Hype and Slander: What are you voting for in ILM's 2021 End of Year Tracks and Albums Poll?

a few to start off with

Albums
Yuta Orisaka - State of Mind
jazzy singer-songwriter with gorgeous melodies and an incredible sense of space. i recommend these two live performances as an introduction.

dltzk - frailty
"emo hyperpop/digicore", something like clarity, perfume's discography, and a bunch of video game soundtracks all thrown in a blender. this is a good introduction

Tracks
Tyla feat DJ Lag & Kooldrink - Overdue
one of last year's amapiano highlights. this is probably going to be overlooked in favour of "getting late" which was her earlier hit but "overdue" is even better

batten girls - watashi koi hajimetatteyo!
soaring, meditative, breakbeat j-pop

thanks to imago for shouting out "we are next up!" too

BTW, I am done with both playlists; let me know if your music isn't on there and you think I can add it.

Here's the ILM Hivemind Awards aka Vote Splitting Alert for the most nominated tracks by the same lead artist. If you don't know any of these names, this is who you should most likely get familiar with.

at least 2 tracks - 42 Dugg, Ada Lea, Agnes, Amyl and the Sniffers, Arca, Ariana Grande, Arooj Aftab, Ashley Monroe, Bachelor with Jay Som and Palehound, beabadoobee, Beach House, Black Midi, Blxst, Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak are Silk Sonic, Burna Boy, Cardi B, Cate Le Bon, CFCF, Christine and the Queens, CHUNG HA, Ckay, Clairo, C. Tangana, DARKSIDE, DJ Black Low, DJ Manny, Donato Dozzy, Drake, Dry Cleaning, Dua Saleh, Fred again..., girl in red, Hannah Peel, HEALTH, HTRK, Indigo De Souza, Javiera Mena, Julian Lage, Kabza de Small, Kenz and Ami Faku, Koffee, Koreless, Laura Mvula, LAYCON, Lil Nas X, Lily Konigsberg, LOONA, Lorde, L'Rain, LSDXOXO, Marie Davidson, MARINA, Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy, Megan Thee Stallion, Men I Trust, Mitski, Moses Boyd, Nicolas Godin, Nightmares on Wax, Overmono, Pale Waves, Parquet Courts, Paul McCartney, Polo G, Pop Smoke, Rauw Alejandro, Rema, Remble, Remi Wolf, Richard Dawson, Roza Terenzi and D Tiffany, RXKNephew, Rx Papi, Sam Fender, serpentwithfeet, Skepta, Soccer Mommy, Sofia Kourtesis, Spellling, Squid, Sun-El Musician, Syd, Taylor Swift, Tems, Torres, TRI.BE, Tropical Fuck Storm, Tyler the Creator, UNIIQU3, Victoria Monet, Vince Staples, Weeekly, Wet Leg, WILLOW, Wizkid, Young Thug, Yu Su

at least 3 tracks - ABBA, Baltra, Big Thief, Brent Faiyaz, Cassandra Jenkins, Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul, dltzk, Duke Deuce, Genesis Owusu, Grouper, Isaiah Rashad, Jack Ingram and Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall, Japanese Breakfast, Jazmine Sullivan, Jessie Ware, Lady Blackbird, Lana del Rey, Lil Ugly Mane, Little Simz, Nas, Nite Jewel, Pa Salieu, Phoebe Bridgers, Real Lies, serpentwithfeet, Summer Walker, SZA, Wolf Alice, Yola

4 tracks - Charli XCX, CHVRCHES, Courtney Barnett, Dawn Richard, Erika De Casier, Kacey Musgraves, Magdalena Bay, Olivia Rodrigo, PinkPantheress, Tirzah

5 tracks - Low, Tinashe

6 tracks - Cleo Sol, Doja Cat

7 tracks - Billie Eilish

i do like that batten girls track ufo, do they have any other stuff with that sort of recipe?

not that i'm aware of unfortunately, from what i've heard they're not the sort of idol group that really sticks to any one sound at all

yeah i watched a live set and it wasnt really like that song at all. still fun tho

Scanning through the nominations, I noticed a few things that might be of use in a data-cleaning sort of way:

ALBUMS
-- "Nicholas Godin - Concrete and Glass": this was released in January 2020, ie nearly two years ago, it seems?
-- "Rachika Nayar- Our Hands Against the Dark": The last word in the title should be "Dusk", not "Dark".
-- "sund4r Subramanian - Electric Currents": Maybe our guy's name should be de-searchproofed in the list, lest someone inputs this name into e.g. Spotify and wrongly concludes the album is not available?

