i voted for two albums this year, the ballot was weighted but i don't remember which order i put them in b/c i keep flip-flopping on which one i like better lol. anyway they are:
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - AtomosMark Barrott - Sketches from an Island
didn't watch the rollout too closely but was excited to see them both turn up! quite enjoyed a number of the other albums that placed too. thanks ilm for the great poll, seandalai for the tabulation, gr80 and jf for the wonderful rollouts!
― dyl, Friday, 30 January 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
My unweighted ballot:
D’Angelo and the Vanguard - Black MessiahFuture Islands - SinglesThe Juan Maclean - In A DreamMr Twin Sister - Mr Twin SisterVarious Artists - Cut Copy Presents: Oceans ApartBlase - Sunset DawnChromeo - White WomenTodd Terje - It’s Album TimeJavier Bergia - EclipseYG - My Krazy LifeMuseum of Love - Museum of LoveMichiru Aoyama - Warm SeasonPrins Thomas - Prins Thomas IIICaribou - Our LoveMoodymann - MoodymannTinashe - AquariusSession Victim - See You When You Get ThereShit Robot - We Got A LoveHorsebeach - HorsebeachMaricopa - Pastel Love - Part TwoLust For Youth - InternationalDJ Quik - The Midnight LifeAphex Twin - SyroVince Staples - Hell Can WaitLewis - L’Amour
― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I'm a big indietronica fan.
― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Pretty surprised that I was the only vote for Museum of Love and Blase. They're both really beautiful albums (well Blase's an EP) and I highly encourage everyone to check them out!
Shouts to the 2 other souls who voted Javier Bergia and Session Victim and the 1 other voters each for Michiru Aoyama, Maricopa and Oceans Apart.
― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
<3 i was the other michiru aoyama vote :D
― Mordy, Friday, 30 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
Catching up on ballot requests from today...
dog latin:
owen pallett - in conflictSt. Vincent - St. VincentOught - More Than Any Other DayD'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black MessiahSun Kil Moon - BenjiObjekt - FlatlandSwans - To Be KindScott Walker & Sunn O))) - SousedRichard Dawson - Nothing ImportantFuture Islands - SinglesEyvind Kang - Alastor: The Book Of Angels vol.21Aphex Twin - SyroIan William Craig - A Turn of BreathKatie Gately - PipesThe Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?The Horrors - LuminousNisennenmondai - NEast India Youth - Total Strife ForeverCall Super - Suzi EctoHammock - The Sleepover Series, Vol. 2Gazelle Twin - UnfleshAtelje - MeditationPharmakon - Bestial BurdenDJ Q - IneffableMartin Carr - The Breaks
boxedjoy:
Maria Minerva - HistrionicDean Blunt - Black MetalEmma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy OceanAzealia Banks - Broke With Expensive TasteLewis - L'amourAndy Stott - Faith In StrangersCharli XCX - SuckerTove Lo - Queen of the Cloudstaylor swift - 1989Head High - MegatrapKelis - FoodGrouper - RuinsThe Juan Maclean - In a Dreamangel olsen - burn your fire for no witnessSt. Vincent - St. VincentNeneh Cherry - Blank ProjectThe Knife - Shaken-Up VersionsMr Twin Sister - Mr Twin SisterVladislav Delay - VisaTerrence Parker - Life On The Back 9Ballet School - The Dew Lasts an HourDJ Koze - Reincarnations Pt 2Gazelle Twin - UnfleshFear of Men - LoomEternal Summers - The Drop Beneath
― so not gonna häpna (seandalai), Friday, 30 January 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
My top genre is "chillwave"? I'm barely familiar with what that genre even encompasses, so I googled "top chillwave artists" and amongst the most prominent bands that show up I've heard maybe three of them, haven't even heard of most of them, and voted for only one (Ariel Pink, who I wouldn't have classified as such). According to Wiki, the first known chillwave song is the Beach Boys' "All I Wanna Do". Now that I can get into. Beach Boys are my new favourite chillwave band....
― Lee626, Friday, 30 January 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
xxxp That Session Victim album is seriously growing on me.
― xelab, Friday, 30 January 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Lee626, all the genre stats relate directly to Glenn's map -- here is the explanatory link again from the top of this thread. And it helps to know that a given artist or release can be associated with multiple genres.
― cc: Peniston (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 30 January 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
You can find the genres for a particular artist via http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
― so not gonna häpna (seandalai), Friday, 30 January 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Since the genre names come from my list, you can explore them further at http://everynoise.com.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 30 January 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Where's the XP warning when you need it?
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 30 January 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
All I Wanna Do is chillwave? lol! I must like chillwave then.
My top genre was indie r'n'b *hangs head*
― pig∞n (dog latin), Saturday, 31 January 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Favorite genre was drone, which I don't think was particularly abundant in my ballot.
