ILM's 2020 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

Albums

Mourning (A) BLKstar - The Cycle
Shabazz Palaces - The Don of Diamond Dreams
Zeroh - BLQLYTE

9/30

ALBUMS

Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
King Krule - Man Alive!
Cavern of Anti-Matter - In Fabric OST
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic of Transformation
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
Monolake - Archaeopteryx
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G.
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - III
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full

TRACKS
Horse Lords - Fanfare for Effective Freedom
Jon Anderson - Go Screw Yourself

11/30

ALBUM

Various Artists - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

28/30

ooh gotta hear that

Only came out a couple of weeks ago and on Music From Memory so predictably great (also on Spotify)

TRACKS

#7Side Mitch'O x Hunna x Shakk - More Dior
Backroad Gee feat Ambush & Pa Salieu - Party Popper
Bis - Streets
CS + Kreme - April Fools' Day
CS + Kreme - Bugged
DigDat x Aitch - Ei8ht Mile
Digga D - Chingy (It's Whatever)
Digga D - Woi
DJ Python feat LA Warman - ADMSDP
Headie One feat AJ Tracey and Stormzy - Ain't It Different
J Hus - Fortune Teller
Loski x Mizormac - On Me
M24 - No Cap
Pa Salieu - Betty
SL x Pa Salieu - Hit The Block
Susannah Stark - Dear Beloved Friend

27/30

Various Artists - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

TRACKS

ARTHUR - 8 Melodies
Caroline Polachek - Breathless
Crack Cloud - Ouster Stew
George Clanton, Nick Hexum - Crash Pad
Ela Minus - megapunk
Eyeliner - Los Angeles
Holodrum - No Dither
More Eaze - talk
Pablo Bozzi - Out of Sight
Philip D Kick & Om Unit - Drips
Plone - Build a Small Fire
Progetto Tribale - Behaviour 2020 (Donato Dozzy & Peter Micioni Remix)
Onipa - Yenimo
TALsounds - Soar
Vic Bang - Op

ALBUMS

death's dynamic shroud.wmv - SEAWRLD 2
Eyeliner - Drop Shadow
Koyil - Healing Cycles
NNAMDÏ - BRAT
NNAMDÏ - KRAZY KARL
Onipa - We No Be Machine
Pole - Fading
Sadness - Shrine
Sauce and Dogs - Sauce and Dogs
Sewerslvt - Draining Love Story
Sven Wunder – Wabi Sabi
Torn Hawk - Here Comes Language
Various Artists - Cherrystones Presents Critical Mass Vol. 2 'Hearts Of Champions'
White Poppy - Paradise Gardens

30/30

Various Artists - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997
I got excited about this based on the title, but was a bit disappointed to learn that it mostly has fairly well-known artists and tracks... Though I guess it's intended to be more of a primer to this sound than a collection of rarities?
― Tuomas, Friday, 18 December 2020 15:00 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's good but, after a couple of listens, not as good as I'd built it up in my head to be based on the name and description

But I had basically built it up to be the best album of all time and I will almost certainly be voting for it

Albums

Sofie - Cult Survivor
Brigid Mae Power - Head Above The Water

Songs

Aitch, AJ Tracey - Rain
Crack Cloud - Tunnel Vision
Hatnoll & Young - I'm going shopping
Lil Mosey - Blueberry Faygo
Mildlife - Citations
TOPS - I Feel alive

(8/30)

*Hartnoll & Young

TRACKS
Onipa - Yenimo

TRACKS
Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!

ALBUMS

Tara Clerkin Trio - Tara Clerkin Trio
Leif - Music for Screen Tests
Dale Cornish - Thug Ambient
Mimi Goese & Ben Neill - Life You Are

TRACK

Eartheater - Below the Clavicle

30/30

Ooh yeah that Tara Clerkin Trio album is the business

I totally forgot about it for 6 months and when I recently returned it REALLY opened up

want to note that the artist name in "Ichika Aoba - Windswept Adan" should be "Ichiko Aoba"

there seems to have been some mistake, there was only 1 song released this year and it hasn't been nominated yet:

Scooter - FCK 2020

completely lost track of playlisting duties but made both album and track nomination playlists open to collaborative addition... put your songs on there so people can hear!

