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

In some years there has been a Youtube playlist as well as a Spotify - it's a lot of work to do even one playlist so it kind of only happens if someone volunteers. (volunteers welcome)

Why Spotify in the first place? has come up before (lex always complained iirc), there was never a clear consensus for another option and it happens to be what the people running the polls have tended to use.

ALBUMS
LEYA - Flood Dream 

TRACKS
Grimes - IDORU 
Cut Copy - Love Is All We Share (Octo Octa Deep Feelings remix)
Bicep - Apricots

22/30

feel free to make a youtube list tuomas, it would be welcomed.

as it happens, there's a bevy of programs that can do most of the heavy lifting for you now

ALBUMS
Nick Storring - My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell
26/30

Sorry, I didn't mean to complain about the hard work you've done compiling these lists, of course it's appreciated. I was just wondering if there's some conscious choice in preferring Spotify, which, to me at least, seems less convenient than Youtube.

But of course I understand that compiling them in Spotify is easier if you're using it anyway.

Spotify much more convenient for me - easy to listen to the tracks playlists in the house via various Alexa speakers, in the car via phone, in work etc

YouTube playlist would surely come with annoying ads for everyone and there's a big of a cognitive blocker with YouTube as most think of it a visual-led platform. If they'd allowed audio-only clips on it years ago they'd probably be able to compete more with Spotify as an audio-first platform.

Youtube ads are all blocked if you use a browser that has an adblocker. I don't think it works for Spotify ads tho... Personally, I find Spotify ads more irritating than YT ones, because at least in here it's the same 2 or 3 ads that keep repeating again and again.

are bandcamp playlists a thing? would they be a viable option?

(feel dumb for not knowing)

I don't think Bandcamp allows you to compile playlists. Their streaming functionalities are pretty limited.

No, no bandcamp playlists. I think it'd be tough for them to square something like that with their pro paying-the-artist stance. As it stands you (the artist) choose what's streamable for free and how many times, so if they went more "streaming forward" it wouldn't really be compatible. It would be cool to have something like a list-making facility, though, so I could compile "best synth-punk" links or something along those lines.

i haven't used it but avalon emerson's https://buymusic.club/ should allow you to do that

Oh cool, I'll take a look at that. Thanks!

ALBUMS
Yerin Baek - tellusaboutyourself
Loona - [12:00]
Taemin - Never Gonna Dance Again
Blackpink - The Album
Oneus - Lived

30/30

TRACKS
Tkay Maidza - Shook
Taylor Swift - The 1
Taylor Swift - Cardigan
Taylor Swift - The Last Great American Dynasty
Taylor Swift - My Tears Ricochet
Taylor Swift - Seven
Taylor Swift - This Is Me Trying
Taylor Swift - Illicit Affairs
Taylor Swift - Mad Woman
Taylor Swift - Epiphany
Taylor Swift - Betty
Taylor Swift - Peace
Taylor Swift - Hoax
Taylor Swift - The Lakes
Taylor Swift - Willow
Taylor Swift - Champagne Problems
Taylor Swift - Gold Rush
Taylor Swift - 'Tis the Damn Season
Taylor Swift - Tolerate It
Taylor Swift feat HAIM - No Body, No Crime
Taylor Swift - Happiness
Taylor Swift - Dorothea
Taylor Swift feat The National - Coney Island
Taylor Swift - Ivy
Taylor Swift - Cowboy Like Me
Taylor Swift - Long Story Short
Taylor Swift - Marjorie
Taylor Swift - Closure

ALBUMS
Jessie Reyez - BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US
IDLES - Ultra Mono

(30/30)

let the vote-splitting commence

Nice job

now do Sault

Did Taylor Swift release two albums or something this year?

lmao

This will backfire when ten of them fuckin place

Of course they will, it’ll be Purple Mountains x2

you plays the game, you takes your chances
(which is track seven of Taylor's new [not newest] album)

There goes the most shameless poster this board has ever seen
He had a marvelous time ruining everything

Tracks:
Aya Nakamura - Jolie Nana
Azana - Uthando Lwangempela
Burna Boy - 20 10 20
Busiswa and Mr JazziQ - Makazi
Christine and the Queens - I Disappear in Your Arms
Dizzee Rascal with Chip - L.L.L.L.
Emma O'Halloran and the Refugee Orchestra - Constellations
Fatima Yamaha - Unwashed
Gwamba and Mlindo the Vocalist - Yaz Abantu
iMarkkeyz featuring Cardi B – Coronavirus
JACK Quartet - Sonare
Jasiah - Crisis
K Michelle - Supahood
Morray - Quicksand
Nihiloxica - Black Kaveera
Roomful of Teeth – The Ascendant: No. 5, Are We Death
Sansibar - Glide Till Dawn
SG Lewis with Lucky Daye - Feed the Fire
Soccer 96 with Alabaster DePlume - I Was Gonna Fight Fascism
Sun-El Musician with Azana – Ngize Ngifike
The Westerlies – Weeping Mary
Worlasi – Skreentime
22/30

ALBUMS
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Agüita

(Up to about 12/30 but hard to check on my phone)

Awwwww yeah

i LOVE GGM but that album didn't click for me

TRACKS

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Guinnevere
The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking
Psychic Graveyard - No
STYLUCIPHER - Pain
Cloud Circuit - A letter from the cloud eternal network
Horse Lords - Integral Accident
Snake Union & Hisham Bharoocha - The Principle of Distinction
Eiko Ishibashi - Memory of Future
Deerhoof - ‘Farewell’ Symphony
Dan Ex Machina - I Think You Should Consider Therapy
Erik Griswold - The Hive
Rabbit Hole 7 - Live Sound Meditation at Comanche Library
Beatriz Ferreyra - Echoes
Model Home - Grip
Drake - Toosie Slide