TRACKS
-- "Kerwin Du Bois - See Dem" / "Kerwin Du Bois & Teddyson John - See Dem": possibly a duplicate, with and without the TJ credit? Maybe nominator dog latin can elucidate whether the TJ-free entry refers to a separate thing?
-- "Insides - Undressing" / "Insides - Undressing": obvious duplicate.
-- "Beak> - Oh Know" / "Beak> - Oh No": apparent duplicate; the only trace I find of the latter title is a tweet from the band, where they clearly refer to the former track.

To be clear: I refer to the googledoc lists, which ought maybe to be linked prominently in this thread as well?

added up top

swift work, thanks!

Jordan I will absolutely rep the Howie Lee album - Birdy Island It's fantastic.

Think of Smile-era Beach Boys instrumentals composed by a Chinese leftfield grime producer and that's kind of getting there, but it's just a total trip.

This wasn't a big year for albums for me but this is very much up there

Re: See Dem - yes I think those are duplicates. Left Teddy Johnson off by accident when I nominated.

7 tracks - Billie Eilish

We gonna coordinate, avocadostans(?)

aya - im hole is wonderful and I'll be voting it high. Very much love.

oh wow "cawe yoko" rules

Voting is open! ILM's 2021 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

under the radar stuff y'all need to check out:

Albums

DJ Manny - Signals in My Head
Footwork/Juke AOTY imho. U Want It is one of my favorite songs of the year and is catchy as all hell

Arushi Jain - Under the Lilac Sky
Probably my AOTY of electronic music - this is a transcendent album of gorgeous modular electronics, much more lush and immersive than recent Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and incorporates Jain's voice using South Asian musical inspiration. This album is far more therapeutic and ready for a trippin' than Jon Hopkins' latest effort.

Nite Jewel - No Sun
Heart breaking. Minimalist R&B perfection. Can't get over how good this is front to back.

Koreless - Agor
This has been mentioned elsewhere here, but want to bring it up again as it's seriously that good. Ambient deconstructed club record that sounds at once futuristic and nostalgic.

Altin Gün - Yol
This Turkish retro funk band BRINGS it. Every time I throw it on I'm blown away again.

Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena
This EP has more bangers than most great albums. Easily my favorite dance record of the year, most of the songs here will probably be on my tracks ballot. Drop anything here in a set FTW.

Songs

Kind of obsessed with these couple songs - again more dance/hip hop oriented stuff, but these are the tracks that just get me excited to DJ

Mano Le Tough - Man of Aran
Herbert - Fantasy (feat. Verushka)
Nightmares on Wax - Creator SOS (feat. Haile Supreme & Wolfgang Haffner)
Nightmares on Wax - Wonder (feat. Haile Supreme & Shabaka Hutchings)
BASSIDE - NYC2MIA (SOPHIE REMIX)

More tracks (the Eomac in particular is an awesome hard hard banger):

Brijean - Hey Boy
Eomac - Mandate For Murder

+1 on Nite Jewel and Kourtesis.

Find of the day on shuffle was DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. 2 hour albums of uh.. is 'future funk' still a thing? This is the one that came on first and hooked me.

i'll hype up my very faves later on if they havent been covered... and they don't change while i'm shuffling.

the most wonderful time of the year

(oh i fixed my playlist and i'm not tinkering with that smarterplaylists junk no more. it's 266 nommed albums that had nommed tracks, on Spotify. thank u)

Sans Soucis - On Time For Her (album)
I saw this London artist recommended on Twitter and was surprised she had not been mentioned here. Good, breezy indie soul w/ diverse influences.
I nominated a different track but this is the catchiest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQaGZzZ6-8

I am going to do my best to try to get through every nominated single. Bear in mind that I have a tendency to listen to tracks four or five times apiece unless I utterly hate them on contact so this is a bit of a process.

Is Tim F not active anymore? Enjoyed his eoy thread.

Xpost: First time hearing the Arushi Jain and loving it. Thanks.

