Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

20th-best of the year is about right

Tim Sweeney has done a mix of his fave tunes here:

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/657

But also a list of albums and tracks:

Favorite LP's of 2012:
Kindness - World, You Need A Change Of Mind - Terrible Records
Michael Mayer - Mantasy - Kompakt
John Talabot ‎– ƒIN - Permanent Vacation
Daphni - Jiaolong - Jiaolong
Mungolian Jetset ‎- Mungodelics - Smalltown Supersound
The Chromatics - Kill For Love - Italians Do It Better
Matthew Dear - Beams - Ghostly International
Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns - Witchita
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes - 4AD
Daniel Maloso - In And Out - Cómeme
Tomas Barfod - Salton Sea - Friends Of Friends
DJ Nature - Return Of The Savage - Golf Channel
Bola - Volume 7 - Awesome Tapes From Africa
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ‎– Trouble - Polydor
Pachanga Boys - We Are Really Sorry - Hippie Dance
Hot Chip - In Our Heads - Domino
Liars - WIXIW - Mute
I:Cube ‎- "M" Megamix - Versatile
Janja Nabay & The Bubu Gang - En Yay Sah - Luaka Bop

Other songs I loved in 2012 and wanted to include in this show:
The Backwoods - Cloud 9 (The Stallions Remix) - Ene/ESP
Mandog - Guitar Pop (Gonno Remix) - Room Full Of Records
The Time And Space Machine - Good Morning (Coyote Balearic Mix) - Tirk
John Talabot - When The Past Was Present (Pachanga Boys Purple Remix) - Permanent Vacation
Bot'Ox - Basement Love (Pachanga Boys Remix) - I'm A Cliche
Barnt - Geffen - Cómeme
DJ Kaos - Kosmische Ruckenwind (Quiet Village Remix) - Clone Loft
Kasper Bjørke - Bohemian Soul feat Laid Back (Still Going Remix) - Hfn
TV Baby - NY Is All Right (Dr Dunks Mix) - Rong
The Mole - If I Had A Nickel - Maybe Tomorrow
Hauschka - Radar (Michael Mayer Remix) - Fatcat
Magic Mountain High - Workshop xx - Workshop
Todd Terje - It's The Arps - Olsen/Smalltown Supersound
Joakim - Nothing Gold (Todd Terje Mix) - Tigersushi
Prins Thomas Orkester - Snake Music - Full Pupp
Rune Lindbæk feat Kurt Maloo - Wonder (Rune Lindbæk & Øyvind Blikstad Mix) - Drum Island
Aeroplane - Caramellas (Joakim Remix) - Eskimo
Saschienne - Unknown - Kompakt
Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo) - XL
Nick Nikolov - Come Down - Liebe Detail
Jimmy Edgar - This One's For The Children - Hotflush
WhoMadeWho - Never Had The Time - Kompakt
Zombie Zombie - Rocket Number 9 - Versatile
Ultraista - Small Talk - Temporary Residence Limited
Daniel Avery - Need Electric - Phantasy Sound
Mark E - We Could Love - Needwant
Orthy - Emily (Baio Remix)
Lauer - 70000ac - Running Back
Hundred In The Hands - Keep It Low (A JD Twitch Optimo mix) - Warp
AM/TM - Back To Acid - Hector Works
Fanatico - Tessio (KiNK's Raw Dub) - Ware
Young Marco - Darwin In Bahia - ESP
Marcus Mixx - Special Creme - Unknown To The Unknown
Recloose - Don't Get Me Wrong - Delusions Of Grandeur
TNT Subhead - Ecstasy & Release - Groovement
Trackman LaFonte & Bonquiqui - Pacific House - L.I.E.S.
Mock & Toof - My Head - Tiny Sticks
B.D.I. - Paper Tears - Running Back
Sinkane - Runnin' (Daphni Mix) - Phonica Records
Roisin Murphy - Simulation (Mano Le Tough Remix) - Permanent Vacation
Los Amigos Invisibles & Dimitri From Paris - Glad To Know You (Ray Mang's Flying Dub) - Gomma
Phreek Plus One - La Spirale (J's Loveboat Mix) - Internasjonal
JV - EditChannel XXX - EditChannel
Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimba (HNNY Edit) - No Rights Reserved
Al Kent - Open Up Your Mind - Kojak
J.T.C. - Beats In Space - Shaddock

Not sure if you've seen it separately al, but andy's personal overall top 20 suggests that the following are his top 7:

