CLOSED: 2016 BEAMAs NOMINATIONS ballot (horrific desires)

[baystateoftheart]

[cestuneblague]

Why not


And thanks for the flurry of votes recently, hope to get the tally up by this next week.

[Jimmy Dread]

As I have no idea about modern music (you only have to look at my 2016 chart to realise) the only category I can really vote on with any confidence is the BEA Lifetime Achievement one, for which I would like to put forward:

Norman Bates
Alelsupreme
Cellardoor
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'Reggae' & t'ing
Folk 'n Stuff
SHAMELESS RECORD DEALER PLUG

[zags7000]

Album of the Year (10-50)

1. Sturgil Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
2. Esperenza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
5. Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Things
6. Kate Tempest - Let Them East Chaos
7. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
8. Common - Black America Again
9. Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
10. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
11. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
12. Solange - A Seat At The Table
13. Frank Ocean - Blond
14. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
15. Anderson Paak - Malibu
16. Maren Morris - Hero
17. Beyonce - Lemonade
18. Alicia Keys - Here
19. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
20. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
21. Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
22. Bat For Lashes - The Bride
23. Teagan and Sara - Love You To Death
24. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
25. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
26. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
27. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
28. Opeth - Sorceress
29. Case/Lang/Veirs - Case/Lang/Veirs
30. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
31. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
32. Loretta Lynn - Full Circle
33. Rihanna - Anti
34. Aubrie Sellers - New City Blues
35. Marissa Nadler - Strangers
36. Drive By Truckers - American Band
37. Lacuna Coil - Delerium
38. Lady Gaga - Joanne
39. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
40. Anohni - Hopelessness
41. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
42. Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome
43. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
44. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
45. Norah Jones - Day Breaks
46. Shura - Nothing's Real
47. Swans - The Glowing Man
48. Bonnie Raitt - Dig In Deep
49. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
50. Martina McBride - Reckless

Song of the Year (5-50)

1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Sturgill Simpson - In Bloom
3. Solange - Cranes In The Sky
4. Esperanza Spalding - Evony and Ivy
5. Danny Brown - Really Doe
6. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
7. Nick Cave - Girl In Amber
8. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
9. Ray LaMontagne - Homecoming
10. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People...
11. Kate Tempest - Tunnel Vision
12. Chance The Rapper - Blessings
13. Esperanza Spalding - Good Lava
14. Sturgill Simpson - Breaker's Roar
15. Margo Price - Tennessee Song
16. Solange - Don't Touch My Hair
17. Leonard Cohen - Steer Your Way
18. Radiohead - Burn The Witch
19. Maxwell - Lake By the Ocean
20. Maren Morris - 80's Mercedes
21. Aubrie Sellers - Humming Song
22. Sturgill Simpson - Oh Sarah
23. Frank Ocean - Nikes
24. Common - The Day Women Took Over
25. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
26. Michael Kiwunuka - Love & Hate
27. Kate Tempest - Pictures On A Screen
28. Miranda Lambert - We Should Be Friends
29. Brandy Clark - Love Can Go To Hell
30. PJ Harvey - The Wheel
31. Maren Morris - My Church
32. Margo Price - Hurtin' (On The Bottle)
33. Lorette Lynn - Wine Into Water
34. Case/Lang/Veirs - Honey and Smoke
35. Mitski - Thursday Girl
36. Marissa Nadler - Skyscraper
37. Beyonce - Sandcastles
38. Kevin Gates - 2 Phones
39. Rihanna - Needed Me
40. Shura - Touch
41. Kandace Springs - Novocaine Heart
42. The Weeknd - False Alarm
43. Lady Gaga - Million Reasons
44. Drake - One Dance
45. Common - Little Chicago Boy
46. De La Soul - Memory Of
47. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beetles
48. Alicia Keys - Kill Your Mama
49. Keith Urban - Blue Ain't Your Clolor
50. YG - Who Shot Me?

