ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

Robyn fans are terrible strategists.

centrists are having issues everywhere it seems

Nego do Borel - Me Solta - hyperactive funk carioca. The video is divisive for a variety of reasons but the song bangs

Heard this while out in Rio a few weeks back and have become obsessed with it.

Though the funk track I heard absolutely everywhere was MC L Da Vinte & MC Gury's "Parado no Bailão". I kept turning to my BF and saying "hey it's the track played on coke bottles again."

i feel that Robyn point even though I nominated a track myself. I think everyone has their favorite cut.

Voted albums. See if I can't around to putting some tracks together.

here's that 2017 Top 177 btw... added a few tracks that were missing!
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/09SJC7fVyKoOx6mBnRrgFV

xps Added the Sky Ferreira track as a possible earlier after listening to the YouTube playlist.

Other favourite find so far is that fantastic Raveena track

the burna boy album is outstanding, i'm glad i got into it before i submitted my ballot

Yes, Burna rules. I hope people aren’t sleeping on Simmy’s Tugela Fairy album. Gorgeous South African house, produced by Sun-El Musician (who had his own very good - and nominated - album, but Simmy’s is even better imo). I feel fans of (We Are) KING will find a lot to love here too.

Simmy's on my tracks ballot. Not heard the album

It’s pretty much perfect. So many great tracks, not a single weak one, and wonderfully sequenced.

i didn't really pick up much from campaigning that wasn't already on my list but i for some reason ignored omar s "games that we play" this year and i really shouldn't have

anyway def voting tomorrow just gotta... figure out an order for my tracks list finally

I've got the flu, so spent a good part of this afternoon listening to tracks bigged up in this thread. There are now six or seven strong new contenders for inclusion in my votes. I struggled last year with new music discovery, having devoted most of my time to building my DJ boxes with old music, so this was most welcome.

both the simmy and sun-el albums deserve space on your lists

the hasty cramming is the most fun part of this whole thing

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, January 6, 2019 11:29 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sun-el was my best discovery from last year's rollout, and the album was my summer soundtrack. The sun-el thread then led me to Simmy, whose tracks are proving damned difficult to whittle down right now (but I've got it down to three).

Damn, I guess I just figured someone (anyone?!) would've voted for the closest thing to a good New Order 2018 single - The Liminanas' "The Gift" (featuring Peter Hook!). Granted, it's not apex New Order, but definitely in the top end of "Waiting for the Siren's Call"-era New Order.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:00 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the closest thing to a good new order single last year was krystal klear - neutron dance

― ufo, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:54 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

check "dark stain" by exploded view (2018)

https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/album/obey

^ brilliant record, in my ballot's top ten

this is the first year i've nominated, and will vote soon. also my first time campaigning !

so, what is my favorite* track (song) of the year ? it's called "trouble" by a band called grapetooth. goofy wonky synth-pop with beastie boys-esque shout vocals, almost like the B boys did a half-assed approximation of a "low"-era bowie track with shaggy but compelling results. the music video is also a real joy imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOpnSldGpU

*not really it's just tons of fun and i haven't heard anybody talk about it round these parts

Don't know the band, but 'grapetooth' is a literal translation of the Chinese name for Spain.

Things you were shockingly old when you learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m5_Jdfpo8

whoever nominated this it kicks a ton of ass thank you

ugh sorry for embed got too excited

xp

does it mean that spain is like a giant tooth full of grapes just dangling off the end of europe ? or is it more like Land of the Purple-Toothed Winos ?

Sooo...due to uh "IT issues" I think we're going to extend the deadline by a week.

Official announcement to follow

Spotify is blocked by local government where I am but I had cause to be in a neighbouring canton where they had spotify booths in many of the local bars, I thought I would give the playlist a cursory listen because playlists of huge numbers of songs is a minor form of incarceration. I started with something called cosmic sheldrake, don't know if i was unlucky but this is truly absymal, I've worked in an office before, I've heard that Imagine Dragon song that sounds like fascism about making packed lunches. And mates, this garbage is the lute playing cousin of that, the kind of compadre that is singing about a local river while making plans to pollute it with toxic dye via a management company in his brothers name

No

<3

wow that Panama Keys remix owns

I've heard that Imagine Dragon song that sounds like fascism about making packed lunches.

haven’t laughed this hard seems like forever, ty

Many xps- loanwords in Chinese don't usually get new characters, so something with the same sound is assigned. grape tooth = putao ya = Portugal, so not Spain, which would be xibanya, 'west class tooth,' yes this is a bit off topic now

"Vyrgin Island" off that Panama Keys release is excellent too

Sooo...due to uh "IT issues" I think we're going to extend the deadline by a week.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:11 AM (fourteen hours ago)

This would be great for me b/c the deadline coincides with both a house inspection and a funeral and I've been stressing about those instead of finishing my ballot. Poor priorities, I know.

I also appreciate this extension, it's been a very busy week

dear saer: i'm sorry i'm not sorry

Yay @ extension!!!

So is this officially official now?

Thanks for the extension guys, I was starting to panic at getting my tracks ballot done, having spent many hours riffling through the spotify play list (thanks forks...). I didn't manage to get many nominations in this year, but while I'm here let me lobby for Julia Jacklin, in particular 'Head Alone', if not just for the delight of the bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3IJT3Ke0Y&frags=pl%2Cwn

Looks like that didn't work, maybe this will?

https://youtu.be/0Z3IJT3Ke0Y

Hello seandalai: When I voted, I chose "mixed" ballot, then stupidly forgot to put the extra line break between the ranked and unranked lists. I'm fine with just ranking the whole thing if that's easier.

whew I was slamming together my ballots last minute style the extension is very welcome, ty!

if you haven't heard it yet, Sloppy Jane's 'Mindy' is one of the wildest songs I've heard in a while.

Thanks for this! I liked the song so much I streamed the album, and liked the album so much I bought it and have listened to it about four times in the last two days. If I get around to voting in this poll, it'll make my ballot.

When is the extension to?

grapetooth are great, i second that recommendation

exploded view also awesome, i'm going to see anika in a couple weeks here with a local dub punk band called cool flowers opening for them, looking forward to it

It's official: voting will now end at Midnight PST on Friday, January 25th, 2019 (i.e. Saturday morning in the UK).

Can a friendly mod update the top of the thread?

Hello seandalai: When I voted, I chose "mixed" ballot, then stupidly forgot to put the extra line break between the ranked and unranked lists. I'm fine with just ranking the whole thing if that's easier.

― beard papa, Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:47 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you vote again and post here, I'll go back and delete your first ballot.

Yay @ extension!1!

Well over a quarter of the youtube playlist is friendly and effusive, top marks to the authorities

Yay @ extension but also boo @ extension as I think I was almost done but now have an extra week to listen to more stuff and then try and work out what I'm going to have to axe to fit it in

oh i had a look and Lee Burton's 1420hz has been deleted from youtube must have had a run in with the authorities in Athens

if anyone wants to re-add it then there is another copy of it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXlLwIGaho