ILM 2015 Tracks Poll Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Community-wide Anomie

You And I Alone is essentially a Max Tundra song. You'd find him on places like the rolling time travel thread.

ok I guess I just remember there being a dedicated thread xp to wins

This is also excellent. I've always like what she does but completely lost track of her and this album is sounding excellent, thanks emil.y:

Colleen - I'm Kin

Flex song has also been creeping up and now I like it a lot. I found it unremarkable at first but I have found myself with that one stuck in my head.

I'll give those 1975 songs another chance I promise.

Flex is amazing IMO. i don't really hate that Daphne & Celeste song

My (weighted) ballot:

Redlight x Tinashe - Pretend
Riko - Ghost Chilli
K. Michelle - Love Em All (Toyboy & Robin Remix)
Future - March Madness
Stormzy - Know Me From
SafOne ft. Trilla, PRessure0121 & Bomma B - She Wants A Man From Brum
Future - Fuck Up Some Commas
Wolf Alice - Your Loves Whore
Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems
CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue
Dawn Richard - Billie Jean
Darq E Freaker ft. Dai Burger - Choppin Necks
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
Kelela - A Message
Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This
Purity Ring - Begin Again
Sam Binga ft. Redders, Deft, Chimpo & Fox - Steppin V.I.P.
Sir Spyro ft. Teddy Brukshot, Lady Chann & Killa P - Topper Top
Funkystepz - Special Delivery
Demi Lovato – Cool for the Summer

apparently we're closest neighbours but I don't see much overlap between our ballots save for a handful.

I'm the 13th loneliest voter, so yeah inevitably a bit of a stretch.

V much enjoyed the rollout – particularly finding out about Bicep, Lim Kim, Susanne Sundfør and Heavy-K. First time I've bothered to listen to Courtney Barnett – she's sorta like a less funny Sleaford Mods, so will continue to avoid.

that colleen track was one of my favourites, all that I’m kin to Argos recognizing Ulysses biz irresistible to me

my trax ballot

J Hus - Dem Boy Paigon
Ty Dolla $ign - Solid
Young Thug – Just Might Be
The Weeknd – Can't Feel My Face
Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Can't Keep Checking My Phone
Nef the Pharoah - Big Tymin'
Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This
Grimes - Flesh without Blood
OMI - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
Sheer Mag - Fan The Flames
Skepta - Shutdown
Spice - Needle Eye Pum Pum
D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha
DonMonique - Pilates
Metro Thuggin - Warrior
Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?
Bicep - Just
Demi Lovato – Cool for the Summer
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me
Lil Mama - Sausage
Jenny Hval – That Battle Is Over
Jeremih - Oui
Majical Cloudz - Downtown

here is my forestalling death ballot:
Courtney Barnett - Depreston
Kendrick Lamar - How Much a Dollar Cost
CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue
Brandon Flowers - Between Me and You
Hop Along - Waitress
Young Guv - Kelly, I'm Not a Creep
Jose Gonzales - Leaf Off
Thee Tsunamis - Kill Kill Kill
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv
Ciara-All Good
Brandon Flowers-Dreams Come True
Vetiver - Current Carry
Drake-Back To Back
Deerhunter - Living My Life
Justin Bieber - Sorry
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Missy Elliott ft. Pharrell Williams - WTF (Where They From)
Rae Sremmurd - This Could Be Us
Chromatics - I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around
Viet Cong - Death

You really dud save death for last!

lol, Nick. Have you tried G.L.O.S.S.?

i did listen to a bit, but they didn't have the pretty thing going on underneath like some of those i hate sex tunes, it's more kind of straight-up face-peeling noise iirc? will explore some more though

Yeah, I listened to the i hate sex song several times today. The juxtaposition of the harsh screaming against the pretty jangly guitars clicked with me.

In a weird way, it made me think of the Pixies, even though it is obviously different.

