is a garage/grime producer and associate of ppl like dj q; her debut album more love seemed a bit obvious at first in that it's basically garage refixes of (mostly) well-known r&b songs but it was sooooo listenable and after all garage refixes of r&b are still the best music ever regardless of how original they sound. i ended up listening to this a loooot over the summer. i see that she made it a free download on her bandcamp at the end of the year! i recommend it!

(fyi: t q d, nominated on the trax poll = royal-t, dj q and flava d. "day & night" is a fucking banger, both day mix and night mix)

couldn't figure out why sasha go hard's latest mixtape got so little love this year; maybe a sense that she'd missed her moment after taking time off to have a baby? but that feels like the reason it's her hardest, hungriest tape yet. "as long as i'm eating my daughter won't starve / she the main reason that i'm goin hard" she says it herself

dbn nyts' "shumaya" was one of the most joyous afrobeats bangers of the year, this was magnified by a peak ON A BOAT video

fatima yamaha's "what's a girl to do" was one of the most ubiquitous club tracks of the year, though it was originally released in 2004, and it definitely takes me back to a lot of the electrohouse being made around that time (esp ada's blondie but also feels perfectly right for now. "timeless", if that wasn't such a wanky adjective. i nominated the dj haus edit (not much of a change) as it was actually new in 2015 but the original, which is in fact on spotify, would certainly work in terms of year of impact. his migration-themed album imaginary lines is also excellent. if more of ilm went clubbing regularly "what's a girl to do" would prob be a dead cert for top 20.

miley cyrus's "1 sun" was the one keeper off that thing she did this year, earnest environmental electro-ballads aren't very common or usually very good but here we are, she sounds like this is the thing she most cares about in the world

pvc's "levitate". BASS SO HEAVY IT'S A PISSTAKE / BASS SO HEAVY MAKE THE RAVE SHAKE

lol how is rush's "attention" not even on youtube or soundcloud. one of (nigerian superproducer) young john's finest works imo, the way those fluttering synths spiral in on themselves halfway through!

(nb afrobeats comprised a massive part of my listening in 2015, endless amazing bangers and still the sense that i barely scratch the surface of it, if i continued i'd be here all day oh go on then you all need to hear sunkanmi's "singale", heavy-k's "givemeluv" (check them balearic guitars!) and dj kent's "don't let go" at least)

a few underrated things that are on the spotify playlists and are toooo gooooood to be overlooked

geko "baba" - afrobeats vibe via manchester kid of libyan heritage singing about the tribulations of interracial relationships in 2015 britain. indelible hook

honey cocaine's gift rap ep - sugarsweet x hardass rnbass by a cambodian-canadian female mc who calls herself that? so in my wheelhouse. "i'm feeling amazing / this is a rare occasion / young beautiful asian" <33333 "what kind of man got a heart as small as his dick?" <333333333 i am very attached to every song on the ep, i think they're all better than the actual big rnbass hits this year

janet jackson's album was mostly whatever for me (sadly) but "promise of you" is just spellbindingly good. it was a bonus track! they opted to put a truncated 58sec version of it on the actual album! i cannot fathom that logic.

thus ends my transmission from Avoiding Doing My Tax Return

Damn, none of us nominated Meek Mill's "Monster"?

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, January 3, 2016 3:27 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good point, tremendous song

― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Sunday, January 3, 2016 3:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i shortlisted this song in each of my three tranches of nominations and cut it every time. it is a v good song but it's not as if i'd have voted for it oh well. side-eye to everyone who chose to nominate 15 million young thug/future songs or every single kendrick lamar album track instead, i guess

first heard "what's a girl to do" in 2013 (?) so i can't bring myself to vote for it here but it is still so so wonderful

I got spotify working on a neighbours pc while i was looking after their cat, as far as I can tell none of my nominations are available, but you can recreate one or two of them if you just imagine yourself in a reverie

:D

first heard "what's a girl to do" in 2013 (?) so i can't bring myself to vote for it here but it is still so so wonderful

yeah i first heard it a while ago (2014 i think) and i'm normally p rigorous with "year of release" for my own ballots but it feels pretty great in this particular short-attention-span era that a song can slowly and gradually gain more and more fans over an -eleven year period- before hitting critical mass and exploding

if more of ilm went clubbing regularly "what's a girl to do" would prob be a dead cert for top 20.

Heh, I currently make most of my income as a DJ and go clubbing regularly besides and I've never heard it before. I don't really play music like that and rarely go to nights that play music like that tho. It feels so far removed from my clubbing context.

the song i wanna rep so hard for this year is krystal klear feat. yasmin, "one night only." i heard like five awesome kinda/sorta freestyle songs this year but this is the one imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIptDYUm7zo

oh damn i def meant to make that a link and didn't ugh. anyway long campaign list forcoming

- the heavy-k song lex mentioned is amazing and i'm probably voting for it too but my favorite production of his this year is "sweetie"; when those gentle post-disco guitars come in omfg

- i yelled about shura's "2shy" in the nominations thread as a really late discovery; the youtube comments compare it to a prince-written ballad which is the kind of stretch i'm super responsive to. vulnerability and phosphorescent synths that i'm here for forever, etc.

- another discovery from the nominations thread was mikael seifu's "brass" which is a pretty captivating vortex

- the tamia track that was mainly focused on in the rolling r&b thread was "sandwich and a soda," which is great, but i way prefer "stuck with me" as a single, just a perfect, shapeshifting ballad a la "i do take"

- the 1975's "ugh!" bc it's their scritti politti-est ode to surfaces so far

- a lot of k-pop worth voting for this year so i'm going for wonder girls flawless '80s pastiche "i feel you" but it could easily be lim kim's kinda delightfully fractured "awoo" or the gentle, absorbing swell of f(x)'s "4 walls"

The under-the-radar singles i'd recommend this year include:

Serebro - Pereputala https://youtu.be/IDixJgx8my4 Ya Tebya Ne Otdam nearly cracked the top 77 last year and this is even better. It's beautiful and unsettling in a way they have never really been before.

