ILM's 2022 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

Oh man, I almost forgot about the Caterina Barbieri album (Spirit Exit) too.

I don't think I was familiar with Sofie Birch but I'm listening now and it's lovely.

idk where to start really. very little ever permeates.

try letting this into your heart though, if you can - epic autechre-obsessed TFS-adjacentish post-punk flameout beyond compare, y'know, the stuff i like. also the guy who made it was a singles jukebox contributor if that counts for anything

Since many of you seem to enjoy sophisti-pop I’d also like to rep the two John Moods albums from this year:

The Zenmenn - Hidden Gem
John Moods - The Great Design

Maybe not as sophisticated as the Shabason + Krgovich but they both contain some great moments that you might enjoy

I voted for the Shabason + Krgovich track but can’t remember if I voted for the album which would’ve been a terrible mistake.

ty moka! definitely checking those out!

unrelated: "tongo barra"<--this shit is so funky, i feel like i'm committing a misdemeanor by just vibing to it. god DAMN.

Oh right, the S+K album is the one with the Jake Longstreth cover. :)

nicholas krgovich also plays on the new dear nora album from this year that is also great

― na (NA), Friday, January 6, 2023 8:22 AM

thank you for this - the album *is* great! has a bit of that surreal julia holter have you in my wilderness vibe. maybe a bit moore rootsy overall, but yeah! dig it!

oh hey, the sudan archives album is wall to wall bangers. cool.

ooh the shabason & krgovich album is great! i'd heard the previous shabason, krgovich & harris albums but this one's a step up

it is

this Hagan record is absolutely killing me, really excellent.

Voted, and hoping it went through, as nothing seemed to happen after I clicked the Submit button.

hmm...@Raymond I don't see your vote in the system, you might need to do it again

Ok - will do

This time I got the "Thank You for Voting" message.

That Ruger track is sooo good.

I wish I'd nominated a couple of songs off the Shabason & Krgovich album.

This time I got the "Thank You for Voting" message.

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:06 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yep, I can see your ballot now

others campaigning for one's nomination sort of feels like winning the internet for a non-musician ilxor. i got a head of steam about me tonight and played "i am so happy with my little dog" for a friend. Reaction: "is the dog playing the guitar solo?"

I like that Dog song. It made me feel my age in a good way.

Aye that's nice. Full disclosure I'm 40 now

42 next month over here and i think a dog playing a guitar solo sounds like an awesome idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean I laughed at him but you're right and I'll say so!

Even if the S+K doesn’t place I’m happy so many of you discovered it via this threads and connected with it.

i need to indulge in my annual habit of making a youtube playlist for saer's picks

Thanks, seandalai.

Oof just checked and I did made a mistake in my ballot. Can we resubmit ballots?

yeah just submit again and I'll delete the old one

Excellent ty!

High on the 'things I should have nominated' list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxuOigChbk

Aye. I first listened to him earlier today on a 2022 playlist I made based on all sorts of lists... saved to hear more later.

I was so tempted to skip the playlist this year (just due to laziness) and fill my ballot with all The Beths and Real Lies tracks nominated, but I'm really glad I didn't as I've found some great stuff on here.

The Shabason & Krgovich album is indeed fantastic. Listened to it last night and ordered it immediately. Kind of feels like it might fill the Rhye shaped hole in my collection as I'm unable to enjoy them anymore.

I missed the TOPS discussion earlier. I've listened to three of their albums I think and they were all just totally pleasant. Perfected Steps is the best thing I've heard from them by some distance.

I need to find out more about Honey. They had a song on nominated last year called Somebody To which ended up going in my top ten. What Now is another winner. I need an album by these guys if all their songs are this good. Kind of reminds me of Louise Burns who has a few supporters on here.

I need to hear the Perfume album before voting. The tracks on the playlist are incredible, especially Spinning World.

Sombra by Javiera Mena was another standout. I was really disappointed with her previous album so didn't even check her new one yet.

Other new discoveries include:

Sevyn Streeter - 23
Mondo Grosso - In This World
ExWHYZ - Wanna Dance
Between Mermaids & Me - Dreamwalker (amazing production on this)
Hourglavss - Cool Reaction
Raye - Escapism (this really clicked with me)
Ado - New Genesis

Thanks to everyone who nominated these and kept up with new music more than I did last year.

Thanks for reminding me that I made this thread and that everyone should be voting for "23"
For Your End of Year Consideration - 23 by Sevyn Streeter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu0mxcFbZaE

xpost to kp Mondo Grosso produced the exWHYZ track, so not surprising you liked them both. ;)

I would urge anyone who enjoyed "Wanna Dance" to also check out/vote for their album xYZ - which is just excellent, walking around Tokyo at midnight, dance pop. Other highlights: Obsession, Weekend

Cool, I'll check out the exWHYZ album. The single is definitely making my list. There's still a handful of albums I need to hear from going through the nominations.

yes, everyone should vote for "23." just a ridiculous megajam.

