Kings and Queens: 2016 Albums Poll debrief, ballots, and haters mad for whatever reason

FULL RESULTS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12xlFbACJZx44ixRYBn5OKRejSXbbd6Srah3Y5_Qt-TE/edit?usp=sharing

VOTER DATA DUMP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MCYxyVYO2bhQ149v6fCFFRStmWH9UrSVL_msBg6a1HA/edit?usp=sharing

lol eno

argh The Ship was a late cut from my ballot IIRC

noooooo Jamila Woods got 79'ed :(((

mixed ballot, bolded didn't place:

Dawn Richard - Redemption
King - We Are King
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Miranda Lambert - The Weight Of These Wings
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Cardi B - Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1

Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
Hannah Peel - Awake But Always Dreaming
Solange - A Seat At The Table
Britney Spears - Glory
Brothers Osborne - Pawn Shop
Anohni - Hopelessness
Maren Morris - Hero
Raime - Tooth
Kiss Daniel - New Era
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2
Nina Kraviz - Fabric 91
Jamila Woods - Heavn
Tweet - Charlene
Trim - 1-800 Dinosaur Presents: Trim
P Money - Live & Direct
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night

10/19 = year of the hivemind

Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 Guitars
Bombino - Azel
Horse Lords - Interventions
Kevin Hufnagel - Backwards Through the Maze
Sarah Louise - VDSQ Acoustic Series Volume 12
Fred Frith/Darren Johnston - Everybody's Somebody's Nobody
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Astronoid - Air
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
Battle Trance - Blade of Love
Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Mitski - Puberty 2
Ben Johnston/Kepler Quartet - Ben Johnston: String Quartets 6, 7, and 8
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
GLYPTOGLOSSIO - GLYPTOGL05510
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Dysrhythmia - The Veil of Control
Gorguts – Pleiades’ Dust
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution

Cheers to top neighbour Drugs A. Money.

bold didn't place

Underworld - Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Brigid Mae Power - Brigid Mae Power
Völur - Disir
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island 2
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
Subrosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
David Bowie - Blackstar
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Cellars - Phases
Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings
Mitski - Puberty 2
Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor
Frankie Reyes - Boleros Valses y Mas
Frederic Hand – Odyssey
The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Payroll Giovanni & Cardo – Big Bossin’ Vol. 1
Let’s Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
Lucy Dacus - No Burden
Katie Gately - Color
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
Laura Cannell - Simultaneous Flight Movement

weighted, bolded didn't place

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Tweet - Charlene
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Deftones - Gore
Maren Morris – Hero
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings
Hannah Peel - Awake but Always Dreaming
Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave
Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. .
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Kornél Kovács - The Bells
Kiss Daniel - New Era
Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Ngaiire - Blastoma
Objekt - Kern Vol. 3
Krallice - Prelapsarian
Katie Gately - Color
KING - We Are KING
The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love
Kevin Gates - Islah

omfg

ZERO VOTES FOR DRAKE

bold didn't place:

75 Dollar Bill - Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
Horse Lords - Interventions
M. Geddes Gengras - Interior Architecture
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Fox/Soper Duo - Magenta Line
All Them Witches - Live in Brussels
Benoît Pioulard - The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter
They Say the Wind Made Them Crazy - Far From the Silvery Light
Blood Bears - Blood Bears
Troller - Graphic
The Notwist - Superheroes, Ghostvillians & Stuff
Subrosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Andrew Pekler - Tristes Tropiques
Purple Pilgrims - Eternal Delight
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
David Bowie - Blackstar
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Madder Mortem – Red In Tooth And Claw
Matmos - Ultimate Care II
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
V/A - Why The Mountains Are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960
Givan Lötz - MAW
Black Bombain & Peter Brotzmann - s/t

Sorry not sorry over my 1-vote ballot.

Cool ballot, EZ Snappin.

am i misreading, zero votes for both Katy B and MIA?

Weighted

Lizz - Bucur003
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax

omfg

ZERO VOTES FOR DRAKE

― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:18 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SCREAMING, how utterly perfect

Weighted

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Noname - Telefone
Kelsey Waldon - I've Got a Way
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Mitski - Puberty 2
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
Suede - Night Thoughts
David Bowie - Blackstar
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION Side B
KING - We Are KING
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Shura - Nothing's Real
Brandy Clark - Big Day In a Small Town
Róisín Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Kornél Kovács - The Bells
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Sidibe - You Got the Luck
Blaue Blume - Syzygy
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Lydia Loveless - Real
Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
Ngaiire - Blastoma
Nao - For All We Know

Solange – A Seat at the Table
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service
Yello - Toy
Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve – The Soft Bounce
The Avalanches – Wildflower
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Nite Jewel – Liquid Cool
Electric Wire Hustle - The 11th Sky
Dan Lissvik - Midnight
Philco Fiction - Talk/Brag

Katie Gately - Color
Dawn Richard – Redemption
KING – We Are King
Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed To Dance)
Britney Spears - Glory
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun
DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall
Róisín Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Kaytranada – 99.9%
Shura - Nothing's Real
Underworld - Barbara Barbara We Face A Shining Future
Xeno & Oaklander - Topiary
Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation
The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!