Vremya I Steklo - Imya 505: https://youtu.be/n3Go8ub9a1k Totally delightful Ukrainian dance-pop

Ariane Moffatt - Debout: https://youtu.be/prdc3aWnZg8 Lovely synthpop from Quebec that should appeal to anyone who likes Christine & The Queens, etc.

Albums include:

Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers: https://youtu.be/vS91Gxsqvcg Creepy Canadian indie-folk. First record released on Grimes' label.

Below The Sun - Envoy: https://youtu.be/WAbr38u9nGM Fabulous cosmic metal from Siberia.

Skriptonit - Dom S Normal'nimi Yavleniyami https://youtu.be/ROCmxSoqlHY Kazakh hip-hop possibly not an easy sell but this is probably the best Russian-language album of 2015.

Heavy-K vote-splitting seems inevitable since the third track nominated, Umoya, (https://youtu.be/JqzJfqXYnto) is just as good as the two already mentioned. Sigh.
I guess I'll have to vote for all three.

I voted Sweetie. The other two didn't knock me off my feet like that one did.

Not sure Below the Sun is 100% my thing but I am definitely not hating it

Brad already repped three of the tracks I was going to campaign for (thanks!) so I'm just going to mention:

Barbara Morgenstern ft. Robert Lippok and Justus Köhncke - Übermorgen (it bounces, it rolls, it's basically a roller disco jam recast as sweet German electronica)
Loreen - Paper Light (Higher) (shambhala x summer jam perfection)

On the albums front, if you haven't heard Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs yet, then do it now! And then vote for it!

- the 1975's "ugh!" bc it's their scritti politti-est ode to surfaces so far

'Love Me' is high on my ballot and i fear their dedicated ilm following will vote-split over these two fantastic tracks

xp i used to do the bizarre ritual of listening to as much nom'd music as possible before submitting the ballot as if cramming for a big exam, but i no longer see the point

to be sure, much of the music that i hear from the rollout and/or by browsing the noms/campaigning are great discoveries, but rarely are they *such* a revelation that i feel the need to slot them into my ballot right away. i have to spend real time with music to forge that kind of connection.

christ, i didn't realize till just now that Wand released a second album this year.

to be sure, much of the music that i hear from the rollout and/or by browsing the noms/campaigning are great discoveries, but rarely are they *such* a revelation that i feel the need to slot them into my ballot right away. i have to spend real time with music to forge that kind of connection.

i'd normally agree but this literally *just* happened with "2shy"

i voted lim kim; it's gonna be a long year of catching up with 2015 and I'm sure I'll spiral to new choices in a few months. that's good!

I'm not gonna rep hard for much this year because I don't have the heart, but please, please listen to this, my #1 song of this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-1fA4J58E

I've put the forks playlist on random a lot lately and while I rarely fall heads over heel in love with new tracks it's a very healthy reminder of all the quite brilliant music I haven't been able to keep up with myself over the past year.

Voted so I can ignore this now.

that's the spirit!

That was my nice version! I complain every year but still vote so I have only myself to blame.

Seeing as Roz managed to get this nomination in in time and make me realise it was actually eligible, please please get behind Suiyoubi no Campanella - Jeanne d'Arc in your track ballots. It's so good.

Also if you want completely insane J-pop try the Heaven & Hell remix of You'll Melt More's Hamidasumo (the original is quite fun but the remix is excellent).

Nicolas Jaar has no shortage of support here on ILM, I'm just campaigning for the idea that his four "Nymphs" releases, all during 2015, constitute an album -- a pretty spectacular one at that! Seven tracks, 53 minutes of music, gorgeous sound design, clickety microhouse percussion pushing and pulling against the beat, vocal clips rendered transparent and slippery, harpsichords, pianos, sawtooth waves, dramatic pauses, ...

Here's the whole cycle on Spotify and on YouTube.

I have to say I am torn about that Jaar release - I love it a lot, and if I do consider it an album it would definitely make my ballot, but... it wasn't released as an album. So, I am still unsure.

I understand the mixed feelings, but I just decided to make the leap, things like the AFX SoundCloud uploads are equally unconventional ways to release an album's worth (or more) of material...

that krystal klear track is extremely good, reminds me that i forgot to nominate morgan geist "mezzanine"

I was sure I'd nominated One Night Only last year, but searching the archives tells me otherwise. Either way, I'm glad it got a video this year so we can try it again.

Looking forward to spending two hours of my first day back at work queuing up all of these recommendations.

If anyone feels like taking a punt on a regular lurker's lovingly compiled 10-track playlist of campaign hopefuls, please click hither

It totals in at a slender 40 minutes and will effortlessly accompany most commutes/breakfasts/vortices of 'dead' time.

Contains: U.S. Girls, Kevin Gates, Weyes Blood and so many more (7).

cherrypicking the nominations and OMG @ destra's "lucy", what an incredible tune this is

also v confused that i missed call super's "migrant", it is v beautiful

i haven't listened to anything else but "lucy" for the past hour

I definitely know that feeling.

btw the Jennifer Castle album on the nomination list is from 2014. It's an unbelievable album, but.

I love the AKA ft Burna Boy track 'All Eyes On Me' but wasn't that from 2014 too? Just checking before I vote for it.

Well, the song was initially released june 2014 and the video popped up right before christmas last year so yeah. If we're talking impact I'm thinking it was probably as big or bigger in 2015, though.
HOWEVER if we're being generous there's a 2015 remix that's also awesome so if the mods don't mind you can vote for that instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAl72T_xYLs

I think i've posted about it in a few places... But I really wish everyone would get as excited about Keith Ape's It G Ma and its remix as I am.

(i can't seem to post direct links to the videos...)

Yes, it sounds like U Guessed It. But it's so remarkable that this song even got out and became such a success without the benefit of the korean music machine. And that it brings Japanese and Korean rappers together. And that it got such a strong and surprising roster for its remix. And it's basically infinitely re-listenable.

Keith Ape - IT G MA
Keith Ape - IT G MA Remix

ALERT, future's ds2 is on the ballot twice under both that (which is the proper title??) and dirty sprite 2

Ok I'll get onto it.

oh hell yeah "lucy" is amazing

RE potential Jazmine Sullivan vote-splitting, I vote we all coalesce around Stanley.

nah "let it burn"

"mascara" is the one that blows me away as an individual song but was technically 2014, "stanley" or "brand new" would be my second choice but at this point you just realise you should vote for the album, right?

every time i scrolled the tracks list and saw 90% of an album's tracks nominated i got annoyed

I spent most of today shuffling the tracks playlist, and there were only two tracks that I felt the need to skip before the end. GOOD WORK TEAM.

that krystal klear track is extremely good, reminds me that i forgot to nominate morgan geist "mezzanine"

― J0rdan S.

Ugh, I basically flipped a coin over which side of the Galleria 12" to nominate to avoid vote-splitting, and settled on "Calling Card". Sorry!

Cosign all the love for Destra's "Lucy" ... on a soca tip, can I recommend Fadda Fox's Ducking? Video has the "escape the office for carnival" trope from classics like JW & Blaze's "Palance".

People who love the Susanne Sundfør, maybe check out Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo? Different sonic palette (more Disintegration-era Cure fronted by Julee Cruise/LDR/whatevs), but similar emotional range/vibes.

oh one other thing i meant to campaign for is the four tet remix of eric prydz's "opus" which imo is really perverse

Just realized I forgot to nominate Vybz Kartel's Viking for the albums. It probably wouldn't have charted but I still feel like a complete idiot right now. Easily one of 2015's strongest releases.

RE potential Jazmine Sullivan vote-splitting, I vote we all coalesce around Stanley.

― dc, Monday, January 4, 2016 7:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's the one track I always skip :(

yeah i don't care for that one really. mascara is the one for me.

Mascara would be my pick too but it's clearly an albums' list contender. I'll definitely vote for it.

AKA ft Fifi Cooper, Rouge, Moozlie & Gigi Lamayne - Baddest (Remix)

^^^^^fave discovery from the noms playlist so far

mascara and/or brand new and/or forever doesn't last
but honestly i don't vote for singles on an album that i vote for

Voted. A couple things missing from the Spotify playlists that I think are very worthy of consideration.

Hama - Torodi can be heard in its entirety on Bandcamp.
Algiers - "Blood"

Hama will probably be on my ballot. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile and Blick Bassy - Akö definitely will. Al-Namrood - Diaji Al Joor is an anonymous middle eastern folk metal band from saudi arabia and The Very Best made a really fun album this year. ok one more the same label that put out Torodi put out a hypnotic album by Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud that sahelsounds describes as "Isswat recordings from Azawad region of the Sahara desert. Music of nostalgia, longing, and revolutionaries, sung by Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud in her debut recording, a local production from 2008. Sparse rhythms and hand claps punctuate the meditative hypnosis, accompanied by a the signature vocal drone of her group."

One beautiful thing I found in the end of year lists that I think a lot of people might enjoy is the Nicola Cruz album 'Prender El Alma'. Maybe he's already a big manchego on the balearic thread so I might be telling some of you what you know anyway, but it's something like an Ecuadorian dreamscape of mountains and forest being patiently daubed on a plasterboard wall that's already gently pulsing with the bass from the club next door. There's a lot of folk elements, cumbia rhythms and some echoey Studio-like guitar, all put together in quite a caressing and spacey way. Favourite track atm is Cumbia del Olvido, but the whole thing is on spotify.

that sounds nice - i'll definitely check it out

Voted!

me too :+)

already a bunch of great discoveries from the spotify singles playlist, and i've only heard maybe 10% of it so far. thank you ilx it's like second christmas and i loves you.

i'm finding the transitions less jarring than last year, too, actually they're quite pleasant. forks, do you have any method of sequencing these playlists? my thanks to you and the organizers.

i voted.

p sure the playlists are in order of nomination. i keep this in mind and try to order my nominations so they sound good sequentially.

xp to davey, it's sequenced as they were nominated, so the transitions are likely to be less jarring as twenty or so in a row are probably in one specific mindset and maybe even preprogrammed by the nominees in that way! I've enjoyed listening to it that way sometimes too but ultimately I hit a pocket of tastes dissimilar to mine so I've transitioned to an "alphabetical by artists" so that I can get a fair taste of what the artist has to offer and not sacrifice diversity.

or basically what crut said.

BTW, by that method I just discovered Middle Eastern black metal band Al-Namrood and this is fucking rad!

Just want to point to two blissful female singer songwrite k-pop releases:

https://youtu.be/tfyc2YHj3zM
https://youtu.be/PkBsfEw0zbY

that second one, "calling in love," is really lovely

one that i got into from dj martian's recommend on the Shambhala thread:
Kiiara - Gold
https://soundcloud.com/kiiaraonline/gold

in the spirit of magnanimity my first splurge here will be for stuff i (or my gf) didn't nominate

we've discovered some rly great stuff on the albums playlist and we're only about 1/5 of the way thru

beauty pill is amazing, joanna wang is utterly amazing, container is great, dreamcrusher is cool, frank bretschneider is boss, matchess is beautiful, raoul is groovy, eek/islam chipsy is off the fucken chain

discovered some lovely trax too. have heard much more of the trax playlist obv. highlights include <kaeb (stunning), lady leshurr (brush yo teeth), tunde olaniran (fucking insane prog-trap-idk that sticks in your head like a velcro bullet) and hit the quan (fresh)

have about 700 albums or w/e to skim-listen over the next few days omg how

LJ, I am setting aside the upcoming year to listen to all our playlists and noms. Join in!

like, why rush? and why worry if you can get through it all? listen to everything you can and let your mind sort it out.

i'll undoubtedly set aside plenty of time to listen to much of this stuff, yeah, albeit perhaps not so generously as you if a clear impression has formed

that's cool, i dig all levels of dilettantism

it's something like an Ecuadorian dreamscape of mountains and forest being patiently daubed on a plasterboard wall that's already gently pulsing with the bass from the club next door. There's a lot of folk elements, cumbia rhythms and some echoey Studio-like guitar, all put together in quite a caressing and spacey way.
― seb mooczag (NickB), Tuesday, January 5, 2016 2:54 AM (8 hours ago)

Good Lord, what an irresistible description, queuing this up now!

i forgot to listen to the new container album this year. i loved the eps

i put the tracks playlist on shuffle at work today and yo "northern lights" by cobblestone jazz is the jam

I think the nominations playlist might be one of my new end of year highlights, love it a great deal more than reading over endless 'official' lists.

