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

I know I say this every year and I disappoint several on the board but results make this the best EOY list I’ve seen so far.

Hope imago doesn’t hate it as much as the previous ones lol

probably depends on whether richard dawson outdid his previous best of #3 in the tracks poll

does he drop an album every year?

if you include hen ogledd then i think he has for a while

this is a nutty list lemme tell ya

I'm pretty sure my own final ballot (certainly significant chunks of my shortlist) included things in the playlists that I subsequently traced back to your nominations, Jordan, so thanks!

Lovely, you're welcome!

I have a feeling this list might actually be one that I like this year, at least for albums

probably depends on whether richard dawson outdid his previous best of #3 in the tracks poll

― ufo, Sunday, 22 January 2023 03:00 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't rly care so much about him in tracks

messe de e-102 otoh

oh rats i forgot to ever listen to that album

i'm just saying it'd be very funny if "the hermit" won the tracks poll

Is it weird that I only allow myself one or two slots for records that were “new to me” as a result of the noms etc? Had a heavy debate between Hagan and the Shabason & Krgovich but decided on the latter, now sort of regretting that

Ideally we should come across that music during the year as we browse ILM.
Two weeks in January seems way too late to properly absorb music from a huge composite list. Me I wouldn't trust my reactions on a last-minute sell. December and the nomination period is the last moment I try to catch up, but already at that moment I feel like I can't be an ideal listener and appropriate anyone's taste and intimate history with their music.
It's cool to be swayed though, just doesn't seem to happen much to me in practice, maybe I'm resistant.

i feel all that but I've got no hard and fast rules. OK, none other than only one entry per (main) artist per ballot. I used to think no DJ mix or compilation releases, even years where they might've been my most played thing, but i got over that.

fwiw I did not get time to fall in love with 25 albums over the course of the year. 3 in my ballot are recent discoveries. I know I could do a shorter ballot but this was fun.

Curious to see how well SZA does. Does such a late release hurt or help? Don't get something like that every December.

follow your heart imo ime

maffew12, but surely the Fievel is Glauque album will probably make the albums list, and that was released in December, too— Zach Phillips has actually done such releases intentionally before, apparently, in trying to evade the EOY maelstrom. Who knows!

hmm, shoulve nommed Sault's "zip file"

FiG, I don't think I mentioned them here but I came across "Save the Phenomenon" on the playlist and loved it. It's on my tracks ballot. Nothing else on the album came close to that for me.

Now I'll be watching for how it does in comparison to SZA. Much lower I have to think!

Impatient to get started over here, gah.

It's a week delay I thought?

Yep, that's why I'm impatient! Going to be itching to go for a whole week. Obv the poll-runners have a lot of work to do and Moka's images always rule so it's fair that we have to wait, but I'm still going to stamp my feet like a petulant toddler because I want it now, waaaa.

as a shape expert, i know what a tantrum looks like, and this is definitely one!

maybe if we ask nice we can hear 100-79?

no, half the fun is not knowing what just missed the results

as a shape expert, i know what a tantrum looks like, and this is definitely one!

― imago

\o\ lol /o/

i tried

/pout

Is it weird that I only allow myself one or two slots for records that were “new to me” as a result of the noms etc? Had a heavy debate between Hagan and the Shabason & Krgovich but decided on the latter, now sort of regretting that

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, January 22, 2023 5:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I usually find a few tracks that make my ballot but rarely ever feel like I have enough time to appreciate an album enough for it to rank. I listen to a lot of new albums every year though.

Same as table, I want to sit with albums for awhile but also like the idea of including a couple new discoveries. I did a mixed ballot and included some of those as 'honorable mentions'.

I posted this on the dedicated thread but I randomly thought of that Sam Prekop & John McEntire album, surprised no one nominated that as I thought it would was a minor ILM hit.

n/m I see it now, don't know why ctrl+F didn't find it for me before

There should be fewer nominations

And more votes (for tracks at least)

as a shape expert

I was conflicted about this record, the vocal/lyric didn't sit quite right with me. It felt close to being done a lot better

And more votes (for tracks at least)

two ballots each - one for just your nominations, the other for everyone else's

lol that would be a great alternate universe poll

re: Saer, I always nominate ~10 tracks that I know have 0 chance of ranking but that (in my head) may reach a couple new people via this process/perusal of the nominations. Often I don't even end up having room for them on my final ballot because there are more noms than votes, but I still feel like it's worth it. Maybe that's bad form?

Gahhh I'm away on holiday for the roll-out. Hopefully I can check in all the same

Lol I could perhaps maybe possibly start albums rollout today… but then you’d have to wait for the tracks rollout for another two weeks when forks publishes it. If you’re fine with it I can roll them… a bit hasty but doable.

re: Saer, I always nominate ~10 tracks that I know have 0 chance of ranking but that (in my head) may reach a couple new people via this process/perusal of the nominations. Often I don't even end up having room for them on my final ballot because there are more noms than votes, but I still feel like it's worth it. Maybe that's bad form?

as *many…

Moka, it's fine, really. We were given warning that it'd start later, so let's keep to that schedule. Plus I think it'd lose a bit of steam with a big gap between the two rollouts.

Glad you said that because I'm excited to share results too but one week does give all of us time to recalibrate behind scenes properly. Also I tend to fuck up names and numbers a lot more when I'm hasty about it lol - this is not a guarantee I wont do it this time btw.

take your time moka.

Let's continue to use this thread for recommendations though! "Making the poll" is (or should be) notably less crucial than having this specific thread to share good music to actively curious listeners.

yeah, I'm cool with waiting.

Becoming a tradition that these threads only become visible to me after the vote submission due date

man i totally missed that there was a new Battle Trance album this year. listening now and it's sick. would've voted for it.

(might be of interest to the Horse Lords fans, though it's all sax - no drums/guitars/bass)

somewhere in between Horse Lords and Colin Stetson i guess

really enjoying this Helena Hauff EP that was released this year that I somehow missed when it was released and also missed in the nominations, it would have been on my ballot for sure.

I feel like I am this boards primary Battle Trance /LaPlante nerd and I couldn’t parse the new album. I need to try again.

Saer has a point when he calls for fewer nominations. Forty of your own is a lot when you're voting for fifty and the goal is to build a common list. It could be a little artificial if your ballot can be max 50-60% of your own nominates though.
I'd like to add "More conversation !" to his suggestion. One cool thing that we had in 2022 was the midyear thread, for a bit of shameless preview and sharing. Or people sharing their top in their specialty genre at the end of the year. Otherwise maybe the conversations tend to be a bit siloed, or long lists of YT links, and our limited attention spans keep being our worst enemy.