ILM 2014 Albums Poll: Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Survivalist Posturing

Full Results

Non-self-explanatory stats:
Enthusiasm: Average points per ballot, divided by the max it could have (50).
Popularity: The Spotify Popularity score for the album, if it's on Spotify.

Genre Top 10s

For every genre in Glenn's big map of the universe that had at least 10 albums with at least one vote, I compiled a top 10 list. Not all the genre assignments make sense, but hey.

Voter Statistics

All your old favourites, some new ones too:
Hivemind score: this is the average points total for the albums on your ballot; how your ballot was ordered doesn't change the score.
Fuxxor Quotient: the proportion of albums on your ballot that were in Pitchfork's EOY list.
Antifuxxor Ratio: Hivemind divided by Fuxxor Quotient. A high ratio means your taste is much closer to that of ILM than to that of Pitchfork. A score of infinity means you're awesome.
Populism: the average Spotify popularity of the albums on your ballot that are also on Spotify.
Loneliness: the proportion of your albums that nobody else voted for. This year's loneliest voter is...not a surprise.
Blood Sausage Index: The average points total for albums that didn't appear on a collection of other EOY lists. Essentially, whether you love music that nobody outside of ILM cares or knows about.
Top neighbour: essentially the voter whose ballot intersects most with yours.
Top genre: the genre you gave the most points to, according to Glenn's automagically generated genres.
You should probably read: The non-ILM EOY albums list that intersects most with yours.

mixed, bolded didn't place, would've put theo parrish on if i was doing it now

K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?
Miranda Lambert - Platinum
Tinashe - Aquarius
Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light of Day

Taylor Swift - 1989
Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class
YG - My Krazy Life
Gangsta Boo & La Chat - Witch
Francis Harris - Minutes Of Sleep
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
Cher Lloyd - Sorry I’m Late
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Khia Shamone - LoveLocs
Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Fatima - Yellow Memories
Kelis - Food
Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
Call Super - Suzi Ecto
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse
The Juan Maclean - In A Dream
Meshell Ndegéocello - Comet, Come To Me
Leon Vynehall - Music For The Uninvited
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste

I didnt know of anything to vote for in this poll!

taytay fan!!!!!!

lol @ taytay fan's ballot

weighted / bolded = placed:

Klara Lewis - Ett
Matthew Shipp - I've Been To Many Places
Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish
Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki
Orlando Julius & the Heliocentrics - Jaiyede Afro
Naomi Punk - Television Man
Golden Retriever - Seer
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
Panabrite - Pavilion
Ronika - Selectadisc
Aphex Twin - Syro
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Pulse Emitter - Equinox
Meridian Brothers - Salvadora Robot
Weyes Blood - The Innocents
Jonas Reinhardt - Ganymede
Alessandro Cortini - Sonno
Kikagaku Moyo - Mammatus Clouds
Goat - Commune
Khun Narin - Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
Kaveri Special - Kaveri Special
BRONCHO - Just Enough Hip to Be Woman
Loscil - Sea Island
Jessie Ware - Tough Love

yay I'm in the reverse top 5

weighted, bolded didn't place:

1. Jennifer Castle - Pink City
2. Mamman Sani - Taaritt
3. Braid - No Coast
4. VA - Haiti Direct - Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978
5. Botanist - Vi: Flora
6. Suicideyear - Remembrance
7. Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
8. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
9. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
10. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
11. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
12. Zebrina - Hamidbar Medaber
13. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
14. Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island
15. Michiru Aoyama - Warm Season
16. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
17. Khun Narin - Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band
18. Function & Vatican Shadow - Games Have Rules
19. Eyvind Kang: The Book of Angels, Vol. 21: Alastor
20. Beck - Morning Phase
21. Officer! - Dead Unique
22. The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
23. Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
24. Zion80 - The Book of Angels, Vol. 22: Adramelech
25. Somi - The Lagos Music Salon

so much metal JUST outside the 77!

ranked:

Miranda Lambert - Platinum
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Grouper - Ruins
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Marissa Nadler - July
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class
Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island
Katy B - Little Red
Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
The Oath – The Oath
Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
Alvvays - Alvvays
Aphex Twin - Syro
Nenad Markovic - Kayto
William Tyler - Lost Colony
Solstafir - Otta
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
U2 - Songs of Innocence
Young Marco - Biology

also lol @ taytay fan having the lowest populist score

yeah it's not the first time that 78+ has been full of metal albums waiting for just one more vote xps

that's because 1989 isn't on Spotify xp

Here is my weighted ballot - if I made it today, I would reorder a few things, it also gets a bit DGAF near the end

Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Charli XCX - Sucker
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
FKA twigs - LP1
mr twin sister - mr twin sister
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
One Direction - Four
Luke James - Luke James
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Wye Oak - Shriek
taylor swift - 1989
Hercules & Love Affair - The feast of the broken heart
Katy B - Little Red
Tinashe - Aquarius
Ariana Grande - My Everything
Nick Jonas - Nick Jonas
August Alsina - Testimony
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Romeo Santos - Formula, Vol. 2
Skrillex - Recess
DJ Q - Ineffable
Duck Sauce - Quack
Blake Mills - Heigh Ho
St. Vincent - St. Vincent

My mixed ballot, albums in bold didn't place (but are obviously great and you should check them out):

The Gloaming - The Gloaming
Jorge Drexler - Bailar en la Cueva
Javiera Mena - Otra Era
Valentin Stip - Sigh
D'Angelo - Black Messiah

Eyvind Kang - Alastor: The Book Of Angels vol.21
Torn Hawk - Through Force of Will
The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Fatima - Yellow Memories
Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Lewis - L'Amour
Tycho - Awake
Matthew Shipp - I've Been To Many Places
Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
Tape - Casino
Khun Narin - Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
Cooly G - Wait 'Til Night
Death Blues - Ensemble
Caoimhin O Raghallaigh - Music for an elliptical orbit
Cola & Jimmu - I Give You My Love and Devotion
Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island

Weighted, bolded didn't place (IIRC):

FKA twigs - LP1
Alcest - Shelter
Various Artists - Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 1
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
owen pallett - in conflict
Lamb - Backspace Unwind
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Warpaint - Warpaint
shabazz palaces - lese majesty
Breakaway - Postcarious
Little Mix - Salute
Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
Lone - Reality Testing
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Spooky Tricks
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Basement Jaxx - Junto
Phantogram - Voices
The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
tUnE-yArDs - nikki nack
Weird Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
Major Lazer - Apocalypse Soon
The Knife - Shaken-Up Versions
Trust - Joyland
Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

weighted
bold placed (less effort)

DVA - Nipomo
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Eaux - Plastics
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell
Gazelle Twin – Unflesh
Juçara Marçal - Encarnado
Lydia Ainsworth - Right From Real
Ninos du Brasil - Novos Mistérios
Kali Mutsa - Souvenance
FKA twigs - LP1
iamamiwhoami - Blue
Jozef van Wissem / SQÜRL - Only Lovers Left Alive Original Soundtrack
Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST
mr twin sister - mr twin sister
Katie Gately - Pipes
Naadya - Naadya
Warpaint - Warpaint
Lamb - Backspace Unwind
Ronika - Selectadisc
The Delines - Colfax
Clap! Clap! - Tayi Bebba
Esben and the Witch - A New Nature
MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
The Bug - Angels & Devils
St. Vincent - St. Vincent

If I had to do it again, I'd push Grenier & Archie Pelago - Grenier Meets Archie Pelago and Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz & Dan Berglund - Trialogue somewhere into the middle and drop the last two.

my unweighted ballot (bold = in top 77)

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt
Thou - Heathen
Ryley Walker - All Kinds of You
Musk Ox - Woodfall
Otto A. Totland - Pinô
Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
Lawrence English - Wilderness of Mirrors
New Bums - Voices in a Rented Room
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Broken Twin - May
Swans - To Be Kind
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
Ben Frost - AURORA
Led Bib - The People in Your Neighbourhood
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls and Windows
Tom Kovacevik - Universe Thin As Skin
United Nations - The Next Four Years
Tape - Casino
Imprints - Data Trails
Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost
Spectral Lore - III
Fire! Orchestra - Enter
Death Blues - Ensemble

Ben Frost making it didn't seem totally unrealistic

weighted:

YG - My Krazy Life
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Rich Gang - Tha Tour Part 1
Tinashe - Aquarius
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Carla Bozulich - Boy
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
Eric Church - The Outsiders
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait
Boosie Badazz - Life After Deathrow
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?
IamSu! - Sincerely Yours
Future Islands - Singles
Wye Oak - Shriek
DJ Quik - The Midnight Life
Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 2
One Direction - Four
Weird Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
Marsha Ambrosius - Friends & Lovers
FKA twigs - LP1
Ex Hex - Rips
JuegoTheNinety - Sonny September CD
Trunkweed - Days Of Haze
The Nels Cline Singers – Macroscope

jennifer castle got 4 votes, as did haiti direct (!) and braid - who was the one other mamman tani voter??