Album Art of the Year (2-10)

1. Corinne Bailey Rae - The Heart Speaks In Whispers
2. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
3. DJ Khaled - Major Key
4. Maren Morris - Hero
5. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
6. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
7. Solange - A Seat At The Table
8. Rihanna - Anti
9. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
10. Bas - Too High To Riot

Best EP (2-10)

1. Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
2. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
3. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion: Side B
4. Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom


Best-Worst of the Year

Worst Album of the Year (2-5)

1. Charlie Puth - Nine Track Mind
2. Bloc Party - Hymns
3. Katy B - Honey
4. Jake Bugg - One By One
5. Blake Shelton - If I'm Honest

Worst Song of the Year (2-5)

1. DNCE - Cake By The Ocean
2. Fitz & The Tantrums - Handclap
3. Florida Georgia Line - H.O.L.Y.
4. Charlie Puth - One Call Away
5. Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know

Biggest Letdown (2-5)

1. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
2. Weezer - Weezer
3. Deftones - Gore
4. Blink 182 - California
5. Pj Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

Most Overrated (2-5)

1. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
2. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
3. Weezer - Weezer
4. Animal Collective - Painting With
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway

Best Surprise (2-5)

1. Solange - A Seat At The Table
2. Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome
3. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
4. Mitski - Puberty 2
5. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman

Most Underrated (2-5)

1. Aubrie Sellers - New City Blues
2. Kandace Springs - Soul Eyes
3. DD Dumbo - Utopia Defeated
4. Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
5. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate

Best Album Title (2-5)

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Rob Zombie - The Electric Warlock with Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
3. Corinne Bailey Rae - The Heart Speaks In Whispers
4. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
5. Solange - A Seat At The Table

Worst Album Title (2-5)

1. Gwen Stefani - This Is What The Truth Feels Like
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
3. John Legend - Darkness And Light
4. Keith Urban - Ripcord
5. The Weeknd - Starboy

* Genres/Individual Cat. Albums of the Year *

RnB Album (2-5)

1. Solange - A Seat At The Table
2. Anderson Paak - Malibu
3. Beyonce - Lemonade
4. Alicia Keys - Here
5. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night

Blues/Jazz (2-5)

1. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
2. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
3. Bonnie Raitt - Dig In Deep
4. Norah Jones - Day Breaks
5. Melania De Biasio - Blackened Cities

Country (2-5)

1. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
2. Miranda Lambert - The Weight Of These Wings
3. Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
4. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
5. Maren Morris - Hero

Avant-Garde/Experimental/Abstract Qualities (2-5)

1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
3. Anohni - Hopelessness
4. Swans - The Glowing Man
5. Arca - Entranas

Indie/Alternative/(Post) Punk Rock (2-5)

1. Bat For Lashes - The Bride
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
4. Angel Olsen - My Woman
5. Deakin - Sleep Cycle

Metal (2-5)

1. Opeth - Sorceress
2. Lacuna Coil - Delirium
3. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
4. Gojira - Magma
5. Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct

Electronic/Ambient/House (2-5)

1. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
2. The Avalanches - Wildflower
3. Lindsey Stirling - Brave Enough
4. Clark - The Last Panthers
5. Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future

Pop (2-5)

1. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
2. Tegan & Sara - Love You To Death
3. Rihanna - Anti
4. Lady Gaga- Joanne
5. Ingrid Michaelson - It Doesn't Have To Make Sense

Hip-Hop (2-5)

1. Common - Black America Again
2. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
3. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank you 4 Your Service
4. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
5. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered

Rock- Hard or Gently (2-5)

1. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
2. Drive By Truckers - American Band
3. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
4. Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome
5. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

Male Solo (2-5)

1. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
4. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
5. Frank Ocean - Blond

Female Solo (2-5)

1. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
2. Miranda Lambert - The Weight Of These Wings
3. Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
4. Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
5. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter

Best Debut Album (2-5)

1. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
2. Maren Morris - Hero
3. Aubrie Sellers - New City Blues
4. Shura - Nothing's Real
5. DD Dumbo - Utopia Defeated

Just for Fun Categories

Sexiest Album (Any)
Tinashe - Nightride

Darkest Album (Any)
Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree

SWAG-iest Album (Any)
YG - Still Brazy

[revolver94]

Album of the Year (10-50)


1. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
2. Hinds - Leave Me Alone
3. Mitski - Puberty 2
4. Drake - Views
5. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
6. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
7. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things, Vol. 1
8. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
9. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
10. Anohni - Hopelessness
11. The Weeknd - Starboy
12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
13. Chairlift - Moth
14. Various Artists - La La Land
15. Beyonce - Lemonade
16. Marie Davidson - Adieux au Dancefloor
17. Joey Purp - iiiDrops
18. Deakin - Sleep Cycle
19. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
20 YG - Still Brazy
21. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
22. Angel Olsen - My Woman
23. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
24. Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
25. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
26. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
27. Brian Eno - The Ship
28. Weezer - Weezer
29. dvsn - Sept. 5
30. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
31. Tove Lo - Lady Wood
32. Young Thug - Jeffery
33. Matmos - Ultimate Care II
34. Future - Evol
35. Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like
36. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
37. Zayn - Mind of Mine
38. Animal Collective - Painting With
39. Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
40. Julianna Barwick - Will

Song of the Year (5-50)


1. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
2. Drake - Feel No Ways
3. Hinds - Easy
4. Rostam - Gravity Don't Pull Me
5. CuckooLander - Beating Myself Up
6. Kanye West - Highlights
7. Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
8. Hailee Steinfeld & Grey - Starving
9. Dirty Projectors - Keep Your Name
10. Bon Iver - Circle
11. Calvin Harris - This Is What You Came For
12. Anohni - Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth?
13. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
14. Fifth Harmony - Work From Home
15. Ariana Grande - Be Alright
16. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Kids
17. Banks - Gemini Feed
18. Chairlift - Polymorphing
19. Beyonce - 6 Inch
20 The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming
21. Deakin - Golden Chords
22. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
23. The Chainsmokers - Closer
24. Joey Purp - Photobooth
25. Jessy Lanza - It Means I Love You
26. Future - Low Life
27. Sia - Cheap Thrills
28. Radiohead - Burn the Witch
29. The Strokes - Drag Queen
30. Charlie Puth - We Don't Talk Anymore
31. Zayn - Pillowtalk
32. The Lonely Island - The Finest Girl
33. M83 - Go!
34. Rihanna - Needed Me
35. Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello - Bad Things


Album Art of the Year (2-10)

1. Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like
2. Joey Purp - iiiDrops

Music Video of the Year (2-5)

1. Zayn - Pillowtalk
2. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
3. Hailee Steinfeld & Grey - Starving
4. Banks - Gemini Feed
5. Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello - Bad Things

BEAMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (1-3) (Nominate a user who has been here for at least five years (joined date can be seen on members list on the forums folder) (Jan-2012 cutoff joined date) and who you think has made BEA totally cool)

1. me
2. me
3. me

Best-Worst of the Year

Most Overrated (2-5)

1. Rihanna - Anti
2. Solange - A Seat at the Table
3. Anderson .Paak - Malibu

Most Underrated (2-5)

1. Hinds - Leave Me Alone
2. Drake - Views
3. The Weeknd - Starboy
4. Marie Davidson - Adieux au Dancefloor
5. Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini

Best Album Title (2-5)

1. Mitski - Puberty 2
2. Marie Davidson - Adeiux au Dancefloor
3. Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
4. Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like
5. The Weeknd - Starboy

* Genres/Individual Cat. Albums of the Year *

Pop (2-5)

1. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
2. The Weeknd - Starboy
3. Beyoncé - Lemonade
4. Tove Lo - Lady Wood
5. Zayn - Mind of Mine


Male Solo (2-5)

1. Drake - Views
2. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
3. The Weeknd - Starboy
4. Joey Purp - iiiDrops
5. Deakin - Sleep Cycle

Female Solo (2-5)

1. Puberty 2 - Mitski
2. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
3. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
4. Anohni - Hopelessness
5. Marie Davidson - Adieux au Dancefloor


Best Debut Album (2-5)

1. Hinds - Leave Me Alone
2. Joey Purp - iiiDrops
3. Deakin - Sleep Cycle
4. Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
5. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake

Just for Fun Categories

Sexiest Album (Any)

Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman

Darkest Album (Any)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

Happiest Album (Any)

Hinds - Leave Me Alone

SWAG-iest Album (Any)

Drake - Views

And to make up for 2015:

2015 Album of the Year (2-10)

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
3. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
4. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
5. Bjork - Vulnicura
6. Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
7. Miguel - Wildheart
8. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
9. Joanna Newsom - Divers
10. Arca - Mutant


2015 Song of the Year (2-10)

1. Torres - Cowboy Guilt
2. Julia Holter - Betsy on the Roof
3. Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan
4. Susanne Sundfor - Slowly
5. Sufjan Stevens - No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
6. Beach House - Beyond Love
7. Chairlift - Ch-Ching
8. Grimes - Realiti
9. Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds
10. Kacey Musgraves - Dime Store Cowgirl
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[mickilennial]

I'll have mine up in the 'morrow.

[mickilennial]

Album of the Year
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson
Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval
Jewels of Crime by Atlanter
Remember Us to Life by Regina Spektor
Varahtelija by Ornassi Pazuzu
A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
Sweven by Brooke Waggoner
Case / Lang / Veirs by Case / Lang / Veirs
Triangle by Schammasch
My Woman by Angel Olsen
Mahoroboshiya by Ichiko Aoba
Color by Katie Gately
The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left by Future of the Left
Here by Alicia Keys
ATGCLVLSSCAP by Ulver
Will by Julianna Barwick
Blackstar by David Bowie
Asphalt for Eden by Dalek
Only the Youngest Grave by Lost Salt Blood Purges
You Know What It’s Like by Carla dal Forno
Akroasis by Obscura
The Magic by Deerhoof
Black America Again by Common
Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown
One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache by The Body & Full of Hell
Is the Is Are by DIIV
The Fire Within by Eternity’s End
Emily’s D+Evolution by Esperanza Spalding
Before a Million Universe by Big Ups
Good Luck and Do Your Best by Gold Panda
Salve Discordia by Triangulo de Amor Bizarro
Oh No by Jessy Lanza
Treasure House by Cat’s Eyes
Stranger Things Have Happened by Clare Maguire
Tokyo Black Hole by Seiko Oomori
Jumalten Aika by Moonsorrow
Dissociation by The Dillinger Escape Plan
Douve by Ehnahre
99.9% by Kaytranada
Chasms by Lycus
Midwest Farmer’s Daughter by Margo Price
Lines by Waclaw Zimpel
Ha, Ha, He by Mourn
Velvet Portraits by Terrace Martin
You Know Who You Are by Nada Surf
Under Summer by Yndi Halda
No Burden by Lucy Dacus
You’re Doomed. Be Nice by Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place
You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To by Richmond Fontaine
Good Advice by Basia Bulat

Album Art of the Year
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson
Under Summer by Yndi Halda
Wisdom of Elders by Shabaka and the Ancestors
Before a Million Universes by Big Ups
Rojus (Designed to Dance) by Leon Vynehall
Chasms by Lycus
Color by Katie Gately
Église by Église
Centres by Ian William Craig
Kurushimi by Kurushimi

BEAMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Joyofdivision
Norman Bates
Skinny / Lethalnezzle

Worst Album of the Year
SremmLife 2 by Rae Sremmurd
Voices of Fire by Van Canto
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon by Jesu & Sun Kil Moon
22, a Million by Bon Iver
The Astonishing by Dream Theater

Biggest Letdown
Head Carrier by Pixies
The Mountain Will Fall by DJ Shadow
Painting With by Animal Collective
The Life of Pablo by Kanye West
The Catastrophist by Tortoise

Best Surprise
Color by Katie Gately
Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown
Emily’s D+Evolution by Esperanza Spalding
Bonito Generation by Kero Kero Bonito
Here by Alicia Keys

Most Overrated
Blonde by Frank Ocean
The Life of Pablo by Kanye West
The Dreaming Room by Laura Mvula
Long Way Home by Lapsley
Hopelessness by Anohni

Most Underrated
Mahoroboshiya by Ichiko Aoba
Color by Katie Gately
Plastic House on Base of Sky by Kayo Dot
Reflections in Real Time by Kilo Kish
Jewels of Crime by Atlanter

R&B
Here by Alicia Keys
Emily’s D+Evolution by Esperanza Spalding
Love & Hate by Michael Kiwanuka
Reflections in Real Time by Kilo Kish
Changes by Charles Bradley

