I got, I got, I got, I got ballots, stats, etc: ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017 Post-Poll breakdown thread

Weighted. Bold didn't place, bold+italics sole voter.

01. Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
02. Re-TROS - Before The Applause
03. i.e. crazy - Non Compos Mentis
04. Aldous Harding - Party
05. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
06. tornado wallace – lonely planet
07. Chino Amobi - PARADISO
08. Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
09. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
10. nidia – nida é ma, nidia é fudida
11. Troy Kingi - Shake that skinny ass all the way to Zygertron
12. Nite Jewel - Real High
13. Simi - Simisola
14. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
15. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
16. Various Artists - “Emotion, No”
17. Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
18. Wednesday Campanella - SUPERMAN
19. SWIDT - Stoneyhunga
20. Rebel Wizard - Triumph of Gloom
21. The Weather Station - The Weather Station
22. Hauschka - What If
23. Alexa Casino - CHEER UP TRY HARD TEAR UP CRY HARD
24. Herriot Row - Lesser Stars
25. THE 尺口MP - 愛

Glad the Lingua Ignota got to #157 despite not being officially nominated; mildly shocked I was the sole voter for Aldous Harding - it was vaguely inescapable in NZ (but was turning up in intl EOY lists) and came round to it after my flatmate had it on repeat in the kitchen (though she always made me turn off Jlin, which I swear I'd voted for).

Weighted. Bold placed

Various ‎– The Gamelan Of The Walking Warriors : Gamelan Beleganjur and the Music of the Ngaben Funerary Ritual in Bali

Is Ibeyi the lowest compared to how high it was in all the EOY polls around?

Weighted.

Richard Dawson - Peasant
Kesha - Rainbow
Xiu Xiu - Forget
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
SZA - Ctrl
DoNormaal - The Third Daughter
Machine Girl - ...BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR
The Quick Brown Fox - Nerve's Ending
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Cheer-Accident - Putting Off Death
Gesu No Kiwami Otome - Daruma Ringo
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Wiley - Godfather
death's dynamic shroud - Heavy Black Heart
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Drab Majesty - The Demonstration
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come
Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
L'Rain - L'Rain
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Cleric - Retrocausal
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke

Thank you, pollrunners!

weighted, bold didn't place

Kelela - Take Me Apart
Lorde - Melodrama
SZA - Ctrl
Fever Ray - Plunge
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Rina Sawayama - RINA
Jessie Ware - Glasshouse
Tove Lo - Blue Lips
Charli XCX - Pop 2
MUNA - about u
Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
Sevdaliza - ISON
St Vincent - Masseduction
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Ibeyi - Ash
Sampa The Great - Birds & The Bee9
Daniel Caesar - Freudian
Bicep - Bicep
Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy
Miguel - War & Leisure
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai
Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa

Also, nice ballot ufo :D

lol saer

1. Drab Majesty - The Demonstration
2. Brand New - Science Fiction
3. Caracara - Summer Megalith
4. Blanck Mass - World Eater
5. Racquet Club - Racquet Club
6. Star Tropics - Lost World
7. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
8. Ex Eye - Ex Eye
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
10. Sannhet - So Numb
11. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
12. Slowdive - Slowdive
13. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps
14. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
15. Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol. 1
16. Juana Molina - Halo
17. Dion Lunadon - Dion Lunadon
18. Jefre Cantu‐Ledesma - On the Echoing Green
19. Jeremy Enigk - Ghosts
20. Demen - Nektyr
21. Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble
22. Ifriqiyya Électrique - Rûwâhîne
23. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
24. Shinichi Atobe - From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art
25. Hazel English - Just Give In / Never Going Home

weighted!

Richard Dawson - Peasant
L'Rain - L'Rain
Cleric - Retrocausal
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Cheer-Accident - Putting Off Death
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Jute Gyte - Oviri
death's dynamic shroud - Heavy Black Heart
The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
Total Control - Laughing At The System
The Quick Brown Fox - Nerve's Ending
Dälek - Endangered Philosophies
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter EP
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Machine Girl - ...BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR
Kesha - Rainbow
DoNormaal - The Third Daughter
Re-TROS - Before The Applause
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics

great discoveries: big thief, charli xcx

discovered outside of the poll but too late: ie crazy (sorry etc - i'd have given it quite a few points!)