Weighted

Lorenzo senni - Superimpositions
Thee Ahs - Corey's Coathangers
taylor swift - 1989
Ravioli Me Away - The Inevitable Album
Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Giant Claw - Dark Web
Especia - Gusto
2NE1 - Crush
Keel Her - Keel Her
Tunabunny - Kingdom Technology
Ace Bushy Striptease - Slurpt
Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
Girlpool - Girlpool EP
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
Vampillia - The Divine Move
Martha - Courting Strong
Grouper - Ruins
The Wharves - At Bay
Edward - Into A Better Future
Various Artists - Maltine Girls Wave
Good Throb - Fuck Off
Actress - Ghettoville
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Piano Nights

lol forgot to bold Weird Al, who did not place in the top 77 (xp)

mixed Bold didnt place

#1Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere
Darkspace - Darkspace III I
Electric Wizard - Time To Die
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Swans - To Be Kind
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
owen pallett - in conflict
Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden
Botanist - Vi: Flora
Trans Am - Volume X
Alcest - Shelter
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Aphex Twin - Syro
Goat - Commune
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Kemialliset Ystävät - Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Babymetal - Babymetal

the rest unweighted

sean, could you post my ballot pls? really must save them next year.

hey seandalai, we're neighbors

weighted

D’Angelo - Black Messiah
FKA Twins - LP1
Taylor Swift - 1989
Charli XCX - Sucker
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Botanist - VI: Flora
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
St Vincent - St Vincent
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
One Direction - Four
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Alvvays - Alvvays
Sharon van Etten - Are We There
Cher Lloyd - Sorry I’m Late
Shellac - Dude Incredible
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Grouper - Ruins
Tinashe - Aquarius
Lecrae - Anomaly
Kelis - FOOD
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
Aphex Twin - Syro
Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused

people v enthusiastic about braid, what kinda music is it?

Hey Mordy!

mixed ballot. very happy 1d finally placed this year!

One Direction - Four
Taylor Swift - 1989
Miranda Lambert - Platinum
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
YG - My Krazy Life
Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
Popcaan - Where We Come From
Tinashe - Aquarius
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
Teyana Taylor - VII

Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class
Charli XCX - Sucker
Cher Lloyd - Sorry I’m Late
DaVinChe & Katie Pearl - Untitled
DJ Q - Ineffable
DJ Quik - The Midnight Life
Guy Gerber & Puff Daddy - 11:11
Javiera Mena - Otra Era
Junglepussy - Satisfaction Guaranteed
K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?
Katy B - Little Red
Kehlani - Cloud 19
Meshell Ndegeocello - Comet, Come to Me
Nick Jonas - Nick Jonas
Trey Songz - Trigga

Simon H's ballot:

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Alvvays - Alvvays
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
The Antlers - Familiars
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
Lost in the Trees - Past Life
United Nations - The Next Four Years
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Augie March - Havens Dumb
Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
Kelis - Food
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
Zammuto - Anchor
Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness
owen pallett - in conflict
Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere
Midnight - No Mercy For Mayhem
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Blake Mills - Heigh Ho
Slow Club - Complete Surrender
Interpol - El Pintor
Manic Street Preachers - Futurology

monotony's my musical soulmate with both tracks and albums <3

mine was ranked; bolded placed

angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness
taylor swift - 1989
junglepussy - satisfaction guaranteed
alvvays - alvvays
grouper - ruins
owen pallett - in conflict
hercules & love affair - the feast of the broken heart
tinashe - aquarius
perfume genius - too bright
mr twin sister - mr twin sister
javiera mena - otra era
foxes in fiction - ontario gothic
fka twigs - LP1
jessie ware - tough love
caribou - our love
katy b - little red
leon vynehall - music for the uninvited
st. vincent - st. vincent
fatima - yellow memories
perfect pussy - say yes to love

metal poll winner nowhere near the top 100

Well this is embarrassing. I seem to have misplaced my list. After hearing a bunch of amazing things that I missed, I would probably remove a good 5-8 things off of it, though. Sad how Seahawks - Paradise Freaks (my #2 or #3) was only given 2 votes. Transcended the Balaeric disco genre to funky ambient dream pop and I listened to it more than most things this year. Whoever else felt the love for them, you rule.

