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

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

I've got to say, some of the late entries, which I'm just getting around to sifting through, are pretty high quality. I liked Kelly Moran's Bloodroot, which I guess is prepared harp or something like that? (Not curious enough to search right now.)

xp, I agree, that Octo Octa album is great!

I also really love the Sasha/Poliça track that Brad recommended above.

Some things that nobody mentioned:

(3) Trio of synth-pop
Perfume - Houseki no Ame (it's Perfume, it's great obv)
Johan Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren ft. Sally Shapiro and Tommy '86 - Aurora Over Odega (Remix) (Relive the glory days of ILX)
Charlotte Adigéry - 1,618 (the older sister, bit more hip and experimental)

(2) Two new age albums ft. cosmic enlightenment
The Swan And The Lake - Clouds (new)
Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millenia Music (old)

(1) One album with "One" in the title
https://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/album/penelope-one (very Poliça, bit of Kelly Lee Owens, bit of Low is my super lazy comparison)

(0) ???
Mariam the Believer - Crust (art-pop odyssey to soundtrack progressive romcoms and picnics)

keep meaning to post my picks but would like to give due deference to LOONA Girl Front, that is a jam

gonna repeat myself but with a little elaboration

L'Rain

the most astonishing debut in a while. psychedelic art-soul from the heavens. only 26 minutes long. whatever your taste you need to hear this. whoever nominated it, you are an angel

I know ILX doesn't have a Bollywood massive, the way we have k-pop and afro-pop groups, but I'd still want to mention my favorite this year: Guru Randhawa - Suit Suit. Probably won't make the list - and that's probably not that unfair - but still one of the only times of year where people will listen to Bollywood tracks.

yeh found l'rain after the bandcamp eoy list
its a real joy

been digging around the noms list and I just want to shout about this track 'Volumes' by Minor Science which is this wonderful slow-pulse techno track with these cool little vocal snippets that grows and grows into an absolute BANGER of a tune.
thanks to whoever nominated that

billy woods' album Known Unknowns is fantastic and well worth a listen.

Also the Buddy track Find Me was great: https://youtu.be/NWTNbDkalAQ

Other tracks I am campaigning for:
Blanck Mass - Please
Four Tet - Two Thousand and Seventeen

been digging around the noms list and I just want to shout about this track 'Volumes' by Minor Science which is this wonderful slow-pulse techno track with these cool little vocal snippets that grows and grows into an absolute BANGER of a tune.
thanks to whoever nominated that

― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, January 15, 2018 3:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this track rules

Gene on Earth's Pulse Mode is the sound of riding of a bmx on the top deck of one of the trams at Blackpool pleasure beach while finishing off a can of brexit half-inched from the budget astral plane

actually thats a different record which I forgot to nominate but this one is good just a little more reflective not one of the brash lads

tess roby - ballad #5

beautiful slow sad synth-pop song (if you choose to listen, be patient bc a truly genius hook comes in 2/3 of the way thru)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1vAY8zF3Gc

randomer - smokin

crazy techno song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9cWhfJ8NJw

sorority noise - you're not as _____ as you think you are (album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tZauks6QnI

if you care to trust someone who just got into emo this year, this was the best emo album of the year (besides another one that will not be mentioned or voted for because the singer did sex crimes)

Jen Cloher's self-titled album is definitely worth hearing! She's Courtney Barnett's partner, and the album features much rumination as to the notion of being a seasoned musician and watching the career someone you love (and who also happens to be much younger than you) take off really fast, as well as the way touring can affect personal relationships. Fans of Courtney or PJ Harvey might find something to enjoy.

Can I also suggest Kah-Lo's "Fasta". Kah-Lo previously featured on Riton's "Rinse & Repeat", which placed #55 in last year's poll. Her disaffected, bored vocal works well with the song's sleek verses - the chorus provides levity as contrast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5G09Z-lXY

last chance for me on this track and i didn't even nominate but everyone in the world should toss a vote for akanamali in your singles ballot imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKxFS8L6AlQ

or at least play that one song once. i don't ask much.

I love that Sun-EL Musician track!

if there's still people who haven't voted, let me once again talk up Aussie power-pop goddess Alex Lahey, who released I Love You Like a Brother, the hookiest rock record of 2017:

"i haven't been taking care of myself" - the mission statement, the track I nominated: https://youtu.be/d9TqFgWAWiU
"lotto in reverse" - angry break-up, inventive chord progression: https://youtu.be/qBYR_jFwrmo
"there's no money" - power ballad, she sings the hell out of it: https://youtu.be/mVTkDRC-08E

vote for the album, please

xp aw i think akanamali made my longlist but got cut for the 25 :(

last chance for me on this track and i didn't even nominate but everyone in the world should toss a vote for akanamali in your singles ballot imo

OK I'm sold

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.