OH BABY LET'S MAKE: 2017 Tracks Poll debrief, ballots, and haters mad for whatever reason

I listened to the entire Spotify playlist over around twenty days. I probably skipped around a fifth of the tracks though.

TRACKS 25 - unweighted

Artificial Pleasure - Wound up Tight
Banoffee - Ripe
The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
Bonnie Li - Mallory (Emmecosta Remix)
Carino Cat - Talk to the Hand - Original Extended Edit
Drab Majesty - 39 by Design
DROELOE & San Holo ft. CUT_ - Lines of the Broken
Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000
Jagara - Real Love
Kalabrese - Rock Your Dubby
Kelela - Frontline
Kelman Duran - 1984, PRIMERO, ULTIMO
Lo Moon - This is It
Love Dance - All the Time
Kelly Lee Owens - Lucid
Snapped Ankles - Johnny Guitar Calling Gosta Berlin
Jae Stephens - 24K
Swan Meat - Bounty
The Contortionist - The Center
The Midnight - Crystalline
Touch Sensitive - Lay Down
Yves Tumor - Limerence
Tuska - Suck on your Mind
Varg ft. Young Lean - Red Line II (127 Satra C)
Von Grey - Hearse

Ah shit, I forgot I rearranged mine after voting and swapped out the bottom two for other songs. I think this is about what the original was, but a few things might have been in different spots (weighted, bold did not place):

Keyakizaka46 - Fukyōwaon
FAMM'IN - animus
Angel Haze - No Limits
Kedr Livanskiy - Fire & Water (огонь и вода)
Tentenko - 危険なハイウェイ
YEZI - Anck Su Namum
The Spook School - Still Alive
Jlin - 1%
Bicep - Aura
Yemi Alade - Mon Lo
Princess Nokia - Kitana
Ninos du Brasil ft. Arto Lindsay - Vagalumes Piralampos
Kumisolo - Pico Pico Robot Woman
Dreamcatcher - Chase Me
Sacred Paws - Strike A Match
Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
BLACKPINK - As If It's Your Last
Flowers - Say 123
Lorenzo Senni - The Shape of Trance to Come
Karen Gwyer - The Workers Are On Strike
Nachthexen - Disco Creep
Xeno & Oaklander - Moonlight
Megumi Hayashibara/Shiina Ringo - Imawa no Shinigami
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Errorsmith - I'm Interesting, Cheerful and Sociable

It felt like I had more than 5 place, but I guess I'm so used to having only one or two that it felt like loads of mine hit the big poll. Also I would've had another if I'd remembered that damn Mondo Grosso song.

Any chance you could send me my ballot as well seandalai?

Thanks

has lex stopped posting on ILM completely now? I see he voted but shame he wasn't around for the poll.

yeah i really missed his input. also didn't he always do a breakdown of nationalities at the end?

kudos to whoever had this at #1 (and to Gavin, Leeds for nominating it): Lost Souls of Saturn vs Mashrou' Leila - Bint El Khandaq.

it was an unexpected pleasure to come upon it in the nominations list

my vote was weighted and the bolded songs placed:

Kesha - Praying
Lorde - Green Light
Sigrid - Strangers
MUNA - I Know a Place
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Kelela - Turn to Dust
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv
Rae Morris - Do It
Rina Sawayama - Alterlife
Tove Styrke - Mistakes
Amber Mark - Heatwave
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
Jorja Smith x Preditah - On My Mind
SZA - Prom
Paramore - Hard Times
Nite Jewel - 2 Good 2 Be True
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
Gerd Janson x Shan - Surrender
Charly Bliss - Glitter
Kink - Perth
Charlotte Day Wilson - Doubt
Sevyn Streeter - Before I Do
Shanti Celeste - Make Time
Kah-Lo - Fasta
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine

I *think* this was my ballot in the end. Unweighted. The first ten things on it I was the sole voter for. The last five made the 77.