now everyone go and listen to l'rain if you haven't

Aw. Deerful at #102. Just needed one more convert. Awesome result anyway though.

now everyone go and listen to l'rain if you haven't

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weighted

Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
GAS - Narkopop
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Kelela - Take Me Apart
M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix
Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Laurel Halo - Dust
Bicep - Bicep
tqd – ukg
SZA - Ctrl
Jlin - Black Origami
Various Artists - Mono No Aware
Yves Tumor - Experiencing The Deposit Of Faith
Rabit - Les Fleurs Du Mal
Björk - Utopia
Sampha - Process
Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness
Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
Actress - AZD
DJ Python - Dulce Compañía
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
Jana Rush - Pariah
Mr. Mitch - Devout
Pan Daijing - Lack

Shout out to top neighbour Ari.

Weighted:
Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield - Hudson
Rez Abbasi - Unfiltered Universe
Zimpel/Ziołek - Zimpel/Ziołek
dbh - Mass
Alameda Duo - The Luminous Guitar Craft of Alameda Duo
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come
The Bad Plus - It's Hard
Mew - Visuals
Dennis Gonzalez's Ataraxia - Ts'iibil Chaaltun
Jute Gyte - Oviri
John Gordon Armstrong - Music for Solo Guitar
John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Holy Wind
Converge - The Dusk in Us
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Chuck Johnson - Balsams
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
jaimie branch - Fly or Die
Kevin Hufnagel - The Protected Shards
East of the Valley Blues - Fayet
Sonoluminescence Trio - Live at the Record Centre
Krallice with Dave Edwardson - Loüm
Victoria Guitar Trio - Concentric Rings
Jasper String Quartet - Unbound
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Ralph Towner - My Foolish Heart

Posting my mixed ballot from memory:

Charly Bliss - Guppy
SZA - CTRL
Kelela - Take Me Apart
The xx - I See You
Girlpool - Powerplant

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Waxahatchee - Out of the Storm
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Fever Ray - Plunge
TOPS - Sugar at the Gate
J Hus - Common Sense
Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
Taylor Swift - Reputation
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Karen Gwyer - Rembo

Mixed ballot, bold placed.

Alexis Taylor - Listen With Piano
Alison Moyet – Other
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
The xx - I See You
Ryuichi Sakamoto – async

Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Chino Amobi – PARADISO
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music For Nine Post Cards
Ibeyi - Ash
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
Joe Goddard - Electric Lines
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie - Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie
Mavis Staples - If All I Was Was Black
Neil Finn - Out of Silence
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Polo & Pan - Caravelle
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
UNKLE - The Road Pt. 1
Big Boi - Boomiverse
Warm Digits - Wireless World
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Star

weighted, bold did not place:

Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Angaleena Presley - Wrangled
Drab Majesty - The Demonstration
Big Thief - Capacity
Fever Ray - Plunge
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Lee Ann Womack - The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone
Whitney Rose - Rule 62
Nikki Lane - Highway Queen
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
Sunny Sweeney - Trophy
Natalie Hemby - Puxico
Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Hazel English - Just Give In/Never Going Home
Slowdive - Slowdive
Land of Talk - Life After Youth
Brian Eno - Reflection
Hand Habits - Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void)
Tara Jane O'Neil - Tara Jane O'Neil
Les Filles de Illighadad - Eghass Malan
Ratboys - GN
Saz'iso - At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me
U2 - Songs of Experience

Mixed

Pierre Kwenders - MAKANDA at the End of Space, the Beginning of Time
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Daniel Caesar - Freudian
Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
Various Artists ‎– Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa
Future - HNDRXX
J Hus - Common Sense
Lido Pimienta - La Papessa
DJ Python - Dulce Compañía

Talaboman - The Night Land
Ibeyi - Ash
Miguel - War & Leisure
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Bicep - Bicep
blondes – warmth
Mostack - High Street Kid
The Belbury Circle - Outward Journeys
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica
SZA - Ctrl
S.A.M. - Dream State of a Bellmaker
Migos - Culture
Yemi Alade - Black Magic
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

curmudgeon and ulysses were close neighbors and you guys are the ilxors I'd probably most likely recommend that Pierre Kwenders album to--he's from Congo, lives in Montreal, recorded in Seattle, and the result is a beautiful mix of styles and languages, truly globalized afropop but, you know, not in the bad way

Weighted, bold DNP:

Paramore - After Laughter
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
GAS - Narkopop
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Jeremy Enigk - Ghosts
Richard Dawson - Peasant
Björk - Utopia
SZA - Ctrl
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. 1: ΔΔ
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
Lorde - Melodrama
Migos - Culture
Louise Burns - Young Mopes
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Converge - The Dusk in Us
Deerhoof - Mountain Moves
Girlpool - Powerplant
Oddisee - The Iceberg
Miguel - War & Leisure
Glassjaw - Material Control
Asian Doll - Kill Bill Vol. 1

love my fellow ghosts voters

Weighted. This may not be 100% in the right order as I moved stuff around at the last minute but it's close to accurate. Bold DNP. Bold italic = sole voter.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Deerful - Peach
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas 5
Björk - Utopia
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
ToiToiToi - Im Hag
Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
Meridian Brothers - ¿Dónde Estás María?
Kesha - Rainbow
Sarah Angliss - Ealing Feeder
Vic Mars - The consumer programme
Juana Molina - Halo
Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
Sevyn Streeter - Girl Disrupted
Devon Sproule - The Gold String
Wednesday Campanella - SUPERMAN
Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act II
Kelly Lee Owens - s/t
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa - Are Euphoria
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You
death’s dynamic shroud - Heavy Black Heart
Cornelius - Mellow Waves

KAS was the one thing that placed from my ballot.

mixed (bold didn't place)

Kelela - Take Me Apart
Gaussian Curve - The Distance
Kaitlin Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Crescent - Resin Pockets
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Pan Daijing - Lack
Arca - Arca
Call Super - Arpo
Visible Cloaks ‎- Reassemblage
Jlin ‎- Black Origami
Richard Dawson - Peasant

Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo
Dauwd - Theory of Colours
DJ Sotofett Presents Jesse - Twotinos
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green
John T. Gast - Inna Babalon
Karen Gwyer ‎- Rembo
Karima Walker - Hands In Our Names
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Kuniyuki Takahashi - New Wave Project
Laurel Halo - Dust
Shinichi Atobe - From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art
Slowdive - Slowdive
Suso Saiz ‎- Rainworks

weighted. couldn't figure out why the results said I had 11 in the top 77, but then remembered that I made a last minute shuffle to get KAS in there.

1 - Blanck Mass - World Eater (40)
2 - Fever Ray - Plunge (8)
3 - Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens (9)
4 - Kettenkarussell - Insecurity Guard (218)
5 - Molly Nilsson - Imaginations (308)
6 - Arca - Arca (127)
7 - Bicep - Bicep (20)
8 - Lorde - Melodrama (11)
9 - Charli XCX - Pop 2 (29)
10 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid (14)
11 - Jlin - Black Origami (6)
12 - Laurel Halo - Dust (53)
13 - Octo Octa - Where Are We Going? (15)
14 - Coucou Chloe - Erika Jane (605)
15 - NKISI - Kill (625)
16 - Priests - Nothing Feels Natural (129)
17 - Lorentz - Lycka till (675)
18 - jane weaver - modern kosmology (150)
19 - Shinichi Atobe - From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art (105)
20 - Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life (42)
21 - Xiu Xiu - Forget (97)
22 - Machine Girl - ...BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR (206)
23 - EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring (246)
24 - Varg - Nordic Flora pt 3: Gore-Tex City (306)
25 - Steffi - World Of The Waking State (216)

Weighted, bold did not place.

Jlin - Black Origami
Deerful - Peach
Days Fade, Nights Grow - Amelioration
Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
Golden Teacher - No Luscious Life
L'Rain - L'Rain
Wednesday Campanella - SUPERMAN
Phew - Light Sleep
Pharmakon - Contact
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Fatima al Qadiri - Shaneera
SACRED PAWS - Strike A Match
Happy Meals - Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony Volumes IV-V
Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
nidia – nida é ma, nidia é fudida
Lower Slaughter - What Big Eyes
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Gauche - Get Away With...
Blackpink - Blackpink
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
John Maus - Screen Memories
Tweedle - the Tweedle Demos
Sarah Angliss - Ealing Feeder
Crumbs - Mind Yr Manners

Is Ibeyi the lowest compared to how high it was in all the EOY polls around?

There were a few things that seem to have had no traction with ILX at all compared to critic lists - Sampha, Sheer Mag, Thundercat, etc.

