ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

_Did I somehow forget to vote for my favourite album of 2019, Burna Boy's African Giant? Could you check it for me, Sean? Sorry about this - didn't save my ballot.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:43 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink_


looks like you did forget :(

you say... burna
i say... big thief

(actually i don't but)

still pouring one out for triad god

BELBFAP

I voted for an album this time, and there were some other interesting looking ones (I always go straight to Various Artists for anything to do with albums) but I didn't get chance in time due to the weather

For the tracks I voted for 20. 20! I didn't think such a thing was possible, thats almost 1 in 2 and yet I look out at the garden and to me its still in danger of relegation

Some things I discovered late or forgot to nominate:

Kölsch - Fabric Presents Kölsch
Dengue Dengue Dengue! - Zenit & Nadir
Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA

I mentioned the Kolsch record above, which was a shame because I assumed it was nominated. Didn't discover until I put together my final ballot it wasn't there. The Dengue Dengue Dengue is incredible and a late discovery. Had I heard it earlier I would have nommed it and placed it in my top 10. The Lingua Ignota is AOTY material for me... also a very late discovery. Yes it's more metal, and for the first time in a decade of being on here, I am submitting a metal ballot because of this album. It's that good.

Looking forward to the rollout. Sampa the Great and Little Simz were my Burna Boy and Big Thief I suppose.

my life is a lie

sorry friends, i failed you all in the hour of need

why did you drink that hennessy?

if that's the same kölsch who did "all that matters" (and also, amazingly, "calabria"), i may have to give that a listen

lol I was searching my mind for an appropriate line but couldn’t come up with one, but that it’s right there

xp

burna made me do it

If it helps, I like the Burna Bot album and will react positively when it places

*Boy ffs

Oh fuck Lingua Ignota was nominated? I completely missed that

😭

no voting for me this year, haven't listened to enough and while i have some faves, i'll try to shout em out if they make the list/complain if they don't! looking forward to it!

I’ve seen the results and working on the graphics atm. Let me say: I don’t know if the main voters for this year changed or we had more or less voters than last year but the results are crazy. I’m willing to give 100 US dollars to anyone who guess the top 10 tracks. Hell, they’re so crazy I’m willing to give $1000 if anyone gets them right regardless of ranking.

excellent!

sounds really good to me

Best news

I think this is the second time I’ve bothered to vote and the first I submitted a singles ballot, so blame me when everything gets weird?

Here for weird.

This is first year afaik that I actually put more effort into my albums ballot than my tracks ballot (I didn't even go the full 25), mainly because I wasn't as dialed into individual songs that came and went in 2019, so I really have NO IDEA what the results will look like. I voted for Old Town Road, though, lol.

yeah I was trying to think of what might win tracks...my guess would be Old Town Road, Cellophane, Gone or...Don’t Start Now? But I don’t know if any of those really had overwhelming, galvanised support on here

Don't Start Now was my #2, but it had such a late release I'm not sure everyone listened to it 400 times like I did.

BALLOON PLZ

What are the numbers like this year? I was assuming they'd be down because of UK/US despair and hopelessness, but I don't know if that's at all true outside my own mind...

glad to hear some unexpected things may have reached the top 10 -- that's usually the most predictable part!

Old Town Road, Cellophane, Gone or...Don’t Start Now?

i would like to think these are all too obvious to have done that well if the results are a bit unexpected. (i kinda hope so, anyway -- tho i did vote for two of them.)

i guess i suppose "don't start now" will do well. its appeal really seems to be quite broad here.

Disco homage from a hip 20-something woman? It's like ILM microtargeting.

pretty much!

i predict a strong showing for octo octa "i need you"

hope so!

looking forward to the crazy results

Everybody anticipatin'

oh ffs, just realised in my panic to get a ballot in yesterday AM I chopped the Judgitzu track off the top of my tracks list, wah! ;(((

numbers are slightly down on last year but we're still over 100 ballots in each poll

Oh fuck Lingua Ignota was nominated? I completely missed that

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Saturday, January 25, 2020 6:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

😭

― opden gnash (imago), Saturday, January 25, 2020 7:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

cosign the latter.

$1000 if I can hack Moka's computer, I like those odds

https://i.imgur.com/nPwGImG.png

it's not 2013 anymore but reasonably stable I'd say

fun fact: this is the first year there were more tracks ballots than albums ballots

👀

i listened to the kölsch mix/album octobeard mentioned -- quite impressive and detailed work

This is the decade of the track I can feel it

having seen the results across the board, "weird" is very accurate; we're gonna be utterly unique in our end of year results as compared to any other best of lists.

You love to see it

I hope others voted for the William Doyle album. I forgot and it's really good!

Yeah, I also check out the Kölsch mix/album, reminded me of something like a Global Underground trance mix from the early 00s. Even the flightpath cover. That said, it's breezed by and was nice to work to this afternoon.