ILM's 2010s Tracks & Albums Decade Poll / CAMPAIGNING THREAD

also sakanaction's "yoru no odoriku"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I25AFSBm2g

kinda where i imagine bloc party would have ended up if they hadn't gone totally off the rails

riyl: bloc party, cut copy, 00s dance-punk more broadly

Maja S. K. Ratkje's Sult was one of the albums I listened to most, without ever really knowing the story or the ballet it was written for originally. More intimate and gentler than some of her other work, it was done with her voice and a heavily modified detuned pump organ, from which she is able to get percussive rhythms and wind-like timbres as well as more enveloping organ textures. More beautiful melodies in the vocal parts than I was used to from her, offsetting the dissonant and sometimes noisy organ.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2pOvUnCYm8MyYkUgagCYhG?si=R9p9EMS6RwiRMOEg2Gk8Gw

Haha I actually meant "wind-like" in the sense of 'the sound of wind", not "wind instrument-like".

for the past few days ive been listening to the spotify tracks playlist and very charitably trying to think like someone thinks this is 1 of the best songs of the decade

its a good mindset imo

so far best discovery to me is octo octa i need you wow

yeah me too, think we should only boost tracks we haven't nominated.

First from me then is NTO - The Sand Dealer.

Thanks to whoever nominated the Wolfgang Voigt remix of that Robyn track, think it may be heading for my ballot.

Favorite discoveries from tracks I had never heard before and I’m considering voting for are

D. Tiffany - How RU Plush
Genius of Time - Rymd01
Kate Bush - misty

i've discovered a few previously unheard tracks that i am enjoying very much. but with only 50 songs, it will take a miracle for a new one to crack the list.

so far best discovery to me is octo octa i need you wow

awesome! i loved that album a lot.

that one will be on my ballot for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_am3VRZsc

almost forgot magdalena bay's "good intentions"

holy shit. like this already wasn't hard enough...

whoever nominated No Reptiles, by Everything Everything: thank you. thank you thank you thank you.

fucking thank you

Jenny Hval is an artist I know to be one of a kind, but relistening to the Practice of Love tonight, I feel like the poppier she writes, the artier she sounds. Childlike, adult-like, all so fluid. "Six Red Cannas" is such a jam, and the closer is mesmerizing (sounds like Dead Can Dance). So she goes in both my ballots, since Spells is already a contender for song of the decade (but I nominated that, so I'll shut up).

discovered omar s heard'chew single, thank you ilm

I forgot to nominate "Summon the Fire" by The Comet is Coming, but someone else did, so let me encourage you to vote for this absolutely unstoppable track

My albums ballot is a little thin, because usually I'll end up finding my two or three albums for a year and just stick with them. So last night I went combing through the noms for things I might have overlooked.

And I was like "Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs? Well, I do see that thread get bumped a lot. Should probably check it out." That album packs an icey, synthy, wallop. I had only planned on checking out a track or two, but couldn't stop listening. I didn't know what I was in for, or what I had been missing.

I realize based on the album's place in that year's poll, that everybody else on ILM knew this already except me. But just to illustrate the value of trying out things from the nominations list that you haven't heard before.

ten love songs is absolutely one of those ilm cult hit albums where we absolutely adored it but it didn't get that much attention from the wider music press

Yeah, because they're idiots. I can't think of a better pop album in recent years

Although I still dream of it being Eight Love Songs and thereby completely perfect

I still haven't been able to get into Ten Love Songs. I will listen to it again

An albums list is easier to assemble for me than a tracks list

ten love songs is absolutely one of those ilm cult hit albums where we absolutely adored it but it didn't get that much attention from the wider music press

― ufo

I always like these kind of word of mouth success stories on here. We Are King is another good example.

Huh, I didn't realize Ten Love Songs didn't get much attention outside our site. Certainly here it was a big deal. Good album, though it didn't make my ballot

otoh, I had a pretty good idea "Balloon" was an ILM-only deal

sundfor gets a little bit of attention from the uk press (though that little attention was just as enthusiastic about 10 love songs as here) but that's about it outside of her native norway, unfortunately

still don't quite get the "balloon" meme honestly

so far best discovery to me is octo octa i need you wow

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, July 20, 2022

I Need You gets to me every time I hear it

JUST IN:

The people in Panama are urging you to vote for Burna Boy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtXl-Rs0vM

...and Wizkid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzWoLkQ4mj4

There is really nothing to get with Balloon, it's just a joy.

also not a meme, that I know of

Toyboy & Robin's Jaded and the accompanying video are so great

There's no way I'm getting through even a third of this playlist. Sorry but I'm gonna put together a ballot of almost all songs I already knew (but truly love.)

You should be sorry! (I didn't even try to listen to the playlists.)