Weighted, bold didn't place. Shockingly hivemind in 2018

Gaussian Curve - The Distance
tornado wallace – lonely planet
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
Four Tet - New Energy
Talaboman - The Night Land
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Kelela - Take Me Apart
Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Call Super - Arpo
Karen Gwyer - Rembo
GAS - Narkopop
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Bicep - Bicep
Fever Ray - Plunge
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic

Weighted, bold non-placing lps

Rapsody - Laila's Wisdom
Nikki Lane - Highway Queen
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
Les Amazones d'Afrique - République Amazone
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Little Dragon - Season High
Charly Bliss - Guppy
SACRED PAWS - Strike A Match
charlotte gainsbourg - rest
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Ibeyi - Ash
Juana Molina - Halo
Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
St Vincent - Masseduction
DoNormaal - The Third Daughter
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - Youth Detention
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Louise Burns - Young Mopes
Noga Erez - Off The Radar
The Preatures - Girlhood
Ron Gallo - Heavy Meta

I can't believe only one other person voted for Rapsody. That album is sick.

shit, can a mod add “of 2017” to the thread title?

I got, I got, I got, I got it.

Much love to whoever else voted for The Homesick!

saer great choice! if youre being serious, got it on vinyl the other day :)

my mixed ballot

Cabo Boing - Blob On A Grid
IT IT - Formal Odors
Various Artists - The Gamelan of the Walking Warriors : Gamelan Beleganjur and the Music of the Ngaben Funerary Ritual in Bali
death's dynamic shroud - Heavy Black Heart
Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche - Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much
Deerful - Peach

Al Massrieen - Modern Music
Beaches - Second of Spring
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Eric Taxxon - Endless
Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
Fire-Toolz - Drip Mental
GAS - Narkopop
Giant Claw - Soft Channel
Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom
Infinite Bisous - w/ love
L'Rain - L'Rain
Machine Girl - ...BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR
Poppy - Poppy.Computer
Saz’iso - At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me
Various Artists - Mono No Aware
Various Artists - Pop Makossa - The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984
Vektroid - Seed and Synthetic Earth
Young Marco / Various Artists - Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)

Unweighted

Actress – AZD
Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency
Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game
Dizzee Rascal – Raskit
Equiknoxx - Colón Man
Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
F Ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out
Fever Ray – Plunge
Golden Teacher - No Luscious Life
Happy Meals - Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony Volumes IV-V
J Hus - Common Sense
Jlin - Black Origami
Konrad Sprenger - Stack Music
Pan Daijing – Lack
Penelope Trappes - Penelope One
SACRED PAWS - Strike A Match
Shackleton and Anika - Behind The Glass
Stormzy - Gang Signs And Prayer
Various Artists - Antinote: Five Years of Loving Notes
Various Artists - Mono No Aware
Wiley – Godfather
Yves Tumor - Experiencing The Deposit Of Faith

saer great choice! if youre being serious, got it on vinyl the other day :)

I am definitely serious! I didn't know of it until I had a look through the nominations, but I decided to play it and it stayed on the whole time and it was very good! There were perhaps 2 or 3 others albums I could have voted for but I'm not so good with names, or it was things like the cedric dekowski where i only really liked one track and i didn't put that one in the tracks ballot because i already had 10 by then, and more than 10 feels gauche to me

I've chilled out to that album most this year i think, its so soothing

I am listening to it again right now, I was listening to it earlier on while the top 10 or 20 or something went past, after I had lost heart and couldn't face listening to any more of them, but I did look at all the pictures

:)

I got propagandhi into the 177, it's the best outcome I could realistically hope for

There were a few things that seem to have had no traction with ILX at all compared to critic lists - Sampha, Sheer Mag, Thundercat, etc.

The Sampha thread is hilarious in how little enthusiasm there is for the guy

dizzee rascal - raskit
thundercat - drunk
sleaford mods - english tapas
migos - culture
rolling blackouts c.f. - the french press
r stevie moore/falkner - make it be
jay som - everybody works
kelly lee owens - s/t
kendrick lamar - damn
mac demarco - this old dog
actress - azd
octo octa - where are we going?
lcd soundsystem - american dream
gaussian curve - the distance
talaboman - the night land
tornado wallace - lonely planet
the caretaker - everywhere at the end of time stage two
ariel pink - dedicated to bobby jamieson
the clientele - music for the age of miracles
the fall - new facts emerge
Alameda Duo - the luminous guitar craft of
bicep - s/t
richard dawson - peasant
destroyer - ken
fever ray - plunge

unweighted

Weighted, bold didn't place:

