ILM's 2022 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

Here we go!

Go here to vote: https://forms.gle/r3QsS9HG6vk2ShDP6

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT PST on Friday, January 20th, 2022.

The procedure is simple: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields below. Please copy each line directly from the nominations list; do not number your ballot.

You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.

(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.

(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).

TRACK NOMINATIONS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E-PAaV4KHrTPi5stkShDtxoeRrdEdqnX_pRji_mbADM/

ALBUM NOMINATIONS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Pyael8EjndQ-2I61i5JWTwCa0SNzUm_Q3xlPKcWua0I/

PLAYLISTS
Tracks - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KkJodsMzHIz4XIXq1f8ro
Albums - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45AL48bS1jzEgT7xqSZiXq

IT’S TIME

VOTE SHAPES

Is this the first year where M.I.A. has released an album and ilm completely ignored it? Granted, she flushed all remaining good will she had in 2022, but there are usually some reliable "art not artist" nominators. lol

Shit. Missed the noms as I've been busy. I was going to do it today

If this is allowed to be a campaigning thread, I hope that everyone placing Beyonce's house album on their lists also find it in their souls to give a slow (even a lower one) to Kerri Chandler's first full length LP in a very long time.

That seems to imply that Beyoncé and Kerri Chandler have something in common, or that people who don't also listen to Kerri Chandler are choosing Beyoncé as their token house pick. Obviously I'm not discouraging anyone here, it sounds like a gentle offer, but also like a conditionality, and what's next ? Only vote for Björk's album if you've heard other gabber albums, Rosalía if you're deeply versed in any genre she brushes, or the Beatles if you're versed in Indian classical lol ?

Probably it's a non-debate by now though and not really worth discussing, so ignore my attempt to stir and happy voting everyone.

Shit. Missed the noms as I've been busy. I was going to do it today

YYYAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!!

just hit shuffle on the tracks playlist. gonna try to let it do its damn thing until i hit the finish line.

xp lol the noms start at the same time every year and the voting starts at the same time every year and the rollout starts at more or less the same time every year, and it's all been that way since at least 2010 and maybe before that

xps The MIA album being ok and better than her previous one (I'd be very surprised if that one was discussed the end of that year) doesn't mean it's anything approaching AOTY.

Yeah, but out of 1100 tracks nominated she got zero. We usually see her get nominated even if she's bad. It's the ilm way. Or was.

Please don't register this as me complaining. I'm not. Just observing.

Remember a couple years ago when we all loved the Weird Al album and yet no one remembers to nom it?

(Not that this is at all the same thing)

And as I say too often, there’s simply TOO MUCH MUSIC and stuff will inevitably be forgotten. I’m sure that all the LP and track noms cover barely a fraction of music released last year.

I don't have any trouble grasping that there are 1100 better songs from 2022 than the passable "Beep". But point taken.

Voted

You all have 18 more days

THERE'S A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG ON HERE THAT I LOVE 100% WITHOUT RESERVATION

what's really good?!

Will there be a separate CAMPAIGNING thread or do we do it in this one?

And if in this one, I assume no embeds?

I never got involved in the polls in the earlier ILX days (really until the last couple), but I think the playlist is my favorite part. Looking forward to going through it.

okay i completely missed the dennis bovell smile remix - definitely voting for that!

I have the albums playlist on shuffle and so far my big discovery is the Gabor Lazar album. I remember hearing it, maybe pre-release, but totally forgot about it. I love some (presumably) NI Razor jams, always.

Gwenno is really lovely too

wow is the whole real lies album this good!??

shuffling through the albums playlist is pretty crazy, a real infinite jukebox feel (some big sonic through lines too though)

The Strings of Sao Domingos, ooh

the Real Lies album is incredible and totally underrated / untalked about.

xp Gabor’s been on a wild roll of quality the last few years, latest one was great but the preceding couple of records were even tastier (imho), would’ve killed to have heard that material in a club/live setting..

the Real Lies album is incredible and totally underrated / untalked about.

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, January 2, 2023 2:24 PM

yeah, wow. i wasn’t even going to do an albums ballot. reconsidering.

the Real Lies album is incredible and totally underrated / untalked about.

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, January 2, 2023 2:24 PM

yeah, wow. i wasn’t even going to do an albums ballot. reconsidering.

random observation: i've been shuffling the tracks playlist all day and have heard two songs so far that sample the "amen brother" break.

in 2022.

wild.

like... will it ever get old?

no. no it will not.🤘🏻

~sorry to spam this thread i will stop just tell me stfu~

biggest revelation from today's listening is that tops are fucking excellent. i saw them open for king krule years ago and they were good! i didn't have enough money to visit their merch table and subsequently forgot about them in the shuffle of my brain. but they're still around and their more recent material is great.

The Amen break is evergreen, it's never gone away, that doesn't phase me. I did note a whole lot of '90s house influence though, so many Korg M1 organs.

campaign in here. go for it. i will be.

I nearly nominated another Aquarian track that would've upped the Amen further.

It's 303s that have seemed like the biggest revival to me in recent years tho.

also nearly nominated Tops - 'Future Waits' just missed my cut.

I had heard that Tops song a while back but forgot about it; will have to vote for it now. Vaguely reminds me of some of the longer Belle & Sebastian tracks like "Your Cover's Blown."

It might be gauche to promote a jokey song from a TV show but I nominated "Rock Your Boy's Body" from Righteous Gemstones. When I heard it at the end of its episode I wondered what was this deranged, moody pop song they found and subsequently found out it was written by Edi Patterson in the voice of her unhinged character on the show. The whispered "Hungry like a monkey/pussy gonna take a bite" has been popping up in my head for about a year.

2022 probably marked the start of a new golden era of girl groups in K-pop, artistically and commercially, so I hope we finally get some K-pop back in the top 77. For one of the most popular scenes in pop it's been absent on this poll for years.

NewJeans might be the best situated with their effortless cool and earwormy soundbites -- Hype Boy was the highlight of the year for a long time for me, but the vibe-y, arresting late release Ditto may have matched it.

Another contender is Le Sserafim's playful reggaeton-inspired Antifragile . Another group debuting in 2022 to immediate popularity.

The other track I'll single out is "Love Farewell" by Jake Xerxes Fussell. My joking description of him is he's like the NYRB Classics of folk music in that he finds and revamps forgotten songs of the past in spiffy new editions. The whole album is good as usual but this one gradually revealed itself as the prettiest and most soothing tune I heard all year. Features background vocals by Will Oldham.

OK, one more: "Kraut" by Lady Aicha & Pisko Cranes Original Fulu Mziki of Kinsasha is the most slamming song I've heard in a while. You'll be fired up and sending emails like a motherfucker when you hear this.

Yah "Kraut" is the standout on that album and is incredible. Many thanks to morrisp for the Momma noms. Heavy Yuck vibes, which is very my thing.

thanks Chris, I don't think i noticed that Gemstones song at the time. But if we couldn't get "Misbehavin'" to place in 2019, well ...

My big discovery from EOY season was "Los Aparatos" by El Alfa.
The fact that they didn't do the video as an Animaniacs-style cartoon adventure is a huge missed opportunity IMO. But regardless, this one has been stuck in my head for weeks.

ty chris! paying special attention to those!

as for me, i picked up the shuffle where i left off yesterday afternoon and the first track was this george clanton remix of vitesse x's "us ephemeral" and holy fucken FUCK i just played it three times in a row! wasn't going to do a weighted ballot, but i might have to now.

(and yet _another_ amen sample!)

People should give k-pop one more chance this year. I agree on Ditto: I heard the hype about NewJeans, but the first few songs I listened to didn't do much for me. Ditto, though, is wonderful. K-pop song of the year is Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm for me, though, which uses a classical sample absolutely amazingly.

2022 was won by Nigeria, though, and even though Naija-pop isn't traditionally thought of as album-music, there were great long-plays from Rema, Cruel Santino and (especially) Asake this year.

Also campaigning a bit for Denmark: It was on sean's list of best tracks, it's another great sample, Gilli - Baiana. Same sample was used in two British songs this year, by Nia Archive and Hazey, but I think Gilli (and Nicki Pooyandeh, the producer who produces at least 25% of Danish hip hop hits in any given year) got there first.

That Tops EP sounds like indie Steely Dan x Cyndi Lauper or something.

yep, i got 80s fleetwood mac vibes from it. really refreshing!

xp Gabor’s been on a wild roll of quality the last few years, latest one was great but the preceding couple of records were even tastier (imho), would’ve killed to have heard that material in a club/live setting..

― bingo dabber acid, Monday, January 2, 2023 4:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Btw if you like this, then I highly recommend you check out the Church Andrews and Matt Davies album I nominated, sonically they're two sides of the same coin in my mind (also has incredible live drumming that sounds like it can't possibly be live).

Also that Le Dom EP that I put on here

as for me, i picked up the shuffle where i left off yesterday afternoon and the first track was this george clanton remix of vitesse x's "us ephemeral" and holy fucken FUCK i just played it three times in a row! wasn't going to do a weighted ballot, but i might have to now.

ahh, that was my nom, so glad you like it! absolutely played that to death this year. really enjoyed her album too, its like an actually listenable version of grimes ;)

another breaks oriented thing i nommed is this absolute beauty from DJ Sofa, such a dreamy slice of jungle. who could not love this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iFkyhvNQo
DJ Sofa - So Soft

Still need to listen to a bunch of noms before voting.