Kevin Gates - Islah
Kiss Daniel - New Era
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
No Panty – Westside Highway Story
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Usher – Hard II Love
DJ Quik - Rosecrans
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2
Young Thug - Jeffery
YMTK – All the Right Places
Payroll Giovanni & Cardo – Big Bossin’ Vol. 1
Tweet - Charlene
BJ The Chicago Kid - In My Mind
Rihanna - Anti
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Chris Crack & Vic Spencer – Who the Fuck is Crash Spencer
Ezale & DJ Fresh – The Tonite Show with Ezale
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
Kodak Black - Lil B.I.G. Pac
Lil Durk – Lil Durk 2x
Nef the Pharaoh – Neffy Got Wings
Into It. Over It. - Standards
ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP

thanks Sund4r! If you want thoughts on my top fifteen Wrote about them at The Speed of Things

Unweighted

BadBadNotGood - IV
Cass McCombs - Mangy Love
CFCF - On Vacation
Chairlift - Moth
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
David Bowie - Blackstar
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
Gold Panda - Good Luck and Do Your Best
Jeff Parker - The New Breed
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed To Dance)
M83 - Junk
Shura - Nothing's Real
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Wild Beasts - Boy King
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
Wye Oak - Tween
Yuck - Stranger Things

mxd

Katie Gately - Color
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
MJ Guider - Precious Systems
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Elza Soares - The Woman At The End Of The World
Anderson .Paak - Malibu
Steven Julien - Fallen
White Lung - Paradise
Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
Elysia Crampton - Demon City

A Pleasure - Jream House
CFCF - On Vacation
David Bowie - Blackstar
Dorisburg - Irrbloss
Gaika – Security
Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's Of Imhotep
Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Kelsey Lu - Church
Kornél Kovács - The Bells
Loscil - Monument Builders
Marquis Hawkes - Social Housing
Maxwell Sterling - Hollywood Medieval
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte

have cooled a fair bit on anderson .paak since i voted, dedekind cut would've been right up there if only i'd remembered to nom it

Weighted

Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land
Joanna Wang - House Of Bullies
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Clipping - Splendor & Misery
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God, or Insanity)
KING - We Are KING
Darq E Freaker - Don't Freak Out
Katie Dey - Flood Network
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Mitski - Puberty 2
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
Teen - Love Yes
Bob Drake - Arx Pilosa
Katie Gately - Color
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
The Display Team - Shifts
Comet Control - Center of the Maze
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
Sad13 - Slugger
Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. .

this was such an unbelievable year for music. ppl who don't find me completely intolerable are encouraged to root around the ones they've not heard

Mixed ballot, dnp in bold. Biggest regrets = not having found room for Roy Montgomery, not having yet listened to ATCQ

Horse Lords - Interventions
Quttinirpaaq - Dead September
The Comet Is Coming - Channel the Spirits
Skaphe - Skáphe²
Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 Guitars
Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
KING - We Are KING
Vnutrennee Sgoranie - Sebyaboyazn
Dysrhythmia - The Veil of Control
Heliocentrics - From the Deep
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wake to a New Dawn of Another Astro Era
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God, or Insanity)
Haikai No Ku - Temporary Infinity

David Bowie - Blackstar
Fox/Soper Duo - Magenta Line
Guerilla Toss - Eraser Stargazer
Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
No Zu - Afterlife
Oneida & Rhys Chatham - What's Your Sign?
Space Camp 1991 - Space Camp 1991
The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead
Working for a Nuclear Free City - What Do People Do All Day?

83 Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
84 Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.

gah

Here's my ranked ballot, bolded the ones that didn't make it to the top 77:

Nao - For All We Know
MC Pyhä Lehmä - Pohjantuuli
Nina Kraviz - Fabric 91
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Biosphere - Departed Glories
Zalys - Fragments of Life
Hiromi - Spark
Tkay Maidza - Tkay
Dinky - Valor
Thomas P. Heckmann - The Lost Tales Vol. V
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
France Jobin - Singulum
Moomin - A Minor Thought
Omni Vu Deity ‎– Uvunayatu
KING - We Are KING
Biosphere - Patashnik 2 (extra album with the 2016 reissue of Patashnik)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Princess Nokia - 1992
V/A - Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed
No. Inc. ‎– G@ng5ta
Petos - Testamentti
Tinashe - Nightride
Biosphere - Cirque 2 (extra album with the 2016 reissue of Cirque)
Angela Hewitt - Scarlatti Sonatas
Atom™ ‎– Texturen II

I knew it didn't make much difference to put an album by a Finnish rapper as my #2, but OTOH she is pretty much my favourite musician in here at the moment, and the album was an awesome piece of fierce hippie rap, so it would've been a lie not to include it.

Was genuinely surprised Nao missed the top 77, considering ILX's taste I thought that album was a lock. We Are KING is nice, but no r'n'b I've heard in quite a while is equal to For All We Know in pure aural pleasure (which doesn't mean it doesn't hit hard too).

i forgot my ballot can someone post it for me / email it me to pretty plz

Whoops, I guess I italicised them and not bold.

Let's try it again...

Nao - For All We Know
MC Pyhä Lehmä - Pohjantuuli
Nina Kraviz - Fabric 91
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Biosphere - Departed Glories
Zalys - Fragments of Life
Hiromi - Spark
Tkay Maidza - Tkay
Dinky - Valor
Thomas P. Heckmann - The Lost Tales Vol. V
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
France Jobin - Singulum
Moomin - A Minor Thought
Omni Vu Deity ‎– Uvunayatu
KING - We Are KING
Biosphere - Patashnik 2 (extra album with the 2016 reissue of Patashnik)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Princess Nokia - 1992
V/A - Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed
No. Inc. ‎– G@ng5ta
Petos - Testamentti
Tinashe - Nightride
Biosphere - Cirque 2 (extra album with the 2016 reissue of Cirque)
Angela Hewitt - Scarlatti Sonatas
Atom™ ‎– Texturen II

simultaneously so heartwarming to see 9 voters for ngaiire and yet so dismaying that she just missed at #81. oh well, apparently new music is coming later this year so I'll campaign again for the 2017 poll.

