ILM Albums Poll 2019: Thread of Stats and Ballots

It's my fault that Vanishing Twin didn't make the 77. I wanted to vote for it, but forgot to include it in my longlist and lost sight of it after that :(

Ballot, unweighted, bdnp

Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Celer ‎- Xièxie
CFCF - Liquid Colors
Deathprod - Occulting Disk
Gabriel Fauré - Nocturnes (Eric Le Sage)
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Chernobyl OST
Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code
Kyle Bobby Dunn - From Here to Eternity
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Maria Somerville - All My People
Marie Ythier - Schumann, Murail: Une rencontre
Meitei – Komachi
Midori Hirano - Mirrors in Mirrors
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Richard Dawson - 2020
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6
These New Puritans - inside the rose
Toshio Hosokawa - Gardens
Various Artists - Kankyō Ongaku
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
William Basinski - On Time Out of Time
Zachary Paul - A Meditation on Discord

Yves Jarvis - The Same But By Different Means

my number one, thanks to rob for being the only other voter hah. it was dealt a death blow when flopson forgot to vote.

Ditto mine for TFS xps

also, i wrote about my top 10 albs and top 25 songs and i'm finally not too embarrassed to share here, in case anyone is interested.

https://voodoochili.tumblr.com/post/190072841549/my-favorite-albums-of-2019
https://voodoochili.tumblr.com/post/189890284724/my-favorite-songs-of-2019

Rustin Man - Drift Code
Fat White Family - Serf's Up!
Fontaines DC - Dogrel
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
These New Puritans - inside the rose
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
DIIV - Deciever
Chris Cohen - s/t
Robert Forster - Inferno
Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
SAULT - 7
Richard Dawson - 2020
Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow
Follakazoid - I
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain
black midi - Schlagenheim
Cass McCombs - Tip Of the Spheres
Lankum - The Livelong Day
Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth
Royal Trux - White Stuff
Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
A Lazarus Soul - The D They Put Between The R & L
Kim Gordon - No Home Record

Weighted, bold DNP:

American Football - American Football
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Richard Dawson - 2020
Nicola Cruz - Siku
Caroline Shaw/Attacca Quartet - Orange
CFCF - Night Bus 4: Memory of Night Bus
FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
CFCF - Liquid Colors
Duke - Uingizaji Hewa
Jay Mitta - Tatizo Pesa
Dawn Richard - new breed
Various Artists/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Estonian Incantations 1
Young Guv - Guv I & II
Kokoko! - Fongela
oso oso - basking in the glow
Maja S.K. Ratkje - Sult
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
Doja Cat - Hot Pink
Floating Points - Crush
The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Chromatics - Closer to Grey

Weighted, bold placed.

Hadn Dadn - Lyaoakyn
Louise Burns - Portraits
Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Луна - транс
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Alyona Alyona - Pushka
Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code
Foresteppe - Karaul
Cream Soda - Kometa
Charly Bliss - Young Enough
Taylor Swift - Lover
Florist - Emily Alone
Mirele - Renaissance
Tanya Tagaq - Toothsayer
Quelle Chris - Guns
Altin Gün - Gece
Alyona Shvets - Provoloka Iz Oduvanchikov
Kira Lao - Trevozhnii Opit
PTU - Am I Who I Am
Kedr Livansky - Your Need
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
Octo Octa - Resonant Body

I missed the deadline so didn't vote but if I had my ballot wld have been something like this & it probably would have been my most hivemindy year ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Default Genders — main pop girl 2019
Isasa - Insilio
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream
SAULT - 7
SAULT - 5
Oren Ambarchi - Simian Angel
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Tinashe - Songs For You
Erika de Casier - Essentials
100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs
Griselda - WWCD
Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Benny the Butcher - The Plugs I Met
Quelle Chris - Guns
Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes VII
Eris Drew - Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Pelada - movimiento para cambio
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
Kumio Kurachi - Sound of Turning Earth
Anna Wise - As If It Were Forever
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
Westside Gunn - Flygod is an Awesome God

