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

ALBUMS

Maria Minerva - Soft Power
Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019

2/30

ALBUMS

Katya Yonder - Multiply Intentions
Bad Boy Chiller Crew - Full Whack No Brakes
White Poppy - Paradise Gardens
Andras - Joyful
Blake Mills - Mutable Set

7/30

TRACKS

Bicep - Atlas

also, apologies if i've missed something, but I couldn't find Roz's nomination of Bicep - Apricot here in the spreadsheet. Feel I must be making an error, but just in case.

1/40

and surprised Turbo Olé has just been nominated as well!

(as in expected it to be a lock much earlier)

TRACKS

Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir - The Danko! Medley

ALBUMS

Barbi Recanti - Ubicación en Tiempo Real

(32/40)

ALBUMS

Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
Azusa - Loop Of Yesterdays
Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata

31/40

Any chance we might extend noms past the 2nd? I could use an extra week tbh, there's still some stuff I need to catch up with in light of the latest EOY lists.

Mutable Set was already nominated fyi

NOT NOMINATIONS

More new discoveries of great note from the nomination list, section C to D:

• Can't Hang - Suzanne (complex, full-bodied, spicy like a shiraz)
• Can You Do - The Aces (second song I fell for off this album in the past week; these guys deserve HAIM attention)
• Care - beabadoobee (i kinda hate her whole thing based on everything i've ever heard but this has a very Liz Phair vibe to it and afforded surprising access)
• Chaila - Denise Chaila (a fresh and enjoyable approach to the question of naming but i still wish she told me how to say hers!)
• Chambers Secrets - Julian Winding (orbital-esque, specifically "The Saint")
• Chicken with Waffles - Boof (woulda liked to have had this on deck over the summer but i imagine it will keep)
• Citations - Mildlife (i'll admit that I audibly groaned when the vocals started, but it was okay after all)
• The City - Jockstrap (hated this on my first two listens and then did a complete u-turn)
• Comme des Garcons - Rina Sawayama (never quite cracked this album but this is dope... indicative of the whole LP?)
• Concrete - Poppy (my gf stopped by and told me to turn this shit off and then it dropped into a different mode and she said 'well this part is okay' and then it switched back again and she just seemed confused)
• Confusion - Ellen Allien (you can put Madonna's Vogue over this, which is fun)
• Crash Pad - George Clanton and Nick Hexum (i had avoided this guy because of his terrible terrible name but this is a pleasant little trip down deep mood lane)
• Crazy - Kelly Rowland (damn, in full-on Beyonce voice huh)
• Dance II - Discovery Zone (don't mind me, I'm just gonna put on my reeboks and a pair of new jams and skip down this light-up sidewalk)
• Dawn Patol - Brothertiger (another one for the mellower days of that lost summer)
• Debbie Take Control of the Stereo - Helen Love (this is absolutely terrible, i love it)
• Decades - Wilma Archer (i keep wobbling about whether this is good or not which means it probably is)
• Dicked Down in Dallas - Trey Lewis (objectively terrible but I can't help but be impressed by which it says the quiet part loud; feels like I have THEY LIVE hearing aids in)
• Disco Man - Remi Wolf (this is ALSO absolutely terrible and i love it)
• Doves - Facta (burble, wurble, gurble, gerbil)
• Dreams of U and Me Above the Mezcal Moon - DJ Seinfeld (i had avoided this guy because of his terrible terrible name but this is a pleasant little trip into a patrick nagel painting)
• Drunk or Lonely - Maddie and Tae (i prefer Die from a Broken Heart, but this is solid)
• Dumelang - Malome Vector and Blaq Diamond (pretty sure I played once at one point in this year and then mislaid it stupidly, this is fire)

TRACKS

Azana - Egoli
Charli XCX - anthems
CIFIKA - Youth
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Kllo - Still Here
Nao - Woman ft. Lianne La Havas
NIKI - Switchblade
Oklou - God’s Chariots
Samia - Big Wheel
Sofia Kourtesis - Akariku

40/40

TRACK
DaniLeigh - Put U On

(30)

lol oh geez i have to whittle my nom list in half

TRACKS

Pussycat Dolls - React
24K Golden & Iann Dior - Mood
Bklava - Back To Then
Enny - Peng Black Girls
Ashnikko - Daisy
Disclosure - Mali Mali
Bree Runway - Damn Daniel
Sophie & FKA Twigs - Psalms (not strictly released but leaked this year, on youtube)
Stefflon Don - Can't Let you Go
Prince Kaybee - Uwrongo

Oh, that's 40/40.

uwrongo was already nominated

mali mali & damn daniel too

Bah, CTRL+F didn't show those. Perhaps I didn't open the fold.

