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

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

1. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
2. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
3. MGMT - Little Dark Age
4. Pusha T - Daytona
5. The Breeders - All Nerve
6. Julia Holter - Aviary
7. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
8. Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
9. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
10. Richard Swift - The Hex
11. Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar
12. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
13. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
14. Prana Crafter - Bodhi Cheetah's Choice
15. Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
16. A.A.L. - Against All Logic 2012-2017
17. Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner
18. Gwenno - La Kov
19. Szun Waves - New Hymn to Freedom
20. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
21. Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread soundtrack
22. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
23. Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids - An Angel Fell
24. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
25. Cornelia Murr - Lake Tear of the Clouds

can't believe I was the only one who voted for Kaku P-Model. that album was incredible. have I taught y'all nothing

Thanks to the voter for (1) Toni Braxton and (2) Riton + Kah-Lo, both of which I nominated but different have room for on my ballot.

The Objekt album is amazing. I only just discovered it

Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save The World
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
sun-el musician – africa to the world
DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
Julia Holter - Aviary
The 1975 – A brief inquiry into online relationships
Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
oneohtrix point never – age of
Various Artists - Black Panther: The Album
Bad Bunny - X 100PRE
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Rosalía - El mal querer
Low - Double Negative
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Ben Lamar Gay - Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth
Playboi Carti - Die Lit
Danish String Quartet – Prism I
Naza - C'est la Loi

Not only did 15 out of 25 place - giving me the second highest hivemind quotient out of voters who submitted 25 picks - but most of my top ten ended in the collective top ten. I had a hivemind year. A bid sad that DJ Healer didn't make it, though.

i think this was my ballot.
such an honour being Brad and Tim F's neighbour.

the 1975 – a brief inquiry into online relationships
low – double negative
oneohtrix point never – age of
gurrumul - djarimirri (child of the rainbow)
kacey musgraves – golden hour
rosalía – el mal querer
jon hassell – listening to pictures (pentimento volume one)
sun-el musician – africa to the world
doja cat – amala
autechre – nts sessions
mewithoutyou – (untitled)
ashley monroe – sparrow
meshell ngeodecello – ventriloquism
mariah carey – caution
simmy – tugela fairy
robyn – honey
serpente – a noiva
charlie puth – voicenotes
now, now – saved
cardi b - invasion of privacy
j balvin – vibras
dj nigga fox – crânio
gang gang dance – kazuashita
mouse on mars – dimensional people
c. tangana – avida dollars

I haven't saved my ballot. I'm not sure which ones placed except for Parquet Courts and mewithoutyou. I guess Low and RBCF?

Camp Cope was my #1 vote. Sad to think I was the only one to vote for Damien Jurado.

Albums on the metal poll noms that made the general poll

Senyawa - Sujud
Ghost - Prequelle
Yob - Our Raw Heart
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt
Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone
The Armed - Only Love
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Sleep - The Sciences
mewithoutyou - (untitled)
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace

Granted that some will say some of those are not metal, but its a heavy and noisy rock and metal poll and all ilxors and lurkers are allowed to votes why not have a wee look and help drugs a money out.
(No promises you will get any drugs or money from him)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaHquVS4dUL_G07q9sOAfM-7Co2PXG6N60BDEO74cw5zrTIg/viewform

the pastebin link is the easiest one to copy and paste from

There seemed to be way more guitar-oriented entries vs previous years.

especially in the lower half. Was there a shallow year for hip hop and bobbins stuff or did they just not vote?
I haven't heard anyone say 2018 was a classic year for rock or how rock is back etc

it was a great year for bobbins but there wasn't as much consensus as the bobbins thread itself has kinda died. partially due to lack of need for discussion when a youtube link will suffice, partially due to the most vocal and interesting posters posting less or migrating away from ILM completely, and partially through the continued splintering of dance music. "house & techno" as an umbrella term seems less relevant than ever

I wasn't on the metal thread (or ilx) from about march until this poll rollout so I have no idea if the rolling thread thought it was a great year but I think there's a good chance what has happened in bobbins thread has happened on metal thread as A) it always looked dead and several high profile rolling thread posters and voters say they aren't voting in metal poll this year.