Weighted, bold didn't place, and most likely to read Complex (!)

Beyoncé – Lemonade
Ngaiire - Blastoma
KING - We Are KING
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Niki & the Dove - Everybody's Heart is Broken Now
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Tkay Maidza - Tkay
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Noname - Telefone
Kadhja Bonet - The Visitor
Nao - For All We Know
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
Shura - Nothing's Real
Rihanna - Anti
Tweet - Charlene
Kaytranada - 99.9%
Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed To Dance)
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Slow Club - One Day All Of This Won't Matter Anymore
Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto
case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2

Mujuice - Amor E Morte
Brodka - Clashes
Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
Monetochka - Psikhodelicheskii Klaud Rep
Calypso Rose - Far From Home
Ne Tvoe Delo - Best Hits
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Mujuice - Torus
Gribi - Dom Na Kolosakh
Brandy Clark - Big Day In a Small Town
Alisa Voks - Sama
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
Maks Barskih - Tumani
Gromyka - Akrobatenka
Shura - Nothing's Real
Britney Spears - Glory
Seth Bogart - Seth Bogart
Alex Anwandter - Amiga
Luna (Луна) - Magniti
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Tove Lo - Lady Wood
Barbara Hannigan, Andris Nelsons & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Hans Abrahamsen: Let Me Tell You
Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor
Petite Meller - Lil Empire
Young Thug - Jeffery

Babyfather – BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
KING - We Are KING
Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Lil Peep - Crybaby
Elza Soares - The Woman At The End Of The World
V/A - Mambos Levis D'Outro Mundo
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
Horse Lords - Interventions
Katie Gately - Color
The Still - The Still
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
daniel lanois - goodbye to language
Joanne Robertson - Wildflower
Fatou Seidi Ghali, Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad
Yves Tumor - Serpent Music
Linafornia - Yung
Xylouris White - Black Peak
bvdub - A Thousand Words
John K. Samson - Winter Wheat
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone

Weighted. Something like (didn't keep my ballot, one of these got cut):

Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
KING - We Are King
Esparanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Let’s Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol.13: Sunergy
Lindstrøm - Windings EP
Giorgio Tuma - This Life Denied Me Your Love
Adrian Younge - Something About April II
Shura - Nothing’s Real
The Dandelion Set - A Thousand Strands (1975-2015)
Britney Spears - Glory
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
Kristin Hersh - Wyatt At The Coyote Palace
The Bongolian - Moog Maximus
The Hardy Tree - Through Passages of Time
Plaid - The Digging Remedy
Belbury Poly - New Ways Out
Tinashe - Nightride
Machinedrum - Human Energy
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire
Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust
Oval - Popp
Marit Larsen - Joni was right, I / II
Deerful - Staying Still EP

Who was the other Kishi Bashi voter? I bumped it down my list quite a bit as assumed I'd be the sole voter.

ogmor with the interesting-looking list

Weighted

Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
Omar-S - The Best!
Lord of the Isles - In Waves
Marquis Hawkes - Social Housing
Paradis - Recto Verso
Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Smith & Mudd - Gorthleck
Grumbling Fur - Furfour
Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's Of Imhotep
Gate - Saturday Night Fever
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
Wolf Müller & Cass. - The Sound Of Glades
Troller - Graphic
Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Innercity Ensemble - III
Mind Lotion - Altitude Attitudes
Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids - We Be All Africans
Mood Hut ‎– Snaker 007
Kuedo - Slow Knife
Angel Olsen - My Woman

that is a pretty convincing argument for me listening to all the techno that placed

xp wouldn't say it reflects a coherent aesthetic or anything. curious what my closest neighbour sleeve's list has in common

84 Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.

gah

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2017 5:33 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am gonna be kicking myself for a very long time

80% of my ballot placed hahahaha

weighted, bold didn't place:

beyoncé - lemonade
the 1975 - i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
angel olsen - my woman
KING - we are KING
solange - a seat at the table
jessy lanza - oh no
tove lo - lady wood
kaytranada - 99.9%
shura - nothing's real
kaitlyn aurelia smith - ears
frank ocean - blonde
junior boys - big black coat
paradis - recto verso
kelsey lu - church EP
NAO - for all we know
britney spears - glory
jenny hval - blood bitch
weyes blood - front row seat to earth
the radio dept. - running out of love
rihanna - anti

wow i just totally realized i forgot to put leon vynehall on my ballot :'(

also i love dangerous woman but i couldn't comprehend its placement after 20 albums on my ballot so i apologize to contribute to that upset

9/25. Out in the 90s by hivemind. Home.

ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ
Nik Bärtsch - Continuum
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
Katie Gately - Color
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe
KING - We Are KING
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
Hannah Peel - Awake but Always Dreaming
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Shura - Nothing's Real
LAM - LAM
Anna Meredith - Varmints
Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth
Pr0files - Jurrasic Technologie
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
Lotto - Elite Feline
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Classixx - Faraway Reach
Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok
Metá Metá - MM3
Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body
NV - Binasu

Ha, I am immediately above you.

Weighted. 5 out of 18 placed.

Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
SubRosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolution
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Aluk Todolo - Voix
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
High Spirits - Motivator
Jenny Besetzt - Tender Madness
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Oceans of Slumber - Winter
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Babymetal - Metal Resistance
Larry Levan - Genius Of Time

If I'd been able to vote in time, my ballot would have been something like:

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings
Katie Gately - Color
Young Thug - Jeffery
Hannah Peel - Awake but Always Dreaming
Wolf Muller & Cass - The Sound of Glades
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Beyonce - Lemonade
KING - We Are KING
Ngaiire - Blastoma
Demdike Stare - Wonderland
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife 2
David Bowie - Blackstar
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Anohni - Hopelessness
Maren Morris - Hero
Britney Spears - Glory
Kornél Kovács - The Bells
ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Tweet - Charlene
Kevin Gates - Islah
Nao - For All We Know
Omar-S - The Best!

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
V/A - Digital Zandoli
XAM Duo - XAM Duo
King - We Are King

Laura Cannell - Simultaneous Flight Movement
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Perfume - Cosmic Explorer
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Circuit des Yeux - Jackie Lynn
serpentwithfeet - blisters
The Wharves - Electa
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
Anohni - Hopelessness
Julianna Barwick - Will
Nite Jewel - Liquid Cool
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
Mary Lattimore - At the Dam
M83 - Junk
Shura - Nothing's Real
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Fox/Soper Duo - Magenta Line
Various Artists - Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed
William Tyler - Modern Country

mixed, bold placed

Wolf Müller & Cass. - The Sound Of Glades
V/A - Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae

Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
bookworms - xenophobe
CFCF - On Vacation
deep88 - The Black Album
Inhalants - Deep Florida
Kassem Mosse - Disclosure
Lord of the Isles - In Waves
Mind Lotion - Altitude Attitudes
Mood Hut ‎– Snaker 007
Omar-S - The Best!
The Pilotwings - Les Portos Du Brionnais
Prince of Denmark - 8
Prins Emanuel - Arbete/Fritid
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Psychemagik - Ritual Chants
Róisín Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Smith & Mudd - Gorthleck
Suzanne Kraft - What You Get For Being Young
SW. - Untitled
The Swan and The Lake - Moments
Tommy Awards - Sessions II
V/A - Disco Mantras
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Wilson Tanner - 69

Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
Alex Anwandter - Amiga
Kiss Daniel - New Era
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God, or Insanity)
V/A - Bambukat Soundtrack
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 & 2
Western Skies Motel - Settlers
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Britney Spears - Glory
Christopher Tignor - Along A Vanishing Plane
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Babes Wodumo - Gqom Queen, Vol. 1
V/A - The Sound of Durban Vol. 1

cheers ShariVari, nice to see another Anwandter album voter, everyone that loves the single from the tracks poll needs to listen to the album, its not all more of the same but it is all great

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Schammasch - Triangle
Aluk Todolo - Voix
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
David Bowie - Blackstar
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Ian William Craig - Centres
Mesarthim - Isolate
Sumac - What One Becomes
Horse Lords - Interventions
40 Watt Sun - Wider than the Sky
Alcest - Kodoma
Atomikylä - Keräily
Blues Pills – Lady In Gold
Bolzer - Hero
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Dysrhythmia - The Veil of Control
Entropia - Ufonaut
Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 Guitars
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
Subrosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Vanessa Rossetto - Adult Contemporary

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
YG - Still Brazy
Nels Cline - Lovers
Fantasia - The Definition Of...
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Kevin Gates - Islah
David Bowie - Blackstar
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
Brothers Osborne – Pawn Shop
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Shy Glizzy - Young Jefe 2
Dej Loaf - All Jokes Aside
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Usher – Hard II Love
Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
Dreezy – No Hard Feelings
Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Young Thug - Jeffery
Wye Oak – Tween

Beyonce - Lemonade
Solange - A Place at the Table
Mitski - Puberty 2
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
David Bowie - Blackstar
Izzy True - Nope
Sammus - Pieces in Space
Sarah Hennies - Gather and Release
Young Thug - Jeffery
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
Carly Rae Jepsen - E Mo Tion Side B
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Rihanna - Anti
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Sad13 - Slugger

Huerco S. - For Those Of You...
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Mood Hut ‎– Snaker 007
V/A - Disco Mantras
Young Thug - Jeffery
Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
Wolf Müller & Cass. - The Sound Of Glades
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Objekt - Kern Vol. 3

Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island 2
SW. - Untitled
Prince of Denmark - 8
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Suzanne Kraft - What You Get For Being Young
The Swan and The Lake - Moments
V/A - Mumdance & Logos present Different Circles

1 David Bowie - Blackstar
2 Róisín Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
3 Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
4 Horse Lords - Interventions
5 A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
6 William Tyler - Modern Country
7 Autechre - Elseq 1-5
8 Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
9 Andy Stott - Too Many Voices
10 Nina Kraviz - Fabric 91
11 Not Waving - Animals
12 Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force - Yermande
13 Fumaça Preta - Impuros Fanaticos
14 Elza Soares - The Woman At The End Of The World
15 Africaine 808 - Basar
16 Shy Layers - Shy Layers
17 Steven Julien - Fallen
18 Kornél Kovács - The Bells
19 Aphex Twin - Cheetah
20 Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
21 Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
22 Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
23 Matt Karmil - IDLE033
24 Junior Boys - Kiss Me All Night EP
25 Factory Floor - 25 25

I had unique votes for D.R.A.M., Cakes da Killa, Erik Blood, Guayaba, Sassyblack, Skyshaker

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Beyoncé – Lemonade
KING - We Are KING
Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
D.R.A.M. - Big Baby D.R.A.M.

Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Cakes da Killa - Hedonism
Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Elysia Crampton - Demon City
Erik Blood - Lost in Slow Motion
Guayaba - Black Trash, White House
Kaytranada - 99.9%
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
Noname - Telefone
Princess Nokia - 1992
Sassyblack - No More Weak Dates
serpentwithfeet - blisters
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Skyshaker - The Brogue Wars
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Tweet - Charlene
Young Thug - Jeffery

I've been wondering whether it was worth voting, this rollout confirms the time spent making my list would have been better spent doing something else. Lesson learned.

