ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2019

xps: they're not a major publication or anything so it doesn't surprise me that they're not in that spreadsheet, but Gorilla vs Bear was how I found out about the Men I Trust album - it was high on their list, as was Essentials.

Really didn't mind who won between Weyes Blood and Lana. They were both in my top three.

Great list, easily the best on the internet. Thanks to all the pollrunners! This is the only thing I enjoy about this time of year.

wild that Sault didn't appear in any other lists. was definitely some internet buzz for that

I just laid down and cried
The waters don't really go by me
Give me something I can see
Something bigger and louder than the voices in me
Something to believe

this bit slays me every time <3

i'm seeing her in a few weeks as well, super excited!

weyes blood? pmsl

LDR was my #6, probably could or maybe should have ranked it higher but i was being slightly strategic with a couple albums.

thanks to the poll runners as ever for your hard work!

Bravo!

as always great work poll runners
thank you

good work poll runners. magine running a poll and weyes blood winning it tho. couldn't be me

Burial got the 78

more like buried

Albums with just one first place vote and nothing else:

Anna Webber - Clockwise
Filmmaker - Somber Realm
Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
Girlpool - What Chaos is Imaginary
Hadn Dadn - Lyaoakyn
MC Yallah & Debmaster - Kubali
Moon King - Voice Of Lovers
Santilli - Surface
Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma - Intemporel
Tayhana - Tierra del Fuego
Terminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre Du Liévre
Yosi Horikawa - Spaces

Thank you, pollrunners! This has been a thoroughly stylish and enjoyable poll season

Well done everyone - despite my reservations, WB definitely deserved to beat Lana, so not a bad result. Thanks to the poll runners!

fascinated by terminal cheesecake

or maybe i'm just hungry

i know terminal cheesecake from of old, don't think i've listened to them once since 1990 though!

absolutely would not have picked weyes blood winning it, huh. i knew it was liked but i didn't think there was winning the poll level enthusiasm for it here. it's fine but like the angel olsen album this year i found the extravagant arrangements made it hard to feel much of a connection to.

anyway, great rollout, thanks to all the poll-runners

Fire! Orchestra - Arrival

This was my #1 :( It's beautiful chamber-jazz, even has a Chic cover to please the crowds...

...or not

i knew it was liked but i didn't think there was winning the poll level enthusiasm for it here

think that's just the nature of polls like this. an album that many ppl think is pretty good will beat all the albums that less ppl think are amazing.

Great poll results, excellent roll-out, fabulous images, well done all and especially our stalwart pollrunners!

Thanks again poll-runners!

Thank you poll runners! Weyes Blood was my #2, so pleasantly surprised by the outcome - was expecting Purple Mountains or Lana Del Rey to take it.

Thank you to the poll runners.

Would like to remind you all you have 2 full weeks (21st february) to vote in metal, rock and heavy music poll.

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

all welcome to vote. Dont worry about not 'being metal enough.' If there are album(s) on the nominations list you like please do not hesitate to vote for them!

its pom's 1st time co-running so help him out!

Big thanks to the polrunners, lots to check out and revisit in the top 77 this year.

Tayhana - Tierra del Fuego

I listened to this the other day and liked it!

*pollrunners

so nobody liked that Brittany Howard record huh. in singles poll or here.

Great job, pollrunners!

Can’t say I was feeling these results all that much, but tbh after the high(s) of the tracks rollout the only way was down.

Currently thoroughly digging Khidja Şi Balabaş, which I hadn’t heard of before, so it’s all good.

the images were totally incredible. moka, idk if you've ever been tapped to design cover art, but i'd hire you.

holy shit! Weyes Blood!!!!

^^^submitter of presumably the greatest ballot in ilm history

Never heard Weyes Blood. It...it...sounds like LDR??

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:10 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

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ILM's Albums of the Year 2010-2019

2010 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Food: The Son of Chico Dusty
2011 Destroyer - Kaputt
2012 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2013 Haim - Days Are Gone
2014 D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
2015 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016 KING - We Are KING
2017 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2018 Low - Double Negative
2019 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Are we getting more rockist as time goes on? Will we start voting for Paul Weller albums and talking about 'real' instruments?

To Pimp a Butterfly retains the record for the most points (2204) and the most votes (62), but Kaputt received more #1 votes (12!) than any other album in the current era of EOY polling.

We had more voters back then though, right?

thought Miguel killed his year percentile wise

Can’t wait for the decade poll

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narcissism of small differences lol

really happy that Tinashe made the top 10. it was my #1!
I guess I'll have to give a try to Weyes Blood?

it's a really good record

what a year for music tbh

Aside from King, this is the first album poll winner I liked a lot. Glad it beat LDR.

i'd probably rank them thusly

2017 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2011 Destroyer - Kaputt
2015 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2018 Low - Double Negative
2014 D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
2016 KING - We Are KING
2010 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Food: The Son of Chico Dusty
2012 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2013 Haim - Days Are Gone

2019 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

oops sorry meant to add in parentheses after Weyes Blood (tbd)

the images were totally incredible. moka, idk if you've ever been tapped to design cover art, but i'd hire you.

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili)

Thank you! I love doing the poll images so I don’t get too rusty. In one of my past incarnations I worked as a digital designer for Ogilvy & Mather, mostly doing apps & websites for their clients, nowadays I’m a club and bar owner so I don’t really design anymore, sometimes I do it for free to help friends or just for fun.

yes really great images, and great poll, thank you poll runners!

indeed!!