The one track I want to rep is a late entry for me, the most twisted Afrobeats track I heard all year, Ycee's Yagaban remix. Nothing but rhythmic science - flutes, cascading plucked melodies, processed vocals and jarring synths. What I would have once assumed dancehall might sound like in 2015.

I too would like to rep for Joanna Wang, which was one of the oddball highlights during my late night listening last night.

i discovered popcaan's "weed is my best friend" thru this poll + it's otm and i voted for it.

it was a ton of work so i am pleased to hear the EOY playlists getting so much love
like prob upwards of twelve hours and some general tightening of my OCD screws
i am really looking forward to finishing all the genre playlists for last year and stepping away from handling that project the way I set up; it was not a smart thing for me to do. it basically became an unpaid part-time job!

Someone tell me why I'm thinking so hard about the right choice for the 25th spot on my ballot when I'll most likely be the only voter for all the contenders anyway?

i discovered popcaan's "weed is my best friend" thru this poll + it's otm and i voted for it.

― Mordy, Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:33 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Popcaan put out basically a full album's worth of good stuff in 2015 ("weed..." probably the best one), kind of a shame there's no mixtape gathering it all up.

imago, you should check out the Coral Cross track I nominated, if you haven't. (I am not saying it's the greatest thing ever, but I think it would be up your alley.)

(Youtube. Not on Spotify.)

xp there will be genre playlists too? damn, that's very cool. i tried to figure out a way to sort by genre when last year's noms playlist was up, and even looked into the spotify API for help, but gave up on it. forks you are a golden god.

25 tracks is criminal :(

xp thanks davey, but i meant genre playlists for the individual threads, not the best of nominations... though that wouldn't be THAT difficult to do...

Thanks to whoever nommed shura-touch

oh did Touch get nominated after all? thought people felt it wasn't really eligible since it was from 2014?

year of impact: if it feels 2015 to you, vote for it

"2shy" is way better though

Real vote splitter there. Only "White Light" really stuck with me.

probably still going to go with "White Light" but could easily vote for any of those three

White Light got my vote.

boooo

It could've gone either way.

Voted for both because one is definitely 2015 and the other is just too good and I think it wasn't even nommed in the 2014 poll.

the arthur russell corn disc is really good, surprised it didn't get nommed

(i like it much better than love is overtaking me me, anyway)

Corn didn't really make an impact on me; I should probably give it a second chance though.

voted

god damn it i wish i'd known about this album in time to nominate it: https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-2

sounds gud

crut this Benoît Pioulard album is sublime

thanks for nomming it

:-)

xxp unexpected Les Shadoks sample on the 2nd track

(not from that actual episode)

which lady leshurr track to go for between 'lukatar' and 'queen's speech 4'...? think i prefer 'lukatar' but against that it's v hard not to vote for a song that has "i've got a dark skinned friend that looks like rachel dolezal..and i've got a light skinned friend that looks like rachel dolezal" in it.

all the queen's speeches are better than "lukatar" imo

was tempted to nominate QS3 (and QS2) but QS4 was the gigantic viral hit and prob the best

QS4 kinda ruined for me by the Jenner line leaping out every time I listen :/

put the tracks list on shuffle again today and there were two jams in a row! harry dennis, "no matter what (dgl mix)" and ac slater, "u got 2"

i discovered popcaan's "weed is my best friend" thru this poll + it's otm and i voted for it.

― Mordy, Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol cool mordy, that was one of my nominations

i would urge a pre-vote listen to Busy Signal's "Text Message"
it is badass beats, toasty toasting, tweet hooks and MOST 2015 IMAGES
Video Here
SHE SENT A PUM PUM SELFIE
ME SAID LORD JESUS HELP ME

i can't check the nomination lists from work, p4stebin is blocked

can someone tell me if bobby raps + corbin is nominated in tracks list? or did i fuck up & forget one of my faves of 2015 :(

it's there

oh good! thanks! (will vote when i have time and am at home)

hey who nominated i hate sex? mordy? this shit is amazing

not i

*painstakingly opens nominations thread*

oh it was etc! anyway this is basically perfect screamo 4 me good work https://ihatesex.bandcamp.com/album/circle-thinking

crut this Benoît Pioulard album is sublime

thanks for nomming it

Co-sign, nice tip.

joanna wang album is wonderful, kudos to whomever nommed it.

is it too late for noms, or should I just hopelessly write-in?

geko "baba" - afrobeats vibe via manchester kid of libyan heritage singing about the tribulations of interracial relationships in 2015 britain. indelible hook

omg this song quotes magic!'s "rude"

i love it so much

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSh4Om0mlwp1uxU62V6FctDIXI2AVVEgcPjgiBSSr6B0yL0NoeYUQ

joanna wang album is wonderful, kudos to whomever nommed it.

Yeah, I only found it by scrolling through the album nominations playlist and clicking on each opening track. I think I required about ten seconds of When I Nod for the album to instantly lodge itself in my top 5. In a fucking great year, too. It is a phenomenal record and one I'd like to promote here as much as any I'd previously heard.

Well here's my little repping bit:

Korede Bello - 'Godwin'
I've banged on about this track ever since I found it on the Rolling Afrobeats thread. It's such a great bit of work - an exceptional track in an exceptional scene. Uplifting, good vibes, distinct, implacable beat that takes a few bars to really get a grip on. I just love it.

Domenique Dumont - 'L'Esprit de L'Escalier'
Don't really know anything about the origins of this strange little track. The album is Tubular Bells on a tropical island; the soundtrack from Donkey Kong Country with a French yéyé twist. This one is all about how the melody switches around the 3 minute mark. First time I heard it, it felt like a little piece of my life slotting back into place.

