ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

We're sticking with the max of 30 nominations since that worked out well the previous three years. You can split that down with middle with 15 albums and 15 tracks, or you can break down that number in any way that satisfies you (all albums, all tracks, or any split that adds up to 30). Things to keep in mind when you nominate, especially if you don't do it all at once:

Label your ALBUMS and your TRACKS lists. gr80, seandalai and I hear a whole bunch of music, but we're not familiar with everything. This helps out a great deal.

Format your nominations in this order:
Artist - Album
Artist - Track
(NEVER Album - Artist or Track - Artist... not only is this an archivist's nightmare, but it's also harder on us when trying to make a proper nominations list.)

So, now nominations are open! They will close at 7pm EST on Saturday, January 2, 2016 (that's midnight for the Britishes and 4pm for our friends on the left coast of the US).

Please ctrl+f the thread or check the spreadsheets linked below before submitting your nominations. We may not catch all the doubles that pop up, but we try.

Albums nominations
Tracks nominations

Also, do not embed youtube videos in this thread. Links will be fine. We've created a (collaborative) Spotify playlist to keep up with all the tracks that are available for streaming on that service.

ALBUMS

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Venera 4 - Eidôlon

TRACKS

Susanne Sundfør - Delirious
Niia - David's House
Tunde Olaniran - Namesake

(5/30)

ALBUMS

Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
The Dø - Shake Shook Shaken
Rae Sremmurd - Sremm Life
Kelela - Hallucinogen

TRACKS

Dawn Richard - Dance
Carly Rae Jepsen - Your Type
Tinashe - All Hands on Deck
Disclosure ft. Lorde - Magnets
Young Thug - Pacifier

ALBUMS

Asa - Love
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy ‎– Sintetizzatrice
Thomas P. Heckmann ‎– Ghosts
Material Object + Ishq ‎– Invisible Light
Lorenzo Montanà ‎– Nihil
Lorenzo Montanà ‎– Vari Chromo
Moufang / Czamanski ‎– Live in Seattle
Omni Vu Deity ‎– Nuiemu Rift
Omni Vu Deity ‎– Vuunayatu
Raw C + Pharmakustik ‎– Anamorph Specimens
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Aerial
Anna Thorvaldsdottir / International Contemporary Ensemble ‎– In the Light of Air

(12/30)

I'll post tracks later.

(10/30)

TRACKS:

Serebro - Pereputala
Ariane Moffatt - Debout
Delta Goodrem - Wings
Vremya I Steklo - Imya 505
Corina ft Mira + Skizzo Skillz - Fete din Balcani
Dasha Charusha ft Skriptonit - Kosmos
Igor Krid - Nevesta
Gulsen - Bangir Bangir
MC Doni ft Natali - Ti Takoi
Saad Lamjarred - LM3ALLEM
Loose Cannon - Sick Jab
Nyusha - Gde Ti Tam Ya
Anna Sedokova - Poka Milii
Kiiara - Gold
Elena ft Danny Mazo - Senor Loco
DKMD - Sacraficio
Ira Levitskaya - Vova Tantsuet

17/30

Is it okay to add links for album noms? (such as spotify/youtube link to a standout track or to the full stream)

ALBUMS

Grimes - Art Angels
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Natasha Kmeto - Inevitable
Years & Years - Communion

TRACKS

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
Tove Styrke - Ego
Ngaiire - Once
Jack Ü - Where R U Now (feat. Justin Bieber)
Miguel - Coffee
Shura - White Light
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
Missy Elliott - WTF (Where They From) (feat. Pharrell Williams)
Jason Derulo - Cheyenne
Kelela - Rewind
Ciara - Kiss & Tell
Tamia - Sandwich & A Soda
U.S. Girls - Window Shades
Future - I Serve The Base
Selena Gomez - Hands To Myself
Beach House - Levitation

(21/30)

Apologies - that should have been DKMD - Sacrificio

ALBUMS:

Skriptonit - Dom S Normal'nimi Yavleniyami
Sarsa Markiewicz - Zapomnij Mi
Rangleklods - Straightjacket
Alina Orlova - 88
Below The Sun - Envoy
Jupiter - Bandana Republic
Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers
Dilly Dally - Sore

25/30

Is it okay to add links for album noms? (such as spotify/youtube link to a standout track or to the full stream)

Someone usually ends up making an albums playlist on Spotify, but not me (too much additional work). You can definitely add non-embedded links in the thread, though, sure!