I'm not gonna campaign for much this year, because eh, but by golly that Mabe Fratti album blew me away. Spare some votes for it if you can. I'd love to see it in top 77, even if it's in the low reaches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCjmlYPC2-g

A few tracks that not everyone may have stumbled over

Tinashe – Small Reminders – cascades of r&b sensuality over angular rocks of bass, follow the thread in the labyrinth
Dunnie feat. Oxlade – Overdose remix – pure charm poured directly over your face
Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagel - El Gran Silencio – flying into the night to explore the icy, dreamy and lyrical regions on the artistic side of electro-pop
Linn da Quebrada – I míssil – if you're missing the astuteness and sensuality of a Brazilian trans artist in your ballot
Lost Girls – Real Life – Phantomatic reverberations of krautrock by the best Scandinavian narrator talking about her email inbox
Marina Sena - Voltei Pra Mim - If you know about Marisa Monte, Céu, Tulipa Ruiz, Luia Maita and are looking for an additional album to listen to, consider 'De Primeira'

Just want to say that UK Drill made some incredible pop music this year. There's no shame in voting for Body even though it went to #1 and Tion Wayne later did a track based on an Ed Sheeran sample. Still a great great song.

Also, give the BackRoad Gee album a chance. His focus on ad libs and onomatopoeia over flows perhaps makes it lyrically weak, but the sound of it was incredible. Check the dog samples on Lost in the Flesh for instance.

Tapestry Of Sound - Maypole Theme (Surrealist Piano Roll Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_qNpm5bCMM

breakbeat, garage, trance, or big piano house anthem? I feel like 2021 was a really good time for bobbins despite barely being able to go out dancing, this one managed to tie together so many different influences and styles, in both a classic and a fresh way.

Finn & India Jordan - The Big B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TnDqwKNLo

big-room, hi-energy, relentless banger, made of thick bass and a hook as catchy as "Inspector Norse" or "Rej"

Very much enjoying the Spotify Tracks playlist. Definitely more hits than misses for me and lots of new discoveries. Thanks everyone.

“Getting Older” is my Billie jam.

Speaking of the Local Action crew, I want to stump for Anz - You Could Be (feat. George Riley). It's both throwback and fresh, perfect pop dance, and the bassline reminds me of Levert's Casanova.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36658KPKac

Tyla feat DJ Lag & Kooldrink - Overdue
one of last year's amapiano highlights. this is probably going to be overlooked in favour of "getting late" which was her earlier hit but "overdue" is even better

― ufo, Tuesday, January 4, 2022 6:06 PM (yesterday)

This is nice! I don't know what ~ILM taste~ is anymore, but a few years back I would have said this had potential to be a borad anthem (though I'm not sure I personally think it's better than Getting Late)

a great punk/post-hardcore album I'll be voting for is BUMMER - Dead Horse
https://bummerkc.bandcamp.com/album/dead-horse

for fans of Pissed Jeans, Scratch Acid, Drug Church, Killdozer etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8xUxcoO2js

also, this is another one I'll surely vote for. could be a good metal/regular poll crossover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4kqVYnB04

Local Action/2 B Real is probably my favourite label this year - "Microdosing" and "Wish It Would Rain" and "Baby" were all standout bobbins for me too

Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena
This EP has more bangers than most great albums. Easily my favorite dance record of the year, most of the songs here will probably be on my tracks ballot. Drop anything here in a set FTW.

― octobeard, Tuesday, January 4, 2022 8:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

+1 (my nom). I will be voting for the EP, I think; too many good tracks to just pick one.

Find of the day on shuffle was DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. 2 hour albums of uh.. is 'future funk' still a thing? This is the one that came on first and hooked me.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, January 4, 2022 8:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Nice - another of my noms. Found it in the EOY list cycle and couldn't resist it. Reminds me of the first Avalanches album, especially bouncier songs like "Electricity". Sample-heavy dance album. Here's one of the tighter songs, as many run over 10 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER7g9hWCOxs

I will rep for two country tracks:

Carly Pearce - "Next Girl"

My pop country SOTY. Clever, double entendre-laced songwriting with a muscular beat. Co-written with Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, the tandem behind many of the great Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark, and Sam Hunt songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KKh5gFock

Jason Eady - "French Summer Sun"

A beautiful, patient acoustic song from one of the most talented country songwriters of the last decade that delivers it's plain message about the costs of war through vivid narrative. I do believe John Prine would've loved this one.

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

Glad some folks like Cawe Yoko, Fely Tchaco is fun. The guitar on that track is ridiculous but I love it.