AKA ft. Burna Boy - All Eyes On Me
A match made in heaven of afrobeats, hip hop and dancehall. Been playing it all year and it still sounds great.

DJ Paypal - Slim Trak
I was a bit concerned that DJ Rashad's death would spell the end for footwork. But with Jlin topping a lot of EOY lists it looks like the Chicago scene is not only burgeoning but going truly global. Paypal's 'Sold Out' double-EP is easily as inventive, with this track sharing a lot in common with the Afro-Portuguese sound fronted by people like Marfox.

Miami Horror - Wild Motion (Set It Free)
This album made up a large part of my summer soundtrack. A really diverse indie-electro-pop record - think MGMT but not as screechy, and less obnoxious. Just great summer tunes, it never gets boring.

Frazey Ford - September Fields
Brassy country. A beautiful voice and some dazzling organ-work here.

50 ballots! Keep 'em coming.

i would be pleased if

KERO KERO BONITO

got a placement

This is more for forks than anything; there's no way the Camoufleurs songs I nominated are on Spotify, so here are some links just in case you wanted to include them on your big listen-a-thon next year. They're a semi-local indie band--in fact I mentioned in the nominations thread that I'm related to the singer/primary songwriter--and the first time I heard both these songs, my jaw dropped, and I had a momenr, a "Holy crap I can't believe I know the people who made this" moment. The parent EP, "1980", is patchy and full of pastiche, but those songs were gorgeous liquid jangle alt-country psychedelia, with a tactile sense of atmosphere to rival KING.

https://thecamoufleurs.bandcamp.com/track/lightning
https://thecamoufleurs.bandcamp.com/track/the-collector

A better, smarter, more "with it" Drugs A. Money would have figured out ways to nominate these two songs:

I caught this song sometime earlier in the year and it wasn't until a couple days ago I figured out what it was called and who sang it. I guess this is one of the biggest Spanish-language Billboard hits ever...? though that might be the remake with Enrique Iglesias. I like this version way better, but it's p much an unsinkable earworm

Nicky Jam, "El Perdon"
https://youtu.be/uU_FFtbCcLc

Found this on Alfred's blog a few months ago. It's a blatant masterpiece. Flatline, which is not as good, got nominated instead, abd I'll prob end up putting it on my ballot solely out of a deep sense of remorse.

VV Brown - Shift
https://youtu.be/NTup_VZXuWY

Also, vote for Young Dro. This song is hot!

Young Dro - We in da City
https://youtu.be/vuUIoPVRpmk

listening to camoufleurs now; pretty nice

can't remember if i sent my ballot or not, how can i check?

don't worry, your ballot is safe

phew

i could get used to this polling lark

are there way more tracks nominated than previous years? i seem to remember being able to listen to the tracks playlist over a weekend in past years but this time it's 90 hours

it's saturday afternoon and i've only made it through A's and B's :|

I think it's up this year, but iirc it's traditionally been in the 1200-1300 range. (Or I may be misremembering it entirely.)

Last year's spotify playlist was 1080, this year is 1273

but i would honestly chalk that up to more songs being available on the service

My top fives have basically been solidified for ages but I'm still pretty vague on placements and even entries below that. And time creeps on.

is Gigi Masin's Talk To The Sea eligible? I see it on the Spotify playlist but not the Pastebin list

whoever nominated Roman Flügel's " Black Towers", thank you, it's epic! one of the best things I've heard this year

Talk to the Sea placed last year

on the other hand, listening to 1273 songs to find 5 more to round out my ballot is very me

VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTE!

I did my tracks last weekend and I just did my albums today.

i gave up on listening to all the tracks and just voted with what i had already

^this is why I try to get my tracks nominations in early on years I gaf about tracks

(Though I think a lot of it comes from the sudden influx of decent-to-great songs rendering tasks such as ranking, and even including some into yr ballot while excluding others, into an absurd enterprise)

I listen on shuffle idk

have gained a crucial handful of great albums+trax by listening to the playlists. obv the benefit is not just to one's ballot

Yeah Brad said he listened on shuffle too. It's probably the best way

I sorted it by running length one year, from shortest to longest.

there's….an option to do that…..anyway…...

Voted! Would also be pleased if Kero Kero Bonito got a placement.

Grrrr.... I'm regretting my laziness in making sure some my favorite albums were nominated. I know anything not already nominated would have made it in the top 77, but I still feel weird removing some of my favorite albums of the year from my list.

I've given up on nominating weird outliers and am just voting based on the list, didn't participate in the nominations process at all.

Voted. Was happy to find that most of my top 25 had been nominated (a few by me), except for Dyke Drama and a few metal albums which didn't have a chance anyway.

i voted!!!!! yay

I've voted. If i managed to balls it up, please let me know.

voting shouldn't open until two days before deadline imo

There is a listing for "Sparky - Numbers" on the tracks list that I think might be faulty. The single is on the label Numbers. I am guessing that the nom is supposed to be for the track "Signals".

how do write-in votes work, do they get ignored? i noticed something didn't get nominated somehow (i guess i should have actually ctrl+F'd for it), it would be in my top 5 if i can write it in

does a vote for badu's cel u lar device count as a vote for hotline bling too?

i fucking well hope not

hellllllll no

(though i dig the drake version a lot)

does a vote for badu's cel u lar device count as a vote for hotline bling too?

― ogmor, Monday, January 11, 2016 9:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

how do write-in votes work, do they get ignored? i noticed something didn't get nominated somehow (i guess i should have actually ctrl+F'd for it), it would be in my top 5 if i can write it in

― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, January 11, 2016 8:47 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I *tend* to allow write-in votes but it's not guaranteed and if I get a bunch at the last minute I'll probably skip them.

For every item that doesn't match the nominations list, I have to manually check whether it's a spelling mistake, if not find out what it is and decide whether it's eligible for inclusion. If I got more than a small number of write-ins I probably wouldn't bother.

thanks for this alessandro cortini album crut; "Conta" is devouring me from inside out right now. It's like glassier, more monolithic Eno.

I'll submit my ballot tonight in that case! :)

I VOTED

let me know if i fucked it up. i had to save the lists locally so i could see them at work, but i saved them to unicode .txt files so hopefully they're not fucked up?