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 31 January 2015 06:42 (nine years ago) link
These were the albums nobody else voted for from my ballot, with my placings in brackets:
Nyusha - Obyedineniye (1): she's the current standard bearer for classic, emotive Russian electropop. Her singles usually pick up a few votes in the EOY polls and there was a fair amount of anticipation on ILX for the album a while ago but it slipped out under the radar a little internationally. http://youtu.be/84kbG2ExdZs
Dasha Shults - Moloko (3): didn't really get much critical love in Russia but it's a phenomenally good debut reminiscent in style and quality of someone like Amanda Mair. She has about 30 followers on Twitter and her only professionally-recorded YouTube video has 5000 views, which is mystifying. http://youtu.be/2qvxDxBgeIY
Propaganda - Fioletovaya Pudra (9): Although they started off as a Tatu rip-off act, i'd always rated Vika from Propaganda as one of the most talented writer-performers in the business - and then she left and the group got much better so that shows what i know. It's yr archetypal Italo-influenced Russian pop but done brilliantly. http://youtu.be/ouaJ25WDArg
IZA - Painkiller (10) / IZA - Hug Music (23): For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, Snoop has spent most of the last two years recording low-key electro R&B with the excellent Polish singer Iza Lach. They've made hundreds of songs together, some of which were released across two albums last year. They appear to only be available via Bandcamp and i've certainly never seen them in the shops in Poland. It's all very strange. http://youtu.be/5Knm4WVsBmc
Julia Marcell - Sentiments (11): Terrific, lyrically-sharp Polish indie pop. http://youtu.be/RChaKK7e0xA
Eva Polna - Poet Lyubov (12): Polna has been a fixture of Russian pop for years and brings a lot of that weight and maturity to a superb album. http://youtu.be/3OESOZGhPzg
Ivan Dorn - Randorn (15): The golden boy of contemporary Ukrainian pop. The album is patchy but brilliant when it gets it right. http://youtu.be/0eihYaVddKE
Srub - Top' (16): Enjoyably OTT Siberian neofolk / goth rock http://youtu.be/YVNbesJIdjU
Indila - Mini-World (21): probably the biggest international star nobody in the English-speaking world cared about last year. Very French pop-R&B http://youtu.be/K5KAc5CoCuk
Manikur - Voskhod (24): Very much like Interpol, but in Russian and with a better sense of melancholy beauty. http://youtu.be/JsPZrIn-YJs
Mela Koteluk - Migracje (25): More Polish indie-pop. http://youtu.be/bQ1Jo3caCHA
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 31 January 2015 08:45 (nine years ago) link
I got pop as my top genre for both lists and I pretty much hate pop as it currently exists. ;_;
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Saturday, 31 January 2015 10:12 (nine years ago) link
sharivari always gets me listening to new and interesting music around this time of the year. This is no exception
― pig∞n (dog latin), Saturday, 31 January 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
ShariVari omitted a couple things for which there were few other voters, and I'd welcome his/her cultural context for Naadya - Naadya (which I heard as a Russian Florence with better tunes) and Ivan Dorn - Randorn (which I heard as a Ukrainian jazz singer engaging with UK funky) as well.
― The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Oops, just noted the Dorn take. For some reason I was looking for the Cyrillic.
― The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for those Eastern European recs! I appear to be particularly fond of Polish music!
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 31 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
my weighted ballot:
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (#64)Kiasmos - Kiasmos (#184)Spoon - They Want My Soul (#37)Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World (#426)Ex Hex – Rips (#41)Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather (#56)TV On The Radio - Seeds (#304)Beverly – Careers (#288)Alvvays – Alvvays (#50)The Horrors - Luminous (#294)Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (#540)Ty Segall – Manipulator (#554)Diamond District - March on Washington (#569)A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos (#51)Temples - Sun Structures (#335)Alt-J - This is All Yours (#483)angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness (#38)Tycho – Awake (#481)The Hidden Cameras – Age (#727)Moodymann - Moodymann (#54)Les Sins – Michael (# 358)Aphex Twin – Syro (#6)The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (#8)perfume genius - too bright (#124)Caribou - Our Love (#15)
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 31 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
These are the ones that didn't make it in from my ballot:
Objekt - FlatlandObjekt always struck me as one of the more boring of the post-dubstep producers, but this album is a total jam. The sound design is just outstanding for one, and musically it's a proper sci-fi rave up with atmosphere aplenty and some remarkably hard-driving electro/techno moments.
Eyvind Kang - Alastor: The Book Of Angels vol.21While it's missing Jessica Kenney's remarkable vocal work which was a key ingredient in Kang's previous The Narrow Garden, this instrumental record still incorporates all the twists and turns you'd expect. The track Variel, is typical of this, a centrepoint between seventies adventure soundtrack, Arabesque fantasy and toytown parade; he manages to blend influences from all over the musical map as if they were always supposed to happen.
Back in a bit with more...
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Friday, 13 February 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Man that everynoise site has kinda taken a bunch if my spare time over.
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 February 2015 11:36 (nine years ago) link
Also: I'm kinda bummed there's no ballot from fffv this year
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 February 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link