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

Here's another good one by her, not nominated but just fwiw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXHjlIoI-k

May as well post the one song that I will absolutely, positively be the sole voter for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5jcXNbFfKQ

Pleasant discoveries I've made from the playlists so far:

Rochelle Jordan
Linda Frederiksson
Bilal Nasser - Where the Orange Groves Grow
Maxine Funk
Joy Crookes
Insides - Soft Bonds
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Dissent

Although the last one made me put on the Soccer96 because of how incredible it sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38tfTqJFI6I

Oh cool, glad you liked Bilal's album.

I just want to rep for the LADY BLACKBIRD album, a vocal jazz album that doesn't do anything groundbreaking but it's impeccably produced and she has a really beautiful voice - somewhere between Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughn - I've been enjoying this one immensely this winter season.

There are three wonderful songs of her in the tracks nominations. My nom and vote will go towards "Fix It" which is based on Bill Evans' "peace piece" and floors me everytime. My second favorite would be the James Gang cover of 'Collage' which has a light psychedelic jazz vibe and a great bass sound to it but that one wasn't nominated.

FIX IT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-w37kmtKA

Pleasant discoveries I've made from the playlists so far:

Rochelle Jordan
Linda Frederiksson
Bilal Nasser - Where the Orange Groves Grow
Maxine Funk
Joy Crookes
Insides - Soft Bonds
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Dissent

LindaFred album is sort of cuddly-ECM - no idea whether it got much traction anywhere but it's gorgeous.

Would love to see Insides and Rochelle make the 77 - both very high on my ballot. The Rochelle is joyously hooky and frothy and really grew in stature all year.

Find of the day on shuffle was DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. 2 hour albums of uh.. is 'future funk' still a thing? This is the one that came on first and hooked me.

Did not expect that one to come up here! Being Alone is also really really really good and was my entry point into that record. That album is crazy epic and the artist is ridiculously prolific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8410zKbhY

The artist she reminds me of is Mylo a bit more than the Avalanches, but that turn of the millennium nostalgia is def there.

Here are a few pretty accessible tracks from me:

SUEP - Domesticated Dream
I meant to post about this on one of the indie-related threads but kept forgetting. A project from the keyboardist of Porridge Radio (and feat some other DIY pals), this is a laid-back bop that gets very earwormy and I love it.

Kanano Senritsu - Drop
J-pop with a bit of a footwork influence. Slams.

Wheelchair Sports Camp - YESS i'm a MESS
Kalyn Heffernan is a pretty new discovery for me but I'm completely won over by this hip-hoppy pean to everything being fucking awful.

Taraka - 0010110
Ex-Prince Rama member with a sick psych-pop jam.

And of course Go_A - ШУМ (SHUM)
The song that should have won the Eurovision Song Contest and should by rights win this poll too. (There's actually an alternative version I prefer but this is the official one, and it rules almost as much.)

Whoa at the J-pop + Jersey club song

crypto, i love that uncle watson track! painfully accurate

ooh "drop" is excellent, that's one track produced by kenmochi hidefumi (of wednesday campanella fame) i hadn't heard

If the table is the table is in here, I wanna see your ballot

sir, this is a Jack in the Box

forks keep em coming. I think I'm loving your own, bold selections of highlights more than what I'll enjoy the actual results.

You're the MVP

Almost certainly too late to convince anyone to add it to their list but this is my favourite by a wide distance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehw-bUuj_M
It's just fun, which is what I needed in such a shitty year.

Ah yeah that's a good one too!

I think I'm finding my actual 2021 favorite songs of the year in this thread.

aw thanks Moka. I'm enjoying the deep dive and the incentive to think more on these.

Faves in bold. This is a particularly good batch.

Bree Runway - HOT HOT: Pop dancehall that leans harder toward the former than the latter in a way that smacks of Rihanna’s early day, though “ride a boy’s face like a Yamaha” is more later era Ri-Ri i suppose. Didn’t care for this at first, then the cadence earwormed me.

Breeze Brewin - King Oxymoron: Killer New York 90’s-style indie hip hop with (jugga)knotty flow, bars for days with clever emphasis (“if you declare me moron/better be there with sword drawn”) and similarly vintage Marco Polo production. This is entirely in my lane and I will for sure be listening to the whole album.