GIRLI - Hot Mess
Barry Adamson - I Got Clothes (ACR:MCR rework)
Nubian Mindz - Somebody Else (Cavern of Anti-Matter remix)
Allie X ft. VÉRITÉ - Casanova
Pye Corner Audio / Faten Kanaan - The Darkest Wave
Confidence Man - Bubblegum
Mura Masa ft. Christine and the Queens - Second 2 None
K. Michelle - God, Love, Sex and Drugs
Thundercat - Friend Zone
Even As We Speak - Our People Travelled Many Moons
Prins Thomas - Apokalypso 1
Saint Etienne - London Like A Distant Sun
SAICOBAB - Bx Ax Bx
Deerhoof ft. Laetitia Sadier - Come Down Here & Say That
Dawn Richard - Van Gogh
Jlin - 1%
Loreen - Jupiter Drive
Modern Cosmology (Laetitia Sadier & Mombojó) - C'est Le Vent
cupcakKe - Barcodes
Wolf Alice - Beautifully Unconventional
Charli XCX - Boys
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Paramore - Hard Times
Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill (Avalon Emerson’s Gilded Escalation)

High five to the other Prins Thomas voter. Also, many thanks to the people who voted for things I nominated but didn't have room for on my ballot in the end.

Weighted, bolded didn't place. Even though only six votes placed, felt like I was sympatico w/more than usual this year. If I'd swapped my Re-TROS vote to "Hailing Drums", it would have turned up at around 46, oh well.

01. Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
02. Re-TROS - Red Rum Aviv
03. Kehlani - Undercover
04. Disasteradio - Sweatshop
05. Little Big Town - Lost In California
06. Seyi Shay - Yolo Yolo
07. Octo Octa - Adrift (Avalon Emerson's Furiously Awake Version)
08. Niniola - Maradona
09. L’Rain - Which Fork / I’ll Be
10. the Horrors - Something to Remember Me By
11. Bunji Garlin - 1995
12. Kane Strang - Two Hearts and No Brain
13. SZA - Drew Barrymore
14. Peaking Lights - Que Du Bon
15. Polyester - Different For A Boy
16. Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
17. Karol Conká – Lalá
18. Melanie de Biasio - Your Freedom Is The End Of Me (Matthew Herbert's Whole New Dub)
19. Nadia Rose - Big Woman
20. Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings - The Doctrines Of Swedenborg
21. Shenseea – Dynamite
22. Confidence Man - Boyfriend (Repeat) (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)
23. Aigel - Tatarin
24. Chinese Football - 电动少女
25. Nikki Lane - Highway Queen

I got 10/25 in this year which I think is a personal record

unweighted, bold placed

Atelje - Zephyr
Baba Stiltz - Can't Help It
Black Merlin - Tanksport
Bless This Mess - Day-O (Past Fire Edit)
Bullion - LCD Anna
Carla dal Forno - We Shouldn't Have To Wait
Charlotte gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)
Cosmo Vitelli - The Cemetery Of Unsigned House Tracks
Dazion - Be A Man
Jex Opolis - First Stomp (NYC Dub)
Jex Opolis - Human Emotion (TV Dub)
Koehler - Azuma Glide (Commercial Zone Mix)
LOOΠΔ/yves - new
Muddy Magnolias - American Woman (David Lynch Remix)
Ninos du Brasil ft. Arto Lindsay - Vagalumes Piralampos
Oktoberklubben - Un Universo Para Los Dos
One Day In Metropia - The Unknown Soldier
Paraiso - Teu Sorriso (Jex Opolis Remix)
Paramore - Hard Times
Pender Street Steppers - Raining Again
Pessoas Que Eu Conheço - V
Rebolledo ‎– Discotico Desertico (Paulor Remix)
Tapan - Europa
Tornado Wallace - Voices
Tornado Wallace ft. Sui Zhen - Today

Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Llif3
Majid Jordan - You
Fat Joe ft. Dre - So Excited
Playboi Carti - Kelly K
Frank Ocean - Chanel
Drake - Passionfruit
French Montana - Migo Montana
Future - Sorry
Playboi Carti - Magnolia
Saint Etienne - London Like A Distant Sun
Chromatics - Shadow
French Montana - She Workin
21 Savage - Bank Account
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
Shawn Mendes - There's Nothing Holding Me Back
Miguel ft. Travis Scott - Skywalker
Lil Uzi Vert ft. The Weeknd - UnFazed
Lil Yachty - Forever Young

#TeamAviv with an act of mutually assured destruction there ;_;

Akrakabo was the best discovery of the poll for me though, so all is forgiven :)

Well, that and Blue Pedro

Ranked, bold didn't place in 77.

Hugo Massien - No Return
Kelly Lee Owens - Anxi
Waxahatchee - Silver
Gene on Earth - Pulse Mode
Richard Dawson - Ogre
Charli XCX - Boys
Minor Science - Volumes
Paramore - Rose-Colored Boy
LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby
Taylor Swift - Delicate
Aldous Harding - Imagining My Man
Beatrice Dillon & Call Super - Fluo
Kesha - Woman
Pender Street Steppers - Raining Again
Nina Kraviz - Pochuvstvui
Martin Jenkins - Dance Cave
Bullion - blue pedro
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - Barca Quemada
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Re-TROS - Hailing Drums
Cherry Glazerr - Nuclear Bomb
Errorsmith - I'm Interesting, Cheerful and Sociable
Kink - Perth
Lana Del Rey - Love

I didn’t save my ballot and I have terrible memory hehe anyway to retrieve it?

Gene on Earth - Pulse Mode

I wondered where the other vote for this came from! theres a new one out in the next week or two as well

No fuX0r scores this year?

― emil.y, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:13 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah sorry, I've had a crazy week at work and haven't had time to compile all the other critics' lists. I'll definitely get it done for next week's rollout.

I'll post the ballots that people have asked about in a few minutes!

Can, er, I get my ballot too, please?

#TeamAviv with an act of mutually assured destruction there ;_;

― #TeamHailing (imago)

Sorry for not believing in #TeamHailing! In my defence neither of the two nominated Re-TROS tracks were the singles, and I'm used to my votes for Chinese stuff being as forlorn as my votes for non-Lorde NZ stuff! Actually had more solo votes than results on in the top 77 - only person voting for Karol Conká, Chinese Football, Peaking Lights, Seyi Shay, Kane Strang, Polyester, & the Lindstrøm/Prins Thomas remix of Confidence Man.
Anyway, fingers crossed for the album to squeak in.

cryptosicko's weighted ballot:

Japandroids - North East South West
Aimee Mann - Goose Snow Cone
MUNA - Around You
Charly Bliss - Glitter
Prince - Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden
Worriers - Future Me
HAIM - Want You Back
The Magnetic Fields - '69: Judy Garland
Bill & Joel Plaskett - Solidarity
Charli XCX - Boys
Desperate Journalist - Why Are You So Boring?
Laura Marling - The Valley
Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.
The Mountain Goats - Rain in Soho
WHY? - Easy
The New Pornographers - Play Money
Downtown Boys - A Wall
The Regrettes - Juicebox Baby
Beach Slang - Nothing Can Change You
Guided by Voices - Overloaded
Mavis Staples - If All I Was Was Black
Waxahatchee - Silver
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
St. Vincent - New York

Yes indeed! Well, I might check out some of your solo votes. Everyone else, check out Re-TROS, a band only denied a place in this poll because they had the ghastly temerity to release more than one excellent song last year

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Moka's weighted ballot:

Laurel Halo - Moontalk
Mount Kimbie ft. Micachu - Marilyn
Big Thief - Haley
Danny Ocean - me rehuso
Alex G - Sportstar
Animal Collective - Man of Oil
Shabazz Palaces – Shine a Light
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
US Girls - Mad As Hell (aka M.A.H.)
Tornado Wallace ft. Sui Zhen - Today
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv
Sacred Paws – Everyday
Julien Baker -Funeral Pyre
Sakro - No Time to Explain
Drake - Passionfruit
Atelje - 50/50
Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D
Baba Stiltz - Can't Help It
Bicep - Glue
Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Calvin Harris ft. Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams - Feels
Future - Mask Off

devvvine's weighted ballot:

Foxy Dads - Mr Spilled Milk
Richard Dawson – Soldier
Kendrick Lamar - ELEMENT.
TWICE - Likey
Alvvays - In Undertow
OMB Peezy - Lay Down
Yaeji - Raingurl
Big Thief - Mythological Beauty
Sorority Noise - Disappeared
Wiley - Laptop
Mount Eerie - Soria Moria
Aimee Mann - Patient Zero
Ted Leo - William Weld in the 21st Century
Playboi Carti - Location
Oneohtrix Point Never ft. Iggy Pop - The Pure and the Damned
Charly Bliss - Glitter
Kelela - Turn to Dust
Los Campesinos! - Renato Dall'Ara (2008)
Sacred Paws - Getting Old
Tee Grizzley - First Day Out
Paramore - Hard Times
Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Llif3
Migos - T-Shirt
Peaness - Seafoam Islands
Vince Staples - Yeah Right

omar little's weighted ballot:

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Pa’lante
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
Kendrick Lamar - FEEL.
Kendrick Lamar - DNA
Kamasi Washington - Truth
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume You Wear?
Saint Etienne - Dive
Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - An Intention
Joan Shelley - If the Storms Never Came
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Johnny Jewel – Windswept
Pumarosa - Honey
Kendrick Lamar ft. U2 - XXX.
Kelly Lee Owens - Lucid
Pinkshinyultrablast - Find Your Saint
Nikki Lane - Highway Queen
Patricia - I Know The Face, But Not The Name
Land of Talk - Inner Lover
Princess Nokia - Kitana
Yaeji - Raingurl
The Juan Maclean - The Brighter the Light
Mark Barrott - Mokushō
Laserdance - Skydiver

Simon H.'s unweighted ballot:

Kehlani - Undercover
Susanne Sundfør - Undercover
Julien Baker -Funeral Pyre
Body Count - No Lives Matter
The Mountain Goats - Wear Black
The Horrors - Something to Remember Me By
Rapsody - Pay Up
Noga Erez - Dance While You Shoot
Alvvays - In Undertow
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Rozwell Kid - UHF on DVD
Midland - Drinkin' Problem
Sun El-Musician feat. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Chromatics - Shadow
Nine Inch Nails - Less Than
Odonis Odonis - Nasty Boy
Pardison Fontaine - Food Stamps
Partner - Play the Field
Kelela - Frontline
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
The Killers - The Man
SZA - Drew Barrymore
Vince Staples - Yeah Right
Camp Cope - The Opener

and this was my ballot, everything on it is awesome:

Mariam the Believer - Crust
The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Alvvays - In Undertow
Octo Octa - Until the Moon Sets

Emma Ruth Rundle - The Distance
Colin Stetson - Spindrift
Charlotte Adigery - 1,618
Mark Barrott - Mokusho
Paramore - Hard Times
Amadou & Mariam - Bofou Safou
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet - Eh Ya Ye
Atelje - 50/50
Kelela - LMK
Lindstrom ft. Jenny Hval - Bungl (Like a Ghost)
The Golden Filter - End of Times (Dub Mix)
Miguel - Pineapple Skies
Avalon Emerson - One More Fluorescent Rush
Johan Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren ft. Sally Shapiro and Tommy '86 - Aurora Over Odega (Remix)
Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
Virginia Wing & XAM Duo - Good Roads Fair Weather
Keita Sano - With the Lights
Perfume - Housekino Ame
Loreen - Jupiter Drive
Dolce - Hågkomstljud

