Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

...is what i was trying to post :(

ok guys i have a high tolerance for bullshit but it's 2012 and for once we don't need to be talking about animal collective

^ this! I welcome the respite.

xp I didn't really care that AC were topping lists last time around, but it is nice to see someone feels the same way. I was excited about AC until about the same period in '04. It seems that their more experimental stuff was also somehow more listenable, probably because of the kitchen-sink issue of cramming the sound with too much . . . stuff.

It's a similar problem I have to an extent with Flying Lotus and some other current albums.

I'm gonna defend anybody's desire to go long form about whatever on ILM. So many of us (myself included) don't go long here anymore.

i grudgingly agree w/that, actually

I don't think the Santigold album is as wondrous as "The Keepers" and "Disparate Youth" but I'm glad it made somebody's top ten -- it's an idiosyncratic enough choice.

ST = fell in love right away, never fell out
Feels = warmed to it over time, fell in love
SJ = never cottoned
MPP = fell in love right away, then got bored 2-3 months later, possibly due to overexposure (same thing happened with the last Spoon album)
CHz = listened a couple times, didn't feel compelled to return other than obligation to write about it

Centepede is easier to admire than to like, and I never find myself missing ANY of it, at all, which sets it apart from every other thing AC has ever done.

The absence from lists makes sense but it still sucks.

Note: I did heart Peaceabone and BrotheR Sport btw

it's 2012 and for once we don't need to be talking about animal collective

...is essentially a summary of what I posted ;-)

Also the pre-ST AC is dope need to revisit

Well, it is a story when one of the most critically lauded groups of the past decade falls off their perch. As Raymond says, the absence of AC on these lists is not inexplicable but it's not something that could have been predicted with certainty either. Not that it matters here but I rate CHz about the same as Strawberry Jam.

I don't really like the pre Sung Tongs stuff. ST, Feels and MPP are all great, feel the same way as you about Strawberry Jam.

xp

I'm gonna defend anybody's desire to go long form about whatever on ILM. So many of us (myself included) don't go long here anymore.

― Raymond Cummings, Monday, December 3, 2012 4:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I was being a dick, but it was more his topic than the length of his post I was reacting to.

I'll add Fireworks to Strawberry Jam. Until Centipede they've always had a few notable gems on each album, but this is the first one I just feel ambivalent about on every track.

Yeah was thinking about adding a Fireworks caveat to the SJ comparison, it's better than anything on CHz. Today's Supernatural and New Town Burnout are, I think, the keepers on the new one.

That Death Defying Unicorn album someone posted upthread is insane and cool

they're so horrible. animal collective sound to me like what i imagine most modern music sounds like to really old people. like, what is that shit? i'll never understand them.

You have lost touch with the feral spirit of youth, scott.

they're just bad at it. and annoying. in a world where this already existed who needs them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fidi0JvFAnk

Just out of curiosity, is anyone listing Meek Mill on any lists?

i can't listen to horrible mr. bungle music either though. people are horrified by different things.

x-post

Wondering which Death Grips album will place higher in P&J?

And Rev, it's all love - just felt like ppl were dog piling on dog Latin a bit

if I didn't know dl would take it good humor, I wouldn't have posted it

no offence taken, i mean, i was banging on about animal collective so i get what i deserve really.

that Paul Dolden thing is interesting, but it's nothing like AC.

I'm pretty gutted iamamiwhoami's Kin has only made the RYM list so far

listening to this now. pretty outstanding, definitely for fans of gazelle twin, the knife, and similar artists.

more than pretty outstanding actually

Ha this is what I get for being outta touch with ILX for so damn long

Sorry dudes

Hey, is Alt Press still around, do they have a list?

"that Paul Dolden thing is interesting, but it's nothing like AC."

thank the lord.

i was put off iamamiwhoami because of their name (even clunkier than when saints go machine) but this is really good.

that last track is especially decent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3G_Y3aIlis&noredirect=1

lol "especially decent"

isn't that diplo's label

i was put off iamamiwhoami because of their name (even clunkier than when saints go machine) but this is really good.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin)

Yeah I can understand the name thing, there are some things about the whole campaign that have been a bit much but the music is just incredible.

It's all about Play for me, the chorus is just so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBC8L3pG_Y

Am I the only person who dug the Project Undark Radium Girls 2011 stuff? Need to track down the full album... And yes, it was released this year, despite the misleading name.

listening to iamamiwhoami right now, having put it on the back burner for a while. this is really good stuff, and if i was inclined to compile a top 20 or whatever, which i may well do just for the hell of it, then this would definitely be vying for a good spot. it just seems to strike such a strong balance of tempos, atmospheres, everything. i really love "goods" and the frantic, spooky undercurrent that sends it whisking along.

It's a shame some of the earlier stand-alone iamamiwhoami tracks didn't make it to Kin, especially ";John", but at the same time I understand that the build-up and the final artifact are probably intended to be different things.

Pretty sure iamamiwhoami will place pretty well on ILM, as there's at least 5 of us who rate it. And yes, the initially offputting "Play" with the lovely Cocteau Twinsy chorus is my highlight too.

It's a shame some of the earlier stand-alone iamamiwhoami tracks didn't make it to Kin, especially ";John", but at the same time I understand that the build-up and the final artifact are probably intended to be different things.

― Johnny Fever

I know there was a huge build up with those singles but I somehow missed all that. Kin was the first thing I heard. I downloaded all the early singles a while back but haven't really spent much time with them yet.

Glad to hear there are few other iamamiwhoami supporters on here.

Is there a thread about them? Might be worth starting one if not (can't check as I'm on my phone)

One here:

Who is iamamiwhoami?

The album grew on me enormously after seeing her live.

remember when everyone thought iamamiwhoami was xtina?

Filter Magazine - "Good Music Will Prevail"
http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/filters_top_10_of_2012_staff_picks

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism MODULAR
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange DEF JAM
3. Grimes - Visions 4AD
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d. city TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE
5. Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs PARTISAN
6. Cat Power - Sun MATADOR
7. Mumford & Sons - Babel GLASSNOTE
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! CONSTELLATION
9. Niki & The Dove - Instinct SUB POP
10. Beach House - Bloom SUB POP
11. Miike Snow - Happy To You DOWNTOWN/UNIVERSAL
12. Liars - WIXIW MUTE
13. Sigur Rós - Valtari XL
14. DIIV - Oshin CAPTURED TRACKS
15. Father John Misty - Fear Fun SUB POP
16. Chromatics - Kill For Love ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
17. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... EPIC
18. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes WARP
19. Jack White - Blunderbuss THIRD MAN/COLUMBIA
20. The xx - Coexist XL

What's Father John Misty? I overheard the girls in the record shop banging on about him/them the other day.

baffling that Cat Power is turning up on so many of these lists

Think he was the dude with the really boring voice in Father Ted.

haha, yeah that's very similar to who I imagined when I heard the name.

Father John Misty is the drummer from Fleet Foxes or something I think. Seriously.