& another 25 why not

Billy Woods - Terror Management
Laurel Halo - DJ-Kicks
Algis Fediajevas - Pėdsakų lede nepalikus
Mike - Tears of Joy
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
Young Thug - So Much Fun
Show Me The Body - Dog Whistle
DaBaby - Baby on Baby
DaBaby - KIRK
Hayden Pedigo - Valley of the Sun
Alfa Mist - Structuralism
CFCF - Liquid Colors
Abdullah Ibrahim - Dream Time
Tree - WE Grown Now
Shanti Celeste - Tangerine
Polo G - Die A Legend
Ustad Saami - God Is Not a Terrorist
Your Old Droog - It Wasn't Even Close
Richard Dawson - 2020
Chai - Punk
Xiu Xiu - Girl With A Basket Of Fruit
Wednesday Campanella - Yakushima Treasure
Rose City Band – Rose City Band
Theon Cross - Fyah
Otoboke Beaver - Itekoma Hits

Both the Maja S.K. Ratkje and Yosi Horikawa albums probably would've wriggled their way in my ballot, had I heard them on time. Both are great.

hi breastcrawl, I'm about to finally listen to Scorpion Kings while I cook dinner (you might like the Ari Lennox album off my ballot?)

hi five, voodoo chili

2020 resolution is to not ignore rap so completely

albums that placed in bold:

Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma - Intemporel
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Andrew Pekler - Sounds From Phantom Islands
Erasers - Pulse Points
Pulse Emitter - Calming Winds
Steve Moore - Beloved Exile
Thore Pfeiffer - Umland
Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
Ex Hex - It's Real
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Khana Bierbood - Strangers From the Far East
Garcia Peoples - One Step Behind
Saba Alizadeh - Scattered Memories
Lea Bertucci - Resonant Field
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan - New Rain Duets
Zachary Paul - A Meditation on Discord
Imaginary Softwoods - Gold Fiction Loop Garden
Ahmad Jamal - Ballades
Sarah Davachi - Pale Bloom
Weeping Bong Band - II
Rajna Swaminathan - Of Agency and Abstraction
Black Zone Magick Chant - Voyage Sacrifice
M. Geddes Gengras - I Am the Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World
Meitei - Komachi
Ekin Fil - You, Only

^ weighted

how did ILM not love the Ex Hex album? was it released too early in the year?

Crüt! Nice to see another vote for Zachary Paul! (and Meitei for that matter)

weighted, bold dnp

Moodymann - Sinner
SAULT - 5
Little Simz - Grey Area
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q. 
Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow
Deafkids - Metaprogramação
Kim Gordon - No Home Record 
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall
Shafiq Husayn - The Loop
Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Loraine James - For You and I
Cosey Fanni Tutti - TUTTI
Kid Millions & Jim Sauter - Safe & Sane
Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)
DJ Nate - Take Off Mode
Big|Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Jambinai - Onda
DJ Nigga Fox - Cartas Na Manga
Follakazoid - I

I'll have to check out some stuff from your list, crut, it looks pretty good.

thanks pollrunners! somehow i went all year without hearing anything about the weyes blood record, had no idea it was so loved.

my ranked ballot, bold dnp

Kumio Kurachi - Sound of Turning Earth
The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Various Artists - Kankyō Ongaku
oso oso - basking in the glow
Charly Bliss - Young Enough
100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Sadness - Circle of Veins
glass beach - the first glass beach album
Holly Herndon - Proto
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Padang Food Tigers - Wake up, Mr Pancake
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Lil Keed - Long Live Mexico
PUP - Morbid Stuff
chief keef & zaytoven - glotoven
Mozzy & Gunplay - Chop Stixx and Banana Clips
Erika de Casier - Essentials
Default Genders — main pop girl 2019
Richard Dawson - 2020
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
E-40 - Practice Makes Paper

rob, I was listening to the Ari Lennox album just this week! prompted by some discussion about it somewhere here, were you involved? I liked it a lot. there’s more on your ballot that I hope to check out. still have to check out the Yves Jarvis for ex.

let me know how you like Scorpion Kings. would think it makes for excellent cooking accompaniment.

