Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

xpost well that's my teenage dream ended.

did chief keef threaten to snatch your fake breast out? NO

I didn't even notice that line, mostly because I was amazed at the number of times she said "muthafuckas for real" in a row

2nd track is budget Missy circa Under Construction

Gorilla vs. Bear
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2012/12/02/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2012/

1. Grimes – Visions
2. Chromatics – Kill For Love
3. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Burial – Kindred
5. Jessie Ware – Devotion
6. Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions
7. Beach House – Bloom
8. Tops – Tender Opposites
9. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
10. Chairlift – Something
11. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
12. Grizzly Bear – Shields
13. Laurel Halo – Quarantine
14. Holy Other – Held
15. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black is Beautiful
16. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
17. Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
18. Frankie Rose – Interstellar
19. Symmetry – Themes For An Imaginary Film
20. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
21. Chromatics – Running From the Sun
22. Angel Olsen – Half Way Home
23. Clams Casino – Instrumentals II
24. Nicolas Jaar – Don’t Break My Love / The Prism
25. Fort Romeau – Kingdoms
26. Dawn Richard – Armor On
27. Tamaryn – Tender New Signs
28. Shackleton – Music For the Quiet Hour
29. Mirroring – Foreign Body
30. Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
31. Phedré – Phedré
32. LOL Boys – Changes
33. Roc Marciano – Reloaded
34. Fight Bite – Fight Bite
35. Sam Flax – Age Waves
36. Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze
37. Lower Dens – Nootropics
38. Las Malas Amistades – Maleza
39. Lace Curtains – The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness
40. Ryan Hemsworth – Last Words + Collected
41. Taken By Trees – Other Worlds
42. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
43. Antwon – End of Earth
44. Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games
45. Molly Nilsson – History
46. Peaking Lights – Lucifer
47. Death Grips – The Money Store
48. Pure Bathing Culture – Pure Bathing Culture
49. Theesatisfaction – awE naturalE
50. Sand Circles – Motor City

basically I feel like you're going "all of this music is bullshit, you should listen to THIS *points at more bullshit*"

That's not a bad list really.

that's lex's whole schtick

38. Las Malas Amistades – Maleza
49. Theesatisfaction – awE naturalE
50. Sand Circles – Motor City

I liked these albums well enough to be happy they got picked up somewhere. Otherwise no great surprises beyond the continuing absence of Animal Collective.

anyway I turned it off and went back to Elle Varner

8. Tops – Tender Opposites

Anyone know what this is?

ha, was just about to ask that.

damn gorilla vs bear taking a bold stand against frank ocean

That's not a bad list really.

― Tim F, Monday, December 3, 2012 5:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only nearly half of the top 10 is awful?

8. Tops – Tender Opposites

Anyone know what this is?

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, December 3, 2012 12:14 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

hit xvideos and lemme know

xpost so you'd agree it's the best list so far.

Not half, just 3.

http://open.spotify.com/album/42qdevk4wy09wv0FtWC0fF

Tops - Tender Opposites

Tops albums is just eighties pastiche, handled ineptly.

tops are another montreal arbutus band, pretty bad imo

GvB probably the only non-lex-associated list to rate Dawn?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/10002345/Fr+immer+Du.jpg

I was really digging the first song on the Tops album for about a minute, but then it went on for another 2 and I got bored

^ are those the right guys? xp

xp yeah basically my experience, the singer is pretty awful too

http://i.minus.com/iUkjhpTN58Lqm.gif

Did we all see nabisco otm's list:

http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/nitsuh-abebe-top-ten-albums.html

"I Belong In Your Arms" will make my own list but I couldn't make it through the rest of the Chairlift record.

Glad he put Ware on his list.

If you could monetize having your album compared to Sade, Ware would finish 2012 rich

lol

haha

nitsuh's is a decent list (barring cloud 0s)

Ugh, really? Evans the Death? They sound like fucking Echobelly.

That's bad?

Yes. Very bad.

I'm not surpised to see Grimes on these lists, but can't exactly figure how this is the best of the year. To me, the Grimes album is decent, but a bit amaturish and underproduced. I enjoyed it early on but reached the point of diminishing returns months ago.

tbf, haven't heard (of) Evans the Death, but "sounds like Echobelly" doesn't automatically turn me off ("sounds like Sleeper" might be better tho)

but a bit amaturish and underproduced

part of the charm imo. haven't listened to it for awhile except for the singles though.

I would like to replace every occurrence of Grimes with Farrah Abraham

"sounds like Sleeper" might be better tho

Ha, "sounds like Sleeper" would have me shooting myself in the face. You should probably give them a go.

I'd like to replace every occurrence of Grimes and Purity Ring with Tinashe and Chromatics.

do you know how to code?

Purity Ring can stay, I love that album

I keep forgetting there was yet another fantastic Lone album this year

I would like to replace every occurrence of Grimes with Farrah Abraham

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, December 3, 2012 5:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in every EOY list, in every itunes, in every inch of coverage

KattWillFerrell is the best twitter ablxxounlll

8. Tops – Tender Opposites

Anyone know what this is?

