ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

TRACKS

CupcakKe - Quiz
Ty Dolla $ign feat. Quavo and French Montana - South Beach
Lonnie Holley - I Woke Up in a Fucked-up America xp!!!
Joyce Manor - Gone Tomorrow
Drug Church - Weed Pin
Fall Out Boy - Bishops Knife Trick
Chief Keef - Letter
Kelela feat. Princess Nokia, Junglepussy, CupcakKe, and Ms. Boogie - LMK (What's Really Good Remix)
Protomartyr feat. Kelley Deal - Wheel of Fortune

ALBUMS

The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love

21/40

TRACKS

Fall Out Boy - Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)
Keysha - Stop It!

25/40

Tracks

Jacquees - You
Sons of Kemet - My Queen is Harriet Tubman
Karen Wolfe - That Bitch Ain't Me
Ashley Monroe- Hands on You
OB Buchana - Parking Lot Love Affair
Carolyn Staten - Mr. Ain't Gone Do Right
Magic One - High Heels & Jeans
Big G - You're Not the Only One
Andre Lee - I Won't Give You Up

ALBUMS

Huda Asfour- Kouni
Ms. Jody - I'm Doing My Thang
Donnie Ray - My Southern Soul
Crystal Thomas - Drank of my Love
Walter Wolfman Washington - My Future is my Past
Caetano Veloso - Ofertorio (AO Vivo)
Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams - Vanished Gardens
Romulo Froes O Disco das Horas
Charley Crockett - Lonesome as a Shadow

Albums

Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
KHôRADA - Salt
Entropia - Vacuum

5/40

ALBUMS
Mudhoney - Digital Garbage
Dierks Bentley - The Mountain
Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Glamping
Chloe x Halle - The Kids Are Alright
Eliza Shaddad - Future
Henry Chadwick - Marlin Fisher
Kane Brown - Experiment
Kitten - Pink Champagne
Little Mix - LM5
Marissa Nadler - For My Crimes
Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked
Raheem DeVaughn - Decade of a Love King
Chris Dave and the Drumhedz - Chris Dave and the Drumhedz
Dilly Dally - Heaven
Elle King - Shake the Spirit
Dream Wife - Dream Wife
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
Poppy - Am I A Girl?
Mock Identity - Paradise
The Coup - Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack
(20/20)

TRACKS
Luke James - These Arms
Chris Dave and the Drumheadz featuring Bilal and Tweet - Spread Her Wings
Poppy - X
Ciara - Level Up
Leon Bridges - If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be)
Luke James (w/Star Cast) - Filthy Sheets
Liza Anne - Panic Attack
Meek Mill feat. Miguel - Stay Woke
Cam - Road To Happiness
Paul McCartney - Despite Repeated Warnings
Bazzi - Mine
Jesse Saint John - MOVE
Pillow Queens - Gay Girls
Girl Ray - The Way We Came Back
The Catenary Wires - What About the Rings?
Flowers - Long Song
Gallant - Doesn't Matter
Christina Aguilera - Sit of Sittin'
Dumblonde - White Hot Lies
Dead Sara - Heaven's Got A Back Door
(20/20)

sorry that aguilera track should be

Christina Aguilera - Sick of Sittin'

TRACKS

Syclops - The Skipper
Ex-Terrestrial - Urth Born
Kornel Kovacs - Metropolis
Steve Hauschildt - Saccade
E Ruscha V - Woo Are You
Wild Nothing - Letting Go
The Declining Winter - My Divided World
E. Myers - I Am Alive
Pangaea - Bone Sucka

ALBUMS

Donato Dozzy - Filo Loves The Acid

ALBUMS

Brigid Mae Power - The Two Worlds

ALBUMS

thee open sex - white horses
chris corsano / bill nace / steve baczkowski - mystic beings
bjørn torske - byen
warm bodies - warm bodies
primo! - amici
swamp dogg - love, loss, and autotune
exploded view - obey
the babe rainbow - double rainbow

TRACKS

grapetooth - trouble

maura, “Level Up”was already nominated.

ALBUMS

Tentenko - Tentenko
Fauxe - Ikhlas
Haiku Salut - There Is No Elsewhere
Aïsha Devi - DNA Feelings
Apostille - Choose Life
Devi McCallion & Katie Dey - Some New Form of Life
Divide & Dissolve - Abomination
Big Joanie - Sistahs
Cantaloupe - Error States
Rapid Tan - Golden Wonder
Inexedra - Lexicon
Alison Cotton - All Is Quiet At the Ancient Theatre

TRACKS

Child's Pose - Feral
Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Kuunatic - Roho Ulio Toweka
Gugudan - Not That Type
Mollusc - Anxiety

(27/40)

emil.y I salute you, so far I don't think I'm familiar with a single one of your album choices. looking forward to digging into those!

For a friend:

ALBUMS

DMBQ - Keeenly

28/40

Oh wow I didn't know Divide & Dissolve had an album out! xxp

ALBUMS

East Man – Red, White & Zero
Appleblim – Life in a Laser
OneMind – Presents OneMind
Blocks & Escher – Something Blue
Wiley – Godfather 2
D Double E – Jackum
Yizzy – S.O.S. EP
illuminati hotties - kiss yr frenemies
The Ophelias – Almost
Gulfer – Dog Bless

TRACKS

Otis - Quackery

(24/30)

that reminds me:

TRACK

Brigid Mae Power - I'm Grateful

27/40

TRACKS

Bucie & Mpumi - Soz'Uphinde
Black Motion & Caiiro - Prayer for Rain (Feat. Tabia)
Sun-El Musician - Sonini (Feat. Simmy)
Gretchen Peters - Wichita
Pistol Annies - Best Years Of My Life
Simmy - Ngiyesaba
Shenseea - Subrosa (Come Closer)
Cassper Nyovest - Check On You (Feat. Davido)
Spencer Zahn - Cyanotype (feat. Dawn Richard)
Denzel Curry - Vengeance(Feat. Jpegmafia & ZillaKami)
Dexta Daps - Weak To You
Diana Gordon - Too Young
Flohio - Watchout
GFRIEND - Sunny Summer
Hayley Kiyoko - What I Need (Feat. Kehlani)
Heavy K - Seng'Ryt
Lil Durk - 1(773) Vulture
Los Rakas & Nina Sky - One More Time
Loski - Forrest Gump
Mariah Carey - With You
Master KG - Skeleton Move (Feat. Zanda Zakuza)
Mist - Game Changer
MNEK - Girlfriend
Motto & Fadda Fox - Shell Down Dat
Patrice Roberts - Sweet Fuh Days
Octavian - Revenge
Polycat - I Want You
Maddie & Tae - Die From A Broken Heart
U.S. Girls - Incidental Boogie
YBN Cordea - Alaska

(30/30)

Album:

Ovlov - TRU

1/30

Also (album)

Jolly Mare - Logica Natura

2/30

Nice list, gregus! Hope you use your last 10 noms as well. (or 11, “Sonini” was already nominated)

TRACKS

Tkay Maidza - White Rose
Shift K3Y & A*M*E - Entirety
Brame & Hamo - Roy Keane
NOTD & Felix Jaehn - So Close feat. Captain Cuts & Georgia Ku
Mariah Carey - The Distance feat. Ty Dolla $ign
Mitski - Two Slow Dancers
Raveena - Honey
Ashley Monroe - Rita
Silk City x Dua Lipa - Electricity
MØ - I Want You

40/40

ALBUMS

Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - s/t

34/40

Pillorian - Obsidian Arc

this came out in 2017

TRACKS

Janet Jackson feat. Daddy Yankee - Made For Now
MK - Seventeen
5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood
Cliq feat. Alika - Wavey
CASisDEAD - Pat Earrings
NYTA - Moschino Youts
Riton feat. Kah-Lo - Ginger
Sharda - Chin Up
Anti Up - Pizza
Example - Sit Down Gary!!!
Fold - Marimba (Mall Grab Remix)
Foor feat. Killa P, Irah, Long Range - Black Bandana
Gnork - Yoga On E
Hugo Massien - Ursa Minor
Mosca feat. Katy B - What You Came For
Negative Gemini - Bad Baby
Serum, Voltage & Inja - Gunfinger Fam VIP
Kings Of The Rollers - Burnt Ends
Hasse De Moor - Dope
Shy FX feat. Lily Allen, Stamina MC - Roll The Dice
Botnek & Aylen - Future Of The Underground
D Tiffany - Spirit Alien
Dux n Bass, Macky Gee - Walk n Skank
Skiy - Who Got The Keys
Skue-K - Loco
Bru-C, Darkzy, Window Kid - Hide The Ting
Chocolate Puma - Make ‘m Bounce
Etch - Groove Control
Valentino -Khan - Lick It
James Zabiela - X-Ray

30/40

Last lot from me.

ALBUMS
Various Artists - The Quietened Mechanisms
KOTO - ばいばいてぃーんずららばい (Bye Bye Teens Lullaby)
Toni Braxton - Sex & Cigarettes
Halo Maud - {je suis un île}
APRIL - 6th Mini Album: ‘the Ruby’
Neil Scrivin - Geek Upmanship
Emily Burns - Seven Scenes from the Same Summer
Wojciech Golczewski - End of Transmission 2

TRACKS
Calibro 35 - SuperStudio
A Certain Ratio ft. Barry Adamson & Tony Wilson - Dirty Boy
Candi Staton - Confidence
Rhye - Song For You
TWICE - Sweet Talker
DJ Koze - The Love Truck
Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown
Ariana Grande - R.E.M
OH MY GIRL BANHANA - Banana Allergy Monkey
GIRLI - Day Month Second
ZHU and Tame Impala - My Life
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Mannequin Metric
Aly & AJ - With You
AURORA - Queendom

(40/40)

^those are all on Spotify I think, except for the Cavern of Anti-Matter which is nowhere online at all AFAIK

ALBUMS

Blue Chemise - Daughters of Time

Spotted this duplicate in the tracks list:

Hayley Kiyoko and Kehlani – What I Need
Hayley Kiyoko ft. Kehlani - What I Need

The Carters - Apeshit is also listed twice.

25 Tracks:

TRACKS

Alithia - Blood Moon
Astronoid - I Dream in Lines
Audiobooks - Call of Duty Free
Bryde - To Be Brave
Chromatics - Black Walls
Oliver Coates - Charlev
Hollie Cook - Stay Alive
Drahla - Twelve Divisions of the Day
Toby Driver - Glyph
Enzo Elia - Game of Circles - Vocal
Holygram - 1997
Isadora - All I Want
Kaelan Mikla - Naeturblom
The Night Flight Orchestra - Turn to Miami
Now, Now - AZ
Oklou - Friendless
Perel - Alles
River Yarra - Respiration Alternee Avec Elen Huynth
Sylvaine - Abeyance
Teenage Wrist - Dweeb
Them Are Us Too - Amends
Wild Nothing - Partners in Motion
Wolfie - Contradiction (DJ Q Remix)
Yuka & Chronoship - Did You Find A Star?
Lolo Zouai - High Highs to Low Lows

15 Albums:

ALBUMS

Actors - It Will Come to You
Alithia - The Moon Has Fallen
Autumn - Chandelier
Frigs - Basic Behaviour
Holygram - Modern Cults
Irreversible Mechanism - Immersion
Kaelan Mikla - Nott Ertir Nott
Kontinuum - No Need to Reason
Navvi - Ultra
The Night Flight Orchestra - Sometimes the World Ain't Enough
Ness Nite - Dream Girl
Palmbomen II - Memories of Cindy
Shylmagoghnar - Transience
Voices - Frightened
Zanias - Into the All