Brent Faiyaz - MERCEDES, Show U Off, Wasting Time (with Drake): I like Faiyaz’ voice a lot; there’s some Maxwell there, filtered through a loose-throated Baltimore (?!) accent. Both Mercedes and Show U off are honeyed treats that give him center stage, though Wasting Time treats him as a feature and Drake sucks, so…

BRÍDÍN - Floating: Another “only on ILX” find from an Irish artist who I’ve never heard of. This is a lovely ballad of looped and altered vocals, percussion, electronics and harp, floating and swooping like a bird in a parlor searching for a window, all feathery ballet and sweet sound with no aim other than to please itself. Kudos for the recommendation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HRH_qVODSg

Brijean - Hey Boy: An exceptional chill-out mix of samba and blunted seventies funk disco sensibility that would make for manna from heaven at that transitional moment when people are filtering back onto or off the floor for or from the next drink. Is it a vibe? I think it’s a vibe.


Brothertiger - Heaven: My first comparison was Mike and The Mechanics but my partner said Mister Mister and I think that Soul Sister is onto something. Even without the patina of lived or false nostalgia, this is talented enough stuff that it’s still quite enjoyable. I might like it better if it had a bit less fidelity to its 80’s source material so maybe I should try something else by the same artist?

Bruise - Joy: Ecstatically thudding house gospel that’s happy to lather on dancefloor schmaltz until it fairly bubbles. Joy indeed!

Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak are Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open, Skate: I would go so far as to call myself a fan of A.Paak but would also go so far as to say I frankly loathe the music of Bruno Mars. Everything I’ve heard from the Silk Sonic project reminds me of the old adage that an ounce of horseshit mixed with two gallons of ice cream results in two gallons and an ounce of horseshit. These tracks are immeasurably corny and funk-faking to me, pastiche of the worst variety.

The Bug with Flowdan - Pressure: Predictably dark, filthy nightmare dub from the guy who does it as well as anyone. I don’t think I’ve heard Flowdan anywhere except with The Bug but together they’ve been consistently grinding out obsidian scaffolding with deft footwork and wordplay for like 15 years or so. I’ve been sold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN9k6Dz1SX0

Burial - Dark Gethsemane: Overpacked cinematic trip that shifts gears more than once on the way to a sudden but not unpleasant dead end. The journey is the goal here I suppose and, cliche or not, there’s enough thought and care that goes into this lengthy series of ideas that the pieces are fully enjoyable even embedded in this very mannered presentation. I didn’t try the EP when it came out and I’m curious enough to hear what this sounds like in situ that I’m dog-earing the cover for future exploration.

Burna Boy - Kilometre, Question: Each a big chune in its own way. Kilometre is a stuttering, gyrating party starter; Question is a soft exhale of smoke and echoing bass at the park barbecue. If you can only listen to one, I suppose I’d pick the last on the strength of its exceptionally charming video. I cherished both dearly this year and either would fit perfectly on any best of the year ballot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rOer3k2DWg

Busta 929 - Ngixolele, Mmapula: A New Amapiano Challenger Appears! I was mostly AWOL on the always-worthwhile amapiano thread this year with other distractions and just look at what I missed. Both tracks are A+ material from a producer who finds new and original means of expression while coloring within the lines. I clearly need to put Busta 929 permanently on my radar. Did you know about him? You should know about him! I should probably also get up to speed with the vocalist Boohle; she sounds amazing on Ngixolele.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_xsdC6iYgM

Busy Signal - Bring Rum: ILM's favorite balloon artist has been grinding out good music all year but Rum all by itself is one of the five best pop songs I heard this year. I listen to it at least once a week. It’s still fucking amazing in that way that Busy’s best work is, infinitely replayable. I hold out some hope maybe this will place in the 77. Grab a woman every man every woman grab a man and just
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5aPrf2zE0

Cabiria - DISCO-CAFÉ: Indie-psych-dance with a distinct Broadway streak and Spanish weirdo flair. By the time the sax comes in, I bet you’ll probably be in too deep to only like it ironically.

Cake Pop - Black Rum: This was my nomination, this year’s Gecs that I will ride or die for. Sped-up absurdist nihilism that slaps is most of what I’m looking for out of hyperpop and this morsel of adult swim feels like a signpost demanding better from music, from life, from our diversions and our dreams. It’s also a track that I genuinely enjoy listening to but that I could simultaneously see alienating any gen x parent that doesn’t understand why junior thinks playing Ride the Lightning in the F150 is hella lame. Keep pushing those little daisies, kiddos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edp0LIUcq28

Camp Cope - Blue: Lo-fi Aussie indie with a country twang and emopunk backbone, surprisingly good.

