came out a couple of days ago. as usual i found the individual ballots to be way more interesting than the super-predictable consensus (though i was surprised at how close arular came to kanye on the album poll).

i was kind of bummed to see how little respect most of the music i was into this year got. this, for instance, made me sad. this almost made me cry.

also, were people just really lazy this year with the comments, or have they always been half made up of copied and pasted blog posts?

not that i'm complaining, i love reading this shit. i have like thirty ballots to pore over this weekend and cherry pick for stuff i missed during the year (which, yes, is my idea of an awesome weekend). besides, how could anyone be down on pazz & jop in a year when this this exists?

since it's somewhat impractical to put up the justus album, some love for the tragically under-repped (thank you mr. sherburne, for at least putting it on the board) m83 – teen angst (luciano remix) will have to do.