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

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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...