death's dynamic shroud are probably going to make my ballot. the closest anything since has gotten to Rival Dealer for me & surprisingly cathartic.
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link
I don't want to sound like an asshole, but the reason girls choirs work so much with contemporary composers is not because they're more musically adventurous, but because there's no established repertoire for girls choir...
― Frederik B
May be true, but close relationships with noise musicians, for example, is not a default mode. Plenty of girls choirs out there doing less interesting and adventurous. I didn't say they were adventurous simply for working with contemporary composers.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:18 (six years ago) link
xpsdeath's dynamic shroud will be my top choice of the bunch i thinkhave a few in there but my original list had pharma just outside my 25
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link
Please don't sleep on Self Esteem's 'Your Wife', it really is a stunning bit of sultry electro-pop, the kind that fits easily into the shambhala thread but somehow stands apart from it too
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
death's dynamic shroud made my long list, will re-listen!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
I'll be voting for it for sure. Not getting Rare Emoji Collection into the 2015 traxpoll was a crime that will hopefully be rectified now
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
"Your Wife" very nearly made my list, always rooting for Slow Club folks
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
xps shudda voted album then ;)
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Thought Classroom Sexxtape was decent with one massive highlight - this album is much better all the way through
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
ha was just kidding aboutif anything i'm the opposite :/
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Algiers are gonna make the albums poll I hope. I would love it if the title track made the 77 too as it's stunning
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
They were the only act I put in both ballots
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Got a good feeling about Akrakabo too! :-) I agree with what Frederik said about it upthread. It's such a sensual onslaught, it takes a few listens to catch your breath and get a grip on what's going on, but the part when it all falls away for a few minutes is like glimpsing a moment of raw beauty in among chaos
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
We had a thread for SACRED PAWS and it's great to hear some UK guitar music that is for once original and joyous and really well-played. Think classic 90s Matador indie with a high-life vibe. The track 'Strike a Match' is the pick.
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
^^ voting highly for sacred paws
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
if I may do my bit for Sacred Paws, I absolutely loathe it, which usually helps to push something up the 77
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
you loathe it imago? strong words. i'd be interested to know why
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
cough cough
thread to dis hyped 2017 releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
he hates drums, or something
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Speaking of excellent Scottish bands, I'm very surprised to see just a couple of mentions of Glaswegian kosmik funk marvels Golden Teacher on ILM. Their album was apparently recorded live at the city's famous Green Door Studio and spans a huge range of styles from disco to dub to spaced-out Lindstrom-esque fuckwizardry and it's REALLY REALLY good
This is the lead track, and maybe the most obviously accessible song on there. It goes interstellar after that youtube.com/watch?v=GFpnkgd6iok
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
Re-TROS seconded although my fave Re-TROS jam is "At Mosp Here"
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
kraut dance thingie that bests anything on the new LCD Soundsystem album
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
*obliterates into tiny shards
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Kinda astonished that Dave "Question Time" has never been mentioned on ILM. Devastatingly powerful and on-point, my track of 2017 by a country mile. https://youtu.be/4ff6CjYBhoI
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:01 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, Sacred Paws
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Just skimmed through the nominations, was Lingua Ignota All Bitches Die not nominated?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Doesn't look like it. You can vote for it in the metal poll though!
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
really encourage everyone to check out Wednesday Campanella - Superman. imaginative & idiosyncratic dance-pop with great energetic vocal performances from KOM_I & a similar all-over-the-place vibe to Art Angels except much more rooted in dance music. lead single Aladdin almost made last year's tracks 77, it's sort of like Thriller-meets-freestyle
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
this is great :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
Just skimmed through the nominations, was Lingua Ignota All Bitches Die not nominated?― Siegbran, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkDoesn't look like it. You can vote for it in the metal poll though!― o. nate, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:13 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It was not nominated in the metal poll either it seems (or rejected as it's indeed not metal?). Anyway, absoluetely great record. This combination of Diamanda Galas-inspired apoplectic singing/howling + early/medieval music + doomy electronics is right up my alley.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 10:56 (six years ago) link
Oh, wow, that's really something. Her cover of Bad Boys!
― etc, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
@Siegbran - simple error on my part, I've added it to the metal noms list
― Simon H., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
I agree it’s unclassifiable and not metal, but it contains enough metallic characteristics for me to vote for it there in good faith and thematically it’s plenty dark to fit in there.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I seem to always be several months behind Suiyoubi no Campanella's releases (or is it always Weds Camp in English now? This is a recent development and I get confused easily), so it's not had time to settle in as a full favourite, but they really are such a great band, deserve way more recognition around here.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Also, yeah, Aladdin kills.
yeah Wednesday Campanella has been the official english name for a little while now. it's been really impressive how they keep getting better & better, while being so prolific. i'd imagine ilx would be all over them if it weren't for the language barrier, it's not like the jpop thread gets much traffic
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Tbh I don't think anything's topped Jeanne d'Arc for me, but they've definitely upped their game in terms of writing out-and-out bangers.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
agreed that "jeanne d'arc" is still their best, always happy to hear new music from them, though.
thanks davey for nominating Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness, lovely stuff
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Feel duty-bound to observe that Cleric - Retrocausal is now on Spotify and would make a nice if slightly terrifying addition to the second albums playlist
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 08:16 (six years ago) link
it wasn't nominated! but the single "grey lodge" was and has been added... that was the only single that I couldn't find anywhere, so thanks!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
it certainly was nominated ffs
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
so saltyit's on the Youtube playlist yes? fine.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
sorry. long day
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
it was a another extremely year for women in country music. For starters --
Sunny SweeneyAngaleena PresleyNicole AtkinsNikki LaneWhitney RoseNatalie HembyLee Ann Womack
not sure if I'll find a place for all of them but their albums are all outstanding, some even classic.
