sean- would you kindly confirm that I chose “Weighted” for my albums ballot, which I submitted yesterday? ― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 02:20 (twenty hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 02:20 (twenty hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
You did indeed
― VOTE! In the 2019 EOY Poll (seandalai), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
I'll recommend a couple of thematically-linked things:
Over the last few years there has been a boom in Ukrainian artists combining folk elements with electro / R&B / rap - most prominently Onuka, who did the interval show at Eurovision in Kyiv. There's a bunch of great stuff in this vein from 2019.
Zventa Sventana ft Ivan Dorn - Muzha Doma Netu (Husband's Not At Home).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tY4OK-Dg_s
Alina Pash's Bosorkanya (Witch) plays up the occult / folk magic element:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFFCbN49jG0
Pash also appears on Padlo by Alyona Alyona, who started out as a primary school teacher in rural Ukraine making viral videos and within about a year was one of the country's top rappers. Her album, Pushka, is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hiIhJNc8o
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 08:24 (four years ago) link
I'd like to big up 'Shuga' by Sefa. The 'shug-AH, shug-AH, gimme that - shug-AH' refrain has been going round my head for months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcT0fhSpG0
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link
Stuff I want to boost:
This one has gone down well on the Shambhala thread, two women from Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWRTLJeDZo
Got this one from the UK grime/rap thread, this man is suuuuuper quick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLlskM33v18
And yeah this has to be in there, surely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkTyEsCNL4
Oh and this too, if it really counts as a song, idk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waiwJ5rW4xw
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
Adigery's Paténipat is also very good.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah that's been on regular rotation at my house
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
gonna give this a bump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2j4jD2kDA0
― devvvine, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link
I've no barometer of what's popular in the wider sphere, nor on ILM but I hope everyone's voting for these:
Rema - Dumebi (one of the year's absolutely monster afrobeats hits)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thIH-e2pWQM
Beyonce - Before I Let Go (excuse if this is really obvious... I take it we're all over this? It only hit 77 in the UK)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVLsVj7BebE
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
XXP: I was just contemplating which Charlotte Adigéry nom(s) to choose/jettison earlier. Couldn't decide. I hadn't heard her before the playlist!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:58 (four years ago) link
I love the Dizzee/Ocean Wisdom tune. Definitely voting for that.
― Graham Kendrick Lamar (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
Here’s my CD-80 distillation of the Tracks playlist, consisting mainly of stuff I had previously missed. Will probably vote for most of these. https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/1hkQ1rRIgwpazmusZTnz0B?si=-LYbd-HlQ1yY_o78Lmm_6g
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
Filmmaker is almost certainly the artist I've listened to the most this year. I nominated this album but could have easily nominated any other one of his, I just love this stuff. Dark, crunchy, reverby electronic. It all kind of sounds similar so it's hard to pick a standout track but at the same time I can't get enough of this stuffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip0rOXlwut4
― silverfish, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
ballot submitted
the one item I want to share with everyone is Chanctonbury Rings, which is a great collaboration between Justin Hopper, Sharon Kraus and Belbury Poly. It's mostly spoken word with mystical electronics, exploring the occult history of the English countryside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgExKIpy4ZA
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
ooh thanks
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
shoulda coulda woulda - it escapes me that my favourite single for the year Danny brown dirty laundry wasn't nommed - oh well
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
I should've nommed juneunit's s/t but I discovered it too late (thanks to the 'Fork, incidentally – gotta give credit where credit is due).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
High Lights is one of my best discoveries of poll season, will be bunging it plenty of points. It's so weird and assured and cool
― imago, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Given the noms thread is locked I'll use this thread to give a shout-out to or something, breastcrawl and rob for some excellent nominations.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
some local (or somewhat local) tracks ballot suggestions from me:
Sampa The Great - Final FormSampa's album The Return (also worth a listen and/or vote) sees her examining her personal relationship with Africa, and more particularly with Zambia, her nation of birth, and Botswana, where she was raised. This is honking braggadocio built around the Sylvers’ “Stay Away From Me" - it's probably not my favourite of her songs but it's her most forthright and packs a punch.
