Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

http://thefieldreporter.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/2013-in-retrospective-the-lists-347/

in case you need more than one recording of white noise / ambient environmental sounds / hushed electroacoustic whatever etc. this year

I do!

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2014/01/happy-new-ears.html

stef et al's readers' votes for most innovative listening experience of 2013

Barry Guy - Mad Dogs 20%
Fire Orchestra - Exit! 17%
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile 11%
Mikołaj Trzaska - Gra Różę 10%
Keefe Jackson's Likely So - A Round Goal 8%
Mary Halvorson Septet - Illusionary Sea 8%
Black Host - Life in the Sugar Candle Mines 5%
Ellery Eskelin/Susan Alcorn/Michael Formanek - Mirage 3%
John Butcher, Thomas Lehn & John Tilbury - Exta 3%
SPUNK - Das Wohltemperierte SPUNK 2%
Okkyung Lee - Ghil 2%
Tomas Challenger & Kit Downes - Wedding Music 2%
Axel Dörner & Mark Sanders - Stonecipher 1%
John Edwards & Okkyung Lee - White Cable, Black Wires 1%
Looper - Matter 1%

the winner sounds bonkers

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/05/barry-guy-new-orchestra-small.html

good f--g bye, 2013.

http://thefieldreporter.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/2013-in-retrospective-the-lists-347/

in case you need more than one recording of white noise / ambient environmental sounds / hushed electroacoustic whatever etc. this year

― j., Wednesday, January 1, 2014 2:56 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES PLZ

Uk's bestselling singles
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-singles-of-2013-2709/

And albums
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-artist-albums-of-2013-2708/

posted my top 100:

http://1000timesyes.tumblr.com/post/71988429324/cleaning-out-my-closet-the-top-100-records-of-2013

great list bro

thank u

nice to see the Blaak Heat Shuja and Dillinger Escape Plan on your list. reminds me i still need to hear that Whores record.

eminem in top 10 whiney u so crazy

No sightings, Whiney?

Really enjoyed this EOY writeup; seems ILXish and links to Brad's excellent 1975/Haim piece:
http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/72156453997/playing-high-fidelity-2013-edition

omg that IS very ilm

Lol, that's me

nice, I like your take on Laura Marling. I'm surprised her record hasn't gotten more mileage on ILM. Probably my AOTY.

this is the albums list i ended up with:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-top-50-albums-of-2013.html

Excellent work Monotony!

thumbs up to monotony and shipz

loving the k michelle love, i think that album has crept up my list even more now

also lmao @ "BEST INDIE R&B FOR PEOPLE THAT DON’T LIKE R&B THAT I KNOW I SHOULDN’T LIKE BUT DO, REGARDLESS"

(unsurprisingly i hate all those songs BUT i love everything in the actual, larger r&b section so it's ok)

monotony and I shared 3 albums in our top 10s, including an identical #1.

http://enduser2013.tumblr.com/ (there's some writing there, but it's not any good.)

thanks so much guys! definitely wouldn't have heard of a whole bunch of stuff on that list if it weren't for posters here, so cheers to y'all as well.

Nice list Johnny Fever - i remember seeing Alpine at a festival once, the two girls were drunk and they kind of sucked so I never heard the record, but maybe I oughtta give it a shot.

Some dude's looks great, can't wait to trawl through all that writing.

The past few years, the Metal Poll has been my favorite thing about ILM, along with the ambitious jazz, 80s and 70s rock polls. Looks like it's in trouble though, as it's dropping from 80 ballots in 2010 to 74 to 51 last year, and only 11 so far this year, closing Friday. I've always felt it was the most interesting, well-rounded of all metal polls. Please help us keep it that way!

