Driver, roll up the partition, please: ILM 2013 albums poll stats and ballots

(bold albums placed, i don't get why you do it the other way round)

because you are highlighting the albums people haven't talked about yet

weighted

Young Thug - 1017 Thug
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Ciara - s/t
Dom Kennedy - Get Home Safely
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Quadron - Avalanche
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
The-Dream - IV Play
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins
Om'mas Keith - City Pulse
Kanye West - Yeezus
Kelly Rowland - Talk A Good Game
Lil Durk - Signed to the Streets
Tree - Sunday School II
Forest Swords - Engravings
Bilal - A Love Surreal
Mulatu Astatke - Sketches of Ethiopia

Omg seven votes and one #1 for tricot and it still didn't make it. My fave album of the year by far, one of my favorite discoveries.. ever, really. I didn't think it would get more than seven votes, but I did maybe forget how many people voted and how many were needed to nab #77. Wow @ Momoiro Clover beating them and Perfume though.

lol @ drake #142, just behind jute gyte and stara rzeka

i forgot to save the final version of my ballot but i think this is it:

Almunia - Pulsar
Axel Boman - Family Vacation
Beautiful Swimmers - Son
Blondes - Swisher
Captain Sunshine & The Valley People - Tomorrows Never Known
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
DJ Koze - Amygdala
DJ Sprinkles - Where Dancefloors Stand Still
Eddie C - Country City Country
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Haim - Days Are Gone
Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz von Oswald - 1/1
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Pharaohs - Replicant Moods
Rollmottle - The Obsolete Man
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
Severence - Hidden Ceilings
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Sven Weisemann - Inner Motions
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
The Smoke Clears - Listen
tm404 - tm404
Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop
Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
William Onyearbor - Who Is William Onyeabor?

Weighed

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Haim - Days Are Gone
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Waxahatchee-Cerulean Salt
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Darkside - Psychic
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get
Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
Pusha T - My Name is My Name
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Lucius - Wildewoman
Disclosure - Settle
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Rhye - Woman
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

Weighted. Could only think of 23 I *really* wanted to give points to. Safe to say that I've since heard about 5-10 albums that'd have almost certainly gotten on here (DJ Rashad would have been top 3)

Jute Gyte - Discontinuities OMG this beat DRAKE :D :D :D
BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - Wooden Ball
Katie Gately - Pipes (would have been my number 1 track if emil.y had nominated it there)
Clipping - Midcity
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Mutation - Error 500
Califone - Stitches
Dominique Leone - 365 Songs
Death Grips - Government Plates
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
Various Artists - Believers Roast Presents The Exquisite Corpse Game
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
Portal - Vexovoid
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
The Ginger Wildheart Band - Albion
Beastmilk - Climax
Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold
BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - Breaking Mirrors
Stara Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

Omg seven votes and one #1 for tricot and it still didn't make it.

was really pulling for this one to somehow make the top 77, oh well

i voted alphabetically, unweighted

Alasdair Roberts - A Wonder Working Stone
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Bitchin Bajas - Bitchitronics
Cave - Threace
Dustin Wong - Meditation of Ecstatic Energy
Earthless - From the Ages
Föllakzoid - II
Grant Hart - The Argument
Helen Money - Arriving Angels
Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer
Mind Over Mirrors - When the Rest are up at Four
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Sungod - Contakt
Shane Carruth - Upstream Color OST
Tangerine Dream, the Alchemist and Oh No, and Woody Jackson - Grand Theft Auto V OST
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
The Dead C/Rangda - split LP
Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
Windhand - Soma

Weighted

Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
The Blow - The Blow
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Momoiro Clover Z - 5th Dimension
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Tricot - THE
Katie Gately - Katie Gately
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
f(x) - Pink Tape
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Holden - The Inheritors
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol 1
The Focus Group - The Elektrik Karousel
RP Boo - Legacy
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Natasha Kmeto - Crisis

A lot of my (boldened) non-charters did hit not far outside the 77. V pleased that Joanna Gruesome showed so high!

Not surprised my top neighbor is J0rdan. Always thought we had similar taste.

that Beastmilk album is really, really good

Ha i'm winner of the Fuxxor Quotient.

Weighted

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Momoiro Clover Z - 5th Dimension
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Pharmakon - Abandon
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Le1f - Fly Zone
Totem Terrors - Repeat Play Torrent Rar
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
Ryoji Ikeda - Supercodex
The Blow - The Blow
The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
Tricot - THE
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Katie Gately - Pipes
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Vision Fortune - Mas Fiestas Con el Grupo Vision Fortune
Rabih Beaini - Albidaya
Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
Joanna Wang - Galaxy Crisis: The Strangest Midnight Broadcast

Didn't vote but I liked the sprinkles album and the jackbox single - would have voted for them if I had remembered

Karl, my comrade in Almunia voting. Would have been my #1 except nils frahm made a late run.