15/30

ALBUMS

Yuko Araki - Live Recording 2019-2020
Marta Zapparoli - Sonata Per Eterna 
Various Artists - Anthology of Experimental Music from Mexico 
Various Artists - Alternate African Reality - Electronic, electroacoustic, and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora 
Moze Pray - A Whirling Hall of Knives 
Jason Crumer - S/T 
Mark Morgan/Mike Khoury - Mark Morgan/Mike Khoury 
Brian Eno - Film Music 1976-2020 
Apologist - Anhedonia 
Monte Espina - conradios 
Tafi & Green Door Allstars - Ghana Glasgow Fellowship 
Rust Worship - Perpetuality 
Vanessa Rossetto - Self-Care 
English - Democracy 
Maria Chavez - EMPAC Sessions 1, 2020

30/30

English - Democracy

I might try googling this lot!

Calzino, I'll save you the trouble

https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/democracy

cheers Raymond

ALBUMS

Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced
Still House Plants - Fast Edit

(3/30)

ALBUMS

Don Toliver - Heaven or Hell
Nomcebo Zikode - Xola Moya Wam'
J Balvin - Colores

(28/30)

Albums:

Roomful of Teeth - Wally Gunn: The Ascendant
The Hawtplates - Make Me Down: Songs for Making It Through Alive
Yo Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - Not Our First Goat Rodeo
K. Michelle - All Monsters Are Human
Lonnie Holley - National Freedom
Miyamoto is Black Enough - Burn/Build
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions
Eris Drew - Fluids of Emotion

30/30 and another fifty or so nominations in the chamber when we open the numbers later.

albums

playboi carti - whole lotta red

TRACKS

Frank Ocean - Dear April (Side A - Acoustic)
Frank Ocean - Cayendo (Side A - Acoustic)

(4/30)

Thank you flopson. Ran out of noms before that one even came out

TRACKS

Joy Oladokun - Smoke
Max García Conover - Handsome Suit

(20/30)

TRACKS

Black Marble - Emma's House
Lanterns on the Lake - Every Atom

ALBUMS

Future Islands - As Long As You Are

(30/30)

NOT NOMINATIONS ALERT

I am listening through to as many of the track nominations as I can until voting, organized alphabetically by song name. Lots of good stuff but here's the key new discoveries I'm loving; bolded tracks are being considered for ballot inclusion

• 10K - Obongjayar (stompin')
• 12 Problems - Rapsody (missed this coming out, great track!)
• 150 - Porij (does the rest of their music sound like this? feels like it's in the Rhye/Bibio camp which is up my alley)
• 4 American Dollars - US Girls (first thing I've heard from her that won me over)
• 8 Melodies - Arthur (messy and nerdy)
• Ain't Nice - Viagra Boys (this is an anthem! might make my ballot!)
• Aktivated - Sada Baby (very effective sample)
• April Fools Day and Bugged - CS+ Kreme (i need to check this album out)
• Avaa hiukset, Medusa - Tienhaara (i'm always a sucker for folks playing in the diamanda galas kiddie pool)
• Avalanche - Aimee Mann (dang, so good)
• Back to It - Josie Dunne (total Meghan Trainor novelty vibes and yet this is really enjoyable)
• Bad Boy Tenor - Kiko Bun (never heard of this guy, very nice)
• Best Of - Hyroglifics (twitchy twitchy)
• Betty - Pa Salieu (i think i tried this once before some time ago but damn it landed now)
• Black Dog - Arlo Park (i think i heard 'Eugene' earlier this year and liked the sadgirl vibe; this follows suit)
• Body Bag - Ivorian Doll (slaps)
• Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt - The Kunts (does what it says on the label and doesn't overstay its welcome)
• Boss Trick - Real Lies (i've been obsessively replaying this and am more than a little embarrassed how much this got me in the >*f33lz*<)
• Box in My Head - Blue Oyster Cult (lol, very fun)
• Brand New Drop (Thys Remix) - Addison Groove (my beat, she is broken)

yeah, i love real lies. weird to see that video again. it's just a guy in a room by himself watching old videos of people dancing and singing about it all in the past tense like it was a whole lost world. came out in february, how weirdly prescient!

ALBUMS
The Weeknd - After Hours
Thurston Moore - By the Fire
Gunn-Trusinski Duo - Soundkeeper

(12/30)

ALBUM
Jyoti - Mama, You Can Bet!

TRACK
Sweeping Promises - Hunger for a Way Out

(14/30)

forks, I've been wondering if you liked the Pa Salieu album, seems like it would up your street! And yes the CS + Kreme album is absolutely worth checking out

I will definitely dig into both Pa Salieu and CS+Kreme once i've put in a week or two on the nominations. "Betty" is a real assured prowl; I would've assumed he was an artist who'd been putting in work for a long time and who i just found.

just watched the "real lies" video; it does feel very immediate doesn't it...

ALBUMS

Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Fear
Die Wilde Jagd - Haut
Exhausted Modern - Year of the Rat
Geins't Naït & Scanner ‎– GN / Scanner
Isolating - Perennial
Lindstrøm - Live at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Loscil - coast/range/arc//
Maenad Veyl - Reassessment
Patricia Kokett - Bizarr
Regis - Hidden in This is the Light That You Miss
Schwefelgelb - Der Puls Durch Die Schlaefen
Vague Imaginaires ‎– L'Île D'or
Wire - Mind Hive

13/30