Oh yeah that Vashti album is very good, I think. Not sure if I remembered to put it on my ballot, haven't listened to it enough yet that's for sure.

Seems fair. D'Angelo was nowhere near the top of the metal poll. xps

These spreadsheets are fascinating. Thanks for all the hard work in pulling this together!

My weighted ballot, bolded those that did not place:

Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
Miranda Lambert - Platinum
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison - Our Year
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Jason Eady - Daylight & Dark
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Taylor Swift - 1989
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in country music
Strand of Oaks - HEAL
Ariana Grande - My Everything
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Chromeo - White Women
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere else
Lydia Ainsworth - Right from Real
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
One Direction - FOUR
Clark - Clark
Aphex Twin - Syro
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Cher Lloyd - Sorry I'm Late
Kelis - Food

Thx sean! Who're the other 2 Joyce Manor voters?

I was surprised that Vashti didn't place tbh, it's the better of her post-comeback albums but I guess people forgot about her?

octobeard: I can post your ballot if you like?

Mixed

Popcaan - Where We Come From
Tinashe - Aquarius
FKA twigs - LP1
Chronixx - Dread and Terrible
Call Super - Suzi Ecto

Moire - Shelter
Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
Arca - Xen
DJ Spoko - War God
future - honest
IamSu! - Sincerely Yours
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Lee Gamble - Koch
Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
rich gang - rich gang the tour part 1
Tanya Tagaq - Animism
The Advisory Circle - From Out Here
Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki
Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978
Various Artists - Audio Rehab, Vol. 1

#2 in the metal poll was #78 though! so close

seandalai could you please post my ballot? i honestly dont remember any of the order beyond the top 10

seandalai, sure! I would have put Vashti on my ballot but didn't realize she actually put one out until about 2 weeks ago. Goodness, there's just not enough time in the day

slothroprhymes' ballot:

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Sharon van Etten - Are We There
FKA twigs - LP1
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2
Charli XCX - Sucker
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast
YG - My Krazy Life
Tinashe - Aquarius
White Lung - Deep Fantasy
Gangsta Boo & Beatking - Underground Cassette Tape Music
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 2
Swans - To Be Kind
United Nations - The Next Four Years
Gangsta Boo & La Chat - Witch
K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?
A$AP Ferg - Ferg Forever

Just post the albums. I think my tracks ballot was just my favorite songs from the albums I listened to

sendalai i can't remember my ballot again

octobeard's:

Caribou - Our Love
Seahawks - Paradise Freaks
Taylor McFerrin - Early Riser
Prins Thomas - III
Clark - Clark
FKA twigs - LP1
ceo - Wonderland
Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea
Goat - Commune
Aphex Twin - Syro
Mr Oizo - The Church
todd terje - it's album time
Yagya - Sleepygirls
SD Laika - That's Harakiri
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
Swans - To Be Kind
The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
Röyksopp - The Inevitable End
Duck Sauce - Quack
Flying Lotus - You're Dead
Fennesz - Mahler remixed
Sebastian Tellier - L'Aventura
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Blockhead - Bells and Whistles

BradNelson:

D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
mr twin sister - mr twin sister
taylor swift - 1989
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
Theo Parrish - American Intelligence
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?
Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Taking Back Sunday - Happiness Is
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Nick Jonas - Nick Jonas
Charli XCX - Sucker
Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
rich gang - rich gang the tour part 1
Moodymann - Moodymann
Driver Friendly - Unimagined Bridges
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Miranda Lambert - Platinum
Luke James - Luke James
javiera mena - otra era
YG - My Krazy Life
The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Was There
Cher Lloyd - Sorry I’m Late
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream

Breakaway - Postcarious (gorgeous experimental synth pop with operatic vox)

I thought after this thread that M@tt and crut would join me in voting for Breakaway but I guess not ;_;

weighted, bold didn't place

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Behemoth - The Satanist
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
Swans - To Be Kind
DJ Quik - The Midnight Life
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose
Gangsta Boo & Beatking - Underground Cassette Tape Music
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Bunji Garlin - Differentology
Sloan - Commonwealth
Ex Hex - Rips
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Shamir - Northtown EP
Alcest - Shelter
Elisa Ambrogio - The Immoralist
YG - My Krazy Life
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Rich Gang - Tha Tour Pt 1
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere

Mixed:

D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
YG - My Krazy Life
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
FKA Twigs - LP1
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

Arca - Xen
Cooly G - Wait Til Night
DJ Q - Ineffable
Fatima - Yellow Memories
Future - Honest
Gangsta Boo & Beatking - Underground Cassette Tape Music
Gangsta Boo & La Chat - Witch
Guy Gerber & Puff Daddy - 11:11
Jennifer Hudson - JHUD
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Junglepussy - Satisfaction Guaranteed
K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?
Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse
Migos - No Label 2
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Theo Parrish - American Intelligence
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Tinashe - Aquarius
Various Artists - Next Life

Highest placed critics' poll "Consensus Watch" albums that didn't make the ILM 77.
(Consensus Watch ranks albums by the number of year-end collective-vote critics' polls an album appears on. Places below #50 are excluded.)

Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (#8 on Consensus Watch, #99 on ILM)
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (#11/#95)
Beck - Morning Phase (#15/#220)
Perfume Genius - Too Bright (#16/#124)
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (#17/#100)
Jack White - Lazaretto (#23/#700)
Jenny Lewis - Voyager (#27/#81)
East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (#27/#381)
Ty Segall - Manipulator (#27/#554)
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else (#30/#137)

Albums on the ILM Top 40 with little year-end poll love elsewhere:

The Juan Maclean – In A Dream (#11/#184, 5 polls)
Charli XCX - Sucker (#12/#154, 6 polls)
Mr. Twin Sister - Mr. Twin Sister (#14/#280, 3 polls)
Javiera Mena - Otra Era (#20, no polls)
Richard Dawson - Nothing Important (#23/#222, 4 polls)
K. Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? (#24/#405, 2 polls)
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh (#27/#405, 2 polls)
DJ Quik - The Midnight Life (#28, 1 poll)
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (#33, 1 poll)
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce (#35/#280, 3 polls)
Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island (#38/#405, 2 polls)

a good day's trading imo

That consensus watch comparison really illustrates ilx's greatness and also importance

Like how could anyone prefer the consensus picks we rejected to the ignored albums we loved

multiple xpost That Maria Minerva album is a real step-up from an already great artist, can't believe how unloved it is considering the thinkpieces around it practically write themselves.

weighted

Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo
Taylor Swift -1989
Future - Honest
Rich gang - the tour pt 1
LDR - Ultraviolence
the-Dream - royalty prequel
future -Monster
Travis porter - music money magnums 2
King louie - tony
elisa ambroglio - Immoralist
Que - can you dig it
schoolboy q - Oxymoron
trey songz - Trigga
Warpaint s/t
lil Spook - black silk
Yg - my krazy life
Les sins - michael

Genres - never deny their existence if someone else says them, never use their names yourself

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otm

Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island
Young Marco - Biology
YG - My Krazy Life
Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea
Suzanne Kraft - Missum
Lee Gamble - Koch
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
Delroy Edwards - Teenage Tapes
Horsebeach - Horsebeach
Nenad Markovic - Kayto
Ital - Endgame
Maricopa - Pastel Love Part 2
Braid - No Coast
rich gang - rich gang the tour part 1
Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites
Hauschka - Abandoned City
Torn Hawk - Through Force of Will
Container - Adhesive
Carla Bozulich - Boy
Golden Retriever - Seer
Kyle Bobby Dunn - And The Infinite Sadness

despite missing the nomination window most of my favorite records from the last year made the list which is pretty cool.

The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Nadja - Queller
Francis Harris - Minutes Of Sleep
Mac Demarco - Salad Days
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Gene the Southern Child & Parallel Thought - Southern Meridian
Alvvays - Alvvays
Rick Ross - Mastermind
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Fennesz - Bécs
todd terje - it's album time
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
javiera mena - otra era
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere
Meshell Ndegeocello - Comet, Come to Me
Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines
Sloan - Commonwealth
Cormega - Mega Philosophy
Kayo Dot – Coffins on lo
Lana del rey - ultraviolence
Aphex Twin - Syro
Frank & Tony - You Go Girl
Step Brothers - Lord steppington

Mixed ballot.
Bold = missed the 77. Bold italics = sole voter. Surprised to be the sole voter for DK3.