Best discovery today is Gabriels

cheers nick, shoulda known that was one of yours. always on point, sir!

as ever i ignore the nomination thread and so missed nominating these, so i'll put them here to assuage my guilt?

Bartees Strange - Farm To Table
Cecile McLorin Salvant - Ghost Song
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - 殯――死へ耽る想いは戮辱すら喰らい、彼方の生を愛する為に命を讃える――。
Spiritworld - Death Western

"Objekt - Bad Apples" is listed twice in the tracks list

amazing track by the way, will be somewhere near the top of my ballot

Oh “in this world” by mondo grosso is great too! I think I’ve liked most of what I’ve heard today.

I’ve been thinking listening today at the playlist. Since plug.dj and outloud and turntable.fm are dead and I loved listening to what other ilxors were throwing: would there be interest in doing some sort of ongoing collaborative playlists? One for 2023 and one without year restrictions?

I haven't thought about tracks yet (aside from cleaning up my Bandcamp cart and remembering some that I wish I nominated), but Objekt will def be on there.

I really like the original of "Us Eternal," that remix that NickB nommed is super good. Do disagree about the album, unfortunately— other than "Us Eternal" and one other track, it's kind of dull imho.

its true it could've been better but i like am fond of its quirky old rave sounds

just remembered i forgot to nom this non-album cut which is as good as the clanton remix imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFxP-w0fr5c
Vitesse X, FM Skyline - Rash Devices (FM Skyline Remix)

no idea which asake track to vote for because the three nominated are all great. bad bunny has too many to choose between too

NewJeans - Ditto - this has already been extensively hyped up but it's so good! dreamy baltimore club-tinged r&b, riyl erika de casier's "intimate (club mix)" and janet jackson's "empty"
Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm - k-pop's best girl group finally did it again with their best single since "red flavor"
Black K ft. Didi B & 3xdavs - Chérie Coco - ivorian trap with all the trademark energy of ivorian pop (if people remember "akrakabo")
PinkPantheress ft. WILLOW - Where you are - paramore-sampling emo/2-step fusion
Jim Legxacy - dj - another on the emo/club fusion train but from a different angle, with vaguely afrobeats & jersey-club tinged beats

enjoyed eye tell by jim legxacy & hype boy by newjeans
will check out these other recs

no idea which asake track to vote for because the three nominated are all great

I find "Organize" sounds better in the context of the album, but picking between the other two was impossible so I voted for both

hey, yeah- all this asake stuff is great!

ufo checking out your recs as well!

my album signal boosts, check out:

anything on the International Anthem label but especially that Photay record (glorious post-jazz ambient)

the Diamanda Galas album (terrifying and great)

Legendary Pink Dots - The Museum Of Human Happiness (a peak in their long weird career of electronic psychedelia)

Wau Eau Collectif - Mariage (even better than their first one, peak African style fusion)

sorry that last is "Wau Wau Collective"

COLLECTIF

I wasn't that into the album, but I've become really obsessed with Hideous by Oliver Sim and I'm contemplating having it as my number one. It feels very unexpected. Will start going through the nominations playlist over the next few days. I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do.

ooohhhhh hell yeah, i forgot about that oliver sim song. that's definitely getting a vote from me!

One of the tracks I nom'ed didn't seem to make it into the Spotify playlist:

Sports Team - Unstuck

(it's a great rock track, IMO!)

as for further lobbying: I did a deep dive on NIKI's Nicole album in the Rolling Pop thread (the whole thing's really good!); but if you check out just one track, make it the one I nominated:

NIKI - High School in Jakarta

It's my favorite pop track in a few years... really fresh & distinctive; not trying to be "cool," but instead almost emo-pop in its heart-on-sleeve, literate cleverness.

lol just got to the sample of swv's "rain" like hey wait just a second here

decent!

morris i really dug that niki when it popped up early - gonna relisten now.

campaigning for one of my noms, as it just came up on shuffle-

kenichiro nishihara's "only tonight" is pure pop delight. reminiscent of early 2000s chillout lounge vibes.

Voted! Sadly a lot of my choices weren't there due to me not submitting any noms (my fault - my eyes seem to glaze over the thread each year, plus Christmas period is when I tend not to not go on ILX). Still, some great tracks in there! I've listened to absolutely no new albums this year other than Big Thief, so that part was easy.

You all had better be voting for 'Girlfriend' by Ruger or I'm going on a rampage.

lol dogpaws, sorry, but I won't have you rewriting history...

dog latin, now that you’re here - are you nominating for the EOY? noms are still open for at least two days!

― the shaker intro bit the shaker outro in the tail, hard (breastcrawl), vrijdag 30 december 2022 22:25 bookmarkflaglink

Oh no! I hadn't even seen the thread. Been away form the computer. Thought it usually happened a bit later. Thanks for reminding me

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), zaterdag 31 december 2022 4:36

happy you voted tho, that's an important hurdle taken!

yeah, sorry breastcrawl, i just am not at my computer over the winter break, and i'm never going to do that sort of admin on my phone while Christmas/NY stuff is going on around me. Too bad, I'll try to be more on it next year!

You all had better be voting for 'Girlfriend' by Ruger or I'm going on a rampage.

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 9:11 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hadn't heard this song yet, but wow is this a banger. sounds like it was produced by the avalanches

I'll stan for a couple country entries:

Kaitlin Butts - "Blood", co-written with Angaleena Presley of the Pistol Annies. A brooding rumination on the bonds -- good and bad -- of family. Sung with abandon, the final chorus cuts me to pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSeCpIg6llI

Zach Bryan's American Heartbreak

Male country acts don't have much of a (any?) track record around here, but this is worth consideration. My thoughts in the Country thread here. dow also gave it some praise here. It was also Jon Caramanica's AOTY; words here.

You all had better be voting for 'Girlfriend' by Ruger or I'm going on a rampage.

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 9:11 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hadn't heard this song yet, but wow is this a banger. sounds like it was produced by the avalanches

― sault bae (voodoo chili), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 11:41 AM (four minutes ago)

I described this as "naija produced by Black Moth Super Rainbow" to my partner. my SOTY at any rate

Male country acts don't have much of a (any?) track record around here

Voted

Good call. "Springsteen" narrowly missed the decade list, a crime.

Ruger track is amazing thanks for the heads up!

many artists might not make it high or into the top 77 at all due to vote splitting by the looks of it.

Per usual, I'm not one for tracks— just not my thing any longer— but one album I'd really like to stan is Binker Golding's Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy. It's best described as early-to-mid 70s Keith Jarrett fusion with hints of American AOR like Bruce Hornsby and the Range, some roots influence too. The tracks worm their way into one's brain in the best way, it is a real *pleasurable* album to listen to.

will def check that out

I wasn't that into the album, but I've become really obsessed with Hideous by Oliver Sim and I'm contemplating having it as my number one. It feels very unexpected. Will start going through the nominations playlist over the next few days. I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do.

― kitchen person, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 7:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Had not heard (of) this album. Very much enjoying it -- thanks.

I found the album disappointing but the track will feature strongly on my ballot. Not least for the startling reappearance of Jimmy Somerville.

I missed the nominations, some major ones I don't see on the albums list: Large Plants on ghost box, Muramuke (herbert & barbara panther) on accidental, Lalalar on Bongo Joe, Ezra Collective, Tim Bernardes on Psychic Hotline, Noori & His Dorpa Band on Ostinato, Tumi Mogorosi on New Soil, Al-Qasar on Glitterbeat, Meridian Brothers, Kibrom Birhane, Branko Mataja comp/reissue on Numero Group just to name a few! Hope you can check some out.. Now onto voting!

just gonna point this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nZ_e0_jHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MVN1PSY7o

"Baby, let me take a look... Whoa lord!"

some of the albums i nominated, check these out if these descriptions appeal to you

chat pile - god's country : obnoxious noise rock
dany placard & julie doiron - julie & dany : married couple's pandemic album, ramshackle folky rock
horace andy - midnight rockers : just solid old-school reggae album with a killer massive attack cover
mike adams at his honest weight - graphic blandishment : straight-up midwestern power-pop, RIYL sloan
mj lenderman - boat songs : kinda no alternative style twang-indie which isn't usually my thing but it has good lyrics and fuzzy guitars and an old-school homemade/DIY feel that is catnip to me
sexual jeremy - the real sexual jeremy : more noise rock but weirder/more experimental, has kind of a u.s. maple vibe to the instrumentals

I found the album disappointing but the track will feature strongly on my ballot. Not least for the startling reappearance of Jimmy Somerville.

― Dan Worsley

Jimmy's cameo and the very last lines are such a devastating combination.

I just noticed (while voting) that Miranda Lambert’s Palomino was nominated, but no tracks from it(!) (I had forgotten it came out in 2022)

lol kate bush!!! hell yeah i gotta new #1 for my ballot!

(jk, not #1 tho i'm still gonna vote for it!)

Voted

Is Kate Bush really on there? Lol

fave part of these polls is always catching up on bobbins I missed.

current love: "True Romance (Maja Edit)" - Bella Boo

roz otm, that one was new to me and will be getting a vote.

No One dies from Love Guess I'll be the first

many artists might not make it high or into the top 77 at all due to vote splitting by the looks of it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 6:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

You could consider it an achievement in itself to get points for different tracks in a single year, that's something we could seriously count (for example top 10 artists, adding up all track votes). In the end I'm not a fan of the idea of artificially reducing a consistent album with various highlights to a one-track "critics" pick, that's BS. Imo, the track vote is also to see how differently some of the best albums resonated at personal level. And sometimes, several tracks really deserve a vote.

