Lobbying for ILM's Top 77 Albums and Tracks: Justify Your Picks

Please don't sleep on Self Esteem's 'Your Wife', it really is a stunning bit of sultry electro-pop, the kind that fits easily into the shambhala thread but somehow stands apart from it too

death's dynamic shroud made my long list, will re-listen!

I'll be voting for it for sure. Not getting Rare Emoji Collection into the 2015 traxpoll was a crime that will hopefully be rectified now

"Your Wife" very nearly made my list, always rooting for Slow Club folks

xps shudda voted album then ;)

Thought Classroom Sexxtape was decent with one massive highlight - this album is much better all the way through

ha was just kidding about
if anything i'm the opposite :/

Algiers are gonna make the albums poll I hope. I would love it if the title track made the 77 too as it's stunning

They were the only act I put in both ballots

Got a good feeling about Akrakabo too! :-) I agree with what Frederik said about it upthread. It's such a sensual onslaught, it takes a few listens to catch your breath and get a grip on what's going on, but the part when it all falls away for a few minutes is like glimpsing a moment of raw beauty in among chaos

We had a thread for SACRED PAWS and it's great to hear some UK guitar music that is for once original and joyous and really well-played. Think classic 90s Matador indie with a high-life vibe. The track 'Strike a Match' is the pick.

^^ voting highly for sacred paws

if I may do my bit for Sacred Paws, I absolutely loathe it, which usually helps to push something up the 77

you loathe it imago? strong words. i'd be interested to know why

cough cough

thread to dis hyped 2017 releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

he hates drums, or something

Speaking of excellent Scottish bands, I'm very surprised to see just a couple of mentions of Glaswegian kosmik funk marvels Golden Teacher on ILM. Their album was apparently recorded live at the city's famous Green Door Studio and spans a huge range of styles from disco to dub to spaced-out Lindstrom-esque fuckwizardry and it's REALLY REALLY good

This is the lead track, and maybe the most obviously accessible song on there. It goes interstellar after that youtube.com/watch?v=GFpnkgd6iok

Re-TROS seconded although my fave Re-TROS jam is "At Mosp Here"

kraut dance thingie that bests anything on the new LCD Soundsystem album

*obliterates into tiny shards

Kinda astonished that Dave "Question Time" has never been mentioned on ILM. Devastatingly powerful and on-point, my track of 2017 by a country mile. https://youtu.be/4ff6CjYBhoI

if I may do my bit for Sacred Paws, I absolutely loathe it, which usually helps to push something up the 77

― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:01 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, Sacred Paws

Just skimmed through the nominations, was Lingua Ignota All Bitches Die not nominated?

Doesn't look like it. You can vote for it in the metal poll though!

really encourage everyone to check out Wednesday Campanella - Superman. imaginative & idiosyncratic dance-pop with great energetic vocal performances from KOM_I & a similar all-over-the-place vibe to Art Angels except much more rooted in dance music. lead single Aladdin almost made last year's tracks 77, it's sort of like Thriller-meets-freestyle

this is great :)

Just skimmed through the nominations, was Lingua Ignota All Bitches Die not nominated?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Doesn't look like it. You can vote for it in the metal poll though!
― o. nate, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:13 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was not nominated in the metal poll either it seems (or rejected as it's indeed not metal?). Anyway, absoluetely great record. This combination of Diamanda Galas-inspired apoplectic singing/howling + early/medieval music + doomy electronics is right up my alley.

Oh, wow, that's really something. Her cover of Bad Boys!

@Siegbran - simple error on my part, I've added it to the metal noms list

I agree it’s unclassifiable and not metal, but it contains enough metallic characteristics for me to vote for it there in good faith and thematically it’s plenty dark to fit in there.

really encourage everyone to check out Wednesday Campanella - Superman. imaginative & idiosyncratic dance-pop with great energetic vocal performances from KOM_I & a similar all-over-the-place vibe to Art Angels except much more rooted in dance music. lead single Aladdin almost made last year's tracks 77, it's sort of like Thriller-meets-freestyle

I seem to always be several months behind Suiyoubi no Campanella's releases (or is it always Weds Camp in English now? This is a recent development and I get confused easily), so it's not had time to settle in as a full favourite, but they really are such a great band, deserve way more recognition around here.

