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

I've got the flu, so spent a good part of this afternoon listening to tracks bigged up in this thread. There are now six or seven strong new contenders for inclusion in my votes. I struggled last year with new music discovery, having devoted most of my time to building my DJ boxes with old music, so this was most welcome.

both the simmy and sun-el albums deserve space on your lists

the hasty cramming is the most fun part of this whole thing

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, January 6, 2019 11:29 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sun-el was my best discovery from last year's rollout, and the album was my summer soundtrack. The sun-el thread then led me to Simmy, whose tracks are proving damned difficult to whittle down right now (but I've got it down to three).

Damn, I guess I just figured someone (anyone?!) would've voted for the closest thing to a good New Order 2018 single - The Liminanas' "The Gift" (featuring Peter Hook!). Granted, it's not apex New Order, but definitely in the top end of "Waiting for the Siren's Call"-era New Order.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:00 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― ufo, Friday, January 11, 2019 4:54 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

check "dark stain" by exploded view (2018)

https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/album/obey

^ brilliant record, in my ballot's top ten

this is the first year i've nominated, and will vote soon. also my first time campaigning !

so, what is my favorite* track (song) of the year ? it's called "trouble" by a band called grapetooth. goofy wonky synth-pop with beastie boys-esque shout vocals, almost like the B boys did a half-assed approximation of a "low"-era bowie track with shaggy but compelling results. the music video is also a real joy imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOpnSldGpU

*not really it's just tons of fun and i haven't heard anybody talk about it round these parts

Don't know the band, but 'grapetooth' is a literal translation of the Chinese name for Spain.

Things you were shockingly old when you learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m5_Jdfpo8

whoever nominated this it kicks a ton of ass thank you

ugh sorry for embed got too excited

xp

does it mean that spain is like a giant tooth full of grapes just dangling off the end of europe ? or is it more like Land of the Purple-Toothed Winos ?

Sooo...due to uh "IT issues" I think we're going to extend the deadline by a week.

Official announcement to follow

Spotify is blocked by local government where I am but I had cause to be in a neighbouring canton where they had spotify booths in many of the local bars, I thought I would give the playlist a cursory listen because playlists of huge numbers of songs is a minor form of incarceration. I started with something called cosmic sheldrake, don't know if i was unlucky but this is truly absymal, I've worked in an office before, I've heard that Imagine Dragon song that sounds like fascism about making packed lunches. And mates, this garbage is the lute playing cousin of that, the kind of compadre that is singing about a local river while making plans to pollute it with toxic dye via a management company in his brothers name

No

<3

wow that Panama Keys remix owns

I've heard that Imagine Dragon song that sounds like fascism about making packed lunches.

haven’t laughed this hard seems like forever, ty

Many xps- loanwords in Chinese don't usually get new characters, so something with the same sound is assigned. grape tooth = putao ya = Portugal, so not Spain, which would be xibanya, 'west class tooth,' yes this is a bit off topic now

"Vyrgin Island" off that Panama Keys release is excellent too

Sooo...due to uh "IT issues" I think we're going to extend the deadline by a week.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:11 AM (fourteen hours ago)

This would be great for me b/c the deadline coincides with both a house inspection and a funeral and I've been stressing about those instead of finishing my ballot. Poor priorities, I know.

I also appreciate this extension, it's been a very busy week

dear saer: i'm sorry i'm not sorry

Yay @ extension!!!

So is this officially official now?

Thanks for the extension guys, I was starting to panic at getting my tracks ballot done, having spent many hours riffling through the spotify play list (thanks forks...). I didn't manage to get many nominations in this year, but while I'm here let me lobby for Julia Jacklin, in particular 'Head Alone', if not just for the delight of the bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3IJT3Ke0Y&frags=pl%2Cwn

Looks like that didn't work, maybe this will?

https://youtu.be/0Z3IJT3Ke0Y

Hello seandalai: When I voted, I chose "mixed" ballot, then stupidly forgot to put the extra line break between the ranked and unranked lists. I'm fine with just ranking the whole thing if that's easier.

whew I was slamming together my ballots last minute style the extension is very welcome, ty!

if you haven't heard it yet, Sloppy Jane's 'Mindy' is one of the wildest songs I've heard in a while.

Thanks for this! I liked the song so much I streamed the album, and liked the album so much I bought it and have listened to it about four times in the last two days. If I get around to voting in this poll, it'll make my ballot.

When is the extension to?

grapetooth are great, i second that recommendation

exploded view also awesome, i'm going to see anika in a couple weeks here with a local dub punk band called cool flowers opening for them, looking forward to it

It's official: voting will now end at Midnight PST on Friday, January 25th, 2019 (i.e. Saturday morning in the UK).

Can a friendly mod update the top of the thread?

Hello seandalai: When I voted, I chose "mixed" ballot, then stupidly forgot to put the extra line break between the ranked and unranked lists. I'm fine with just ranking the whole thing if that's easier.

― beard papa, Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:47 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you vote again and post here, I'll go back and delete your first ballot.

Yay @ extension!1!

Well over a quarter of the youtube playlist is friendly and effusive, top marks to the authorities

Yay @ extension but also boo @ extension as I think I was almost done but now have an extra week to listen to more stuff and then try and work out what I'm going to have to axe to fit it in

oh i had a look and Lee Burton's 1420hz has been deleted from youtube must have had a run in with the authorities in Athens

if anyone wants to re-add it then there is another copy of it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXlLwIGaho

Would it be possible for me too to resubmit my ballot? I did it in a haste, and now I've realised I'd like to add and change a few things, if it's not too much of a hassle?

Voted :)

Think this might be another year where I'm the only one who voted for my #1 track :(

Original post updated to reflect the new deadline by the way.

Thanks for this! I liked the song so much I streamed the album, and liked the album so much I bought it and have listened to it about four times in the last two days. If I get around to voting in this poll, it'll make my ballot.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, January 17, 2019 7:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes it! I found it through a very unlikely acquaintance's sharing it and got kind of obsessed with a few of the songs on there, but I have no idea how he found it or how popular it is or much of anything about them honestly. They've never been mentioned on ILX apparently? I thought I might have been taking crazy pills because virtually everything else ever recorded has been mentioned on here at some point!!

There are 7 of the 9 songs from the robyn album nominated but the only one i like isn't.

The two best songs on the album are the ones that didn't get nominated smfh

Yay on the extension! There were four pretty big albums that I've yet to check out that I wanted to get at least one listen in before voting.

Maggie Rogers - Fallingwater

i’m glad someone nominated this bc it’s prob gonna sneak onto my ballot, the album made me like it even more

i never loved you fully in the way i should
i fought the current running just the way you would
and now iiiiiiiiiiiii

oh nice i had missed that there was a maggie album this year

Atropos, the closing track on the Harmony Rockets album is gorgeous.

xp the maggie album came out today, so you missed nothing

lol