Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

who?

TAME IMAPALA haha

xp This non-jazzbo wholeheartedly endorses the Vijay Iyer album.

SCHOOLBOY Q – Hands On The Wheel (f. A$AP Rocky)

love this

still can't work out why all the ilx goons hate it

because you love it, mostly

that sample is unbearable & both those two guys are nothing rappers

for once in my life it's EOY lists validating me rather than ILX so i'm just gonna enjoy this novelty

SLEIGH BELLS – Demons

this song is so fucking badass but the real gem on that album is "Never Say Die"

i'm listening to "demons" now. it sounds like marnie stern with a corny NWOBHM riff on top of it, i don't know.

that's what Sleigh Bells sound like.

yeah if you can't get down with the baseline conceit, it's kind of a lost cause

i actually like "hands on the wheel" too, sometimes nothing rappers are effective, and i think this is one example

i want to send you to rap boot camp

i run rap boot camp

we need to renovate rennavate

this is really the year of the black and white cover.

yeah i've been ranting for a couple years now that in indie/hip/'acclaimed' circles half of all album covers are b&w. pulling up PF's recent best new music picks is grayscale city.

smog smog smog clouds on your city bitch

there are many adjectives that come to mind when I think of the female vocals in The Knife and Dirty Projectors; "detached" and "dreamy" are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of that list if they are there at all, somewhere behind "jazzy" and "gospel-like"

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 15:49 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

melody's echo chamber sounds literally nothing like the knife in any sense. or the xx for that matter. the knife and the xx sound nothing like each other!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 15:52 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm only saying this triumvirate pretty much begat this now prevalent sound. No, MEC doesn't (literally!) sound exactly like any one particular of these earlier bands, but this kind of sound (washy guitars, reverby synths, glassy-eyed vocal delivery) has become pretty much its own genre at this point (post-chillwave if we have to call it anything I guess), it's just stopped being interesting to me.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:04 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not to belabor this point, but I really don't see where Dirty Projectors figure into this conversation. Yes, there are lots of bands doing washy guitars, reverby synths, and glassy-eyed vocal delivery right now, but they are surely not one of them.

What does 'glassy-eyed vocal' mean?

http://cowsarejustfood.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/the-residents.jpg

I take it to mean singing in a a detatched manner without a lot of emotion.

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ha caramanica put kendrick below ke$ha

ha npr put kendrick below macklemore

http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2012/2012/12/12/166972039/listener-picks-your-favorite-albums-of-2012?sc=tw&cc=twmp

@soundofthecity
ATTN: Critics. We're looking to get Pazz and Jop ballots out to everyone tomorrow. Keep your eyes on your inbox and please RT. Thanks!!

npr listeners!

the NPR demographic likes to wave little tantalizing lures to me, making me think I belong there, and then things like the listeners liking Macklemore happen and I realize I am right to stay away

ha i meant to say npr listeners, obv already posted the editorial list upthread

is there gonna be a goon poll? ive barely listened to any rap this year and would like to know what i missed besides the 3 records that the rock/pop mags are rating

whiney said he's running one

tell whiney to send me a ballot this year

Can someone post The Wire's Comps and Reissues lists, please. Thanks very much!

for whatever it's worth, I liked the Art Dealer Chic EPs and I really liked Kaleidoscope Dream when it came out but here we are in mid-December and many listens later damn if that thing isn't going to end up in my top 5. it just keeps rising. what a record.

I keep seeing lists with Schoolboy Q songs other than "Druggys With Hoes Again" on them and it doesn't make sense to me.