My lol-ballot, nothing placed except Oranssi Pazuzu and Radiohead:

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Dreamboat - Dreamboat
Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Roly Porter - Third Law
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Ashtray Navigations - To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First
Matt Elliott - The Calm Before
Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus - Al Viento
Ulaan Passerine - The Great Unwinding
Sarah Louise - VDSQ Acoustic Series Volume 12
Mary Lattimore - At the Dam
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls
Kevin Hufnagel - Backwards Through the Maze
Danny Paul Grody - Sketch For Winter VI: Other States
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Khemmis - Hunted
Ryley Walker & Charles Rumback - Cannots
Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Lines
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
Krallice - Prelapsarian
Michel Cloup Duo - Ici et là-bas
Paul Jebanasam - Continuum
And Also The Trees - Born Into The Waves
Wacław Zimpel - Lines

Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
The Swan and The Lake - Moments
Hifi Sean - Ft
Wilson Tanner - 69
Wolf Müller & Cass. - The Sound Of Glades
Shy Layers - Shy Layers
Smith & Mudd - Gorthleck
Bendith - Bendith
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Underworld - Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
Psychemagik - Ritual Chants
Stabil Elite - Let You Down

Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION Side B
KING - We Are KING
Tove Lo - Lady Wood
Petite Meller - Lil Empire
Steve Mason - Meet The Humans
Tommy Awards - Sessions II
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
CFCF - On Vacation
cantoma - jut landed
Loscil - Monument Builders
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
Studio OST - Scenes (2012?-?2015)
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

Realise I must have accidentally overwritten the Mark Barrott album as it was on my ballot to start with

Missed a big chunk of the albums rollout but never mind. Don't feel like I listened to a lot of albums qua albums in 2016, having recently joined Spotify and getting more interested in tracks-based music like dancehall / afro-pop etc. Still, I'm pleased with this list and I'm pleased with the poll in general. Thanks polly people for running it!

I know they've got their detractors, and even some hardened Radiohead fans thought AMSP was boring, but honestly I think it's the best thing I've heard in several years from one of my all-time favourite bands. It's not 'coffee-table' music, neither is it boring at all. The sustained mood is one of its major strengths after a long run of increasingly disjointed albums that were good enough but largely incoherent. I'm still hearing new things every time I put it on and my favourite track changes frequently.

I've listened to 'The Greatest' so many times. I really like it. Listened to the KING album a handful of times and I like it's 'Human Nature' goes dream-pop loveliness. Not sure I love it as much as a lot of ILM but I'm pleased that a relative outlier like this can do so well and it's not something obvious like Bowie or Beyonce.

I spent a lot of time listening to Rae Sremm and Young Thug this year. I just find these albums totally joyous and addicting. Similarly, the Lil Yachty album shouldn't be slept on, and I'm enjoying the positive, youthful vibes coming through in some branches of trap at the moment.

Any Autechre album is going to jibe well with me, but Elseq is a unique and fantastic project even for them. The granular levels of detail in these tracks - it's like rinse-aid for the ears, and I like how they're morphing into pretty much a 21st century electronic live free-jazz act.

Loads of great dancehall, soca, afro-pop and fusions of these coming out this year. Moving to Bristol has meant more ready access to these styles and I'm lucky enough to live near a club that puts on regular 'Jamaican bass' nights (as they call it sometimes). So yeah, Alkaline, Equiknoxx, Yemi Alade and many others have played a huge part in my life over the past year.

Just wanna also say that the Paul Simon album that came out this year is straight-fire brilliant. I'm not necessarily a follower or a big fan, but for a guy in his mid-70s this is vital, venturous and exciting music - especially the song 'Cool Papa Bell'.

Non-charters in bold

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Young Thug - Jeffery
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Brian Eno - The Ship
Lil Yachty - Summer Songs 2
Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Alkaline - New Level Unlocked
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Yemi Alade - Mama Africa (The Diary of an African Woman)
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
Pr0files - Jurrasic Technologie
Floorplan - Victorious
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
M83 - Junk
Machinedrum - Human Energy
Plaid - The Digging Remedy
Pusha T - King Push - Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
V/A - The Sound of Durban Vol. 1
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 & 2
DJ Earl - Open Your Eyes
KING - We Are KING

impressed at the quality of stuff bubbling just under the 77 - so many of my faves just missed placing, including The Ship and Equiknoxx.

Weighted

Julianna Barwick - Will
Shura - Nothing's Real
Róisín Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Mary Lattimore - At the Dam
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
mattheis - kindred phenomena
Powell - Sport
Katie Gately - Color
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Underworld - Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
KING - We Are KING
Lone - Levitate
a sagittariun - elasticity
Ngaiire - Blastoma
Steven Julien - Fallen
Dorisburg - Irrbloss
Ian William Craig - Centres
Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Smith & Mudd - Gorthleck
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Templehof & Gigi Masin - Tsuki
Motion Graphics - Motion Graphics
Lord of the Isles - In Waves
Rihanna - Anti
Hannah Peel - Awake but Always Dreaming

Dinsdale, I'll be checking out things from your ballot, at least.

weighted - most of these didn't place but w/e

jacquees - mood
jacquees & birdman - lost at sea
Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade
lil peep - hellboy
Post Malone - Stoney
travis scott - birds in the trap sing mcknight
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Rihanna - Anti
Future - Evol
The Weeknd - Starboy
Postiljonen - Reverie
ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
Dej Loaf - All Jokes Aside
lil uzi vert - the perfect luv tape
French Montana - MC4
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Shura - Nothing's Real
Francis and the Lights - Farewell, Starlite!
Jeremih - Late Nights: Europe

my weighted albums ballot. bold didn't place

Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Metafive - META
Knifeworld - Bottled Out of Eden
Underworld - Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
Glass Hammer - Valkyrie
They Might be Giants - Phone Power
The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
NV - Binasu
Joanna Wang - House Of Bullies

I guess I didn't vote for the Ae album after all, I felt kinda weird putting it on since I've only heard 2/5 of it. That 2/5 is really great though, wish I'd voted for it to maybe boost it up a bit.