Bali Baby - Backseat
Ben Lamar Gay - Swim Swim
BODEGA - How Did This Happen?!
boygenius - Bite the Hand
Camp Cope - The Face of God
Cave - San’ Yago
Caroline Rose - Jeannie Becomes a Mom
City Girls - I’ll Take Your Man
Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless
Donny McCaslin - What About the Body
Ezra Furman - Suck the Blood from My Wound
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload
Haley Heynderickx - The Bug Collector
Hop Along - Somewhere a Judge
IDLES - Danny Nedelko
Josh Rouse - Businessman
Kurt Vile - Loading Zones
Leon Vynehall - Movements (Chapter III)
Meshell Ndgeocello - Sensitivity
Migos - Stir Fry
Neko Case - Last Lion of Albion
Parquet Courts - Tenderness
Playboi Carti ft. Nicki Minaj - Poke It Out
Porches - Goodbye
Rae Morris - Do It
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Mainland
Ryley Walker - Telluride Speed
Sidney Gish - Sin Triangle
Speedy Ortiz - Lucky 88
Sun-El Musician - Bamthathile
The Breeders - Wait in the Car
Tove Styrke - Say My Name
U.S. Girls - Rage of Plastics
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - American Guilt
Vince Staples - FUN!
Wajatta - Runnin’
Wye Oak - The Instrument
Young Fathers - In My View

ALBUMS

Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
E Ruscha V - Who Are You

(40/40)

TRACKS:

DJ Fortee ft. Niniola - Monini

DJ Sumbody ft. Cassper Nyovest, Thebe & Vettis - Monate Mpolaye

Dladla Mshunqisi ft. Nokwazi & Prince Kaybee - Wangibamba

Efya ft. Mr Eazi - Mamee

Kizz Daniel - Maye

MalumzOnDecks & Gino Brown ft. Mr Vince - Shay’iNumber

N’veigh ft. Kid X & Caask Asid - Stofong
(this one just disappeared from Spotify; here’s the YouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_xmTHLnmcA )

Rosalía - Di Mi Nombre

Shan’L la Kinda - Tchizambengué

Starboy ft. Wizkid & Slimcase - Gucci Snake

Vacs ft. Gasmilla - Belinda


ALBUMS:

Heavy K - Respect the Drumboss 2018

(40/40)

(I guess I wasn’t supposed to embed the YouTube for N’veigh, sorry about that)

albums

wooden shjips - v

Albums

Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha
Cave - Allways
Ceramic Dog – YRU Still Here
Dr. Octagon - Moosebumps
Mark Springer - Diving
Dungen/Woods – Myths 003
The Orb – No Sounds are Of Bounds
Kosmischer Laufer – The Secret Cosmic Music… (Vol.4)
Django Django – Marble Skies
Wordbuglar – Rhyme Your Business
Immersion - Sleepless
77:78 - Jellies
Jaakko Eino Kaveli – Out of Touch
Funki Porcini – The Mulberry Files
Portico Quartet Untitled (AITAOA #2)
!!! – Megamix Vol1: Shake Shake Shake
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex and Food
Lumerians – Call of the Wild
Dan Lissvik – Archive 1

Tracks

Mogwai - We’re Not Done
Hierroglyphic Being - The Melody Lingers
De Lux - Keyboards Cause We’re Black and White (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Howie B - Oh the Places You’ll Go
The Orb - Doughnuts Forever
Django Django - Champagne
Django Django - Marble Skies
Django Django - Tic Tac Toe
77:78 - Chilli (Flying Mojito Bros Refrto)
Erik Skantze - Jammy
Holy Ghost – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix)

I'm loving these recent nominations

yeah, good call on the Lissvik - I had totally spaced that

TRACKS

Guerilla Toss - Come Up With Me
Rose Droll - Fat Duck
Waax - Labrador
Grace Vonderkuhn - Cellophane

ALBUMS

Estrons - You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough

16/40

TRACKS
Koutei Camera Girl Drei - Toronto Lot
Maxwell - Shame
APRIL - Oh! my mistake
Yubin - Lady

ALBUMS
Sho Madjozi - Limpopo Champions League
Koutei Camra Girl Drei - New Way of Lovin'

37/40

TRACKS

Module Werk - Landing On The Pickton Planet

(25/30)