Mica Levi - ‘Under the Skin’ OST
tUnE-yArDs - nikki nack
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Pete Wiggs - Saint Etienne presents 'How We Used To Live' Original Film Soundtrack
Ariel Pink - pom pom
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Interlude Music
BABYMETAL - s/t
Guy Gerber & Puff Daddy - 11:11
Tinashe - Aquarius
Tim Love Lee & Shawn Lee - KPM: New York Trouble / Electric Progression
Danity Kane - DK3
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Mouse On Mars - 21 Again: Collaborations
Giant Claw - Dark Web
The Juan Maclean - In A Dream
Exotica - La vierge et le lion
Laetitia Sadier - Something Shines
Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print

Concretism - Town Planning
Benjamin Schoos - Une dernière danse EP
Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
Kali Mutsa - Souvenance
The Emperor Machine - Like A Machine
Caribou - Our Love

For the record, Skye Ferreira's Night Time, My Time was in my IRL top 5 but was ineligible for this poll.

Lamp and me both voted for Carla Bozulich! <3 <3 <3 <3

I would have voted for Boy if I had found a way to fit 50 albums in 25 slots.

yay dark web votes :)

Weighted:

1. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent
2. shabazz palaces - lese majesty
3. YG - My Krazy Life
4. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
5. John Luther Adams - Become Ocean
6. Tinashe - Aquarius
7. owen pallett - in conflict
8. Behemoth - The Satanist
9. Fuse ODG – TINA
10. Sicko Mobb - Super Saiyan vol 1
11. FKA twigs – LP1
12. Oren Ambarchi – Quixotism
13. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
14. Tanya Tagaq - Animism
15. Popcaan - Where We Come From
16. Young Fathers – DEAD
17. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
18. javiera mena - otra era
19. Lantlos - Melting Sun
20. todd terje - it's album time
21. Skrillex – Recess
22. The Notwist - Close to the Glass
23. f(x) - Red Light
24. 2NE1 – Crush
25. Ariel Pink - pom pom

My #1 didn't place :(

Lamp and me both voted for Carla Bozulich! <3 <3 <3 <3

― some dude, Friday, January 30, 2015 5:44 AM

and me!!! <3 <3 that album is great and I only know about it because you nommed it, so thanks!

ah awesome

Mixed

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Owen Pallett - In Conflict

Amelia Curran - They Promised You Mercy
Betty Who - Take Me When You Go
Emm Gryner - Torrential
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Ninos Du Brasil - Novos Mistérios
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
The Both - The Both
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Toni Braxton + Babyface - Love, Marriage, and Divorce
Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack

Lamp and me both voted for Carla Bozulich! <3 <3 <3 <3

haha for someone that i never agree with about anything we like a lot of the same music

i'm shocked there's no jazz in the genre top 10s! were there really fewer than 10 jazz albums with votes!?

― example (crüt), Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No country either.

Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea
Young Marco - Biology
Nenad Markovic - Kayto
Atelje - Meditation
javiera mena - otra era
Mark E. - Product of Industry
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
A.R.T. Wilson - Overworld
Javier Bergia - Eclipse
mr twin sister - mr twin sister
YG - My Krazy Life
Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island
Paqua - Akaliko
rich gang - rich gang the tour part 1
Hashman Deejay - Sandopolis
Head High - Megatrap
Lee Gamble - Koch
Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal
Roman Flügel - Happiness Is Happening
Strategy - Boxology
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
Ronika - Selectadisc
Torn Hawk - Let's Cry and Do Pushups at the Same Time

there were so many albums i liked this year, here's a list of stuff i couldn't fit onto my ballot:

hon. mention:
Ariel Kalma - An Evolutionary Music
Charli XCX - Sucker
Escape Force - Confused House 4
Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
Horsebeach - Horsebeach
Ital - Endgame
Juju & Jordash - Clean-Cut
Khun Narin - Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
Maricopa - Pastel Love Part 2
Protect-U - Free USA
Suzanne Kraft - Missum
Vangelis Katsoulis - The Sleeping Beauties
Yagya - Sleepygirls

i'd switch out a few of those that didn't make it for some that did if i made my ballot today

had an incorrect hunch nenad markovic would place
that ital record is very nice

yeah, there was a surprising amount of enthusiasm for it on ilx, i thought it had a chance, too

nenad markovic was vv close

Lamp and me both voted for Carla Bozulich! <3 <3 <3 <3

haha for someone that i never agree with about anything we like a lot of the same music

― wizaerd (Lamp), Friday, January 30, 2015 11:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yeah there's plenty of narcissism of small differences stuff going on

lazaretto @ 700 lol

i voted for two albums this year, the ballot was weighted but i don't remember which order i put them in b/c i keep flip-flopping on which one i like better lol. anyway they are:

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island

didn't watch the rollout too closely but was excited to see them both turn up! quite enjoyed a number of the other albums that placed too. thanks ilm for the great poll, seandalai for the tabulation, gr80 and jf for the wonderful rollouts!

