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Jirin

4. Frou Frou - Off Cuts https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/300x0/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2Fdddd718f9b7ed7422a210f62cb8310b8.1000x1000x1.png Nominator: phil Record: 19-2-2 Ballots: 12 Fans: phil (1) , Rob (4), FrankLotion (4), mileswide (5) 3. MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs https://media.pitchfork.com/p...

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I’ve never put a lot of stock in RYM because voters for any given album are inherently not representative samples of the voting base. Most people only bother to rate their favorites and least favorites. And there’s no way to prevent “Compensation votes”, people rating things lower to increase their ...

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8. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum Nominator: granit Record: 16-4-3 Ballots: 12 Fans: Rob (2), Rdwdbob (3), rumpdoll (4), Brad (5) 7. Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch Nominator: Holden Record: 16-5-2 Ballots: 13 Fans: Rob (1) , Rdwdbob (2), Jirin (3), bonnielaurel (5), BleuPanda (...

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11. Anteloper - Pink Dolphins Nominator: Rob Record: 13-10-0 Ballots: 13 Fans: mileswide (4), DaveC (4), Rob (5) 10. Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores Nominator: Bang Jan Record: 15-8-0 Ballots: 14 Fans: phil (2), DaveC (2), bonielaurel (3), Gillingham (3) 9. Perfume Genius - Ugly Season Nomi...

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14. Ghais Guevara - There Will Be No Super-Slave Nominator: Jackson Record: 9-12-2 Ballots: 12 Fans: BleuPanda (4) 13. Joe Rainey - Niineta Nominator: Nassim Record: 8-12-3 Ballots: 13 Fans: mileswide (2), Nassim (2), Rob (3), ProjectTermina (4) 12. Hikaru Utada - Bad Mode Nominator: BleuPanda Recor...

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For those unfamiliar, this is a game about the albums released in the last year that were not as critically praised as others. Every person gets to nominate one album, then everybody listens to as many nominees as they can and ranks the albums they got to listen to from favorite to least favorite. T...

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Spotify gave me a notification of an LCD Soundsystem show going on presale, and sold it through AXS, not Ticketmaster. I approve of this trend. I wish it would do that for the less famous bands I listen to a lot.

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I transferred them all to a spreadsheet, before I do the calculation, here's a list of ballots:

Jirin
bonnielaurel
mileswide
DaveC
BleuPanda
rumpdoll
phil
FrankLotion
Rdwdbob
Gillingham
Brad
Nassim
Rob
ProjectTermina

Let me know if I missed anyone.

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Sorry about the delay, I've been busy, will try to tabulate the results tomorrow.

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1. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown 2. The National - High Violet 3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 4. The White Stripes - Under The Great White Northern Lights 5. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid 6. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 8. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 9. Big Boi ...

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The new Fucked Up is probably my new favorite of the year so far. But haven't gone deep enough into the year for that to mean much yet.

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Today's the official deadline but it may take me a couple days to have a chance to compile the results, so I'll accept ballots up until I sit down to do that.

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The first two albums I've added to my system this year:
Margo Price - Strays
The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery

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So far I have six ballots, from:
bonnielaurel
mileswide
DaveC
BleuPanda
rumpdoll
Me

Five more days to submit ballots, let me know if anyone needs an extension.

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Album list: 1. Rokia Kone & Jacknife Lee - Bamanan 2. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 3. Anais Mitchell - Anais Mitchell 4. Somi - Zenzille: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba 5. Mistki - Laurel Hell 6. Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse 7. Black Country, New Road - Ants From ...

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Thanks Nassim and Brad for catching mistakes! They've been fixed.

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Edit: Corrected a few spelling mistakes and the total count. This year we have 24 nominations, I did add the two added at the last minute. The way this works is you will have all of January to listen to as many of them as you can, and then rank the ones you have heard from favorite to least favorite...

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Last call for nominations! Will start the voting topic tomorrow. Current list: Jirin: Somi - Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Markeba Edre Peraza: Perfume Genius - Ugly Season Brad: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects Bang Jan: Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores Le Jeune Rylan: Wild Pink - ILYSM ...

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I will officially change mine to Somi - Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba then.

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To be fair, if ten years ago Kanye West told me he had a deep admiration for Hitler, and I went around posting about it online, I would not have been believed. Some random Rolling Stone writer would not have been believed either unless he had it on tape. And otherwise he would have been risking a de...

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Has anyone started listening yet? I'm thinking of changing my nomination. Here's a list of nominations so far, let me know if I missed any: Jirin: Rich Ruth - I Survived, It’s Over Edre Peraza: Perfume Genius - Ugly Season Brad: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects Bang Jan: Natalia Lafourcade - De todas la...

