2018 Albums Poll: Thread of Stats, Ballots and High-Minded Schadenfreude

Some non-placers on my ballot:
 88   Khruangbin - Con todo el mundo
103   Kyle Gann - Hyperchromatica
109   GAS - Rausch
113   Eli Keszler - Stadium
211   Richard Swift - The Hex
378   Ben Lamar Gay - Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
Some where I was all on my lonesome with others' nominations :)
538   Alberto Posadas - Erinnerungsspuren (Florian Hoelscher)
538   Demdike Stare x Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - The Feed-Back Loop
538   Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain - Adámek: Sinuous Voices
538   Kukuruz Quartet - Julius Eastman Piano Interpretations
538   The Midnight - Kids

My weighted albums ballot:

bold: did not place, italic: sole voter

Simmy – Tugela Fairy (#80)
Burna Boy - Outside (#59)
Popcaan - Forever (#116)
Akan - Onipa Akoma (#364)
Robyn - Honey (#3)
Bisa Kdei - Highlife Konnect (#404)
Sun-El Musician – Africa To The World (#9)
Ariana Grande - Sweetener (#29)
Kizz Daniel - No Bad Songz (#467)
J Balvin – Vibras (#124)
L.A.X - Rasaking (#509)
Rosalía - El mal querer (#14)
Busiswa - Highly Flavoured (#119)
Kuvie - Gruvie Vol. 1 (#642)
Mr Eazi - Life Is Eazi, Vol 2: Lagos to London (#229)
Helena Hauff - Qualm (#45)
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer (#5)
Heavy K - Respect the Drumboss 2018 (#275)
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings (#32)
Mr Twin Sister - Salt (#16)
Aya Nakamura - Nakamura (#417)
Rae Sremmurd – SR3MM (#333)
DJ Koze - Knock Knock (#35)
Reniss - Express Vol. 1 (#791)
Reniss - Express Vol. 2 (#804)

Albums that would have made my list with what I know now: Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, Die Wilde Jagd (possibly), Mariah Carey. Dark horse: Sons of Kemet.

Not exactly successful with my nominations, I was the single voter for each, the Heavy K excepted. But do check out the Akan album (fantastic Ghanian rap)!

Closest neighbour: longneck (hi again!). longneck, rob and me are the Complex posse, apparently? I’m sure I’ve read some articles of theirs through links, but I just checked and that is one ugly website. Was The Fader not available?

Final word: simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay!

my ballot, unweighted, bold did not place:
Bashung - En Amont
Beak> - >>>
Brian Eno - Music for Installations
Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke - Risha
Die Nerven - Fake
Geir Sundstøl - Brødløs
Grouper - Grid of Points
Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg - Dirt... And More Dirt
J. Mascis - Elastic Days
Jakob Bro - Returnings
Joan As Police Woman - Damned Devotion
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Julia Holter - Aviary
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - There Are Actions Which We Have Neglected and Which Never Cease to Call Us
Low - Double Negative
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Stuart Staples - Arrhythmia
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
The Breeders - All Nerve
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations
Thom Yorke - Suspiria OST
Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs

Mixed

Forgot to vote for Let's Eat Grandma, would have voted for Simmy and surprised no one else voted for Tess Roby

Mr Twin Sister - Salt
Boy Azooga - 1, 2, Kung Fu!
Goat Girl - Goat Girl
The 1975 – A brief inquiry into online relationships
Tomberlin - At Weddings
Tess Roby - Beacon
Rae Morris - Someone Out There
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
Phil France - Circle
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Tracey Thorn - Record

Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm
Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked
Hatchback - Year of the Dragon
Low - Double Negative
charlie puth – voicenotes
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
Still Corners - Slow Air
Tove Styrke - Sway
Young Galaxy - Down Time
Various Artists - Club Meduse
Various Artists - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991
Antoine Kogut - Sphere Of Existence
Gwenno - Le Kov

So, these are the albums that all got one #1 vote and no other votes (including the one I voted for):

Bill Ryder Jones - Yawn
Django Django - Marble Skies
Earthling Society - MO-The Demon
Job Sifre ‎ - Het Bestaan
Meg Bowles - Evensong: Canticles for the Earth
Monetochka - Раскраски для взрослых
Omit - Enclosures 2011-2016
Riccardo - Imprints Records Podcast #004

Apparently my biggest genre is "escape room", which made me p WTF, but led me to this interesting article: What Is Escape Room?