Three tracks into Circle Thinking, I think I love this band.

I don't remember my exact ballot but this is probably what it looked like:

Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Ty Dolla $ign - Solid (ft. Babyface)
YG - Twist My Fingaz
Rich Homie Quan - Flex
Thundercat - Them Changes
Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better
Hop Along - Waitress
Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox
Chance the Rapper ft. Saba - Angels
Kendrick Lamar - Alright
Phony Ppl - Somehow.
Miguel - waves
Jeremih - Pass Dat
The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open
Kamasi Washington - Clair de Lune
Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Fetty Wap - Again
Lower Dens - To Die in LA
Young Thug - Just Might Be
Grimes - Easily
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Nef the Pharaoh - Big Tymin'
Destroyer - Times Square

YG - Twist My Fingaz
Nef the Pharaoh - Big Tymin'

love that norwegian pop was an individual genre

nomar, I'm incredibly happy that you dig Marriages

xp: And that list was just scratching the surface. Other good 2015 Norwegian pop we neglected to nominate: Ane Brun - Shape of a Heart, Röyksopp - I Had This Thing, Aurora - Running With The Wolves, Farao - Bodies, Karin Park & Pandora Drive - Hurricane, Kate Havnevik - Falling. All of which arguably better than some of the Europop that placed. But we already had enough lilly white Geirbait, I guess.

One of my favorite Scandinavian things from last year that seems to have gone missing: Rangleklods - Lost U

nomar, I'm incredibly happy that you dig Marriages

― its subtle brume (DJP), Monday, January 25, 2016 3:03 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's great! i discovered it as i was scanning through the nominations, putting together a couple playlists. i made an indie/shoegaze/twee kinda list from certain tracks for my wife and included a pair of theirs and she was all about them too, so i think i'm going to buy the vinyl.

did you happen to hit Novella or Venera 4?

yeah! really enjoying what i've heard from them too. i think i've got tracks by about fifty artists on that playlist, all kind of in that vague style, all from the nominations list.

Black Paws is a great track and I shall keep an eye on Venera 4

weighted

The 1975 – Love Me
Drake - Hotline Bling
Kamasi Washington - Clair de Lune
Jamie xx ft. Young Thug & Popcaan - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)
Young Thug - Pacifier
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
Petite Noir - Chess
Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
Justin Bieber - Sorry
Chance The Rapper ft. Saba - Angels
Sophie - Just Like We Never Said Goodbye
Denis Sulta - L.A. Ruffgarden (Terrace Mix)
Korallreven - Here In Iowa
David Bowie - Blackstar
Blondes - Rein
The 1975 – Ugh!
Nicki Minaj ft. Beyonce - Feeling Myself
Jack Ü ft. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?
Miguel - Coffee
E-40 - Choices
Kelela - Rewind
The Weeknd – Can't Feel My Face
Rich Homie Quan - Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)

def my most hivemindey year i can recall

I was the second loneliest ilxor with a full ballot and flying solo on the following (country and Youtube plays in brackets):

Vremya I Steklo - Imya 505 (UKR, 57.5m): Addictive Ukrainian house-pop with a ridiculously simple and effective hook.

https://youtu.be/n3Go8ub9a1k

Anna Sedokova - Poka Milii (UKR, 3.6m): In a very similar vein. Sedokova hasn't recorded much of interest since leaving the Menudo-style conveyor belt of VIA Gra ten years ago but this was an excellent return to form.

https://youtu.be/QmSvEaiaxBM

Angela Hunte & Machel Montano - Party Done (T&T, 2.5m): Montano is horrendously over-rated and over-garlanded as a solo artist but Hunte kills this and Machel provides adequate support. Soca single of the year and one of the best Trini videos in recent memory.

https://youtu.be/eHr8zZfrU_Y

Nyusha - Gde Ti, Tam Ya (RUS, 19.3m): Tempting to argue that Anna Shurochkina is working a formula, given that this sounds almost exactly like half the songs on her last album, but it's a heck of a formula. Thumping electro-pop with vaguely Eastern trappings.

https://youtu.be/IwpDzJE4fc8

Dasha Charusha ft Skriptonit - Kosmos (RUS/KAZ, 0.2m): The original version of Kosmos is a slight but pretty ballad - Kazakh rapper Skriptonit transforms it into something much more powerful.

https://youtu.be/xKoSAgDrYsE

Igor Krid - Nevesta (RUS, 21.4m): Russia's answer to Justin Timberlake with an effortlessly charming song about getting hitched.

https://youtu.be/Jg3gwyoUrhE

DKMD - Sacrificio (CAN / ITA, 0.007m): On Cologne's Giallo Disco records and squarely in step with the aesthetic of the name. An upscale version of the Italo-horror-influenced witch house stuff knocking about.

https://youtu.be/udcujCjOebk

Delta Goodrem - Wings (AUS, 1.7m): Goodrem was always fairly good at emotive low-key piano pop but this is a huge, euphoric and much better than could ever have been expected. idk why it wasn't more of a hit.

https://youtu.be/z1A2Ow7sGo0

Loose Cannon - Sick Jab (GRD, 0.006m): Relentlessly intense, mildly terrifying Grenadan party music.

https://youtu.be/NGaQvOhrWwk

Tina Karol - Sdat'sya Ti Vsegda Uspeesh' (UKR, 1.2m): OTT power ballad that Karol manages against the odds to steer into something genuinely affecting.

https://youtu.be/kG46IzgdB0Y

Elena ft. Danny Mazo - Senor Loco (ROM / COL, 5.2m): The trend of Romanian pop stars pretending to be Spanish continues unabated and this was the year's stand-out. Getting the genuinely Colombian guy to stand around in the background shouting "dale! fuego! si! si!" for most of the song might be slightly problematic tho.

https://youtu.be/lQPCWp2A_Rk

Ira Levtiskaya - Vova Tantsuet (UKR, 0.3): An oddity among oddities. I haven't been able to find out much about Levitskaya other than that she appears to have been a model at some point and is married to a minor oligarch who is presumably bankrolling her pop career. The song is probably best described as Putin-baiting oompah-pop and Ira sells it well.

https://youtu.be/cdOdCDFa1GY

Gulsen - Bangir Bangir (TUR, 156.2m): Pulsing Turkish moombah-pop.

https://youtu.be/icZ-OlVSvb4

heres a list of stuff that i wouldve voted for in no particular order:

robert aiki aubrey lowe & ariel kalma - FRKWYS vol 12: we know each other somehow (rvng)
bicep - just EP (aus music)
junglepussy - pregnant with success (self-released)
jazmine sullivan - reality show (rca)
gnocchi - snaker 005 (snaker japan)
theo burt - gloss (prestol?)
L A N D - anoxia (important)
f ingers - hide before dinner (blackest ever black)
jacaszek & kwartludiur - catalogue des arbes (touch)
millimetre - sex dreams of the i ching (tapeworm)
rival consoles - howl (erased tapes)
c duncan - architect (fat cat)
fifth harmony - reflection (epic)
future - ds2 (epic)
dan melchior - all at sea (no=fi)
ty dolla $ign - free tc (atlantic)
jlin - dark energy (planet mu)
jeffrey alexander - floating lights (pom pom tapes)
celer / nicholas szczerpanik - here, for now (self-released)
saine - small remedies (fools & fables)
nochexxx - plot defender (type)

50 Keith Ape - it g ma (remix)

― u kno how that shd go (Will M.), Thursday, January 21, 2016 4:42 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i had one of the best musical experiences of my life last nite with IT G MA josh pan opus remix... holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlo_NR37BUc

uh youtube.com/watch?v=rlo_NR37BUc

i forgot that existed! thanks for the reminder!