I just added my track nominations to the tracks playlist. I'll add my albums as well in a bit, too.

Oh I just noticed there's a stray typo p in the track I nominated by Alice Longyu Gao, should be:
Alice Longyu Gao - Rich Bitch Juice (Laura Les Remix)

without a 'p' in the middle name. Sorry bout that!

TRACKS

Madlib - Road of the Lonely Ones
SAULT - I Just Want to Dance
Oneohtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone

(8/30)

TRACKS

Machine Woman - Timbu Limbu And Her War Bass
Julian Winding - Chamber Secrets
MC Yallah - Emcees
Filmmaker - Wacky Leaders

ALBUMS

Fractions - NITE NRG
Filmmaker - Eternal Return

23/30

Tracks

Kate NV - Telefon
Denki Groove - Set You Free
George Clanton & Nick Hexum - King for a Day
Flynt Flossy - Rough Month
Hot Dad - Now That's What I Jack Off About!
Neil Cicierega - Fredhammer
Neil Cicierega - Ribs
Sparks - Stravinsky's Only Hit

Albums

Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
George Clanton & Nick Hexum
Motorpsycho - The All is One
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams
The Orb - Abolition of the Royal Familia
Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

oh must have forgot to nominate telefon
thank you

TRACKS:

Annie - American Cars
Hatchie - Adored
Usher ft. Ella Mai - Don't Waste My Time
Roddy Ricch - The Box
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me
Jessie Ware - The Kill
Winona Oak - Lonely Hearts Club
Yves Tumor - Gospel for a New Century
Caribou - New Jade
Rosalia - Juro Que
Remi Wolf - Woo!
Hayley Williams - Dead Horse
Tiwa Savage - Koroba
J Balvin - Morado
Dawn Richard - Die Without You
Marina - Man's World
DaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch - Rockstar
Deante' Hitchcock ft. JID - I Got Money Now

(18/30)

TRACKS

the 1975 – the birthday party
dj danifox – dark hope
haim – gasoline
kehlani – hate the club (ft. masego)
ariana grande – pov
sza – hit different (ft. ty dolla $ign)
vanessa carlton – future pain
austra, cecile believe – mountain baby (octo octa’s contemplation mix)
autechre – esc desc
mj cole – sonoran (dj seinfeld remix)
the soft pink truth – sinning
c. tangana – bien:(
mandy moore – when i wasn’t watching
the japanese house – dionne
playboi carti - @meh

ALBUMS
serpente – fé/vazio
broshuda – contemplative figuration
vanessa carlton – love is an art
kehlani – it was good until it wasn't
lyra pramuk – fountain
ty dolla $ign – feat ty dolla $ign
matmos – the consuming flame
bad bunny – yhlqmdlg
dababy – blame it on baby
dj lycox – kizas do ly
will guthrie – nist nah
james ferraro – neurogeist
burnt friedman & mohammad reza mortazavi – yek
ashley mcbryde – never will
mandy moore – silver landings

(30/30)

‘Yek’ is so good!

sounding really good rn, according to Spotify it’s a 2017 release tho?

Technically this year’s album is Yek 2

E-yek-tric boogaloo?

