ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

also, when the vocals come in >>>>>>>>>>

mewithoutyou: "julia (or, holy to the lord on the bells of horses)": this is the lead single for my favorite album of the year so i'm a little split on whether i'm gonna vote for it in the tracks poll, but before i even heard the album i thought this was so massive and their best song yet, just a total bath of guitars

That Peach track is wonderful it's true.

i'll be honest i never manage to narrow down the songs into a ballot i can actually submit, i love the lobbying thread because it gets me even farther from actually submitting a ballot

it sounded awful, but this was just a first response!

wrong thread!

Anyone with an interest in Richard Youngs should check out his new Arthur Russell-esque AMOR album. It's a December release and as with most of Youngs' stuff now it hasn't got much attention. It's really lovely.
spotify:album:1K3rgeE3jhJzeNZ8q56YzU

^^^ yep it's good

talking about youngs, i liked "red and blue bear" from last year a lot but i don't think i nommed it

put together a rough version of my ballot tonight. altho it's not likely that anything that i hear this late in the game will make it onto my final list, especially given how many tough cuts i already made up to this point, i still look forward to checking out ppl's lobbying selections :)

Noticed one error on the album list, the artist name "Jaakko Eino Kalevi" is misspelled as "Jaakko Eino Kaveli".

waka jaakko flame

Also, there are two albums there by "Johnny Greenwood" and "Jonny Greenwood", I presume it's the same guy?

"Jaakko", "Eino", and "Kalevi" are all popular male names in here, you racist. :)

Jaakko homo

A few of my favourites from this year:

ЛУНА - Спящая красавица - hypnotic Ukrainian electro-pop

Nego do Borel - Me Solta - hyperactive funk carioca. The video is divisive for a variety of reasons but the song bangs

Clement Froissart - Peupleraie melancholy French synthpop. All done a million times before but still strangely affecting

Talisto - Te Llamé ft. Diego Adrián & Ms Nina Woozy neoperreo reggaeton from Argentina via Stockholm

Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой Simple, charming Russian indie-electro-pop. I think Totibadze releases songs at a rate of about one a year but, when she gets around to it, they tend to be good.

For albums, my favourite by a mile was Monetochka's:

Monetochka / монеточка

I also really enjoyed Angele's oddly calming Belgian pop-reggae despite the Trenchant Social Commentary and Nicole Dollanganger's Tumblr-goth folk

I'm definitely into that first one you posted. I'll rep for a little bit of stuff soon!

The Makaya McCraven album (Universal Beings) has sounded better and better to me the more time I've spent with it. I'd start a thread but I don't think I have anything very smart to say about it. Anyone even a little jazz-curious should check it out though. It's very approachable and the production approach of mixing and looping live recordings is super effective.

I never know what dancehall might appeal to non-partisans, but two newcomers, Koffee - Toast and Rygin King - Tuff, are battling it out for my top slot.

Vote for Nyan Cat!

some percys

Man Power - Barranquilla Trifle (Ruf Dug Zouk Remix) - everyone said "Neutron Dance" was a sucessor to "Inspector Norse" but it is actually horrific and chintzy and this is so much better - just totally gleeful, shamelessly buoyant dance music that sounds properly tropical

Farao - Marry Me - the album didn't quite match the heights of this but if you're looking for a substitute for Susanne Sundfor circa "Ten Love Songs" then this is definitely for you

Bo'vel - Check 4 U - this is old but it was reissued this year and it's everything I like in music - r&b vocals, a slow groove and thick humid bass - 2018 feels like a big year for a streetsoul revival thanks to certain NTS Radio shows and this is possibly the pinnacle of the sound

Feeling like a personal failure for forgetting to get "Gold Purple Orange" on the tracks list.

had the nominations on shuffle for a few days now, heard some great tunes

highlight of all those that i hadnt heard before; 'hera in the valley' - listened to it about three times in a row now top stuff

home sick, should finally finish the singles playlist.

the first year I actually think "yeah, I'll nominate/vote!" and I miss the nomination deadline

good thing there's so much great stuff already there ;)

latest v cool discovery: the jean grae/quelle chris album

Jean Grae/Quelle Chris is so much fun, definitely voting for it

thirded; it's a killer album and maybe the first time i really fully embraced Jean Grae