#4 tracks is my sole write-in btw. I included my e-mail in case you have any questions. Thanks for running this!

We're going through the albums playlist

um

the Inverso s/t album that Forks put on the playlist caught our attention. It's pretty cool! But then we looked it up…

The album on the playlist is a 2011 s/t record by INverso.

The album calzino nominated is a 2015 s/t record by InVerso.

The former is pop punk.

The latter is jazz.

Just a heads-up.

good catch, I've fixed.

imago, if you're still doing listening, check out the Liberez, MXLX and Helm albums. Should be something you like in some of that stuff.

Am still listening!

Saw Helm live a few weeks ago and he was great (also, fairly friendly). The constraints of skim-listening to everything weren't kind to his album when encountered last night, but I will try to return to it, yes!

Not sure I've encountered those others yet...oh wait, MXLX I did hear a while back on Bandcamp, that had some great moments aye

Have you heard the new Joanna Wang? I know you've voted for her in the past...

No, not heard yet. I have way more than 25 things in contention already so kind of feel like if I hear something first in '16 it shouldn't make the list, but will have a listen anyway if it's great. (And I have broken that rule in the past, definitely.)

(It's completely amazing and straight in my own top 5 fwiw)

Alameda 5, peeps!

https://alamedacountydeathcult.bandcamp.com/album/duch-tornada-instant-classic-milieu-lacephale-2015

Last-minute plug for some of my noms that are not on Spotify:

Zomes - Networks Album 2: Phase Portraits: algorithmically generated electronic music that became one of my default going-to-bed choices.
ADR - Deceptionista: probably described better on the page than I could do but enjoyable Internet sample-based electronic composition

Sevish - Rhythm and Xen: microtonal IDM/chiptune stuff

All just things that somehow clicked with me; dunno how well they transfer.

Biggest discovery from going through the Spotify playlist is how amazing the Dumblonde album is.

Just finished going through the tracks list yesterday. Made a shortlist of everything I enjoyed. Just got to narrow those 146 songs down to 25 and I'm done. Albums should be a lot easier.

Whoa! RA - Scandinavia is some of the best post-punk of recent years. Utterly incendiary. Really nice nomination, uh….oh it's you, DAM. Whoda thunk etc :D

Sund4r, the ADR album is on Spotify (USA) after all. Glad you mentioned it, I'm also a fan.

Yeah, I like that RA album bunches! xp

Props go to Fastnbulbous; I found the RA album on his year list on RYM. 'Incendiary' is the word, though; it's a face-melter

72 hours or so to go!

VOTE VOTE VOTE

whoa this Ron Gallipoli stuff is awesome

and double whoa I know a certain person nominated it but I hadn't heard the czarface record yet and it's straight up amazing. know I'm gonna get clowned to fuck for this but when all the cool rap critics abandoned this shit to vote for drake repeatedly in pazz & jop they forsook the righteous path and they forsook hip-hop

This Liem track is some gorgeous vocal house...

https://youtu.be/82NUfPBHxYs

^^^ ugh i would've voted for that maybe

Yeah, I'm really bad at campaigning...

Forks, still the wrong Inverso. The one you've added to the playlist appears to be a Spanish-language Nickelback, not an Italian jazz duo. But it's ok. We've finished skimming every single album in the playlist. Something that all of you should have done before voting. Even the ones without free time.

Is the roll-out going be like normal (i.e., tracks rolling out on Monday, albums the Monday after that)?

That's the plan.

no sign of taytayfan so far this year :(

xp to imago: seriously? crazy that there are two bands with recently released self titled albums called inverso on spotify and neither of them are the right one!

next year I'm only going to vote for artists that don't exist

voted, baby, voted! thanks again Johnny Fièvre.

http://blog.omy.sg/sgblogawards/files/2011/05/2daysleft.jpg

I voted!

According to seandalai, votership is down this year despite nominations being up. U CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

I would like to see a Rev's list

Voted!

I always leave my ballot to the last minute. Albums are almost sorted, tracks will be cobbled together somehow I'm sure.

How many voted last year?

I thought that might have been mentioned in the stats roundup thread from last year, but it wasn't. seandalai?

iirc it was in the 130-ish range for each category.

We've usually had around 140 ballots in total. Right now we're on 88, so please keep voting!

still need to get mine in

me too

hoping nv will pull through with an army of gaz-voting sock accounts

I didn't realize Atelje counted for 2015.

me neither. i think i voted for it anyway.

I will vote here soon

Beatrice Dillon just jumped out from the tracks Spotify playlist. Probably won't vote for it, as I already have a hardcore 30 tracks I now need to whittle down to 25. But props to whoever nommed it. Kiiara and Louis The Child other late discoveries, for which (merely) thanks.

I voted yesterday, happy with how my ballot worked out, but am now AFRAID to keep listening to the tracks playlist. Too much great stuff...

Shit just realized I forgot to vote for one of my top tier favorite songs.

i hasten to mention again that those playlists are not disappearing after this poll; if you find something you like better than what you heard last year that is effectively your fave music of 2016 and i swear to god that's okay.

i voted.

I didn't realize Atelje counted for 2015.

― Evan, Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:59 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me neither. i think i voted for it anyway.

― canoon fooder (dog latin), Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:59 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i voted for it last year. pretty sure it has no chance of making the list so i'll prob pass on voting for it again

fuck, forgot to save my ballot, is there a way someone could send it to me back?

everybody should vote for Atelje, I sure will

I'm trying to get a ballot together but I don't have access to a computer right now and this is hard to do from a smartphone. I can't even c&p from the master list!

Is it possible to send in albums and tracks separately? I have an album ballot ready. Still working on tracks.

motion to have the admins make an allowance for rev to email them or something! this will be an important ballot!

Voted

Reverend, yes you can vote separately for each category. xp

Also, you can email me if you need to, or pm on Facebook or whatever.

Thanks. I just sent an albums ballot. Sorry if things don't match the master list exactly, I had to type it all by hand on my phone.

Voted!

Did no one nominate Ad Nauseum - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est???