I got this as my biggest genre too, and I love Glenn's definition of it in the article. I guess it sort of fits what I voted for.

Weighted

Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love
Carla Dal Forno - Top Of The Pops
Julia Holter – Aviary
Cucina Povera – Hilja
Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm
Nazar – Enclave EP
Free Love - Luxury Hits
Bruce - Sonder Somatic
Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
Objekt - Cocoon Crush
Kolorit - Workshop XXI
Mr Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
Pontiac Streator and Ulla Straus – Chat
Loidis - A Parade, In The Place I Sit, The Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)
JLin – Autobiography

Big up to the organisers >>>

Favourite genre - Fluxwork!

ranked, bold didn't place. thanks to the poll runners!

Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Swearin' - Fall into the Sun
Kero Kero Bonito - TOTEP
Rico Nasty - Nasty
E-40 - Gift of the Gab
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Vince Staples – FM!
Foxing - Nearer My God
Flasher - Constant Image
Saba - Care for Me
Mount Eerie - Now Only
SOB X RBE - Gangin
Sheck Wes - Mudboy
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
Faith/Void - Embrace Nothingness
Superchunk - What a Time To Be Alive
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
The Armed - Only Love
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Julia Holter - Aviary
Grouper - Grid of Points

Heh, Tuomas: it appears that to be your top neighbour, all it took was to vote for two of the albums on your list! J Monáe obv wasn't a clincher there, but we were alone in throwing the H Cook a vote.

I didn't feel that much for my bottom votes, but I'm sad for Jiha and Aoba not being recognized for their respective genius.

Julia Holter - Aviary
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Park Jiha - Communion
Ichiko Aoba [青葉市子] - qp
Sun-el musician – Africa to the world
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Elza - Deus é mulher
Niño de Elche - Antología del cante flamenco heterodoxo
Against All Logic - 2012-2017
Rosalía - El mal querer
Clau Aniz - Filha de mil mulheres
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Tirzah - Devotion
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Burna Boy - Outside
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Khruangbin - Con todo el mundo
serpentwithfeet - soil
Tierra Whack - Whack World
Rival Consoles - Persona
Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes
Estelle - Lovers Rock
Pram - Across The Meridian

my mixed ballot, whenever i try to bold things i always go wrong

simmy – tugela fairy
Various Artists - Silk To Dry The Tears
SRSQ - Unreality
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Muqata'a - Inkanakuntu

Anatomy - You’re Nothing To Me
Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone
Black Dresses - Waste Isolation
Clarence Clarity - Think: Peace
Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm
DJRUM - Portrait With Firewood
Eartheater - Irisiri
Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton
GAS - Rausch
George Clanton - Slide
Grol the Goblin - Wizards Brew
Jerusalem In My Heart - Daqa'iq Tudaiq
luxury elite - prism
Pool Boy - Pool Boy LP
Pop Up! - Tasty
Rosen & Spyddet - Memoria
The Armed - Only Love
Various Artists - Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa
Various Artists - Club Meduse
Vessel - Queen of Golden Dogs

great top 77, even better top 100, got lots of stuff to dig into especially "fluxwork"

SRSQ album was pretty good gothwave - even if you don't know the tragic backstory it elicits plenty of emotion!

Weighted ballot, bold did not place (only 6/25, that's pretty good):

Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
MGMT - Little Dark Age
GAS - Rausch
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Julia Holter - Aviary
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Trim - 1-800 Dinosaur Presents Trim
John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
Kali Uchis - Isolation
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Low - Double Negative
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
mewithoutyou – (untitled)
Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place
Tierra Whack - Whack World
Sitka Sun - Sitka Sun
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Cat Power - Wanderer

Erm OK 7/25, I can't count.

I didn't vote as usual, cos I didn't feel like I'd listened to enough 2018 stuff to do a good ballot, but I just looked at my music.xls and apparently I listened to 209 releases from 2018 (tbf a lot of those are singles not albums), but I've only heard 6 of the top 77 albums! so I guess I've got a lot to listen to...

