Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

they're so horrible. animal collective sound to me like what i imagine most modern music sounds like to really old people. like, what is that shit? i'll never understand them.

You have lost touch with the feral spirit of youth, scott.

they're just bad at it. and annoying. in a world where this already existed who needs them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fidi0JvFAnk

Just out of curiosity, is anyone listing Meek Mill on any lists?

i can't listen to horrible mr. bungle music either though. people are horrified by different things.

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Wondering which Death Grips album will place higher in P&J?

And Rev, it's all love - just felt like ppl were dog piling on dog Latin a bit

if I didn't know dl would take it good humor, I wouldn't have posted it

no offence taken, i mean, i was banging on about animal collective so i get what i deserve really.

that Paul Dolden thing is interesting, but it's nothing like AC.

I'm pretty gutted iamamiwhoami's Kin has only made the RYM list so far

listening to this now. pretty outstanding, definitely for fans of gazelle twin, the knife, and similar artists.

more than pretty outstanding actually

Ha this is what I get for being outta touch with ILX for so damn long

Sorry dudes

Hey, is Alt Press still around, do they have a list?

"that Paul Dolden thing is interesting, but it's nothing like AC."

thank the lord.

i was put off iamamiwhoami because of their name (even clunkier than when saints go machine) but this is really good.

that last track is especially decent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3G_Y3aIlis&noredirect=1

lol "especially decent"

isn't that diplo's label

i was put off iamamiwhoami because of their name (even clunkier than when saints go machine) but this is really good.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin)

Yeah I can understand the name thing, there are some things about the whole campaign that have been a bit much but the music is just incredible.

It's all about Play for me, the chorus is just so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBC8L3pG_Y

Am I the only person who dug the Project Undark Radium Girls 2011 stuff? Need to track down the full album... And yes, it was released this year, despite the misleading name.

listening to iamamiwhoami right now, having put it on the back burner for a while. this is really good stuff, and if i was inclined to compile a top 20 or whatever, which i may well do just for the hell of it, then this would definitely be vying for a good spot. it just seems to strike such a strong balance of tempos, atmospheres, everything. i really love "goods" and the frantic, spooky undercurrent that sends it whisking along.

It's a shame some of the earlier stand-alone iamamiwhoami tracks didn't make it to Kin, especially ";John", but at the same time I understand that the build-up and the final artifact are probably intended to be different things.

Pretty sure iamamiwhoami will place pretty well on ILM, as there's at least 5 of us who rate it. And yes, the initially offputting "Play" with the lovely Cocteau Twinsy chorus is my highlight too.

It's a shame some of the earlier stand-alone iamamiwhoami tracks didn't make it to Kin, especially ";John", but at the same time I understand that the build-up and the final artifact are probably intended to be different things.

― Johnny Fever

I know there was a huge build up with those singles but I somehow missed all that. Kin was the first thing I heard. I downloaded all the early singles a while back but haven't really spent much time with them yet.

Glad to hear there are few other iamamiwhoami supporters on here.

Is there a thread about them? Might be worth starting one if not (can't check as I'm on my phone)

One here:

Who is iamamiwhoami?

The album grew on me enormously after seeing her live.

remember when everyone thought iamamiwhoami was xtina?

Filter Magazine - "Good Music Will Prevail"
http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/filters_top_10_of_2012_staff_picks

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism MODULAR
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange DEF JAM
3. Grimes - Visions 4AD
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d. city TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE
5. Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs PARTISAN
6. Cat Power - Sun MATADOR
7. Mumford & Sons - Babel GLASSNOTE
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! CONSTELLATION
9. Niki & The Dove - Instinct SUB POP
10. Beach House - Bloom SUB POP
11. Miike Snow - Happy To You DOWNTOWN/UNIVERSAL
12. Liars - WIXIW MUTE
13. Sigur Rós - Valtari XL
14. DIIV - Oshin CAPTURED TRACKS
15. Father John Misty - Fear Fun SUB POP
16. Chromatics - Kill For Love ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
17. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... EPIC
18. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes WARP
19. Jack White - Blunderbuss THIRD MAN/COLUMBIA
20. The xx - Coexist XL

What's Father John Misty? I overheard the girls in the record shop banging on about him/them the other day.

baffling that Cat Power is turning up on so many of these lists

Think he was the dude with the really boring voice in Father Ted.

haha, yeah that's very similar to who I imagined when I heard the name.

Father John Misty is the drummer from Fleet Foxes or something I think. Seriously.

Father John Misty - I'm Fine, Thanks

Father John Misty is Josh Tillmann - was the Fleet Foxes drummer for a while but also a solo artist before that. The album's good in that Bella Union vein - more John Grant than Fleet Foxes. He's got a nice dark sense of humour.

Might be interesting. I'm not a FF fan, but from the description it sounds like it could fit into the Josh T Pearson category maybe?

Filter is possibly the least interesting list yet. I don't know who Diamond Rugs are though, maybe they're awesome.

well, once you've seen 15 lists of pretty much the same albums in varying orders they all look pretty boring. is it right for me to moan about the marginalisation of metal/harder-edged rock and noise music on these lists? even the most supposedly eclectic publications seem to ignore the heavier end of the spectrum which is a massive shame considering the same fans of, say Liars, could easily love some of the (hate to use the term but here we go) post-metal stuff like UFOmammut and Om etc. Sometimes it feels like metal-genres are the final frontier for a lot of indie-type publications that have come round to embracing pop and r'n'b in the last few years.

I would expect to see a fair number of metal records when the Quietus does its list FWIW, but yeah the point stands.

Scott OTM in a general sort of way, the "Who needs x when you've got Paul Dolden" argument casts a wide net

Guardian number nine pick

I'm not discovering nothing from these lists.

Hot Chip released another album this year eh? They do crank em out. Maybe I'll get round to listening to Made In The Dark one day.

I do still love Gabriel from last year though.

The only way to be surprised by these lists is to actively avoid reading any and all critical discourse, including music threads here.

dog latin: a meatl album sighting - Black Breath are on Fact's list

The new Hot Chip is pretty good, probably better than One Life Stand, not quite as good as Made In The Dark.

I wouldn't exactly call it one of the best of the year though...

NickB: Black Breath are the daddy tits!

I thought I was going to love "Motion Sickness" until the intro ended

I do still love Gabriel from last year though.

definitely feel like joe goddard's come into his own over the past year production-wise - "gabriel", yes, also his remixes of delilah's "love you so" and especially jessie ware's "night light", which is just a flawless and astonishing thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZrThWeqmzs

(i give each new hot chip a dutiful listen but i'm even less interested in them now than i was back in the day, and even that was lukewarm. i'm sure his voice is getting worse.)