Tracks:

Sault - Little Boy
Sault - Uncomfortable
Sault - Don't Shoot Guns Down

Technically this year’s album is Yek 2

TRACK
Burial, Four Tet, & Thom Yorke - Her Revolution

(9/30)

TRACKS

BRELAND - My Truck (Feat. Sam Hunt) - Remix
Disclosure - Douha (Mali Mali) (Feat. Fatoumata Diawara)
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar
Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End
Rina Sawayama - Comme Des Garcons (Like The Boys)
Sech, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Rosalia, Farruko - Relacion (Remix)
The Irrepressibles - Let Go (Everybody Move Your Body Listen To Your Heart)
The Killers - Caution
Tiwa Savage - Glory
Yung L, Wizkid - Eve Bounce - Remix

(10/30)

TRACKS
Kaash Paige - London
Ariana Grande - Positions
Ariana Grande - Off the Table (feat. The Weeknd)
Savannah Cristina - F'd Up (feat. Flo Milli)
Tiana Major9 - Same Space?
Alycia Bella - Link
Rose Gold - Soon as You Get Home
Blackpink - Ice Cream (feat. Selena Gomez)
Kiana Ledé - Chocolate (feat. Ari Lennox)
BJRNCK - Real (feat. Boogie)
Aleesha - No Man
Taylor Swift - Exile (feat. Bon Iver)
Taylor Swift - Evermore (feat. Bon Iver)
Lauren Hashian - Step Into a Love Like This

(29/30)

Wasn't Watermelon Sugar 2019? xp

it was but it became a big hit this year

TRACKS

Burial - Chemz

(8/30)

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedman’s 2020 iteration of Yek turns out to be even better than the 2017 edition, I’m happy to find.

xps

albums

Armand Hammer “Shrines”
William Basinski “Lamentations”
Bing & Ruth “Species”
The Chap “Digital Technology”
Chronophage “Th’Pig’Kiss’d Album”
Destroyer “Have We Met”
Kiko Dinucci “Rastilho”
Horse Lords “The Common Task”
Landowner “Consultant”
Magik Markers “2020”
Protomartyr “Ultimate Success Today”
Roomful of Teeth “Michael Harrison: Just Constellations”
Sunwatchers “Oh Yeah?”/ “Brave Rats”
Windy & Carl “Allegiance and Conviction”

ALBUMS

Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha

Brian Brown - Runnin ft. Reaux Margeaux

correcting my own nomination here, the featured artist is named "reaux marquez"

ALBUMS

Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
Empress Of - I'm Your Empress Of

(2/30)

TRACKS

The Clientele - Closer

(4/30 - realized I did the nom tally backwards last time sorry)

TRACKS

KeiyaA - Negus Poem 1&2
Keleketla - Shepherd Song
Alabaster DePlume - Visit Croatia
Material Girl - Swoon

(4/30)

ALBUMS

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.4

(20/30)

TRACKS

Plastician and Juche - eNight Revisited
Suzanne Sundfor - When the Lord
Lake Turner - No Way Back Forever
Brothertiger - Dawn Patrol
Annie - The Untold Story
Nathan Micay - Industry
Om Unit - Ether
Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is (BLOND:ISH Sunrise Jungle Rework)
Scuba - Forgive Me
Dua Lipa - Hallucinate (Tensnake Remix)
Monty - STK
Addison Groove - Brand New Drop (Thys Remix)
Kiril - Hoovers Don't Judge, People Do
Forest Drive West - Void Control
Baltra - Libra v9B
LJC - By Your Side
Workforce - In the Throes
Jay Electronica - Universal Soldier
Charli XCX - Enemy
Grazze - In Our Hearts (Extended Mix)
Oklou - Galore
Ben Lukas Boysen - Venia
Machinedrum feat. Holly - Berry Patch
Don Toliver - After Party
Hyroglyfics - Best Of
Juche - Even More
DJ Seinfeld - Dreams of U and Me Above the Mezcal Moon
Artificial Intelligence - Outer Origins

ALBUMS

Charli all the way for me, already nommed obviously

May I give props to those upthread who nominated the Philip K Dick/ Om Unit, Lord of the Isles/ Ellen Renton and most of all Dilinja - Hard Noize (Break remix)

oops and I've never quite understood what this meant but 29/30

TRACKS

Iris DeMent - How Long