excellent image on Crew! love this song. I kind of thought this had caught on more widely than only 5 votes though.
― rob, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
I don't remember 'Volumes' from the playlist but listening again now and it's lovely, the vocal clips actually took a bit of getting used to though!
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/iTgFcgz.jpg
73 KELELA "LMK" [151 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/ePi5BLJogyA
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
I love this track from my favorite album of 2017.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
wow i thought this would be way higher. i voted for the album and couldn't quite make room for it though
― ufo, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
don't think i voted for LMK so maybe i shouldn't be too surprised to see it so low but good god, TOO LOW
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
great tunethink it just missed out my 25
― nxd, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
wow this IS low. nice tune
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
The albums I really loved made me skip voting for individual tracks of it tbh. Great song.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah this is great too.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
fully on board with a one-track-per-artist policy but album-or-track feels insane to me. anyway we've done this to death
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
It's not album or track per se, just that personally it played out that way for me this year (also ran out of time to do it properly etc)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Kelela's stuff went right over my head in a similar way to FKA Twigs' stuff a few years ago. Shame because with both those artists they were touted as big innovators but there's something that doesn't quite click it for me.
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
i guess that at times i employed that strategy as a tiebreaker for some of my track selections. fine fine it's all fine
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
ha different strokes i guessalways go 'album or track' personally
― nxd, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Kelela, like FKA twigs, is not for me. This track's pretty decent though.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 22 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
I'm generally an "album or track" person as well, though I made an exception this year
― Simon H., Monday, 22 January 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Nrs1jrJ.jpg
72 LAUREL HALO "Moontalk" [142 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote] https://youtu.be/sLcQ8zxyTTo
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
I like Moontalk a lot better than the other stuff I'd heard from this album, reminds me of YMO somewhat
― ufo, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
Oh, good, I had a feeling I'd be Moontalk's only voter. Also voted for Despacito - we use the Bieber version every night in our panto (at my suggestion!) and, having never overheard it before, I find myself enjoying it more and more.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
Same here - a big part of it for me is wanting to give credit to things like non-album singles or just one-off moments of brilliance. Also I think it makes both rollouts more interesting if there's less overlap between them.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
I just vote for the songs I like the best, lol.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Same.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
Within reason, though. There are a lot of songs I like each year that I don't even bother to nominate, much less vote for, because I am an island.
If it's a matter of choosing one track over another due to space, I'll take the one I voted the album for off, otherwise WGAF?
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/J4abuI1.jpg
71 TORNADO WALLACE ft. SUI ZHEN "Today" [153 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote] https://youtu.be/1W9Wn1RSp4c
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
niiiiice
― Simon H., Monday, 22 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
now here's the real patrick bateman shit
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
oh this is lovely
― ufo, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
i listened to the tornado wallace record at the beginning of the year but never really revisited it. it's so lovely
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
didn't really "get" the larger project of the laurel halo album but "moontalk" is nice
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
Nice. Think I voted for Voices over this but both are great
― groovypanda, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
I realised today that these end of year lists are my favourite thing about January (maybe the only thing I like about this time of year).
Cool results so far. Avalon Emerson is one the songs I discovered going through the Spotify playlist in the last month. It didn't quite make my final list. Happy to see it place.
Take Me Apart is an album I enjoyed, but didn't spend enough time with before voting. Definitely an album where I'd find it hard to pick out individual highlights.
― kitchen person, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
This is good!
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
This Tornado Wallace song is gorgeous.
― kitchen person, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
Just realised that the version of Despacito I've been subjected to on a daily (see: hourly) basis over the last months has been the Bieber version. This version is so much better
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
hm maybe i should go back to the laurel halo album, i loooove "moontalk"'s sorta deconstructed scritti polittiness now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
I have actual terrestrial college radio to thank for turning me on to Tornado Wallace. God bless the handful of stations left that haven't been relegated to streaming-only status.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
yeh this tornado wallace song is so gorgeous
― nxd, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
i didn't really click with the tornado wallace album, maybe it was just a bit too emotionally neutral for me
loved all of the laurel halo album, but moontalk sounds a lot more focussed that much of the rest of it and yeah, i totally get the ymo shout. didn't vote for it though
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Wmw70pz.jpg
70 TAYLOR ALXNDR "Nightwork" [153 points, 6 votes] https://youtu.be/ZsKhfKYrbc8
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
yessssssss
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
list slaps so far
― Simon H., Monday, 22 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
This reminds me of 2011 in a good way. Sits somewhere sonically between Azari & III, Jamie Woon and Hercules & Love Affair
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
never heard of this before but i love it
― ufo, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
Lots of great tracks so far! Been adding a few new discoveries to my lists.
― abcfsk, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Nightwork rips
just over 3,000 views on YT, so I'm curious how you all heard this one? I know Tim posted about it on his year-end thread
― rob, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
tune *really* reminds me of something else, can't think what. do like it though, that understated vocal suits it pretty well
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
ah yeah i completely underestimated the laurel halo record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Lol
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 24 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link