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

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).

agreed, that's a great record

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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