Weighted

RAP - Export
Kris Baha - Palais
Caroline Polachek - Pang
Various Artists - Kankyō Ongaku
De Ambassade - Duistre Kamers
Sarin - Moral Cleansing
Kontravoid - Too Deep
Young Marco - Bahasa
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Unknown Mobile - Daucile Moon
Zaliva-D ‎– Forsaken
Carla dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
Toshifumi Hinata - Broken Belief
Bill Converse - Hallways
Trans-4M - Sublunar Oracles
Dark Star - Cryonics: 1989 - 1992
Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay - Ice Exposure
Haruomi Hosono ‎– Hochono House
Broken English Club - White Rats II
Giant Swan - Giant Swan
New World Science - Osmos (Movements)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - TUTTI
Karenn - Grapefruit Regret
Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
Karamika ‎– 2.0

unweighted, bold placed

Meitei - Komachi
Doubler - Lines Of Force
Topdown Dialectic - Vol. 2
BAKGROUND - Memory Card
ESB - Live At Deep Blue
Carla dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood
Larry June - The Port Of San Francisco
Hoshina Anniversary - Nihon No Ongaku / 日本の音楽
Gi Gi - OST Circadia
Land Of Light - The World Lies Breathing
Baltra - Ted
Galcher Lustwerk - Information
Move D - Building Bridges
Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz
Abdullah Ibrahim - Dream Time

oops, ignore the bold on Larry June. sock it to me.

Weighted, missed in bold. 4/25

Terminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre Du Liévre
Fly Pan Am - C'est Ca
Thurston Moore - Spirit Counsel
Fat White Family - Serf's Up!
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
The Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Collider - -><-
Major Stars - Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy
SAULT - 7
Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
OOIOO - nijimusi
Kooba Tercu - Kharrüb
Hawkeyes - Last Light of Future Failure
De Lorians - De Lorians
The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
Dawn Richard - new breed
Royal Trux - White Stuff
These New Puritans - inside the rose
3776 - Saijiki
Sisso - Mateso
Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018
Lastryko - Tętno Pulsu

(Oops about Sault 7; that placed)

weighted

Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
Burial - Tunes 2011-2019
RAP - Export
Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Laurel Halo - DJ-Kicks
Kim Gordon - No Home Record
Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
Klein - Lifetime
Eliane Radigue – Occam Ocean 2
Underworld - Drift Series 1
Floating Points - Crush
Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
Ossia - Devil's Dance
Solange - When I Get Home
Fennesz - Agora
DJ Nigga Fox - Cartas Na Manga
Tunes of Negation - Reach the Endless Sea
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Morton Feldman/Philip Thomas - Morton Feldman Piano
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
King Midas Sound - Solitude
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Mandatory Reality

weighted, bold didn't place

Tinashe - Songs For You
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
The Japanese House - Good at Falling
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Ondness - Not Really Now Not Any More
Gabriel Ferrandini - Volúpias
Jme - Grime MC
Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code
Alförjs - Qorusqoros
Dawn Richard - new breed
Goldlink - Diaspora
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
DJ Nigga Fox - Cartas Na Manga
Taylor Swift - Lover
Burna Boy - African Giant
The Highwomen - S/T
Doja Cat - Hot Pink
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
Denzel Curry - ZUU
Holly Herndon - Proto
Harry Styles - Fine Line
HTRK - Venus In Leo
Patrick Cowley - Mechanical Fantasy Box
Miranda Lambert - Wildcard

Unweighted, bold DNP, bold + italics sole voter

White Reaper - You Deserve Love
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedication
Battles - Juice B Crypts
PUP - Morbid Stuff
Tinashe - Songs For You
These New Puritans - inside the rose
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Owel - Paris
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
Girl Band - The Talkies
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Lankum - The Livelong Day
Microwave - Death is a Warm Blanket
Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Big Thief - Two Hands
Chromatics - Closer To Grey
Follakazoid - I
glass beach - the first glass beach album
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!