Okay, I'm done with the singles playlist. Here's everything that's available on US Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5An136hLul4w2N80GQ92rA?si=2vJObQ-4SrGLniMFddMGqg

66 songs that are not on Spotify but that are on YouTube are available here and I recommend you give them a listen... some hidden gems!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqiswAZfVPo7ukF0c4p8B55JCRt0jEA3

Here's links to all the nominated songs that are not available on either Spotify or YouTube:
? “November Air” - https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/november-air
Army Of Moths “So Long” - https://armyofmoths.bandcamp.com/track/so-long-3
Child's Pose “Feral” - https://childspose.bandcamp.com/track/feral
Dazion “Dragon Wave” - https://soundcloud.com/safe-trip/sets/st013-dazion
Flowers “Long Song” - https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/long-song
Nick Omiccioli “The Field Well” - https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-omiccioli/the-field-well-2017-for-chamber-winds
Nick Omicciol and newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble “Haunted Seas” - https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-omiccioli/haunted-seas-2018-for-amplified-soprano-string-quartet
Barbara Panther “Feminine” - http://barbarapanther.com/
Caroline Park “Imagining Entering (but will leave you to it)” - https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/track/imagining-entering-but-will-leave-you-to-it
SARANA “Rodan” - https://noisebombing.bandcamp.com/track/rodan
Seahawks “Tears of the Deep” - https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/tears-of-the-deep
Star Period Star “The Pragmatist” - https://starperiodstar.bandcamp.com/track/the-pragmatist
Sterbus “Mate In 4/4” - https://sterbus.bandcamp.com/track/mate-in-4-4
Sunwatchers “Loop #2” - https://sunwatchers.bandcamp.com/track/loop-2
Tomoe Tazikawa “うすいいのり” - https://soundcloud.com/headzpromo/amphora
Terre Thaemlitz “Names Have Been Changed (Sprinkles' House Arrest)” - https://boomkat.com/products/deproduction-ep-1 (clip)
Total Mom “Uncomfortable” - https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/uncomfortable
They Might Be Giants “Last Wave” - https://vimeo.com/253025437
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Albatross (Blend)” - https://soundcloud.com/kfw/fleetwood-mac-albatross-blend
Peter J. Woods “Feral Leather” - https://peterjwoods.bandcamp.com/track/another-form-of-feral-leather

Cavern of Anti-Matter's “Mannequin Metric” is the only nominated song that's nowhere to be found to stream; I recommend everyone vote for it just to see what happens.
https://www.discogs.com/Cavern-Of-Anti-Matter-Play-In-Fabric/release/12680815

If anything you have nominated (or something you saw someone else nominated) isn’t included anywhere above, please drop me a note via ILXmail and I’ll fix it.

THANK YOU! for this, this is the first year i am trying to at least give everything a phantom of a shot and this makes it 100000% easier <3

(been doing the singles in alphabetical order since the spotify list first went up; gonna do a second pass on everything added in the past week or so that i may have missed; halfway through "T" now)

also i am very out of the loop so some of these "discoveries" may be well-trod but Negative Gemini, Otha, Pillow Queens, Saloli, and SOPHIE have been very pleasant surprises that might make my ballot(s)!

(also The Beths, Black Dresses, Camp Cope, Carla Del Forno, Kristin Hersh, MNEK, and Perfume and a few others, it's actually a very long list)

and to think i haven't even gotten to the beloved upthread Tropical Fuck Storm yet!

i'm gonna rep hard for George Clanton itt

glad it's helpful Will! I'm finding lots to enjoy myself.

NEGATIV GEMINI is awesome and never that ep never got the hype it deserved.

her LP Body Work is the one I keep finding myself going back to, it's better each time I listen to it

“Mannequin Metric” is the only nominated song that's nowhere to be found to stream; I recommend everyone vote for it just to see what happens

yes, do that ;-) S'really good, honest. Just Tim on his own doin' a folky, atmospheric piece, with harpsichord and bells and very subtle electric guitar and electronics.

Alternatively y'all can come round my house to listen to the record.

I doubt this will have all that much traction on ilx, but I am in love with the band Anatomy, and nominated both the album and this track: 'Anatomy Theme'. I guess they would fall under sad queer post-punk artrock noise?

