ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

oh good this one sounds like travis

hatchie! one of my favorite eps of the year, was hard to select a single song from it

this song is like if disintegration were happy

Note to songwriters: ripping off Chapterhouse will get you in the ILM top 40 in 2019

everything seems to have the same vibe today

I liked the Kasper Marott track a lot. Simmy is good but I agree with Saer, it sounds a little laser-focused in a commercial sense

the whole Hatchie EP was lovely if very dream-pop-by-the-numbers and she was surprisingly great live

whoa 1992

This really is Chapterhouse's Pearl except the third chord is less good

aw Simon I was just kidding/enthused

'sall good I get it!

this is definitely the chillest 77 to date that I can recall

i guess this can be accused of being too pastichey but i personally love to remember how much i love the sundays while listening to another artist

i don't care if it's too pastichey when it get everything right like this

yep

Both the chillest and the most retro-facing 77 so far. It's like we yearn for simpler times

I went with Sugar & Spice, but happy to have any Hatchie track place. Whole ep was like a mini-Thriller.

you see why we need more Andrew WK tracks in here

nearly everything today has sounded more or less the same

I voted for "You Wouldn't Like Me" instead but I love the Beths album.

Judging by these results, most ILXors are mild-mannered, well-adjusted, reasonably content individuals whose emotional life is a flatline.

yeah even the Doja song is soporific compared to Go To Town or Cookie Jar

is any rap gonna place this year (fucking dr*ke doesn't count)

was gonna ask the same thing. only Drake and Cardi B is p sad

Well, we must be due, right?

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36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp” – 221 points – 7 votes
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finally some rap

dope

good timing!!

also really love this song, fell off my ballot at the last minute

I forgot about this song but it rules

ridin with no co-sign, i get that bread, croissant

was my #7

"vlone" is the one imo but any valee is good

I can never resist this song

xp i hadnt heard "vlone" so thanks for mentioning it, has a great vibe

I should try this magic trick again. is any tropical fuck storm even gonna place this year???

i don't care if it's too pastichey when it get everything right like this

― ufo

This sums how I feel about Hatchie. The whole EP is so effortlessly joyful. Ended up voting for Sure and I'm delighted to see it place. Really hope she can maintain this level of quality over an album when it comes (hopefully soon!)

if someone w/ music theory chops beyond grade 1 cld pin down what is going on with the beat/flow interplay I wld be v curious because I am a slave to it

xxp if you do the trick twice, people figure out how it works

womp womp sounds like Neptunes to me... but good Neptunes!

tfs too votesplit

lol I know, I didn't even vote for any TFS tracks

these are just slow-motion triplets right, ogmor?

xps judging by hatchie's twitter she's almost done with her album so it's probably not too far away

would be very surprised if TFS don't at least do decently in the albums poll

Yay for double Simmy! Two tracks from my #1 album! I voted for “Umahlalela”, hoping to push it even higher here after the TSJ boost (it was their highest-scoring song of the year). Although I love “Ubala” as well, it doesn’t do nearly as much for me.

Womp Womp is good.

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35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko” – 223 points – 8 votes
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Let's Eat Grandma

I never thought I'd actually like a track called "Donnie Darko" but here we are. – Ned Raggett

oh hell yeah

let's eat gyllenhaal

hellll yeah

Didn't vote for this but it's really good imo. The album wasn't consistent but the two long songs at the end were killer. I might even have voted for Cool & Collected if someone had nominated it. This is great too though

let's eat gyllenhaal

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