Second year running, my nearest neighbor was my own progeny. The apple doesn't fall, etc., etc.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, February 8, 2019 12:28 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of blowing my mind that there are parent / child ilxors

I probably heard and liked more albums last year than in any year previously, so this list feels like a drop in the ocean of what I would have liked to vote for

(biggest omissions: Ezra Furman and Ross From Friends which weren't nommed; Mr Twin Sister which I kept forgetting about while compiling or updating lists)

Low - Double Negative
Roy Kinsey - Blackie
The 1975 – A brief inquiry into online relationships
gurrumul - djarimirri (child of the rainbow)
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Kasper Bjørke Quartet - The Fifty Eleven Project
Julia Holter - Aviary
ashley monroe – sparrow
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Busiswa - Highly Flavoured
Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos
Rosalía - El mal querer
Tangents - New Bodies
Pablo's Eye - Bardo for Pablo
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes
Ryan Beatty - Boy in Jeans
Burna Boy - Outside
Rae Morris - Someone Out There
Rico Nasty - Nasty
simmy – tugela fairy
Mariah Carey - Caution

Like, I feel like I could compile a decent ballot from albums that made the 77 that I didn't vote for and still be like, yeah, that's 25 great albums right there.

This is what my ballot would have looked at if I'd remembered to vote:

Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Ought - Room Inside This World
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Sun-El Musician - Africa To The World
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Ross From Friends - Family Portrait
Dur Dur Ban - Volumes 3 & 4
Nihiloxica - Nihiloxica EP
Lost Cat - Some Loops EP
Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange
Domenique Dumont - Miniatures de Auto Rhythm
Onipa - Open My Eyes EP
Bryte - Too Good For Your Liking
Popcaan - Forever
Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM

Two of mine were ranked at the top:

sun-el musician – africa to the world (#9)
Tenderlonious featuring The 22archestra - The Shakedown (lone voter)

and then the rest were unweighted:

3 Robyn - Honey
14 Rosalía - El mal querer
19 Tracey Thorn - Record
21 Christine & The Queens - Chris
27 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
40 Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
67 Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth
83 Mr Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
98 Various Artists - We Out Here
121 Nils Frahm - All Melody
226 Kamaal Williams - The Return
298 Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams - Vanished Gardens
353 GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star

...and I was the sole voter for:

Joe Armon-Jones - Starting Today
Ashley Henry & The RE:Ensemble - Easter

My Ballot Bold DNP

YOB - Our Raw Heart
Sleep - The Sciences
Low - Double Negative
Vessel - Queen of Golden Dogs
Ghost - Prequelle
Snail Mail - Lush
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Evoken - Hypnagogia
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Senyawa - Sujud
Entropia - Vacuum
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Windhand - Eternal Return
Keiji Haino + Sumac - American Dollar Bill-Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Ian William Craig - Thresholder
Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations

I know Metal is niche around here but we do take a loose definition of the word and its really a noisy/heavy rock/metal and subgenres poll which means we have nominations .
It's also not US-centric at all and many non-English singing bands get in.

So if everybody could just take a wee look at the nominations and if you like anything please vote.

The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST

Bold didn't place, mixed ballot.

Tracey Thorn - Record
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
Neko Case - Hell-On
Christine & The Queens - Chris
Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita - SOAR
Kathryn Joseph - From When I Wake The Want Is
Sam Wilkes - Wilkes

Fatoumata Diawara - Fenfo
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy OST
Nightmares on Wax - Shape the Future
serpentwithfeet - soil
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Tunng - Songs You Make at Night
Underworld w/ Iggy Pop - Teatime Dub Encounters
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
LUMP (Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay) - LUMP
Ólafur Arnalds - re:member
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
Eric Bachmann - No Recover
Paul Weller - True Meanings

Disappointed I was the sole voter for Kathryn Joseph and Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, you folks need to check them out.

my ballot was something like

Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Sarah Davachi - Gave in Rest
Julia Holter – Aviary
Tirzah – Devotion
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Eli Keszler – Stadium
Gang Gang Dance – Kazuashita
Homeboy Sandman & Edan - Humble Pi
Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
Niño de Elche - Antología del cante flamenco heterodoxo
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Saba - Care for Me
Fatima - And Yet It's All Love
Sun-el Musician – Africa to the World
Mark Fell – Intra
Eiko Ishibashi - The Dream My Bones Dream
Erland Cooper & William Boyle – Murmuration
Ipek Gorgun - Ecce Homo
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends – Nue
Doja Cat – Amala
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Park Jiha - Philos

& if I cld keep going...

