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

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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

paolo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link

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

saer, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link

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

nxd, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link

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

saer, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link

:)

nxd, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link

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

Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link

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

josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link

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

Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link

unweighted

Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link

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

one way street, Friday, 2 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link

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

flopson, Friday, 2 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link

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

flopson, Friday, 2 February 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link

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

bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 2 February 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link

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

hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link

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

o. nate, Friday, 2 February 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link

cheers to voodoo chili for voting smino

gr8080, Friday, 2 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link

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!

(the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Friday, 2 February 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link

(weighted)

(the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Friday, 2 February 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link

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

(the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Friday, 2 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link

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

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 2 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link

Mixed. Bold did not place

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Slowdive - Slowdive
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Billy Woods - Known Unknowns
Sevdaliza - ISON
Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
Oumou Sangare - Mogoya
SW. - The Album
Four Tet - New Energy
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Photay - Onism
Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
Jlin - Black Origami
Kelela - Take Me Apart
Clark - Death Peak

Rapsody - Laila's Wisdom
Hauschka - What If
BNNT - Multiverse
SZA - Ctrl
Big Thief - Capacity
John Maus - Screen Memories
Throwing Snow - Embers
Laraaji - Bring on the Sun
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Riddlemore - Afromutations

octobeard, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link

So many great records this year. I could have added another 25 to my unweighted portion of my ballot with ease.

octobeard, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link

My weighted list

Paramore - After Laughter
Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
The Clientele - Music From The Age Of Miracles
charlotte gainsbourg - rest
Ronika - Lose My Cool
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
St Vincent - Masseduction
Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
SZA - Ctrl
Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love
Louise Burns - Young Mopes
Jessie Ware - Glasshouse
jane weaver - modern kosmology
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
Miguel - War & Leisure
Cut Copy - Haiku From Zero
Lorde - Melodrama
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Nite Jewel - Real High

kitchen person, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link

unweighted

blondes – warmth
Broken English Club - The English Beach
DJ Python - Dulce Compañía
DJ Sports - Modern Species
Farbror Resande Mac - Farbror Resande Mac
GAS - Narkopop
Gaussian Curve - The Distance

Jex Opolis - Ravines
John T. Gast - Inna Babalon
Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Passive Aggressive
Kuniyuki Takahashi - New Wave Project
Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
Patrick Cowley - Afternooners
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
Ramzi ‎– Pèze-Piton
Satoshi & Makoto - CZ-5000 Sounds & Sequences
Scott Gilmore - Subtle Vertigo
Suso Saiz - Rainworks
Talamanca System - s/t
The Swan and The Lake - Clouds
tornado wallace – lonely planet
Various Artists - Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017)
Various Artists - Tropical Drums Of Deutschland
Young Marco - Selectors 002
Young Marco / Various Artists - Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93)

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 2 February 2018 05:07 (six years ago) link

Still hoping seandalai will post some of our ballots, but in the meantime, I want to mention a late entry on my ballot:

Tomoko Sauvage – Musique Hydromantique

It is very spare with a heavy emphasis on ambient drone, along with metallophone (real or synth--I'm not sure). If you sometimes like following an extended tone as it decays, you may like this. Definitely a favorite from among the more ambient things I've listened to this year (and I think I've heard a bit, thanks to ILM recommendations).

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link

agreed, that's a great record

faust apes (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2018 06:20 (six years ago) link

weighted, to my surprise my #1 did not place

Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
The Weather Station - The Weather Station
Four Tet - New Energy
Starcrash - Tarantula Wallpaper, Dracula Screensaver
Tinariwen - Elwan
Chuck Johnson - Balsams
Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett - Lotta Sea Lice
The Clientele - Music From The Age Of Miracles
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
feist - pleasure
Destroyer - Ken
Jessie Ware - Glasshouse
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Real Estate - In Mind
Cupcakke - Queen Elizabitch

niels, Friday, 2 February 2018 07:46 (six years ago) link

looking at my own ballot, what a time to be alive

niels, Friday, 2 February 2018 07:47 (six years ago) link

My ballot, weighted, bold placed.

Jlin - Black Origami
Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
Bicep - Bicep
Paramore - After Laughter
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
SZA - Ctrl

Call Super - Fabric 92
Peaking Lights - The Fifth State of Consciousness
PVRIS - All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell
Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
Midland - Fabriclive 94
Angaleena Presley - Wrangled
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Fever Ray - Plunge

Dizzee Rascal - Raskit
Chronixx - Chronology
tqd – ukg
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface

SW. - The Album
blondes – warmth
DJ Sotofett Presents Jesse - Twotinos

Miguel and Lee Ann Womack were super dumb oversights caused by completing this ballot whilst v. tired and literally not realising I hadn't already included them.

Tim F, Friday, 2 February 2018 08:40 (six years ago) link

Lol @ Whiney being in the top five on hivemind score. Also the Lex voted which explains one or two things about the rundown.