UZU would have snuck in ahead of MBV too, had I heard it all then. Incredible work. emil.y your ballot is as ever full of stuff I need to hear

I didn't really place anywhere interesting in the voter stats, except 6th least populist. Apparently I should read the Quietus.

Oh, thought I'd voted for Katie Got Bandz; threw the album ballot together in a rush after labouring over the singles one :(

(bold: DNP; bold+italics: DNP & sole voter)

The 1975 - The 1975
Haim - Days Are Gone
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Paramore - s/t
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Patrick Cowley - School Daze (#108)
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Holden - The Inheritors
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia (#125)
Jute Gyte - Discontinuities (#141)
zmoney - rich b4 rap (#143)
Sharpie Crows - 12 Omeros (#652)
Graze - Edges (#312)
Dominique Leone - 365 Songs (#283)
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Beastwars - Blood Becomes Fire (#539)
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Quadron - Avalanche

(usual sacrificial votes for some Kiwi stuff; thanks other Beastwars voter!)

Le1f got whupped by vote-split

Nice to see someone else in the middle of the Pharmakon / Joanna Wang Venn diagram!

Also, reminding me I want to check out that private press new age comp

Karl, my comrade in Almunia voting. Would have been my #1 except nils frahm made a late run.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dang, i still need to listen to that nils frahm album

i didn't save my ballot but i'm always surprised how low my hivemind score is given that i get 90%+ of my music recommendations from ILM

I never heard Tree House, but ended up playing Fly Zone an awful lot - and for all my eye-rolling about ILM polls would never have heard him at all if it wasn't for 'Wut' placing last year.

xposts to Rev

got rev as my top neighbor in both polls :D

didnt save my ballot though

Did the Thicke album itself ever really have any buzz? I thought it was all about the single.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:55 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's respected among people who enjoyed previous Thicke albums, but the hit certainly didn't lead many people to listen to the album who wouldn't have otherwise

21 in the top 77, which is the most out of everyone. I am either very boring or you are all worshipping what I rep.

Weighted:

Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Charli XCX - True Romance
Haim - Days Are Gone
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
M.I.A. - Matangi
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Emma Louise - Vs Head Vs Heart
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
DJ Koze - Amygdala
The 1975 - The 1975
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Little Mix - Salute
Quadron - Avalanche
Tiffany Evans - 143
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Blondes - Swisher
Paramore - s/t

Wow. That compilation of New Age music placed higher than Run the Jewels.

Also, reminding me I want to check out that private press new age comp

Same here - that and the DJ Sprinkles one that placed are the two I really wanted to get around to before voting but still haven't heard.

nils frahm album is amazing, a last-min addition for me too (that chucked the knife off). fav album of 2013 that my bf got me into (kacey musgraves was his that i got him into)

If I'd heard it in time I would've voted for Joanna Gruesome.

(usual sacrificial votes for some Kiwi stuff; thanks other Beastwars voter!)

― etc, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:05 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i forgot to save my ballot, but i reckon that was me. they should be global!

it's respected among people who enjoyed previous Thicke albums, but the hit certainly didn't lead many people to listen to the album who wouldn't have otherwise

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:11 PM Bookmark

Eh, definitely feels weak among his discography.

haha it said i'm most like to read NME and i don't believe i've ever even SEEN a copy of NME lol

I just realized Alex in MTL didn't vote because I recall geeking out with him about the Mykki Blanco :(

right I uh absolutely goddamn MUST know who the other Blanchex3 Wooden Ball voter was (sarahell probably ahaha)

I says I'm most likely to read Q...

Since there's an issue of it open on page 50 right next to my laptop, I guess I can't disagree with that.

Kevin Gates vote split btw the 2 albums. Rappers too prolific.

KT Tunstall finished one place ahead of phoenix

i wish i'd saved my ballot :/

Eh, definitely feels weak among his discography.

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn't say anyone called it his best ::shrugs::

My highest ever loneliness ranking (4th). Hmm. Point to ponder: whether to lead more or follow more in 2014.

MIXED

Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a pretty daze
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Haim - Days Are Gone
Charli XCX - True Romance
Paramore - s/t
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Ducktails - The Flower Lane
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go

(alphabetical)

!!! - Thr!!!er
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Disclosure - Settle
Gold Panda - Half of Where You Live
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Quadron - Avalanche
The Range - Nonfiction
Rhye - Woman
Xenia Rubinos - Magic Trix
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Dustin Wong - Meditation of Ecstatic Energy

Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
The 1975 - The 1975
Kevin Gates - Stranger Than Fiction
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story
Tree - Sunday School II
Chris Forsyth - Solar Motel
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Jade Alston - Sunday Morning: Single on a Saturday
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Ka - The Night's Gambit
Dom Kennedy - Get Home Safely
MC Eiht - Keep It Hood
Motorpsycho - Still Life With Eggplant
Nils Frahm – Spaces
E-40 - The Block Brochure V. 4/5/6
Paramore - s/t
Peven Everett - King Of Hearts
Rhye - Woman
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Troy Ave - New York City
Young Thug - 1017 Thug
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
Freddie gibbs - ESGN

I stupidly thought frahm had a chance here, but then I was convinced matana roberts, both omars s and run the jewels would appear

Kevin Gates vote split btw the 2 albums. Rappers too prolific.