Drugs A. Money — shoutout to you and whoever Royal Trux voter #3 was! 🤘

lmao I was the only vote for like 4 albums I didn't nominate

Mixed ballot

The Highwomen - S/T
Brittany Howard - Jaime
Meernaa - Heart Hunger
Rapsody - Eve
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
Michaela Anne - Desert Dove

Ari Lennox - Shea Butter Baby
Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream
Barbara Panther - Feminine
Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls
Boy Harsher - Careful
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Caroline Polachek - Pang
DaBaby - KIRK
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
Emily King - Scenery
Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaires Club
Fontaines DC - Dogrel
French Vanilla - How Am I Not Myself?
Kindness - Something Like A War
Little Simz - Grey Area
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Tegan & Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You
Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
Tayla Parx - We Need to Talk

Curious as to who the other Brittany Howard voter was. Only 2 of us gave it 94 points.

17/25 of mine made it

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Shura - forevher
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Caroline Polachek - Pang
Charli XCX - Charli
Emily King - Scenery
Hatchie - Keepsake
Stella Donnelly - Beware Of The Dogs
Charly Bliss - Young Enough
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
Louise Burns - Portraits
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Solange - When I Get Home
Jay Som - Anak Ko
Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz
Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
Tinashe - Songs For You
Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaires Club
Raveena - Lucid
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
Little Simz - Grey Area
Sudan Archives - Athena

Bit gutted about Louise Burns being at 78.

I didn't like this Louise Burns album very much, or else I'd have ensured it got in. I've voted for her previous two.

Burial is also at 78 (a tie I guess), it is fitting that it didn't place since it is mostly a compilation of past work, but the tracks it documents are equal to anything in this poll imo

Johnny Fever — shoutout for the Tayla Parx vote! Think we were the only two 😕

Weighted (Bold placed)

1. Callisto - Guidance Is Internal (Pt 1 &2)

Weighted

Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
SAULT - 5
Big Thief - Two Hands
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Cate le Bon - Reward
Laurel Halo - DJ-Kicks
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems OST
Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light
Justin Hopper, Sharron Kraus, & Belbury Poly - Chanctonbury Rings
Solange - When I Get Home
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats' Nest
Rapsody - Eve
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
SAULT - 7
FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Charli XCX - Charli
Jay Som - Anak Ko
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Richard Dawson - 2020
Barker - Utility
Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls

I have no idea how I've gotten so in sync with ILM hivemind this year, it's kind of weird. Might just be that I'm listening to the same records that are popular everywhere.

The same thing has happened to me also, almost everything on my list I was not the sole voter for

Sad!

Guidance Is Internal layers really nicely over The Sacrifical Code

Weighted. I think that none placed, which is a record:

Maja S.K. Ratkje - Sult
Tauno Aints et al/Weekend Guitar Trio/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Estonian Incantations 1
Kumio Kurachi - Sound of Turning Earth
Rajna Swaminathan - Of Agency and Abstraction
Kevin Hays & Lionel Loueke - Hope
Sarah Louise - Nighttime Birds & Morning Stars
Adam Cicchillitti & Steve Cowan - Focus
Thurston Moore - Spirit Counsel
Mangeur de Rêves - Histoires à l'envers
Emily Shaw - Vespers
Franz Liszt - Via crucis (Collegium Vocale Gent, Reinbert de Leeuw)
Henrik Anderson - WTF Variations
Jean Leloup - L'étrange pays
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Redd Kross - Beyond the Door
Ben Monder - Day After day
FET.NAT - Le mal

Lol, I have the second-lowest hivemind score, only ahead of saer, who voted for only one album.