OK, then:

TRACKS

Zara Larsson - Wow
Purity Ring - Better Off Alone
Princess Nokia - I Like Him

40/40

xp Thanks ufo!

TRACKS

Sam Smith - To Die For
Tweet - Neva Felt This Way
Shenseea - Potential Man
Alkaline - Nah Fi Like
RaeLynn - Still Smokin'
Sevyn Streeter feat. Davido - Kisses
Britney Spears - Swimming In The Stars

(27/40)

ALBUMS

Witch 'n' Monk - Witch 'n' Monk
Maxyboy - Patricia
Salami Rose Joe Louis - Chapters of Zdenka

TRACKS

Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
Locate S,1 - Whisper 2000
Arab Strap - The Turning of Our Bones

40/40

Sorry - above should be:

Patricia - Maxyboy

...rather than vice versa

ALBUMS

Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
Matt Elliott – Farewell To All We Know
Cécile Seraud - Shoden
Gyda Valtysdottir – Epicycle II
Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom 47
The Bug ft. Dis Fig – In Blue
Clarice Jensen – The Experience of Repetition as Death
Testura – Testura
Yair Elazar Glotman – Emanate
Kassel Jaeger – Meith
Tõnu Kõrvits – Hymns to the Nordic Lights and Other Works
Thomas Köner – Motus
36, zaké – Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Bulbis – 15. The Easter Bunny
Revenant Marquis – Youth In Ribbons

(16/30)

Ps. Jeff Parker's 'Suite for Max Brown' is listed twice in the spreadsheet

Pps. Cannot ~believe~ The Bug album wasn't nominated already o_O

And it's spelt 'Bulbils' - great choice though!

ALBUMS

Various Artists - Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986

TRACKS:

Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
Earth Trax - The Complete Trance Induction
Flamingo Pier - Indigo
Alex Kassain - Oolong Trance (Paradise Mix)
CamelPhat - Expect Nothing
[.que] - Moonlight
Renée - Change Your Style (Prins Thomas Edit)
Harks & Mudd - Susta
Bullion - Hula

(38/40)

ALBUM

Shelly's Gone - Shelly's Secret

32/40

And it's spelt 'Bulbils' - great choice though!

TRACKS

Carly Rae Jepsen - Stay Away
The Avalanches - Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu)
Juice WRLD - Man of the Year
Perfume Genius - Jason
Jean Dawson - Dummy
Selena Gomez - Souvenir
A. G. Cook - Silver
Kesha - High Road
Phoebe Bridgers - I See You
Beauty Pill - Pardon Our Dust
Backxwash - Spells

ALBUMS

Amynedd - 16-Bit Adventure
Kesha - High Road
Pink Siifu - NEGRO
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - Triángulo de Amor Bizarro
Dos Monos - Dos Siki

(26/40)

I was away for a few days, spreadsheet should be up to date now with all additions and corrections. I haven't removed all duplicates yet though.

Sevyn Streeter feat. Davido - Kisses

TRACKS

Ashley McBryde - Shut Up Sheila
Bright Eyes - Forced Convalescence
Mall Girl - My Sweet Mall Girl
Four Tet - Baby
Mickey Guyton - What Are You Gonna Tell Her
waylon Payne - Sins of the Father

ALBUMS

Carly Pearce - Carly Pearce
Willie Nelson - First Rose of Spring

(40/40)

TRACKS
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl - Mexican War Streets
27/40

ALBUMS

SUMAC - May You Be Held
Botanist - Photosynthesis

29/40

ALBUMS

Okuden Quartet - Every Dog Has Its Day But It Doesn't Matter Because Fat Cat Is Getting Fatter

30/40

ALBUMS

Charles Ives/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel - Complete Symphonies

31/40

ALBUMS

Jo Johnson - Knowledge of the Possible
Tiiu Helinä - Vähinä
Tienhaara - Tienhaara EP

TRACKS

Bomba Estéreo - Sonic Forest (feat. Nidia Góngora)
Ms Nina - La caprichosa
Ana Tijoux - Pa que
Aterciopelados - Más allá de la ventana (feat. Walka)
Yemi Alade & Angelique Kidjo - Shekere
Ellen - Häkkilintu
Ruusut - Avaimet avaa ovii

(40/40)

Will we have to vote for the two Lenker albums as a package? I would def consider 'songs' but 'instrumentals' is a load of self indulgent twaddle IMO

ALBUMS

Barbara Hannigan - La Passione

32/40

(This one I'm mainly nominating to remind myself to listen to it some more, probably on headphones.)

