ILM's 2020 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

I use "hxxp"

We should have a separate poll/countdown for tracks that saer has posted.

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).

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

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

sorry i should have hidden that video (mods plz?)

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

vote for the true song of the year, you cowards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcyk7k5E4Rw

ahaha I might, o Jon <3

his hearts in the right place but his guitar should be impounded

Another vote for tkay, very weird that she has never quite gotten that next step boost but i am a fan since brontosaurus

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)

Top 10 album of the year for me. The Yoshimura comparison is otm and also a great album!

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

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

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.

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

oh man how did i never listen to the cam album this year

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

^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...

haha!

the funny thing is that DJP actually nominated most of those!

don’t believe me just watch

nominating every taylor song was someone's idea of a gag

totally assumed someone else nominated "pig feet" whoops

Well, I do know the poll's audience

TRACKS
Tkay Maidza - Shook
Taylor Swift - The 1
Taylor Swift - Cardigan
Taylor Swift - The Last Great American Dynasty
Taylor Swift - My Tears Ricochet
Taylor Swift - Seven
Taylor Swift - This Is Me Trying
Taylor Swift - Illicit Affairs
Taylor Swift - Mad Woman
Taylor Swift - Epiphany
Taylor Swift - Betty
Taylor Swift - Peace
Taylor Swift - Hoax
Taylor Swift - The Lakes
Taylor Swift - Willow
Taylor Swift - Champagne Problems
Taylor Swift - Gold Rush
Taylor Swift - 'Tis the Damn Season
Taylor Swift - Tolerate It
Taylor Swift feat HAIM - No Body, No Crime
Taylor Swift - Happiness
Taylor Swift - Dorothea
Taylor Swift feat The National - Coney Island
Taylor Swift - Ivy
Taylor Swift - Cowboy Like Me
Taylor Swift - Long Story Short
Taylor Swift - Marjorie
Taylor Swift - Closure

ALBUMS
Jessie Reyez - BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US
IDLES - 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)

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

(much as I appreciate efforts to kneecap the Swift vote)

lol I guess my post was too subtle

Like I said, I know the poll's audience

(and no, your post wasn't subtle at all)

lol I guess my post was too subtle

it's a very good song

lol wtf no "Invisible String", no credibility on those TS noms

I love that so many artists got nominated who I'm very familiar with but had no idea they released music this year. like Blue Oyster Cult? who knew.

US Girls' "Overtime" got nominated but my vote will be going to Alex Frankel's disco remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8mBRKMhTA

Is it okay to send the album and track ballot separately?

I've done that in years past, so I hope so

Listening to the playlist and noticed Georgia's Started Out is on there which was also nominated in 2018 and again last year via the Tuff City Kids remix

Apparently it was released as an album track in 2020, though it came out as a single in 2018. But I agree it's pretty silly to have the same song on the nomination list for three year in a row.

Wouldn't have nominated it if I'd known it was that old and nominated before.

Would be cool to see Toni Braxton on the countdown again. This was the highlight of Disco '20 imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgA6hdK0gq4

Viagra Boys' "Ain't right" is a hell of an earworm

Ain’t nice, you mean?

a post that could be quoted out of context

with just a bit of tweaking

lol yes that is what I meant

9pm is my brain's bedtime

they just came out with an album this past friday

yeah it rules, discussion on their thread

I really screwed myself by not nomination more stuff this year (I know I CAN vote for them but....enh)

Have been enjoying going through the playlist over the last few days. My main discoveries are the Victoria Monét album. The whole thing is great, but Experience is quite something. Not sure how I slept on that one.

Also I've got a bit obsessed with The Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix of Apex by Jaga Jazzist. Probably my favourite Lindstrøm related track since Home Again. That switch-up half way through is incredible.

Monotony nominated a bunch of tracks that are all contenders that were new to me (I was terrible at keeping up this year). Love Of Your Life by RAYE, Promises by COY and Orange Sanguine by Pauline Chagne. Camera Flash by Jones is likely to be in my top five. Such a gorgeous funky track.

It's nice to find a bunch of new things to consider as at one point my list would have just been all the Jessie Ware and Charli XCX songs nominated.