I think some of the older posters have either lost interest in metal or have lost interest in current metal and only listen to new releases by bands they already like or just listen to classic stuff.
Age catches up with metallers just like it catches up on some clubbers.

metal thread didn't feel quite as active this year as last, but as recently as last year, i believe it was the most active rolling thread ... at least in terms of posting new songs that ulysses (is ulysses the mega-Spotify playlist master? i can't remember) was tracking.

tbf most of the old metal threads were just links to the writers blogs but they've mostly migrated to twitter.

what?

Weighted ballot. Let's just say Sun-el Musician would have been in my top ten had I heard it in 2018. But better late than never I always say.

Rosalía - El mal querer
Low - Double Negative
Various Artists - Black Panther: The Album
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Tierra Whack - Whack World
Skee Mask - Compro
Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi
Lando Chill - Black Ego
serpentwithfeet - soil
Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
Rival Consoles - Persona
Beach House - 7
Dead Can Dance - Dionysus
The 1975 – A brief inquiry into online relationships
DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
Sami Baha - Free for All
Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet
Tim Hecker - Konoyo
Noname - Room 25
DJRUM - Portrait With Firewood

oh phew my album ranked comfortably at #485

If one takes the things that didn't appear on other cited lists, does one have the definition of 'ILMcore' or something?

Sun-El Musician - Africa to the World
Mr Twin Sister - Salt
Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save The World
mewithoutyou - (untitled)
ashley monroe - sparrow
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
Black Dresses - Waste Isolation
Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm
Foxing - Nearer My God
Burna Boy - Outside
Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place
Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos

etc

^^^this ballot is both very me and very peak ILM, are you some sort of wizard lol

Unweighted:

A-Sun Amissa - Ceremony in the Stillness
All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir - Aequa (International Contemporary Ensemble)
Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment
Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang & Jez riley French - The Height of the Reeds
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Bent Sørensen - Rosenbad; Pantomime (Katrine Gislinge, Stenhammar Quartet, Esbjerg Ensemble)
Daniel Bachman - The Morning Star
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
Grouper - Grid of Points
Holy Fawn - Death Spells
Horațiu Rădulescu - Complete Works for Piano (Ortwin Stürmer, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek)
Jakob Bro - Returnings
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Jörg Widmann - Drittes Labyrinth; Polyphone Schatten (S. Wegener, Ch. Desjardins, J. Widmann, WDR Sinfonieorchester, E. Pomàrico, H. Holliger)
Maarja Nuut & Ruum - Muunduja
Mihai Ritivoiu - Transcendence: Works by César Franck, George Enescu and Franz Liszt
The Necks - Body
Ola Paulson & John Tilbury - Seagull Sonatas
Penelope Trappes - Two
Saba - Care for Me
Toivo Tulev - Magnificat (various performers)
SIT - Invisibility
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace

4/25 – such is the extent of my hivemind enmeshment, apparently.

Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang & Jez riley French - The Height of the Reeds

This was the piece done for Hull being CC right? Is it a studio recording of the piece or a recording of the performance on Humber Bridge?

It's a slight edit of the performance on Humber Bridge ('only minor adjustments have been done to justify the transition from sound walk to album', says Rune Grammofon).

Thanks, will check it out. Henriksen rarely disappoints.

Django Django – Marble Skies
Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - s/t
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
Dan Lissvik – Archive
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes
Immersion - Sleepless
Kosmischer Laufer – The Secret Cosmic Music… (Vol.4)
77:78 - Jellies
bjørn torske - byen
Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvær Feat Eivind Aarset And Vladislav Delay ‎– Nordub
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
The Chills - Snow Bound
Arp - Zebra
Cave - Allways
Kasper Bjørke Quartet - The Fifty Eleven Project
The Orb – No Sounds are Of Bounds
Wordbuglar – Rhyme Your Business
Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On
Portico Quartet - Untitled (AITAOA #2)
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Mouse on Mars – dimensional people
Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha
!!! – Megamix Vol1: Shake Shake Shake
The Oscillation - Wasted Space
Ceramic Dog – YRU Still Here

the other poll rollout has started
ILM METAL POLL 2018 RESULTS THREAD!

For those of you who are fans of Moka's fabulous graphics then perhaps you might like to visit ILM METAL POLL 2018 RESULTS THREAD!

where she has done an absolutely amazing job.
Top 10 countdown is today

wait...ZERO votes for Laurie Anderson's Landfall?