Bummer that none of my top 3 made it though tbf only like 5 people on ILX have heard of any of those albums so not surprising

Weighted.

1 - Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (50)
2 - Amnesia Scanner - AS (364)
3 - Exploded View - Exploded View (393)
4 - The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love (45)
5 - Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex (52)
6 - Troller - Graphic (183)
7 - Frank Ocean - Blonde (43)
8 - Babyfather - BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow (88)
9 - Elysia Crampton - Demon City (234)
10 - Anna Meredith - Varmints (135)
11 - Shura - Nothing's Real (10)
12 - Postiljonen - Reverie (205)
13 - Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor (272)
14 - Cate Le Bon - Crab Day (658)
15 - Katie Gately - Color (27)
16 - Dawn Richard - Redemption (9)
17 - Rihanna - Anti (29)
18 - School of Seven Bells - SVIIB (19)
19 - Britney Spears - Glory (23)
20 - Tove Lo - Lady Wood (164)
21 - Jessy Lanza - Oh No (59)
22 - 2 8 1 4 - Rain Temple (727)
23 - Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (31)
24 - Niki & the Dove - Everybody's Heart is Broken Now (98)
25 - Factory Floor - 25 25 (155)

Today I'm not even sure I like what ended up in the last half. Realizing that I shouldn't vote in the last minute and that I shouldn't vote without first nominating. Or maybe only submit 10 or 15 and stop if I find myself reaching after that.

Lemon Demon would have made it had ogmor put it ten or so places higher! And hey, I like your top three, which is what counts xp

Anyway, Mouth Moods 2017

hah yeah I'm definitely gonna have that "lets be honest, you liked this more than anything else" moment in December 2017

weighted

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
JAMBINAI - A Hermitage
Puce Mary - The Spiral
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
Not Waving - Animals
David Bowie - Blackstar
Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
Suuns - Hold/Still
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
DJ Marfox – Chapa Quente
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
The Avalanches - Wildflower
The Field - The Follower

This was a good year for music for me

Exceptionally hiveminded for me--I voted for all five of the top 5--though I think this year the consensus choices were pretty special.
As lex has already said, everyone should check out Jamila Woods. As flopson mentioned that Un Blonde album is a lovely warm breeze.
Thank you to poll runners: this was a nice distraction this week. Thank you to poll voters: that Hannah Peel album is fantastic!

Mixed

Solange - A Seat at the Table
Kiss Daniel - New Era
Young Thug - Jeffery
KING - We Are KING
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away the Ivy

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Africaine 808 - Basar
Alkaline - New Level Unlocked
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Chronixx & Federation Sound - Roots and Chalice
David Bowie - Blackstar
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Julianna Barwick - Will
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island 2
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force - Yermande
Noname - Telefone
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Rihanna - Anti
Saba - Bucket List Project
Un Blonde - Good Will Come to You
V/A - Digital Zandoli
Yemi Alade - Mama Africa (The Diary of an African Woman)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
Bat For Lashes - The Bride
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Lake Ruth - Actual Entity
Chairlift - Moth
Lone - Levitate
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Mr. Oizo - All Wet
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
Deftones - Gore
White Lung - Paradise
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
Horse Lords - Interventions
Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Zomby - Ultra
KING - We Are KING
The High Llamas - Here Come The Rattling Trees
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
Monolake - VLSI
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Autechre - Elseq 1-5

unweighted, bold did not place. i don't feel particularly attached to my ballot, most of what i listened to in 2016 was gil scott-heron, kyle hall, sade, levon vincent, and beach house and not really anything below. there was so much new music that i did not hear in 2016.

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Daniel Bachman - Daniel Bachman
Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids - We Be All Africans
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Kaytranada - 99.9%
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Kevin Hufnagel - Backwards Through the Maze
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Mikael Seifu - Zelalem
Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
Omar-S - The Best!
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
Steven Julien - Fallen
Wadada Leo Smith - America’s National Parks
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
Yves Tumor - Serpent Music

Got 2 out of 10, bold didn't place. As I suspected, I did later remember a bunch of stuff that I failed to nominate, but never mind eh.

Katie Gately - Color
Matmos - Ultimate Care II
Helena Celle - If I Can't Handle Me At My Best, You Don't Deserve You At Your Worst
Rattle - Rattle
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution
XAM Duo - XAM Duo
Anxiety - Anxiety
Cowtown - Paranormal Romance
Deerful - Staying Still EP
Map 71 - Sado - Technical - Exercise

Hey, I'm glad someone else voted for Hufnagel!
xp

I wanted to listen to Anxiety more.

Mixed, bold dnp.

Thought Agnes Obel, Lambchop, Bat For Lashes and Mark Pritchard would have placed.