Don Toliver - Donny Womack
GAS – Rausch
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes
Shakarchi & Stranéus - Steal Chickens From Men and the Future From God
Szun Waves - New Hymn To Freedom
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love
MIKE - War In My Pen
Mr Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone
Maisha - There is a Place
DJ Richard - Dies Iræ Xerox
Syclops - Pink Eye
Rosalía - El Mar Querer
Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign - MIH-TY
Playboi Carti - Die Lit
Felicia Atkinson - Coyotes
Glenn Jones - The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works for 6-and-12-String Guitar
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Overload
Domenico Lancellotti - The Good Is A Big God
Helena Hauff – Qualm
IAMDDB - Flightmode
Oren Ambarchi, Konrad Sprenger & Phillip Sollman - Panama/Suez
Lonnie Holley - MITH
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Kojo Funds - Golden Boy
Kiran Leonard - Western Culture
Matteo Liberatore - Solos
MIKE - Black Soap
Park Jiha - Communion
Senyawa - Sujud
DJ David Goblin - Ork Muzik
Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet

seeing everyone's lists is the best bit, I'm putting together a list of things to check out. kudos to crut for putting me onto the luscious ipek gorgun album

^^ Gorgeous album.

Did not expect Jim O'Rourke to harvest precisely zero votes. Flappy did vote in this no?

I didn't copy mine but it went something like (bold didn't place):

Tangents - New Bodies
Sleep - The Sciences
The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land
Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvær feat. Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay - Nordub
Leila Abdul-Rauf - Dimunition
Low - Double Negative
The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage
Szun Waves - New Hymn to Freedom
Sandro Perri - In Another Life
Eiko Ishibashi - The Dream My Bones Dream
Boygenius - Boygenius
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is A Reptile
C. Diab - Exit Rumination
The Innocence Mission - Sun on the Square
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness - What News
Sun-El Musician - Africa to the World
Ebo Taylor - Yen Ara
Tomberlin - At Weddings
Kasper Bjørke Quartet - The Fifty Eleven Project

If I had my time again I'd defintely vote for Henri Texier's Sand Woman, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin and Music IS by Bill Frissell.

Hi! More here..

1. Tal National – Tantabara
2. Cupcakke – Ephorize
3. Pistol Annies – Interstate Gospel
4. U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
5. Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse
6. Tracey Thorn — Record
7. The Chills — Snow Bound
8. Kali Uchis — Isolation
9. Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive
10. Eric Church – Desperate Man
11. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
12. Toni Braxton — Sex & Cigarettes
13. Amen Dunes – Freedom
14. Alex Anwantder – Latinoamericana
15. Bali Baby – Baylor Swift
16. Meshell Ndegeocello – Ventriloquism
17. Troye Sivan – Bloom
18. Vince Staples – FM!
19. Ravyn Lenae – Crush
20. Ashley Monroe – Sparrow

Pusha T - DAYTONA
Tracey Thorn - Record
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
The 1975 – A brief inquiry into online relationships
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
ashley monroe – sparrow
Low - Double Negative
Pistol Annies - Interstate Gospel
Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Mr Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
The Breeders - All Nerve
Hunee - Hunchin' All Night
charlie puth – voicenotes
Rhye - Blood
Gigi Masin - Kite
Young Galaxy - Down Time
Mr Twin Sister - Salt
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Various Artists - We Out Here

how did Ross From Friends not even get nommed?

my mixed ballot (bold placed):

Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Black Dresses - Waste Isolation
Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar
DJ Richard - Dies Iræ Xerox
Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
Ghost - Prequelle
Mr Twin Sister - Salt
Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
Beak> - >>>
Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics

SHXCXCHCXSH - OUFOUFOF
Puce Mary - The Drought
Via App - Secret Rotation
Body/Head - The Switch
Julia Holter - Aviary
Neko Case - Hell-On
Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
Underworld w/ Iggy Pop - Teatime Dub Encounters
Ancient Methods - The Jericho Records
JK Flesh - New Horizon
Of Montreal - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood
Donato Dozzy - Filo Loves The Acid
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Brace Up!
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt

Disappointed that beak> got 78. Felt like it was their best album by far.

2019 was basically the year of autechre and black dresses for me.

how did Ross From Friends not even get nommed?

yes but fine with Let's Eat Grandma

I'm not surprised I was the only voter for Meg Bowles, but I do find it odd only 3 people beside me vote for Jlin... Didn't her previous albums do really well in these polls? I thought Autobiography was quite good too, but maybe the fact that it's a largely beatless soundtrack/mood piece made it less popular?