My unweighted ballot:

D’Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Future Islands - Singles
The Juan Maclean - In A Dream
Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister
Various Artists - Cut Copy Presents: Oceans Apart
Blase - Sunset Dawn
Chromeo - White Women
Todd Terje - It’s Album Time
Javier Bergia - Eclipse
YG - My Krazy Life
Museum of Love - Museum of Love
Michiru Aoyama - Warm Season
Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas III
Caribou - Our Love
Moodymann - Moodymann
Tinashe - Aquarius
Session Victim - See You When You Get There
Shit Robot - We Got A Love
Horsebeach - Horsebeach
Maricopa - Pastel Love - Part Two
Lust For Youth - International
DJ Quik - The Midnight Life
Aphex Twin - Syro
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait
Lewis - L’Amour

I'm a big indietronica fan.

Pretty surprised that I was the only vote for Museum of Love and Blase. They're both really beautiful albums (well Blase's an EP) and I highly encourage everyone to check them out!

Shouts to the 2 other souls who voted Javier Bergia and Session Victim and the 1 other voters each for Michiru Aoyama, Maricopa and Oceans Apart.

<3 i was the other michiru aoyama vote :D

Catching up on ballot requests from today...

dog latin:

owen pallett - in conflict
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Ought - More Than Any Other Day
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Objekt - Flatland
Swans - To Be Kind
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Future Islands - Singles
Eyvind Kang - Alastor: The Book Of Angels vol.21
Aphex Twin - Syro
Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath
Katie Gately - Pipes
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
The Horrors - Luminous
Nisennenmondai - N
East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
Call Super - Suzi Ecto
Hammock - The Sleepover Series, Vol. 2
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Atelje - Meditation
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
DJ Q - Ineffable
Martin Carr - The Breaks

boxedjoy:

Maria Minerva - Histrionic
Dean Blunt - Black Metal
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
Lewis - L'amour
Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
Charli XCX - Sucker
Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds
taylor swift - 1989
Head High - Megatrap
Kelis - Food
Grouper - Ruins
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
The Knife - Shaken-Up Versions
Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister
Vladislav Delay - Visa
Terrence Parker - Life On The Back 9
Ballet School - The Dew Lasts an Hour
DJ Koze - Reincarnations Pt 2
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Fear of Men - Loom
Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath

My top genre is "chillwave"? I'm barely familiar with what that genre even encompasses, so I googled "top chillwave artists" and amongst the most prominent bands that show up I've heard maybe three of them, haven't even heard of most of them, and voted for only one (Ariel Pink, who I wouldn't have classified as such). According to Wiki, the first known chillwave song is the Beach Boys' "All I Wanna Do". Now that I can get into. Beach Boys are my new favourite chillwave band....

xxxp That Session Victim album is seriously growing on me.

Lee626, all the genre stats relate directly to Glenn's map -- here is the explanatory link again from the top of this thread. And it helps to know that a given artist or release can be associated with multiple genres.

You can find the genres for a particular artist via http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

Since the genre names come from my list, you can explore them further at http://everynoise.com.

Where's the XP warning when you need it?

All I Wanna Do is chillwave? lol! I must like chillwave then.

My top genre was indie r'n'b *hangs head*

Favorite genre was drone, which I don't think was particularly abundant in my ballot.

