The Pre-Poll Lobby - Tracks You Want People to Consider for ILM's Top 77 of 2020

ctrl+f "baby powder"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Qh7j1yD8Y

Nice vibe!

yeah, enjoying it too. really good!

Another one I like.

Chuck Prophet — High as Johnny Thunders

at its finest shouldn't need lobbying, amirite?

The Soft Pink Truth - We

can someone link to the nominations thread? didn't realize we'd started alredy

Neither did I

I don’t think we have.

this is a pre-nominations enthusiasm thread

unprecedented but i think we can handle it

Yeah they’re both usually published at the same time but I like this format of having a “hype” thread to promote noms before the actual poll.

I’m gonna rep for this late-breaking track I discovered last night (it’s the 3rd thread I’ve ending up posting it in, not by design)... it’s very cool, and I think ILM would dig it:

Maeta - Teen Scene (feat. Buddy) (produced by Kaytranada)

Lingua Ignota – 'O Ruthless Great Divine Director'

100% vibe; she’s so great, super talented and awesome:

Kaash Paige - London

This jam won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, it’s the kind of pop that earns no cred - but I played it 1,000 times last spring, and still enjoy it:

Josie Dunne - Back to It

Beautiful, weightless, dreamy:

Gwen Bunn - Pressure

Old school, new school, forever school:

Mariah the Scientist - Always n Forever (feat. Lil Baby)

Upsammy - Extra Warm

For your consideration:

Becca Mancari - First Time
Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
Horse Meat Disco ft Kathy Sledge - Falling Deep In Love
LAUREL - Scream Drive Faster
Hayley Williams - Watch Me When I Bloom
Cleo Sol - When I'm in Your Arms
Matt Berninger - Distant Axis
Allie X ft Mitski - Susie Save Your Love

My Kpop selections this year:

Stray Kids - Back Door - I can't get enough of that bassline
Stella Jang - Villain - "We all pretend to be the heroes on the good side" 
EVERGLOW - La-Di-Da - sparkly, widescreen disco awesomeness
GFRIEND - Apple - v dreamy and lush
Crystal Tea - Roman Porno - quirky J-pop/indie via Seoul 

cosign on “La Di Da”, “Apple” and especially “Back Door”, the absolute highlight of my scattershot Kpop year.

A few more I'm keen on:

Sarkodie - Oofeets (might count as very late 2019)
Eddie Chacon - Wicked World
Plone - Miniature Magic
Pye Corner Audio - Resist (John Talabot Remix)
Problem Child - Nasty Up
Saronde - Firewood
Mida the Jagaban - Part With A Jagaban

And also the album Warm nights by Reuben Vaun Smith

“Oofeets” and “Party With A Jagaban” both 🔥🔥🔥

I keep wanting to post here and then having to admit I haven't listened to a single thing itt that I didn't already know (actually I did listen to "Baby Powder" but already don't remember it well). Maybe we should have done a 1-track limit or some kind of relay system where you can only post after you've listened to the prev track...?

Anyway, this should have been a big single:
J Hus f. Koffee -- Repeat

"triumph" was my j hus jam this year, certainly the song that ran through my head the most (whenever i saw the words "respect," "violence," "alliance"_

should be a close parenthesis at the end lol

that one's great too yeah. Big Conspiracy is my big "oh right that did come out in 2020" release

Repeat feels like a while ago now too. Love it

Snoop Dogg's song from the Just Eat advert.

^ban

lol

I don't even know which song to rep but Material Girl - Tangram is one of the best albums of the year and would recommend to listen to Material Girl meets the Devil, Flood, Funeral Parade of Roses, Swoon... pretty much everything. If someone noms a track off of it I'd vote for it.

Ok I'll narrow it down to two:

Material Girl Meets the Devil Pt. 2
Not an album track. RYM classifies it under: Experimental Hip Hop, Post-Punk, Outsider House - it actually earns the combination of genres tags.

Funeral Parade of Roses Way different than the previous one. This ones goes Experimental Jazz Rap + Glitch Hop. It probably works best as an album song than as a single.

Hopefully got the formatting right

Jayda G - Both Of Us

Porij - 150

Glad to see you repping for Material Girl, Moka. I brought it up in the rolling weird music and hip hop albums for people who are clearly doing it wrong threads back in June and never got a reaction, so I figured people just aren't interested in 2020's very own Endtroducing.

Yeah it’s massively underrated considering the quality of it. 2020’s Endtroducing is apt as a comparison.

Considering the amount of obscure sampling and how well it creates its own thing from them.

Hot Dad - Now That's What I Jack Off About

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9PCvgHPeYY

Playlist is fully updated. 200 tracks and 14 hours; reasonably accomplishable full listen if you wanted to have a go at it!

ILM nominations likely to follow in the next week or two.

Cheers forks - have been listening lots the last couple of days and was hoping you'd add some of the newer recs to it. Genuinely appreciated

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very early returns on the vote splitting issue but the most nominated artists are Azana (4), Disclosure (5), HAIM (3), Hayley Williams (3), Jessie Ware (4), Katie Pruitt (3) and SAULT (3)

wait... have nominations opened yet or not? i missed last year's poll because i'm a doofus with no eyes

they have not. I guess everyone enjoyed campaigning so much this year now we're obsessing over vote splitting and turnout for the EOY poll

Fuck it, might as well rep for a Bad Bunny track this year seeing how he’s the biggest 2020 artist worldwide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPK_IdHe1Yg

RIYL: DRAM “Cha cha”, Drake’s “Hotline bling”

thanks for the playlist, forks - loving a lot of these recommendations.

A few more tracks I loved:

Kate NV - Telefon, Plans - she's brilliant, would happily vote for any song off this record
Wire - Unrepentant - best thing they've done in ages?
Jeff Rosenstock - The Beauty of Breathing - kept me alive for a little bit longer
Touché Amoré – Reminders - If you're not even a little bit moved by this video, we can't be friends tbh
Grimes - IDORU - the only song from the record I still listen to regularly
Algiers - Dispossession - the album seems slept on, didn't help that it came out so early in the year, I guess. This track still rules.
Beyonce - Black Parade - are people just tired of her being great all the time? Because this is still great.
FNCY - みんなの夏 - Pitch perfect, joyful summer 90s J-pop/New Jack throwback - the Olympic 2020 stickers seen briefly in the video made me feel a little wistful

Deliberately holding off from posting too much ITT as I'm going to be counting down my own faves Sunday week

https://i.imgur.com/PvJKIWe.jpg