Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

that killer mike lp was cringe enough at the time let alone still picking it after however many months hindsight

I think they really believe that a list is drawn up and painstakingly sequenced by a central committee weighing up, say, Taylor Swift vs Killer Mike, using a whiteboard and flipcharts.

tbf I really wish this would happen more often.

NPR/Uncut catnip though it may be, I love the Father John Misty record. Who's with me? *silence across ILX*

Has Rick Rodd even made any other lists?

Ha, Ross

Hmmmm thats a different Fushitsusha album on the Wire list than the one on my own top 10.

There were two fushitsusha albums this year, both on heartfast

Confusing! One of them is on Spotify, but I don't know which it is.

I think they're supposed to be the first two parts of a trilogy

I voted for both Fushitsushas (a tie). Kinda thought others would do the same - I mean, how do you choose between Fushitsusha albums (unless one of them is Origin's Hesitation or the one Zorn produced, of course)?

I see that one of the wire voters picked the second of the two as his album of the year, so maybe that's why it did better

that killer mike lp was cringe enough at the time let alone still picking it after however many months hindsight

― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:29 AM (51 minutes ago)

wait, what? i listened to it for the first time in a while today and it sounded better than ever

do people dislike that record??

rtc does. I liked Reagan, probably need to hear more

This is literally someone who The Wire put on their Top 50. This video is maybe the best thing since Salem at Fader Fort.

http://vimeo.com/32733990

you might laugh at the idea of casio + loop pedal jams, but he's not doing it particularly badly. so many macbook + ableton + apc dudes do so much less at their shows.

i just now realized that you weren't saying "this is literally someone who put 'the wire' in their top 50" -- i couldn't understand what you were talking about. the internet is poisoning my brain.

it's very "department talent show at Google"

would rather watch/listen to this than Salem tho

The Killer Mike record certainly holds up.

it's very "department talent show at Google"

it's very "bar mitzvah boy performs for his friends, june 1987"

you might laugh at the idea of casio + loop pedal jams, but he's not doing it particularly badly. so many macbook + ableton + apc dudes do so much less at their shows.

otm. i was groovin'. lol'd when he had to remove his scarf

huh I just got to the point where it sounds like someone in the audience is being drawn and quartered

weird show

wait did someone really just shout "YIPPIE"

Heatsick is playing in my town tomorrow night, unfortunately I have work and stuff so can't report back.

dude looks uncannily like a former roommate who plays Irish fiddle semi-professionally, down to the uncomfortable dance moves

Listen to the third song.

http://open.spotify.com/album/529d8NsQkkkBKkIaleAKZX

i'd be disappointed if he didn't look like an awkward grad student

Steve is good, fuck the haters.

steve!

NPR/Uncut catnip though it may be, I love the Father John Misty record. Who's with me? *silence across ILX*

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but I really like it too. Nowhere near as mopey as I expected, in fact quite joful and even funny at times. I was really surprised by it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Keyboard_cat.jpg/220px-Keyboard_cat.jpg

steve!

It has the same kind of slow, environmental build as The Necks music does, which I like

It has the same kind of

slow, environmental build

FUCK, that was supposted to be strikethru

It has the same kind of slow, environmental build nummy num kraut-jazz goodness as The Necks music does, which I like

Listen to the third song.

was disappointed there wasn't any fiddling on this after my last post

dying @ keyboard cat

TS Heatsick Steve vs Seasick Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slIHk6QytcM

I love keyboard cat, I don't see what the problem is there...

which band were people comparing to the necks, amongst the above exchanges?

heaven forbid i listen to even a second of the wrong band and discover something i didn't intend to discover.

steve

i have to listen to stu and bernie's albums first but i'll try to check it out soon

loving this julia holter record btw... such a rich collection of sounds.

julia!

the holtmeister

that's what her friends call her

Yeah that Julia Holter album is great, I love how each track seems to end up in a totally different place from where it began without seeming meandering.

I've come round to the Frankie Rose album as well since the nights have been drawing in. Not sure I've seen that one anywhere.

Thought the Frankie Rose was insubstantial; only "Pair of Wings", corny as it is, held up to repeated play for me.

Julia Holter album is fantastic, of course.

Yeah that Julia Holter album is great, I love how each track seems to end up in a totally different place from where it began without seeming meandering.

i feel like there's loads of this sort of ethereal pop about but the level of detail in this really separates it, and the different tones, very easy to become dirgey with this kind of sound but as you say, it's pretty bold in terms of how it jumps from one mood to another. can tell it'll be one i listen to for a few weeks.