ALBUMS

Dumblonde - Dumblonde
Jam City - Dream A Garden
Fifth Harmony - Reflection
Wyles & Simpson - Wyles & Simpson

TRACKS

Tinashe - Player
Natalie Prass - Bird Of Prey
Susanne Sundfør - Memorial
Tamaryn - Last
Rae Sremmurd - This Could Be Us

(30/30)

I was surprised just how many good records there were this year, not quite enough to fill a full nomination, but still!

Tracks

Ewan Jansen - Sunset

(1/30)

ALBUMS:
Westkust - Last Forever
Royal Headache - High
Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
Neon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
Floating Points - Elaenia
Jeff Bridges - Sleeping Tapes
HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
Vanessa Carlton - Liberman

10/30

Err 8/30

ALBUMS

White Out / Nels Cline – Accidental Sky
Marie Davidson – Un Autre Voyage
Matchess – Somnaphoria
Sarah Davachi – Qualities of Bodies Permanent
Pulse Emitter – Digital Rainforest
Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
Eternal Tapestry – Wild Strawberries
Herbcraft – Wot Oz
Shiggajon – Sela
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary
Majeure – Union of Worlds
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Perpetual
Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling – Tongue Tied
Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke – Behold
Jonas Munk – Absorb/Fabric/Cascade
Domenique Dumont – Comme ça
Mind Over Mirrors – The Voice Calling
Thore Pfeiffer – Im Blickfield

TRACKS

Laura Groves – Dream Story
Dâm-Funk feat. Leon Sylvers III & Leon Sylvers IV – Glyde 2nyte

(21/30)

CORRECTION!!!!!

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Perpetual

should be

Ryuichi Sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Deupree – Perpetual

sorry!!!

A reminder that the Spotify tracks playlist is collaborative, so people outside the US (where I am) might be able to add nominations that I have no access to.

TRACKS

Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
The Japanese House - Teeth
Kwamie Liv - Higher

(8/30)

Chipmunks on 16 Speed - Walk Like an Egyptian (slowed down version)
Bicep - Just
Brandon Flowers - Can't Deny My Love
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance
Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers
Enya - Echoes in Rain
Grimes - Flesh without Blood
Grimes - Kill V. Maim
HEALTH - New Coke
Holly Herndon - Chorus
Iron Maiden - The Red and the Black
Molly Nilsson - 1995
Nero - The Thrill
Sevn - Mrowen
Sofi de la Torre - What People Do
Vince Staples - Loca

[16/30]

Those were tracks, sorry.

ALBUMS

Colleen Green - I Want To Grow Up
The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
Desaprecidos - Payola
Destroyer - Poison Season

[5/30]

TRACKS

Janelle Monáe/Wondaland Records - Hell You Talmbout

(9/30)

^ If there's more vital, emotional, and important song this year, I haven't heard it.

TRACKS

Very Fresh - Clean Touch
Stormzy - Know Me From
Colleen Green - TV
JME - Don't @ Me
Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin

[10/30]

I was surprised just how many good records there were this year, not quite enough to fill a full nomination, but still!

:-)

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ALBUMS

Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Magma - Slag Tanz
Dominique Leone - San Francisco
DJ Orange Julius - Mall Music Presents: Juice II
Rustie - EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE
Satan - Atom By Atom
Julio Bashmore - Knockin' Boots
JLIN - Dark Energy
Knxwledge - Hud Dreems

TRACKS

Laksa - Baded
DJ Rashad - CCP2 (feat DJ Spinn)
DJ Paypal - Slim Trak
DJ Nigga Fox - Apocalipsiii
DJ Khalab - Tiende (feat Clap! Clap!)
Clap! Clap! - (I) Ingenuousness
Nozincha - Wa Chacha
Machinedrum - Seesea (Dj Rashad & Taso Remix)
Lakker - Milch
GFOTY - Cake Mix
DJ Spinn - Dubby (feat. DJ Rashad & Danny Brown)
Cultes des Ghoules - Rise of Lucifer
Iglooghost - Gold Coat (feat. Cuushe)
DJ Mastercard - Step In

(24/30)

7/30

ALBUMS

Joan Shelley - Over and Even
Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
Low - Ones and Sixes
Horsebeach - II

TRACKS

Sarah Cracknell - Underneath the Stars

10/30

ALBUMS

Ashley Monroe - The Blade

TRACKS

Ashley Monroe - If Love Was Fair
Ashley Monroe - Mayflowers

ALBUM:

Mylene Farmer - Interstellaires

26/30

ALBUMS
Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Twerps - Range Anxiety
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Fabiano do Nascimento - Dança do Tempo
Salad Boys - Metalmania

TRACKS
Dick Diver - Waste the Alphabet
Miguel - Waves
AP Mike - Michael Perry

(12/30)

ALBUMS
Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon
Black Cilice - Mysteries

(2/30)

TRACKS

Dexta Daps - 7Eleven
Busy Signal - #Text Message
Lady Leshurr - Lukatar
Kranium - Stamina
J Capri - Likkle
Popcaan - Never Sober
J Hus - Dem Boy Paigon
Rich Homie Quan - Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)
Dotorado Pro - African Scream
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money

ALBUMS

Young Thug - Barter 6
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa

(14/30)

ALBUMS

Gaz Coombes - Matador

(1/30)

Hahahahaha

Dominique's

Nozincha - Wa Chacha

should be

Nozinja - Wa Chacha

on which note:

ALBUMS

Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge

(1/30)

ALBUMS
27/30

Cara Stricker & John Kirby - Drool
Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo
CFCF - Radiance & Submission
Container - LP
Elle King - Love Stuff
Foxing - Dealer
Frank Bretschneider - Sinn + Form
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Hunee - Hunch Music
Jamie Woon - Making Time
Johan Baeckström - Like Before
Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane
Karen Gwyer ‎– Bouloman
Kate Boy - One
Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Maxo - Chordslayer
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs I-IV
No Joy - More Faithful
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Sam Binga - Wasted Days
Second Storey & Appleblim present ALSO - ALSO
Shackleton - Deliverance Series No. 3
Special Request - Modern Warfare (EPs 1-3)
Stephan Bodzin - Powers of Ten
Steve Hauschildt - Where All Is Fled
Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
Young Galaxy - Falsework

Note that I am counting Jaar's Nymphs cycle as an album. You should too :-)

ALBUMS

Joanna Newsom - Divers
Cindy Lee - Act of Tenderness
Abra - Rose
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Laurel Halo - In Situ
King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1
Circuit des Yeux - In Plain Speech
Egyptrixx - Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power]
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Fis - The Blue Quicksand is Going Now
James Ferraro - Skid Row
Pole – Wald
Miguel - Wildheart
DJ Richard – Grind
Anamai - Sallows

15/30

ALBUMS

Jennifer Castle. Pink city
Miguel. Wildheart
John Grant. Grey tickles, black pressure
Waxahatchee. Ivy Tripp
Methyl Ethel. Oh inhuman spectacle

TRACKS

Jennifer Castle. Pink city
Methyl Ethel. Twilight driving
Susanne Sundfor. Fade away
Shearwater. Quiet Americans
Niki & the Dove. Play it on my radio
Jazmine Sullivan. Stanley
Sharon Van Etten. Pay my debts
Royal Headache. Wouldn't you know
Miranda Lambert. Bathroom sink
Eric Church. Like a wrecking ball
Ashley Monroe. The Blade
Cam. Burning house

17/30

TRACKS
26/30

AFX - umil 25-01
Ariana Grande - One Last Time
CamelPhat (feat. A*M*E) - Paradigm (Amtrac Temptation Mix)
Christine and the Queens - Tilted
Daphne & Celeste - You and I Alone
Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer
Georgia - Heart Wrecking Animals
Hayden James - Something About You (ODESZA Remix)
Hudson Mohawke & Jhene Aiko - Resistance
J Hus - Lean & Bop (Extended Mix)
Jamie Woon - Sharpness
Julien Baker - Something
Julio Bashmore (feat. Bixby) - Let Me Be Your Weakness
Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?
Lockah - Heate Legend
Louis The Child (feat. K.Flay) - It's Strange
Mickey Pearce - Wam Barzz
Paradis - Le Bal Des Oubliés
Rob Clouth - Deep Field
Roman Flügel - Black Towers
Shura - 2Shy
The Knocks (feat. Alex Newell) - Collect My Love
With You. (feat. Vince Staples) - Ghost
Wretch 32, Anne-Marie, PRGRSHN - Alright With Me (Radio Edit)
Years & Years - King
Young Galaxy - Factory Flaws

lol Dominique, I was gonna nominate that if you weren't

Got crossed up w/ Dan on the Miguel album WHOOPS

(21/30)