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New Little Simz album is good but nowhere near the level of Grey Area and Introvert.

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Thought I should mention Anna Mieke - Theatre. Very good album that’s going to miss out on critical attention because it came out late November.

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Yes, as long as it's not in the Megacritic top 50 and not looking like it will be in the top 50 aggregate list. Obviously even the oddball albums could easily have one or two mentions in major publications.

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Sweepstakes Ron wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:42 pm I'm surprised that not one of these right-wing show hosts interviewing Ye have asked him if he likes fishsticks.

Only because it's already so well established how much he likes putting them in his mouth.

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Diagnosing Kanye West with mental health problems sounds like letting him off the hook, to some extent. I know a lot of people with mental health problems who have never supported Nazis, or embraced political philosophies that encourage hate and murder. He's responsible or his own choices. He may be...

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It's December again, that means time for another edition of Best Moderately Acclaimed Album of the Year. The way this works is, everybody has all of December to nominate one album. Then throughout January, everyone will listen to as many of the nominations as they are able to, then rank all the albu...

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I always knew he was an unstable narcissist but I had no idea how bad he really was.

But yeah, I still listen to Layla on my CD, so Eric Clapton can't profit from it. No reason people who like Kanye's music can't do the same.

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I’ll start the nomination phase for BMAA2022 when I get home tonight.

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Beyonce will probably be #1 just because she’s the only one agreed on by both pop and alternative sources.

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I wonder how the average results of this forum would compare to the average results of the general population. You'd expect more EVUs here than anywhere else.

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In this year’s Wrapped, Spotify assigns you a listening personality type which works like Myers-Briggs. The four axes it uses: Familiarity vs Exploration Loyalty vs Variety Timelessness vs Newness Commonality vs Uniqueness It gave me ENVU, “The Adventurer”, basically meaning I’m always looking for s...

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I'm curious by what metric Drake passed the Beatles. If it's pure revenue, was it adjusted for inflation? Or is it by some hidden score Billboard uses that takes all data into account? The main metric in which Drake has passed The Beatles is number of chart singles (including top 10s). So it's kind...

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I'm curious by what metric Drake passed the Beatles. If it's pure revenue, was it adjusted for inflation? Or is it by some hidden score Billboard uses that takes all data into account?

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Grimes is another one making things difficult. It’s one thing to think the Earth is flat. It’s another to be literally married to the man trying to get humanity to Mars and still think it. Just a quick note that Grimes isn't with He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named anymore and hasn't been for quite some tim...

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Painful FTW, 87-81.

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we can distinguish personal lives/characters with the art , for example see kanye... I used to think Kanye was the harmless artistic kind of narcissist like John Lennon. Then again maybe if John Lennon had lived into our current political environment he’d be giving us some even harder choices now. ...

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The new Dry Cleaning album is good but also has the distinction of being the first album cover since Malibu Ken that’s too disgusting to want to look at.

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He's turned into such an awful person, for me to be at all interested his output would have to be Smiths level.

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One less mentioned album rapidly rising up my list is Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - When The Lights Go.

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Only 7 of the Odetta songs seem to be on Spotify in my region. Is there some kind of YouTube option?

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Painful 87 - The Private Press 86
Ship Ahoy 84 - Magnolia Electric Co 75
Journey In Satchidananda 81 - Uchu Nippon Setagaya 65

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Mr Morale is a good album, just not up to his previous standards.

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Miss Perfumado 96 - Private Press 86
Ship Ahoy 84 - Alive 2007 65
Journey In Satchidananda 81 - Occult Architecture Vol 1 78

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Went to see Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction and the opening act was Poppy. So bonus!

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Painful 87 - Saturdays = Youth 82
Soundtracks For The Blind 81 - Magnolia Electric Co 75
Yo Vengo Aqui 85 - Uchu Nippon Setagaya 65

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My three quarter through the year top 20: 1. Somi - Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba 2. Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph 3. Kathryn Joseph - For Those Who Are Wronged 4. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up Here 5. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia 6. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris 7. Cate Le ...

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And I vote Moon Duo.

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Miss Perfumado 96 - Vol 4 84
Ship Ahoy 84 - Drums and Guns 75
The Italian Flag 87 - Akuma No Uta 80

Still need to hear The Mollusk.

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Saturdays = Youth 82 - Days Of Wine And Roses 76
Magnolia Electric Co 75 - Happy Songs For Happy People 65
Tie at 82 (Will only vote if tiebreak)
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