ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2015

can we get a list of fakes from the past few years

ILX List of Lists will help

pretty sure Geir was the one who tipped off ILM on Susanne Sundfor.

so did aphex twin actually come last in this poll if you calculate the number of votes per minute of music?

sundor was popular on the shambhala and pop threads, eventually got her own too

Carter Tutti Void - f(x)

Read this the other way around for a second and felt very confused...

thanks will xps

i'd never heard of her until the poll either, deej

Korea's Hidden Reverse xps

I propose this poll be retabulated to include voted of people who said they forgot to vote for Sons Of Kemet.

I learned of Sundfor via the Shambhala thread, TSJ's review of Delirious and the fact that it was one of the high ranking albums on RYM's 2015 chart for a good part of the year.

Al otm in the other thread in that it's the kind of thing that made me stop checking for TSJ.

I'm listening to the Sundor. It's not grabbing me.

yea me neither, ilm loves its scandinavian pop though huh

The two songs that made trax poll reminded me strongly of Super Trouper, and I love that album, so

added Ashely Monroe to the ol Spotify queue.

would've voted Dawn Richard and Miguel high high high, both amazing albums

Ha, not that I was expecting different but my top four or so all placed at #371 or lower.

Still, 5/25 isn't bad.

thanks to the poll runners
and thanks to the nominator who nominated THEESatisfaction, where has that album been all my life?

got 2/25 just like I had predicted

Highest Enthusiasm score in the top 150 was, um, Father John Misty. 7 of you are courageous, courageous souls.

and thanks to the nominator who nominated THEESatisfaction, where has that album been all my life?

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ha i think that was rev but i was the only vote for it!

what a time to be alive is such a subtle fake-out. nice. B-)

The THEESatisfaction album narrowly missed my ballot. However, one half of them did make it in the form of Sassy Black's Personal Sunlight. It's mining a different psychedelic space ore to THEE, but still fully worth checking out.

i feel like THEESatisfaction is an album i need to shortlist to listen to

Why do so many of them have no enthusiasm rating? Is it uncalculated for things with fewer than three voters?

Will we get a ballots thread with all the stats like with tracks?

yea i dug personal sunlight xps, didn't listen to it enough though

TheeSat just barely missed my ballot. I feel bad about that cause they're friends but oh well.

it's a really cool album!!

xp to Tuomas, yes when seandalai gets here

best discoveries from the past couple days were Floating Points and actually the new Destroyer album, which I hadn't listened to except in bits here and there. it's great.

I guess the Sundfor doesn't have a lot of reviews on Metacritic because it wasn't picked up much by US publications? Got quite a lot of exposure around here I think.

lol @ Novella, the album I thought was the most accessible and would be most popular of the guitar bands I was into this year, being waaaaaaaaay down in the 500s

Amazing poll this year, makes me vv happy. Interesting mix of surprising new discoveries and strong/well-deserved consensus picks.
9 of my 25 placed in the top 77, and some of my picks I'll be content if I'm not the lone voter -- haven't scoured the spreadsheet yet to see if this the case

Also:
How did I not hear Algiers before this poll?
Having crusaded for N Jaar's Nymphs (despite the four EPs/singles not being released in conventional album format), feel a bit guilty about bumping the cycle down to #16 on my weighted ballot.
But it's okay, 2015 was The Year of Too Much Great Stuff -- or maybe just the year I finally paid attention?

think i've been getting novella mixed up with noveller the whole year

I like that Black Messiah is the alltime #2 because that's also where it's at for me.

Wilco finishing in the 560s must be a low for them?

(below Novella!)

Dan, I checked out Marriages based on your campaigning for them during the nominations process, liked them quite a bit. Will investigate yr other lost causes stat!

I'm finally listening to Novella and it's great. I missed a bunch of shit last year that I would have put on my ballot. Didn't get around to Wolf Alice until after ballots were submitted and it's one of my favorites of the decade.

I couldn't get into the Novella and Marriages albums the way I got into Venera 4. The V4 was a full blown brainmelter.

The only SUNDFØR track I'm really feeling is 'Accelerate', that is pretty fantastic. The rest don't really do much for me.

The Marriages record is my favorite Tori Amos record since From the Choirgirl Hotel.

Well done, everyone!

EZ, you're snarkier than usual this year.

That's not meant to be snarky! That's a huge compliment. Love 90s Tori and this record reminded me of what she was doing then without sounding like her.

:)

U.S. Girls is the second recent artist (Zambri is another) that reminds me of how unappreciated Danielle Dax was in her day.

there are certain artist/band names that preclude me from checking out the music unless I put in a lot of effort and both "U.S girls" and "marriages"
are in that category

How have I never played To Pimp a Butterfly through headphones until now? It's like a brand new album.

yeah vv essential