ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

really don't get this one at all, i hate the deliberately awkward pc music syncopation

i don't mind super natural
even if it's probably the worst thing either two have done in the past couple of years

this is a fantastic track

Yes!! This was #22 on my ballot. Danny L Harle's latest stuff feels to me like a shrewd sidestep away from PC music by its best producer. I can't not enjoy something this cute and over the top.

love zapp & squealing talk box goodness and have always had an odd affection for bruno mars (short&sweet? his grin? zoot suit?) but this only even tries to be p standard

Yesterday was a war of attrition. Today is already putting that into perspective with two records which are two career ending tackles on inner peace

That last one is literally an advert for anxiety

Ever since the first records I've found Grouper doesn't put enough echo on the songs. They're supposed to be hard to reach, that's part of the attraction. It's a formal move toward an only semi-lucid mimesis.

I didn't end up voting for Super Natural but it was one my best discoveries going through the nominations playlist.

I'm happy to standup for 24K Magic. It ended up growing on me a lot after initially being underwhelmed by it. The album was one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. There are actually better songs on the album. I was expecting Versace On The Floor to place over the title track. It's the best thing he's done.

"24k magic" is way more shiny assemblage than song so i'm also sorta wondering what it's doing here (iirc the thread was less a total endorsement than several people wondering if it sounded sufficiently like chromeo)

http://i.imgur.com/mCBoVIS.jpg

56 FAMM'IN “Circle” [198 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/_tHJwoSRcBc

man I gotta remember next year that it doesn't take many votes to crack this thing, the emo goons should assemble

That might be the first track in the countdown not on Spotify? (I've been hastily compiling a playlist for the commute...)

(and it's pretty good too)

"super natural" is a migraine ironed out into song form, i'll probably never know how i actually feel about it

For a long time I thought Bruno Mars was some Dutch trance DJ, because his name sounds like that.

lol

feel like emo goons could show up strong in albums this year, harder to build consensus for tracks in rock subgenres than pop

I'm still hoping (probably in vain) for some emo to creep into the tracks poll.

I didn't vote for the Harle/Jepsen but I do like it. All your emo dreams will be crushed by this cruel world btw

YAYYYY FAMMIN, my #2

Really happy this made it in.

had never heard of famm'in before but holy shit that's really incredible, i was rapt

This sounds pretty dope, and uncategorizable (to my Western old geezer ears, at least), which is always a bonus.

there's SO MUCH going on while the song swans gracefully around

this is my fav find so far

Yeah, I like it that you can't really tell what's gonna happen next, yet it all still sounds coherent and not like a dog's dinner.

Ok, wow at those synth bamboo flutes, such '90s flashbacks!

OK wow that is great

I am enjoying "Circle."

They're a supergroup (FEMM & FAKY & Yup'in = FAMM'IN), but tbh I love this way way more than I like the separate artists.

thrilled to see this make it, i voted for it but really wasn't expecting it to show up

i love "circle" and completely forgot about it on my ballot. palace built inside of a glacier.

http://i.imgur.com/hiugzGC.jpg

55 RITON FT. KAH-LO “Rinse & Repeat” [200 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/f4oWpvJ0f8Q

Thanks to the five of you who made it possible for us to hear this! (Esp Emily with her #2 vote).

(I mean, I did get 200+ tracks into the 1000+ track Spotify shortlist after Xmas but I never reached this).

xp

this is not how I woke up but it's how I look now

v glad that Riton track made it, felt it was kind of ubiquitous over the summer and never unwelcome though it was just a distant memory for me by year end

I am into this one too! New to me but as I've said elsewhere 2016 was not a very music-filled year for me.

this is not how I woke up but it's how I look now

^^^ Also I genuinely love this lyric.

speechless @ 'circle'. no d∆wn can test this

i couldn't get my shit together this year to vote for various reasons, but if i had, that famm'in song woulda made my top 5 easy

riton was sub-redlight and the preditah rmx https://youtu.be/lteJcEf_1x0 by far preferred but yeah, all just seems a v long time ago

Wow, 'Circle' is great!

yeah "Circle" is totally doing my head in right now

and this was on Avex?? shouldn't have missed it

Enjoyed "Circle" too, but it just compelled me to put on Kenji Kawai's Ghost in the Shell soundtrack.

whoa this famm'in track is doooooooooooope

http://i.imgur.com/LBIuGsy.jpg

54 JENNY HVAL “Conceptual Romance” [200 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/EY7eLAVrfK4

this much happening in circle and im only two minutes in, yet there is all this room to breathe. what a great tune

jenny hval is awful

awfvl*

why do you think so brad?? she's always struck me as the kind of artist I should love more than I do and I'm never sure whether it's because I just don't give her albums enough tries or not