Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

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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

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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.

I think I knew that already, in fact I think my problem was basically down to false expectations - it wasn't quite as scuzzy and horrible as I would have liked. But obviously I need to listen to it again at some point...

Matt, what kind of ballpark is that I:Cube in? Probably missing some subtle clues but it's a bit hard to tell from the blurb.

I don't get the Grimes album at all. Two great singles and a lot of weaker variations on a theme. It's not as if there isn't a lot of arty electro-pop out there and this doesn't feel any weightier or more compelling than the rest. <adopts Guardian commenter's explanation for everything> They probably only chose it to look "cool" and "edgy" and impress middle-class hipsters at Dalston dinner parties.

Agree apart from the great singles thing. So insubstantial + annoying voice despite being right in my wheelhouse

oh no don't you start with "wheelhouse" as well

I listened to the Grimes album again yesterday and it's still enjoyable and the melodies are gorgeous but it is kind of samey and there's not much to latch onto. If you think of it as an ambient album it works. Strikes me as one of those albums that loads of people plonk into the lower reaches of their list and ends up really high as a result. But there's not even any sense that it's been one of the defining records of the year or anything like that.

i remember when Randy Jackson started saying "wheelhouse" on American Idol all the time and people were like whaaaat lol and now everybody says it constantly

If you think of it as an ambient album it works.

So true. It was perfect for jogging to, but I remember absolutely none of it. Not a single bit of it stuck out or made an impression on me. Perfect background music for, say, a trendy fashion party, but really this kind of synths'n'sunglasses thing has been done many times over for ten years or so now.

trendy fashion parties are the worst kind of fashion parties

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Some folks were saying album of the year about Grimes when it came out back in March and I just didn't get it.

"in my wheelhouse" has become the phrase du jour

I think of wheelhouse as more of a tennis term?

i'm pretty sure it's originally a baseball term!

idk w/e it just makes taste seem like a big rotting wooden wheel... in a house

lol

wheel talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7PMrV_ak4

me irl

Wheelhouse is a boating term that has long been used in baseball.

She's a wheel...
HOUSE