Weighted (only 24 cos I miscounted)

Tornado Wallace ft. Sui Zhen - Today
Octo Octa - Adrift (Avalon Emerson's Furiously Awake Version)
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Skee mask - routine
The Juan Maclean - The Brighter the Light
Ryuichi Sakamoto - andata (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix)
Lanark artefax - touch absence
Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix)
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
S.A.M. - Pour Aisha
Shinichi atobe - regret
Telephones - DTMF (Call Super remix)
Tornado Wallace - Voices
Bicep - Glue
Domenique dumont - +371
Johan Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren ft. Sally Shapiro and Tommy '86 - Aurora Over Odega (Remix)
Bola - Herzzatzz
Argoman - chimicalissimo
Palms Trax - Honey Lemongina
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra - Condominium
Charlotte gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)
Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings - The Doctrines Of Swedenborg

My ballot - weighted, bold didn't place:

Dua Lipa - New Rules
Octo octa - adrift (Avalon emerson's furiously awake version)
little big town – lost in california
Mama - Unmask Me
Taylor Alxndr – Nightwork
Yemi Alade - Mon Lo
Stefflon Don - 16 Shots
Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill (Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation)
French Montana feat. Swae Lee - Unforgettable
Bicep - Aura
Carmen villain - planetarium (gigi masin remix)
Loreen - Jupiter Drive
Luis Fonsi ft Daddy Yankee - Despacito
Maroon 5 ft. SZA - What Lovers Do
Superpitcher - Pocket Love
Tornado Wallace ft Sui Zhen - Today
Distruction Boyz - Omunye
03 Greedo - Never Bend
Call Super - Fluenka Spoke
DJ Spinall feat. Wizkid - Opoju
The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
Skee mask - routine
Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
Aidonia - Yeah Yeah
Jammz – Who’s That Girl

No surprise that brad is my closest neighbour.

Weighted

Mondo Grosso - Labyrinth
Laura Marling - Soothing
Charly Bliss - Glitter
IU ft. G-Dragon - Palette
Cornelius - If You're Here
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Charli XCX - Boys
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
SHIO - Extrication
Mashrou' Leila - Roman
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
Ronika - Never My Love
FAMM'IN - animus
Paramore - Fake Happy
Rina Sawayama - Cyber Stockholm Syndrome
Lorde - Supercut
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
Kehlani - Undercover
RABBII - All Men Must Die
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
The xx - I Dare You
Taemin - Move

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Yeah YEAH, yeah YEAH, yeah YEAH, yeah

in that vein, who voted Shenseea's Dynamite at #1?

oops accidentally bolded CRJ and stormzy but whatevs - it's too early in the morning where i am xp

Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Charli XCX - Boys
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Lorde - Green Light
Banoffee - Ripe
SOPHIE - It's Okay to Cry
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
Burial - Rodent
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Lorenzo Senni - The Shape of Trance to Come
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Kelela - LMK
Drake - Passionfruit
ANGEL-H0 - Obeisance
Tarquin, TSVI and Luru feat Jammz - Come To The Dance
Errorsmith - I'm Interesting, Cheerful and Sociable
Keyakizaka46 - Fukyōwaon
Tentenko - 危険なハイウェイ
BLACKPINK - As If It's Your Last
Kumisolo - Pico Pico Robot Woman
Tatarka - Алтын
Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
Balako - Hora de Balako
Girlpool - 123

This year is easily my most hivemind.

Thanks to all of you! It's a lot of fun to watch the votes come in.

Without you, none of this is possible (I'm sure not countin' all this shit).

