Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

*leans forward, puts chin on fist*

― J0rdan S., Monday, December 3, 2012 4:45 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can KEEP your critdude consensus

all i know is the khia album is everything i have been desiring in rap and have missed and i am jamming it as incessantly as i have any album i've heard. INSTANT CLASSIC

did kendrick have a 6-min smooth r&b jam called "dickmatize"? I DON'T THINK SO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KSQgVxe4Y4

did he need one?

really bumming that a great rap album wasn't broken up by a 6-minute r&b song

could've subbed out that boring don't kill my vibe one for a 6-minute anything and it'd have been an improvement

you can KEEP your critdude consensus

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, December 3, 2012 11:47 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait don't you like the kendrick lamar album

this is a stupid conversation

i need to check if the applecare expired on my iLex

i do like the kendrick, i don't think it's worthy of the encomiums, it might scrape my top 20 whereas khia has gatecrashed my top 5 with an unhesitating and firm bullet

also none of you have heard the khia album and your lulz are literally solely based on prejudice and belief that the consensus is inherently correct

really you could sub ANY hyped 2012 rapper for kendrick and khia would be better

the stuff the hip-hop world has recommended this year has not been up to scratch

apart from angel haze who i note is also missing from many rap lists

hahaha so the Khia album starts out with a sweary skit set to the beat from "The Motto"

total Lex-bait

my rapping vagina puppet is going to drop an album on December 1st next year and totally rearrange lex's year-end list

"For Real" is reminding me of the lyrical breadth of Chief Keef

xpost well that's my teenage dream ended.

did chief keef threaten to snatch your fake breast out? NO

I didn't even notice that line, mostly because I was amazed at the number of times she said "muthafuckas for real" in a row

2nd track is budget Missy circa Under Construction

Gorilla vs. Bear
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2012/12/02/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2012/

1. Grimes – Visions
2. Chromatics – Kill For Love
3. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Burial – Kindred
5. Jessie Ware – Devotion
6. Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions
7. Beach House – Bloom
8. Tops – Tender Opposites
9. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
10. Chairlift – Something
11. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
12. Grizzly Bear – Shields
13. Laurel Halo – Quarantine
14. Holy Other – Held
15. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black is Beautiful
16. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
17. Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
18. Frankie Rose – Interstellar
19. Symmetry – Themes For An Imaginary Film
20. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
21. Chromatics – Running From the Sun
22. Angel Olsen – Half Way Home
23. Clams Casino – Instrumentals II
24. Nicolas Jaar – Don’t Break My Love / The Prism
25. Fort Romeau – Kingdoms
26. Dawn Richard – Armor On
27. Tamaryn – Tender New Signs
28. Shackleton – Music For the Quiet Hour
29. Mirroring – Foreign Body
30. Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
31. Phedré – Phedré
32. LOL Boys – Changes
33. Roc Marciano – Reloaded
34. Fight Bite – Fight Bite
35. Sam Flax – Age Waves
36. Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze
37. Lower Dens – Nootropics
38. Las Malas Amistades – Maleza
39. Lace Curtains – The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness
40. Ryan Hemsworth – Last Words + Collected
41. Taken By Trees – Other Worlds
42. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
43. Antwon – End of Earth
44. Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games
45. Molly Nilsson – History
46. Peaking Lights – Lucifer
47. Death Grips – The Money Store
48. Pure Bathing Culture – Pure Bathing Culture
49. Theesatisfaction – awE naturalE
50. Sand Circles – Motor City

basically I feel like you're going "all of this music is bullshit, you should listen to THIS *points at more bullshit*"

That's not a bad list really.

that's lex's whole schtick

38. Las Malas Amistades – Maleza
49. Theesatisfaction – awE naturalE
50. Sand Circles – Motor City

I liked these albums well enough to be happy they got picked up somewhere. Otherwise no great surprises beyond the continuing absence of Animal Collective.

anyway I turned it off and went back to Elle Varner

8. Tops – Tender Opposites

Anyone know what this is?

ha, was just about to ask that.

damn gorilla vs bear taking a bold stand against frank ocean

That's not a bad list really.

― Tim F, Monday, December 3, 2012 5:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only nearly half of the top 10 is awful?

8. Tops – Tender Opposites

Anyone know what this is?

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, December 3, 2012 12:14 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

hit xvideos and lemme know

xpost so you'd agree it's the best list so far.

Not half, just 3.

http://open.spotify.com/album/42qdevk4wy09wv0FtWC0fF

Tops - Tender Opposites

Tops albums is just eighties pastiche, handled ineptly.

tops are another montreal arbutus band, pretty bad imo

GvB probably the only non-lex-associated list to rate Dawn?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/10002345/Fr+immer+Du.jpg

I was really digging the first song on the Tops album for about a minute, but then it went on for another 2 and I got bored

^ are those the right guys? xp

xp yeah basically my experience, the singer is pretty awful too

http://i.minus.com/iUkjhpTN58Lqm.gif

Did we all see nabisco otm's list:

http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/nitsuh-abebe-top-ten-albums.html

"I Belong In Your Arms" will make my own list but I couldn't make it through the rest of the Chairlift record.

Glad he put Ware on his list.

If you could monetize having your album compared to Sade, Ware would finish 2012 rich

lol

haha

nitsuh's is a decent list (barring cloud 0s)

Ugh, really? Evans the Death? They sound like fucking Echobelly.

That's bad?

Yes. Very bad.

I'm not surpised to see Grimes on these lists, but can't exactly figure how this is the best of the year. To me, the Grimes album is decent, but a bit amaturish and underproduced. I enjoyed it early on but reached the point of diminishing returns months ago.

tbf, haven't heard (of) Evans the Death, but "sounds like Echobelly" doesn't automatically turn me off ("sounds like Sleeper" might be better tho)