I hadn't been keeping up with Sevyn Streeter's material at all. I didn't even know she'd put out a second album. Girl Disrupted was a bit underwhelming considering how great some of the earlier singles had been. 23 rivals It Won't Stop as her best moment.

ok so here's some rap music that i will likely be voting for.

ka - "ascension": a meditation on escaping generational trauma with an instrumental philip glass would be proud of. call it ka-yaanisqatsi.

duke deuce - "just say that ft. glorilla": the most fun rap song of the year, just a ridiculous and bombastic banger. ilx thread here: Duke Deuce & GloRilla's JUST SAY THAT is the best song in the world right now

veeze - "let it fly": somnambulant flexes and piercing barbs over an immersive michigan instrumental

hitkidd & glorilla - "f.n.f.": b-a-n-g-e-r

iayze - "556 (green tip)": a wheedling, addictive beat paired with appealingly snot-nosed rhymes

joony - "drifting in tokyo": just what the title suggests, fast-moving, yet laid back late night jam

asian doll - "get jumped" ft. bandmanrill: 😤

"23" also leapt out at me from the playlist — sexy, catchy and clever.

Resubmitted my ballot.

“23” has a nice beat but doesn’t really go anywhere, imo (and I just wasn’t feeling interpolations from classic tracks this year).

i will emerge once more to proffer a song, this time the supreme masterpiece of my favourite medieval prog mastermind. blessed be.

just fully ascending to the aether at the end there

As for albums, BAD MODE is unbelievably one of Hikaru Utada's best in a legendary career - just funky, funny, sweet, beautiful, human. What a joy and a surprise that she would put out a masterpiece in 2022. And a great starter for anyone who hasn't checked out the discography.

― abcfsk

Just revisited this and it has jumped up my list a lot. What a gorgeous album.

i will likely vote for "just say that" and "somewhere near marseilles"

got a lineup fulla chicks
look from si' to si'
it's like a pageant in this bih

thirded on hikaru utada - really nice, expertly crafted stuff.

(also - DAMN she's been active since the 90s i got some homework to do!)

also wow i wish i would've known this album sooner. "誰にも言わない" ("don't tell anybody") is chilling - definitely would have nommed it.

I noticed that on the album nomination sheet, there's a Hatchie album titled "Keep Giving The World Away" and one titled "Giving the World Away". I just voted for the latter, as I think that's the official titled.

Looks like that was me who got the Hatchie title wrong on the nominations thread. It is indeed just called Giving the World Away. Amazing album.

I might as well copy/paste (with slight tinkering) what I wrote in the 2022 AOTY thread and re-highlight a few of my nominations:

Lady Wray - Piece Of Me - Nicole Wray of "Make It Hot" fame continues what she started with the Lady s/t in 2013 and her own album Queen Alone in 2016 - comforting, warm, accomplished soul. The title track is probably my favourite.

Eliza and the Delusionals - Now And Then - I started a thread for this and unfortunately it's still sitting there with no replies, but despite that silence I am continuing my attempts to spread the good word about this debut from these Australian nostalgists. Widescreen dreampop that takes the Sixpence None The Richer sound and runs with it, as many others have this year - Hatchie, the Pale Waves, Soccer Mommy, etc etc. I'll be throwing lots of points at "Give You Everything" which I managed to push through on the Singles Jukebox's recent brief revival.

Say She She - Prism - This album sits at the intersection of a host of ILM vectors - Lady Wray herself might be one, but also Natalie Prass, the Kings (We Are and Emily), Kadhja Bonet, that short-lived band Juce, Esperanza Spalding's "Unconditional Love", etc. Their band name is horrible (it doesn't help either that it's very easily confused with another group who released an album this year, Say Sue Me) and the album is on the short side, but it's lovely to listen to and hard to fault.

RENforshort - dear amelia is a good encapsulation of the best of the 2022 surly pop punk revival for me. More Billie Eilish than that WILLOW album but it's somewhere between those two poles.

Then there's Javiera Mena - Nocturna. It has the feel of a compilation as I'd previously rinsed so many of its component tracks, some of which were released years ago, but at the same time I wouldn't begrudge anyone calling it her best album and if pushed I might give it that description myself. A banger-a-thon that concludes with the song she tried to enter Eurovision with and its spooky-ooky organ solo. seandalai has highlighted "Sombra" and its roars, but that's merely one of its multitude of joys.