These were the albums nobody else voted for from my ballot, with my placings in brackets:

Nyusha - Obyedineniye (1): she's the current standard bearer for classic, emotive Russian electropop. Her singles usually pick up a few votes in the EOY polls and there was a fair amount of anticipation on ILX for the album a while ago but it slipped out under the radar a little internationally. http://youtu.be/84kbG2ExdZs

Dasha Shults - Moloko (3): didn't really get much critical love in Russia but it's a phenomenally good debut reminiscent in style and quality of someone like Amanda Mair. She has about 30 followers on Twitter and her only professionally-recorded YouTube video has 5000 views, which is mystifying. http://youtu.be/2qvxDxBgeIY

Propaganda - Fioletovaya Pudra (9): Although they started off as a Tatu rip-off act, i'd always rated Vika from Propaganda as one of the most talented writer-performers in the business - and then she left and the group got much better so that shows what i know. It's yr archetypal Italo-influenced Russian pop but done brilliantly. http://youtu.be/ouaJ25WDArg

IZA - Painkiller (10) / IZA - Hug Music (23): For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, Snoop has spent most of the last two years recording low-key electro R&B with the excellent Polish singer Iza Lach. They've made hundreds of songs together, some of which were released across two albums last year. They appear to only be available via Bandcamp and i've certainly never seen them in the shops in Poland. It's all very strange. http://youtu.be/5Knm4WVsBmc

Julia Marcell - Sentiments (11): Terrific, lyrically-sharp Polish indie pop. http://youtu.be/RChaKK7e0xA

Eva Polna - Poet Lyubov (12): Polna has been a fixture of Russian pop for years and brings a lot of that weight and maturity to a superb album. http://youtu.be/3OESOZGhPzg

Ivan Dorn - Randorn (15): The golden boy of contemporary Ukrainian pop. The album is patchy but brilliant when it gets it right. http://youtu.be/0eihYaVddKE

Srub - Top' (16): Enjoyably OTT Siberian neofolk / goth rock http://youtu.be/YVNbesJIdjU

Indila - Mini-World (21): probably the biggest international star nobody in the English-speaking world cared about last year. Very French pop-R&B http://youtu.be/K5KAc5CoCuk

Manikur - Voskhod (24): Very much like Interpol, but in Russian and with a better sense of melancholy beauty. http://youtu.be/JsPZrIn-YJs

Mela Koteluk - Migracje (25): More Polish indie-pop. http://youtu.be/bQ1Jo3caCHA

I got pop as my top genre for both lists and I pretty much hate pop as it currently exists. ;_;

sharivari always gets me listening to new and interesting music around this time of the year. This is no exception

ShariVari omitted a couple things for which there were few other voters, and I'd welcome his/her cultural context for Naadya - Naadya (which I heard as a Russian Florence with better tunes) and Ivan Dorn - Randorn (which I heard as a Ukrainian jazz singer engaging with UK funky) as well.

Oops, just noted the Dorn take. For some reason I was looking for the Cyrillic.

Thanks for those Eastern European recs! I appear to be particularly fond of Polish music!

my weighted ballot:

The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (#64)
Kiasmos - Kiasmos (#184)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (#37)
Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World (#426)
Ex Hex – Rips (#41)
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather (#56)
TV On The Radio - Seeds (#304)
Beverly – Careers (#288)
Alvvays – Alvvays (#50)
The Horrors - Luminous (#294)
Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (#540)
Ty Segall – Manipulator (#554)
Diamond District - March on Washington (#569)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos (#51)
Temples - Sun Structures (#335)
Alt-J - This is All Yours (#483)
angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness (#38)
Tycho – Awake (#481)
The Hidden Cameras – Age (#727)
Moodymann - Moodymann (#54)
Les Sins – Michael (# 358)
Aphex Twin – Syro (#6)
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (#8)
perfume genius - too bright (#124)
Caribou - Our Love (#15)

These are the ones that didn't make it in from my ballot:

Objekt - Flatland
Objekt always struck me as one of the more boring of the post-dubstep producers, but this album is a total jam. The sound design is just outstanding for one, and musically it's a proper sci-fi rave up with atmosphere aplenty and some remarkably hard-driving electro/techno moments.

Eyvind Kang - Alastor: The Book Of Angels vol.21
While it's missing Jessica Kenney's remarkable vocal work which was a key ingredient in Kang's previous The Narrow Garden, this instrumental record still incorporates all the twists and turns you'd expect. The track Variel, is typical of this, a centrepoint between seventies adventure soundtrack, Arabesque fantasy and toytown parade; he manages to blend influences from all over the musical map as if they were always supposed to happen.

Back in a bit with more...

Man that everynoise site has kinda taken a bunch if my spare time over.

Also: I'm kinda bummed there's no ballot from fffv this year