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

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!

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

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