Only a still image video, but just seen that this track I nominated is on youtube. Again, I don't think I'll get enough people voting for it to stand a chance of getting it in, but seriously, this track slaps so you should at least listen to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9YHzvjZgY
― emil.y, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
heavy Muslimgauze vibes, cool
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Also just spotted that Holodrum's 'No Dither' is on the nominations list, and was released on a comp this year, but I voted for it last year! Great track, though, whoever nominated it.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
"End of Daze" by Spillage Village is on there twice. I don't believe there are two different versions of the song (I voted for Spillage Village ft. Earthgang & JID - End of Daze)
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
likely voting for the ep― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:53 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:53 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'd love to but I think it's too strong a year to vote for a 3 track EP on my album ballot
― or something, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
'Transcendental Access Point' got nommed instead iirc
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
I knew someone would say that. I do like it, has a nice Fresh Fruit/Movin Melodies kind of sound
― or something, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
But Fluids is not remotely paint-by-numbers
― or something, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
I'm also going to advocate for Duma's self-titled, which is one of the most stunning experimental records of the year— black metal, power electronics, African club music. It's an unbelievable record, start to finish.
― Pere Legume (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
Thanks nxd for nominating Op by Vic Bang - gorgeous bubblewrap! If I'd heard this before noms closed, I'd have found space for the album too
I had a similar thought! I've listened to the album a ridiculous number of times since that nom. And put it in a text file of further album nominations which... ultimately went unsubmitted.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 7 January 2021 05:43 (three years ago) link
Anyone wants to recommend "bobbins" ? ILM's recs are usually very good and I only discover them during countdown
― Nabozo, Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Sure, I can recommend a few of my favourite ones, just a moment...
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfOvx_10bDAPark Hye Jin - NoI actually forgot to nominate this track specifically, but the EP it's from is on the album list and should be voted for. She has such a unique, energetic approach to house music, and the EP proved "I Don't Care" from a couple of years ago wasn't just a flash in the pan.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Sorry, I didn't mean to embed that, I'll try to put other recommendations as links only.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
https://naivetrax.bandcamp.com/track/ilana-bryne-give-me-strengthIlyna Bryne - Give Me StrengthThis is my favourite straightforward house tune of the year, a funky, timelessly beautiful organ groove that keeps on growing throughout the track.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13F_IS1AMqENicole - Inside
This was the best debut bobbin I heard last year. Nicole is a 22-old producer from Georgia (the country, not the US state), this is from her first official release, and she already sounds quite assured. Some nice techno bleeps and whines with a banging beat, what's not to like?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Jeez, how do you link to a Youtube without embedding it? I tried both using the shorter youtu.be link and URL tags, I guess neither works?
I use "hxxp"
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
We should have a separate poll/countdown for tracks that saer has posted.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
Anyway, speaking of debuts, Jasmine Infiniti's debut album Bxtch Släp is on the album list (nothing by her on the track list), and IMO it's a stunning maelstrom of classic Detroit techno synths and heavy, almost industrial beats. Here's a sample track (I should've probably nominated it separately).
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
on a bobbins-adjacent tip, i'd definitely recommend the K-Lone album 'Cape Cira'. it's very light, sunny-feeling, quasi-ambient music full of nature sounds (water, bird chirps) and organic percusion elements (the dense chime of wooden blocks, metal tinging on metal, the ringing of struck glass), and all carried along by evolving, dancing rhythms. if you've liked e.g. any of the records that music from memory have put out (gaussian curve, suso saiz) or any of the recent wave of japanese ambient reissues (say hiroshi yoshimura's 'green'), it's in that sort of dreamy zone. amazing record (from quite a young producer i think?). have listened to it a hell of a lot this year, it's been good company round the house
https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/k-lone-cape-cira-lp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PBxNklA8bY
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
on a much more sombre, sobering note, Pale Blue's 'I Walk Alone With Acid' is quite a harrowing portrait of female fear in a culture dominated by toxic masculinity, like a long stare into perpetual darkness. don't know if it's been discussed at all on ilm, but i'd definitely like to hear other people's opinions. it is pretty disturbing though imo, so trigger warning for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhf7_oXnIZU
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
sorry i should have hidden that video (mods plz?)
