ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

that Lido Pimienta album as well!!

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The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

ALBUMS

Sote - Sacred Horror in Design

*singular ofc

TRACKS

Louis Cole - Bank Account

TRACKS

Denai Moore - Desloately Devoted
Jessica Lea Mayfield - World Won't Stop
Sixth June - Night Before
Saint Cava - No One's God
Gavin Turek - My Delight

26/30

er, Denai Moore - Desolately Devoted

TRACKS

Hello Psychaleppo - Anqa

(18/30)

ALBUMS

Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millenia Music
Patrick Cowley - Afternooners
Ensemble Ériu - Stargazer
Jhene Aiko - Trip
Do Pas O - Join The Fucking Drum Circle

(25/30)

I'm glad they keep finding new Patrick Cowley material to release, it rarely disappoints.

Yeah this is supposedly the last of the "gay porn soundtrack" reissues but who knows what they'll find next.

Just streaming it now *thumbs up*

between you, you've managed to not nominate 3 of the best 4 tracks on DAMN

i only got 6 left and i can burn 1 at most on kendrick so sort it out pls

TRACKS

Kendrick Lamar - LOYALTY.
Kendrick Lamar - XXX.
Kendrick Lamar - PRIDE.

20/30

Enjoying the DoNormaal album! tt got me into her stuff from listening to KEXP but we didn't know she had another album out until now :)

― Cardi Acs (imago), Sunday, December 24, 2017 3:27 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice

Vote-splitting alert!

Current multiple singles artists of note with three nominated tracks: Alvvays, Girl Ray, J HUS, Jessie Ware, Julien Baker, Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Susanne Sundfør, Wolf Alice, The xx
Four: Big Thief, Charli XCX, Octo Octa, Paramore, SZA
Five: Ariel Pink, Future, Wiley
Seven: Kendrick

hahaha omar while those are all v v good tracks, my 3 faves (other than DUCKWORTH) are still unaccounted for! we're gonna have to nominate the whole album aren't we

let me help the process along

TRACK

Kendrick Lamar - LUST

25/30

Annnnd...in other 'you nominated the wrong track!' news:

TRACK

Drab Majesty - Dot In The Sky

26/30

TRACKS

Thumpermonkey - Woadscrivened
Couch Slut - Won't Come
Paul Draper - Friends Make The Worst Enemies

29/30

Speaking of wrong tracks being nominated (and in the spirit of not fearing vote-splitting). . .

TRACKS

Wolf Alice - Planet Hunter

19/30

TRACKS

Julien Baker - Appointments

ALBUMS

bvdub - Heartless
Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Everything
Emilía - Down to the Sadness River

21/30

(there really are no droners on ilm, are there?)

jesus christ don’t nominate the whole kendrick album

LUST is, like, one of the best songs of 2017. I couldn't not nominate it. sorry

it’s ok i guess, it’s your vote-splitting funeral

Kendrick has survived vote splitting every year. I'd be surprised if anything besides DNA and HUMBLE crack the top 77.

HUMBLE hasn't been nominated yet - it's p clearly one of the album's weaker tracks!

Huh, you're right. Well, it wouldn't be ILM if we didn't buck trends.

I think it's the strongest track on the album, though, but what do I know

Humble for me is indeed the weakest track on the record tbh

I've been so isolated/insulated from what's actually popular in 2017 that I'm going to have no idea what the top 77 will look like until seandalai emails me the results. There's a lot of good music on the playlists, but I genuinely have no idea what things a consensus will form around. 2017 is/was fucking weird.

Same. There's no Realiti (demo) type consensus this year iirc. Doesn't bode well, as it could probably lead to Bodak Yellow running away with it (and I like Cardi B, that song though, not so much).

This is the year of Hailing Drums

my sense of ILX's take on Bodak is that it's a good song, not a great one with occasional spikes on either side of the scale. i'd be shocked if it got into the top ten and equally shocked if it wasn't in the top 25.

I trust ILM knows it's the year of Bicep's 'Glue'

xxp lol

'Sorority Noise - You’re not As ___ As You Think'

Sorry this should be on the albums, not tracks, spreadsheet

Albums

Cecile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers
Gabriel Garzòn-Montano - Jardin
Prince - Purple Rain Deluxe
Stokley - Introducing Stokley

4/30

Prince - Purple Rain Deluxe

Traditionally, this would be ineligible, because it's a reissue of an album previously released (regardless of bonuses). Comps and retrospectives and collections as stand-alones are basically the only way old material is allowed—in albums, at least...previously unreleased tracks are fair game, regardless of when recorded.

So can I nominate the previously commercially unreleased parts of Purple Rain as a new album? I don't really care too much one way or the other tbh but there's a full album worth of material there!

Sorry you're in this pickle, but if these tracks had all come out compiled in something like a "Vault" box set or whatever, the whole thing would be eligible, but albums are reissued with bonuses by the dozens of dozens every year and those have always been dq'ed. Nominate whatever individual tracks you want, though, provided they've never been commercially released before 2017.

ALBUMS

Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy

27/30

I listened to this album a couple times earlier in the year, but on xmas morning it's really super clicking for me and HOLY WOW is it fucking cool

howzabout a bootleg collection like Blast from the Past 4.0? Eligible?
https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Blast-From-The-Past-40/release/10605546

Sure

all reet. will do so.

ALBUMS
Prince - Blast from the Past 4.0

4/30

also!

TRACKS
Prince - The Dance Electric
Prince - We Can Fuck

6/30

ALBUMS
Oh Sees - Orc

TRACKS
Oh Sees - The Static God
John Maus - Find Out

12/30

Allowing music recorded in the 80s... why bother dqing anything if you're going to do that? Really can't find enough quality music recorded in 16/17?

Bodak yellow will be #1

lol at the suggestion that I haven't found enough "quality music recorded in 2017," I have a playlist for you

Bodak yellow will be #1

― brimstead, Monday, December 25, 2017 1:04 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what, can’t find enough quality music recorded in 2017?