― pandemic, Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really wanted him to place and knew this would happen so threw em both up high haha

i voted for luca brasi story iirc

Weighted...and if I had to do the list now I would bump up the Sky albums several notches and the Charli XCX album would be way up there on my list. Bolded didn't place.

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Stara Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
Troller - Troller
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Moderat - II
FunkyStepz - Backlog
Blondes - Swisher
Swearin’ - Surfing Strange
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling EP
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Beautiful Swimmers - Son
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
humanbeast - venus ejaculates into the banquet
Pharaohs - Replicant Moods
Darkside - Psychic
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Cave - Threace

Such a great poll. Thanks to everyone involved. Love this thing every year.

Oh I nearly a started a rolling avant weirdo thread but I had a feeling it existed but couldn't find it. You avant weirdos need to get more accessible or else how the heck am I gonna find you??

~~~~ hop into the time machine ~~~~

us avant weirdos just know.

All this time. Have you been sharing any Skronk arsed cello tracks yet? What am I saying, course you have.

1 - Team Rockit - Anima (382)
2 - Troller - Troller (252)
3 - M.I.A. - Matangi (14)
4 - postiljonen - skyer (247)
5 - Charli XCX - True Romance (17)
6 - Dean Blunt - The Redeemer (134)
7 - Julia Holter - Loud City Song (23)
8 - club 8 - above the city (176)
9 - BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - Breaking Mirrors (430)
10 - Wax Idols - Discipline & Desire (418)
11 - The Haxan Cloak - Excavation (92)
12 - Tirzah - I'm Not Dancing (561)
13 - Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU (48)
14 - My Bloody Valentine - MBV (3)
15 - Burial - Rival Dealer EP (30)
16 - DJ Koze - Amygdala (36)
17 - Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia (125)
18 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels (87)
19 - Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (5)
20 - Pharmakon - Abandon (257)
21 - Perfume - Level 3 (115)
22 - Melt-Banana - Fetch (75)
23 - Prurient - Through The Window (181)
24 - Factory Floor - Factory Floor (65)
25 - Standish/Carlyon - Deleted Scenes (795)

I accidentally forgot to vote for The Knife, which would have been top 5 on my list. probably some other things as well.

^intriguing ballot

If I'd got round to nomming The Pastels would've been my number two vote.

I need to give that Troller album a listen here soon

I've yet to hear the first Alla album but from what I've gathered the references are Tropicalia, Krautrock, and even stuff like Tuxedomoon, and when I listen to FTD that's what I hear: a band from a spacey esoteric background immersing themselves in the surfaces and textures of modern R&B. It's almost like an Amon Duul II album but drawing on stuff like Katy B, Dawn Richard, and Sade instead of like, Jefferson Airplane and the Velvets and the Incredible String Band. And for a hopeless if not shameless rockist who was starting to hear the possibilities of modern pop and techno production, it came at exactly the right time. I think most of the R&B fans round here tend to be songwriting absolutists so in many ways like the Clipping album this kind of fit uncomfortably between two camps. But there was not another album this year I've listened to as much...

All this time. Have you been sharing any Skronk arsed cello tracks yet? What am I saying, course you have.

like helen money?

Allá album is 1) something I was completely ignorant of and 2) pretty amazing. I think this is a legit authorized download link, so (unless it isn't) check it out here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2upt482897oys6/%23feedthedragon%20volume%20one.zip

I'm pretty sure I'm the one who nominated the La Big Vic album, so I should have voted for that too.

Haha nominations thread was the first inkling I had that La Big Vic had an album out this year

...so thanks!

La Lechera, stuff like Okkyung Lee, Gaspar Claus, Mohammed. .. I don't know Helen Money though

xp fffv: a lot of great stuff! I almost voted for Troller, Marnie Stern and Pharmakon.

sarahell i almost voted for marine too-- so close to sharing two picks

Wax Idols album was so so good

My ballot:

Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Paramore - s/t
Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
Charli XCX - True Romance
Ciara - S/T
dj mustard - ketchup
Keysound Recordings Presents... This Is How We Roll
Congo Natty - Jungle Revolution
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Logos - Cold Mission
Blondes - Swisher
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

lol @ drake #142, just behind jute gyte and stara rzeka

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post is still messin with my head. i mean, i know why you used those two albums to gloat @ drake but what are you saying????

I think he's just saying that a huge blockbuster album that placed high on a lot of critics's lists was way down with some obscure records in this poll

Ok right on.

no reason to use those albums apart from they were near drake in the results, i'd never heard of either and they SOUNDED obscure, no idea what/who they even are and no shade at them intended

K, just the way you singled them out felt like you knew of them and were wielding them as shorthand for some context that I had no access to...