1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2. Big Thief - Capacity
3. Palehound - A Place I'll Always Go
4. SZA - CTRL
5. Fever Ray - Plunge
6. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
7. Lorde - Melodrama
8. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
9. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
10. Perfume Genius - No Shape
11. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet 
12. Migos - Culture
13. Jay Som - Everybody Works
14. Algiers - The Underside of Power
15. King Krule - The OOZ
16. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
17. the Mountain Goats - Goths
18. Kelela - Take Me Apart
19. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks : Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack
20. Vektroid - Seed and Synthetic Earth
21. Jack Cooper - Sandgrown
22. Chad VanGaalen - Light Information
23. Alvvays - Antisocialites
24. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
25. Slowdive - Slowdive

yo sean you should use empirical bayes for enthusiasm next year like in this post: http://varianceexplained.org/r/empirical_bayes_baseball/

both weighted

TRACKS

Dua Lipa - New Rules
Casey Dienel - High Times
Julia Michaels - Uh Huh
justin cudmore - forget it
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Tess Roby - Ballad 5
randomer - smokin
TOPS - Petals
Minor Science - Volumes
Migos - T-Shirt
Laurel Halo - Moontalk
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
Harry Styles - Sign of the Times
maggie rogers - dog years
t q d - vibsing ting
valee - shell
pressa - tbh
Julia Michaels - Issues
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
HAIM - Want You Back
Nilüfer Yanya - Golden Cage
SZA - Love Galore
Tay-K - The Race
Joe - Tail Lift
Tee Grizzley - First Day Out

ALBUMS

Big Thief - Capacity
DJ Sports - Modern Species
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Migos - Culture
Casey Dienel - Imitation Of A Woman To Love
Soccer Mommy - Collection
Sorority Noise - You’re not As ___ As You Think
Lil B - Black Ken
TOPS - Sugar at the Gate
Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti
Laurel Halo - Dust
SOB X RBE - SOB X RBE
Drake - More Life
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
Jlin - Black Origami
tqd – ukg
Young Marco / Various Artists - Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)
Khotin - New Tab

Weighted

Jute Gyte - Oviri
Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Richard Dawson - Peasant
Vespero - Shum-Shir
Sundays & Cybele - Chaos & Systems
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come
The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks
Jlin - Black Origami
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Liquidarlo Celuloide - Superfriccion
Shabazz Palaces - Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Suspirians - Ti Bon Ange
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Couch Slut - Contempt
Saagara - 2
DoNormaal - The Third Daughter
Azonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1
Windy & Carl - Blues for a UFO
Nik Turner - Life in Space
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom
Zola Jesus - Okovi

weighted, bold didn't place

Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
Big Thief – Capacity
Slowdive – Slowdive
Sacred Paws – Strike a Match
Susanne Sundfor - Music For People In Trouble
King Krule – The OOZ
Alex Lahey – I Love You Like a Brother
Migos – Culture
Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
Mozzy – 1 Up Top Ahk
Oxbow – Thin Black Duke
Algiers – The Underside of Power
Bedouine – Bedouine
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Tyler, The Creator – Flower Boy
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The French Press
Playboi Carti – Playboi Carti
Smino – Blkswn
Björk – Utopia
Future – HNDRXX
Nick Hakim – Green Twins
The Clientele – Music for the Age of Miracles
Cornelius – Mellow Waves
Anna Wise – The Feminine: Act II
Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls

managed to land 14 albums on the list, def a career high for me. longer thoughts on the albums here: http://voodoochili.tumblr.com/post/169085895539/my-favorite-albums-of-2017

shoutout to whoever had Chastity Belt at #1

That was me.

Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Immolation - Atonement
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Re-TROS - Before The Applause
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Jlin - Black Origami
Girl Ray - Earl Grey

cheers to voodoo chili for voting smino

Det Norske Jentekor (The Norwegian Girls Choir) - Folketoner
Christopher Willits - Horizon
GAS - Narkopop
Bitchin Bajas - Bajas Fresh
Emmanuel Holterbach - Aurora
Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness
Prurient - Rainbow Mirror
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - La Equidistancia
Alan Vega - IT
Evan Caminiti - Toxic City Music
Pulse Emitter - Chilling in the Eye of the Storm
Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Passive Aggressive
Matthew Shipp Trio - Piano Song
Kelly Moran - Bloodroot
Suso Saiz - Rainworks
Fabiano Do Nascimento - Tempo Dos Mestres
Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run
X.Y.R. - Labyrinth
The Myrrors - Hasta La Victoria
Sarah Angliss - Ealing Feeder
Josiah Steinbrick - Meeting of Waters
Bicep - Bicep
Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One
Pinkcourtesyphone - Indelicate Slices
Celer - Oasis Pt. 1: The Path Around the Palms

I probably would have voted for Tornado Wallace if I'd heard the album in time!

(weighted)

my Celer vote apparently didn't even show up in the full stats!

I didn't know there was a new Christopher Willits!

cajunsunday, I dub thee Mr ILM

seandalai has the ballots, not me, sorry

lol imago. I'll wear that title with pride. people should check out some of my leftfield picks like The Shins or The New Pornographers.

Fred if you liked that Planning for Burial record maybe you should think bout putting together a ballot for the metal poll :)

The thing that always happens is that I read the metal poll and always finds stuff for my main poll :) I can't make a ballot, but you're doing great work and I look forward to devouring the results!

mixed, bold placed

Kelela - Take Me Apart
The Courtneys - II
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
Girlpool - Powerplant
L'Rain - L'Rain
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Cornelius - Mellow Waves
Arca - Arca
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Syd - Fin
Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
Emily Haines - Choir of the Mind
Beach Fossils - Somersault

Bjork - Utopia
St Vincent - Masseduction
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Spiral Stairs - Doris & the Daggers
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds

I'd like to shake hands with my fellow Caracara voter, whoever he/she is.

My hastily assembled ballot. I stand by the ranked portion of my ballot, but I'd probably swap out about 5 or 6 of the unranked albums if I had to redo it:

Blanck Mass - World Eater
Jlin - Black Origami
Pharmakon - Contact
Xiu Xiu - Forget
blondes – warmth
Destroyer - Ken

Mana - Creature
Fever Ray - Plunge
DJ Python - Dulce Compañía
SAYOHIMEBOU - 卡拉OK♫スターダスト東風
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
L'Rain - L'Rain
Karen Gwyer - Rembo
Bola - D.E.G.
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
Johnny Jewel – Windswept
Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency
Mélanie de Biasio - Lilies
queens of the stone age - villains
Depeche Mode - Spirit
Pumarosa - The Witch
DJ Sports - Modern Species
jane weaver - modern kosmology
The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics

This is what was on my ballot. It was ranked, but this is not the exact order. I was making a lot of quick last minute decision, so I don't remember the actual ranking, but it wasn't that far from this:

Melkbelly – Nothing Valley
Dauwd – Theory of Colours
Ross From Friends – You’ll Understand
Camille – OUÏ
Charlotte Dos Santos – Cleo
Nadah El Shazly – Ahwar
Matthew Shipp Trio – Piano Song
Octo Octa – Where Are We Going?
Lowly – Heba
Sudan Archives – Sudan Archives
Justin Adams – Ribbons
Laura Marling – Semper Femina
Sunny Sweeney – Trophy
Paramore – After Laughter
Musica Secreta – Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter
Ariwo – Ariwo
DJ Seinfeld – Time Spent Away from You
Thomas Demenga – J. S. Bach: The Six Cello Suites
Tomoko Sauvage – Musique Hydromantique
Kelly Moran – Bloodroot
Zsofia Boros – Local Objects
Auntie Flo – Soniferous Garden
Various Artists – Digital Zandoli 2
Jo Harman – People We Become

I've never really gotten into Bach's cello suites, but I think the timing was right for this particular ECM recording of them. I will have to go back to other performances, eventually.

Kelly Moran and Tomoko Sauvage go together to an extent. Kelly Moran is prepared piano (etc.?) which I thought was prepared harp, for some reason, so some interesting preparations there. Hints of the original gamelan inspiration for prepared piano. The Tomoko Sauvage album begins with metallophone (or synths that sound like metallophone).

And I like (some) lo-fi house a lot, whether it's cool or not.

Campaigning after the fact.

Ariwo is something I found on lex's year end list. First impression was that it was kind of fourth-worldish, but with more of an authentic Latin horn sound. That turns out to be care of veterans from major Cuban groups:

Ariwo are a Cuban/Iranian four-piece focused on intersection between electronic and ancestral music.

