ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

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Every song released by Chris Brown should have a Chris Brown-free version.

if you play K. Michelle's version on YouTube, Chris Brown still sees royalties off of that. it's not profoundly different from other remixes/freestyles/etc. just because it takes an opposite idealogical stance. this is a silly suggestion imo.

i don't really know who exactly you are all addressing on these threads tbh but to this imaginarily receptive audience i would just like to say that i do not remotely cosign this sudden notion of 'make it good' being superior within the oeuvre of shift k3y, thanks for your time

we are all each other's attentive row of stuffed animals on the opposite side of the room

To add to my 'oh shit I heard Weyes Blood and that stuff is ridiculous' recommendation upthread, the Islaja album sleeve nominated is completely off the chain - the sort of mad outsider brilliance that virtually everyone is going to flee from, utterly repulsed, in seconds. do check it out

― NyQuil Made It (imago), Monday, January 12, 2015 9:39 AM (2 hours ago)

Not listened yet, but just looked this up and apparently Islaja is part of the Kemialliset Ystävät collective, so I will definitely give this a try (the KY album this year is really really good, too).

Yeah I pretty much love the KY album wholeheartedly. I'm starting to see just how stupid great this year has been for albums!

Also K. Michelle Loyal is a lot like Jojo's Marvin's Room, no? Which was treated as its own thing and didnt end up having Drake come near it in the '12 poll... (and iirc its points were counted different than even the J Aiko version, right?)

I'll have to check out the Islaja album too. Keraaminen Pää was very good. I've lost track of Fonal Records a bit recently but they're usually good for 3-4 fine albums each year.

I think Fonal had a phase where they went from putting out at least one for-the-ages-awesome record per year to just putting out some quite good stuff, and so the good stuff seems a lot less interesting. But what I have to remember is that it's still good, and thus worth my time.

fwiw this new Islaja is very different, it's on Morr Music instead of Fonal, is sung in English, and flirts with mutant techno instead of Jandekian folk melodies

Actually on Gudrun Gut's Monika Enterprise label, also home to Barbara Morgenstern.

ah yes thx, Morr is the distro

No biggie. The closest touchstone for S U U I'm familiar with is Gudrun Gut (only the vocals distinguish the two for me), not at all what I was expecting from my past ventures to the free folk sauna.

Maybe it's just me but having to c&p from the noms list is proving to be a massive pain in the arse from my phone.

sleeve, you've struck again! we are agape at Tobacco! :)

imago do u like shabazz palaces?

Went to go vote for pinkprint and apparently no one nominated it!

yo imago if u dig Tobacco you must check out the Black Moth Super Rainbow album from a couple years back called Cobra Juicy, it's my favorite thing from that collective of folks

cool, shall do :) my gf has insisted on their greatness as well, so it seems a dead cert

shabazz palaces are presumably coming up on the playlist - i haven't heard them yet but from what i've read they're an interesting lot

looks like "the pinkprint" was nominated but didn't make it to the albums list for some reason (fennel cartwright nom'd it here)

Oh! I already submitted my ballot. Never mind. I had Nicki's back in the track poll anyway.

Submitted yesterday. Phone was playing up with the c&ps so had to type in as close as possible to how stuff appeared in the list. Just missed the odd umlaut but if there's a problem with my ballot let me know.

http://www.ebeeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/4-DAYS-TO-GO-600x285.png

63 ballots so far, hope to double that by the end of the week. Personally, I can't wait to see who a booty cleaner votes for.

a booty, natch

mine is sent, soon to vanish into the no chance in hell category of baleeting

submitted! phew.

The only half-assed campaigning I'm going to do is suggest people listen to the album Conversations by Woman's Hour (and then vote for it, of course).

tkay maidza's "u-huh" should be heard by anyone who hasn't already - if only she received a quarter of the attention devoted to fellow aussie female boom bapper igloo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvzC4TfsrI0

her continuous SWITCHTAPE mix is a blast

I wanted so badly to put U-Huh on my ballot, but there just wasn't room. I HATE THESE RULES I PLAYED A PART IN DESIGNING!

Shameful question: can I make one change to the Albums portion of the ballot I submitted yesterday? If it's a hassle, or just beyond-the-pale poor form, I'll accept and move on…

That Woman's Hour has a sound palette that's right up my street but I didn't find the songs at all memorable. The only thing I want to stan for is Leon Vynehall's 'Butterflies' for which I forgot to vote.

The thing about the Woman's Hour album for me (and I usually dismiss albums I can't remember when they're over) is that I like it SO MUCH while I'm listening to it and I look forward to liking it just as much the next time I play it because it will all be new again.

i am team U-Huh

If you want to revote, just submit another ballot and post here - I'll delete the earlier one.

Don't really have time to listen to hundreds of albums over the next week, but I would encourage others to check out the Favorite Unheralded Albums thread for pointers to under the radar material. Obligatory campaign plugs ...

Lydia Ainsworth - Right from Real (abstract artpop ala Glasser)

― could at least have the decency to groove (Sanpaku), Friday, 9 January 2015 20:25 (4 days ago) Permalink

This has been in my rotation a lot lately. Glasser is a good-not-great touchpoint; she also reminds me a lot of Kate Bush. "PSI" is the song to hear, but it's a really nice release top to bottom with really unique melodies and big sounding songs. It could have easily ended up sounding really bedroom/laptop, if not for her vocals and some killer drum sounds.

seandalai, my corrected ballot is in; please delete the earlier one. Many thanks!

got it

looks like "the pinkprint" was nominated but didn't make it to the albums list for some reason (fennel cartwright nom'd it here)

― the dreaded Laramie (reddening), Tuesday, January 13, 2015 6:40 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haw i was just kicking myself for having neglected to vote for it

Continuing listening:

Bass Clef's "Fluorescent City Shining City" is another seven minute add-a-layer-drop-a-layer thinky thinky house track that I can completely get behind; definitely worth a listen

Somehow I made it the whole year without hearing Bastille's "Pompeii" and (as far as post-Mumford pip pip guvnuh pseudo-roots pop pub screamalongs go) it's not bad! riyl Chumbawumba, Soup Dragons

Baths' "Ocean Death" is atmospheric anticon and your ability to dig on it will directly reflect on how comfortable you are with that squeaky-ass clouddead warbly sound. i have a high tolerance there and like this a lot, especially the opening with it's leaky ceiling, grumbly belly and jogging pace bassline.

Beach Day have great album covers and a name and band picture that suggested I might as well take a pass. That was an error! Both "All My Friends are Punks" and "Don't Call Me on the Phone" are solid and snarly surftone girlrock pastiches that stuck around a lot longer than i expected.

Bear Hands "Giants" sounds like what happens when weezer and 3OH!3's little cousins get together

"Friendly" suggests that Kirko Bangz has become a viable go-to for very late era Little Wayne gag rap which is kind of a bummer.

Per Beatrice Eli, I said some time ago that "'Girls' is possibly the first song I’ve heard about eating pussy that makes the act sound boring" and I'll stand by that.

I worked hard to like Beck's Morning Phase album following a lot of middlebrow critical rapture but it never felt like anything more than the morning after Sea Changes to me. There's plenty of nice enough tracks on there (my stand outs are "Morning" "Say Goodbye" "Unforgiven" "Don't Let It Go" "Blackbird Chain" "Country Down" and "Waking Light") but I pretty much never want to put this back on. On the other hand, I saw Beck live this year and he was close to my favorite show of the year so i'm inclined to be kind.

Becky G's "Shower" was one of those massive hits that I admired more for its construction and wonkiness than for feeling it in my marrow. "Can't Get Enough" and "Can't Stop Dancin" feel like steps down from a place I could only barely justify visiting in the first place.

xp Not sure how that didn't get added to the nominations list (I said to myself when I saw the post "all minaj all day!") but if anyone wants to go back and vote for the album, just resubmit your ballot and seandalai will delete your previous one.

Yeah consider it nominated...speaking of which, was "Pompeii" nominated? It's not on the list I have.

I forgot to vote for 'Turn Down For What'. Didn't see it when I scanned the noms list. Any way I can edit it in?

easiest if you just submit a new ballot

xp Not sure how that didn't get added to the nominations list (I said to myself when I saw the post "all minaj all day!") but if anyone wants to go back and vote for the album, just resubmit your ballot and seandalai will delete your previous one.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:06 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could you pop it into my unweighted pile? i didn't keep a record of my ballot

"u-huh" is actually so catchy that it is a detriment

could you pop it into my unweighted pile? i didn't keep a record of my ballot

― flopson, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:52 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Done

I forgot to vote for 'Turn Down For What'. Didn't see it when I scanned the noms list. Any way I can edit it in?

It's on the list, under DJ Snake.

Just added The Pink Print to the albums list.

thx sean

brutally late gamechanger on my ballot https://soundcloud.com/platform/jack-jutson-something-on-my-mind-boiler-room-debuts