ALBUMS

john tejada - signs under test
project pablo - i want to believe
wilco - star wars
kurt vile - b'lieve im goin down
julia holter - have you in my wilderness
owiny sigoma band - nyanza
maya vik - beyond the basics

SINGLES

dwight yoakam - liar
ghost bc - he is
gfoty - usa
nozinja - baby can you feel me?
courtney barnett - depreston
julia holter - feel you
jose gonzales - leaf off
mu-ziq - xt
maya vik - young michael douglas
class actress - the limit
pender street steppers - the glass city
jack j - thirstin
kendrick lamar - king kunta
fever high - tantalized

Oh no, I tallied my track and album nominations separately and am well over the actual limit of 30 for the two combined.

@ Ⓓⓡ. - how can I minimize the inconvenience to you? Should I post trimmed-down album and track lists, and just ask that my original lists (above) be ignored?

Tracks

KING - The Greatest
Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away
Miguel - Waves
Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems
Miley Cyrus - Space Boots
Jazmine Sullivan - Stanley
Say Lou Lou - Skylights
Bjork - Stonemilker
Marina & The Diamonds - I'm a Ruin
Lindstrøm & Grace Hall - Home Tonight
Maya Vik - YMD (Young Michael Douglas)
Lana Del Rey - Terrance Loves You
Dawn Richard - Swim Free
Best Coast - California Nights
Brandon Flowers - Still Want You
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry
Lower Dens - To Die In LA
Allie X - Hello
School Of Seven Bells - Open Your Eyes
Floating Points - Silhouettes (I, II, III)

Albums

Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
Robert Forster - Songs To Sing
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Real Lies - Real Life
Say Lou Lou - Lucid Dreaming
Erykah Badu - But U Caint Use My Phone

(28/30)

Actually that should be (25/30) as my Jazmine Sullivan, Maya Vik and Susanne Sundfør tracks were already nominated. Apologies for that.

xposts

But maybe I need to ask for a moderator to delete my original lists; I don't want people to ctrl-F search this thread and pass up nominating something based on what's in them...

FIN!

Look for the voting thread to show up soon.

it is of considerable joy to me that saer got the last nomination in

i still have no idea if any of saer's nominations actualy exist, of course

And, well…

Sunkanmi ft CDJ – Marry Joanna (nominated earlier by etc.)

should read:

Sunkanmi ft CDQ – Marry Joanna

I haven't run the final check for duplicates yet, but we nominated 1,506 tracks and 1,162 albums. Ridiculous.

the other weird thing is that we forgot to nominate fetty wap or carly rae jepsen

j/k i now like both of those artists

All of musicfanatic's nominations seem REALLY cool to me. And I will prob check out all of fffv's album noms (even though I'd been avoiding that Father album up til now p much on principle)

Haha, drugs a., are you fucking with me? I have no sarcasm detector for the internetz.

JF I can handle the duplicates n stuff if you haven't already - just add them to the spreadsheet and shout

No, hahaha for some reason they just seemed really appealling just now when I read through them. Idk if Dicktails are still on NNF but they were def a part of the label during its time of its biggest impact on me, and Mark McGuire I liked ever since I heard "Brothers (for Matt)" on ILX five years ago, even though I lost track of anything he did afterwards.

Also, I always wanted to check out Surfer Blood.

(xp)

Ha, cool. It's just that most of my choices are boring, middle-of-the-road indie. Which I'm cool with, but most of ILM aren't.

ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

TRACKS

young thug - warrior

― flopson, Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:20 AM Bookmark

If this is the same thing as Metro Thuggin - Warrior, I already nominated it under that artist name

well ILX, you broke Spotify. We hit the limit on the album playlist but only barely; it shut down with musicfanatic's albums.

Otherwise, the singles list, albums list and albums sampler are all up to date and finished and i hate everyone.

Enjoy!

Tracks that appeared on the most EOY lists (that I had lying around) and weren't nominated:

Drake - Know yourself
Kanye west - All day
Florence and the machine - Ship to wreck
Travi$ scott - Antidote
Rabit - Pandemic
Jamie xx - Gosh
Empress of - Kitty kat
Bully - I remember
Boogie - Oh my
Big sean - Blessings
A$AP rocky - Everyday

And albums:

Motorhead - Bad magic
Keith richards - Crosseyed heart
Justin bieber - Purpose
Foals - What went down
Clutch - Psychic warfare
Adele - 25
Prodigy - The day is my enemy
Paul weller - Saturn's pattern
Micachu and the shapes - Good sad happy bad

oh shit, nobody got adele or biebs huh?