Ryuichi Sakamoto/Alva Noto/Bryce Dessner - The Revenant OST
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass
Lambchop – FLOTUS
David Bowie - Blackstar
Bat For Lashes - The Bride
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
Cat's Eyes - Treasure House
Submotion Orchestra - Colour Theory
Aidan Moffat - Where You're Meant To Be

Floorplan - Victorious
Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
La Femme - Mystere
Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun
Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Solange - A Seat at the Table
The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!
Washington Phillips - Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
Alexis Taylor - Piano
Alicia Keys - Here
Kelsey Lu - Church

weighted, bold didn't place:

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Pet Shop Boys - Super
Underworld - Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
Jenny Besetzt - Tender Madness
Moderat - III
Savages – Adore Life
The Monkees - Good Times!
Lush - Blind Spot (EP)
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Solange - A Seat at the Table
David Bowie - Blackstar
Warpaint - Heads Up
serpentwithfeet - blisters
Troller - Graphic

shoutout to my poll neighbor ogmor!

mostly sad ppl weren't up on/into Jenny Besetzt, Moderat, serpentwithfeet and Troller

Hey, I'm glad someone else voted for Hufnagel!
xp

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yea i was thinking the ilx brigade would've voted at least one post-fahey folk record in the top 77

weighted

Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Yves Tumor - Serpent Music
Roly Porter - Third Law
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2
Yamaneko - Project Nautilus (Keygen Loops)
Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
Andy Stott - Too Many Voices
Thomas Köner – Tiento de la Luz
Shackleton and Ernesto Tomasini - Devotional Songs
DJ Metatron - 2 the Sky EP
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Frank Ocean – Blonde
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor
KING - We Are KING
Not Waving - Animals
Willow - Workshop 23 EP
DJ Earl - Open Your Eyes
Sophia Loizou – Singulacra
Gaika – Security
Zomby - Ultra
Typhonian Highlife - The World Of Shells

Cool ballot, fffv!

yea i was thinking the ilx brigade would've voted at least one post-fahey folk record in the top 77

only 4 votes for Sarah Louise :(

Four isn't bad! Good for her!

oh hey i got my ballot, ranked

bold didn't place (unless it did + i forgot / wasn't paying good enough attention to notice)

Dori Freeman - Dori Freeman
A-WA - Habib Galbi
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Bartosz Kruczynski - Baltic Beat
case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
Britney Spears - Glory
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter for Fire
The Hotelier - Goodness
Noname - Telefone
Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker
Imarhan - Imarhan
Beth Orton - Kidsticks
Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town
Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island 2
Fatou Seidi Ghali, Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
V/A - Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed
Beyoncé - LEMONADE
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
Oceans of Slumber - Winter
Trust Fund - We have always lived in The Harolds

I didn't know you were a Trust Fund fan, Mordy. Haha, weird.

Ha, I am at the very bottom for hivemind/loneliness scores! What's the Blood Sausage category mean?

For the first time, it isn't me

think tt got Mordy into Trust Fund? we're claiming the victory

North African prog, I hope?

Also, is anyone else hearing Aerosmith every time you see this thread?

weighted, bold didn't place

Pinegrove – Cardinal
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here, Thank You For Your Service
KING – We Are King
Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
David Bowie – Blackstar
Anderson .Paak – Malibu
Noname – Telefone
Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
Field Music – Commontime
Young Thug – JEFFERY
Shearwater – Jet Plane & Oxbow
Maxwell – blackSUMMERSnight
YG – Still Brazy
Isaiah Rashad – The Sun’s Tirade
The Avalanches – Wildflower
BJ The Chicago Kid – In My Mind
Big Thief – Masterpiece
Terrace Martin – Velvet Portraits
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Skepta – Konnichiwa
Jessy Lanza – Oh No
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo

think tt got Mordy into Trust Fund? we're claiming the victory

― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago)

Ahhh, I guess that isn't that weird. It's one of those things that always catches me off-guard, though, when bands I know/have played a bunch with turn up here, at least without it being me lobbying for them! (Btw everyone into punx0r/hardcore stuff should check out my #1 track, even though the poll is over, for them I will still lobby lobby lobby.)

Unranked. Bold didn't place:

Angel Olsen - My Woman
Cass McCombs - Mangy Love
daniel lanois - goodbye to language
David Bowie - Blackstar
Ed Harcourt - Furnaces
Eleanor Friedberger - New View
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour
Howe Gelb - Future Standards
Jack DeJohnette - In Movement
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Keith Jarrett - A Multitude of Angels
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Lucinda Williams - Ghosts of Highway 20
Nels Cline - Lovers
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Nik Bärtsch - Continuum
Radian - On Dark Silent Off
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Spain - Carolina
Teenage Fanclub - Here
The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing
William Tyler - Modern Country

i think this was my ranked ballot

Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
Okkervil River - Away
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
Shura - Nothing's Real
case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs
Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Bibio - A Mineral Love
Postiljonen - Reverie
William Tyler - Modern Country
Ian William Craig - Centres
Euglossine - Canopy Stories
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Giorgio Tuma - This Life Denied Me Your Love
Shearwater - Jet Plane & Oxbow
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
Kettel - Wingtip
Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Lines
FM-84 - Atlas
Hammock - Everything And Nothing
Eluvium - False Reading On
The Amazing - Ambulance
Deakin - Sleep Cycle

My ranked ballot.