Was that 2011?

apparently it was leaked last year (which I didn't even realize til now tbh) but it was on his album that came out this year and is at least 45 times better than fucking "Hands on the Wheel"

was that sky ferreira answering phones!?

oops wrong thread, sorry

I'm with Lex on Hands on the Wheel

Slant Magazine top singles
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/feature/the-25-best-singles-of-2012/340

1. Drake featuring Rihanna - Take Care
2. Jessie Ware - Running
3. Frank Ocean - Pyramids
4. Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger
5. Santigold - Disparate Youth
6. Jack White - I'm Shakin'
7. Twin Shadow - Five Seconds
8. Alabama Shakes - Hold On
9. Azealia Banks - 1991
10. Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
11. The Very Best featuring Seye - Kondaine
12. WZRD - Teleport 2 Me, Jamie
13. Cheyenne Marie Mize - Wishing Well
14. Jay-Z and Kanye West - No Church in the Wild
15. Rihanna - Where Have You Been
16. Alicia Keys featuring Nicki Minaj - Girl on Fire
17. Jessie Ware - 110%
18. Kelly Hogan - Plant White Roses
19. Bat for Lashes - Laura
20. Usher - Climax
21. No Doubt - Push and Shove
22. Meek Mill featuring Drake - Amen
23. Santigold - Big Mouth
24. The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag
25. Liars - No. 1 Against the Rush

16. Alicia Keys featuring Nicki Minaj - Girl on Fire

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The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/best-albums-of-2012

1. tba
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Jessie Ware - Devotion
4. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
5. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, MAAD City
6. Tame Impala - Lonerism
7. alt-J - An Awesome Wave
8. The xx - Coexist
9. Hot Chip In Our Heads
10. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
11. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
12. Django Django - Django Django
13. Chromatics - Kill For Love
14. Grizzly Bear - Shields
15. Cooly G - Playin' Me
16. Taylor Swift - Red
17. Lana del Rey - Born To Die
18. Saint Etienne - Words And Music By Saint Etienne
19. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
20. Plan B - Ill Manors
21. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
22. The Cribs - In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
23. Jam City - Classical Curves
24. Dawn Richard - Armor On
25. Actress - R.I.P.
26. Bright Light Bright Light - Make Me Believe In Hope
27. Poliça - Give You The Ghost
28. Tribes - Baby
29. Jack White - Blunderbuss
30. Angel Haze - Reservation
31. Marina And The Diamonds - Electra Heart
32. Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
33. Mala - Mala in Cuba
34. Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar
35. Nite Jewel - One Second Of Love
36. Beach House - Bloom
37. Orbital - Wonky
38. Fiona Apple -The Idler Wheel
39. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
40. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Wanna bet what's number 1? I'm guessing Bish.

go on, have another guess

Grimes at number 2 though? I went for a run and listened to it yesterday (also saw her at Primavera) and it was okay but just seemed so.. nothingy; like something that might have been interesting circa 2006 but no more.

Oh God, it's going to be F**** O****, right

Juno Best Of 2012: Top 20 albums
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2012/12/06/best-of-2012-top-20-albums/

1. Bass Clef – Reeling Skullways (Punch Drunk)
2. JuJu & Jordash – Techno Primitivism (Dekmantel)
3. Vessel – Order Of Noise (Tri Angle)
4. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black Is Beautiful (Hyperdub)
5. Jam City – Classical Curves (Night Slugs)
6. Austin Cesear – Cruise Forever (Public Information)
7. NHK Koyxen – Dance Classics Vol 2 (PAN)
8. Silent Servant – Negative Fascination (Hospital)
9. Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996 & Dutch Tvashar Plumes (PAN)
10. Madteo – Noi No (Sahko)
11. Actress – R.I.P (Honest Jons)
12. D’Marc Cantu – A New World (MOS)
13. I:Cube – M Megamix (Versatile)
14. Bee Mask – When We Were Eating Unripe Pears (Spectrum Spools)
15. Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
16. DJ Nature – Return Of The Savage (Golf Channel)
17. Barker & Baumecker – Transsektoral (Ostgut Ton)
18. Jahiliyya Fields – Unicursal Hexagram (L.I.E.S.)
19. Terrence Dixon – From The Far Future 2 (Tresor)
20. Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ (Woe To The Septic Heart!)

i should check the Bass Clef album; he's got a really interesting attitude to making tunes.

I have that but it didn't really grab me. It is turning up on a few lists though.

13. I:Cube – M Megamix (Versatile)

Glad to see this getting props, it's terrific.

I have that but it didn't really grab me. It is turning up on a few lists though.

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:31 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What isn't always apparent with his stuff is that it's entirely analogue, mixed on cassette 8-track and made with really rudimentary old samplers.