ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I don't

Massive airplay for this track in South Florida, thanks to its Latin roots. I find "I Like It Like That" rather obnoxious myself.

does make me wanna get a freakin' Whopper

oh wow that's surprisingly low

it's fine but only being exposed to "i like it like that" through its constant presence in commercials etc. doesn't make it easy to like

this song is like a YouTube advert and if you're lucky you get to click away after 5 seconds rather than the full 30. actually I think that's where I've heard it before

Voted for the album, this is probably my fifth favourite track off it.

that's about right

lol I have officially no clue what's likely for the top 10, not that I voted for this not-bad song

I'll take this one as a really bad joke if you guys haven't also voted for something off Vibras, like Mi Gente.

And "Reggaeton" obviously.

http://i.imgur.com/tin0ksz.jpg

59: Prince Kaybee featuring Busiswa and TNS - “Banomoya” – 184 points – 5 votes
video

rolling afropop / afrobeats 2018

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26599

Store light bass leaps up and starts riding the pinpoint, juggling drums as washing froth synths drift in and over Busiswah’s authoritatively, aggressive voice, which sharply roots the song, allowing it to expand into the ozone layer as she pulls the tendrils into the soil. TNS comes in and clumsily tumbles around while Busiswah keeps putting back down roots he has already knocked out. As the block percussion sinks in, Prince Kaybee pumps more and more air as Busiswah places the last root. – Nortey Dowuona

They had me from the opening bass line. The spareness underscores the impact of those splashes of keyboard color. The sonic approach I’ve wanted from Blood Orange. – Alfred Soto

oh i didn't expect this to place at all, a total banger that i voted for

sounds like something from quiet riot: the musical

Trying to imagine the universe in which this is a bad thing.

tune

there was a thread about this track vs boo'd up vs sth else

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:48 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"otw," the best of the three, i expect it to do well here

i liked other Busiswa-related tracks more this year but this still owns so glad to see it show up

I think this is the first thing I've not heard of previously!

the beat on this is so good

anyone who likes this should really listen to Busiswa's album "Highly Flavoured" which is fantastic gqom the whole way through

hell yeah I've always been on the lookout for more stuff like that

Spectacular banger, one of the biggest hits of the year in South Africa. Kaybee’s previous hit from earlier in the year, “Club Controller” (which probably won’t place) is fantastic as well.

(and co-sign on the Busiswa album. Make sure to check out Highly Flavoured though, follow-up Summer Life, which she released in November, is not nearly as good, unfortunately)

http://i.imgur.com/3S7RVFm.jpg

58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break” – 184 points – 6 votes
video

rolling pop 2018

i love this track but very reluctantly due to the dr luke production & co-write and didn't vote for it bc of that

great track, kinda got annoyed of it in the end as it opened my 2018 tracks list

this sounds utterly boilerplate to me but as I went to the trouble of finding it I'd better listen to it all

Surprised this one placed at all, let alone this high.

nobody from the singles jukebox could be contacted for comment

yea it kinda sounds like everything else on the radio to me

like it's really great to see a trans woman making great pop like this but it's very bleak that she's dr. luke's protege

i like the splattery drum sound, but everything else is meh

nice to see Banomoya, which I like a lot but didn't listen to enough during the year to vote for it. only 5 votes...maybe we'll get some more afropop today?

I'm certainly waiting on this year's Akrakabo

if this year has an Akrakabo i haven't heard it yet so hopefully i'll be surprised

well I voted for Awkwaaba, but it's not as wild as Akrakabo xp

Akwaaba rather

Hadn't heard/heard of this one either. Nice song, very unfortunate about the Dr. Luke connection.

http://i.imgur.com/LATwyAZ.jpg

57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush” – 184 points – 7 votes
video

Jon Hopkins

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25283

To experience Jon Hopkins’s music is to experience an agitated suspension, as if you’re floating midair while explosions happen around you. This isn’t just a synopsis of “Emerald Rush” and its gorgeous video, it’s a common effect in his work. Apart from an insistent 4×4 kick, everything is constructed to untether you: harmonies move at a glacial, irregular pace, the sense of clear barline dissolves, percussion drifts in and out of time — the aural equivalent of a giant wading through thick mud — and it all comes together on “Emerald Rush.” - Will Adams

Dance music made from what sounds like YouTube buffering: a nice novelty. – Katherine St Asaph

As someone who loves lightweight pop music, I don't care for the Kim Petras single, she has a great backstory of course, but the Dr Luke connection counts against that, cannot see why it would be one of the best 77 tracks of 2018, let alone the best 25.

lol glad I read that last comment b/c my first thought was "is it supposed to sound like that?"

cool track

i love the kim petras song. the dr. luke association does suck. glad everyone here is better than it

like it, always have time for Hopkins. The video is cool too.

full-length version of emerald rush is much much much better

yea I'm real intrigued by this

at this point i just assume any music i like is connected to some piece of shit, whatever

i quite like this. reckon it could do with even more arrhythmia (without going full autechre) but it's a nice effect

oh there's a longer version? that's cool

I enjoy Jon Hopkins' work in general but never really seek it out. I'm reminded of some pieces on the difference between "writing" and "writering" in journalism where the latter is more interested in the aesthetic qualities and checking the right "how to be a writer" boxes than crafting compelling work. I feel that Hopkins kind of treads that line, where the music is well-constructed and has interesting qualities but overall it falls a little flat.

full-length version of emerald rush is much much much better

― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 10:46 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have to stop using youtube to listen to these, was just about to post something about this just kind ending

Love this, voted for it, did not know that there was a short video version.