Year-End Critics' Polls 2013

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xp - I actually LOLed at "NUMBER 1: some bloke humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire)"

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link

Wait, he makes that same joke every year?

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link

last few #1 albums in the Wire have been Laurel Halo, James Ferraro, Actress, Broadcast, The Bug, Robert Wyatt and Burial so that's not really that accurate tbh

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link

as always, a handful of OTM zings disguise the fact that 75% of the vice piece is hoary rockcrit received wisdom, lazy anti-pop snobbery or just total nonsense

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link

the thing is if vice really wanted to skewer EOY pretensions/bullshit they could probably do it quite well but it's not like they're any different to anyone else

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link

Really? Which bits?

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link

Pretty scary to see how irrelevant most of the 2012 names sound today: Django Django? Peaking Lights? Mac DeMarco?

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link

lol lex just because you choose to listen to miley cyrus m8, chill out lmao

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link

also the divide isn't between "records no one felt passionately about" and "records some people loved and others hated" - the latter ALWAYS make it into EOY lists - it's between "records that people heard because the band got their positioning and PR etc right" and "records that three people heard and loved but no one else even bothered to listen to"

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link

DY i think your attempt at an insouciant posting style would work better with either the lol at the start or the lmao at the end but not both, bc that's a bit try-hard tbh

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link

Pretty scary to see how irrelevant most of the 2012 names sound today: Django Django? Peaking Lights? Mac DeMarco?

wow you're easily scared

nashwan, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link

like to mix it up, shows much much im laughing innit

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link

Vice list is pretty funny but loses marks for recycling several of its jokes from last year.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link

25: Miley Cyrus. Clearly no one actually listened to this sludge, but the staff must pretend they’ve been devouring it to justify a) the large photo of Cyrus fingering herself with a hammer / foam finger and b) a thinkpiece boxout called "Was 2013 The Year Pop Went Punk?" or "The Return Of The Spectacle" or some other such contrived horseshit.

this is basically on the level of the guardian commenters we've been correctly mocking

45: The A$AP Ferg album strategically listed a few places higher than the A$AP Rocky record ('cus we know our shit).

or because it's better?

29: Rapper who does things to girls that Robin Thicke wouldn't in a million years, yet has surfed the wave towards acclaim because all the nakedness in his videos is so haphazardly vulgar and genuinely worrying that no one could possibly cobble together a cogent and newspaper-friendly piece of thumbsuck op-ed about it.

everyone knows those scary, bad rappers are the most misogynistic scum of all yet somehow they avoid any criticism for it, oh wait // oh wait

26: At least one person in the office is dating a minor-league pop player. This is her / his album.

would be a better zing if it was "mates with" not "dating" but that might be a lil too on the nose

11: Ominous point in human history where people voting for Drake as a joke meets people voting for Drake because they are deadly serious. This is basically how the Nazis got power.

did anyone vote drake as a joke ever?

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link

I know humour isn't your thing Lex but it's meant to be funny.

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link

49: Act who would be several places higher had their heroic refusal to sell out to the Spotify bloodsuckers meant that practically no one got round to listening to their record.

Was this Future of the Left? Their album is GREAT and the story behind them having to pretty much fund and produce the other thing entirely themselves is something I keep meaning to read up about more.

a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link

I know humour isn't your thing Lex but it's meant to be funny.

but it's cliché after cliché! about three of them are funny.

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link

I trust your opinion on many things but you're always saying how much you hate comedy so you're not my go-to guy when it comes to funny. 80% of it worked for me. Agree that the Miley Cyrus entry is lazy though.

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link

Pretty scary to see how irrelevant most of the 2012 names sound today: Django Django? Peaking Lights? Mac DeMarco?

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:56 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure what this is referring to but I think it says more about you than the '2012 names'

to take the one act of those three I care about as an example, why are Peaking Lights (a once fairly prolific duo who now have a baby together) obliged to release music within a 12-month window for the sole purpose of staying "relevant"

screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link

In fairness, it is mostly zings at indie bands.

48. Rapper who has done things that would make Chris Brown cut off his dick in shame, but because they're not to anyone famous, they still count towards his grizzled street cred with Pitchfork readers who are too scared and confused by WSHH to get their news from source.