Blues & Jazz
Spark by Hiromi Uehara / The Trio Project
Wisdom of Elders by Shabaka and the Ancestors
We Be All Africans by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Anna Hogberg Attack by Anna Hogberg Attack
Evolution by Dr. Lonnie Smith

Country
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson
Case / Lang / Veirs by Case / Lang / Veirs
You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To by Richmond Fontaine
Midwest Farmer’s Daughter by Margo Price
Real by Lydia Loveless

Experimental
One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache by The Body & Full of Hell
Only the Youngest Grave by Lost Salt Blood Purges
Angel Noise by MikaTen
Douve by Ehnahre
Earnest Rubbish by Matthew Revert / Vanessa Rossetto

Indie & Alternative
A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left by Future of the Left
The Magic by Deerhoof
Is the Is Are by DIIV
Before a Million Universes by Big Ups

Metal
Varahtelija by Ornassi Pazuzu
Akroasis by Obscura
The Fire Within by Eternity’s End
Jumalten Aika by Moonsorrow
Chasms by Lycus

Electronic
Good Luck and Do Your Best by Gold Panda
99.9% by Kaytranada
Third Law by Roly Porter
Rojus (Designed to Dance) by Leon Vynehall
Traditional Synthesizer Music by Venetian Snares

Pop
Bonito Generation by Kero Kero Bonito
Good Advice by Basia Bulat
Oh No by Jessy Lanza
Gogo Dempa by Dempagumi.inc
Proxy by Julia Marcell

Hip-Hop
Asphalt for Eden by Dalek
Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown
Black America Again by Common
The Impossible Kid by Aesop Rock
Still Brazy by YG

Rock
ATGCLVLSSCAP by Ulver
Plastic House on Base of Sky by Kayo Dot
A Weird Exits by Thee Oh Sees
Different Sun by Electric Eye
The Unbendable Sleep by Rikard Sjöblom

Male Solo
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth by Sturgill Simpson
Blackstar by David Bowie
Love & Hate by Michael Kiwanuka
The Calm Before by Matt Elliott
Worry by Jeff Rosenstock

Female Solo
Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval
Remember Us to Life by Regina Spektor
Sweven by Brooke Waggoner
My Woman by Angel Olsen
Mahoroboshiya by Ichiko Aoba

Non-English Language Album
Mahoroboshiya by Ichiko Aoba
Tokyo Black Hole by Seiko Oomori
Salve Discordia by Triangulo de Amor Bizarro
Tea for Three by Negicco
Proxy by Julia Marcell

Best Debut Album
Color by Katie Gately
You Know What It’s Like by Carla dal Forno
Midwest Farmer’s Daughter by Margo Price
No Burden by Lucy Dacus
Beyond the Fleeting Gales by Crying

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I skipped a lot of categories.

[joyofdivision]

I'd like to nominate NoWaxJim, Kiki and Mancsoulsister.

[Tap]

Album of the Year (10-50)


1. Keith Rowe - The Room Extended
2. Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
3. Autechre - Elseq 1-5
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
5. Reinier Van Houdt & Michael Pisaro - The Earth And The Sky
6. Kassel Jaeger / Stephan Matheiu / Akira Rabelais - Zauberberg
7. Valerio Tricoli - Clonic Earth
8. Matthew Revert & Vanessa Rossetto - Earnest Rubbish
9. Olivia Block - Dissolution
10. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. II
11. Guerilla Toss - Eraser Stargazer
12. Graham Lambkin - Community
13. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
14. Max Eilbacher / Alex Moskos / Duncan Moore - SEF III
15. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
16. Animal Collective - Painting With
17. Marvin Tate & Joseph Clayton Mills - The Process
18. Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rest In Fleas
19. D/P/I - Composer
20. Matmos - Ultimate Care II
21. Matt Carlson - The View From Nowhere
22. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Oto Redactions
23. Jega - 1995
24. The Dead C - Trouble
25. Foodman - Ez Minzoku
26. Horse Lords - Interventions
27. Oren Ambarchi / Kassel Jaeger / James Rushford - Pale Calling
28. Oval - Popp
29. Yves Tumor - Serpent Music
30. Meyers - Negative Space (1981-2014)
31. Powell - Sport
32. Datach'i - System
33. Not Waving - Animals
34. Dreamboat - Dreamboat
35. Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates
36. Chippendale / Gustafsson / Pupillo - Melt
37. Kane Ikin - Modern Pressure
38. Taku Unami & Devin DiSanto - ErstLive 013
39. Sophia Loizou - Singulacra
40. Jemh Circ - Jemh Circs
41. 75 Dollar Bill - Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
42. Skyjelly - Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, Or Wizard?
43. Tomutonttu - Trarat
44. Marc Baron - Un Salon Au Fond D'Un Lac
45. o9 - Farthest Reaches
46. Reed Evan Rosenberg & Ethan Tripp - Medium Rude
47. Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975
48. Fog - For Good
49. Young Thug - Jeffery
50. Sarah Davachi - Vergers

