ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

sorry, trying one more time:

ILX 77 Albums of 2015 - Day Three Recap - Spotify Playlist

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77 KURT VILE - B’lieve I'm Goin Down
76 PROJECT PABLO - I Want to Believe
75 BRANDON FLOWERS - The Desired Effect
74 DICK DIVER - Melbourne, Florida
73 BARONESS - Purple
72 EEK - Kahraba
71 FOUR TET - Morning/Evening
70 GHOST - Meliora
69 FETTY WAP - Fetty Wap
68 NEON INDIAN - VEGA Intl. Night School
67 DEAFHEAVEN - New Bermuda
66 JME - Integrity>
65 COLLEEN GREEN - I Want To Grow Up
64 JOAN SHELLEY - Over and Even
63 HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
62 NEW ORDER - Music Complete
61 DOMENIQUE DUMONT - Comme ça
60 KAITLIN AURELIA SMITH - Euclid
59 COLLEEN - Captain of None
58 DEERHUNTER - Fading Frontier
57 TY DOLLA $IGN - Free TC
56 FATHER JOHN MISTY - I Love You, Honeybear
55 f(x) - 4 Walls
54 HELEN - The Original Faces
53 MBONGWANA STAR - From Kinshasa
52 PANDA BEAR - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper"
51 TAME IMPALA - Currents
50 FUTURE - Beast Mode - Only Two Tracks on Playlist, Full Album Here
49 TOVE STRYKE - Kiddo
48 LEVON VINCENT - Levon Vincent - Not on Playlist - Full Album on YouTube
47 JUTE GYTE - Ship of Theseus
46 JIM O'ROURKE - Simple Songs - Not on Playlist - Full Album on YouTube
45 STARA RZEKA - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
44 DUMBLONDE - Dumblonde
43 LOW - Ones and Sixes
42 DJ RICHARD - Grind
41 Aphex Twin aka user18081971 - 2015 SoundCloud Dump - Not on Playlist - SoundCloud Account is currently down, more info here - Listen to selections on YouTube
40 THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - Beat The Champ
39 HOP ALONG - Painted Shut
38 BEACH HOUSE - Depression Cherry
37 YEARS & YEARS - Communion
36 LANA DEL REY - Honeymoon
35 JANET JACKSON - Unbreakable
34 ANGEL HAZE - Back to the Woods
33 ALGIERS - Algiers
32 ABRA - Rose
31 SLEATER-KINNEY - No Cities to Love
30 KAMASI WASHINGTON - The Epic
29 FUTURE - 56 Nights
28 KEHLANI - You Should Be Here
27 EARL SWEATSHIRT - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
26 CHELSEA WOLFE - Abyss
25 DESTROYER - Poison Season
24 JLIN - Dark Energy
23 JEREMIH - Late Nights: The Album
22 RÓISÍN MURPHY - Hairless Toys
21 HOLLY HERNDON - Platform
20 FUTURE - DS2
19 ASHLEY MONROE - The Blade
18 CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
17 BJÖRK - Vulnicura
16 YOUNG THUG - Barter 6
14 (tie) RAE SREMMURD - SremmLife
14 (tie) JOANNA NEWSOM - Divers - Not on Playlist - Full Album on YouTube
13 COURTNEY BARNETT - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
12 FLOATING POINTS - Elaenia
11 SUFJAN STEVENS - Carrie & Lowell
10 JULIA HOLTER - Have You in My Wilderness
9 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - Garden of Delete
8 VINCE STAPLES - Summertime '06
7 JAZMINE SULLIVAN - Reality Show
6 MIGUEL - Wildheart
5 DAWN RICHARD - Blackheart
4 GRIMES - Art Angels
3 CARLY RAE JEPSEN - Emotion
2 SUSANNE SUNDFØR - Ten Love Songs
1 KENDRICK LAMAR - To Pimp A Butterfly

yall did a super amazing job this was so fun haha

yes, thank you pollrunners as always!

this ruled thank y'all

I was really hoping Sundfor would win this thing, since the winner of the albums poll has tended to be my favorite in the 4 prior polls. But Kendrick is fine.

Kendrick was my number one and nothing else came close.

Sundfør was my number five and my number one purely ILM discovery. I've introduced this to a few people and it blew them all away.

I was really pulling for CRJ at number one. I haven't yet listened to the Susanne Sundfor one. Kendrick - some outstanding tracks but I really couldn't stand that stupid poem about the evils of Lucy and I didn't listen to it again after the first few weeks.