To add a controversial opinion, another phenomenon that contributes to vote splitting is also how wide and hopeful ILM is to get very niche picks represented and to produce the hidden gem. As we say in French, we're all "pulling the blanket", meaning something common is torn apart by personal interests.

I guess it's also a question of how much overlap you're prepare to see between the album poll and the track poll. For me it's natural to see a lot, but some might see them as two unconnected hemispheres of music.

Couple of Tracks stans from me

Plastic Estate - Antique Days

Saw these supporting Real Lies and they were real good. Young Cardiff based band making 80s influenced new wave/synth pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-eKkRjYx4

Skin on Skin - Burn Dem Bridges

Techno & drill, together at last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhJFEMy-u-k

Sorry to lament: I forgot to nominate so my album of the year is not on there. It is Solace by Held By Trees. I like it almost as much as "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock". Gorgeous stuff flying under the radar.

I just noticed (while voting) that Miranda Lambert’s Palomino was nominated, but no tracks from it(!) (I had forgotten it came out in 2022)

― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 7:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

What's your favorite track? I almost nominated "I'll Be Lovin' You" but decided it was unlikely to make the cut and prioritized artists who didn't have any noms yet.

I'll stan for our local-artist-made-good. This Adeem album is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEFSL_dwwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9BP_1ONFk

Bonus track, here's an interview with them I just published today: https://compassknox.com/2023/01/05/revelry-with-a-cause/

so this wasn't even my nom, but burna boy's "it's plenty" just popped up and this is the shit i'm here for and i want everyone to vote for it. holy smokes, pretty significant jam.

What's your favorite track? I almost nominated "I'll Be Lovin' You" but decided it was unlikely to make the cut and prioritized artists who didn't have any noms yet.

I guess it's tricky; my favorite tracks were probably nominated in 2021 via their Marfa Tapes versions (I'd have to check).

As for albums, BAD MODE is unbelievably one of Hikaru Utada's best in a legendary career - just funky, funny, sweet, beautiful, human. What a joy and a surprise that she would put out a masterpiece in 2022. And a great starter for anyone who hasn't checked out the discography.

forks, I just noticed you put the wrong "Korobela" in the tracks playlist, an older Kabza De Small track by that title.

it's supposed to be this one: *DJ Sumbody ft. Drip Gogo & The Lowkeys – Korobela* (and a gorgeous track it is too, people, if I may so myself)

trusting the final batch of noms will get there eventually as well. it's a hermit's job, I'm well aware. merci beaucoup!

One of my favourite discoveries of the year is Double Virgo - theyre Dean Blunt affiliated (on his World Music label). They have a darkly narcotic late night indie strum vibe. Actual information about them is thin on the ground but I loved their album 'Foolish Narratives' and their NTS mix which is worth a listen on Youtube too. I nominated this on the tracks poll. So dead eyed and malevolent. Love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YYWSRNySs

Even better is this track which I also nominated. Its from their side project bar italia (basically Double Virgo and a female singer). Reminds me of stuff like Insides or Woodbine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mTSmNKoDE

Forgot to nom Omar S - can’t explain R&B mix :(

want to bring to attention a lesser known braxe + falcon track on the EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCN3aM9Oi3s

okay what the actual fuck is this shabason + krgovich?

the whole album is unbelievably good. legitimate blue nile revival.🔥

I listen to like 5 new albums a year so I never nominate but I would have nominated "I Am So Happy With My Little Dog" from that album

heyo!!

OK I did nominate the album even if I misspelled Krgovich on the thread (Ctrl+F panic a moment ago). Moka put up "In The Middle Of The Day" as the only track nom from it, so at least it won't get split. I could've put up "Childhood McDonald's" just for

The pancakes, the Playplace
Grimace's Face
Doo, doo, do, doo, do

I'm stopping just short of pasting the album description from https://shabasonandkrgovich.bandcamp.com/album/at-scaramouche which is one of my favourite things about this. Picked it up on vinyl in the big city last week and was a little let down this wasn't part of the package lol

Starting to play catchup in earnest now, with a goal of better informing an Albums vote and even having a Tracks vote. January the bessst

some pitches:

Mabe Fratti - Se Ve Desde Aquí: I'm just catching up with JF and Nabozo and everyone else who was repping Mabe Fratti in previous polls. This album is really excellent. Singer/composer/cellist who writes knotty but inviting song arrangements...the lazy Julia Holter comparisons write themselves. I mean it as a huge compliment though!
Cheba Wahida - Jrouli: dream raï, twirlers and bangers

Hyolyn - Over you: a better CRJ song than anything CRJ released this year
Javiera Mena - Sombra: ridiculous Italo stomper complete with lion sound effects and unnecessary guitars; Radiorama would be proud

I discovered the Shabason + Krgovich via Sean saidthegramophone’s eoy list and loved it. Great album for this season.

Kinda blown away by Shabason + Krgovich! Reminds me of a cross between Jim O'Rourke and the aforementioned Blue Nile.

Like, this might be my new #1.

okay, the playlists should be fully updated with everything on the nomination thread (and i threw in y'all's edits and late additions in the name of good will). If there's anything that you're not seeing on the list that's available on Spotify in the US, flag it here and I'll fix.

As is my yearly process, I'm trying to thoroughly listen (at least three times per track) to everything in the singles pile. With past faves included, I'm about 320 tracks in. I'll likely try to do capsule reviews as in past years if there's time. Suffice it to say, lots to like.

Oh, and it's worth mentioning Joseph Shabason's connection to Destroyer, having been the sax player on "Kaputt."

for anyone seeking a novelty track: am i the only person who enjoyed the Finneas/Billie Eilish tracks from the Pixar period piece Turning Red? They ghostwrote songs for a fake Backstreet-style boy band named 4*Town (with 5 members of course) and there's a few solid hits on the soundtrack. This is the obvious stand-out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQQRjFzB8gY

At Thanksgiving, an extended family member mentioned that those songs were done by Eilish & Finneas… I said, “I don’t think that’s right!,” like a condescending know-it-all. Then I looked it up. Egg on my face!

Lol, I have a colleague from Vancouver (Krgovich is from there) who has a passion for her dog (and animal wellbeing in general) and it was her birthday two days ago. Good excuse for discretely sharing music nerdship. If you add "Feel You", there's already a good beginning of a list.

None of my nominations are on Spotify but they may have been blocked by the local magnate along with the results of last nights match

My nominated track is not on the spreadsheet:

Tramhaus - I Don't Sweat

A shame, because it's one of the best Dutch songs of 2022.

My nominated track is not on the spreadsheet:

Tramhaus - I Don't Sweat

A shame, because it's one of the best Dutch songs of 2022.

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 6 January 2023 10:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't see this on the nominations thread :(

Damn, you're right. I probably meant to and forgot about it.

really cool that ya'll dig that shabason + krgovich - and thank you maffew for the word! i already rec'd it to a non-ilm friend and they were also taken aback by how great it is.

in other news, i'll be voting for the sofie birch album.

nicholas krgovich also plays on the new dear nora album from this year that is also great

which one? (re:sofie) i love both albums she put out this year but maybe Languoria a bit more than Holotropica

ephemeral and enthusiastic thank yous by proxy to ilm - you guys rule

Some brief campaigning for some of my noms (the ones that I think would have more mass ILM appeal):

Nikki Nair - Renormalization Support Group
Some of these EP tracks on are in the tracks poll too, I think this is the best possibility for a consensus dance pick that's not mired in '90s traditionalism. It's definitely got one foot in dance music history and electro-ish energy, but with so much fun inventiveness.

Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar
Similarly, this is Hud Mo's dance record and I think it's wildly underrated.

DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT
While admittedly I haven't gone back to it as much as their videos (which says something about their appeal and place in the social media-based instrumentalist world), I think this may come to be viewed as a sort of landmark record, as one of the most mainstream releases so far by the new generation of 'jazz' musicians who were both born of the Youtube algorithm and came to prominence through it. Also I can't overstate how great and influential JD Beck is for a 19 year old.

DJ Plead - Quick EP
Another hugely appealing collection of leftfield dance tracks, continuing to iterate on his darbuka/percussion sample-based style.

Tony Rolando - Breakin' is a Memory
Beau Sorenson - Indifference Will Devour You
Two 'ambient' electronic records where each track is totally distinct and engaging.

And for new discoveries, I'm really enjoying Lucretia Dalt (very unique and beguiling record) and Carla Dal Forno (Peaking Lights-ish minimal Aussie dub), and Ezra Furman.

Also will be voting for the Florist record. It's gotten a ton of play on weekend mornings, and even though I can't remember a single song from it, I keep coming back to the sound (weirdly the Shlohmo-esque instrumental interludes stay in my head more than the songs, or maybe that's not weird for me).

which one? (re:sofie) i love both albums she put out this year but maybe Languoria a bit more than Holotropica

― gman59, Friday, January 6, 2023 8:23 AM

shit, i didn't realize there was more than one! i was referring to holotropica, but definitely checking out the other as well. thanks for the word!

also thank you jordan! i need more stuff to fill out my albums ballot and you are helping!

Yeah, Sofie Birch has made 9 albums since 2019. And they're generally good!

np. spoiler but i voted for both of those Birch albums

Oh man, I almost forgot about the Caterina Barbieri album (Spirit Exit) too.