― omar little, Friday, 12 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
right on
― brimstead, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
all right, i'm prob not going to do this v well bc i'm tired and hate writing about music atm but here are some things i really want to rep for (some of these might seem obvious but i can't tell what anyone's aware of anymore):
1. any and all dua lipa singles
2. goldlink's "crew," the first time i've cared about a goldlink song (it might simultaneously be the first time for a ton of ppl tbh), the hook is so gorgeous
3. k-pop was improbably rich this year, it's hard to figure out what to include in my ballot, but, in addition to red velvet's "red flavor" (not their best single ever but extremely worthy, it's all technicolor pops), i would like to draw ppl's attention to the non-stop glitterings of iu's "palette" and the asymmetrical synth longing of yves' "new" (k-pop mvps of the year are loona, the greater mothership group from which yves' "new" descends; check out odd eye circle's "girl front" as well)
4. mama, "unmask me," particularly the ashley beedle vocal mix, a song i forgot about until tim nominated it, perfect, glowing, vulnerable house
5. little big town, "lost in california," see tim's comments here: "It Is Happening Again": Tim writes about songs from 2017
6. sasha feat. poliça, "out of time," which at the moment i feel like i'm the only person who really *loves* this song, it's sort of an "everything in exactly the right place" house jam for me: the vocal, the groove, the synth washes, everything interlocking precisely so as to convey you toward an unspecified destination, driving toward a sun-melted horizon that you never seem to actually approach etc. etc.
7. h/t to d-40 for pointing my way toward distruction boyz' gqom is the future and particularly the track "omunye", the synths feel like they're divebombing
8. radio slave, "another club," house needs almost nothing to work
9. another h/t to d-40 for 03 greedo, whose catalogue is overwhelming and hard to isolate a single song from, but regardless the one that resonated most with me was "never bend", i think of all the songs of his i've heard this is the most cinematic union between production + greedo's constant invention and revision of his own hooks
10. heavy-k feat. bucie and nokwazi, "inde," bc it is the best music in the whole world
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
the extremely syncopated synth blinking in "girl front" reminds me of mary jane girls "candy man," i only just picked up on that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
oh i forgot about jacquees "at the club", star of the 2017 r&b thread
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
dropping by to say that the nominated L'Rain track is kind of incredible, cheers to whoever put that on
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
as is the album it's from :o
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
if there's still people who haven't voted, let me once again talk up Aussie power-pop goddess Alex Lahey, who released I Love You Like a Brother, the hookiest rock record of 2017:
"i haven't been taking care of myself" - the mission statement, the track I nominated: https://youtu.be/d9TqFgWAWiU"lotto in reverse" - angry break-up, inventive chord progression: https://youtu.be/qBYR_jFwrmo"there's no money" - power ballad, she sings the hell out of it: https://youtu.be/mVTkDRC-08E
vote for the album, please
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
xp aw i think akanamali made my longlist but got cut for the 25 :(
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link
last chance for me on this track and i didn't even nominate but everyone in the world should toss a vote for akanamali in your singles ballot imo
OK I'm sold
― i know kore-eda (or something), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
A bell end writes: where do I go to vote? (Asking for a friend, obvs.)
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
Christ - just found it. Ignore me.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link
Shuffling through the tracks nominations and most are straight dog poop.
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
subaquatic/subterranean deeeeeep ambient tech:
Money Morning - Corporate Karma
http://clone.nl/item47474.html
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:58 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there's a thread for this, jack
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
DJ Swagger - "Lost"
great lofi house with a sweet looped sample
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
This year I started paying attention to Afropop for the first time and discovered so many great songs that I hardly listen to anything else lately. Out of the tracks I nominated, this one is my favorite:
Sauti Sol feat. Patoranking - Melanin
I think I like how combines some elements that sound very traditional (like the acoustic guitars on the intro, the "na na..." chants) with stuff that sounds decidedly more modern (the bassline, some synth pads) in a way that just works. Also, all vocals are flawless.
― daavid, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Wish I'd heard Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings 'The Doctrines Of Swedenborg' before voting!
― nashwan, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
Shuffling through the tracks nominations and most are straight dog poop.― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Check mine. Mine are great
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
xp melanin is awesome!
― nxd, Thursday, 18 January 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
Wish I'd heard Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings 'The Doctrines Of Swedenborg' before voting!― nashwan, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nashwan, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 5:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I nominated this! It's amazing and everybody should vote for it
― silverfish, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
Thank you or something for nomming Skee Mask, which has led me to discover (a) Skee Mask; and (b) Stenny.
― Tim F, Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link