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

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.