I don't think I was familiar with Sofie Birch but I'm listening now and it's lovely.

idk where to start really. very little ever permeates.

try letting this into your heart though, if you can - epic autechre-obsessed TFS-adjacentish post-punk flameout beyond compare, y'know, the stuff i like. also the guy who made it was a singles jukebox contributor if that counts for anything

Since many of you seem to enjoy sophisti-pop I’d also like to rep the two John Moods albums from this year:

The Zenmenn - Hidden Gem
John Moods - The Great Design

Maybe not as sophisticated as the Shabason + Krgovich but they both contain some great moments that you might enjoy

I voted for the Shabason + Krgovich track but can’t remember if I voted for the album which would’ve been a terrible mistake.

ty moka! definitely checking those out!

unrelated: "tongo barra"<--this shit is so funky, i feel like i'm committing a misdemeanor by just vibing to it. god DAMN.

Oh right, the S+K album is the one with the Jake Longstreth cover. :)

nicholas krgovich also plays on the new dear nora album from this year that is also great

― na (NA), Friday, January 6, 2023 8:22 AM

thank you for this - the album *is* great! has a bit of that surreal julia holter have you in my wilderness vibe. maybe a bit moore rootsy overall, but yeah! dig it!

oh hey, the sudan archives album is wall to wall bangers. cool.

ooh the shabason & krgovich album is great! i'd heard the previous shabason, krgovich & harris albums but this one's a step up

it is

this Hagan record is absolutely killing me, really excellent.

Voted, and hoping it went through, as nothing seemed to happen after I clicked the Submit button.

hmm...@Raymond I don't see your vote in the system, you might need to do it again

Ok - will do

This time I got the "Thank You for Voting" message.

That Ruger track is sooo good.

I wish I'd nominated a couple of songs off the Shabason & Krgovich album.

This time I got the "Thank You for Voting" message.

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:06 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yep, I can see your ballot now

others campaigning for one's nomination sort of feels like winning the internet for a non-musician ilxor. i got a head of steam about me tonight and played "i am so happy with my little dog" for a friend. Reaction: "is the dog playing the guitar solo?"

I like that Dog song. It made me feel my age in a good way.

Aye that's nice. Full disclosure I'm 40 now

42 next month over here and i think a dog playing a guitar solo sounds like an awesome idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean I laughed at him but you're right and I'll say so!

Even if the S+K doesn’t place I’m happy so many of you discovered it via this threads and connected with it.

i need to indulge in my annual habit of making a youtube playlist for saer's picks

Thanks, seandalai.

Oof just checked and I did made a mistake in my ballot. Can we resubmit ballots?

yeah just submit again and I'll delete the old one

Excellent ty!

High on the 'things I should have nominated' list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxuOigChbk

Aye. I first listened to him earlier today on a 2022 playlist I made based on all sorts of lists... saved to hear more later.

I was so tempted to skip the playlist this year (just due to laziness) and fill my ballot with all The Beths and Real Lies tracks nominated, but I'm really glad I didn't as I've found some great stuff on here.

The Shabason & Krgovich album is indeed fantastic. Listened to it last night and ordered it immediately. Kind of feels like it might fill the Rhye shaped hole in my collection as I'm unable to enjoy them anymore.

I missed the TOPS discussion earlier. I've listened to three of their albums I think and they were all just totally pleasant. Perfected Steps is the best thing I've heard from them by some distance.

I need to find out more about Honey. They had a song on nominated last year called Somebody To which ended up going in my top ten. What Now is another winner. I need an album by these guys if all their songs are this good. Kind of reminds me of Louise Burns who has a few supporters on here.

I need to hear the Perfume album before voting. The tracks on the playlist are incredible, especially Spinning World.

Sombra by Javiera Mena was another standout. I was really disappointed with her previous album so didn't even check her new one yet.

Other new discoveries include:

Sevyn Streeter - 23
Mondo Grosso - In This World
ExWHYZ - Wanna Dance
Between Mermaids & Me - Dreamwalker (amazing production on this)
Hourglavss - Cool Reaction
Raye - Escapism (this really clicked with me)
Ado - New Genesis

Thanks to everyone who nominated these and kept up with new music more than I did last year.

Thanks for reminding me that I made this thread and that everyone should be voting for "23"
For Your End of Year Consideration - 23 by Sevyn Streeter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu0mxcFbZaE

xpost to kp Mondo Grosso produced the exWHYZ track, so not surprising you liked them both. ;)

I would urge anyone who enjoyed "Wanna Dance" to also check out/vote for their album xYZ - which is just excellent, walking around Tokyo at midnight, dance pop. Other highlights: Obsession, Weekend

Cool, I'll check out the exWHYZ album. The single is definitely making my list. There's still a handful of albums I need to hear from going through the nominations.

yes, everyone should vote for "23." just a ridiculous megajam.

I hadn't been keeping up with Sevyn Streeter's material at all. I didn't even know she'd put out a second album. Girl Disrupted was a bit underwhelming considering how great some of the earlier singles had been. 23 rivals It Won't Stop as her best moment.

ok so here's some rap music that i will likely be voting for.

ka - "ascension": a meditation on escaping generational trauma with an instrumental philip glass would be proud of. call it ka-yaanisqatsi.

duke deuce - "just say that ft. glorilla": the most fun rap song of the year, just a ridiculous and bombastic banger. ilx thread here: Duke Deuce & GloRilla's JUST SAY THAT is the best song in the world right now

veeze - "let it fly": somnambulant flexes and piercing barbs over an immersive michigan instrumental

hitkidd & glorilla - "f.n.f.": b-a-n-g-e-r

iayze - "556 (green tip)": a wheedling, addictive beat paired with appealingly snot-nosed rhymes

joony - "drifting in tokyo": just what the title suggests, fast-moving, yet laid back late night jam

asian doll - "get jumped" ft. bandmanrill: 😤

"23" also leapt out at me from the playlist — sexy, catchy and clever.

Resubmitted my ballot.

“23” has a nice beat but doesn’t really go anywhere, imo (and I just wasn’t feeling interpolations from classic tracks this year).

i will emerge once more to proffer a song, this time the supreme masterpiece of my favourite medieval prog mastermind. blessed be.

just fully ascending to the aether at the end there

As for albums, BAD MODE is unbelievably one of Hikaru Utada's best in a legendary career - just funky, funny, sweet, beautiful, human. What a joy and a surprise that she would put out a masterpiece in 2022. And a great starter for anyone who hasn't checked out the discography.

― abcfsk

Just revisited this and it has jumped up my list a lot. What a gorgeous album.

i will likely vote for "just say that" and "somewhere near marseilles"

got a lineup fulla chicks
look from si' to si'
it's like a pageant in this bih

thirded on hikaru utada - really nice, expertly crafted stuff.

(also - DAMN she's been active since the 90s i got some homework to do!)

also wow i wish i would've known this album sooner. "誰にも言わない" ("don't tell anybody") is chilling - definitely would have nommed it.

I noticed that on the album nomination sheet, there's a Hatchie album titled "Keep Giving The World Away" and one titled "Giving the World Away". I just voted for the latter, as I think that's the official titled.

Looks like that was me who got the Hatchie title wrong on the nominations thread. It is indeed just called Giving the World Away. Amazing album.

I might as well copy/paste (with slight tinkering) what I wrote in the 2022 AOTY thread and re-highlight a few of my nominations:

Lady Wray - Piece Of Me - Nicole Wray of "Make It Hot" fame continues what she started with the Lady s/t in 2013 and her own album Queen Alone in 2016 - comforting, warm, accomplished soul. The title track is probably my favourite.

Eliza and the Delusionals - Now And Then - I started a thread for this and unfortunately it's still sitting there with no replies, but despite that silence I am continuing my attempts to spread the good word about this debut from these Australian nostalgists. Widescreen dreampop that takes the Sixpence None The Richer sound and runs with it, as many others have this year - Hatchie, the Pale Waves, Soccer Mommy, etc etc. I'll be throwing lots of points at "Give You Everything" which I managed to push through on the Singles Jukebox's recent brief revival.

Say She She - Prism - This album sits at the intersection of a host of ILM vectors - Lady Wray herself might be one, but also Natalie Prass, the Kings (We Are and Emily), Kadhja Bonet, that short-lived band Juce, Esperanza Spalding's "Unconditional Love", etc. Their band name is horrible (it doesn't help either that it's very easily confused with another group who released an album this year, Say Sue Me) and the album is on the short side, but it's lovely to listen to and hard to fault.

RENforshort - dear amelia is a good encapsulation of the best of the 2022 surly pop punk revival for me. More Billie Eilish than that WILLOW album but it's somewhere between those two poles.

Then there's Javiera Mena - Nocturna. It has the feel of a compilation as I'd previously rinsed so many of its component tracks, some of which were released years ago, but at the same time I wouldn't begrudge anyone calling it her best album and if pushed I might give it that description myself. A banger-a-thon that concludes with the song she tried to enter Eurovision with and its spooky-ooky organ solo. seandalai has highlighted "Sombra" and its roars, but that's merely one of its multitude of joys.

Should I post corrections to noms list here?
I misspelled a nom "Shabason & Kgrovich" - should be Krgovich.
And Gigi Masin's 2020 album, "Calypso" shouldn't be there.

Doing a very rough draft. I'll be a last minute voter!

As far as tracks go, I hope to see "B.O.T.A." by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal in the 77. The strangest and best UK #1 of the year (thanks, TikTok), it initially struck me as icy and detached but somehow its ubiquity has lent it warmth and allowed me to classify it along with "Both Of Us", "Itgehane" et al.