Ngaiire - ShiverI've done plenty of talking to myself in the Ngaiire thread over the past half-decade or so and it still baffles me that she hasn't crossed over beyond Triple/Double J circles given the quality of her voice, which she here employs to literally bellow demons out of haunted corners and cobwebs. Allegedly her new album is coming this year.
Chela - Losing BeliefThis is the sort of track that, you know, I'd hoped might turn up in the Popjustice end of year list or something just to give it a bit more of a boost. Chela's a Kitsuné alumna who came storming back this year with a new EP, entitled Delivery. This single was its highlight - in the face of adversity and winding synth patterns, Chela decides the best course is to spit out affirmations in a militaristic fashion.
J-E-T-S ft. Tkay Maidza - Real TruthA collaboration between Jimmy Edgar, Machinedrum and the "U-Huh" should-be-superstar was always going to slap.
Thandi Phoenix - Cleopatra"Say It", covered by the Singles Jukebox, is probably the more obvious hit, but I liked the kinetic nature of "Cleopatra", which feels like it has about three different choruses.
― monotony, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
I really like that Ice Cream track! Saw the Alina Pash track on another thread and will definitely be voting for that one.
I guess I should rep for some stuff before everyone gets their ballots in, I'll do a couple of tracks first:
* Tóc Tiên - Không Ai Hơn Em Đâu Anh (KAHEDA)Mentioned this a few times before, but this is my big pop banger of the year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4s65RAAKQ
* Porridge Radio - LilacIntense emotional indie/DIY shout-along from B-town.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BrQzmBF1w
― emil.y, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
Some recommendations from me:
Jenny Hval - High Alice clear highlight on The Practice of Love imoKelsey Lu - Poor Fake See also Kelsey Lu - BloodRichard Youngs & Raül Refree - Time Is An Avalanche spiralsOren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie & Sam Shalabi - Oglon Day 1 pitter-patter
Lankum - The Livelong DayThere's a thread called rfi-traditional irish music that sounds a bit like drone rock that only I seem to post to these days. If you like the sound of that, you may like the sound of this.The Wild Rover The Dark Eyed Gypsy
Fire! Orchestra - ArrivalLush, deep, beautiful chamber jazz.
Blue Crystal Fire(I Am A) Horizon
― VOTE! In the 2019 EOY Poll (seandalai), Thursday, 9 January 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
Just realized I had mistaken the “catching up” thread / playlist for the “EOY Noms” playlist / thread, sheesh. Having a rough go of the EOY threads rn
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 9 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
main thing i want to advocate for is the kpop track of the year which is red velvet's "sappy" (though it's in japanese its still from a korean group)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJ3Pq74H4c
― ufo, Thursday, 9 January 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
I'm a little biased against local-ish-to-me acts, but as with Stella Donnelly and Sampa the Great above, I've come to realise, song by isolated song, that I like Julia Jacklin's 2019 longplayer quite a bit. Not least this nominated track that doesn't seem to involve a third chord until a few minutes in, and which came with this amusing one-shot promo clip I first saw by chance on TV at 3:00am last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZFyqzTCt-I
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 9 January 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
Speaking of 'Ju-' acts, thanks also to whoever nominated Jute Gyte's Dissected Grace. It's beautiful and I now find myself a member of #TeamJuteGyte2019
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
Welcome aboard! That was one of mine. I like Jute Gyte usually, but especially when he's writing blissful shoegaze epics.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
I nominated one of his industrial-electro-lullabies this time around (tt: "wtf this is ambient!"), but Dissected Grace is awesome too!