Album Art of the Year (2-10)

1. Matt Carlson - The View From Nowhere
2. Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
3. Young Thug - Jeffery
4. 75 Dollar Bill - Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
5. Yves Tumor - Serpent Music

Best EP (2-10)

1. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Cognition / Observation
2. Guerilla Toss - Guerilla Toss vs Giant Claw
3. Shapednoise - Deafening Chaos Serenity
4. Aphex Twin - Cheetah
5. Nisennenmondai - E


BEAMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (1-3) (Nominate a user who has been here for at least five years (joined date can be seen on members list on the forums folder) (Jan-2012 cutoff joined date) and who you think has made BEA totally cool)
(not sure if these people have already been recognized in the past) Jimmy Dread, Norman Bates, Squishypuff Dave


* Genres/Individual Cat. Albums of the Year *

Avant-Garde/Experimental/Abstract Qualities (2-5)

1. Keith Rowe - The Room Extended
2. Valerio Tricoli - Clonic Earth
3. Matthew Revert & Vanessa Rossetto - Earnest Rubbish
4. Olivia Block - Dissolution
5. Graham Lambkin - Community

Indie/Alternative/(Post) Punk Rock (2-5)

1. Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
2. Guerilla Toss - Eraser Stargazer
3. Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rest In Fleas
4. Horse Lords - Interventions
5. Dreamboat - Dreamboat

Electronic/Ambient/House (2-5)

1. Autechre - Elseq 1-5
2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
3. Kassel Jaeger / Stephan Matheiu / Akira Rabelais - Zauberberg
4. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. II
5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS

Hip-Hop (2-5)

1. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
2. Young Thug - Jeffery

Rock- Hard or Gently (2-5)

1. The Dead C - Trouble
2. Chippendale / Gustafsson / Pupillo - Melt

Male Solo (2-5)

1. Keith Rowe - The Room Extended
2. Valerio Tricoli - Clonic Earth
3. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. II
4. D/P/I - Composer
5. Matt Carlson - The View From Nowhere

Female Solo (2-5)

1. Olivia Block - Dissolution
2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
3. Sophia Loizou - Singulacra
4. Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975
5. Sarah Davachi - Vergers

Best Debut Album (2-5)

1. Powell - Sport
2. Skyjelly - Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, Or Wizard?


And to make up for 2015:

2015 Album of the Year (2-10)

1. Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
2. Morton Feldman - Clarinet & String Quartet
3. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
4. Rie Nakajima - Four Forms
5. John Wiese - Deviate From Balance
6. Graham Lambkin & Michael Pisaro - Schwarze Riesenfalter
7. Metasplice - Metasplice
8. Pole - Wald
9. M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate
10. Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School

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There are a ton of albums I didn't make it to in time, including 5 in the BEA top 20 that I'm likely to love, so this list is extremely incomplete. Full list that these are based on available here