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
I want to mention that Tkay Maidza has been spitting fire for several years now and lies in this sweet spot between M.I.A., Santigold, and Azealia Banks while retaining her own voice/style and everyone should get up on that
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
vote for the true song of the year, you cowards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcyk7k5E4Rw
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
ahaha I might, o Jon <3
― imago, Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
his hearts in the right place but his guitar should be impounded
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Another vote for tkay, very weird that she has never quite gotten that next step boost but i am a fan since brontosaurus
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
― kites aren't fun (NickB)
Top 10 album of the year for me. The Yoshimura comparison is otm and also a great album!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 January 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
re: tkay her major label debut album back in 2016 wasn't really her best work and didn't seem to get much of a push from the label either and it seems like that really killed her momentum so now she's building it back again
― ufo, Friday, 8 January 2021 04:49 (three years ago) link
More laid back bobbins, this time from Bartosz Kruczyński who was behind the excellent Baltic Beat album a few years back and also records as The Phantom and Pejzaż as well as being one half of Ptaki.
He released two excellent albums as Earth Trax this year although only the second one, LP2, is nominated along with a couple of tracks
Earth Trax - The Complete Trance Induction
― groovypanda, Friday, 8 January 2021 10:12 (three years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61lLtH-v4LL._SY355_.jpg
CAM - The Otherside
The kind of album you feel in your guts should be huge. 'Diane' could've been a one-off miracle but instead this all killer no filler album makes so many cases for her pop meets country style, her amazing pop sensibilities and great voice. Big ass beautiful ballads, bangers and ABBA-likes (listen to What Beauty Means) blend together beautifully.
― abcfsk, Friday, 8 January 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
The perfect lockdown album, an uneasy mix of (according to the thread below) trip hop, Coil, a more ambient Sylvian/Eno take on the last These New Puritans, absolutely perfect self-isolation music, vague crespuscular labradford vibes crossed with a sort of deadpan dead c.-esque vocal delivery, Legendary Pink Dots, Pan American:
CS + Kreme - Snoopy
― toby, Friday, 8 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
oh man how did i never listen to the cam album this year
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
I can't believe "Pig Feet" by Terrace Martin is not in the nomination list
Well, actually I can but that's a whole other thing
Listen to it anyway even if you can't vote for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OMirbGvn8o
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
^amazing song that I've only managed to listen to a few times (my partner immediately made me turn it off when I tried to play it in the apt)
It is definitely weird that there's like 100 taylor swift songs nominated and not this...
― rob, Friday, 8 January 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
haha!
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
the funny thing is that DJP actually nominated most of those!
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
don’t believe me just watch
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
nominating every taylor song was someone's idea of a gag
totally assumed someone else nominated "pig feet" whoops
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
Well, I do know the poll's audience
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
TRACKSTkay Maidza - ShookTaylor Swift - The 1Taylor Swift - CardiganTaylor Swift - The Last Great American DynastyTaylor Swift - My Tears RicochetTaylor Swift - SevenTaylor Swift - This Is Me TryingTaylor Swift - Illicit AffairsTaylor Swift - Mad WomanTaylor Swift - EpiphanyTaylor Swift - BettyTaylor Swift - PeaceTaylor Swift - HoaxTaylor Swift - The LakesTaylor Swift - WillowTaylor Swift - Champagne ProblemsTaylor Swift - Gold RushTaylor Swift - 'Tis the Damn SeasonTaylor Swift - Tolerate ItTaylor Swift feat HAIM - No Body, No CrimeTaylor Swift - HappinessTaylor Swift - DorotheaTaylor Swift feat The National - Coney IslandTaylor Swift - IvyTaylor Swift - Cowboy Like MeTaylor Swift - Long Story ShortTaylor Swift - MarjorieTaylor Swift - ClosureALBUMSJessie Reyez - BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL USIDLES - Ultra Mono(30/30)let the vote-splitting commence― DJP, donderdag 24 december 2020 19:59
ALBUMSJessie Reyez - BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL USIDLES - Ultra Mono
(30/30)
let the vote-splitting commence
― DJP, donderdag 24 december 2020 19:59
tbc, it was a brilliant move (however, if it actually results in one third of the 77 being Taylor songs I will retract this statement)
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
complaining that no one nominated something (which I, too, assumed had already been nominated tbh) when you used up all yr nominations Doing A Bit is a bit rich tbh
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
(much as I appreciate efforts to kneecap the Swift vote)
lol I guess my post was too subtle
― rob, Friday, 8 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Like I said, I know the poll's audience
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
(and no, your post wasn't subtle at all)
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
it's a very good song
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
lol wtf no "Invisible String", no credibility on those TS noms
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link