Speaking of UK #1s, Raye's "Escapism." hit that mark in the UK a few days ago. Raye's a wunderkind who's been stuck writing and singing dance tracks for Jax Jones and Joel Corry types for years, but like so many other young pop singers has been at war with her label (in this case, Polydor) when it came to releasing her own material. She and Polydor parted ways last year, and she's been independently readying singles for her debut album, now due in about a month's time, since then. The clock app cottoned on to the sprawling, majestic "Escapism.", it's now a chart topper, and the album itself has become one of my most anticipated for this year. One can only hope that earlier single "Black Mascara", which has a dance throb and which I'm likelier to vote for, might get the same chart treatment.

It looks like my ballot might be quite heavy on Spanish-language pop tracks this year - some that are worth your time beyond the obvious Bad Bunny and Rosalía hits include Karol G's "PROVENZA" (with 596m Youtube views, this might be plenty obvious too), Kali Uchis' airy "NO HAY LEY", and Girl Ultra's "Amores de droga" (technically a 2021 single but I've nominated it under a year of impact rule as it was part of her 2022 EP EL SUR).

Finally, I expect to be a sole #1 this year with Empress Of's "Dance For You", which is possessed of just the kind of desperate melancholia I find irresistible in pop. A BJ Burton (who's worked with everyone from Charli XCX to Bon Iver to Lizzo to Low) co-effort, it's more conventional than the spacious and also very good "Save Me" which I see is in the queue for blurbing in the Tim F '22 thread. I love the shuffling beat, and the writing is curious too - she walks this tightrope of wanting her addressee to erase her from their memory, but also to be left with the impression that she exists, and is a person with feelings and emotions and strength. The whole EP that this is a part of is worth your time.

Oh, another album I should say something about because I haven't heard it written about basically anywhere else is Sara Parkman - Eros Agape Philia which is this amazing, extremely ambitious Swedish prog-pop-folk edifice that, to put things crudely, kind of bridges a gap between Fossora and Ten Love Songs. Lots of magic moments on it, but a favourite of mine in particular is about two-thirds of the way through "Till Salka", where a nostalgically-recounted story suddenly turns into a blaring rave-up.

Was not aware B.O.T.A. was a #1 hit in UK, hadn’t heard anything about it until it started popping in several eoy lists.

Kind of a weird song to be a huge hit, it’s more of a “vibe” than a song.

thirded on hikaru utada - really nice, expertly crafted stuff.

(also - DAMN she's been active since the 90s i got some homework to do!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0YDZqeKMnU

14 from 22, short stories from inside the penalty box

That was mean to be a playlist of things missing from the spotify

Oh you have to write it out differently I understand now

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYcYugGx0D5HJ3SDeOquxAaDeIEivGCX8

Nosaj Thing - Blue Hour feat. Julianna Barwick is the biggest find in the noms for me so far. The emotional pull of Barwick's ethereal vocals is not something I might normally go for, but am sucked into the cinematic quality of the track. Massive Attack 'Teardrop' drums with melancholy synth-lines and sub-bass that invokes shimmering horizons of heatwaves and transit spaces like an air-conditioned airport terminal.

It does give me trip hop vibes and, as a simple man continually awaiting the trip hop revival, that's a good thing.

Thanks saer!

Oh, another album I should say something about because I haven't heard it written about basically anywhere else is Sara Parkman - Eros Agape Philia which is this amazing, extremely ambitious Swedish prog-pop-folk edifice that, to put things crudely, kind of bridges a gap between Fossora and Ten Love Songs. Lots of magic moments on it, but a favourite of mine in particular is about two-thirds of the way through "Till Salka", where a nostalgically-recounted story suddenly turns into a blaring rave-up.

― monotony

I nominated her collaboration with Maria W Horn (Funeral Folk) but am considering a vote for this as well.

funny i heard "blue hour" in the peoples pop poll on twitter and thought it distractingly too similar to "teardrop"

tidal tracks playlist is finally up-to-date (for the 2 people that are following it), sorry for taking this long

https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/080d2645-6bba-43f1-943b-500665d76ffb

That whole Nosaj Thing album is very pleasant. Love “blue hour” but I agree that it is very distractingly similar to “teardrop”. Can’t get enough of a good thing though.

Panda Bear had a great year, very active and mostly high quality: good animal collective album, great sonic boom/solo album, brilliant run of collaborations: braxe+falcon, teebs, nosaj thing, george fitzgerald, lifted, imperio pacifico…

Should I post corrections to noms list here?

― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, January 8, 2023 8:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I misspelled Tyler Childers' "Way of the Triune God (Jubilee Version)" as "Way of the Tribune God (Jubilee Version)". Planning to vote for what's in the spreadsheet unless I'm told otherwise.

tidal tracks playlist is finally up-to-date (for the 2 people that are following it), sorry for taking this long

Thanks, silverfish

How did only one Charlotte Adigery/Bolis Pupul track get nominated? Assume the album will rank but quite surprised to not see "Ceci n'est pas un cliche" on the track noms.

Meant to add "Mantra," but I was sorta holding off on duplicating artists and then it was too late. Same with Shygirl, especially.

nice not to have to worry about the vote splitting I suppose

A lot of the singles were 2021 though. Someone nominated HAHA but that placed last year.

voted!

As far as tracks go, I hope to see "B.O.T.A." by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal in the 77. The strangest and best UK #1 of the year (thanks, TikTok), it initially struck me as icy and detached but somehow its ubiquity has lent it warmth and allowed me to classify it along with "Both Of Us", "Itgehane" et al.

Agree with this monotony, a weirdly compelling tune!

Should I post corrections to noms list here?

Yes! Thanks to everyone who has posted corrections so far.

Regarding Sudan Archives: I know “Home Maker” is a good song and probably everyone’s favorite but “Freakalizer” is the one that I would get excited to see in the top 77.

Still happy she’s getting all the love this year elsewhere. ILM has been supportive of her since that first ep from 2017.

ayo thanks for this Abel Selaocoe "Where Is home/Hae ke Kae" album, what a find

seriously, check this shit out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZ4zd7Acq0

Playing tracks poll on shuffle, ‘Dishintegration’ by Staubitz and Waterhouse has came up. 10 minutes into it, does anything happen?

Omah Lay and BNXN are today’s discoveries. Wow

I hope (and half expect) that includes Omah’s “never forget”, a stunningly beautiful and incredibly moving song, in both performance and production. it’s a serious contender for my number one spot.

lol, dishintegration is just a washing machine i think. i hope matmos got a check

if it's not a dishwasher what are they doing

i got that stuck on repeat for awhile so i get the appeal

I forgot to nominate Omaha Lay - Safe Heaven, which was my favorite from the album. Gorgous almost dubby afropop.

God dammit spellcheck.

Yes breastcrawl! That’s the song that I heard and floored me. I think I heard it some months ago and didn’t make much of an impression at the time but today it clicked. Regret not voting for it.

ah dang Safe Haven might actually be my favourite too. at any rate it's the perfect follow-up to Never Forget, a great moment on that album

I think I’ve played “never forget” 8 times already today.

Hi, just noticed another error on the albums list:

Soshi Takeda - Same Place Another Time is listed twice, the other erroneously as soichi takeda - same place, another time

Fire-Toolz was sounding quite nice and then at just over three minutes the vocals came in

re: Omah Lay - if I'd been practive enough to submit a suggestion's ballot, I'd have definitely entered "I'm A Mess". It's absolutely excellent and something I've been able to relate to a lot this year

The truth is that the album really deserves votes.

Fire-Toolz was sounding quite nice and then at just over three minutes the vocals came in

― groovypanda, Thursday, 12 January 2023 10:17 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is my burden

Favourite discovery of the nominations thread has been 'Jolene' by Victony, such a great track.

Fire-Toolz was sounding quite nice and then at just over three minutes the vocals came in

Regarding Sudan Archives: I know “Home Maker” is a good song and probably everyone’s favorite but “Freakalizer” is the one that I would get excited to see in the top 77.

"Freakalizer" will be in my top two

I voted for both

forkslovetofu - re: Abel Selacoe. I didn't nominate the album but nommed a track off it. I saw him support Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal at The Roundhouse at the beginning of last year. He was amazing - a great performer.

Favourite discovery of the nominations thread has been 'Jolene' by Victony, such a great track.

bobot: whole album is amazing! Really a great find. I don't think he's known in America at all yet.

Today in "would have nominated and voted for it if I'd known about it" - São Paulo's Tim Bernardes, writer of gorgeous songs like this one. It was on the Aquarium Drunkard list, I just misssed it.

I don't follow Kpop so NewJeans is new to me, but "Ditto" is 100% going in my top 10 tracks. Thx Kpop crew!

I'm finding a bunch of great tracks tonight from the campaigning. Crunch time!

I'll campaign for one thing, cuz it looks like I might be alone on what's probably my #1 album (far and away most played), Wednesday Campanella's "Neon". Just some deliriously happy dance music that kicks my ass through workouts, pretty much! For tracks, I nommed the (tiktok) hit but whatever here's the one that slams hardest:

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

Thanks to whoever nominated "in|FLUX" by Anna B Savage. It reminds me a bit of Nicolette and Mara Carlyle. Love it.

Regarding Sudan Archives: I know “Home Maker” is a good song and probably everyone’s favorite but “Freakalizer” is the one that I would get excited to see in the top 77.

This could be the Anz 'You Could Be' of 2022?

Also not the White Lotus theme on the track noms list?

This could be the Anz 'You Could Be' of 2022?

― change display name (Jordan)

Oooh that would be a good one.