01 Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
05 Jessie Ware - Devotion
06 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
08 Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio
10 THEESatisfaction - Awe Naturale
12 Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect
20 Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seeds

― Tim F, Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Correct. The rest:

08 Brandy – Two Eleven
09 Meshell Ndegeocello – Pour Une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone
10 Dwele – Greater Than One
11 Cody ChesnuTT – Landing on a Hundred
12 Melanie Fiona – MF Life
13 Keyshia Cole – Woman to Woman
14 SWV – I Missed Us
15 Columbia Nights – Dawn | Dusk
16 Nona Hendryx – Mutatis Mutandis
17 R. Kelly – Write Me Back
18 Leela James – Loving You More...In the Spirit of Etta James
19 Vivian Green – The Green Room
20 Anthony David – Love Out Loud

I don't go out of my way to play 18-20 but wouldn't switch stations on them.

Armor On would have made the feature if I had it covered in time. I'd probably place it between Ndegeocello and Dwele.

think this is mostly or all canadian stuff

http://silentshout.ca/2012/12/28/top-20-albums-of-2012/

20. Daphni – JIAOLONG – Label
19. Kashka – Vichada – Bandcamp
18. Walter TV – Appetite
17. Purity Ring – Shrines
16. Karneef – In Error
15. Man Made Hill – Intercourses
14. Ghibli – Rare Pleasures
13. Cabaal – Emanations
12. Grimes – Visions
11. Hot & Cold – Border Area
10. You’ll Never Get to Heaven – S/T
9. Mac DeMarco – Rock and Roll Night Club
8. D’eon – LP
7. Phèdre – Phèdre
6. Kontravoid – Silent Visions
5. Renny Wilson – “Sugarglider”
4. Trust – TRST – Stream
3. Blanche Blanche Blanche – Wink with Both Eyes
2. Tenderness – The Axe is Ready at the Tree
1. Femminielli – Double Invitation

it was a cold year in canada

fuck it, y'all, my top 50:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-top-50-albums-of-2012.html
http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/5CPAoA5yF3Z6irLABBXIOm

1. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2. Dead Sara - Dead Sara
3. Future - Pluto
4. Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
5. Melanie Fiona - The MF Life
6. Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game
7. Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears
8. Dev - The Night The Sun Came Up
9. Meek Mill - Dreams And Nightmares
10. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
11. Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
12. Among Wolves - This Is A Wave Goodbye
13. Dawn Richard - Armor On EP
14. Lee Ranaldo - Between The Tides And Times
15. The Water - Scandals And Animals
16. Ichicuts - Filthy First Year
17. Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect
18. Jeremih - Late Nights With Jeremih
19. ZZ Top - La Futura
20. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
21. War On Women - Improvised Weapons EP
22. Keyshia Cole - Woman To Woman
23. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
24. Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
25. Mouse On Tha Track - Millionaire Dreamzzz
26. Heartless Bastards - Arrow
27. Ken Stringfellow - Danzig In The Moonlight
28. Nas - Life Is Good
29. Pink - The Truth About Love
30. Say Anything - Anarchy, My Dear
31. E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil Parts 1, 2 & 3
32. Von Vargas - World Famous Lexington Market
33. Gary B & The Notions - How Do We Explode
34. Hammer No More The Fingers - Pink Worm EP
35. 2 Chainz - Based On A T.R.U. Story
36. Gunplay - 601 & Snort
37. Kalenna - Chamber of Diaries
38. Eleni Mandell - I Can See The Future
39. Tate Kobang – The Book of Joshua
40. DDm - Winter And The Tinman's Heart EP
41. Dave Fell – Baltimore Backlog
41. Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
42. Little Feat - Rooster Rag
43. Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now
44. Jumpcuts - Electrickery
45. Ne-Yo - R.E.D.
47. Young Dro - Ralph Lauren Reefa
48. Soundgarden - King Animal
49. Sara Bareilles - Once Upon Another Time EP
50. Firewater - International Orange!

First time we share two items in the top ten...and, wow, Rufus Wainwright.

oh we've def had 2 or more of the same albums in our top 10s before!

