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

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

ALBUMS

Arca - KiCk i
Squarepusher - Be Up a Hello
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Spiritual Sleeze - Rejoicer
Laurine Frost - Lena
Mirror - Lefar Legov
Yaeji - What We Drew
Knxwledge - 1988
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
Ital Tek - Outland
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Jessy Lanza - All the Time
Arms and Sleepers - Safe Area Earth
Zora Jones - Ten Billion Angels
Kölsch - Now Here Nowhere
Sophia Loizou - Untold
Osees - Protean Threat
Machinedrum - A View of U
Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma and Divorce
Map.ache - What Does That Mean
The Twilite Tone - Clearing

22/30

Mirror - Lefar Legov

this should read Leafar Legov - Mirror

good catch tho, i forgot to nom this

Ahhhh oops! Yes my bad. Quite the typo situation there

Glad you like Viagra Boys and Kiko Bun,forks. Kiko Bun song is just a great simple catchy lollop of a tune

Is there really no way to make Spotify show me songs I liked, or songs I listened to a lot, which were released in 2020? It would make it a lot easier for me to bring songs to mind.

i very much agree that a "year" column is past overdue.

Is there a third-party solution? So many random "give me your spotify list and I'll xxxx with it," you'd think this would exist.

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

― They sold me a dream of Christmas (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 December 2020 05:30 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

some rare-earth ear candy there Sund4r, good spot!

Cheers!

Singles:

Jessy Lanza - Lick In Heaven
Axel Boman - Eyes Of My Mind
Caribou - Never Come Back (Four Tet Remix)
Darkstar - Wolf (John Talabot Remix)
박혜진 park hye jin - Like this
Avalon Emerson - Rotting Hills
Jayda G - Both Of Us
Nico Stojan - Cardano
Floating Points - Bias (Mayfield Depot Mix)
Elliot Adamson - Dopamine
Theo Kottis - Nothing to Lose
Route 8 - Bound Together
DJ Metatron - Love With U Is Real
DJ Metatron - A Perfect Mission
Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!
Ivory (IT) - Dreamers

16/30

“Both Of Us” has been nominated already

"Lick in Heaven" too

And Melt

I love that forks started going through every nomination in alphabetical order and has liked everything so far. It's a level of loving listening to music most of us can only aspire to.

ALBUMS

Sun-El Musician - To the World and Beyond
Kabza De Small - I Am the King of Amapiano: Sweet & Dust

(30/30)

TRACK

Fiery Furnaces - Down at the So and So on Somewhere

(1/30)

ALBUMS
Mas Musiq & Aymos - Shonamalanga

TRACKS
Tkay Maidza - 24K
Lianne La Havas – Bittersweet

(30/30)

Please give us more spots, the people are failing the songs !

What's the relation between Dawn Richard's song and Halsey's ? I'm curious. Coincidence ?

TRACKS

Maddie & Tae - Drunk Or Lonely
Kylie Minogue - Dance Floor Darling

19/30

ALBUMS
Nathan Salsburg - Landwerk No. 2
Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks
Sun Ra Arkestra - Swirling
Jim White and Marisa Anderson - The Quickening

TRACKS
Eartheater - Volcano
Keleketla and Coldcut - International Love Affair
Adrianne Lenker - anything

(21/30)