ALBUMS

The Adults - Haja
JessB - Bloom
Oshun - bittersweet vol.1
Avantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club
Coco Solid - COKES
Rei - Rangatira
L Devine - Peer Pressure

TRACKS

Noga Erez ft. Sammus - Cash Out
Kelsey Lu - Shades of Blue
Sampa The Great ft. Nadeem Din-Gabisi - Energy
Sons of Zion - Drift Away
Muungu Africa - Lazaro
Stealing Sheep - Joking Me
Alien Weaponry - Kai Tangata
Penguin - Get Me Out
The Bads - Shelter Love
Chambres - Arbuz
Backspace - Screen
Rap Against Dictatorship - Prathet Ku Mee

*The Bads was 2017

TRACKS

Zûg - Felicidad

(26/30)

TRACKS

Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru
Charlotte Adigery - Patenipat
E-Talking - Telephone Rose
Bo'vel - Check 4 U
Earthboogie - Siliken Moon
Farao - Marry Me
Hugo Massien - Advanced Aeriel Threat
Lexx & Open Space - Hot Weather
Wolfram - Automatic Dub
Man Power - Barranquila Trife (Ruf Dug Zouk Mix)
Slowglide - Haipa

(11/30)

Sim Hitchins - Clubeighteen2thirty
Various Artists - Jura Soundsystem Volume 1
Various Artists - The Sound Of Love International
Soulwax - Essentisl
Cass - Postclub Prism
El Perro Del Mar - We Are History

(17/30)

sorry the second part of that post is ALBUMS

also would like to add

Sign Librae - Closer To The Equator

(18/30)

too late but I'll post it anyway

ALBUM

Colin Fisher - V Le Pape

ALBUMS

Gigi Masin - Kite

TRACKS

Billie Eilish - When The Party's Over
Brent Faiyaz - Around Me
Cardi B ft. 21 Savage - Bartier Cardi
Chance The Rapper - 65th & Ingleside
Daniel Caesar ft. Kali Uchis - Get You
DaniLeigh - Lil Bebe
Derez De'Shon - Fed Up
Ella Mai - Trip
Fisher - Losing It
Gerardo Ortí­z - Egoí­sta
Girlz N The Hood - So Wassup
Guayaba - Bye Bich (Dark Meat Remix)
H.E.R. ft. Bryson Tiller - Could've Been
Justine Skye ft. Arin Ray - Build
Kane Brown - Heaven
Kash Doll - For Everybody
Khalid - Better
Kurt Vile - Bassackwards
Lil Baby - Cash
Lil Donald - Do Better
Little Big Town - Summer Fever
Lloyd - Excited
Los Ángeles Azules ft. Natalia Lafourcade - Nunca Es Suficiente
Mlindo The Vocalist ft. DJ Maphorisa - AmaBlesser
MNEK - Tongue
Nicki Minaj - Ganja Burn
Nick Mulvey - In Your Hands
Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
Post Malone ft. Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho
Raymix - Oye Mujer
Ro James - Excuse Me
Smino - L.M.F.
Supreems - Close Your Eyes (And Feel)
Swae Lee - Hurt To Look
SZA - Broken Clocks
Taylor Swift - Delicate
Trippie Redd - Topanga
UNiiQU3 - Phase 3
YBN Cordae - Scotty Pippen

(40/40)

for the several tracks on my list that are anywhere from 1 to 3 (!) years old, i'm counting them as being from 2018 b/c they only started getting played on radio this year and/or i was late to hear them

TRACK

Dubstar - Locked Inside

40/40

Thanks beastcrawl, although I haven't looked at ILM in a while, I want to thank you for your postings to the Afrobeats/Afropop thread over the years, because they have helped shape my current taste.

TRACKS

Yung Fume - Never Had (Feat. Zaytoven & JME)
Vybz Kartel - Best Friend
ONF - Complete
Mr. Eazi - Keys To The City
MoStack - What I Wanna
MHD - Senseless Ting (Feat. Stefflon Don)
LOONA - New
Ishawna - Mi Belly
Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough
Erphaan Alves - Overdue

(40/40)