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

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