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, December 3, 2012 12:14 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

hit xvideos and lemme know
--J0rdan S.

I just played myself laughing out loud in the sub shop over this

I didn't know Nabisco is Nitsuh!

SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2012

01 FRANK OCEAN - CHANNEL ORANGE (DEF JAM)
02 KENDRICK LAMAR - GOOD KID, M.A.A.D CITY (TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE)
03 JAPANDROIDS - CELEBRATION ROCK (POLYVINYL)
04 DJ RASHAD - TEKLIFE VOL. 1 - WELCOME TO THE CHI (LIT CITY TRAX)
05 MIGUEL - KALEIDOSCOPE DREAM (RCA)
06 BAT FOR LASHES - THE HAUNTED MAN (PARLOPHONE)
07 SWANS - THE SEER (YOUNG GOD)
08 KILLER MIKE R.A.P. MUSIC (WILLIAMS STREET)
09 TY SEGALL - TWINS (DRAG CITY)
10 SANTIGOLD - MASTER OF MY MAKE-BELIEVE (DOWNTOWN/ATLANTIC)
11 FUTURE - PLUTO (A1/FREE BANDZ/EPIC)
12 DEATH GRIPS - NO LOVE DEEP WEB (SELF-RELEASED)
13 CLOUD NOTHINGS - ATTACK ON MEMORY (CARPARK)
14 GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! (CONSTELLATION)
15 BARONESS - YELLOW & GREEN (RELAPSE)
16 FIONA APPLE - THE IDLER WHEEL IS WISER THAN THE DRIVER OF THE SCREW AND WHIPPING CORDS WILL SERVE YOU MORE THAN ROPES WILL EVER DO (EPIC)
17 GRIZZLY BEAR - SHIELDS (WARP)
18 KING TUFF - KING TUFF (SUB POP)
19 TRAXMAN - DA MIND OF TRAXMAN (PLANET MU)
20 PALLBEARER - SORROW AND EXTINCTION (PROFOUND LORE)
21 DAPHNI - JIAOLONG (MERGE)
22 TORCHE - HARMONICRAFT (VOLCOM)
23 DIRTY PROJECTORS - SWING LO MAGELLAN (DOMINO)
24 CAT POWER - SUN (MATADOR)
25 ACTION BRONSON - BLUE CHIPS (FOOL'S GOLD)
26 TAME IMPALA - LONERISM (MODULAR)
27 SLEIGH BELLS - REIGN OF TERROR (MOM + POP)
28 JESSIE WARE - DEVOTION (PMR/ISLAND)
29 DINOSAUR JR. - I BET ON SKY (JAGJAGUWAR)
30 FRANKIE ROSE - INTERSTELLAR (SLUMBERLAND)
31 THE XX - COEXIST (YOUNG TURKS)
32 GOAT - WORLD MUSIC (ROCKET)
33 THEE OH SEES - PUTRIFIERS II (IN THE RED)
34 MALA - IN CUBA (BROWNSWOOD)
35 JACK WHITE - BLUNDERBUSS (THIRD MAN/COLUMBIA)
36 BEAK> - >> (INVADA)
37 R. KELLY - WRITE ME BACK (RCA)
38 TAYLOR SWIFT - RED (BIG MACHINE)
39 ROC MARCIANO - RELOADED (DECON) (JS)
40 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - CENTIPEDE HZ (DOMINO)
41 PURITY RING - SHRINES (LAST GANG/4AD)
42 LINDSTRØM - SIX CUPS OF REBEL (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) AND SMALHANS (FEEDELITY)
43 KATHLEEN EDWARDS - VOYAGEUR (ZOË/ROUNDER)
44 DEFTONES - KOI NO YOKAN (REPRISE)
45 NICKI MINAJ - PINK FRIDAY: ROMAN RELOADED (YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC)
46 SPOEK MATHAMBO - FATHER CREEPER (SUB POP)
47 METRIC - SYNTHETICA (MOM + POP)
49 BEST COAST - THE ONLY PLACE (MEXICAN SUMMER)
49 HEEMS - NEHRU JACKETS (GREEDHEAD)
50 FUN. - SOME NIGHTS (FUELED BY RAMEN)

Lol at ILX mobile posting half finished post about @KattWillFerrell

I don't hate the Grimes album but I'm kind of pleased to see it not make that list, while Baroness, Torche and Pallbearer did.

KUDOS FOR NICKI! first list to acknowledge that it's actually really good

kudos for santigold too, no 10 seems high but it's been weirdly overlooked elsewhere considering how strong the strongest cuts on it are

"I Belong In Your Arms" will make my own list but I couldn't make it through the rest of the Chairlift record.

I was glad to see Chairlift as his #2; it will likely be my own #1.

I was surprised to see Santigold there - it's been ignored everywhere else - but the good tracks are great. Same goes for Chairlift.

From the bottom of Nitsuh's list (though not written by Nitsuh):

Lana Del Rey
January’s most controversial pop starlet was old news by February.

Yes, unless you count selling over 2 million albums.