Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

not sure if anyone saw this earlier, so re-posting:

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-2012-splice-today-albums-poll

yaaay inspector norse: http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/best-2012-tunes-5-1

Putting '212' in the top five is just fucking lazy, Mixmag.

lol @ mixmag

can critics at least pretend to pay attention to when a song comes out, your critical faculties don't depend on it actually being culturally ubiquitous or getting a video to kick in

i mean fair enough we all get to some things late (though not usually...a song as big as "212") but the price we pay is that we DON'T THEN GET TO VOTE FOR THEM

wow, having their top songs of the year list spread through 20 pages that AREN'T EVEN FUCKING LINKED TOGETHER is just infuriating

Pretty sure Mixmag knew about 212 last year.

yeah there are so many EOY lists that i haven't even bothered to look at because of the intolerable clickthru thing

That Rock-A-Rolla list is great. Never read it, is it a site or a mag?

212 was released in December 2011, so maybe Mixmag's 2011 poll was decided earlier on?

i'm sure it came out earlier than that? it was on a lot of end of year lists last year

it feels like it's been around forever

dunno, that's what wiki said. i only noticed it being played/talked about offline in about Jan/Feb this year. Always tricky with thigns that come out later in the year.

Video on Youtube was uploaded in September 2011 and that's how I heard it.

it was doing the rounds from at least september 2011, which is when the official youtube was uploaded

xp

In September 2011, the song was chosen as the Record of the Week by Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1

The Guardian gave the song a highly positive review and placed it at number 2 on their The Best Songs of 2011 list. In a review, Michael Cragg praised the song calling it "a startling three and a half minutes of attitude" as well as "incredible." Carrie Battan of Pitchfork Media complimented her "unpredictable vocal range" and wrote, "She clicks between characters and styles casually, effortlessly. No seams. A jaw-slackening demo reel." NME dubbed the song #18 on their 50 Best Tracks Of 2011, calling it "mischievous, quick-witted and full of filthy cunnilanguage: it’s made Azealia Banks, the coolest girl on the planet, and it delivered on 2011’s forward-thinking promise." NPR Music gave the song a positive review and listed it as one of their 100 Favorite Songs Of 2011, calling the song "the raunchiest shut-down of 2011." Pitchfork gave the song its Best New Music accolade and ranked it number 9 on their Top 100 Tracks of 2011 list

cunnilanguage

mixmag must have mentioned it in their 2011 coverage though, surely?

looks like the earliest they mentioned it was january 4th?

http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/big-tunes/jan12

weak

212 did come out really late, I only remember the Singles Jukebox tackling it right at the end of November so it's perfectly possible that the December Mixmag was way past its print deadline by then. Attempting to shoehorn it into a 2012 list is just lame though.

tbf to mixmag i think that's the only place i've seen 'latch' so far

not like they should be getting mad props for a no-brainer like that but since every other publication is so dumb there it is

i thought "control" was better than "latch", which never quite clicked w/me

while we're on the subject of disclosure i wish EOY lists would stop fronting like their remix of "running" is better than the original (if any ware remix is superior, it's the joe goddard one of "night light")

Hey guys, I found this vintage copy of Q from December 1993 in the shops

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/72367_10152337467005215_187229883_n.jpg

Oh wait

'latch' is a straight up anthem with (for once in our lives) the genuine chart stats to show for it, giving it no mention is criminal

i think that's the only place i've seen 'latch' so far

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2012/12/xlr8rs-best-2012-overrated-relea

the blurb is... uh, quite something

oooffff that blurb, oh man how are people like that permitted to write in public

sigh can i not have one day without having a thundercloud of intense rage over me

wow what a moron. good to see the comments below are overwhelmingly negative too.

although to be fair, props for calling out some of the other records in that list

he is american anyway who gives a fuck

the real problem is more stuff like the guardian preening themselves over 'ima read' or whatever other irrelevance in something like 'latch's stead

This is music for people who don't like music, the kind of track teenage girls will rush to buy on iTunes after hearing it on the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries.

Seriously? Ugh.

"ima read" was an IRL anthem! on catwalks and stuff. it's also better than "latch"

haha i know damn well you were lolling as you wrote that so ima let it slide

he is american anyway who gives a fuck

the real problem is more stuff like the guardian preening themselves over 'ima read' or whatever other irrelevance in something like 'latch's stead

― r|t|c, Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:18 AM Bookmark

haha you're really trying to make the veins pop out of my forehead

if you maybe attach those veins to your brain you'll see i'm not saying what you think i am

I love you too, babe.

The Disclosure remix of "Running" is better than the original, though that's still great as well.

I thought that, then went back to the original yesterday, after a long gap - Disclosure remix hereby demoted! But not by much!

Ubiquity of Disclosure remix due in part to "squeezing two acts on the list for the price of one" syndrome?

I think I'd like Disclosure more if their sound were more... robust? I've liked so much garage revivalism this year and I've not been able to find much of an in with them at all, they're a bit polite and I mean in a tepid way rather than a sumptuous way.

their artful dodger remix kinda brought that home to me

no hate for the disclosure remix at all, it's fun, but the original is the one that really conveys the epic OTT drama perfectly

Not sure 'Running' really suits a garage beat anyway. For all her dance connections, I'm not sure Jessie Ware is a terribly remix-able artist, or the ones people keep having a go at are the most 'complete' songs in the first place. Even the Joe Goddard remix of Night Light feels kinda forced. There's more potential in things like No To Love or Swan Song or the title track but those aren't the ones with the prominent remixes that I can see.

The words "Disclosure, 'Latch'" unfortunately remind me of the jam band Dispatch.

xp Clearly I haven't been banging on about Ewan Pearson's No to Love remix on here as much as I thought I had. Way better than the original but not "prominent" in the same way as the Running remix.

Yes that one's good and I'd forgotten about it, but it kind of works because No To Love is kind of mediocre and in need of fixing in the first place.

the only issue i have with the ewan pearson remix is that he retains and indeed emphasises the dodgy male rap - otherwise it's lovely (and yes, the original "no to love" is whatever)

Somehow the 80s dance references in the remix make the rap charming to me, because it's dodgy in a very old-fashioned way.

Also I've paid minimal attention this year and freely admit I have zero authority on this subject but I found the monochrome sluggishness of a lot of the beats in the upper reaches of that Cocaine Blunts list a real drag to get through.

some kind soul has compiled The Martorialist's list too. It's a bit more fun i think

http://themartorialist.blogspot.ie/2012/12/rap-game-joey-bartons-pigeon-french_18.html