From last year's list. SMDH @ Vice.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link

Many of them are very similar to last year's, and the year before. Which is kind of the point about these lists, in some ways.

I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link

xps the new FOTL album seems to be on Spotify and had a press officer and all that jazz so doesn't really fit the bill

screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link

DY i think your attempt at an insouciant posting style would work better with either the lol at the start or the lmao at the end but not both, bc that's a bit try-hard tbh

― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:58 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

i am curious #yolo (wins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link

Bleep Top 50 Albums

Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Special Request - Soul Music
Tim Hecker - Virgins
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Holden - The Inheritors
Forest Swords - Engravings
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Karen Gwyer - Needs Continuum
Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind
Autechre - Exai
Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Factory Floor - Factory Floor
John Roberts - Fences
Machinedrum - Vapor City
Kanye West - Yeezus
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
Darkside (Nicolas Jaar + Dave Harrington) - Psychic
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Ron Morelli - Spit
Young Echo - Nexus
Zomby - With Love
Moderat - II
Recondite - Hinterland
Floorplan (Robert Hood) - Paradise
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Thundercat - Apocalypse
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors
Atom TM - HD
Tropic Of Cancer - Restless Idylls
KMFH (Kyle Hall) - The Boat Party
Connan Mockasin - Caramel
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Falty DL - Hardcourage
Mika Vainio - Kilo
Beautiful Swimmers - Son
senking - Capsize Recovery
Sano - Sano
Rabih Beaini - Albidaya
Roly Porter - Life Cycle Of A Massive Star
Function - Incubation
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Atoms For Peace - AMOK
Zed Bias - Boss
Rene Hell - Vanilla Call Option
John Wizards - John Wizards

freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/10/249243871/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2013

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link

Kyle Hall - The Boat Party

^ been meaning to buy this all year long

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link

The National in that top five is just bizarre.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link

They just can't resist a bit of morose adult contemporary. I'd think Weekend - Jinx or Pop. 1280, Chelsea Wolfe or TV Ghost would fit their tastes better.

Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link

Floorplan (Robert Hood) - Paradise

yasssss first appearance of this that i've seen

absolutely banging techno, this goes so hard

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link

yeah that album's great, it's got a nice soul/gospel thing going on as well.

I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link

yeah "never grow old" was a huge anthem this year

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link

I listened to that Recondite album solidly around the house for about a week, that's a good backgroundy techno album for autumn/winter

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link

okay the first track on this Floorplan album is A+

SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link

Ah, that Vice list was alright. I lol'd.

MikoMcha, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link

And yup, thanks to Lex for point out the awesomeness of that Floorplan release.

MikoMcha, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link

Stereogum - Best metal albums
http://www.stereogum.com/1561822/the-50-best-metal-albums-of-2013/list/

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link

you'd never guess what was number one

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link

Spin - Best pop albums
http://www.spin.com/articles/spin-20-best-pop-albums-2013/

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link

WHINEY this isn't an attempt to zing u over clicks but your arrows don't work on any of your lists (i'm on chrome) and tbh they very rarely do in general

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link

pretty surprised Jagwar Ma isn't getting more love.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link

And is it true that no one has mentioned Polvo?

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link

even allowing for homogeneity taking hold in the top 10, Stereogum have by a fucking mile the best/most interesting metal list I've seen so far

screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link

no-one else seems to give a shit about the Cultes Des Ghoules album that's roughly in the middle of it but it is some killer weirdo black metal

screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link

Jagwar Ma suffer from the 'name so terrible I can't bring myself to check them out' syndrome.

a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link

huh. name never bothered me - maybe because i heard the music before i got my hands on their name.
either way it's my hands down, no doubt, fav album of the year.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link

lots of good stuff on the Stereogum metal list, despite the predictable #1.

I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link

Wire list comes out tomorrow iirc, any guesses for what's won that?

rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link

Cultes Des Ghoules album that's roughly in the middle of it but it is some killer weirdo black metal

otm

an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link

Wire list comes out tomorrow iirc, any guesses for what's won that?

― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:35 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hasn't it been someone from the Lopatin/Ferraro/Halo axis the last few years?

a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link

Rashad Becker maybe? Or the Knife?

freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link


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