Shura - Nothing's Real
KING - We Are KING
Niki & the Dove - Everybody's Heart is Broken Now
Solange - A Seat at the Table
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
Britney Spears - Glory
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Heart Speaks In Whispers
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Rihanna - Anti
Róisín Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION Side B
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Cellars - Phases
Tweet - Charlene
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Ngaiire - Blastoma
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat

My ranked ballot:

Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok
The Human Voice - Silent Heart
Abul Mogard - Works
Hannah Epperson - Upsweep
Christopher Tignor - Along A Vanishing Plane
ROME - The Hyperion Machine
Tetherdown - First Flight
bvdub - A Thousand Words
Skepta - Konnichiwa
FM-84 - Atlas
Hammock - Everything And Nothing
Niechęć - Niechęć
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley
Xiu Xiu - Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Black Sabat Mater
Sylvaine - Wistful
Lubomyr Melnyk - Illirion
Petar Dundov - At the Turn of Equilibrium
Ólafur Arnalds - Island Songs 1
Hælos - Full Circle
And Also The Trees - Born Into The Waves
BadBadNotGood - IV
Eluvium - False Reading On
V/A - Synth Love Affair Vol. 1

I never vote for any metal in this poll. Only two of them placed, but I don't feel like I'm out of touch with the rest of ILM, I've heard plenty of albums from the top 77 and enjoyed lots of them, just not enough to make it to my 25.

yeah think imago mentioned them on the emo thread and i really liked the album - v pleasant xpz

Order is a bit tweaked I think from the ballot I submitted, but the contents are the same. Ranked ballot:

NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Kaytranada - 99.9%
Anderson .Paak - Malibu
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Katie Gately - Color
Seahawks - Escape Hatch
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Ital Tek - Hallowed
Moderat - III
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
KING - We Are KING
Sound of Ceres - Nostalgia For Infinity
The Avalanches - Wildflower
V/A - DJ Koze Presents Pampa Vol. 1
Yagya - Stars and Dust
Noname - Telefone
oddisee - the odd tape
BadBadNotGood - IV

zero votes for drake is even better than him not getting nominated

my mixed ballot:

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears

All Saints - Red Flag
Niki & the Dove - Everybody's Heart is Broken Now
KING - We Are KING
Kornél Kovács - The Bells
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Beyoncé – Lemonade
V/A - La Torre Volumen Uno
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
CFCF - On Vacation
Chairlift - Moth
Fear Of Men - Fall Forever
Templehof & Gigi Masin - Tsuki
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
Ngaiire - Blastoma
The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love
The Invisible - Patience
Tkay Maidza - Tkay
Wilson Tanner - 69
El Perro Del Mar - KoKoro
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte

I wish I had made time to rank all these, and not just single out KAS, Ngaiire was robbed. My neigbour is Kitchen Person for the third year running. ewar woowar's ballot is my other favourite posted but well done everyone on a list that was far from awful and the great roll-outs this past fortnight.

weighted:

Andrew Pekler - Tristes Tropiques
Naji Hakim - Hakim Plays Hakim: The Schuke Organ of the Palacio Euskalduna of Bilbao, Vol. 2
Jeremy Bible - Music for Black Holes
Sarah Davachi - Vergers
Biosphere - Departed Glories
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Schaum
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
Sarah Davachi - Dominions
Pulse Emitter - Through the Portal
Steve Moore - The Mind's Eye (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Qluster - Echtzeit
Guenter Schlienz - Augenblicke
Les Halles - Sentient
Klara Lewis - Too
Lustmord - Dark Matter
The Haters - Fire
Prurient - Unknown Rains
Eternal Tapestry - Sleeping On A Dandelion
Bardo Pond - Acid Guru Pond
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Spacin' - Total Freedom
Stuart Chalmers - In the Heart of Solitude
Overtone Ensemble - Longitudes
Bethan Kellough - Aven
Steve Roden - Striations

Interesting list. I didn't follow ambient/drone stuff as much as I would have liked to.

Groovypanda, you da man/woman!

I didn't save my list anywhere but it was balearic thread-heavy.

My mixed ballot, bolded ones didn't place:

Young Thug - Jeffery
Rihanna - Anti
Kiss Daniel - New Era
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Beyoncé – Lemonade
Dawn Richard - REDemption
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2
Britney Spears - Glory
KING - We Are KING
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Tweet - Charlene
Ngaiire - Blastoma

EXO - EX'ACT
Yemi Alade - Mama Africa (The Diary of an African Woman)
Babes Wodumo - Gqom Queen, Vol. 1
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
J Balvin - Energía
Khuli Chana - One Source
Alkaline - New Level Unlocked
Fantasia - The Definition Of...
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Abra - Princess
V/A - The Sound of Durban Vol. 1
BTS - Wings

Would have voted for the Mambos Levis D'Outro Mundo compilation if I'd seen it among the nominations.
Same for the (Dutch rap/r&b)Gate 16 compilation had I not forgotten to nominate it myself.

Nice to have lexpretend as my neighbour. What are we going to do when Young Thug comes over though?

weighted

Fruit - Fruit
Francis and the Lights - Farewell, Starlite!
Frankie Reyes - Boleros Valses y Mas
Lambchop – FLOTUS
Bullion - Loop the Loop
American Football - LP2
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
Dan Lissvik – Midnight
Tweet - Charlene
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
Pinkshinyultrablast – Grandfeathered
Young Thug - Jeffery
Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
Pet Shop Boys – Super
KING- We Are KING
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION Side B
Julianna Barwick – Will
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani – Sunergy

Ranked

Angel Olsen - My Woman
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Hamilton Leithauser / Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
Beyoncé – Lemonade
KING - We Are KING
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Maxwell - blackSUMMERSnight
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
David Bowie - Blackstar
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Anderson .Paak - Malibu
Cellars - Phases
Mitski - Puberty 2
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Moderat - III
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Katie Gately - Color
Brian Eno - The Ship
ANOHNI - Hopelessness