Matt DC, Friday, 2 February 2018 08:51 (six years ago) link

Thanks for organising gr8080! I think I lost my ballot, can I pull it out of the spreadsheet somehow?

Siegbran, Friday, 2 February 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link

Yeah if anyone could email my ballot to me (using the email on the ballot itself rather than this one) it would be much appreciated.

Matt DC, Friday, 2 February 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link

Future Islands - The Far Field
Migos - Culture
Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Golden Teacher - No Luscious Life
Algiers - The Underside of Power
SACRED PAWS - Strike A Match
Various Artists ‎– Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa
Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly
Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill - The Moomins
Still - I
Equiknoxx - Colón Man

Future - HNDRXX
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Future - Future
Jlin - Black Origami
Songhoy Blues - Resistance
Sully - Escape
The Mountain Goats - Goths
Tradition - Captain Ganja and the Space Patrol
Girls In Airports - Live
Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai

J Hus - Common Sense
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

Felt like during the countdown hardly anything I voted for placed, but apparently 9 did which is good odds. Most disappointing is Mountain Goths getting 78'd - an ambitious album with some really really strong highlights.
I felt like Ibibio Sound Machine should have placed higher, but as with their previous one, I locked into one song (Give Me A Reason) and just played it to death.
Wasn't expecting my number one to place. I put it there simply because it became a go-to record for at least the first 6 months of the year. I'd put it on any time I didn't have anything else to listen to, and just got to know it really well. Shout outs to the sole other voter.
People who like big, dancehall-inflected electro should check out both the Still and Errorsmith albums. Just gobsmacking. Equiknoxx too, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

Badgers (dog latin), Friday, 2 February 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link

Weighted

Slowdive - Slowdive
Migos - Culture
Lorde - Melodrama
Planning for Burial - Below the House
21 Savage / Offset / Metro Boomin - Without Warning

The xx - I See You
Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Holy Wind

LCD Soundsystem - american dream
Simi - Simisola
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
Animal Collective - Meeting of the Waters

Jlin - Black Origami
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Centennial Trilogy
Superpitcher - The Golden Ravedays

Richard Dawson - Peasant
Future - HNDRXX
Laurel Halo - Dust
Ninos du Brasil - Vida eterna
Serge Beynaud - Accelerate
The Danish String Quartet - Last Leaf

Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
Wizkid - Sounds From the Other Side

Frederik B, Friday, 2 February 2018 09:32 (six years ago) link

I really thought my 4-5 had a shot. And I resolve to listen to less boring 00's indie in 2018 :) Everything Now one of the last things cut from the ballot.

Frederik B, Friday, 2 February 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link

Weighted

Richard Dawson - Peasant
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Paramore - After Laughter
The Mountain Goats - Goths
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Destroyer - Ken
King Krule - The OOZ
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Stormzy - Gang Signs And Prayer
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Lorde - Melodrama
Chino Amobi - PARADISO
The Shins - Heartworms
St Vincent - Masseduction
The xx - I See You
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Taylor Swift - Reputation
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1
Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency
Wiley - Godfather
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble

cajunsunday, Friday, 2 February 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link

Mixed ballot. Bold = did not place, italic = sole voter.

Weighted:
Tony Allen - The Source
Four Tet - New Energy
Laurel Halo - Dust
Sparks - Hippopotamus
SW. - The Album
Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
Call Super - Arpo

Bicep - Bicep
Richard Dawson - Peasant
Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
Ricardo Villalobos - Empirical House
Powerdance - The Lost Art Of Getting Down

Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
Baxter Dury - Prince Of Tears

Unweighted:
Tamikrest - Kidal
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Trio da Kali and Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan
Saint Etienne - Home Counties
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
Fabiano do Nascimento - Tempo Dos Mestres
Brian Eno - Reflection
Thundercat - Drunk
Dave - Game Over
Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something

Best discoveries from the 77: Visible Cloaks, Tornado Wallace, Alice Coltrane, The Weather Station.

mike t-diva, Friday, 2 February 2018 09:43 (six years ago) link

cajunsunday, I dub thee Mr ILM

imago, Friday, 2 February 2018 10:05 (six years ago) link

seandalai has the ballots, not me, sorry

gr8080, Friday, 2 February 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link

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.

cajunsunday, Friday, 2 February 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link

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

Simon H., Friday, 2 February 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link

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!

Frederik B, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link

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

geoffreyess, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link

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

ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 February 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link

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

silverfish, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link

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.

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link

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/

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link

Also Anna Wise, toward the bottom. Forgot that.

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link

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

faust apes (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link

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

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link

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

boxedjoy, Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link

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

niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link

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

gman59, Monday, 5 February 2018 05:47 (six years ago) link

Yay, Caracara! High five, gman!

ArchCarrier, Monday, 5 February 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link

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

gman59, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link

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

Siegbran, Thursday, 15 February 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link


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