2016 Album of the Year poll

  On 1/2/2017 at 11:15 PM, span said:

gotta say allowing only 1 vote per person when there's already a clear winner from the getgo isn't the best of ideas

it would go to elseq anyway. if multiple votes had been allowed, it would've simply been a reflection of the nominations, and elseq was cited like 20+ times. (AMSP and Banny Drown were next.) I figured it'd be more interesting to have people decide on one individually and see if elseq was really what they wanted to go for.

no fuckin doubt i pick autechre that shit was explosmose

Would be cool if there were different polls tbh. Album of the year is cool, but it would be nice to have newcomer of the year, metal album of the year, etc. And also in General have like best TV show of the year, Best movie (by genres), best TV villain, etc. 

EDIT: Not the greatest example but something akin to this: http://www.philaflava.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=32&sid=b57059a7af68659758a35b32e1f27570

Wish it could be vote for as many as you like. How do I chose between Mark Pritchard and EOD. F.

best new year song - banana brains die antwoord

I do not get this new Orb COW record tho. Seems really average for this dub ambient thing. Just don't find it interesting at all save for track 9.

  On 1/3/2017 at 1:06 AM, Hail Sagan said:

Would be cool if there were different polls tbh. Album of the year is cool, but it would be nice to have newcomer of the year, metal album of the year, etc. And also in General have like best TV show of the year, Best movie (by genres), best TV villain, etc. 

 

EDIT: Not the greatest example but something akin to this: http://www.philaflava.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=32&sid=b57059a7af68659758a35b32e1f27570

agreed, so hard to rank things that are so vastly different. best soundscape, best shredding guitar riff, best mindmelting beats... it's much easier to rank specifics than on a broad spectrum.

best reviewer - the needle drop

worst reviewer - the needle drop

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Glad to see Danny Brown get some love, Atrocity Exhibition is a masterpiece. He blew me away live in Dublin too.

My vote goes to Mark Pritchard, although if it were an option, The Avalanches prob would have been my top choice.

The Fall of Troy - OK is probably #1 of the year for me but obviously that'd never get any votes on a WATMM poll.

Plaid gets my vote from the poll.

  On 1/2/2017 at 8:00 PM, Hail Sagan said:

Maybe it's just you I heard it from, but i've definitely heard this sentiment echoed elsewhere before. I don't really get it. As far as I can tell it's an album, the only thing that kind of "complicates" it is that it's broken up into 5 different parts and the track lengths often exceed 10 or even 20 minutes at times. But there's no abundantly clear stylistic departure from one part to the next. It's an album. It's a long ass album, but it's just an album.

I guess I'm just caught up on the idea of an album in the traditional sense. 4.5 hours pushes it a bit for me. Plus Ae themselves don't call it an album - doesn't follow their naming format, didn't have a physical release, etc. Plus I do think it stands for 'edited live sequences', which if we're counting those then I think AE_LIVE should count too. Or was that 2015? At any rate, I dunno. Just complicated to classify I supppose. Still fucking great though.

  On 1/3/2017 at 12:37 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 1/2/2017 at 11:15 PM, span said:

gotta say allowing only 1 vote per person when there's already a clear winner from the getgo isn't the best of ideas

 

it would go to elseq anyway.

AOTY on WATMM is essentially "best featured artist release of the year" with few exceptions, the interesting picks are the top runner ups.

Tough pick for me this year, a lot of excellent releases. Just getting down to a couple dozen favorites was difficult.

Was hoping SHXCXCHCXSH would make it into the poll. Oh well, pretty much impossible to pick just one anyway...

  On 1/3/2017 at 3:36 PM, kloffy said:

Was hoping SHXCXCHCXSH would make it into the poll. Oh well, pretty much impossible to pick just one anyway...

  On 1/3/2017 at 5:08 PM, dr lopez said:

that album was pretty boring I thought

Either way, plenty of good stuff to choose from, to each his own.

gz autechre for the most coveted title of WATMM AOTY

  On 1/3/2017 at 5:19 PM, kloffy said:

 

  On 1/3/2017 at 5:08 PM, dr lopez said:

that album was pretty boring I thought

From the nominations thread, I'd say at least two other members would disagree with that assessment...

 

Either way, plenty of good stuff to choose from, to each his own.

Great album

If Mr Oizo - All Wet was up here I would have considered that instead of AE. But that AE was just my favorite thing to listen to over and over.

I voted for ATCQ, way to go out on top dudes.

Elseq isn't so much an album as a mindphuk, love it anyway.

angel olsen in the watmm poll.

what the fuck? Whitney I could have understood, but angel olsen?

next we will see frankie cosmos, julien baker?

Why is all the good ambient/downtempo album this year missing in the poll?

As Autechre are obvs going to get most votes by a million miles. 2nd place is the real winner. 

Autechre gonna win by all the fanboy votes

  On 1/4/2017 at 8:47 PM, mokz said:

Autechre gonna win by all the fanboy votes

 

 

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