~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2013 - ALBUMS & TRACKS VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) )

Maximum of 50 album votes/Minimum of 5.
Maximum of 20 tracks votes/Minimum of 5

Please vote by filling in the
Voting Form, copying your selections directly from the nominations spreadsheets:

Album Nominations Spreadsheet
Tracks Nominations Spreadsheet

These aren't critcs' polls, but at work I generated two more data-driven 2013 retrospectives, one for raw popularity and one for emerging discoveries.

article about them: http://blog.echonest.com/post/72464366661/hottest-songs-biggest-music-discoveries-of-2013

popularity map: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-2013.html
popularity playlist: http://rd.io/x/QUPlBzMtemQ/

discovery map: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-2013END.html
discovery playlist: http://rd.io/x/QUPlBzMtfyc/

I'm not going to paste the complete lists here. They're long.

xpost to fnb

a number of factors for the decline in metal poll inc hate of polls but one is perhaps metal thread regulars got old and listened to mostly old albums last year. Not just reissues but old faves and new but old discoveries.
Poll fatigue doesnt hurt the big ilm poll which got 120+ last year iirc.

a lot of metal today is also extreme death metal with extreme grunting thats highly unoriginal and ilxors dont care for it but thats what the metal kids in the real world like and the kids shun "clean singing bands" like ghost, uncle acid, in solitude, cauldron etc which ILXors tend to like. (also theyre seen as old fashioned retro by kids)
extreme black metal suffers the same as the DM. Atmospheric/Shoegazy BM has been around a while and ppl are fed up with it.
Same with post-metal.

Plus crossover stuff like alcest,deafheaven et al have annoyed metallers for not being metal and for being "hipster metal" and those metallers wont vote if they think the list will be dominated by it and perhaps of course fans of those bands have been put off voting. Who knows.

Either way I think ILM metal poll may have had its day unless 20 or 30 more people vote by friday to get it up to last years level (which in itself was a fall from 74 votes)

http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif

Pourin' one out for my Cookie Monster vocals.

dying that Dillinger Escape Plan isn't on the ballot

Playlists are the new polls.

cookie monster vox are only unpopular on ilm, jf. Out there in the real world that is whats popular with kids and adults.

I know ive barely promoted metal poll this year but i expected more votes. so either metal is dead on ilx or metal polls are (other polls are still popular)

Out there in the real world that is whats popular with kids and adults.

"Out there" it's Pitbull and Dierks Bentley that are popular with kids and adults. Cookie monster vocals are just as marginalized in the real world as they are in mine.

http://u.jimdo.com/www38/o/sda0c94d89b4b9f1b/img/i69ddcf493ec8d261/1378388479/std/get-your-kicks-with-kiko-the-kangaroo-and-puddy-too.jpg

i was talking about the metal kids in the real world not the kids in general.

albeit the really big bands like avenged sevenfold mix screaming with singing.

you mean "clean" vocals and "unclean" vocals, in metalcore parlance

I'm not fed up with shoegazy atmospheric black metal!

clean, unclean and don mclean

haha "unclean vocals"

Idk JF I know a lot of kids who are down with metalcore and death metal. They're not hard to find

dont blame jf for staying away from metalcore & deathcore kids tbh. worst music ever

It's not a critic poll, but I found the results of this year's Metacritic User Poll rather amusing:
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-of-2013-user-poll-results?page_comment=1

Sometmes you forget how rabid an artist's fanbase can be at times.

Haha, the little monsters are pretty good at focusing their collective power.

okay lol

lol i love how even "venus" made the songs list

sad thing is if artpop was doing better i doubt there'd be such an effort by her fanbase to get her at the top of at least one chart somewhere. born this way barely scratched the top 20 back in 2011.

Not a critics' poll but here apparently are the top selling VINYL albums of 2013 (presumably in the US?):

01. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
02. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
03. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
04. Mumford & Sons – Babel
05. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
06. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
07. Bon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago
08. Lumineers – Lumineers
09. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
10. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/daft-punk-vampire-weekend-and-arcade-fire-top-the-vinyl-charts-for-2013

So basically, people who buy new vinyl albums have even more boring taste than everyone else

TWO Mumford albums????????

(I originally typed "Mufmord", almost left it because that sounds like a death metal band name)

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120124175850/muppet/images/5/5c/TheAmazingMumford-tumblrPicture2.png