Also, yeah, Aladdin kills.

yeah Wednesday Campanella has been the official english name for a little while now. it's been really impressive how they keep getting better & better, while being so prolific. i'd imagine ilx would be all over them if it weren't for the language barrier, it's not like the jpop thread gets much traffic

Tbh I don't think anything's topped Jeanne d'Arc for me, but they've definitely upped their game in terms of writing out-and-out bangers.

agreed that "jeanne d'arc" is still their best, always happy to hear new music from them, though.

thanks davey for nominating Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness, lovely stuff

Feel duty-bound to observe that Cleric - Retrocausal is now on Spotify and would make a nice if slightly terrifying addition to the second albums playlist

it wasn't nominated! but the single "grey lodge" was and has been added... that was the only single that I couldn't find anywhere, so thanks!

it certainly was nominated ffs

so salty
it's on the Youtube playlist yes? fine.

sorry. long day

it was a another extremely year for women in country music. For starters --

Sunny Sweeney
Angaleena Presley
Nicole Atkins
Nikki Lane
Whitney Rose
Natalie Hemby
Lee Ann Womack

not sure if I'll find a place for all of them but their albums are all outstanding, some even classic.

right on

all right, i'm prob not going to do this v well bc i'm tired and hate writing about music atm but here are some things i really want to rep for (some of these might seem obvious but i can't tell what anyone's aware of anymore):

1. any and all dua lipa singles

2. goldlink's "crew," the first time i've cared about a goldlink song (it might simultaneously be the first time for a ton of ppl tbh), the hook is so gorgeous

3. k-pop was improbably rich this year, it's hard to figure out what to include in my ballot, but, in addition to red velvet's "red flavor" (not their best single ever but extremely worthy, it's all technicolor pops), i would like to draw ppl's attention to the non-stop glitterings of iu's "palette" and the asymmetrical synth longing of yves' "new" (k-pop mvps of the year are loona, the greater mothership group from which yves' "new" descends; check out odd eye circle's "girl front" as well)

4. mama, "unmask me," particularly the ashley beedle vocal mix, a song i forgot about until tim nominated it, perfect, glowing, vulnerable house

5. little big town, "lost in california," see tim's comments here: "It Is Happening Again": Tim writes about songs from 2017

6. sasha feat. poliça, "out of time," which at the moment i feel like i'm the only person who really *loves* this song, it's sort of an "everything in exactly the right place" house jam for me: the vocal, the groove, the synth washes, everything interlocking precisely so as to convey you toward an unspecified destination, driving toward a sun-melted horizon that you never seem to actually approach etc. etc.

7. h/t to d-40 for pointing my way toward distruction boyz' gqom is the future and particularly the track "omunye", the synths feel like they're divebombing

8. radio slave, "another club," house needs almost nothing to work

9. another h/t to d-40 for 03 greedo, whose catalogue is overwhelming and hard to isolate a single song from, but regardless the one that resonated most with me was "never bend", i think of all the songs of his i've heard this is the most cinematic union between production + greedo's constant invention and revision of his own hooks

10. heavy-k feat. bucie and nokwazi, "inde," bc it is the best music in the whole world

the extremely syncopated synth blinking in "girl front" reminds me of mary jane girls "candy man," i only just picked up on that

oh i forgot about jacquees "at the club", star of the 2017 r&b thread

dropping by to say that the nominated L'Rain track is kind of incredible, cheers to whoever put that on

as is the album it's from :o

That Octo Octa album is really good.

I'm listening to this a lot right now - Leif - July V - Sort of like Steve Reich makes downtempo acid techno.

Lost in California is incredible, can't believe I didn't get to it before voting

A bell end writes: where do I go to vote? (Asking for a friend, obvs.)

Christ - just found it. Ignore me.

Shuffling through the tracks nominations and most are straight dog poop.

subaquatic/subterranean deeeeeep ambient tech:

Money Morning - Corporate Karma

http://clone.nl/item47474.html

Shuffling through the tracks nominations and most are straight dog poop.

― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:58 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a thread for this, jack

DJ Swagger - "Lost"

great lofi house with a sweet looped sample

This year I started paying attention to Afropop for the first time and discovered so many great songs that I hardly listen to anything else lately. Out of the tracks I nominated, this one is my favorite:

Sauti Sol feat. Patoranking - Melanin

I think I like how combines some elements that sound very traditional (like the acoustic guitars on the intro, the "na na..." chants) with stuff that sounds decidedly more modern (the bassline, some synth pads) in a way that just works. Also, all vocals are flawless.

Wish I'd heard Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings 'The Doctrines Of Swedenborg' before voting!

Shuffling through the tracks nominations and most are straight dog poop.

― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Check mine. Mine are great

xp melanin is awesome!

Wish I'd heard Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings 'The Doctrines Of Swedenborg' before voting!

― nashwan, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I nominated this! It's amazing and everybody should vote for it

Thank you or something for nomming Skee Mask, which has led me to discover (a) Skee Mask; and (b) Stenny.