Terrorizer list. bit of stuff I've not seen in (m)any other polls, mainly in the middle section

50 Vision Of Disorder - The Cursed Remain Cursed
49 Ides Of Gemini - Constantinople
48 Latitudes - Individuation
47 Black Shape Of Nexus - Negative Black
46 Katatonia - Dead End Kings
45 Amenra - Mass V
44 Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
43 Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
42 Jess And The Ancient Ones - S/t
41 A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay Of Yesterdays
40 Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine
39 Feed The Rhino - The Burning Sons
38 Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil
37 JK Flesh - Posthuman
36 Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies And Electric Light
35 Unsane - Wreck
34 Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
33 Rush - Clockwork Angels
32 Hexvessel - No Holier Temple
31 Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
30 Meshuggah - Koloss
29 Enabler - All Hail The Void
28 Ufomammut - ORO:Opus Alter/ORO: Opus Primum
27 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
26 Anathema - Weather Systems
25 Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpents Scale
24 Wodensthrone - Curse
23 Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65
22 Royal Thunder - CVI
21 Satan's Wrath - Galloping Blasphemy
20 Gallows - Gallows
19 Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker
18 Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
17 The Chariot - One Wing
16 Grand Magus - The Hunt
15 Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
14 Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
13 Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering
12 Enslaved - RIITIIR
11 Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
10 Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme
9 Killing Joke - MMXII
8 Torche - Harmonicraft
7 Napalm Death - Utilitarian
6 Swans - The Seer
5 Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
4 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
3 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
2 Baroness - Yellow & Green
1 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

Good to see Lee getting love. He'll be in my top 50 too, whenever I publish it.

Ironic to see Christian Mistress and the quintessentially metal Dawnbringer not make the list, but instead Katatonia, Jess & the Ancient Ones, Unsane, Rush, Hexvessel, Anathema, Alcest, Killing Joke, Torche, Swans, Baroness. All good albums, none remotely metal.

not really sure how that's ironic

Terrorizer has never been at all gatekeeper-y wrt things having to 'sound metal' to qualify for inclusion

i think Torche and Baroness are at least "remotely metal"

yeah fnb's comment is p hilar actually

Ironic to see Christian Mistress and the quintessentially metal Dawnbringer not make the list, but instead Gunplay, Little Big Town, Robert Glasper, Juju & Jordash, BJ the Chicago Kid, Big Baby Ghandi and Foxygen. All good albums, none remotely metal.

i think Big Baby Ghandi and Robert Glasper are at least "remotely metal"

lol

Disco Naivete's album list (granted, DN makes no secret about operating within a very narrow scope)

01 Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
02 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
03 Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
04 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
05 Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
06 Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
07 Cat Power - Sun
08 Jessie Ware - Devotion
09 The xx - Coexist
10 Grizzly Bear - Shields
11 Clock Opera - Ways To Forget
12 First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar
13 How to Dress Well - Total Loss
14 Beach House - Bloom
15 iamamiwhoami - kin
16 Niki & the Dove - Instinct
17 Chairlift - Something
18 Grimes - Visions
19 Chromatics - Kill For Love
20 Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
21 Marina & the Diamonds - Electra Heart
22 El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire
23 Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
24 Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
25 Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
26 Holy Other - Held
27 Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
28 Lower Dens - Nootropics
29 Kindness - World, You Need A Change Of Mind
30 Taken By Trees - Other Worlds

Is that narrow scope "Stereogum"

Terrorizer's slogan is "The World's Number 1 Extreme Metal Magazine." So when they drop the ball on awesome bands like Dawnbringer, one might assume they do so because they're not extreme metal. That's fine, but then nearly a quarter of their list isn't even metal. OMG I'm SO hilar! So okay, maybe they're looking to shift to Decibel territory to extreme music, which works with bands like Swans. I suppose you could say Alcest are extremely beautiful, as are Wild Nothing and Beach House.

Or, like many people, they could think Dawnbringer are a bit shit.

the Alcest record has blastbeats on it, come on now

it's so false it was probably endorsed by Eddie Trunk of 'That Remotely Metal Show'

al are you not blurbing your tracks this year???????????

i blurbed them all in the genre lists!

oh right, word

can you post a list of your overall singles list for those of us that don't use spotify

i feel like i'd be bombing the thread if i c&p'd the whole 100 but it's here and there are also links to the genre lists within: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-top-100-singles-of-2012.html

oh word... good list w/ the exception of your blasphemous embracing of driicky graham

lol i was starting to get disappointed about not taking any shit for ranking driicky over chief keef

Revolver Magazine Albums of 2012

1 Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2 Meshuggah- Koloss
3 Soundgarden - King Animal
4 Baroness - Yellow & Green
5 Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
6 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
7 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
8 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
9 Lamb Of God - Resolution
10 Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones Part 1