Voted

sent

Thanks voters! If people have almost-lists or kind-of-lists, just submit them and I'll sort them out.

I'll try to put together some kind of tracks ballot, it's OK if I submit it again w/just tracks right? marked the tracks ballot "missing" just now on the one I sent in

I forgot to include something on my tracks ballot. How can I fix this?

@Sund4r: just submit a new tracks ballot and I'll delete your old one
@sleeve: that's fine

I just submitted a new tracks ballot. I labelled the albums ballot as 'missing' but I want to keep the albums ballot from before. Thanks.

got it

seandalai: I'm gonna submit a new tracks ballot. Do I need to re-enter the albums ballot as well?

can i still submit one within the next hour or so?

my mistake, i thought the OP was suggesting "midnight" meaning like the time it was 14 minutes ago.

huh, I guess we didn't nominate Gaussian Curve? whoops, just remembered that I'd forgotten to vote for it, but now I see why: it's not on the list!

thought about nomming it but the release date was 2014

voted

i voted.

just want to put in an honorable mention for the Etienne de Crecy record. it wasn't nommed but i think a lot of ilxors would enjoy it v much

I've just been going through the nominations to do my votes and there was so much stuff I didn't even realise was released this year, including that Etienne de Crecy track.

snap, would've voted for it but i missed that track in the noms list! that whole LP is fresh, no duds on it, i listened to it over and over.

oh i see it was the remix from the extended LP nominated. word up, that was the best of the remixes imo.

seandalai: I'm gonna submit a new tracks ballot. Do I need to re-enter the albums ballot as well?

― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Friday, January 15, 2016 3:25 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Either way works, just let me know what to do

http://41.media.tumblr.com/b8284b3bdfa4437609c0496c25f37abd/tumblr_mj8y0qCZkT1rt109go1_1280.jpg

Voted

Ok, notice to seandalai: I sent in my complete ballot tracks + albums anew. Only the tracks ballot is different so you can do what's easiest, re-enter the album ballot or leave it. Apologies for the extra work.

got it

VOTED!

Track voting was exceedingly difficult this year.

VETOED

Voted last night. Hope it came through OK.

we can still vote right?

just finishing up my trax

The official deadline is 7pm tonight EST, midnight GMT. But the real deadline is until seandalai wakes up on Saturday morning.

Oh scratch that. That 7pm stuff was the nominations deadline.

Just consider voting open until seandalai says it's closed sometime Saturday morning.

seandalai: I'm gonna submit a new tracks ballot. Do I need to re-enter the albums ballot as well?

― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Friday, January 15, 2016 3:25 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Either way works, just let me know what to do

― Vote! In the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Friday, January 15, 2016 5:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just sent in a whole new ballot, albums and singles. Thanks!

voted.

Everyone is mentioning that they voted. Is this required? Because I also voted.

Consider it a way of reminding others to vote.

http://images1.houstonpress.com/imager/u/original/6741505/i_voted_9.jpg

Random #deepass Thoughts:

Wow, Blur put out an album this year? Who knew?

Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal: I know it was reissued, but surely year of impact was 2014. Stuff like this confuses me.

Miguel album weirdly seems to have fallen in my estimation since being released.

Should have nominated Levon Vincent’s Anti-Corporate Music

Ditto this track Ewe by Fabiano Do Nascimento, I really like this - discovered last week on the Spotify Favorite 2015 Tracks list, not the noms.

Ten Walls - Sparta made it onto here, eh? Apparently all is forgiven.

I forgot to vote for the Levon Vincent album so if anyone wants to stick it in their list at #10 or therabouts that would be lovely.

i voted for cam's "burning house" because it's really a stunning single but i REGRET not voting for the album instead now

I put in a vote for Levon Vincent album, hope it does well - but then my album tastes are always way out of sync with ILM results for some reason.

I voted the other day.

I might be out tonight but I will try to throw something together. That spotify thing told me that I listened to more music than ever in 2015 but fucked if I can remember what it was.

that levon album was gash

I'm just happy I can start listening to 2016 music.

Voted!

I have no idea how to rank 25 songs

you can always cast an unweighted ballot

Oh god, picking the last three or four is turning out to be harder than I thought. I like years where I only have 25 albums I want to rep for, curtailed choice is great.

(Some people will be pleased to know that I let my heart rule over my head and decided to count Jaar's Nymphs as an album.)

finally, voted

I (+1) am doing the final workings-out now - hope it's ok if we just miss midnight GMT...

xxp that pleases me greatly!

xp Are you doing a joint ballot, or an imago ballot and a non-diegetic gf one?

Onto the last run of re-listening to tracks. Thinking about trying out the 'no-crossover' rule between albums and tracks, it's only Angel Haze that really makes me waver on that. And I think they should have a strong showing in albums so, hmmm, yeah, let's see if I can do no crossover.

We'll close about 9am GMT

imago's gf should def vote separately!

I think I might have to sit this one out tbh, finding it hard to envision not passing out when I get in

wins just fb me your favourite song of the year and I'll make you a tiny ballot

oh we're definitely doing separate ballots, so when The Chap make the top 77, don't be alarmed

imago's gf is diegetic iirc!

Allegedly...

are you imago's gf

All I can say is that William D Drake is in my ballot

There is some crossover (like maybe 1 track) between my albums & tracks, but for the most part the two are completely different stylistically

Ok sent! Sorry if you'll have to manually correct some stuff.

couldn't face ordering the tracks but done

OMFG

*NONE* of my extra 10 nominations are on the tracks nominations list

ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

^^^all missing

I'm voting for them anyway. Sean, can you please add them to the tracks (and maybe albums) nominations list asap please

I'll follow it up. The albums are all there.

did you get my tracks ballot?

Cheers. The Pre New nomination I did later isn't there either I don't think

I've added these to my local copy of the nominations:

KEN Mode - Blessed
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth - Unnamed
PC Worship - My Lens
Thighpaulsandra - Did He Fall?
Beauty Pill - Ann The Word

I'm not going to mess with the online list because I'm really tired and don't want to break anything.

haha ok. if you could chuck The Pre New - Janet vs John (the Outcome) on there too I'd be much obliged, since I am voting for it as things stand

Pre New is there

oh it is, sorry

@flopson: got both yr ballots

spoiler deflection: i'm not voting for all of the ones you just added. oooooh etc

nice, thx seand!