ALBUMS

Heathered Pearls - Cast
Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
John Beltran - The Season Series
MomaReady - Deep Technik

TRACKS

Prins Thomas - Bringing Mum To Panorama Bar
Minor Science - Blue Deal
FIT Siegel - Exist On
India Jordan - For You
Chekov - Swerl
Sansibar - What Now?
Big Miz - Sonder
Kush Jones - Earth Note
Isola - Any Day
Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman
R.Y. feat. A.C. - Move Dub (Traumer Remix)
musclecars - Sol
Ela Minus - Dominique
Ela Minus - they told us it was hard, they were wrong (DJ Python Remix)
Karenn - Shoes Off
Kiwi - Hello Echo
Catching Flies - New Gods (Ron Basejam Remix)
Mattheis - Woodlands
Tangerine Dream - Los Santos City Map
Michael Mayer - Doot Doot
Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead
Park Hye Jin - Like This
Shinichiro Yokota - Detectors
Beverly Glenn Copeland - River Dreams
Pantha Du Prince - The Crown Territory (Roman Flugel Remix)
Andrew Weatherall - Unknown Plunderer (Manfredas Remix)
Kelly Lee Owens - Jeanette
Priori - SCN4

37/40

ALBUM

Ex-Terrestrial - Ex-Terrestrial

38/40

Ex-Terrestrial - Ex-Terrestrial

if that's what i think it is, it's actually a reissue of a record that came out in 2017

the title of this track is spelled “Kisse*z*”
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl)

autocorrect :(

TRACKS

Masarima - Freak Like U - Club Mix
India Jordan - For You
Blackpink - Lovesick Girls
100 gecs - ringtone (Remix) [feat. Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, Kero Kero Bonito]
Kero Kero Bonito - It's Bugsnax!
A.G. Cook - Drink Blood
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - How Did You Know?
Juliet McConkey - Hung the Moon

27/30

Ex-Terrestrial - Ex-Terrestrial

if that's what i think it is, it's actually a reissue of a record that came out in 2017

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2021 22:23 (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just checked, you're correct

albums

Quin Kirchner - The Shadows and The Light
Saphileaum - Samosi
Sara Serpa - Recognition
Christopher Icasiano - Provinces
Roscoe Mitchell - Splatter
Carla Bley - Life Goes On
Schnellertollermeier - 5
Midori Hirano - Invisible Island
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio - Free Hoops
Alan Braufman - The Fire Still Burns

10/40

I feel emboldened enough to nom some piano botherers and jazz shite after seeing Sund4r nom that fab Okuden Quartet album!

ALBUMS

Four Tet - Parallel
Mica Levi - Ruff Dog
Josh Kimbrough - Yule Chime
Asher Gamadze - Dialectic Soul
Kahlil El'Zabar - America the Beautiful
Heather Leigh - Glory Days
Mark McGuire - Earth Star Musick

TRACKS

Still Corners - The Last Exit
Julianna Barwick - Inspirit (Takuya's Ryuteki Dragons)
Cuushe - Magic
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - You Make Me Feel Brand New
The Beths - Dying To Believe

(40/40)

ALBUMS
Johnny Nash, Suzanne Kraft - A Heart So White
Actress - 88
INTe*ra - Aqueduct
Endless Fog - Plague Isolation
Experiment Zero - The Non Assay Sound of the Underground
Kagami Smile - Dream Residue
Omar S - Simply
ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ - W.S.
Floral - Floral
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Waveform Transmission - V 3​.​0​-​3​.​9
Sam Gendel - Satin Doll
John Carroll Kirby - My Garden
Berke Can Özcan - Mountains Are Mountains
Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
Liv.e - Couldn't Wait To Tell You...
Acemo - I Want To Believe
AceMoMa - A New Dawn
Roedelius - Wahre Liebe
Kamaiyah - Got It Made
Polysick - Flora e Fauna
Cinthie - Skylines - City Lights
天気予報 - ひまわり衛星: Kako Random

TRACKS
BufoBufo - Metal's Winning
A.M.S & Dog World! - Cue Connected
Tim Reaper - Final Destination
Tim Reaper - The Unseen
Law & Kola Nut - Mystery Flute Business
Law & Kola Nut - Uplifting Pad Business
(Unknown Artist) - Go Into The Nature*
(Unknown Artist) - Siphonophore*
(Unknown Artist) - When You Do, What You're Doing*
Pejzaż - Jak zapomnieć
LT - Staminize
DJ Mudak 2000 - Interstellar (feat. DJ Jubilee 1997)
ShooterGang Kony - Jungle
CJ - Whoopty
Riki - Strohmann
Off The Meds - Wena
No Moon 653 Miles

40/40

* these are all on the same label, I'm not sure how to label them exactly: https://www.discogs.com/label/1776094-Withhold, I don't even know if anyone will vote for them anyhow lol