Rock Sound Albums 2012

50. "Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow" - We Are The Ocean
49. "The Golden Age" - Your Demise
48. "Daybreaker" - Architects
47. "Astraea" - Rolo Tomassi
46. "Lost Songs" - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
45. "Sonic Boom Six" - Sonic Boom Six
44. "Tycoon" - No Trigger
43. "Gnosis" - Monuments
42. "Weapons" - Lostprophets
41. "Funeral Beach" - Blood Command
40. "COLOURMEINKINDNESS" - Basement
39. "The Front Bottoms" - The Front Bottoms
38. "The 2nd Law" - Muse
37. "Long Live The Struggle" - The King Blues
36. "Uno!" - Green Day
35. "Don't Panic" - All Time Low
34. "Port Of Morrow" - The Shins
33. "Collide With The Sky" - Pierce The Veil
32. "Whitechapel" - Whitechapel
31. "Slave To The Grave" - Emmure
30. "Priorities" - Don Broco
29. "The Parallax II: Future Sequence" - Between The Buried And Me
28. "The Union Of Crowns" - Bury Tomorrow
27. "Sentenced To Life" - Black Breath
26. "No Gods" - Sharks
25. "Dead Set On Living" - Cancer Bats
24. "Honor Found In Decay" - Neurosis
23. "Celebration Rock" - Japandroids
22. "L'Enfant Sauvage" - Gojira
21. "The Plot Against Common Sense" - Future Of The Left
20. "Changing Tune" - Lower Than Atlantic
19. "Ex Lives" - Every Time I Die
18. "Harmonicraft" - Torche
17. "Everything You Ever Loved" - Make Do And Mend
16. "Floral Green" - Title Fight
15. "A Flash Flood Of Colour" - Enter Shikari
14. "Bones" - Young Guns
13. "Atlas" - Parkway Drive
12. "This Is The Six" - While She Sleeps
11. "Yellow & Green" - Baroness
10. "Handwritten" - Gaslight Anthem
09. "Gallows" - Gallows
08. "Exister" - Hot Water Music
07. "Dead Silence" - Billy Talent
06. "At Heart" - Miss May I
05. "Koi No Yokan" - Deftones
04. "Failed States" - Propagandhi
03. "Get What You Give" - The Ghost Inside
02. "All We Love We Leave Behind" - Converge
01. "On The Impossible Past" - The Menzingers

LA Times list hasn't been posted yet, has it

http://graphics.latimes.com/storyboard-times-music-staff-best-2012-list/ (also individual writer ballots in link)

1. Frank Ocean, “Channel Orange” (Def Jam) (62)
2. Kendrick Lamar, “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” (Aftermath/Interscope) (43)
3. Fiona Apple, “The Idler Wheel….” (Epic) (17)
4. Dr. John, “Locked Down” (Nonesuch) (17)
5. Japandroids, “Celebration Rock” (Polyvinyl) (16)
6. Miguel, "Kaleidoscope Dream” (RCA) (15)
7. Cat Power, “Sun” (Matador) (14)
8. Andy Stott, “Luxury Problems” (Modern Love) (14)
9. Swans, “The Seer” (Young God) (13)
10. Alabama Shakes, “Boys & Girls” (ATO) (12)

I rather like driicky graham / don't hate me.

hate you, tim

it's totally one of the best radio rap productions of the year, and the rapping doesn't get in the way of it (possibly even helps, considering every time i've heard someone else rap on the beat it hasn't sounded as good) xpost

yeah, pretty much agree. still can't get over his name tho.

the song basically disappearing before he could even get to like Ca$h Out's level has probably fed some of my enthusiasm for it

If anyone cares about my albums list (with dumb blurbs!), here it is: http://on.fb.me/10yKMnt

http://my2ndheartbeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/icare.jpg

thx some dude, xo

There's always some dude that cares, Johnny. Just remember that.

No one gives a shit about mine so I didn't bother.

lol can i post it for you

Sure! Not enough Pinkish Black love on this thread.

my albums list, sans blurbs (although i'd like to write some for at least the top 10):

http://grannykart.com/2012/11/05/jodys-top-30-of-2012/

http://lightbulbhead.tumblr.com/post/38479597599/2012-favorites (xp)

i keep forgetting about that new neneh cherry album.

That Moon Duo record was one of my last cuts, but I dropped it once I realized “Sleepwalkers” sounds like Zooropa-era U2 taking lots of acid and trying to play Adam Ant’s “Vive Le Rock” from memory without having heard it since 1985.

you say that like it's a bad thing.

Not at all! But I docked them slightly because when I saw Adam Ant this fall his current version of "Vive Le Rock" sort of sounded the same way.