I swear Selema Po Po is the best track ever. At least today it is. (And yes, I nommed it)

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

Playing tracks poll on shuffle, ‘Dishintegration’ by Staubitz and Waterhouse has came up. 10 minutes into it, does anything happen?

My friend who’s really into ehlers/Matthieu/Schaffer would like this

a week left to vote!

Really struggling to put things in order this year - I know I can do an unranked ballot but I usually like to at least do a mixed one and award a 'best of year' to someone. It's tough.

Also not the White Lotus theme on the track noms list?

― change display name (Jordan), Friday, January 13, 2023 11:57 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this is on there i nommed it, obv should have put 'white lotus' in the track title tho

Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Renaissance (Main Title Theme)

xp Rosalia. Having trouble on the bottom half. Like the rollout, that's the fun of it anyway.

Haven’t seen the results yet. Best track of the year will probably be Somewhere Near Marseilles… for albums I’d bet on Motomami or Natural Brown Prom Queen but maybe it will be that Beyonce thing.

Oh wait I forgot the Big Thief thing lol. That’s the #1 isn’t it?

Wow this album rules!! Bless whoever nommed it <3
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, January 13, 2023 5:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

*tips hat*

good chance for Big Thief. Would be big for a January release!

Tried with Sudan Archives a few times, one of those things that sounds like it's up my street but completely eludes me.

I liked her previous album but found the new one dull

Seems like Real Lies have a real shot at #1 LP

Would absolutely love that but don't think it'll happen

I'm absolutely assuming Big Thief will win this.

I almost feel bad saying that Big Thief was easily my favorite and most listened to album this year, so if I manage to get my ballot together that's one more vote in their direction.

Two whole weeks left to get it together Moodles, no rush

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

Actually just one week left to vote!

as a non-voter who wd probably have Real Lies in my top 3 if i did vote i'd like to apologise to the band and their fans

dude, just vote for fucks sake
it's like three posts worth of time

Haven't seen any mention of this, so I'll mention it. My favorite political song of the year, just a classic riot-grrl blast, from an album that happened to drop the same day as the Dobbs decision. (Not on purpose as far as I know, they're not even an American band.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMp4mgZbhA8

yeah, definitely voting for that one

And I'm not sorry

A bit late I realise, but I thought I'd campaign for my LP nominees that aren't on Spotify (and I think are only on Bandcamp). I've added links to the albums below and also done a mini bndcmpr.co playlist, which you can find here:
https://bndcmpr.co/80941c71

The Pattern Forms - 'The Scenic Route'
This studio group is made up of Cate Brooks (The Advisory Circle), Ed and Edd from Friendly Fires, and Tom Moth. A modern day library/mood music album, focussing on pastoral and romantic themes (with a Lindstrøm-esque tune to finish). Harp, analogue synthesisers plus drums, guitar textures and orchestral elements. First released digitally in May 2021, but the year of impact was definitely last year when the vinyl edition arrived.
https://thepatternforms.bandcamp.com/album/the-scenic-route

clocolan - 'Empathy Alpha'
Part soundtrack, part audio play, the LP contains five discrete cinematic scenes with electronic backing and interludes. Structured on a 9x9x9 numerical matrix, the music is inspired by sci-fi soundtracks of the 70s and 80s. Some excellent voice acting creates some really disturbing moments.
https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/empathy-alpha

D. Rothon - 'East Of The Sun' EP
Recorded live at Café OTO on 15 January 2022 as part of a Clay Pipe Music showcase night. Four serene pieces that particularly glow when Rothon's pedal steel takes centre stage.
https://lonesomedepot.bandcamp.com/album/east-of-the-sun-live-at-cafe-oto

Onepointwo - 'Music For Spaces'
Electronic music from a Greek musician I really rate. This album is described as "a personal homage to our endless effort to create personal spaces in order to decompress from the madness of everyday life. Created with a lot of electronic genres in mind".
https://onepointwo.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-spaces

Henning Zinoviev & Floating Candles - 'Die Nude For Satan'
One of those imaginary soundtracks to an alleged lost exploitation/horror movie from the 70s, the master tapes for which were recently "rediscovered". Bad-trip psych heaviness and folk horror, electric sitar/tabla and sinister synths. One of the more effective stabs at this genre in my opinion.
https://libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/die-nude-for-satan

Sinneslochen.Inc - 'P O L Y B I U S'
More of the above, only this time it's a lost video game soundtrack. The pitch: "1981. A small town arcade takes delivery of a new game, Polybius. Released onto an un-suspecting youth, the game delivers both excitement and intrigue with multiple levels of mind bending puzzles. Popularity reaches fever pitch. One month after its release, Polybius disappears without trace. Stories begin to emerge of players experiencing psychoactive side effects ranging from seizures to insomnia, night terrors to hallucinations…"
https://burningwitchesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/p-o-l-y-b-i-u-s

Sproatly Smith - 'River Wye Suite'
Eight years in the making. A tribute to the geography, lore and people who live on and by the river that shapes Herefordshire’s countryside. The completion of the album also provides a chance to protest the fact that the river is slowly dying from pollution, thanks mainly to the expansion of chicken factories in the Wye valley. Dreamy folk-rock with field recordings and poetry interwoven.
https://sproatlysmith.bandcamp.com/album/river-wye-suite

Kayla Painter - 'Planet 9'
More electronica from a talented UK musician, described by her as "a journey to the hypothetical planet on the outer reaches of our solar system". This is actually a cassette compilation of 3 new tracks and some older tracks from 2020-21 that did not previously exist in any physical state. But it's probably her most coherent statement so far.
https://kaylapainter.bandcamp.com/album/planet-9-2

Ok I thought I was really smart by being among the first to vote and now there's a few humble changes I'd like to make

Just noticed Free Mind by Tems is on the list. Is that correct as it came out on 2020?

Oh shit, I somehow completely missed/forgot about Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack and almost left it off my ballot! Glad I did another full-list scan before settling on my list, that was a major favourite I almost ignored.

i can tell it was a good year for music cause i'm having a geniunely hard time getting it town to 25

forks can you start a thread for julian lage so i stop missing his albums during the year lol

Just noticed Free Mind by Tems is on the list. Is that correct as it came out on 2020?

― groovypanda, Sunday, January 15, 2023 10:22 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

year of impact. it was one of the biggest r&b radio hits of 2022. not sure why it took so long to catch on but catch on it did.

nb, i didn't vote for it.

Oh shit, I somehow completely missed/forgot about Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack and almost left it off my ballot! Glad I did another full-list scan before settling on my list, that was a major favourite I almost ignored.

― emil.y, Sunday, 15 January 2023 17:36 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

🔥

VC I will def start a late pass thread for his next album.

god that hikaru utada album sure is a masterpiece

Yep, I checked that album out at the beginning of the year and thought it was nice but for some reason never went back to it until a few weeks ago. It has been on heavy rotation along with albums by Perfume, Shabason & Kgrovich and the TOPS EP. I need to find room for them all on my lists.

Turns out I've been underrating 2022 as a good year for albums all along. Much stronger than 2021 overall.

yeah i think it was an unusually strong year

my final missive is surface to air. indie isn't dead, but you might not be looking in all the right places. this belongs in some sort of gallery imo, it is another staggeringly beautiful work by a widely-ignored master, it feels like it belongs out of time, or in all times at once

Anyone pick out a Sault record? Not sure I'll get room for any, but for me it's the Little Simz album.

I like Today & Tomorrow and Untitled (God) most (or at least I've listened to them the most) - enjoyment of the latter does depend on tolerance for God content

Earth is my favorite, followed by 11. Sault definitely going to suffer here from having too many good albums.

Untitled (God) is the one whose track grab my attention most often. Earth and 11 are also under consideration.

Kind of wish I nominated Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment, not sure why I missed that one

tour diary of the year

“Voting in polls shouldn’t be fun”

lol

voted

even did a little tracks list too

just voted, listened to way less current stuff than usual in 2022 so about half my tracks ballot is stuff I discovered while listening to the nominated tracks the last couple of weeks. Makes an interesting ballot I think. (I briefly considered voting only for stuff I discovered in the nominations, but there's a couple of things I really wanted to vote for that I already knew about).

Voted!

Andy Catana - Wav Encore

Yaya Toure and France Gall music box stag weekend in Vienna

Last week to vote!

ugh I forgot to nominate a few tracks that made my list. oh well, y'all got some extra Kendrick Lamar votes on the tracks ballot instead, deal with it

"i vote different"

VOTE!

Agree with those who said Untitled (God) is the strongest of the SAULT releases. Second half in particular.

could potentially submit an albums ballot this year. no discipline in keeping track of tracks anymore lol

Do it Brad! I have a feeling we'll be down on numbers again this year, so personal choices may have a bigger influence. (No insider knowledge here, just a gut feeling).

I am finally very close to finishing my ballots. Will submit tomorrow.

I voted last week (received I assume?) and feel good about it. A few albums from the noms & voting threads made it on there, always my favorite part.

I’ve got my tracks sorted, should have the albums whittled down tonight

I haven’t listened to (enough of) the Voice Actor “album” enough yet to vote for it, but I will be rinsing this amazing thing for the foreseeable future

Great album, just missed my ballot

voted!

Keep em coming

okay! (voted)

Voted

Voted

Is there always so much bobbins nominated?

So many great discoveries this year

I will be submitting a ballot later today

Voted! I feel like my ballots are a bit haphazard but they probably always are. Also, poll-runners, I snuck in one tiny write-in, feel free to ignore if you have to, nobody else will vote for it anyway I just wanted to include it.

voted. Are we getting acknowledgments, I forget?