What's funny is that my top four albums are all ones I only heard about because of ILM.

A raised glass to neighbour pfunkboy and devvine, who cast the other vote for Kumio Kurachi.

mixed ballot
Miss Universe, Jimmy Lee & Oncle Jazz in: The Three That Placed

Girlpool - What Chaos is Imaginary
Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
Hama - Houmeissa
Tink - Voicemails
DIIV - Deceiver
Chai - Punk
Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
Spellling - Mazy Fly
Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz
Polo G - Die A Legend
Comet Gain - Fireraisers Forever!
Joan Shelley - Like the River Loves the Sea
Loraine James - For You and I

Chromatics - Closer to Grey
Foxes in Fiction - Trillium Killer
Hand Habits - Placeholder
James Blake - Assume Form
SASAMI - SASAMI
Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold
The Cranberries - In the End
Vivian Girls - Memory

Drugs A. Money — shoutout to you and whoever Royal Trux voter #3 was! 🤘

― dad genes (morrisp), Friday, 7 February 2020 02:01 (two hours ago) link

Michael B!

mixed weighted, bdnp:

Girl Ray - Girl
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Dominic Miller - Absinthe
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

Alice Phoebe Lou - A Place of My Own (Mahogany Sessions)
Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream
Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai - Playing the Room
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
David Kilgour - Bobbie's a girl
Erik Truffaz - Lune Rouge
Erika de Casier - Essentials
Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter
Howe Gelb - Gathered
Joan Shelley - Like the River Loves the Sea
Joe Lovano - Trio Tapestry
Joshua Redman Quartet - Come What May
Kendrick Scott Oracle - A Wall Becomes a Bridge
Laurie Anderson,Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith - Songs from the Bardo
Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance
Michele Rabbia, Gianuca Petrella & Eivind Aarset - Lost River
Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light
Pan American - A Son
Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night
Simon Joyner - Pocket Moon
Steve Hiett - Girls in the Grass

Mixed

Toshifumi Hinata - Broken Belief
CFCF - Liquid Colors
Chemical Brothers - No Geography
The National - I Am Easy To Find
Bedouine - Bird Songs Of A Killjoy
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Taylor Swift - Lover
Harry Styles - Fine Line
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Caroline Polachek - Pang

Bad Books - III
Sigrid - Sucker Punch
Jenny Lewis - On The Line
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - The Undivided Five
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Dave - Psychodrama
FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Florist - Emily Alone
Fontaines DC - Dogrel
Hatchie - Keepsake
Loscil - Equivalents
Tegan & Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You
Tove Lo - Sunshine Kitty
Underworld - Drift Series 1
Various Artists - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR, & Boogie 1976-1986

My weighted ballot, bold did not place:

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall
Burna Boy - African Giant
Khidja & Balabas - Khidja Si Balabas
Erika de Casier - Essentials
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain
Kelsey Lu - Blood
These New Puritans - inside the rose
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Moodymann - Sinner: KDJ-48
Underworld - Drift Series 1
Denzel Curry - ZUU
Bella Boo - Once Upon A Passion
Laurel Halo - DJ-Kicks
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
DaBaby - KIRK
Eris Drew - Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1
Sir Babygirl - Crush On Me
Shed - Oderbruch
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
Yola - Walk Through Fire
Topdown Dialectic - Vol.
Tinashe - Songs For You
glass beach - the first glass beach album
Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
Charly Bliss - Young Enough

Surprised no-one else voted for Bad Books.

