Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-results/Content?oid=4034364

Christgau weighs in

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Consensus-Has-Consequences/ba-p/12189 his essay

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-2013-Dean-s-List/ba-p/12191

85 albums with the following top 10 ones

1. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (XL)
2. The Uncluded: Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers)
3. The Julie Ruin: Run Fast (TJR)
4. Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel: Hey Hey It's...the Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band (self-released)
5. Live from Festival au Desert Timbuktu (Clermont Music)
6. Lady Gaga: Artpop (Streamline/Interscope)
7. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (Deluxe Edition) (Aftermath)
8. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba: Jama Ko (Out Here)
9. Gogol Bordello: Pura Vida Conspiracy (ATO)
10. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual (Mute

Complained on xhuxk's wall that both the absence of a singles list and the squishy "It takes all kinds. And we're healthier as a culture when we agree on a bunch of them."

Boy does xgau love Gogol Bordello

Has there ever been a Peter Stampfel project he hasn't liked?

It felt that way to me but I see he says:

the 75-year-old Stampfel's best record since the even more cooperative Have Moicy! 38 years ago,

He expresses his unhappiness that Maura and others don't like the Lady Gaga as much as he does

No interest in ILM's in house poll? I find that puzzling.

I'm feeling guilty I didn't find the time to vote. But I did start looking at it and I saw this below which means I need to check out your ballot:

Rudipherous's ballot is awesome in both spirit and content

I'm so glad ppl voted for the selma oxor & neneh cherry tracks I nommed & then negged, I was feeling guilty

― chekhprivan (wins), Friday, January 24, 2014 1:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't even see that.

Oh I see it picked up a lot of posts since I looked at it before going to bed last night.

Well, I will have to see if Christgau fave African albums also have shown up on the ILM in-house poll

Albums haven't been rolled out yet.

Spotify playlist for the track winners (with some missing) here:

https://play.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6aanFh0UkiNJlrvg3kZgmI

(If that doesn't open for your properly, try put it into the search box in Spotify.)

Or youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHeAwiD-CsRG-9rOfi3PLC9Rcw2R06lC

There definitely are some good tunes missing from Spotify, notably Lulu James's "Closer."

Boy does xgau love Gogol Bordello

And Kimya Dawson. The Uncluded is her with a rapper I had never heard before named Aesop Rock. As a Dean acolyte I bought it. Love the stuff with Kimya but that guy's voice is not my cup of musical tea.

i would like to see a slatepitch about the lack of audience overlap between kimya dawson and aesop rock, because i can believe that i would be going to never believe how much there was

man kimya dawson plus aesop rock is some heavy 2001 shit

http://fuckyouhipsters.blogspot.fr/2014/01/fuck-you-hipsters-podsumowuja-dobre.html

Pretty good list of best polish records. Stara Rzeka is present obviosuly, along with his two other projects: T'ien Lai (http://tienlai.bandcamp.com/) and Alameda 3 (http://alamedacountydeathcult.bandcamp.com/).

Blurbs are in polish but you can find most of these on bandcamp/soundcloud/spotify easily. Some of them:
https://soundcloud.com/kirkkirk/sets/z-a-krew - kIRk 'Zla krew' (winner)
http://open.spotify.com/album/3ozjrP9lQG5MUBYn9QphFQ - Super Girl & Romantic Boys (number 2, super kitschy 80s electro)
http://open.spotify.com/album/4N3qM5HIHD8aqL3r44qd4R - Kixnare (number 3, electronic/instrumental hip-hop, "Gucci Dough" is the obvious hit song but all of it is worth a listen)
http://kaseciarz.bandcamp.com/ - Kaseciarz, "low budget rock and roll"
https://lxmp.bandcamp.com/ - LXMP, take on "Future Shock" by two of the best polish musicians, commisioned for the Unsound Festival.
http://open.spotify.com/album/4w6BLeGIfTvuc2XepFXUaI - RSS B0ys (great, dark techno)

Awesome. Thanks for posting that!