― Tuomas

Yeah, despite being a huge Jlin fan I never really spent any time with this one. I think I said on her dedicated thread that it wasn't really marketed as a "Jlin album" but more a soundtrack to someone else's thing, so that made it have less urgency for me.

it was really good, I enjoyed it, but maybe the shock of the new isn't as strong as that last one and, well, her music's super and everything but I really have to be in the mood.

there are so many albums that I should have spent more time with and probably are right up my alley -- the Lotic and Vessel ones come to mind -- but I spent so much time discovering music from previous years in 2018 that I didn't catch up with all the new releases

I'm wrapping my brain around the whole genre-as-appeal-group thing spotify has going with "escape room". going to start telling people that's my genre

The Vessel album is fantastic and could easily have been my #1

weighted

Low - Double Negative
Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes
Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Beach House - 7
Bill Frisell - Music IS
Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
oneohtrix point never – age of
Lake Ruth - Birds of America
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
Pram - Across The Meridian
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
LUMP (Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay) - LUMP
Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse
Pusha T - DAYTONA
E Ruscha V - Who Are You
Cruel Diagonals - Disambiguation
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Neko Case - Hell-On
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
Domenico Lancellotti - The Good is a Big God

Like, I feel like I could compile a decent ballot from albums that made the 77 that I didn't vote for and still be like, yeah, that's 25 great albums right there.

― Tim F, Friday, February 8, 2019 2:42 AM (five hours ago)

The thing I keep thinking about as I scroll through this thread - paying special attention to the DNPs - is just how much incredible music came out last year. (And every year, really.)

An embarrassment of riches...

Mixed weighted/unweighted, with a top 8 IIRC then the break. I can't remember exactly now what was in the top 8 but this will be pretty close. Bold DNP, bold italic = sole voter.

Low - Double Negative
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Red Velvet - Summer Magic: Summer Mini Album
APRIL - 6th Mini Album: ‘the Ruby’
Julia Holter - Aviary
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
Christine and the Queens - Chris

Mariah Carey - Caution
Tokyo Elvis - Nice & Pleasant
I Am Robot And Proud - Lucky Static
Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save The World
Robyn - Honey
Melody’s Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
Darren Hayman - Thankful Villages, Vol. 3
Kero Kero Bonito - Time ’n’ Place
Deerful - tell me I can fix this on my own
Tove Styrke - Sway
Mouse On Mars - Dimensional People
The Twelve Hour Foundation - tree little milk egg book…and other non sequiturs
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Ariana Grande - Sweetener
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Concretism - For Concrete and Country
Various Artists - The Quietened Mechanisms

https://i.imgur.com/zywVsz0.jpg

weighted, bold did not place

Autechre - NTS Sessions 1–4
Julia Holter - Aviary
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Foxing - Nearer My God
Noname - Room 25
Closer - All This Will Be
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Sleep - The Sciences
Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
mewithoutYou - Untitled
Senyawa - Sujud
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
The Armed - Only Love
Portal - ION
John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
YOB - Our Raw Heart
Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
Thou - Magus
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar

i think this was my mixed ballot.

Job Sifre ‎- Het Bestaan
Helena Hauff - Qualm
Mr Twin Sister - Salt
Geins't Naït, Laurent Petitgand - Make Dogs Sing
Suba - Wayang

Vakula - Metaphors
Prime Minister Of Doom - Mudshadow Propaganda
Kate NV - для FOR
Shelter - Profondeur 4000
Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm
Rezzett - Rezzett LP
Terekke - Improvisational Loops
Тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
Kolorit - Workshop XXI
Rex Ilusivii - Selected Works
Various - Kale Plankieren - Dutch Cassette Rarities 1981 - 1987 Volume II
E Ruscha V - Who Are You
Die Wilde Jagd ‎– Uhrwald Orange
Objekt - Cocoon Crush
Demdike Stare - Passion
Ancient Methods - The Jericho Records
DJ Richard - Dies Iræ Xerox
Various Artists - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991
Phil France - Circle
Silvia Kastel - Air Lows

there's a lot of stuff i could've added and probably would've if i'd remembered or felt differently that day. so, so many great albums came out last year

oh man, I forgot that Тпсб album was 2018! good list, karl