― imago, Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
if you like melodies, and chords, and sweet synth textures, and nice things, and romance, you might like The Scary Jokes btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDLRwwVnIU
between us tt and I nominated two of the best tracks as well (death, thrice drawn and no leverage/no pleasure) if you want to pick sides (just like with jute gyte lol) (i might end up voting for all four songs, we'll see haha)
― imago, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:03 (four years ago) link
This was easily my most listened to reissue compilation this year and hoping it gets some love from the Balearic/Ambient/New Age ilxors
‘Broken Belief’ brings together a selection of recordings by Japanese multi-instrumentalist Toshfumi Hinata drawn from a body of work originally recorded between 1985-1987.Attending Berklee College of Music after spending time living in both the United States and the United Kingdom, Hinata would study under the tutelage of pianist Patricia Laliberte, graduating from the esteemed American school in 1982. Returning to Japan after becoming disillusioned with his classical training, Hinata experimented with many different forms of music. Moving away from depending simply on acoustic instruments, he would instead become entrenched in the possibilities of the latest analog synthesizers being developed at the time.Toshifumi Hinata’s initial idea was to make his first album with just a Prophet 5 and Linn Drum Machine. Tweaking filters and creating intricate sequences, Hinata would record various sounds on analog tapes and overdub many different layers; recording violin, piano and other accompaniments separately later on. It would become a method of working for the musician which he would apply almost entirely throughout this period. A deeply submerged process; one in which he would seek, as he himself puts it, to "weave musical images".
Attending Berklee College of Music after spending time living in both the United States and the United Kingdom, Hinata would study under the tutelage of pianist Patricia Laliberte, graduating from the esteemed American school in 1982. Returning to Japan after becoming disillusioned with his classical training, Hinata experimented with many different forms of music. Moving away from depending simply on acoustic instruments, he would instead become entrenched in the possibilities of the latest analog synthesizers being developed at the time.
Toshifumi Hinata’s initial idea was to make his first album with just a Prophet 5 and Linn Drum Machine. Tweaking filters and creating intricate sequences, Hinata would record various sounds on analog tapes and overdub many different layers; recording violin, piano and other accompaniments separately later on. It would become a method of working for the musician which he would apply almost entirely throughout this period. A deeply submerged process; one in which he would seek, as he himself puts it, to "weave musical images".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os1Kv6Y9Jlk
― groovypanda, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
if you like melodies, and chords, and high cardiacs/opeth fantasies, you might like wilderun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBntCIvFM8c
also,
imperial wax - turncoat. it's cool what the guys from the fall are doing now
little simz - boss. stop fucking with my heart
waste of space orchestra - wake up the possessor. one person handles all the vocals on this song, if you can believe it
clipping - la mala ordina. your third act falls apart
holly herndon - SWIM. one thing tt and i do agree on is that this is the best track, possibly that she's ever done
prince rama - love in kontrol. this from ShariVari's nomination array is another favourite of ours - a mini darkpop odyssey
vote Balloon, vote High Lights, peace
― imago, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7KEhdLXOg
The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Bologna, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 53 min. 9% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 12 min, while 16% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 5.4 km, while 7% travel for over 12 km in a single direction
― saer, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
Prince Rama - Love In Kontrol
Definitely the best band i've discovered via news reports of their lead singer claiming to have been savaged by raccoons in Central Park.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
lol what
― imago, Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed Ioanna Gika's album, "Thalassa" this year and I haven't seen much mention of her on ILX. Uh, I guess I'd call this dark ethereal synth pop. She toured with Chelsea Wolfe, but aside from their live set up and somber/romantic tone, they didn't share much in common. Anyway, the production on this album is kind of thin sounding and doesn't do the songs justice, but there are some top notch tunes here. I recommend starting with Out of Focus and trying Roseate next if you liked that.
― beard papa, Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 9 January 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
oh I missed that post, thanks Tim! and thanks breastcrawl too, who was the reason I heard a bunch of those noms
― rob, Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZG1lrDBBQ
I love County, so maybe not a well balanced review...! Not a modern, flash new stadium but then that's half of the appeal. It's a proper football ground. Depending on where, or if you sit in the Main Stand, walking from the turnstile to your seat you cross the players tunnel, as the players come out they'll shake hands, sign autographs, and where else would you get a club manager stopping for 'selfies' with young fans minutes before kick off? For me, the game against Fylde September 2016, when Scott Spencer equalized, was the highlight of County's non-league 'adventure' and the start of what felt like a turn around for club and team. (Typically County eventually lost 2-1 to a late free kick scored by an ex-player...) My Edgeley Park highlights - The whole 1996 - 97 league cup semi final run. My worst Edgeley Park moment - 1-0 home defeat against Dartford, all but sending County down to Conf. National / division 6 regional football.
