ILM's 2020 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

I have “bugsnax” caught in my head this morning <3

I’ve got 26 tracks and not sure which one to cut, man my life sucks lol

voted!

sorry if any special characters have been smudged, have to send via my work computer to my phone and back again due to firewalls x

i had 27 and extremely brutally got rid of two that would a) never place and b) were from albums i'm also voting for

Yeah I cut a few of my favourite tracks from the year because I was also voting for the album.

neither were cut from my top ten though. i wouldn't do that

Ah god. I'm getting there, just about. I am scrapping the "don't vote for the same artist in both polls" thing I've been doing for the past few years as there are a few things I want to rep for in both places. But it's doing me bloody nut in m8s.

oh yeah there are a few unavoidable ones, that's never been a rule for me

ohhhhhh wait i do know this, tangenttangent saved it to a playlist of finds, yeah it's pretty cool

― imago, Friday, 22 January 2021 17:40 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was like the top of that playlist! The Carl Stone is p much one of the best things I've found.

Last minute rep for the Jean Dawson album! It's half hour long and extremely infectious if you are inclined to enjoy top tier glitchy emo rap.

This has to be done tonight? 10 is looking a stretch at this point anything friendly records out there?

Last minute rep for that one Klô Pelgag track, which is like a giant swirling dream of French classic pop, indie folk and new romantic synths that a certain ilxor happens to feature on quite prominently

voted

Feeling very sad about bumping off of some of my own nominations right now. They definitely needed to be options but it feels like a waste.

oh yeah the two I bumped last-minute were my own nominations. you need to be able to kill yr babies. so sad

Voted! Tracks only, I just ran out of time to listen to the album noms and my album listening has been sparse enough this year that I think I could only put 4 or 5 on there I was really excited about.

That was tough, but I was able to whittle it up to 7 in the end!

I mean 8. I think it was 8 the screen was far away

I nominated the Carl Stone track. Have been going through some of his earlier stuff this last week. This guy has been putting out some amazing stuff for a while.

I liked the album a lot, just didn't vote for it since I didn't listen to it in 2020.

ok voted. early for me!

so glad the deadline here is midnight PST, I can do this

I really regret not nominating this year, lotta stuff I dug didn't make it

e.g. where the fuck is the Alex Dowling album

I would have broken my "don't vote for things you didn't actually hear in 2020" rule for this had it been nominated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqhJyvly1g

this year I just voted for the 25 traxs I nommed so it went v smoothly. and I listened to less than 15 whole albums during the entire year so that went well too.

Ballots submitted. Predictably feel happier with my albums choices than with tracks. Thanks to everyone who nominated and campaigned though, have ended up with loads of fun new finds which I'll be going back to even if they didn't make my final ballot.

Broke my one song per artist rule with Taylor but I kept it to one per album!

voted. lotsa tracks i was counting on y’all to nominate that didn’t make it. first year I do mixed ballots—fun! excited for results, thx to poll runners

Argh, okay, I voted. Not entirely happy with the ordering but I ended up fiddling too much and needed to just send. It is done.

I, too, have also voted

So I was listening to the nominations playlist and a track came on by a band called ROAM with very strong emo-American accents. I thought 'I bet they're from Southampton' (I loved the track ofc) and looked them up to discover they are in fact from my hometown! But then I checked the nominations thread and no one had nominated it. ARG trailhead?

voted!

just looking at this for the first time and this is uh, quirky?

CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought

two totally different releases with two totally different catalogue numbers. they've got nothing to do with each other afaict? have a feeling this one will make the 77 too, so this probably needs sorting imo

howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought is referred to as an "epilogue" to snoopy on bandcamp, but yeah, it did strike me as a little odd

if enough ilxors vote for literally two songs in a big trenchcoat to get them into the 77 it's time to shut this place down

it's an album and an EP grouped together

it's an album and an EP (in a big trenchcoat)

lol xp

oh!! haha well let's scale the trenchcoat up a bit yes

also slightly worried that tangent will be reduced to wandering the streets of her hometown looking for a fictional emo band, sort it out forks/seandalai lol

tbh grouping an album and an ep is more forgivable and if the artist regards them as of a piece then idk

yeah i feel marginally better knowing that but it's still making me oc cranky

would any fellow stragglers appreciate some last minute campaigning

Can’t wait to see eMcimbini win Song of the year. Good going, ilm!

Brad, you know which track I need you to vote for

Voted!

- "jazzidisciples (zlele)" is the amapiano track that totally deserves to top the 77 and i hope it gets close
- yone-ko's "strip down to e" is the best opening to a workshop release i've ever heard, great ghostly house, the piano is like an eroded layer of paint on a weatherbeaten building
- tiana major9's "same space" and jenevieve's "baby powder were two songs that took my breath away on impact, the former for being a babyface-quality acoustic quiet storm sigh and the latter for feeling like the air in the middle of the summer as you're lifting yourself through the window of a moving car
- more essential r&b, one a nimbus of synths, the other arriving in a time machine from 1997: justine sky "million days", jayla darden "demonstration"
- my favorite rap songs of the year were popp hunna's "adderall (corvette corvette)" (glowing and melodic) and rio da yung og x louie ray "movie" (blown-out and relentless)

lj i have no idea what that track is and i guarantee you i don't have room for it

major co-sign on "movie," which i voted for.

Eek, I'm sorry - I fucked up my albums ballot. Resubmitting now - hope that's okay seandalai.

YAZ ABANTU goddammit