The band brings together Iranian electronic composer POUYA EHSAEI and three of London’s most influential Cuban musicians; Irakere's Latin Grammy winning “percussion virtuoso”, HAMMADI VALDES; Sierra Maestra lead trumpeter, YELFRIS VALDES; and godfather of London’s Cuban scene, ORESTE NODA.

https://ariwo.bandcamp.com/

Also Anna Wise, toward the bottom. Forgot that.

Rudipherous those aren’t either synths or metallophones on the Tomoko Sauvage record, it’s far cooler than that:

Musique Hydromantique is the second solo album by Tomoko Sauvage archiving many years of her performance-based practice on the waterbowls – the natural synthesizer of her invention, composed with porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones (underwater microphones). While her first album Ombrophilia (released on and/OAR in 2009) was studio-recorded /composed work, Musique Hydromantique is about experimentation and improvisation with the environment – acoustics affected by the architecture, temperature, humidity and the human presence.

For more than ten years, Sauvage has been investigating the sound and visual properties of water in different states, as well as those of ceramics, combined with electronics. Water drops, waves and bubbles are some of the elements she has been playing with to generate the fluid timbre. Since around 2010, hydrophonic feedback has been an obsession for the musician – an acoustic phenomenon that requires fine tuning depending on the amount of water, a subtle volume control and interaction with the acoustic space.

more info here: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/musique-hydromantique

Cool. Well, the point always that they are metallophonish sounding, but that is interesting.

Hydrophonic feedback.

Anybody want to take part in metal poll? voting ends tomorrow.
You can take a look at what is nominated
The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

or give the spotify playlist a listen

Don't forget to vote in the 10th annual metal poll tomorrow! Even if you send a ballot with only Ex Eye, Blanck Mass and Elder it will still be welcome!

Lol xp

Is there a metal poll? Why didn't someone mention it?!

😅😅

I wish someone would vote in it!!

I'm all polled out.

I'm only messing. I wish I'd listened to enough (some) metal so I could get involved!

you have 30 hours to do so!

https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/74IL7uL4YEy2tTiBYtRJ4G?si=3583JnjIQHuyKjKLbEcqKQ

Excuse this self-indulgent post.

I've already posted my ballot upthread. But I would have voted for these LPs too if I'd had 50 rather than 25 slots on my ballot (and some more noms; not all of these were even nominated). I feel the need to acknowledge the excellence of a few of these. 2017 = a good year IMO.

Mura Masa - s/t
K. Michelle - KIMBERLY: The People I Used To Know
*SAICOBAB - SAB SE PURANI BAB
Sinkane - Life & Lovin’ It
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
*Ondatrópica - Baile Bucanero
Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
L’Rain - s/t
*Bertrand Burgalat - Les choses qu’on ne peut dire à personne
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
Giant Claw - Soft Channel
*Simon James - Akiha Den Den
Sunny Sweeney - Trophy
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Karen Gwyer - Rembo
*Various Artists - Kompakt: Total 17
Fever Ray - Plunge
*DMX Krew - Strange Directions
Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
Sampha - Process
*Faten Kanaan - Pleiade Hex 6
*Zombie Zombie - Livity
*Miles From Kinshasa - LIMBO
Arca - s/t

*not nominated (for shame)

you be careful doing that, I gave an extended ballot once and everyone yelled at me ;)

Albums - Unweighted

Au-Dessus - End of Chapter
Brutus - Burst
Demen - Nektyr
Djustin - Voyagers
Drab Majesty - The Demonstration
Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves
Godflesh - Post Self
The Great Discord - The Rabbit Hole
Karen Gwyer - Rembo
Hante. - Between Hope & Danger
Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart
It's For Us - Come With Me
Kelela - Take Me Apart
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Lowly - Heba
Metro Riders - Europe by Night
The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia
Joseph Shabason - Aytche
Talamanca System - s/t
Varg - Nordic Flora pt 3: Gore-Tex City
Voyager - Ghost Mile
White Ward - Futility Report
Yamaneko - Spa Commissions
Ziúr - U Feel Anything?
Various Artists - Mono No Aware

djmartian is needed on metal poll

*paging Dr Dj*

My weighted albums ballot:

bold: did not place, italic: sole voter

Olamide - Lagos Nawa! (Wobey Sound)(#319)
Serge Beynaud - Accelerate (#184)
Kelela - Take Me Apart (#13)
J Hus - Common Sense (#21)
Wizkid - Sounds From the Other Side (#182)
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage (#12)
The xx - I See You (#16)
Ronnie Flex - Rémi (#431)
Niniola - This Is Me (#226)
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble (#2)
SZA - Ctrl (#3)
Juls - Leap Of Faith (#499)
Fever Ray - Plunge (#8)
Various Artists (Babes Wodumo and others) - West Ink Banger (One) (#605)
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (#1)
Jlin - Black Origami (#6)
Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls (#88)
Trio da Kali and Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan (#302)
Nidia Minaj – Nida é Ma, Nidia é Fudida (#109)
Flavour - Ijele - The Traveler (#718)
Yemi Alade - Black Magic (#156)
DJ Lycox – Sonhos & Pesadelos (#442)
Jana Rush - Pariah (#717)
Bicep - Bicep (#20)
tqd – ukg (#89)

bold did not place:
Pumarosa - The Witch
The Weather Station - The Weather Station
The New Year – Snow
Raoul Vignal - The Silver Veil
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
Hauschka - What If
The xx - I See You
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr Ferryman
Curtis Harding - Face Your Fear
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Tinariwen - Elwan
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
King Krule - The OOZ
Girl Ray - Earl Grey
Piano Magic - Closure
Brian Eno - Reflection
Destroyer - Ken
Laraaji - Bring on the Sun
angel olsen - phases
Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
The Feelies - In Between
Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy
Mélanie de Biasio - Lilies

Forgotten my ballot but would have been smth like:

Weighted:

SZA - Ctrl
Dej Loaf & Jacquees - Fuck a Friend Zone
People Like You - Verse
J Hus - Common Sense
Charli XCX - Pop2
Kehlani - SSS
Sevyn Streeter - Girl Disrupted
Kelly Lee Owens - s/t
Blondes - Warmth
Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart
P Jam - Jungle Book
DetBoi - Secrets
Wiley - Godfather

Made some great discoveries, particularly grateful for L’Rain, Charly Bliss, Japanese Breakfast. Thanks all!

my weighted ballot

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green
Young Marco / Various Artists - Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)
F Ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Sevyn Streeter - Girl Disrupted
Hazel English - Just Give In / Never Going Home
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring
Jonny Nash - Eden
tornado wallace – lonely planet
Gaussian Curve - The Distance
Slowdive - Slowdive
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
Nite Jewel - Real High
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
SACRED PAWS - Strike A Match
Peaking Lights - The Fifth State of Consciousness
Miguel - War & Leisure
Kaleida - Tear the Roots
blondes – warmth
Louise Burns - Young Mopes
Björk - Utopia

heyyy my top neighbour is Moka! not sure what it means, but sounds like good company to me B-)

Weighted. Bold placed.

The Mountain Goats - Goths
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
Fever Ray - Plunge
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
The xx - I See You
Caracara - Summer Megalith
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Jlin - Black Origami
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Wolves In The Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Hüsker Dü - Savage Young Dü
Cleric - Retrocausal
Jeremy Enigk - Ghosts
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Kesha - Rainbow
Katie Ellen - Cowgirl Blues
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley

Yay, Caracara! High five, gman!

Right back at ya. I fell in love with that album. Was pretty shocked it didnt get more love outside of the rolling emo thread

Ha, finally found my ballot. For some reason I submitted it as unweighted, but it wouldn't have made any difference I think:

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Slowdive - Slowdive
Apócrýphos, Kammarheit & Atrium Carceri - Echo
67 - Glorious Twelfth
Stefan Wesolowski - Rite Of The End
Tigran Hamasyan - An Ancient Observer
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Mélanie de Biasio - Lilies
Anneli Drecker - Revelations For Personal Use
Demen - Nektyr
Wiley - Godfather
Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Legowelt - Legendary Freaks in the Trash Of Time
Hammock - Mysterium
Balmorhea - Clear Language
Jess And The Ancient Ones - The Horse And Other Weird Tales
Danny Wolfers - Unfolding The Future With Amateur Space
Infected Mushroom - Return To The Sauce
Mew - Visuals
Northumbria - Markland
PVRIS - All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell
Scooter - Scooter Forever
Exquirla - Para Quienes Aun Viven
Stefflon Don - Real Ting