Acclaimed Music Forums

This is the voting/discussion thread for Best Moderately Acclaimed Album of 2019. The way it works is, you have all of January to listen to as many of the nominations as possible then rank all of the ones you heard from best to worst. Winners will be calculated through a win/loss formula, so leaving an album off a list will neither help nor hurt it. Ballots should be PMed to me, and you have until January 31st to vote.

Here's a list of nominations:
Jirin: Saint Abdullah - Mechanical Flirtations
acroamor: William Tyler - Goes West
Romain: Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
Edre Peraza: Post Malone - Hollywood’s Bleeding
andyd1010: Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
Rdwdbob: Yola - Walk Through Fire
Brad: Craig Finn - I Need A New War
Cold Butterfly: Mixed Matches - Late
bonnielaurel: Rhiannon Giddens - There Is No Other
mileswide: Abronia - The Whole Of Each Eye
Jackson: Anna Meredith - fibs
DaveC: Jabminai - Onda
Schuttelbirne: Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet - Fanm d’Ayiti
Nassim: Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
KingofTonga: The HU - Gereg
madzong: Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
sonofsamiam: Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis
bootsy: Little Brother - May The Lord Watch
TimmyWing: Alex Cameron - Miami Memory
Rob: ORBI - ORBI: The Oscillating Revenge Of Background Instruments
spiritualized: Amyl & The Sniffers - Amyl & The Sniffers
nicolas: Cochemea - All My Relations
rumpdoll: Georgia Ane Muldrow - VWETO II

I am having trouble finding the ORBI album on Spotify, anyone know where I might find it?

Jirin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:31 pm I am having trouble finding the ORBI album on Spotify, anyone know where I might find it?

https://open.spotify.com/album/5eYr0GZ5 ... TZFSsu-b1g should work. Otherwise, I found it by searching 'Oscillating Revenge' and it's the top result. Unless it's not on US Spotify?

Found it now. Weird it didn’t come up searching ORBI.

Jirin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:28 pmyou have until January 31st to vote.

Hey Jirin - Is this a firm end date? Any chance of pushing it back a couple of days? No biggie either way - just wanted to check.

Thanks!

Yeah...i've not had the opportunity to listen to many albums....Not sure 7 will be representative...

I could use a few more days myself. I still have 7 or 8 to listen to and would like to be able to rank all of them so that we get a more representative total result (as spiritualized has alluded to).

Currently only five ballots have been submitted and I’ve been behind in counting them, I’m happy to give extra time.

If you haven’t had a chance to hear them all, remember it’s a win/loss formula and you aren’t hurting albums you didn’t hear.

An extra week would work perfectly for me.

I was about to send my ballott but if there is extra time just tell me because I could listen to a couple more albums

I just send in my list, after listening to every album twice. That took most of my listening last month. I don't actually have a clue which album will be a logical number one, so I'm curious to see the results.

Jirin can you confirm that you received my PM? Not sure if it was sent correctly. Thanks

I will be done tomorrow!

I’ll post a list of received lists later this evening. Sorry I’ve been lazy about updates, I’ve been distracted lately.

I have the following ballots:

Schuttelbirne
rumpdoll
mileswide
bonnielaurel
DaveC
nicolas
bootsy
Rob
Rdwdbob

I thought I finished my listening but looks like I'm missing two of them, will finish that up tomorrow.

I will send a list by Friday (if you can wait that long!)

Deadline is Saturday.

I have received ballots from acroamor, Brad, spiritualized, nicolas and Nassim.

More ballots can be added until I have a chance to tabulate them, should be some time this week.

Current lists:
Schuttelbirne
rumpdoll
mileswide
bonnielaurel
DaveC
nicolas (Yes, received your update)
bootsy
Rob
Rdwdbob
Jirin
acroamor
Brad
spiritualized
Nassim
Kingoftonga

Will tabulate soon.