For the psych fans, Kuunatic from Japan toured the UK this year and fucking killed it, I nominated the track Roho Ulio Toweka.

For the KPop fans, both G-Idle - HANN and Gugudan - Not That Type are worth checking out - not sure how much they got talked about on the rolling thread.

I also noticed that someone nominated the Spook School's 'Still Alive' this year, which I would vote for but it was my #7 last year - anyone into queer indiepop please vote for it, I can't really vote for it two years running!

ulysses, just curious, do you have a subconscious mental block against the word "tracks" or... ?

Oh shit, it's time to VOTTTTTE

JF, i suppose i do!

The Youtube playlist isn't bad at all! Manageable size too

I have far too many albums to vote for, but not many have individual tracks nominated too, so I reckon I'll probably be quite open to tracks-lobbying, btw.

There's only one song I regret forgetting to nominate

https://youtu.be/hX0468_fj1M

'HANN' was a kpop thread favourite, i'm considering voting for it. 'Anatomy Theme' and 'Roho Ulio Toweka' are both pretty cool too so thanks for those emil.y

Not many of my favourite tracks will make it in all probability, but depending on how much ILM likes monstrously climactic emo gothgaze and Joy Division keyboards (paging DJP!) I think Snape - Waiting For Death could have its fans

I'd also like to root for the following widescreen-metalcore-falling-into-a-Cardiacs-blender brilliance, from an album that I hold very dear: The Armed - Luxury Themes - jawdropping, I'm sure you'll agree

Next, and also from albums I love, are two take-or-leave ten-minute jobs. You know me by now. Machine Girl - A Decent Man is digital hardcore that swallows the Vision Creation Newsun pill halfway through, and Thumpermonkey - Make Me Young, Etc is PROGGE - a swelling, symphonic paean to the end of the world that stands alongside the mastery of prime Genesis and *waffles on for thirty increasingly awful paragraphs*

And Young Dreams - My Brain On Love is probably my favourite pop song of 2018. Genre: BAROQUE VAPORGUM. Pure Shambhala

My best discovery from others' track nominations is undoubtedly Jimothy Lacoste - Subway System, which doubles as video of the year, breakout UK star of the year and a worthy ILM poll successor to Blue Pedro I HOPE. FFO comedy rap that's actually good, and metro systems the world over

lol, I probably will throw Jimothy a vote. Will check out your other recommendations too, I only know JL and MG.

And I'll certainly check out yours - not sure I've heard any of them yet!

'I Can Speak Spanish' is the best Jimothy fwiw.

My biggest discovery so far listening to the nominated tracks on shuffle is Joanna Wang - I Dream We Will Be Together Again. So simple and elegant and amazing.

I'm amazed you're not already a JW fan!

the closest thing to a good new order single last year was krystal klear - neutron dance

― ufo, Friday, January 11, 2019 10:54 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOT TRUE. i know i am responding to a two-week-old post, the nominations are over and no one cares, but neutron dance is boring af and the lauer track "power" is an actually fun and engaging new order knock-off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xshp5xPEMY

surprised that album didn't get nommed

Any chance I could still submit my ballot?? I’ve had it basically ready for over a week but got caught up working really late last night and forgot to send it in

― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, January 26, 2019 7:07 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry bout this, but Moka only got the weekend to get all the images in shape for Monday so we had to close up when we did.

you forgot to send me the template for the comedy placements

they're en route pigeon post

the Lauer album is indeed very good and i probably would have voted for it if i'd heard it in time

So, when does the result rollout start?

After they agree on presentation and YT links. Clearly they're just enjoying the fact they know the results and we don't :P

the rollout usually starts a few hours from now, when the americans have woken up

How about the albums rollout?

Next Monday I presume

I'll start a thread around 9 for singles.

so uh is it too late to vote

kinda
ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I forgot to vote too so yet again I will have a little pity party as I read the results

arrrgh I can't believe I completely missed this thrrreeeeaaad

your votes are with us in spirit, unless they're bad

Especially if they're bad, surely?

arrrgh I can't believe I completely missed this thrrreeeeaaad

― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, January 28, 2019 8:31 PM

Jeez dude, voting was even extended by a week this year.