― saer, Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
I saw three beings walking out of midfield towards me...
― saer, Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
Retro-synth-electronic artist Andy Fox released a small EP that I have been listening to a lot called Dataismo. It's only 3 tracks and they're all great, it sounds kind of like Art of Noise making Italian disco. Here's my fav. track --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6sN7MJ47E
― Frobisher, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
I forgot what post or list or whatever brought this my way, but Kokoko!'s Fongela has been a lot of fun and pretty wild. I think I listened to it for the first time while biking in the city and it was a perfect soundtrack
― octobeard, Friday, 10 January 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link
huh it's actually Fongola, original nominator must have typo'd
― octobeard, Friday, 10 January 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
^ I hadn't heard their their nominated track ('Buka Dansa') until 48 hours ago, but I pretty much immediately put it on my tracks ballot. I should totes spend some quality time with the rest of it...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 10 January 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
I made a yt playlist for the year - 99 tracks, not sure how many are nominated, also presented in chronological order so could be some odd transitions, some videos are nsfw
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 January 2020 11:34 (four years ago) link
Purple Pilgrims - Sensing Me
Out on Flying Nun. I've been talking this act up in a few places. Video has a real strong goth component, which was not my impression at all from listening to Perfumed Earth--more like a trippier/spacier take on Arrival-era ABBA (the album's next track, "I'm Not Saying", makes the connection explicit). The chorus is undeniable imo and thr production lives up to copy which cites the duo's preoccupation with 'synthesized nature and ancient futurism'
https://purplepilgrims.bandcamp.com/
― PLEB AF (Drugs A. Money), Monday, January 6, 2020 2:02 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'd not heard of them before, but they'll be playing in my town in a fortnight. I should probably see them live, shouldn't I? Have you?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 10 January 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
Really like the album on first listen btw. 'Ruinous Splendour' (w/ Roy Montgomery) is a standout.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 10 January 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
I thought it was a relatively disappointing year for country music. Loved Wildcard but it's at best Lambert's 5th best solo album. Most of the other critically acclaimed releases were too conservative and unmoving for my liking. I will probably vote for The Highwomen somewhere toward the bottom of my ballot.
One that I discovered during list season and would strongly rep was Michaela Anne - Desert Dove, a dusty, reverby, Southwestern country rock record that reminds me of Emmylou Harris's Elite Hotel at times. I'm voting for the album but also nominated the song "One Heart":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukl8yi10g3U
― Indexed, Friday, 10 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
A few tracks I want to briefly stump for
Martha, "Love Keeps Kicking"The whole album is wonderfully nimble and wry but this title track was a huge anthem for me all year, cause, you know, it really never stops kicking the shit out of you.
Sha Sha ft Samthing Soweto "Abondaba"Of all the songs I heard on the wonderful rolling Sun-El and co. thread, this was the one that brought be right back to "Akanamali" levels of chills down the spine. Gorgeous, starlit, etc.
Fat White Family, "Kim's Sunsets"A lot of people seem to hate these guys for some reason I can't quite fathom, but I liked a lot of their most recent album and this was the clear highlight for me, a blissful mid-tempo number with an impossibly lush arrangement and an infectious build.
Origami Angel, "The Title Track"The platonic idea of uptempo emo, in 151 seconds.
Clipping, "Blood of the Fang"Daveed Diggs gets ragged on for having a clinical, academic style of rapping, but if you aren't dazzled by the final verse (3:00), I don't want yr ears.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 10 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
lmao i forgot to nominate my actual song of the year
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
lol what was it
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
mandy moore "when i wasn't watching"
not that i would've expected *anyone* to vote for it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link