1. “Bobby,” Alex G
2. “Location,” Playboi Carti
3. “Stay the Course,” Feelies
4. “Continental Breakfast,” Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
5. “Sixteen,” Diet Cig
6. “No Question,” Waxahatchee
7. “To the Moon,” Smokepurpp
8. “Apoptosis,” Tall Friend
9. “Snow,” Angus & Julia Stone
10. “In Undertow,” Alvvays

I lived in a Top Neighborhood with edcasual many years ago, and we were only six houses apart in 2017.

seandalai -- sorry to hassle, just wanted to make sure you saw my request for my ballot. you can ilxmail it to me!

weighted, didn't place, sole voter

Sun-El Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Future - Sorry
Lil Uzi Vert ft. Oh Wonder - The Way Life Goes
Kelela - Frontline
SZA - The Weekend
Kesha - Praying
Tornado Wallace - Voices
Kendrick Lamar - DNA.
HAIM - Want You Back
21 Savage - Nothin New
PnB Rock - Selfish
The xx - I Dare You
Sevyn Streeter - Before I Do
French Montana ft. Swae Lee - Unforgettable
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
Becky G ft. Bad Bunny - Mayores
LeToya Luckett - Back 2 Life
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Miranda Lambert - Tin Man
Future - Mask Off
Kendrick Lamar - FEEL.
Future - Hallucinating
Chris Jeday, J Balvin & Ozuna ft. Arcangel - Ahora Dice
Marshmello ft. Khalid - Silence
Danny Ocean - Me Rehúso

Did not place

Lorde - Green Light
Alvvays - Not My Baby
Julien Baker - Hurt Less
Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.
Freddie Gibbs - 20 Karat Jesus
Charli XCX - Track 10
Lorde - The Louvre
Kesha - Praying
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
Lana Del Rey - Coachella-Woodstock In My Mind
Kendrick Lamar - DNA
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Jessie Ware - Your Domino
The National - Guilty Party
Alvvays - In Undertow
Burial - Rodent
Drake - Passionfruit
HAIM - Want You Back
Kesha - Woman
Lana Del Rey - Love

Omar yr ballot ws posted by sean abt 12 posts up from your own

and my favorite ten tracks I did not know about before the poll.

Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
LOOΠΔ/yves - new
Mama - Unmask Me
Yemi Alade - Mon Lo
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Laurel Halo - Moontalk
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
L’Rain - Which Fork / I’ll Be
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

Craig Boingo, so you're the other Balako voter.

I returned the favor (without realizing it) by voting for one of your more obscure album nominations without ever paying attention to who had nominated it, one of the last things I listened to before voting that actually made my ballot. I'm not going to give away the specifics, not that it has any chance of placing.

oops sorry sean. Thx or something.

thx for posting mine Sean!

A reminder for those so inclined that the metal poll is still open! Rollout starts shortly after the main album poll

The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

I'm considering submitting a single-vote ballot with Värimyrsky on it for the metal poll, but I feel like that's pretty irresponsible.

some favourite 2017 tracks that felt like omissions:

machine woman - camile from ohm makes me feel loved

beyonce/jay z - shining

peaking lights - love can move mountains

s.o.n.s. - a new life

japanese breakfast - diving woman

gaussian curve - the distance

Thanks for posting my ballot Sean!

weighted:

Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
Charli XCX - Boys
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
SZA - Love Galore
SOPHIE - It's Okay to Cry
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv
LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby
Subin - Circle's Dream
Wizkid - Sweet Love
Guru Randhawa - Suit Suit
Future - Incredible
Lorde - The Louvre
Jay-Z - Smile
Sauti Sol ft. Patoranking - Melanin
Simi - Love Don't Care
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill (Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation)
Future - Mask Off
Kamasi Washington - Truth
Barbara Hannigan/Luciano Berio – Sequenza 3
Oneohtrix Point Never ft. Iggy Pop - The Pure and the Damned
J Hus - Plottin
Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamal

Thanks seandelai!

Justice for Ka5sh, guys.