Best album from the 2019 ILM EOY album poll that received only ONE top 3 weighted vote

ha, my #1s always end up in these polls :(

Pulselovers was my 3rd place vote. On the Castles in Space label, which had an annus mirabilis last year but this was the pick of their album releases. While the guy behind it lives in Doncaster, this record captures memories of summers spent in Burford in Gloucestershire during his youth. Incredible packaging with the physical edition too, with lots of extras like postcards and badges - I believe there are still copies available.

Of the rest, I have heard Copeland and Meerna and both are recommended.

Anna Webber's Clockwise is the only one in the list where I couldn't find a full-album version online -- Bandcamp has 3 tracks for free.

It's on Apple music... Honestly the inclusion of pi music on am is the best argument for the service

https://youtu.be/0VL1Uyx0MHI

I should probably stan for Yosi Horikawa as it was my number 1. He's a Japanese 'sound artist' who employs his own field recordings to the cause of hyper detailed and beautiful new-agey kinda balearica. Easily played this album more than any other last year

https://youtu.be/0VL1Uyx0MHI

Nope, I *still* can't do embeds :'(

Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma - Intemporel (1st)

this was my #1 so voting for that obv

ha, my #1s always end up in these polls :(

― geoffreyess, Friday, February 7, 2020 5:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

wear it as a badge of pride imo!

After a cursory listen to the records I hadn't heard, Afriqua, Andrew Pekler, Bartosz Kruczyński, Fire! Orchestra, and Santilli really stood out to me. Still going with Yosi Horikawa though - Spaces is really good, up there with his last one, Vapor. Baltic Beat II I'm somewhat surprised for being orphaned. The first Baltic Beat made the 2016 Albums Poll.

that copeland album rules

that Santilli album is gorgeous, I would have voted for it if I thought there was anyone else out there listening to it

Yes this Santelli album is lovely!

Between Alice Coltrane and Lee Perry.

Terminal Cheesecake = my #1. Probabky the decade's prd eminent example of this micro-genre:

Crazy Psychedelia (Helios Creed, Butthole Surfers and...?)

I'm enjoying the Filmmaker so far, Somber Realm...

How many albums did they make last year?

8 albums and 1 ep. They're all very good. I'd say the best ones are Somber Realm, The Love Market and Noir Times.

I listened to hours and hours of Filmmaker while working in 2019. It's very good music for focusing.

Terminal Cheesecake bringing the mad bright-weather grandeur rn ty

Hadn Dadn! Hadn Dadn! Хадн Дадн!

Fun, beautiful, indie-synth-pop with tremendous folkish vocals.

― ShariVari, Friday, 7 February 2020 21:18 bookmarkflaglink

That's a great album, very interesting sound.

Hadn Dadn's just brought out a new album, Nostalgia, last week:

- https://hadndadn.bandcamp.com/album/--2
- https://pervoe.online/news/student-v-teme/3278-hadn_dadn_interview/ / autotranslated to English

4 days more of the poll – I'll try to hear a bunch of the albums from K to Z. Even the Magma one if I have time, although they went downhill after "Toca's Miracle" imo

Oh, and either this is a humorous Russian mistranslation, or I've totally missed this famous pairing... has anyone got any idea?

- Coin and Buckwheat are called the voice of a generation. They are practically memes. Can you imagine what generation voice you could be (or are)? What do you think about the Coin and Buckwheat phenomenon? Why did they become symbols?
- Coin and Buckwheat have their recognizable intonations and, of course, that they carry in their songs. On our strange slurred stage they are a new phenomenon, performers with a finished image, speaking modern language.
Our music is more complicated, you won’t immediately enter it, but I really hope that they will soon understand us. - (From the Hadn Dadn interview)

Monetochka and Greshka translate literally as ‘small coin’ and ‘buckwheat’. They’re both young singers with huge followings.

Monetochka / монеточка

ahhhhhh

MC Yallah & Debmaster - Kubali – A prime showcase of east Africa’s incredibly fertile electronic dance music scene

Forgot to mention - the Boomkat review/blurb finishes with the words

"100% bad as fuck."

I was p much ready to vote for Kubali on the basis of that alone.

The Meernaa album is really nice... maybe just "5% bad AF" in their case

Two Vancouver bands' LPs, by Lightning Dust and Minor Pieces, make for a good one-two. The latter one is a bit surprising...

"Taking influence and inspiration from the likes of Low, Grouper, Mazzy Star, Portishead, My Bloody Valentine, Talk Talk and Cat Power, ‘The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming’ sounds at once familiar whilst forging something new, unique and beyond the sum of its influences."

....That got only one vote on ILM? This place has changed

The world has changed.

The world cannot change

I might give this Intemporel another listen later, it's got extensive droneage and an incomprehensible blurb of steel

In the first phase of departure, the mysterious song of the sax winds in archaic echoes, supported by the electronic inlays of the synth (Arp Odissey). Flowing between space rumbles and astral progressions, we sight high celestial bodies. When the infinite drones of the tampura start, we take part in the night ceremonial, surrounded by the deep harmonium and the Tibetan bell chimes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Got to the end of the alphabetical listening, Yosi Horikawa and Tayhana are grebt

But i have to vote for the badass MC Yallah & Debmaster - that album isn't long, but it's a revelation.

They really love their cassette aesthetic, eh...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0285077612_16.jpg

this Yosi Horikawa album is very enjoyable. I'm going to try to listen to most of these.

loving Santilli

I wish someone would do a one-line review of all poll options

sbahnhof did!

Best album from the 2019 ILM EOY album poll that received only ONE top 3 weighted vote

Those weren't reviews, they were vague ramblings stolen from the internet

Lightning Dust's second album is one of my favorite indie rock things of the last couple decades so I feel bad that I didn't check out this latest one. Will need to fix that. Amber's voice is so wonderful.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Well done, Intemporel, top of the league on the random algorithmic tiebreaker

I hate you all :(

Didn't expect this poll to get more than double the votes the tracks poll got.

I feel like I cheated by voting for my own number 1 on this poll

You can vote for your own No.1

@Fred, man, you can vote for your own No.1

Hell, if it wasn't for sockpuppets on the previous polls, all of my top albums would've been in minuses

It's a pity Shamania didn't get a vote - they're a brilliant group. The album got a few mentions in the jazz thread.

I was like, "how on earth would you even try to reproduce that live...?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxsM2WxL3Lc

Hell, if it wasn't for sockpuppets on the previous polls, all of my top albums would've been in minuses

I keep trying to imagine how albums get in the minuses...I keep imagining the musicians ilxmailing each of us, imploring us to vote for different things...