ALBUMS

Patty Griffin - Servant of Love
Sarah Bethe Nelson - Fast Moving Clouds

Micachu album is not great but I thought it had been nominated

Kinda bummed about Motorhead tbh

Also: musicfanatic, admittedly I thought those albums were a lot more hypnagogic/psychedelic at first blush...however, I listened to "Islands", by Surfer Blood, and that track was p cool (if not REALLY cool)

Anyways I wasnt fucking with you, I just flaked out a little

Oh my god, apparently 'Jeanne d'Arc' *is* 2015, just the 1st of January 2015. I was positive it was a '14 song. Right, that's going in my top ten.
― emil.y, Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:20 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yessssss

― Roz, Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:24 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this song is amazing. i spent half my day watching all their videos on youtube

well ILX, you broke Spotify. We hit the limit on the album playlist but only barely; it shut down with musicfanatic's albums.

Otherwise, the singles list, albums list and albums sampler are all up to date and finished and i hate everyone.

Enjoy!

― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, January 2, 2016 9:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you forks! though i'm sad that the Physics album that I nominated & is on Spotify didn't make it because I wrote the wrong title at first :( that album is so good and everyone should listen to it! it's called Only Forever. https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/only-forever

9,960 songs! amazing. I guess the limit is 10k. or maybe 740 hours. i got about 2 thousand songs in my personal 'all the 2015 albums i've listened to' playlist and i was wondering if there was any kind of ceiling.

loooool i'm so glad "all day" did not get nominated. i was considering not nominating "only one" as i submitted my last-minute noms so kanye would get completely shut out of consideration for trax but i actually did find that one rather affecting. (tbh it's a bit too far down my "short"list to fit on my ballot anyways so i probably shouldn't have bothered lol.)

i have no idea why "blessings" showed up on so many of those lists, ppl actually liked that?

i killed two of the three discs of momus' turpsycore and added that physics album.

haha aw

(thanks!)

oh shit, nobody got adele or biebs huh?
--Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu)

albums or singles? if the latter that should be rectified imho

Screw Adele, we forgot to nominate Mario Diaz de León!

obviously the bieber singles were nominated, pleased we shut out the album

really no idea why anyone would have expected the adele album to be nominated, when has ilm ever given a shit about her

"Rolling in the Deep" came in 78th one year iirc

yes, and it was perfect

ALBUMS
Michael Wollny - Nachtfahrten

2/30

I've added the last couple because I'm nice and don't have much going on today, but nominations are closed and I don't guarantee I'll keep up with things that get posted or written-in later in the process.

TRACKS

young thug - warrior

― flopson, Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:20 AM Bookmark

If this is the same thing as Metro Thuggin - Warrior, I already nominated it under that artist name

― gaz "puffy" coombes (The Reverend), Sunday, January 3, 2016 1:57 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There seem to be a couple of versions of "Warrior" so I'm keeping them separate on the nominations list but I'll combine their votes.

ALBUMS

Paki & Visnadi - Imaginary Choreography

totally understand if you don't add this, just wanted to throw it out there cause it's REALLY great

i like adele

add Motörhead - Bad Magic. Great album.

Has this been rolled out yet? Been basically away from ILX for about a month.

you can still vote!

Voting is open until approximately Saturday morning UK time.

Lowtide - Julia

cover songs you did not expect to find in an EOY list

Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception

― Ari (whenuweremine)

Man I wish I had heard this sooner so I could have voted for it. It's a pretty great jazz-ish/world-ish/trip-ish record.

That was ~#3 on the Wire list iirc, not heard it yet though

I like Magnetoception a lot, though compared to genuine Gnaoua/Gnawa records its a bit reserved. Still most partial to the Laswell-touched Night Spirit Masters.

It was also on P4k's list of Best Experimental Records (but I found it via Marc Masters' Pazz n Jop ballot)

(and from the same ballot I've also found out about Heather Leigh's 'I Abused Animal' and Byron Westbrook's 'Precipice'. I guess it was a pretty good ballot)

I've been meaning to hear the Joshua Abrams records from last year but I've gotten pretty lazy about things that aren't on Spotify - and the one with Bitchin' Bajas was vinyl only iirc?

There is some beautiful stuff on the Joshua Abrams album but it sure could have done with some judicious editing.