Oh dang, I ended up not voting for the PC Worship album, I might add that track to my ballot maybe. Hang on, let me check which one it is.

:(

I'm voting for both, presuming the track is My Lens

...and my ballots are ready!

Will hold off voting for a little bit due to my associate, who's currently wrestling with a Between The Buried And Me song :D still working it out

Just having a cup of tea and checking my lists before submission, glad I did as I realised I'd missed out one of my own nominations. Sorry PC Worship, you don't make it this time.

I've missed out like 15 of my nominations haha

Too much overlap between trax and albums maybe - 16/25! idk though; they're my favourites of each, what can I do

My ordered extended ballots number 61 for albums and 55 for tracks btw. I'll be posting them eventually. Is 25 too few? It feels cruel

voted. way easier to just submit an unweighted ballot for each, kind of feels more right to do that, all the albums/tracks i voted for were favorites at various points of the year

i just voted, a gruesome business indeed.

Voted.

voted!

first timer

Argh, I've done it. I voted. Too late for regrets.

i voted. 25 tracks is not enough :( i just started knockin em off arbitrarily to finish the ballot. weirdly i was able to do a weighted album ballot this year though without much fretting about it

http://lespopines.l.e.pic.centerblog.net/b7704729.gif

i could never go unweighted, my top 10 tracks/top 5 albums is always too on another level of love

Voted! Celebrating by listening to what just missed out.

Voted

I doubt my #1 will place here, but I know what's it's up against:
Southern Motherfuckin' Democratic-Republicans!

Voted! Promoted a Dawn Richard song 5 places in the final seconds because I listened to it again thinking it might be disposable, but this had the opposite effect in fact

Voted!

tracks ballot sent, thank all the gods for the "mixed" ballot option

Voted!

I've added these to my local copy of the nominations:

Beauty Pill - Ann The Word

You're gonna hate me, but...you know there are two songs by this name on the album, right?

Ugh, been travelling and only just managed to get access to a computer - hurriedly throwing together something but I'm already an hour past the deadline. Fingers crossed ...

I've still got about 2 hours, right? *just woke up*

Until seandalai posts to say "STOP!" you can still vote.

I'm on it!

GO GO ILX

Well fuck, so not going to happen

Working on it now but let's be fair, it's not going to be catastrophic if I don't hit the deadline

Shut up and compile, you have plenty of time!

Voted! Heading out again & couldn't figure out how to order so did a eyes-closed top five then left the rest unweighted.

Albums done, tracks? Sure I think I like tracks probably

Voted. Albums were a breeze, tracks are the real hand-wringers, as always.

Done

Romeo Dunn

Mixed ballots are always the way to go for me!

did the thing

https://s2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/91/a3/b9/mzl.xluybwym.png

Felt a bit silly putting 3 modern classical records at the top of my albums ballot, because they have a snowball's chance in hell making it to the top 77... Well, at least my tracks ballot was fairly popist.

I have 3 modern classical albums on my ballot, so mayb... yeah probably not.

Thanks for voting everyone, in the end I didn't need to worry about turnout. We got 146 albums ballots and 137 tracks ballots.

Woo! Great turnout.

Felt a bit silly putting 3 modern classical records at the top of my albums ballot, because they have a snowball's chance in hell making it to the top 77... Well, at least my tracks ballot was fairly popist.

― Tuomas, Saturday, January 16, 2016 1:04 PM (1 hour ago)

My top 3 albums this year will definitely all make it, but most years my favourites are things that don't have a hope. No point in voting against your heart. My top 2 tracks probably won't get in, nor will a lot of other stuff.

I woke up this morning with a sore head and the vague sense that I forgot to vote for sons of kemet and maybe also for kendrick(!) so it's fair to say that my ballot was not the most accurate representation of my listening year. If I hadn't been so busy lately I'd have dug in a bit more but tbh I don't know the names of a couple of the tracks I've loved the most this year, and there was an artist that according to spotify was in my top 3 most listened in 2015 and I literally didn't recognise the name at all, like I'd never heard of them

Always love the rollout in any case & loving listening to the nominations, thx forks

it's okay wins kendrick will win no matter what prob and I put in a vote for sons of kemet

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i forgot to vote can i still vote

Felt a bit silly putting 3 modern classical records at the top of my albums ballot, because they have a snowball's chance in hell making it to the top 77... Well, at least my tracks ballot was fairly popist.

I can see the motivation to vote strategically in a political election, even though it's usually not my preference. Why even consider voting strategically for a message board poll about music, though?

(Also, I'm eager to find out which modern classical records!)

How many tracks/albums per day are being rolled out?

I chose a weighted ballot as there wasnt anywhere near enough to fill a whole ballot

How many tracks/albums per day are being rolled out?

Better make it one per day for the sake of saer's blood pressure.

Why even consider voting strategically for a message board poll about music, though?

I can see why. You can give a lot of points to records you love that most likely won't place or give these points to records you like a lot that actually have a shot at making it to the final list (meaning more people are likely to listen to them).

just realized i left a lot of stuff off my albums ballot (dirty sprite 2, blahdahdah), ah well

full disclosure it's single digit weather here- feel like this album has too much

How many tracks/albums per day are being rolled out?

17 on Monday, 20 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Tracks next week & albums the filling week.

following*

let jordan vote

sorry, the wheels are already turning :(

let wins vote for sons of kemet

"let wins vote for sons of kemet" - cosign

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^ He's ready

sounds like wins was insufficiently KEMETed to voting for them

I voted but I forgot to nominate so my tracks ballot doesn't contain the three songs I actually listened to most this year :(

Thanks to everyone involved for running this, it is always a highlight.

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Oh, I forgot to vote. I could have given Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan, and Mbongwana Star and Ashley Monroe and some others (C. Barnett, Royal Headache) extra votes (and the only votes for some southern soul and afropop)

What afropop would/might you have voted for?

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