Just an albums poll. I leave the tracks to the other clever people. Looking forward to find what I've missed before...

The Most wonderful time of the year.

Way too busy to have gone through the nominees, no vote from me this year but I look forward to the rollout!

Why in the shit didn't I (or someone else) nominate Looking For Somebody (To Love)?

voted.
my tracks list is a mixed bag of recent and long-since-beloved but the album list was a sophie's choice once i got it down to 40. i doubt i'd deliver the same ballot tomorrow.

I hesitate to look back at mine, my #1 album pick was essentially random

yeah that's why i close my year-end list the minute i publish it on my personal blog lol. tho still, my ilx ballot was a little different, due to a smidge of strategic voting and one or two things i forgot to nom

january is a big discovery period for me, i'd just prefer it to be all fun and not worry too much about where these new-to-me songs would fall on a list

Voted!

Three things on my track list which I discovered from the nominations list. Doechii, FireCityFunk, Nosaj Thing ft. Juliana Barwick

what's the deal with stuff like reissues/rarities comps/etc on the albums poll? were they allowed or not?

bc i see some that look to be old stuff that has been rereleased or released for the first time, but no nominated the pj harvey b-sides/demos/rarities comp?

anyways i sent in a very un-thought-out and cursed albums poll ballot

Would like a side poll for reissues. Maybe next year?

wow, did nobody nominate Doechii's Persuasive? I was sure i saw that on the list or I woulda! weird oversight until just now.

Voted!

Voted. Hope some of you listened to that Rachika Nayar record!

Clarification: Are ballots due 10 hours from now or 34 hours from now?

xp yes the Rachika record is great! Didn't make my ballot but I might have regrets on that

Also don't overlook Marina Herlop's album Pripyat too! That one made mine

voted.

Clarification: Are ballots due 10 hours from now or 34 hours from now?

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead)

From someone who is usually a procrastinator, the voting always ends Midnight on Friday Night. But even that usually is extended a few hours after that as seandalai is usually sleeping when it's that late in San Francisco.

Cool, thank you, submitted my ballot anyway!

Voted!

Albums basically done but tracks, as ever, proving to be a nightmare to cut to just 25

Last day to vote!

Voted! Mixed ballot this year.

mixed ballot is the way to go, i can't stand seeing a song i absolutely love finish with 1 vote for 1 point lol

When y'all were talking about the Rachika Nayar album I was not expecting an instrumental power ambient album with synths and guitars with infinite reverb. What's the backstory there, how did she get popular? It reminds me Mogwai or Godspeed without drums.

Also I'm not the indie rock guy here but I'm surprised that albums by Dear Nora and Second Grade weren't on the noms list.

"power ambient" otm lol

my ears are exhausted

just generally

though I'm probably especially deaf for ambient now. A few more pop tracks moving up a tracks ballot might be all i can muster at this point

aag but this Anna Butterss record is so good!

i should have nominated dear nora :(

When y'all were talking about the Rachika Nayar album I was not expecting an instrumental power ambient album with synths and guitars with infinite reverb. What's the backstory there, how did she get popular? It reminds me Mogwai or Godspeed without drums.

The Rachika Nayar is a massive, immersive listen. Sequenced to take you on a complete journey, and a great comedown album. Post-rock with synths isn't too bad a descriptor, actually!

Dear Nora album is fantastic btw

Voted! Half my tracks ballot is Danish hits that nobody else will vote for, but still.

voted

The title track of the Nayar album is a monster.

Just listened to the Water Gun Sky Attack track. Too late now but that would definitely have filled the 'Scott Walker being fed into a blender' shaped hole in my voting form.

quick, everyone go back and add it to your ballots!

submitted an albums ballot

prediction for ilm no. 1 is sudan archives

Voted!

so this explains why i cannot stop eating yogurt

lmfao sorry

what i MEANT to write was: I would have absolutely nominated and voted for the Tyshawn Sorey Trio 3-disc record— came out too late in the year for me to give it a listen, it is really good

Voted!

Thanks pollrunners and stoked for the rollouts

Okay are we closed?

better not be

+12 hrs

good, thx

ok voted! early for me but i'm tired innit

oh Friday midnight like today. thought it was yesterday!

i highly doubt it will place but there's a spelling error on the albums list:

Placid Angels - 056 (The Lotus)

should be Placid Angles

I voted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvUz7hU0xu4

vote vote vote!

~12 hours to go

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4240944559.1865/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg

Voted :)

ima put my vote in a cardboard box

Voted

it is done

thanks guys

voted; thanks

I'm have a voted

Done!

voted, had to do mostly unranked ballots for once as i couldn't really get my rankings together

voted!

i voted, but only for albums

Voted! Thank you pollrunners!

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GAR7R6/blue-ink-mark-in-little-finger-of-adult-man-sign-of-voting-in-myanmar-election-2GAR7R6.jpg

about an hour left before I shut it down

apologies to all the tracks I was foolish enough not to make room for

everybody who hasn’t voted yet vote for Skeng’s “London” instead of me

Voting is closed!

74 tracks ballots (slightly fewer than last year), 93 album ballots (slightly more than last year)

https://i.imgur.com/CyFj3XF.png

also the first year that someone tried to vote for a book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag
don’t think it’s eligible

ILM's rockist year
Or maybe everyone is into ambient now

The nominating and voting and waiting for the year-end poll are the best parts of the year music-wise
Then of course the poll results get published

jk, I'm still excited, when do we start

People being mad about the top results being relatively predictable is too funny. I'd almost like to see a rollout that starts with #1. The bottom half is the real fun. More discoveries.

xp I think when i filled out the form, it said rollout planned to start on Monday

Didn’t vote but interested to see if any of my noms made it. Hagan and TSHA and Ron Trent and Space Ghost, artists of that nature.

Was the book in the tracks or albums poll?

i think the book vote was from me (albums poll). it was a cut & paste error, but it is a most excellent read.

lol, I thought someone had intentionally voted for the Dylan book or something

My top 2 albums are definite top 10, likely top 5, and I make no apologies for being such a consensus centrist because they’re GREAT.

I also ditched my long-running preference to not vote for tracks from albums I also voted for, because in several cases I think the tracks are more likely to place than the albums.

we're going to defer the rollout for a week so moka and forks can put together the art/blurbs - we'll start on the 30th

I don't really care if anything I voted for places, but it's interesting to see if anything makes the bottom reaches with one or two other votes. I agree that that's the fun part, discovering more music from the depths.

I didn't vote as an experiment to see if any of my noms actually get votes

You could’ve still voted and seen if any of your noms received >1 vote(??)

Break week! Can anyone nom me a nice book?

xp no I want the records to succeed or fail on their own merits!

admittedly I am being somewhat flippant, I should have given Wau Wau Collectif a boost but things have been crazy in life

that's one of the things I voted for!

it's real good trust

Thanks for that graph seandalai. Interesting to see right there the popular peak of the EOY poll was ten years ago.

ILM's rockist year

Haha. My very first thought re the graph.

it's interesting to see if anything makes the bottom reaches with one or two other votes.

I'm pretty sure my own final ballot (certainly significant chunks of my shortlist) included things in the playlists that I subsequently traced back to your nominations, Jordan, so thanks!

I know I say this every year and I disappoint several on the board but results make this the best EOY list I’ve seen so far.

Hope imago doesn’t hate it as much as the previous ones lol

probably depends on whether richard dawson outdid his previous best of #3 in the tracks poll

does he drop an album every year?

if you include hen ogledd then i think he has for a while

this is a nutty list lemme tell ya

I'm pretty sure my own final ballot (certainly significant chunks of my shortlist) included things in the playlists that I subsequently traced back to your nominations, Jordan, so thanks!

Lovely, you're welcome!

I have a feeling this list might actually be one that I like this year, at least for albums

probably depends on whether richard dawson outdid his previous best of #3 in the tracks poll

― ufo, Sunday, 22 January 2023 03:00 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't rly care so much about him in tracks

messe de e-102 otoh

oh rats i forgot to ever listen to that album

i'm just saying it'd be very funny if "the hermit" won the tracks poll

Is it weird that I only allow myself one or two slots for records that were “new to me” as a result of the noms etc? Had a heavy debate between Hagan and the Shabason & Krgovich but decided on the latter, now sort of regretting that

Ideally we should come across that music during the year as we browse ILM.
Two weeks in January seems way too late to properly absorb music from a huge composite list. Me I wouldn't trust my reactions on a last-minute sell. December and the nomination period is the last moment I try to catch up, but already at that moment I feel like I can't be an ideal listener and appropriate anyone's taste and intimate history with their music.
It's cool to be swayed though, just doesn't seem to happen much to me in practice, maybe I'm resistant.

i feel all that but I've got no hard and fast rules. OK, none other than only one entry per (main) artist per ballot. I used to think no DJ mix or compilation releases, even years where they might've been my most played thing, but i got over that.

fwiw I did not get time to fall in love with 25 albums over the course of the year. 3 in my ballot are recent discoveries. I know I could do a shorter ballot but this was fun.

Curious to see how well SZA does. Does such a late release hurt or help? Don't get something like that every December.

follow your heart imo ime

maffew12, but surely the Fievel is Glauque album will probably make the albums list, and that was released in December, too— Zach Phillips has actually done such releases intentionally before, apparently, in trying to evade the EOY maelstrom. Who knows!

hmm, shoulve nommed Sault's "zip file"

FiG, I don't think I mentioned them here but I came across "Save the Phenomenon" on the playlist and loved it. It's on my tracks ballot. Nothing else on the album came close to that for me.