And these were the solitary vote #1's:

Anna Webber - Clockwise
Filmmaker - Somber Realm
Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
Girlpool - What Chaos is Imaginary
Hadn Dadn - Lyaoakyn
MC Yallah & Debmaster - Kubali
Moon King - Voice Of Lovers
Santilli - Surface
Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma - Intemporel
Tayhana - Tierra del Fuego
Terminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre Du Liévre
Yosi Horikawa - Spaces

Santilli - Surface

That was my number one - far from the most conspicuosly amazing thing that came out last year but something I kept coming back to for its understated gentleness. Sounds pretty much like if Gaussian Curve had been on ECM records. Also somewhat drawn to it by the fact it's just one guy playing all the instruments on it.

Jamila album is fantastic. My favourite discovery of the poll, I think. Saba's verse on Basquiat. Sheeeeiiit.

I haven't been on ILX much this week and I even missed the last day of the album rollout -- but shit, you guys put a tinashe album in the top 10??? Never change, ILX, never change.

Anyways, kept my (ranked) ballot short this year, Oso Oso and Doja Cat were robbed, gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec, etc

100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
Charly Bliss - Young Enough
Solange - When I Get Home
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Clairo - Immunity
Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
Doja Cat - Hot Pink
Ariana Grande - thank u, next
oso oso - basking in the glow

i didn't nominate or vote so this should not be seen as a complaint but these are albums i loved in 2019 that didn't appear in the poll results:

billy woods/kenny segal - hiding places (ok, i am complaining about this one not making it because it should be on any respectable best of 2019 list)
mope grooves - desire
bogdan raczynski - rave 'till you cry
gong gong gong - phantom rhythm
bill orcutt - odds against tomorrow
possible humans - everybody split
damon locks & black monument ensemble - where future unfolds
pile - green & grey
empath - active listening:night on earth

I'm curious why the Tinashe placement--which was admittedly higher than I expected--is raising eyebrows, when every year surprisingly late-career albums (e.g., Chem Bros, Kim Gordon, Berman, Lambchop, Underworld, Thom Yorke) place without this reaction. What is it about her or her career that makes this more remarkable than ilm loyalty to, say, CRJ?

I think there’s a different career arc here from the other examples you mention. To begin with, I think Tinashe would hate you calling this “a late-career album”. She probably feels like she’s only getting started now.

The thing is, she came out of the gate with a fantastic debut album (yeah, I know there were mixtapes before that) and seemed destined for greatness, artistically and commercially (the imminent future of r&b and all that), but then every album after Aquarius was a disappointment, again both artistically and commercially, (all these increasingly pathetic attempts to recreate “2 On” as if that was all there was to what she had created with Aquarius - Faded Love indeed), until a lot (most?) of us had completely given up on her out of sheer frustration.

Speaking for myself, it took all of the enthusiasm of the posters on the dedicated thread for me to let go of my cynicism and give Songs For You a real chance. I’m still not convinced it’s as good as Aquarius, leave alone better, as some have claimed (it’s certainly not as groundbreaking), but I really really like it now.

CRJ is different in that even though she has never been able to match her initial commercial success, artistically she has been going from strength to strength ever since, at least according to her fandom.

correction: ...but then *everything she released* after Aquarius was a disappointment...

I think Tinashe would hate you calling this “a late-career album”.

I'm not saying Songs For You is itself a "late-career album"; I'm saying ILM frequently has no problem giving artists career-arc leeway and will happily not give up on someone like the Chemical Brothers, who are absolutely a lol-the-90s joke for most people ime.

Anyway, this is something I like about ILM! I don't care about either of these groups, but I thought it was cool that Alfred said The National album is the first he's ever liked, and I think I heard similar sentiments re: Purple Mountains from other posters. So, given how well-known Tinashe's label fuckery was, I found the reactions odd.

Probably a better way to phrase it: SFY is an excellent *comeback* album, which doesn't seem all that remarkable to me in a place where I'm being told the Chemical Brothers and Underworld put out amazing shit in 2019. I agree mentioning CRJ muddied the point