Cardi B - Up: My nomination and another one I’d argue as a top ten pick. Cardi is probably the biggest name in hip hop, even in a year when she only released one solo track, way back in February. Fuck though, what a great song: minimal and perfect production that puts Cardi at the center so she can absolutely rap her ass off. Somehow I don’t think I ever saw the video! Let’s watch it together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCiBgLOcuKU

Carly Pearce - Next Girl: I fell hard for Pearce’s debut album and, even though I haven’t given enough time to her 2021 LP, I expect nothing but high quality pop country anytime her name is on the product. Next Girl fits the bill, well constructed both lyrically and musically. If you’d like to hear what radio country sounds like when it’s good, you could do worse than starting here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KKh5gFock

Caroline Loveglow - Patience Etc…: Bedroom pop via The Cure, lots of glam and languor and velour. Holds up pretty well to the fifth play.

Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is a Rider: The hype on this track was so inflated that I gave it a quick spin, rated it mediocre then forgot about it. But what do you know, on repeat it really proves quite good. Yeah, the lyrics are nonsense (“dirty like its earth day”?), but who cares? A deft synthesis of a lot of gimmicks (the whistle, the marimba, the chimes, the autotune, the baby chirrups, the scratching) held together with a solid bass line and entirely effective vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_V2ccs_Urk

I'm listening to lots other than this nomination list just now and I imagine the poll rollout is going to dominate my non-work/non-physical therapy attention for awhile but I could see coming back and doing more of these later in February as long as anyone's getting anything out of them. Me included!

do it!

voted on tracks this year for the first time. But was still too focused on albums to really do it justice.

Would've voted for Mungo's Hi-Fi too!

the Busta 929 (f. Boohle) song I really liked was Ekseni

The Bevis Frond - Dreams of Flying: I stopped three times to check to see how long this was gonna keep playing for, but it wasn’t until now that I looked to see the name of the artist. Hard pass.

This is really on me cuz I think I nominated the wrong track but if I had the chance to do it again I'd nominate the entire album bcz its legitimately incredible and wdve easily made top 15 if not top 10

yeah I somehow missed that in the options so didn't vote for it, but it's good

everybody please vote for the maria arnal i marcel bagés album
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, January 14, 2022 4:34 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I highly recommend their previous album as well. Fantastic incorporation of Spanish music into art pop / ambient singer-songwriter, and what a full-bodied voice she has. Should appeal to fans of Mabe Fratti for example.

(Not nominated in 2017 on ILM, so I guess we are all catching up)

Glad to see Gardna getting some EOY love, he’s been doing some consistently chipper music (and club nights here in Bristol) for a while now. Bit biased as he’s a pal of a pal but seems like a good egg.

I didn't vote, guys, sorry, I just didn't vibe with the nominees I listened to enough to get excited about voting but I am still really looking forward to the rollout where I always find some exciting tracks!

I'm really excited for the rollout, tbh— I always discover some faves from that thread.

still need to check out Gardna but he seems like a great lad

Good job with this year's final winning lineup btw. There's lots missing that I both voted or and/or should have voted for but after some rigorous listening, there's definitely not more than 10 songs out of 77 that I just don't like.

Oh sick, ten of my votes made it ;)

MC Boing made it to the top 77 then

wait... am i missing something? we haven't rolled out yet have we?

lol

wait... am i missing something? we haven't rolled out yet have we?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:20 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, it's just forks and moka discussing the results over coffee and telling us how interesting it all is :D

Do 77-60 tomorrow and then 15 a day next week imo

No no it's fine, we can all wait, namaste

wait... am i missing something? we haven't rolled out yet have we?

That Wet Leg one two surprised me

We're starting on Monday.

VOTE BITCOIN

can we put the results on the blockchain?

Will the graphics be sold as nfts?

The graphic for our #8 placement which is a song called “player of games” by Grimes will be sold as an NFT, yes.

That Wet Leg one two surprised me

I went to POLL and I got the big D

if the blockchain is how we get rid of fakeouts, then I'm a cryptobro now

ahoy
ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2021

So I am deep listening to the "F" artists now, about 350 tracks out of 1110. Maybe will go back to posting reactions here?

Go for it, I enjoy your write ups