ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

excellent image on Crew! love this song. I kind of thought this had caught on more widely than only 5 votes though.

I don't remember 'Volumes' from the playlist but listening again now and it's lovely, the vocal clips actually took a bit of getting used to though!

https://i.imgur.com/iTgFcgz.jpg

73 KELELA "LMK" [151 points, 7 votes]

https://youtu.be/ePi5BLJogyA

I love this track from my favorite album of 2017.

wow i thought this would be way higher. i voted for the album and couldn't quite make room for it though

don't think i voted for LMK so maybe i shouldn't be too surprised to see it so low but good god, TOO LOW

great tune
think it just missed out my 25

wow this IS low. nice tune

The albums I really loved made me skip voting for individual tracks of it tbh. Great song.

Yeah this is great too.

fully on board with a one-track-per-artist policy but album-or-track feels insane to me. anyway we've done this to death

It's not album or track per se, just that personally it played out that way for me this year (also ran out of time to do it properly etc)

Kelela's stuff went right over my head in a similar way to FKA Twigs' stuff a few years ago. Shame because with both those artists they were touted as big innovators but there's something that doesn't quite click it for me.

i guess that at times i employed that strategy as a tiebreaker for some of my track selections. fine fine it's all fine

ha different strokes i guess
always go 'album or track' personally

Kelela, like FKA twigs, is not for me. This track's pretty decent though.

I'm generally an "album or track" person as well, though I made an exception this year

https://i.imgur.com/Nrs1jrJ.jpg

72 LAUREL HALO "Moontalk" [142 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/sLcQ8zxyTTo

I like Moontalk a lot better than the other stuff I'd heard from this album, reminds me of YMO somewhat

Oh, good, I had a feeling I'd be Moontalk's only voter. Also voted for Despacito - we use the Bieber version every night in our panto (at my suggestion!) and, having never overheard it before, I find myself enjoying it more and more.

I'm generally an "album or track" person as well, though I made an exception this year

Same here - a big part of it for me is wanting to give credit to things like non-album singles or just one-off moments of brilliance. Also I think it makes both rollouts more interesting if there's less overlap between them.

I just vote for the songs I like the best, lol.

Same.

Within reason, though. There are a lot of songs I like each year that I don't even bother to nominate, much less vote for, because I am an island.

If it's a matter of choosing one track over another due to space, I'll take the one I voted the album for off, otherwise WGAF?

https://i.imgur.com/J4abuI1.jpg

71 TORNADO WALLACE ft. SUI ZHEN "Today" [153 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/1W9Wn1RSp4c

niiiiice

now here's the real patrick bateman shit

oh this is lovely

i listened to the tornado wallace record at the beginning of the year but never really revisited it. it's so lovely

didn't really "get" the larger project of the laurel halo album but "moontalk" is nice

Nice. Think I voted for Voices over this but both are great

I realised today that these end of year lists are my favourite thing about January (maybe the only thing I like about this time of year).

Cool results so far. Avalon Emerson is one the songs I discovered going through the Spotify playlist in the last month. It didn't quite make my final list. Happy to see it place.

Take Me Apart is an album I enjoyed, but didn't spend enough time with before voting. Definitely an album where I'd find it hard to pick out individual highlights.

This is good!

This Tornado Wallace song is gorgeous.

Just realised that the version of Despacito I've been subjected to on a daily (see: hourly) basis over the last months has been the Bieber version. This version is so much better

hm maybe i should go back to the laurel halo album, i loooove "moontalk"'s sorta deconstructed scritti polittiness now

I have actual terrestrial college radio to thank for turning me on to Tornado Wallace. God bless the handful of stations left that haven't been relegated to streaming-only status.

yeh this tornado wallace song is so gorgeous

i didn't really click with the tornado wallace album, maybe it was just a bit too emotionally neutral for me

loved all of the laurel halo album, but moontalk sounds a lot more focussed that much of the rest of it and yeah, i totally get the ymo shout. didn't vote for it though

https://i.imgur.com/Wmw70pz.jpg

70 TAYLOR ALXNDR "Nightwork" [153 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/ZsKhfKYrbc8

yessssssss

list slaps so far

This reminds me of 2011 in a good way. Sits somewhere sonically between Azari & III, Jamie Woon and Hercules & Love Affair

never heard of this before but i love it

Lots of great tracks so far! Been adding a few new discoveries to my lists.

Nightwork rips

just over 3,000 views on YT, so I'm curious how you all heard this one? I know Tim posted about it on his year-end thread

tune *really* reminds me of something else, can't think what. do like it though, that understated vocal suits it pretty well

ah yeah i completely underestimated the laurel halo record

Lol