Now I'll be watching for how it does in comparison to SZA. Much lower I have to think!

Impatient to get started over here, gah.

It's a week delay I thought?

Yep, that's why I'm impatient! Going to be itching to go for a whole week. Obv the poll-runners have a lot of work to do and Moka's images always rule so it's fair that we have to wait, but I'm still going to stamp my feet like a petulant toddler because I want it now, waaaa.

as a shape expert, i know what a tantrum looks like, and this is definitely one!

maybe if we ask nice we can hear 100-79?

no, half the fun is not knowing what just missed the results

as a shape expert, i know what a tantrum looks like, and this is definitely one!

― imago

\o\ lol /o/

i tried

/pout

Is it weird that I only allow myself one or two slots for records that were “new to me” as a result of the noms etc? Had a heavy debate between Hagan and the Shabason & Krgovich but decided on the latter, now sort of regretting that

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, January 22, 2023 5:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I usually find a few tracks that make my ballot but rarely ever feel like I have enough time to appreciate an album enough for it to rank. I listen to a lot of new albums every year though.

Same as table, I want to sit with albums for awhile but also like the idea of including a couple new discoveries. I did a mixed ballot and included some of those as 'honorable mentions'.

I posted this on the dedicated thread but I randomly thought of that Sam Prekop & John McEntire album, surprised no one nominated that as I thought it would was a minor ILM hit.

n/m I see it now, don't know why ctrl+F didn't find it for me before

There should be fewer nominations

And more votes (for tracks at least)

as a shape expert

I was conflicted about this record, the vocal/lyric didn't sit quite right with me. It felt close to being done a lot better

And more votes (for tracks at least)

two ballots each - one for just your nominations, the other for everyone else's

lol that would be a great alternate universe poll

re: Saer, I always nominate ~10 tracks that I know have 0 chance of ranking but that (in my head) may reach a couple new people via this process/perusal of the nominations. Often I don't even end up having room for them on my final ballot because there are more noms than votes, but I still feel like it's worth it. Maybe that's bad form?

Gahhh I'm away on holiday for the roll-out. Hopefully I can check in all the same

Lol I could perhaps maybe possibly start albums rollout today… but then you’d have to wait for the tracks rollout for another two weeks when forks publishes it. If you’re fine with it I can roll them… a bit hasty but doable.

re: Saer, I always nominate ~10 tracks that I know have 0 chance of ranking but that (in my head) may reach a couple new people via this process/perusal of the nominations. Often I don't even end up having room for them on my final ballot because there are more noms than votes, but I still feel like it's worth it. Maybe that's bad form?

as *many…

Moka, it's fine, really. We were given warning that it'd start later, so let's keep to that schedule. Plus I think it'd lose a bit of steam with a big gap between the two rollouts.

Glad you said that because I'm excited to share results too but one week does give all of us time to recalibrate behind scenes properly. Also I tend to fuck up names and numbers a lot more when I'm hasty about it lol - this is not a guarantee I wont do it this time btw.

take your time moka.

Let's continue to use this thread for recommendations though! "Making the poll" is (or should be) notably less crucial than having this specific thread to share good music to actively curious listeners.

yeah, I'm cool with waiting.

Becoming a tradition that these threads only become visible to me after the vote submission due date

man i totally missed that there was a new Battle Trance album this year. listening now and it's sick. would've voted for it.

(might be of interest to the Horse Lords fans, though it's all sax - no drums/guitars/bass)

somewhere in between Horse Lords and Colin Stetson i guess

really enjoying this Helena Hauff EP that was released this year that I somehow missed when it was released and also missed in the nominations, it would have been on my ballot for sure.

I feel like I am this boards primary Battle Trance /LaPlante nerd and I couldn’t parse the new album. I need to try again.

Saer has a point when he calls for fewer nominations. Forty of your own is a lot when you're voting for fifty and the goal is to build a common list. It could be a little artificial if your ballot can be max 50-60% of your own nominates though.
I'd like to add "More conversation !" to his suggestion. One cool thing that we had in 2022 was the midyear thread, for a bit of shameless preview and sharing. Or people sharing their top in their specialty genre at the end of the year. Otherwise maybe the conversations tend to be a bit siloed, or long lists of YT links, and our limited attention spans keep being our worst enemy.

don't have much to say and just wish i managed to be active here more of the year (maybe this time!), but...

maybe a rolling 2023 creme de la creme thread?

lol i dunno

mostly think it's working fine.

that would be a very contentious thread

there will be conversations about the 77 i am sure

yes it'd be silly and largely besides the point until year end nonsense time

maybe if we add avatars we could attract more zoomers

Do we still do a "Summer Jams" thread? That always worked nicely as a mid-year tracks touchpoint

We do, but it's been basically DOA the last few years imo.

Last year we had this thread: 2022 AOTY So Far. And for a few years prior we had a "rolling favorite tracks & albums YEAR" thread.

I discovered one of my noms via the Summer Jams thread. We also have rolling genre threads, and obv. threads for artists/albums that folks are especially passionate about. This is how I discover music throughout the year; no way could/would I "cram" via the massive nomination list.

I try to listen to every track that places on the EOY poll, and it's very rare there's one that makes me think – "I would have voted for this if I had known about it..." So I guess the system works for me.

don't have much to say and just wish i managed to be active here more of the year (maybe this time!), but...

maybe a rolling 2023 creme de la creme thread?

lol i dunno

mostly think it's working fine.

― maf you one two (maffew12)

So… I was thinking: I really enjoyed listening to songs others ilxors queued on turntable/plug/outloud but it was live so you had to be there to queue songs and there was no easy way to archive and listen later. Would there be interest in a “ilm listening club” in the form of a private, collaborative spotify playlist? Only rules would be to not delete other people’s songs and only post one track before another ilxor adds another, so if there’s at least two people sharing back and forth the playlist keeps rolling…

There could even be two playlists: one exclusively of 2023 recommendations and another without year constrictions…

Idk I’ve discovered some amazing tracks via this year’s noms playlist and get lost in the individual rolling threads so if several ilxors are interested in participating it could turn out into something great.

Come up with some guidelines to ensure one person doesn't add 1000 similar songs, and I'd absolutely be interested/participate

I like the "only post one track before another ilxor adds another" but feels like something like one track per poster per week/day would be helpful to keep it manageable. If it gets really big, it'll cease to be useful.

Yeah I mean I was saying wait your turn for at least one person to post assuming there’s not much participation so the playlist doesn’t die a boring death but if there’s idk at least 8 people sharing tracks then yeah, oversharing could be a problem… the rule should then be maybe limit yourself to one song per week or something so the rest and the more inactive members have time to do a “weekly catch-up”…

It also helps having these sort of restrictions to pick carefully what you want to queue… quality over quantity

Idk just an idea and it should be more polished but if there’s enough interest we can all chime in on how to make it work.

There were rolling collaborative 'anything goes' playlists back in the day and tho prone to chaos they mostly worked well. Collab. playlists on Spotify now seem to be invite-only so it should be easy enough to manage and worth a go.

would participate! good idea. ultimately I'm not looking to change any board stuff around for shameless last minute crammers like me

hope to poke my head into the usual Rolling threads more this year

I like the idea of a current year listening club starting after the polls with a thread where people comment on latest additions (offhand or Tim F style). I would aim for 3-7 songs per week, either on first-come first-served basis, or people mention when they have a song they want to post and Moka adds it.

I wouldn't do all-time anything goes, but it could be very interesting for a specific era / location / broad genre. Say, pre-1950s music, or a travelogue through lesser-known countries / subcultures.

They've not crossed my path before, but really enjoying the De Lux album so thanks to whoever nominated that. Scratching that itch I didn't know I had for more 80s influenced synth-pop a la Cut Copy

Was me. De Lux have put a bunch of good tracks out over the years and the singer's quite a Byrne-soundalike at times.

Sooo impatient.

hey emil.y, huge congrats on slum of legs making christgau's year end list!!! coupla years late but...

almost fell off my chair when i saw that :)))

Haha yes, we just saw that ourselves. Honestly I feel like if it keeps getting reviews over the years that's no bad thing: screw release-date push, just review us whenever. Half of the band didn't know who Christgau was, while I was like w(°o°)w !

Pretty high up in his list too, so cool

Maybe in ten years there'll be enough interest to finance a luxurious reunion tour (we'd all be hella old so got to have hotels and maybe a foot-spa on the rider).

I like the idea of a current year listening club starting after the polls with a thread where people comment on latest additions (offhand or Tim F style). I would aim for 3-7 songs per week, either on first-come first-served basis, or people mention when they have a song they want to post and Moka adds it.

― Nabozo, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 2:01 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Cosigned. Start it, Moka!

Look forward to that even if i don't totally grasp how it's much different from youtube embeds on a Rolling page

Mostly it'll be nice because it will work on my phone.... i see now in the Flagging app thread that it's not just me who can't see YouTube embeds on that. Will have to try using browser more.

ILM 2023 Listening Club

I feel so bad about not voting for Asake's album "Mr Money With the Vibe" that I'm going to tell my friends to start calling me by its name. In its honour.

I saw that Slum Legs listing, super cool. Christgau's list overall I liked just for its Christgau-ness, he has no compunction about sticking by his old faves — Buck 65, Todd Snider and Tommy Womack all in the top 20. But also still an open ear to catch things here and there.

does Buck 65 sound like Serengeti now or do i have that backwards?

interesting record of buck 65