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

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