Think I had CRJ #1, SS #2 but it could easily have been the other way around. Great top 3

Ten Love Songs was among the 25 best-reviewed albums of the year (according to metacritic)

Well it helps that it only had 7 reviews counting towards its score.

great work everyone, esp. forks, gr8080, ulysses, and any other poll runners

whoa @ top 5 placements - lividity at dawn being so low sort of counterbalanced by susanne being so high (and thank fuck grimes got shut out from the top 3). i know how much ten love songs was loved but it got so little critical traction outside of ilm, and neither song that placed was in the top 10, so i thought it might just be as niche within the board.

ten love songs was also the same trailer different park of 2015 for me in that it was the album i found it easiest to convert others to

Some key people in the hype industry have failed when it comes to not bringing SS at least to a lot of year-end lists from publications, if not global success the likes Tove Lo got. I mean she's doing fine, touring europe and the us, but

thanks to all the pollsters for your hard work! this is the most fun EOY poll by far.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-8gDt6RFXdw8JeGy805ASWWkBZZXwhNM80D3dY41Gqo/edit?usp=docslist_api

^ full results

thanks all, i appreciate you all more than i like you (JK)

i think i'm good to post this as well:

FULL RESULTS

seandalai should be by soon to start a stats/ballots thread iirc

xpost

Thank you for all the work, this was great!

oh good a record i really dislike got 78'd

lol drake

This time next year we'll all be here cheering as KING take the number one spot.

and drake got 79'd, the square root of which is not eight-something

Ha. Gaz #82

I lazily did an unweighted ballot, Ten Love Songs should really have been my number 1. Glad those extra 24 points weren't decisive. Great year for the albums.

Haha. Jamie XX got 178.

and drake got 79'd, the square root of which is not eight-something

actually it is. lol

also well played on the fake #3 curveball, scrolling down i nearly had a heart attack

made even better by drake actually getting 79'd, like not even 78'd

only 6 votes for Gaz Coombes, i hope some of you can sleep tonight

Haaaaaaaaaaaaa I almost voted for Drake too.

Haha. Jamie XX got 178.

― MarkoP, Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:37 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing

lol given the way the joke was beaten into the ground still remain surprised the fucking gaz coombes thing didn't actually place

Kind of glad I didn't, this is way funnier.

joke?

117 Beauty Pill - Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are

:(

Most of the joke votes went to blur surely?

Re: Tinashe, I took for granted that it would make the list, but I guess too few actually listened. What a stupendous mixtape. A cornucopia of ideas, every song has something that could serve as a foundation for a full length album. At her most playful, inventive, confident, cocky.

U.S. Girls at 83…weep. Could have used one higher placement *cough cough*

i didn't expect so many votes for the honey cocaine ep, wish i'd known - would have voted for it here instead of for "sundae" in the trax in vain

Omg and beaten by Gaz…the ultimate insult

119 Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge 164

my #1, genuinely thought this would make it

Good work everyone!

I though Torres and Liturgy might do a bit better than they did.

Extended edition:

78 Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
79 Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
80 Benoît Pioulard - Sonnet
81 FKA twigs - M3LL155X
82 Gaz Coombes - Matador
83 U.S. Girls - Half Free
84 Heavy-K - Respect The Drumboss 2015
85 Royal Headache - High
86 FFS - FFS
87 Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
88 Dr.Yen Lo - Days With Dr.Yen Lo
89 Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
90 Mastery - Valis
90 Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
92 Blur - The Magic Whip
93 Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
94 Tamaryn - Cranekiss
95 Patrick Cowley - Muscle Up
96 Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
97 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
98 Arca - Mutant
99 Ata Kak - Obaa Sima
99 Young Galaxy - Falsework

Only two votes for Wonder Girls ;[

88-90 is a gutting omission tooo.

HAUFF in the top 100 at least

here are your country breakdowns. extremely america-centric poll - keeping track as we went along this really stuck out

USA (52): Kendrick Lamar, Dawn Richard, Miguel, Jazmine Sullivan, Vince Staples, Oneohtrix Point Never, Julia Holter, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Rae Sremmurd, Young Thug, Ashley Monroe, Future (3), Holly Herndon, Jeremih, Jlin, Chelsea Wolfe, Earl Sweatshirt, Kehlani, Kamasi Washington, Sleater-Kinney, Abra, Algiers, Angel Haze, Janet Jackson, Lana Del Rey, Beach House, Hop Along, The Mountain Goats, DJ Richard, Low, Dumblonde, Jim O'Rourke, Jute Gyte, Levon Vincent, Panda Bear, Helen, Father John Misty, Ty Dolla $ign, Deerhunter, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Health, Joan Shelley, Colleen Green, Deafheaven, Neon Indian, Fetty Wap, Baroness, Brandon Flowers, Kurt Vile
GBR (8): Floating Points, Chvrches, Róisín Murphy, Years & Years, Aphex Twin, New Order, JME, Four Tet
CAN (4): Carly Rae Jepsen, Grimes, Destroyer, Project Pablo
AUS (3): Courtney Barnett, Tame Impala, Dick Diver
SWE (2): Tove Styrke, Ghost
NOR (1): Susanne Sundfør
ISL (1): Björk
POL (1): Stara Rzeka
COD (1): Mbongwana Star
KOR (1): f(x)
FRA (1): Colleen
LAT (1): Domenique Dumont
EGY (1): Eek

all kidding aside i would like to know if there was a genuinely enthusiastic vote for Gaz Coombes aside from imago.

Gaz the only record with 2 first place votes to not place

Good to see Young Galaxy make the Top 100 (just).

Jenny Hval at #78! Damn.

also, request for imgur page please!

Wild that an artist I hadn't even heard of before these polls came in at #2. Glad Kendrick won.

― The Reverend, Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink