Driver, roll up the partition, please: ILM 2013 albums poll stats and ballots

full results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdDk4RENNN1dIbG9GdGZ3WDlrR1UxZHc

voter stats https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdHc1R0FrMHRRX19kSzlBbmViOUYwOFE

Weighted ballot as follows:

Etienne Daho - Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvée http://youtu.be/3mRYAKUcPDQ
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park http://youtu.be/kQ8xqyoZXCc
Inna - Party Never Ends http://youtu.be/rVQiV_vSGzE
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories http://youtu.be/plPRmANJF_w
Ishome - Confession http://youtu.be/_C6fRZOn_pA
Chikiss - Nichego Ne Boisya http://youtu.be/LIo_U6WvV7c
Alpha-Beta - Sbavte Gonor http://youtu.be/h_mfg4Of6xM
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose http://youtu.be/qdfqzuQ8j5I
Avicii - True http://youtu.be/IcrbM1l_BoI
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz http://youtu.be/W1tzURKYFNs
Kobo Town - Jumbie In The Jukebox http://youtu.be/ZthZSXe5v4k
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana http://youtu.be/yDJ1YWvlIB8
Vanessa Paradis - Love Songs http://youtu.be/RuD0iUgJ-L8
Lady Gaga - ARTPOP http://youtu.be/pco91kroVgQ
Haim - Days Are Gone http://youtu.be/AIjVpRAXK18
Naomi Elizabeth - Smooth Like Power Steering http://youtu.be/zY3VBQGPrvo
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual http://youtu.be/DoH6k6eIUS4
Studio Killers - Studio Killers http://youtu.be/Lo-EmtXbFRg
M.I.A. - Matangi http://youtu.be/pSSK_RrLNgU
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts http://youtu.be/ekFWPsXXcg0
Lemondey - Favorit http://youtu.be/qtux0UWmu9E
Pharmakon - Abandon http://youtu.be/bBss8QtfvM0
Joanna Wang - Galaxy Crisis: The Strangest Midnight Broadcast http://youtu.be/Lw34_G473oc
Perfume - Level 3 http://youtu.be/NhI2mp-WIck
Erasure - Snow Globe http://youtu.be/grVrDsqQdXc

oof QOTSA!

Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Charli XCX - True Romance
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
Suede - Bloodsports
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Prodigy x Alchemist - Albert Einstein
Annie - The A&R EP
Haim - Days Are Gone
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Dom Kennedy - Get Home Safely
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
donato dozzy - plays bee mask
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
When Saints Go Machine - Infinity Pool
Quadron - Avalanche
Blondes - Swisher
Boldy James - My First Chemistry Set
Holden - The Inheritors
M.I.A. - Matangi

weighted ballot, albums that didn't place bolded

Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Ariana Grande - Yours Truly
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
Creep - Echoes
Ciara - Ciara
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Holden - The Inheritors
M.I.A. - Matangi
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Floorplan - Paradise
Quadron - Avalanche
2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME
Ashley Monroe - Like A Rose
Om'mas Keith - City Pulse
A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
Jade Alston - Sunday Morning: Single On A Saturday Night Pt. 2
Eve - Lip Lock
Nils Frahm - Spaces
Prurient - Through The Window

My mixed ballot (bold = didn't place):

donato dozzy - plays bee mask
DJ Sprinkles - Where Dancefloors Stand Still
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Paramore - s/t
Prurient - Through The Window
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Various Artists - Livity Sound
Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Holden - The Inheritors
Floorplan - Paradise
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Haim - Days Are Gone
Huerco S - Colonial Patterns
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
Kyle Hall - Boat Party
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
Segue - Pacifica
Stellar Om Source - Joy One Mile
The 1975 - The 1975
The Necks - Open

lolol QOTSA, tbf 'I Appear Missing' was awesome

aaahahaha @ lex's album placements

Weighted ballot, albums in bold did not place...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
Gary Numan - Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
Suede - Bloodsports
Pet Shop Boys - Electric (#38)
The Deer Tracks - The Archer Trilogy, Part 3
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In The Devils Time
Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen
My Bloody Valentine - MBV (#3)
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Alison Moyet - The Minutes
David Bowie - The Next Day
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual (#7)
Wire - Change Becomes Us
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (#2)
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Deafheaven-Sunbather (#31)
Widowspeak - Almanac
Mazes - Ores & Minerals

weighted:

Momus - Bambi
The Necks - Open
Darkside - Psychic
connan mockasin - caramel
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
King Krule-6 feet beneath the moon
Francis and the Lights - Like a Dream EP
Haim - Days Are Gone
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
George Pringle - Golfo Dei Poeti
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Obits - Beds & Bugs
Sébastien Tellier - Confection
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Blondes - Swisher
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Lorde - Pure Heroine

(weighted)

Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Disclosure - Settle
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Blood-Drums
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Various Artists - The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals: The 1960s, Vol.1
Various Artists - Enjoy The Experience : Homemade Records 1958-1992
Primal Scream - More Light
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Low - The Invisible Way
M.I.A. - Matangi
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST
Fitness Forever - Cosmos
Jez Butler - The Lighter Side of Concrete
Elton John - The Diving Board
Giant Claw - Attorney Struggle
Gemma Ray - Down Baby Down
Georges Vert - An Electric Mind
Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon
Playgroup - Reproductions Volume 2

Poor My Dick...

Mixed ballot

Beyoncé - Beyoncé
My Dick - My Dick's Double Full Length Release
Haim - Days Are Gone
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time

Darkside - Psychic
Kanye West - Yeezus
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
Danny Brown - Old
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild
Gabriel Bruce - Love in Arms
Ovlov - Am
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Charli XCX - True Romance
Jagwar Ma - Howlin
John Wizards - John Wizards
M.I.A. - Matangi
Obits - Beds & Bugs
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Savages - Silence Yourself
Various Artists - Italians Do It Better - After Dark 2
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down

Mixed Ballot

1 - Los Campesionos!

Unranked

2 Chainz - BOATS II
Asap Ferg - Trap Lord
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Future & FreeBand Gang - FreeBand Gang The Movie
Girls Names - New Life
Gucci Mane - Lean
Gucci Mane - Trap House 3
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
Kanya West - Yeezus
Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi
King Khan & The Shrines - Idle No More
King Louie - Drilluminati
Lil Durk - Signed To the Streets
Rich Kidz - A West Side Story
Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa
Savages - Silence Yourself
Three Six Mafia - 6IX Commandments
Tree - Sunday School II
Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
Vic Mensa - Innanetape
Willis Earl Beal - Nobody knows
Yancey Boys - Sunset Blvd

weighted

Nils Frahm - Spaces
Almunia - Pulsar
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
chuck johnson - crows in the basilica
Zachary Cale - Blue Rider
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Steve Gunn - TIme Off
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
daniel bachman - jesus i'm a sinner
club 8 - above the city
besnard lakes - until in excess imperceptible ufo
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Charli XCX - True Romance
Various Artists - Italians Do It Better - After Dark 2
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
William Tyler - The Impossible Truth
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
Low - The Invisible Way
Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
slow walkers - slow walkers
Marisa Anderson - Mercury
Lawrence - Films and Windows
raum - event of your leaving

494 Portal - Vexovoid
494 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
494 ceephax - cro magnox

can I just lol for a moment here

weighted, not 100% sure this was the exact ballot i submitted but very very close if not:

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
3. Iron and Wine - Ghost on Ghost
4. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
5. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
6. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Jama Ko
7. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
8. Allison Weiss - Say What You Mean
9. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
10. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
11. Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa
12. HAIM - Days Are Gone
13. Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft
14. John Wizards - John Wizards
15. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
16. Barbez - Bella Ciao
17. Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy
18. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Gamak
19. Samantha Crain - Kid Face
20. William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who is William Onyeabor?
21. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
22. Grazia - Grazia
23. Ester Rada - Life Happens EP
24. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
25. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady

Weighted:

Kurt Vile-Walking on a pretty daze
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
DJ Sprinkles - Where Dancefloors Stand Still
The Men - New Moon
Prodigy x Alchemist - Albert Einstein
Hailu Mergia - Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Boldy James - My First Chemistry Set
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Ben UFO - Fabriclive 67
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Cassy - Fabric 71
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Haim - Days Are Gone
Ka - The Night's Gambit
Natasha Kmeto - Crisis
Axel Boman - Family Vacation
MC Eiht - Keep It Hood
nine inch nails - Hesitation Marks
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
donato dozzy - plays bee mask
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?

Gah can't even spell Campesinos.

xp

Pretty sure I've official merged with the hive mind

weighted

Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Haim - Days Are Gone
M.I.A. - Matangi
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Kanye West - Yeezus
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild
Wire - Change Becomes Us
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
Paramore - s/t
nine inch nails - Hesitation Marks
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Austra - Olympia
Zomby - With Love
Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled
Savages - Silence Yourself
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us

weighted

Paramore – s/t
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Kevin Gates - Stranger Than Fiction
Ariana Grande - Yours Truly
Elvis Costello And The Roots - Wise Up Ghost
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
Dungeonesse - Dungeonesse
Nova Starz - Dark Lovely Places...For The #Ragers
Superchunk – I Hate Music
Birds And Arrows - Coyote
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Kanye West - Yeezus
Matic808 - Yeezus: Baltimore Club Edition
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
Prodigy x Alchemist - Albert Einstein
Bilal - A Love Surreal
The Band Perry - Pioneer
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
E-40 - The Block Brochure V. 4/5/6

Did the Thicke album itself ever really have any buzz? I thought it was all about the single.

Pretty amused that my closest neighbour is my wife (and vice versa).

weighted, bold didn't place:

Beyoncé - Beyoncé
M.I.A. - Matangi
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
CREEP - Echoes
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Disclosure - Settle
Keep Shelly In Athens - At Home
Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light
London Grammar - If You Wait
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Wax Idols - Discipline & Desire
Machinedrum - Vapor City
Floorplan - Paradise
Moderat - II
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild

If I was making this now I'd bump Beyonce to #2 and sub out Classixx for the 1975

Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Kanye West - Yeezus
Haim - Days Are Gone
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Natasha Kmeto - Crisis
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
M.I.A. - Matangi
Quadron - Avalanche
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
DJ Q - Exclusive 30 Minute DJ Q Mix
Mykki Blanco - Betty Rubble: The Initiation

Cakes Da Killa - The Eulogy
Ariana Grande - Yours Truly
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Clipping - Midcity
Rhye - Woman
Katie Got Bandz - Drillary Clinton
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Le1f - Tree House
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Ka - The Night's Gambit

oh, Katie Got Bandz was another single vote :/

Weighted (bold albums placed, i don't get why you do it the other way round)
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Kurt Vile-Walking on a pretty daze
Israel Nash Gripka - Israel Nash's Rain Plans
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - s/t
Atoms for Peace - AMOK
Scout Niblett - It's Up To Emma
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai
Howe Gelb - The Coincidentalist
James Blake - Overgrown
Chelsea Light Moving - S/T
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Mazzy Star - Seasons Of Your Day
Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz von Oswald - 1/1

x-post

You should've organized a voting block for the DJ Q mix.

toby, that's great! hahaha

Joanna Gruesome only 12 points off :(

Weighted

Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Los Campesinos! - No Blues
Kanye West - Yeezus
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
Young Thug - 1017 Thug
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
zmoney - rich b4 rap
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Starlito - Funerals and Court Dates
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Deafheaven-Sunbather
Ka - The Night's Gambit
E-40 - The Block Brochure V. 4/5/6
Migos - Young Rich Niggas
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Danny Brown - Old
2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME
Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol 1
Tree - Sunday School II
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story
Lil B - 05 Fuck Em
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

(bold albums placed, i don't get why you do it the other way round)

because you are highlighting the albums people haven't talked about yet

weighted

Young Thug - 1017 Thug
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Ciara - s/t
Dom Kennedy - Get Home Safely
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Quadron - Avalanche
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
The-Dream - IV Play
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins
Om'mas Keith - City Pulse
Kanye West - Yeezus
Kelly Rowland - Talk A Good Game
Lil Durk - Signed to the Streets
Tree - Sunday School II
Forest Swords - Engravings
Bilal - A Love Surreal
Mulatu Astatke - Sketches of Ethiopia

Omg seven votes and one #1 for tricot and it still didn't make it. My fave album of the year by far, one of my favorite discoveries.. ever, really. I didn't think it would get more than seven votes, but I did maybe forget how many people voted and how many were needed to nab #77. Wow @ Momoiro Clover beating them and Perfume though.

lol @ drake #142, just behind jute gyte and stara rzeka

i forgot to save the final version of my ballot but i think this is it:

Almunia - Pulsar
Axel Boman - Family Vacation
Beautiful Swimmers - Son
Blondes - Swisher
Captain Sunshine & The Valley People - Tomorrows Never Known
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
DJ Koze - Amygdala
DJ Sprinkles - Where Dancefloors Stand Still
Eddie C - Country City Country
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Haim - Days Are Gone
Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz von Oswald - 1/1
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Pharaohs - Replicant Moods
Rollmottle - The Obsolete Man
Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
Severence - Hidden Ceilings
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Sven Weisemann - Inner Motions
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
The Smoke Clears - Listen
tm404 - tm404
Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop
Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
William Onyearbor - Who Is William Onyeabor?

Weighed

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Haim - Days Are Gone
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Waxahatchee-Cerulean Salt
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Darkside - Psychic
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get
Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
Pusha T - My Name is My Name
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Lucius - Wildewoman
Disclosure - Settle
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Rhye - Woman
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

Weighted. Could only think of 23 I *really* wanted to give points to. Safe to say that I've since heard about 5-10 albums that'd have almost certainly gotten on here (DJ Rashad would have been top 3)

Jute Gyte - Discontinuities OMG this beat DRAKE :D :D :D
BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - Wooden Ball
Katie Gately - Pipes (would have been my number 1 track if emil.y had nominated it there)
Clipping - Midcity
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Mutation - Error 500
Califone - Stitches
Dominique Leone - 365 Songs
Death Grips - Government Plates
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
Various Artists - Believers Roast Presents The Exquisite Corpse Game
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
Portal - Vexovoid
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
The Ginger Wildheart Band - Albion
Beastmilk - Climax
Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold
BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - Breaking Mirrors
Stara Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

Omg seven votes and one #1 for tricot and it still didn't make it.

was really pulling for this one to somehow make the top 77, oh well

i voted alphabetically, unweighted

Alasdair Roberts - A Wonder Working Stone
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Bitchin Bajas - Bitchitronics
Cave - Threace
Dustin Wong - Meditation of Ecstatic Energy
Earthless - From the Ages
Föllakzoid - II
Grant Hart - The Argument
Helen Money - Arriving Angels
Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer
Mind Over Mirrors - When the Rest are up at Four
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Sungod - Contakt
Shane Carruth - Upstream Color OST
Tangerine Dream, the Alchemist and Oh No, and Woody Jackson - Grand Theft Auto V OST
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
The Dead C/Rangda - split LP
Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
Windhand - Soma

Weighted

Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
The Blow - The Blow
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Momoiro Clover Z - 5th Dimension
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Tricot - THE
Katie Gately - Katie Gately
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
f(x) - Pink Tape
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Holden - The Inheritors
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol 1
The Focus Group - The Elektrik Karousel
RP Boo - Legacy
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Natasha Kmeto - Crisis

A lot of my (boldened) non-charters did hit not far outside the 77. V pleased that Joanna Gruesome showed so high!

Not surprised my top neighbor is J0rdan. Always thought we had similar taste.

that Beastmilk album is really, really good

Ha i'm winner of the Fuxxor Quotient.

Weighted

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Momoiro Clover Z - 5th Dimension
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Pharmakon - Abandon
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Le1f - Fly Zone
Totem Terrors - Repeat Play Torrent Rar
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
Ryoji Ikeda - Supercodex
The Blow - The Blow
The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
Tricot - THE
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Katie Gately - Pipes
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Vision Fortune - Mas Fiestas Con el Grupo Vision Fortune
Rabih Beaini - Albidaya
Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
Joanna Wang - Galaxy Crisis: The Strangest Midnight Broadcast

Didn't vote but I liked the sprinkles album and the jackbox single - would have voted for them if I had remembered

Karl, my comrade in Almunia voting. Would have been my #1 except nils frahm made a late run.

UZU would have snuck in ahead of MBV too, had I heard it all then. Incredible work. emil.y your ballot is as ever full of stuff I need to hear

I didn't really place anywhere interesting in the voter stats, except 6th least populist. Apparently I should read the Quietus.

Oh, thought I'd voted for Katie Got Bandz; threw the album ballot together in a rush after labouring over the singles one :(

(bold: DNP; bold+italics: DNP & sole voter)

The 1975 - The 1975
Haim - Days Are Gone
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Paramore - s/t
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Patrick Cowley - School Daze (#108)
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Holden - The Inheritors
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia (#125)
Jute Gyte - Discontinuities (#141)
zmoney - rich b4 rap (#143)
Sharpie Crows - 12 Omeros (#652)
Graze - Edges (#312)
Dominique Leone - 365 Songs (#283)
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Beastwars - Blood Becomes Fire (#539)
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Quadron - Avalanche

(usual sacrificial votes for some Kiwi stuff; thanks other Beastwars voter!)

Le1f got whupped by vote-split

Nice to see someone else in the middle of the Pharmakon / Joanna Wang Venn diagram!

Also, reminding me I want to check out that private press new age comp

Karl, my comrade in Almunia voting. Would have been my #1 except nils frahm made a late run.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dang, i still need to listen to that nils frahm album

i didn't save my ballot but i'm always surprised how low my hivemind score is given that i get 90%+ of my music recommendations from ILM

I never heard Tree House, but ended up playing Fly Zone an awful lot - and for all my eye-rolling about ILM polls would never have heard him at all if it wasn't for 'Wut' placing last year.

xposts to Rev

got rev as my top neighbor in both polls :D

didnt save my ballot though

Did the Thicke album itself ever really have any buzz? I thought it was all about the single.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:55 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's respected among people who enjoyed previous Thicke albums, but the hit certainly didn't lead many people to listen to the album who wouldn't have otherwise

21 in the top 77, which is the most out of everyone. I am either very boring or you are all worshipping what I rep.

Weighted:

Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Charli XCX - True Romance
Haim - Days Are Gone
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
M.I.A. - Matangi
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Emma Louise - Vs Head Vs Heart
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
DJ Koze - Amygdala
The 1975 - The 1975
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Little Mix - Salute
Quadron - Avalanche
Tiffany Evans - 143
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Blondes - Swisher
Paramore - s/t

Wow. That compilation of New Age music placed higher than Run the Jewels.

Also, reminding me I want to check out that private press new age comp

Same here - that and the DJ Sprinkles one that placed are the two I really wanted to get around to before voting but still haven't heard.

nils frahm album is amazing, a last-min addition for me too (that chucked the knife off). fav album of 2013 that my bf got me into (kacey musgraves was his that i got him into)

If I'd heard it in time I would've voted for Joanna Gruesome.

(usual sacrificial votes for some Kiwi stuff; thanks other Beastwars voter!)

― etc, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:05 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i forgot to save my ballot, but i reckon that was me. they should be global!

it's respected among people who enjoyed previous Thicke albums, but the hit certainly didn't lead many people to listen to the album who wouldn't have otherwise

― some dude, Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:11 PM Bookmark

Eh, definitely feels weak among his discography.

haha it said i'm most like to read NME and i don't believe i've ever even SEEN a copy of NME lol

I just realized Alex in MTL didn't vote because I recall geeking out with him about the Mykki Blanco :(

right I uh absolutely goddamn MUST know who the other Blanchex3 Wooden Ball voter was (sarahell probably ahaha)

I says I'm most likely to read Q...

Since there's an issue of it open on page 50 right next to my laptop, I guess I can't disagree with that.

Kevin Gates vote split btw the 2 albums. Rappers too prolific.

KT Tunstall finished one place ahead of phoenix

i wish i'd saved my ballot :/

Eh, definitely feels weak among his discography.

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn't say anyone called it his best ::shrugs::

My highest ever loneliness ranking (4th). Hmm. Point to ponder: whether to lead more or follow more in 2014.

MIXED

Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a pretty daze
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Haim - Days Are Gone
Charli XCX - True Romance
Paramore - s/t
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Ducktails - The Flower Lane
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go

(alphabetical)

!!! - Thr!!!er
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Disclosure - Settle
Gold Panda - Half of Where You Live
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Quadron - Avalanche
The Range - Nonfiction
Rhye - Woman
Xenia Rubinos - Magic Trix
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Dustin Wong - Meditation of Ecstatic Energy

Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
The 1975 - The 1975
Kevin Gates - Stranger Than Fiction
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story
Tree - Sunday School II
Chris Forsyth - Solar Motel
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Jade Alston - Sunday Morning: Single on a Saturday
K. Michelle - Rebellious Soul
Ka - The Night's Gambit
Dom Kennedy - Get Home Safely
MC Eiht - Keep It Hood
Motorpsycho - Still Life With Eggplant
Nils Frahm – Spaces
E-40 - The Block Brochure V. 4/5/6
Paramore - s/t
Peven Everett - King Of Hearts
Rhye - Woman
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Troy Ave - New York City
Young Thug - 1017 Thug
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
Freddie gibbs - ESGN

I stupidly thought frahm had a chance here, but then I was convinced matana roberts, both omars s and run the jewels would appear

Kevin Gates vote split btw the 2 albums. Rappers too prolific.

― pandemic, Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really wanted him to place and knew this would happen so threw em both up high haha

i voted for luca brasi story iirc

Weighted...and if I had to do the list now I would bump up the Sky albums several notches and the Charli XCX album would be way up there on my list. Bolded didn't place.

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Stara Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
Troller - Troller
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Moderat - II
FunkyStepz - Backlog
Blondes - Swisher
Swearin’ - Surfing Strange
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling EP
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Beautiful Swimmers - Son
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
humanbeast - venus ejaculates into the banquet
Pharaohs - Replicant Moods
Darkside - Psychic
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Cave - Threace

Such a great poll. Thanks to everyone involved. Love this thing every year.

xp kt tunstall was so great, i am so in love with her voice, besides the israel nash gripka the biggest discovery for me last year.

xp me too. i like spottie's strategy, would have been hilarious if everyone had done that & both had placed

I think m@tt and I are neighbors

yes xp, woulda been awesome

Feeling weirdly regretful that I didn't put Ariana Grande on my final ballot, especially as I look again at what I did go with.

I think m@tt and I are neighbors

― Spottie,

he's my closest also

kept forgetting whether or not i'd voted for things in the rundown, this is pretty arbitrary

mixed

The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
dbh - Time Flies

Young Smoke - Smoke The Astrozoid - Space Lyfe Unite The Movement 3D The Movie
Om'mas Keith - City Pulse
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Perfume Advert - Tulpa
Cakes Da Killa - The Eulogy
Kevin Drumm - Humid Weather
Various Artists - the music of the now age
Mann - Lisa
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Mano Le Tough - Changing Days
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Katie Gately - Pipes
Dustin Wong - Meditation of Ecstatic Energy
Kanye West - Yeezus
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk
Lonnie Holley - Keeping A Record Of It
Floorplan - Paradise

Weighted, bold didn't place:

Retribution Gospel Choir - 3
Earthless - From the Ages
Roomrunner - Ideal Cities
In Solitude - Sister
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
True Widow - Circumambulation
The Bevis Frond - White Numbers
VHÖL - VHÖL
Snailface - Snailface IV
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
The Cult of Dom Keller - The Cult of Dom Keller
Hawkeyes - Poison Slows You Down
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Russian Circles - Memorial
Radkey - Cat & Mouse
Lycia - Quiet Moments
Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
Cathedral - The Last Spire

what does it mean that i am no one's closest neighbor?
i like making my ballot but i am always disappointed that more things i like don't place or even warrant a vote from anyone but me.

LL it means that we are COSMIC TWINS

ok well i'll take that :)

btw DJP the other thread moves so fast I forgot to say, but I really appreciated the facebook posts you put up for certain albums. Good stuff.

w/r/t albums crossing demographics, i notice sky ferreira had a big impact on the dance crew itt - i noticed this elsewhere too (the factmag staff loved her). i can't actually fathom why this is!!

La Lechera - we shared two picks, so in comparison to the bulk of voters that puts us not as neighbors but at least on the same block.

yar DJP has been a major player, and not least because I've magically ended up liking everything he does (except his number one, lol)

And Drugs A. Money lives in the house between us.

xpost

i like making my ballot but i am always disappointed that more things i like don't place or even warrant a vote from anyone but me.

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:29 PM

i feel yr pain

Bit annoying that I'm neighbours with Craigo in both polls - I already know that, duh.

We should move in with NickB

o_O

I am nobody's Top Neighbour either.

There are so many things to like among albums that didn't place while garnering at least one #1 vote - this is the part of the poll I wait for eagerly:

78 Queens of the stone age - Like clockwork
81 Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
83 The National - Trouble Will Find Me
89 Young Thug - 1017 Thug
100 Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
100 Tricot - THE
104 CREEP - Echoes
106 The Necks - Open
113 Atoms for Peace - AMOK
118 Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
120 Iceage - You're Nothing
124 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
125 Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
126 Jagwar Ma - Howlin
127 Nils Frahm - Spaces
128 Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
130 William Tyler - The Impossible Truth
131 Bob Dylan - Another Self-Portrait: Bootleg Series Vol. 10
136 Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras
141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities
142 drake - nothing was the same
144 Los Campesinos! - No Blues
147 Juicy J - Stay Trippy
149 VHÖL - VHÖL
159 Retribution Gospel Choir - 3
177 Huerco S - Colonial Patterns
178 Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
190 besnard lakes - until in excess imperceptible ufo
199 Segue - Pacifica
205 the-dream - iv play
218 The Men - New Moon
251 Hyolyn - Love & Hate
260 Jah Wobble & Marconi Union - Anomic
292 Body/Head - Coming Apart
298 SHINee - The Misconceptions of Me
323 Sally Shapiro - Somewhere Else

#292, ouch. that was my #1.

awesome bandname/album combination

didn't vote for it but the Body/Head album was pretty cool

Jagwar Ma was me.

come at me

I only heard one or two Body/Head tracks, sounded promising but I wasn't listening hard enough to make my mind up about it.

w/r/t albums crossing demographics, i notice sky ferreira had a big impact on the dance crew itt - i noticed this elsewhere too (the factmag staff loved her). i can't actually fathom why this is!!

not really an answer, but "Heavy Metal Heart" reminds me a lot of going to parties and clubs.

EZ - but clearly we don't live in a place that has blocks -- it's like we share adjoining vast tracts of land and we have to rig up the dog sleds to visit our neighbors. Sort of like real life, I guess.

nobody except me voted for israel nash gripka. that's unbelievable, did i missspell his name or what? the best neil young impersonator ever, so much better than neil young himself these days. his album is almost on par with "after the goldrush", i'd say.

I wish I could "like" a post.

xpost

ok alex u got me interested

Looks like I forgot my Ariana Grande vote when I hastily threw mine together. Top 5 for me.

his album is here:
https://play.spotify.com/album/1rPEOOMPcIgoz1MJHB04l3

lol LJ and I are neighbors in this poll

i think i posted in the other thread about my "ballot concept"

got rev as my top neighbor in both polls :D

― flopson, Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:10 PM Bookmark

We've been neighbors in quite a few prior polls too

Suede beat Bowie.. amazing!

unweighted:
Alvarius B - Fuck You And The Horse You Rode In On
Alvin Curran - Shofar Rags
Barn Owl - V
Black Pus - All My Relations
Ceramic Dog - Your Turn
Clipping - Midcity
chuck johnson - crows in the basilica
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
daniel bachman - jesus i'm a sinner
Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
Death Grips - Government Plates
Dominique Leone - 365 Songs
Gabriel Saloman - Soldier's Requiem
Hair Police - Mercurial Rites
humanbeast - venus ejaculates into the banquet
Lumerians-The high frontier
Mary Halvorson Septet - Illusionary Sea
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Rene Hell - Vanilla Call Option
Sightings - Terribly Well
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
ty segall - sleeper
Various Artists - Believers Roast Presents The Exquisite Corpse Game
William Winant - Five American Percussion Pieces
Wolf Eyes - No Answer : Lower Floors

Bachman AND Alvarius B, thank you thank you thank you I feel less alone now

my ballot (unweighted)

Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Axel Boman - Family Vacation
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Ciara - S/T
DJ Koze - Amygdala
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
donato dozzy - plays bee mask
Floorplan - Paradise
Haim - Days Are Gone
Holden - The Inheritors
Huerco S - Colonial Patterns
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Machinedrum - Vapor City
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - Perils from the Sea
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Nils Frahm - Spaces
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Quadron - Avalanche
raum - event of your leaving
Tim Hecker - Virgins

what does it mean that i am no one's closest neighbor?

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:29 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it means that everyone else is closer to someone else than they are to you. everyone has a closest neighbor (unless every album you voted for got 0 votes from everyone else) but not everyone is someone else's closest neighbour. pretty easy to think of an example

i like sarahell's ballot

Monotony is my closest neighbor, but it looks like it's just because we're both hivemind voters.

mixed

Carcass - Surgical Steel
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Deafheaven-Sunbather
ASG - Blood Drive
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control
In Solitude - Sister

Jute Gyte - Discontinuities
Queens of the stone age - Like clockwork
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Paavoharju - Joko sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne
Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam
Grant Hart - The Argument
Beastmilk - Climax
Steve Moore - Pangaea Ultima
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Rene Hell - Vanilla Call Option
The Cosmic Dead - Inner Sanctum
Umberto - Confrontations
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Föllakzoid - II

so I am the most elitist voter?! lol

* = did not place

These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
*Esben & the Witch - Wash The Sins Not Only The Face
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
*Katie Gately - Pipes (amazing and strange vocal alchemy; this and her mini-LP were awesome, could have voted either way tbh)
Tim Hecker - Virgins
*Secret Circuit - Tactile Galactics
*implodes - recurring dream
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
*Karen Gwyer - Needs Continuum
Holden - The Inheritors
*Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol 1

*Black Deer - Black Deer
*Gaspar Claus - Jo Ha Kyu
*Justin Walter - Lullabies & Nightmares
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
*Kwaidan - Make All The Hell Of Dark Metal Bright
*Lee Noble - Ruiner
*Mountains - Centralia
Paramore - s/t (was nuts about this for 3 weeks prior to voting, but thinking about it now makes me feel like I've eaten too much cake)
*Paul Metzger - Tombeaux
*Quicksails - Mayville Dream
Savages - Silence Yourself
*Sightings - Terribly Well
*The Stranger - Watching dead empires in decay
*Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990

weighted

The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
Tim Hecker - Virgins
James Blake - Overgrown
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
Factory Floor - Factory Floor
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Ka - The Night's Gambit
Darkside - Psychic
The Necks - Open
Quadron - Avalanche
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
M.I.A. - Matangi
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
RP Boo - Legacy
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol 1
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
DJ Koze - Amygdala
donato dozzy - plays bee mask
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds

I guess Haim is not a bad choice for an ILM poll #1. Too bad Beyonce didn't, but maybe will take the 2010-2014 poll

...didn't place first

so I am the most elitist voter?! lol

― ^ enlightening post (sarahell)

A couple of people had no picks place.

in that I was the lowest in the "populism" ranking

Paramore - s/t (was nuts about this for 3 weeks prior to voting, but thinking about it now makes me feel like I've eaten too much cake)

fyi i used p much this exact analogy when i first listened thru ahaha

katie gately thing is just completely nextlevel and yall need 2 hear it https://soundcloud.com/blue-tapes/blue-eight-katie-gately-pipes

sarahell and Dan S I am liking yr ballots!

The fact that NickB swapped to Pipes made me check where she placed. Was #185 - Katie Gately beat Lady Gaga!

in that I was the lowest in the "populism" ranking

― ^ enlightening post (sarahell)

Ah, sorry, didn't get that. Then, yes!

What was the combined total for Katie G?

Combined total - 192 points. Would've tied with Ali Roberts.

Oops, no, sorry, looked in the wrong place. Hang on.

I would've checked myself, but my oh so lame ISP keeps telling me the data page contains porn O_o

A single release would have had 192 points, making it chart at 120, beating Iceage.

smash the fash! woohoo!

I would've checked myself, but my oh so lame ISP keeps telling me the data page contains porn O_o

― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hentai iirc

its not porn its art

1 the 1975 - the 1975
2 paramore - paramore
3 beyoncé – beyoncé
4 one direction - midnight memories
5 kacey musgraves - same trailer, different park
6 kt tunstall - invisible empire // crescent moon
7 fall out boy - save rock and roll
8 tegan and sara - heartthrob
9 haim - days are gone
10 miley cyrus - bangerz
11 om'mas keith - city pulse
12 gavin degraw – make a move
13 laura marling - once i was an eagle
14 quadron - avalanche
15 amel larrieux - ice cream everyday
16 florida georgia line - here's to the good times... this is how we roll
17 charli xcx - true romance
18 vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
19 avicii - true
20 floorplan - paradise
21 ariana grande - yours truly
22 dawn richard - goldenheart
23 britney spears - britney jean
24 brandy clark - 12 stories
25 sky ferreira - night time, my time

so much pop!

lol @ drake #142, just behind jute gyte and stara rzeka

Still marvelling at this. Well done, ILM, both those records are so much more deserving.

reckon if you atom-smashed uberweiss and i together you'd have someone who literally liked everything :D

also, amel larrieux would take over the world

the one track I heard by Katie Gately (maybe from a youtube posted by you, Nick B?) I liked a lot, but can't remember much about it. Will have to check her out

atom-smashed for peace

Segue - Pacifica
The Necks - Open
Ensemble Pearl - s/t
Akkord - Akkord
Function - Incubation
Miles - Faint Hearted
Mika Vainio - Kilo
Fantasia - Side Effects Of You
Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz von Oswald - 1/1
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Kuniko Kato - Cantus

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two:Mississippi Moonchile
L.Pierre - The Island Come True
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
le$ - e36
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back
Alix Perez - Chroma Chords
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
Rabih Beaini - Albidaya
Bonobo - The North Borders
Force Of Nature - Expansions

Dan S: here is Last Day off the mini-LP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUUCHDD06TI - which is as close as she gets to a pop song afaict

And also check the link that imago posted cos that is here at her most inspired and free-ranging:
https://soundcloud.com/blue-tapes/blue-eight-katie-gately-pipes

thanks!

artists i have HEARD OF on yr list imago: 8/22 :( (not including the v/a)

gorguts - this is a metal band that people went nuts over this year iirc!
matmos - dunno what this is but an image of a balloon is coming into my brain. maybe they/he/she had an album title about a balloon once
my bloody valentine - how bout that loveless huh
califone - i thought they were americana/folksy but i just googled and no
death grips - some people were like omg beyonce just pulled a death grips so i guess they released an album without warning once! never heard their songs
these new puritans - people liked their album this year
melt-banana - they're cool but i didn't listen to this album yet :/
colin stetson - is this the saxophone player for radiohead

looool ahaha nah he worked with uh *I forget, some other indie band*

matmos' previous album was called 'supreme balloon' but this one's much muuuch better (hai tune was space)

califone are sorta weird/experimental-folksy so yeah in fact

death grips based on ur ballot wd be a bad move 4u

idk, only 1 way 2 find out http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=bDvV3bMbAbo

i liked that califone album but only listened once

Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player, working extensively live and in studio with a wide range of acts including Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, TV On The Radio, Feist, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, David Byrne, Jolie Holland, Sinead O’Connor, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Angelique Kidjo, and Anthony Braxton.

bit of a hall of shame tbqfh

califone - i thought they were americana/folksy but i just googled and no

if you're anything like me you were confusing them with calexico

3 mins in this death grips reminds me a bit of hecq, probably for no reason other than to let everyone know i've heard of hecq

idk these days i only get attached to music where the melodies practically beat me round the head. most of my year was spent obsessively listening to every song max martin's ever been involved with

*Gaspar Claus - Jo Ha Kyu

― keiji cretins (NickB)

<3 <3 <3

Surprised to see so few votes for Dawn Of Midi, love that record

weighted ballot, with my no. 1 album (dirty beaches -- drifters/love is the devil) listed first:

Dirty Beaches -- Drifters/Love is the Devil
Burial -- Rival Dealer EP
Burial -- Truant/Rough Sleeper
Deerhunter-- Monomania
The Knife -- Shaking The Habitual
My Bloody Valentine -- MBV
Special Request -- Soul Music
Various Artists -- Livity Sound
Kanye West -- Yeezus
Tim Hecker -- Virgins
Daft Punk -- Random Access Memories
Retribution Gospel Choir -- 3
Darkside -- Psychic
Fuck Buttons -- Slow Focus
Omar Souleyman -- Wenu Wenu
Jesu -- Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
King Tuff -- Was Dead

Dawn of Midi was my #1 album. It's the 9-movement piece for free jazz trio Steve Reich never wrote, the sound of restraint on the perpetual verge of explosion.

Here's the top 20 from my list (I added 5 to pad things out).

Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
The Kniφe - Shaking the Habitual
BRAIDS - Flourish // Perish
Haim - Days Are Gone
Gramme - Fascination
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
Widowspeak - Almanac
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Lusine - The Waiting Room
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
CREEP - Echoes
Lulu Rouge - The Song is the Drum
Little Boots - Nocturnes
Trentemøller - Lost
London Grammar - If You Wait
Emika - Dva
The Field - Cupid's Head

weighted, non-placing in bold

Body/Head - Coming Apart
Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun
daniel bachman - jesus i'm a sinner
Kurt Vile-Walking on a pretty daze
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
Various Artists - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
Legendary Pink Dots - The Curse Of Marie Antoinette
United Bible Studies - Spoicke
Invisible Hands - S/T
donato dozzy - plays bee mask
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Legendary Pink Dots - The Gethsemane Option
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
The Dead C/Rangda - split LP
Michael Hurley - Land of Lofi
Paavoharju - Joko sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne
FIDLAR - FIDLAR
Wire - Change Becomes Us
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Yo La Tengo - Fade
The Dead C - Armed Courage
Glenn Jones - My Garden State

7/25, I really shouldn't bother

I think a good few here feel the same. I got 5/25 lol

yeah, i think i had 8 that placed. not very in touch with the hive-mind.

you all realize there were a bunch of us that had between 0 and 2 place, right?

albums with lots of votes but only in middle of ballots do tend to beat out a few niche things with lots of enthusiasm but what can you do? Larger rollout wouldn't make that much of a difference now unlike earlier years. It's pretty hard to get fans of more niche stuff to vote as either they dislike polls or dont think it's worth voting. I suppose rolling threads make it hard for stuff to crossover unless big publications pick up on it (see deafheaven)

unless we take a cue from politicians and unite our niche votes -- like what do you all call it over there, a coalition government?

I had 6 place and I feel like that's a pretty good showing.

you all realize there were a bunch of us that had between 0 and 2 place, right?

― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Thursday, January 30, 2014

investigating this dubious claim now.

it's true

I like yr coalition idea sarahell

I could have been more active on the campaigning thread but basically I don't have enough time

maybe next year

the poll clearly represents what the majority of ilxors who vote are listening to and that's all polls can do. It also leads to a few people checking out albums lower down which is great.

I feel like emil.y's campaigning for hot fruit was successful

i don't like the coalition idea one bit but i do think that loads of awesome obscure shit could stand to be proselytised better

I had 2 place, but I know I am right and fuck y'all!

xp fine, continue to be a loser

obscurists unite!

sincerely tho i hope everybody who didn't vote for Beyoncé dies in the next 3 months

i will only listen to albums that 500 people or fewer have heard. anything else is impure.

sincerely tho i hope everybody who didn't vote for Beyoncé dies in the next 3 months

― Squidward Ka-Spel (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 30, 2014

scheduling this now.

i'll make sure to spend my final 3 months continuing to not listen to beyonce

I was going to say I only didn't vote for it because I hadn't heard it, but actually I don't like the whole thing, and I'd probably have gone the route of just voting for 'Flawless' in the tracks poll. So yeah, I'll sort out the dying in three months thing.

sarahell in practice it might work like a coalition, so long as the music's good enough, course

sincerely tho i hope everybody who didn't vote for Beyoncé dies in the next 3 months

looking forward to seeing your ballot NV

whether "the music's good enough" is a matter of objective fact.

you know that compromise is required to gain power?

1 month

Cute:

467 Chikiss - Nichego Ne Boisya
467 Grupo Niche - Tocando el Cielo con las Manos

NV doesnt vote in polls iirc as you "cant reduce art to rankings"

nv's hypothetical ballot

• beyonce -- beyonce
• beyonce -- beyonce
• beyonce -- beyonce
• beyonce -- beyonce
• hot fruit

My ballot, weighted:

besnard lakes - until in excess imperceptible ufo
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial
Cass McCombs - The Big Wheel
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Fuzz - s/t
Jacuzzi Boys - s/t
Deerhunter-Monomania
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
Dustin Wong - Meditation of Ecstatic Energy
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Ka - The Night's Gambit
Prodigy x Alchemist - Albert Einstein
Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is the Devil
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
Cave - Threace
Blank Realm - Go Easy
Anna Meredith - Jet Black Raider

Stuff that was on my long list that got pushed off:
The Men - New Moon
Pure X - Crawling Up the Stairs
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Mikal Cronin - MCII
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
Ovlov - Am
STNNNG - Empire Inward
Action Bronson - Blue Chips 2
Iceage - You're Nothing
Roc Marciano - Marci Beaucoup
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Melt-Banana - Fetch

I think I missed the fact that Fuzz was nominated. The stuff I've heard from that album has been pretty cool.

That Flaming Lips album was really underrated btw, it's the best, weirdest, darkest thing they've done in years.

Fuzz album is so good, just straight up rock music with killer riffs.

I'm always happy with the things that I get turned on to in these polls even if the music I hold near & dear comes in at #292.

didn't mean to sound like I was complaining, and yeah it's a lot of voters so that's reflected.

I like the Fuzz album, have not heard Flaming Lips but I was cool w/Embryonic so I should check it out

I dont know if seandalai can do it? But glenn used to produce the results if you just counted everyones top 10 and I'd like to see the difference between both.
I think they might be really interesting.

some ballots were unranked so that couldn't be done

deafheaven first place

All I'll reveal about my ballot is that I voted the-dream 1st place ; ^ )

And as a result johnny crunch was my closest nabe

There's a "dronestreet" now?

Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
Paramore - s/t
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories
Pistol Annies - Annie Up
Haim - Days Are Gone
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Kanye West - Yeezus
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
The 1975 - The 1975
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Disclosure - Settle
Bob Dylan - Another Self-Portrait: Bootleg Series Vol. 10
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Blondes - Swisher
Neil Young - Live at the Cellar Door

just got the Beyoncé album a week ago! wish we'd have saved it for next year. feelings need time to build up

love uberweiss' ballot

Stealing Sandpaku's format. Weighted:

382 Various Artists - Sing Me The Songs: Celebrating the works of Kate McGarrigle
37 Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
54 Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
19 Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
18 Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
467 Patty Griffin - Silver Bell
16 Disclosure - Settle
497 Bill Janovitz - Walt Whitman Mall
28 Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
154 FIDLAR - FIDLAR
24 Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
43 Jon Hopkins - Immunity
363 Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft
50 Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
1 Haim - Days Are Gone
124 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric
167 LE1F - Fly Zone
52 Savages - Silence Yourself
17 Charli XCX - True Romance
115 The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law

That Flaming Lips album was really underrated btw, it's the best, weirdest, darkest thing they've done in years.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:46 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow, i forgot they even put something out. it only placed at #104 on Pazz & Jop and their last 'proper' album came in at #9.

yeah, na's post is motivating me to finally unwrap this disc from the plastic case and listen to it.

i didn't hold onto a copy of my ballot, but y'all aren't missing anything

The Flaming Lips album got good reviews but I think people are just burned out on them, they've been putting out so much music recently and seem to play every single festival.

it wasn't that the reviews were bad; it was that they made the album seem so gloomy and uninviting that it seemed better to avoid it (come to think of it, i normally like gloomy and uninviting music, so . . . )

it was a pretty cool album but i've never been a huge fan.

My (mixed) ballot:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Follakzoid - II

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Donato Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask
Haim - Days Are Gone
Laura Groves - Thinking About Thinking
Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Nanda Collection
Sons of Kemet - Burn
Sapphire Slows - Allegoria
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Ex-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars Three
Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras
Peven Everett - King of Hearts
TM404 - TM404
Tal National - Kaani
Fire! Orchestra - Exit!
Bflecha - βeta
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds

8/25 placed, which is about as well as I ever do. I should read The Wire, but I already knew that.

I think it's interesting that even with a bunch of additional voters, the winning album couldn't match Miguel's total from last year - there was definitely less consensus this year, though as has been said maybe Beyoncé would have emerged victorious if the album had been available earlier and more widely. No jazz placed as usual, but I strongly feel that the Matthew Shipp and Matana Roberts albums in particular are worth checking out if you have even a passing interest in the genre.

Matthew Shipp and Matana Roberts

Shipp was my #1, and I need to give Roberts another try (the strong vocals there were a little too much for me, too classical or something, I forget really, but I have difficult with anything verging on the operatic).

Still at work so full ballot is going to have to wait. (Wasn't that interesting really--did not have an album-oriented year.)

thanks for doing this poll J0rdan and seandalai!
I'm going to listen to the matthew shipp, matana roberts and pantha du prince albums based on your recommendations, seandalai. And you should read The Wire, it covers a lot of the music you like. I got a digital subscription and it's great to have access to their whole back archive; also the search function on the site they use, exacteditions.com, works well

I've had a subscription for ~15 years! Hence "I already knew that". Still haven't worked out the digital thing though.

Dan, looking at your ballot you might also enjoy the Ex-Easter Island Head, TM404 and Sapphire Slows albums.

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

what i've heard of this sounds great. seems maybe more accessible than the last one (which was also great).

xpost
seandalai, it occurred to me after I made that post that you already read it, sorry! I will check out those other artists too

It's less fiery for sure, and draws on some older jazz traditions than the 60s/70s canon that underpins a lot of modern "out" jazz - iirc it's a concept album about MR's grandmother, which informs the music and also provides the texts for spoken and sung pieces. This texual part is where a lot of the emotional power comes from.

I posted earlier today that I should never write about jazz, so I'll stop now.

she's kind of free-jazz-y. there's a song on the last disc, about the african slave trade, iirc, which is stunning.

I strongly feel that the Matthew Shipp and Matana Roberts albums in particular are worth checking out if you have even a passing interest in the genre.

cool, thanks for this and thanks to you & J0rdan for all your work

Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Haim - Days Are Gone
Shigeto - No Better Time Than Now
Houria Aichi - Renayate
Grupo Niche - Tocando el Cielo con las Manos
DJ Q - Exclusive 30 Minute DJ Q Mix
Forest Swords – Engravings

I stole two of these from Jordan's list of favorite electronic albums (but not without listening first).

6/25 for me. Post mine later.

Lol @ lex gloating abt Drake placing just below Jute Gyte and Stara Rzeka: those were the two albums in my top 10 I was hoping would show up in the bottom third...

My Ballot (bolded titles placed in the chart):

1 Iceage - You're Nothing
2 Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun
3 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...
4 My Bloody Valentine - MBV
5 Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
6 The Body - Master, We Perish
7 Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling EP
8 Watain - The Wild Hunt
9 Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam
10 Arcade Fire - Reflektor
11 In Solitude - Sister
12 Full Of Hell - Rudiments Of Mutilation
13 Black Sabbath -13
14 Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
15 Carcass - Surgical Steel
16 Austra - Olympia
17 Queens of the stone age - Like clockwork
18 Kvelertak - Meir
19 Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
20 Anciients - Heart Of Oak
21 Kurt Vile-Walking on a pretty daze
22 Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

I know that I am out of the loop on just about everything (even metal these days) but I am shocked that the Iceage disc didn't get more love as active as their thread was when "You're Nothing" came out...

Most people on that Iceage thread were just saying they thought they were dumbasses iirc

xxxxp I also voted Almunia quite highly as well as near miss I Am The Center

some ballots were unranked so that couldn't be done

not true. Changing the weighting of points would be a pain tho I guess.

But the end result would be interesting.

i didn't save my ballot but i'm always surprised how low my hivemind score is given that i get 90%+ of my music recommendations from ILM

― ciderpress, Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You were my top neighbour and I didn't bother to save my ballot either. However, I do know that I definitely would've voted for the following (bold=not placed):

100. Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
154. FIDLAR - FIDLAR 
121. David Bowie - The Next Day 
355. Bombino - Nomad 
112. Emika - Dva 
117. Suede - Bloodsports 
293. Doldrums - Lesser Evil 
214. Iron and Wine - Ghost on Ghost 
231. Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa 
396. Clinic - Free Reign II 
34. Miley Cyrus - Bangerz 
483. Agnes Obel - Aventine 
78. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork 
85. Nick Cave - Push the Sky Away

I also would've voted for these records if I'd been paying attention to the nominations business:

Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum
RA the Rugged Man - Legends Never Die 
La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin
Oblivians - Desperation
Rizzle Kicks - Roaring 20s

I must have padded out my ballot with 6 others I can't remember, with 5 of these forgotten ones placing in the top 77 according to the spreadsheet.

Whats Chrome - Half Machine from the Sun?

1 DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications and Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
2 Holden - The Inheritors
3 Tim Hecker - Virgins
4 Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
5 Patrick Cowley - School Daze
6 My Bloody Valentine - MBV
7 The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
8 Factory Floor - Factory Floor
9 Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
10 Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
11 Maya Jane Coles - Comfort
12 Various Artists - Italians Do It Better - After Dark 2
13 Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
14 Syclops - A Blink Of A Eye
15 Alasdair Roberts - A Wonder Working Stone
16 Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop
17 Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
18 Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
19 Low - The Invisible Way
20 Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
21 Glasser - Interiors
22 Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
23 William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
24 Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
25 David Bowie - The Next Day

Whats Chrome - Half Machine from the Sun? ― Drugs A. Money, Friday, January 31, 2014

Weighted. Bold = Top 77, Italic = only me who voted for it.

1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Harleighblu - Forget Me Not
3. These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
4. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
5. Lady - Lady
6. Rudimental - Home
7. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
8. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
9. Arctic Monkeys - AM
10. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
11. The Stepkids - Troubadour
12. Fists - Phantasm
13. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
14. Suede - Bloodsports
15. Disclosure - Settle
16. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Jama Ko
17. Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
18. I Am Kloot - Let It All In
19. Alison Moyet - The Minutes
20. Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
21. Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
22. Bombino - Nomad
23. Ballake Sissoko - At Peace
24. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
25. William Tyler - The Impossible Truth

Would have voted for Brandy Clark and for Marius Neset Birds, if I'd heard them in time.

The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs - Mentioned this on campaigning. So sad I'm the only one who voted for this. It's an absolutely astounding album - mostly sound collages of conversations, background sounds, houses creaking, traffic, church sermons etc. Had a huge impact when I listened to it one morning in bed, then went into town and found myself suddenly acutely aware of all the sounds going on round me.
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol 1 - One of the strangest records I've ever heard. Does what it says on the tin. Sounds like an Alan Lomax excursion to Alpha Centauri.
Autechre - Exai The ne plus ultra Autechre album. More thoughts here: http://thequietus.com/articles/11482-autechre-exai-review Interview here: http://thequietus.com/articles/13899-autechre-interview-exai-l-event
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Hacker Farm - UHF Electronic noise made by West Country rural dwellers on old junk they foudn lying around the countryside. Synths made from milk pails, drum machines made out of rusty old buckets. A keen anti-conformist reuse/recycle ethic throughout. Right up my strasse.
Floorplan - Paradise Floorplan. Fucking FLOORPLAN mate! Why does this sound so fucking good? Why wasn't it higher? Would have been great to get a bit more 'proper dance' in the top 77 rather than things like Disclosure IMO. I know a lot of people were rooting for this. Very rarely does an austere techno album sound so warm and satisfying.
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
When Saints Go Machine - Infinity Pool - Not as quite as good as Konkylie (but then what is? it's a perfect album). But the highs are definitely high (System Of Unlimited Love especially)
Haim - Days Are Gone
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance - One of black metal's most extreme bands sheds its scales and goes back to a highly-entertaining crust-punk style. Just sounds like two mates having fun and making the music they love. Pleasantly surprising, especially the closer 'Leave No Cross Unturned'.
Glenn Jones - My Garden State - Gorgeous post-Fahey acoustic instrumental music. Fun to sing melody lines alogn to whilst cooking.
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo - Perhaps the most innovative UK hard rock/metal band around today. Kind of undescribable really. They mix elements of noise, industrial, metal, tribal drumming and other styles but the only thing I can compare this to is Ministry's Psalm 69. Check out the stunning video for English Flesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asuV78rSNgk
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
Deafheaven-Sunbather
Brendan Canning - You Gots 2 Chill More Post-Fahey niceties. I wouldn't call this particularly astounding but as the title suggests, it was a top chilling out album for me.
FIDLAR - FIDLAR - Goofy hilarious garage rock. Super fun.
Future of the Left - How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident - Brazen, pissed off, Welsh rockers release brilliant fuck you to the music and entertainment industry with this largely DIY release.
Jute Gyte - Discontinuities Alt-tonal black metal. Seriously messed up.
Iron and Wine - Ghost on Ghost Forgot I voted for this. Not his best in retrospect but contained a good few moments that make it worthwhile.

argh! sorry about the embed. I tried to just post a link, sorry. Mods, can you fix please?

weighted

drake - nothing was the same
Kanye West - Yeezus
Future & FreeBand Gang - Future Presents F.B.G: The Movie
Action Bronson - Blue Chips 2
King Louie - March Madness
freddie gibbs - ESGN
autre ne veut - anxiety
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
the-dream - iv play
The National-Trouble Will Find Me
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
king louie - drilluminati 2
postiljonen - skyer
Rhye - Woman
Haim - Days Are Gone
lil durk - signed to the streets
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
2 Chainz - B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Ciara - S/T

i think a lot of ilxors would like postiljonen -- its like shoegaze-ish

try this - http://youtu.be/nYhmuDfacpI

weighted for something to happen

Charli XCX - True Romance
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
<b>My Dick - My Dick's Double Full Length Release
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen
Arca - &&&&&</b>
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
<b>CREEP - Echoes</b>
Factory Floor - Factory Floor
</b>Beaches - She Beats
Mikal Cronin - MCII
Saint Pepsi - Hit Vibes</b>
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
<b>Sigur Ros - Kveikur</b>
Kanye West - Yeezus
<b>FM Attack - Deja Vu</b>
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
<b>autre ne veut - anxiety
The Field - Cupid’s Head
Annie - The A&R EP</b>
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
<b>Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe</b>

Weighted

Danny Brown - Old
Kanye West - Yeezus
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get…
Mikal Cronin - MCII
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
The Men - New Moon
Action Bronson & Party Supplies - Blue Chips 2
Haim - Days Are Gone
Deerhunter - Monomania
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
Migos - YRN
The National - Trouble Will Find Me

I voted for Ice age and they are dumb asses

i really thought king krule stood a chance at placing but i guess he's not very ilx-y after all

king krule is dreadful isn't he?

at least give me a bird analogy, dl

Wow @ Momoiro Clover beating them and Perfume though.

and kyary!

I thought King Krule would be up my alley, but I couldn't take the dude's voice.

so close to the "out of context" thread

Paramore - s/t
The 1975 - The 1975
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Haim - Days Are Gone
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Dawn Richard - Golden heart
Om'mas Keith - City Pulse
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
M.I.A. - Matangi
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Graze - Edges
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
Holden - The Inheritors
Quadron - Avalanche
Blondes - Swisher
Ariana Grande - Yours Truly
Special Request - Soul Music
Charli XCX - True Romance
underground lovers - weekend
Ciara - S/T
Brandy Clark - 12 Stories

I nominated Patrick Cowley but then forgot it was eligible ;_;

my weighted ballot:

Maya Jane Coles – Comfort
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Bilal - A Love Surreal
Kolsch – 1977

Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Disclosure - Settle
DJ Koze - Amygdala
DJ Sprinkles - Where Dancefloors Stand Still
Holden - The Inheritors
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
José James - No Beginning No End
Machinedrum - Vapor City
Mano Le Tough - Changing Days
Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
Nils Frahm - Spaces
Omar S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light
Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Selma Oxor - User 69
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Take Me To The Land Of Hell

uh, mixed ballot I mean. top 6 are weighted

weighted, did not place in bold, sole votes underlined

Alla - Feed the Dragon Vol. 1
Stara Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO - In Search of the Lost Divine Arc
Retribution Gospel Choir - 3
NYPC - NYPC
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Jute Gyte - Discontinuities
Le1f - Tree House
Amel Larrieux - Ice Cream Everyday
Clinic - Free Reign II
Föllakzoid - II
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
The Cosmic Dead - Inner Sanctum
Sungod - Contakt
The Heliocentrics - 13 Degrees of Reality
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Vaura - The Missing
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Jade Alston - Sunday Morning: Single on a Saturday Night pt II
Queens of the stone age - Like clockwork
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Natasha Kmeto - Crisis
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram
La Big Vic - Cold War

oh wow I'm only 5/25

my kinda ballot

need to hear the newest Le1fs, the one from a couple years back was incredible

Bummed that that Jade Alston didn't place, I thought it was in for sure.

Michael B is my closest neighbor-- doesnt look like he's posted his ballot-- post it, dude!

lol imago I noticed you and I were closest neighbors, my ballot probably has almost as much in common with EZ's though. Me and him have been talking on the reg and he kinda had a big impact on what I listened to this year...

I got blood sausage award on the traxx poll and that was kind of my m.o. this year, for lack of any real time to explore records: I just kind of kept tabs on the time travel thread and checked out what my friends were telling me about, which is probably why my ballot was so disjointed this year. Ice Cream Everyday for instance was a last minute addition from listening to it once after reading some dude's EOY blog. I had a couple other sources besides ILX but for the most part I did not read much from the body of pop music crit this year...

Ice Cream Everyday is as I said upthread absolutely goddamn fucking incredible and even though there's been some great soul/r&b this year it dwarfs everything else I've heard (Monae thus far closest to matching it, K Michelle not bad either) - it's a fucking fabulous work of musical art let alone a great pop album. I think it's maybe the single album from 2013 ILM can all get behind with no exceptions.

THAT SAID, I've just started the Dawn Richards and so far it's really great :D

Goldenheart has drawn the most "what is this, it's really good" inquiries of everything I've played in the past year

Jade Alston album was way cool: the first half was solid, almost business as usual but then the last four songs were just, like, total knockouts!

Goldenheart was okay, it's probably in my top 40 but it seemed a bit of a retread of Armor On to me. THAT album (actually EP) is def one of the best of the decade thus far, and feels v archetypal, elemental even, to me (tho I suppose Telltale Heart, which I've only listened to once, is prob the true archetype)

I didn't dig the Larrieux track that placed on the tracks polls - I may try another seeing as everyone's raving about her, but it just didn't click for me.

Give the album a start-to-finish go, it's seriously worth it

I said this on the other thread, too, but something happened with Armor On, particularly 'Bombs', a few months ago, where I went from handwavey whatevers to just repeated plays over and over again. No idea what spurred that or where it came from, but... yeah. Bloody great.

Weighted:

Beyoncé - Beyoncé
autre ne veut - anxiety
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Kanye West - Yeezus
Deafheaven-Sunbather
Iceage - You're Nothing
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Pusha T - My Name is My Name
These New Puritans - Fields of Reeds
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Tree - Sunday School II
Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
LE1F - Fly Zone
f(x) - Pink Tape
Three Six Mafia - 6ix Commandments
Baths - Obsidian
Burial - Rival Dealer EP
Paavoharju - Joko sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne
Crystal Shipsss - Dirty Dancer
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Forest Swords - Engravings
Cakes Da Killa - The Eulogy
dj mustard - ketchup
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

I was pegged as a p4k-reader, which is hardly surprising. I really had a p4k-year this year. Also, I'm still angry at Beyoncé not winning this.

I woulda had beyonce in my top 5 but had only listened a couple times before the poll.

How would people compare the Beyonce album to Larrieux and Dawn Richard? I'd like to know before I buy it

It has more videos, would be my guess.

it's a totally different thing IMO

the videos are crucial and will permanently alter how you hear/interpret the songs

so I should buy the version that has videos, right

IMO yes

ty, ok

Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs - Mentioned this on campaigning. So sad I'm the only one who voted for this.

this is like J0n Abb3y stuff that I tend to find overly precious and restrained. I've sat through a lot of music that has this aesthetic, or is along the lines of what these dudes do. I don't doubt it does what it does better than most music that is attempting the same thing(s). ... Hell, maybe I will give this a try after my Kanye listening marathon.

Keep meaning to listen to it cos truly i <3 the Shadow Ring

i would recommend my top two to anyone, tbh

nils frahm - spaces

wondrous live (or "live"?) album, a pretty mesmerizing combo of electronic and modern classical.

almunia - pulsar

remarkable blissed-out balearic summer driving mellow jams, soundtracked a lot of my pacific coast highway drives. also highly recommended is their 'new moon' LP.

I just heard nils frahm on the college radio station I listen to! It's quite nice!

My weighted ballot:

Kanye West - Yeezus
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
DJ Koze - Amygdala
The Embassy - Sweet Sensations
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Darkside - Psychic
Avicii - True
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
Starlito and Don Trip - Step Brothers Two
Dom Kennedy - Get Home Safely
Haim - Days Are Gone
Danny Brown - Old
Action Bronson - Blue Chips 2
Oneohtrix Point Never - R plus Seven
Disclosure - Settle
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Oddisee - The Beauty In All
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
King Krule - 6 Feet Under the Moon

since gr8080 asked!

(weighted)

Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of The City
My Bloody Valentine – m b v
Classixx – Hanging Gardens
King Tuff – s/t

(unweighted)

Disclosure – Settle
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return
Factory Floor – s/t
Telemachus – In The Evening
Haim – Days are gone
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
King Krule - 6 feet beneath the moon
The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Tim Hecker – Virgins
Cass McCombs – Big Wheel
Kanye West - Yeezus
John Hopkins – Immunity
J Cole - Born Sinner

I wouldnt put the King Krule album there anymore. I mean theres some good songs on it but I only really put it in there to make it an even 20. id replace it with the Young Galaxy or Melt Yourself Down album.

Great ballot, Drugs A. Money. And not just because of similarities - the stuff we don't share was ace, too.

Keep meaning to listen to it cos truly i <3 the Shadow Ring

― keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, January 31, 2014 10:12 PM

Did you hear this year's Call Back The Giants record at all?

Alla just kind of slid off the end of my ballot at some point. Sorry. :(

I think more people would like that record if they heard it! Small timey Chicago r&b/??? outfit doesn't get a lot of words/screen inches ime. It was good!

I liked their weird tropicalia phase a little better than this one, but I think this one has more crossover appeal.
I also feel like Drag City albums don't have a chance when spotify is the way most people listen to new/unfamiliar stuff. I voted for three albums on DC and none of them made a peep on the poll.

Sarahell, re photographs, i'm obviously not as acquainted with music like this but for me it was a joy and a pleasure.

I really have to ~get involved~ next year, going through now I'm seeing lots of albums I really liked and feel could have had a respectable top 150 showing not even nominated - Sachiko, Morphosis, Jenny Hval, The Pastels, would Peter Gordon & Factory Floor have been eligible? - and many others I could have pushed up a bit languishing in the deep 100s. I guess I assumed I was one enough with the ILM hivemind that my own take didn't make much difference.

What us the time travel thread about? I feel like I ought to know

Time travel thread is about time travel. And whatever those of us who hang out there happen to think is worth posting. You'd enjoy it, I think.

Merdeyeux you should totally have voted! "Beachcombing" was the one track I couldn't quite will into the top 77 on my own.

oh I'd probably have voted for 'C Side' instead so even hypothetically vote-splitting would have left us heartbroken.

I don't know anything about time travel unless you got some balloons or summin?

Time travel is kind of rolling weirdo avantgarde stuff that kinda falls thru the cracks. Mostly presided over by imago, sarahell, Edward III, and Hellhouse

LL onlt thing on Drag City I listened to this year wz Howling Hex but Cave and that Dead C/Rangda split both sound like theyd be awesome and they're def high on my catch-up list

Will post about Alla on my next break

Not just though, I post random pop there sometimes. Always felt inclusivity was part of the founding vision xp

Oh I nearly a started a rolling avant weirdo thread but I had a feeling it existed but couldn't find it. You avant weirdos need to get more accessible or else how the heck am I gonna find you??

~~~~ hop into the time machine ~~~~

us avant weirdos just know.

All this time. Have you been sharing any Skronk arsed cello tracks yet? What am I saying, course you have.

1 - Team Rockit - Anima (382)
2 - Troller - Troller (252)
3 - M.I.A. - Matangi (14)
4 - postiljonen - skyer (247)
5 - Charli XCX - True Romance (17)
6 - Dean Blunt - The Redeemer (134)
7 - Julia Holter - Loud City Song (23)
8 - club 8 - above the city (176)
9 - BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - Breaking Mirrors (430)
10 - Wax Idols - Discipline & Desire (418)
11 - The Haxan Cloak - Excavation (92)
12 - Tirzah - I'm Not Dancing (561)
13 - Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU (48)
14 - My Bloody Valentine - MBV (3)
15 - Burial - Rival Dealer EP (30)
16 - DJ Koze - Amygdala (36)
17 - Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia (125)
18 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels (87)
19 - Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (5)
20 - Pharmakon - Abandon (257)
21 - Perfume - Level 3 (115)
22 - Melt-Banana - Fetch (75)
23 - Prurient - Through The Window (181)
24 - Factory Floor - Factory Floor (65)
25 - Standish/Carlyon - Deleted Scenes (795)

I accidentally forgot to vote for The Knife, which would have been top 5 on my list. probably some other things as well.

^intriguing ballot

If I'd got round to nomming The Pastels would've been my number two vote.

I need to give that Troller album a listen here soon

I've yet to hear the first Alla album but from what I've gathered the references are Tropicalia, Krautrock, and even stuff like Tuxedomoon, and when I listen to FTD that's what I hear: a band from a spacey esoteric background immersing themselves in the surfaces and textures of modern R&B. It's almost like an Amon Duul II album but drawing on stuff like Katy B, Dawn Richard, and Sade instead of like, Jefferson Airplane and the Velvets and the Incredible String Band. And for a hopeless if not shameless rockist who was starting to hear the possibilities of modern pop and techno production, it came at exactly the right time. I think most of the R&B fans round here tend to be songwriting absolutists so in many ways like the Clipping album this kind of fit uncomfortably between two camps. But there was not another album this year I've listened to as much...

All this time. Have you been sharing any Skronk arsed cello tracks yet? What am I saying, course you have.

like helen money?

Allá album is 1) something I was completely ignorant of and 2) pretty amazing. I think this is a legit authorized download link, so (unless it isn't) check it out here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2upt482897oys6/%23feedthedragon%20volume%20one.zip

I'm pretty sure I'm the one who nominated the La Big Vic album, so I should have voted for that too.

Haha nominations thread was the first inkling I had that La Big Vic had an album out this year

...so thanks!

La Lechera, stuff like Okkyung Lee, Gaspar Claus, Mohammed. .. I don't know Helen Money though

xp fffv: a lot of great stuff! I almost voted for Troller, Marnie Stern and Pharmakon.

sarahell i almost voted for marine too-- so close to sharing two picks

Wax Idols album was so so good

My ballot:

Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Paramore - s/t
Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe
Charli XCX - True Romance
Ciara - S/T
dj mustard - ketchup
Keysound Recordings Presents... This Is How We Roll
Congo Natty - Jungle Revolution
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Logos - Cold Mission
Blondes - Swisher
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

lol @ drake #142, just behind jute gyte and stara rzeka

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post is still messin with my head. i mean, i know why you used those two albums to gloat @ drake but what are you saying????

I think he's just saying that a huge blockbuster album that placed high on a lot of critics's lists was way down with some obscure records in this poll

Ok right on.

no reason to use those albums apart from they were near drake in the results, i'd never heard of either and they SOUNDED obscure, no idea what/who they even are and no shade at them intended

K, just the way you singled them out felt like you knew of them and were wielding them as shorthand for some context that I had no access to...