Album of the Year

1. Telefone - Noname
2. Wildflower - The Avalanches
3. Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper
4. Bonito Generation - Kero Kero Bonito
5. BlackSUMMERS'night - Maxwell
6. Lemonade - Beyoncé
7. Sleep Cycle - Deakin
8. Human Performance - Parquet Courts
9. Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
10. 22, A Million - Bon Iver
11. PC Music Volume 2 - Various Artists
12. Hopelessness - Anohni
13. Still Brazy - YG
14. A Sailor's Guide To Earth - Sturgill Simpson
15. Run The Jewels 3 - Run The Jewels
16. Blackstar - David Bowie
17. Nightride - Tinashe
18. Malibu - Anderson .Paak
19. Next Thing - Frankie Cosmos
20. Slime Season 3 - Young Thug
21. Call Him A Doctor - GFOTY
22. MY WOMAN - Angel Olsen
23. Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest
24. Redemption - Dawn Richard
25. A Good Night In The Ghetto - Kamaiyah
26. Blonde - Frank Ocean
27. HEAVN - Jamila Woods
28. Case / Lang / Veirs - Case / Lang / Veirs
29. JEFFERY - Young Thug
30. How To Be A Human Being - Glass Animals
31. Easy This Easy That - EasyFun
32. The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West
33. Blank Face LP - ScHoolboy Q
34. Moth - Chairlift
35. Untitled Unmastered. - Kendrick Lamar
36. Painting With - Animal Collective
37. Imperial - Denzel Curry
38. 99¢ - Santigold
39. Emily's D+Evolution - Esperanza Spalding
40. Life Of Pause - Wild Nothing
41. City Sun Eater In The River Of Live - Woods
42. Sales LP - Sales
43. It Happened In Flatbush - The Underachievers
44. Everybody Looking - Gucci Mane
45. Not To Disappear - Daughter
46. Puberty 2 - Mitski
47. Bucket List Project - Saba
48. The Healing Component - Mick Jenkins
49. A Seat At The Table - Solange
50. Yes Lawd! - NxWorries

Best EP

1. E-MO-TION: Side B - Carly Rae Jepsen
2. Wait & See - Majical Cloudz
3. Ritual Spirit - Massive Attack
4. Vroom Vroom - Charli XCX
5. Infrared - Dawn Richard

* Genres/Individual Cat. Albums of the Year *

RnB Album

1. BlackSUMMERS'night - Maxwell
2. Lemonade - Beyoncé
3. Nightride - Tinashe
4. Malibu - Anderson .Paak
5. Blonde - Frank Ocean

Indie/Alternative/(Post) Punk Rock

1. Sleep Cycle - Deakin
2. Human Performance - Parquet Courts
3. Next Thing - Frankie Cosmos
4. MY WOMAN - Angel Olsen
5. Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest

Electronic/Ambient/House

1. Wildflower - The Avalanches
2. Bonito Generation - Kero Kero Bonito
3. PC Music Volume 2 - Various Artists
4. Call Him A Doctor - GFOTY
5. Redemption - Dawn Richard

Pop

1. Bonito Generation - Kero Kero Bonito
2. Lemonade - Beyoncé
3. PC Music Volume 2 - Various Artists
4. Hopelessness - Anohni
5. Frankie Cosmos - Frankie Cosmos

Hip-Hop

1. Telefone - Noname
2. Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper
3. Still Brazy - YG
4. Run The Jewels 3 - Run The Jewels
5. Slime Season 3 - Young Thug

Rock- Hard or Gently

1. Human Performance - Parquet Courts
2. Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. Blackstar - David Bowie
4. MY WOMAN - Angel Olsen
5. Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest

Male Solo

1. Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper
2. BlackSUMMERS'night - Maxwell
3. Sleep Cycle - Deakin
4. Still Brazy - YG
5. A Sailor's Guide To Earth - Sturgill Simpson

Female Solo

1. Telefone - Noname
2. Lemonade - Beyoncé
3. Hopelessness - Anohni
4. Nightride - Tinashe
5. Next Thing - Frankie Cosmos

Best Debut Album

1. Telefone - Noname
2. Sleep Cycle - Deakin
3. Hopelessness - Anohni
4. A Good Night In The Ghetto - Kamaiyah
5. HEAVN - Jamila Woods

And to make up for 2015:

2015 Album of the Year

1. To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
2. E-MO-TION - Carly Rae Jepsen
3. Apocalypse, Girl - Jenny Hval
4. Perpetual Motion People - Ezra Furman
5. Vulnicura - Björk
6. Goon - Tobias Jesso Jr.
7. Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
8. Currents - Tame Impala
9. Art Angels - Grimes
10. Depression Cherry - Beach House
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