Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

Wire - Outer Limits A-Z

Stephen Cornford - Binatone Galaxy
Angharad Davies/Tisha Mukarji/Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga - Outwash
Aaron Dillaway - Modern Jester
Kevin Drumm - Relief
Helm - Impossible Symmetry
Eli Keszler - Catching Net
Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya
Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing
Perispirit - Spiritual Church Movement
Michael Pisaro & Toshiya Tsunoda - Crosshatches
Vanessa Rossetto - Exotic Exit
Floris Vanhoof - Cycles of Confusion
Ben Vida - esstends-esstends-esstends
John Wall & Mark Durgan - John Wall & Mark Durgan
Nate Young - Regression Vol 3: Other Days

Dusted have started their EOY features (they don't have a big best-of list, just individual writers' lists): http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/category/38

Aluk Todolo album is great, Sean

who did the hip-hop list for the Wire, Noz?

I like "Modern Jester," but I wish I liked it MORE. Nothing compares to "Chain Shot," basically.

I need to scope out those Nate Young regression discs

Seriously if I get an iTunes GC for Xmas it's gone in a blink

that looks like a Noz list alright. Never heard of Shy Glizzy tho

The Wire hip-hop list is by Noz and Jack Law.

i'd like to see a lot more of Ka's Grief Pedigree on these lists

Glad to see that Aluk Todolo showing up, its a fantastic record. Black metal krautrock.

not that anyone will be around to fact check this but i get the sense that LTTP will pop up on many more "half-decade" or w/e lists than it did on EOY lists. i think it's starting to get its due as people start to pay more attention to dawn and realize that diddy was doing dark r&b obsessed w/ sade years before any of these clowns

by people you mean "us" right

nah it has resonated beyond ilx

well, I also included critics but if artists have noticed then awesome.

hang on the song "springsteen" or the artist springsteen? the former is awesome, had no idea the latter was still active or alive or whatever

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 13:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was this confirmed as a prankpost?

what is a "prankpost" smh

"springsteen" is such a great song though, it's basically like a male version of t-swift's "tim mcgraw" (which as we all know is the finest song ever written by anyone, like, ever)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2gGXlW6wSY

sucker for any song with the lyric "funny how a melody sounds like a memory" in the chorus

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THAT! I heard it once earlier this year on...Paul Gambaccccccccini's Radio 2 Saturday night US chart show, had been trying to remember it ever since. Boss tune.

not that anyone will be around to fact check this but i get the sense that LTTP will pop up on many more "half-decade" or w/e lists than it did on EOY lists. i think it's starting to get its due as people start to pay more attention to dawn and realize that diddy was doing dark r&b obsessed w/ sade years before any of these clowns

idk sadly i don't really see anyone on the LTTP train who didn't love it at the time - diddy is STILL treated as a joke by the critical consensus, you rarely even see LTTP discussed or referred to (glaring in an era when its concerns and sounds should make it far more of a thing than it is). in a weird way i think what (again, relatively little) praise dawn has garnered is almost despite her diddy connections.

Damn, I just realized that the Compilation for a Cat bandcamp is empty :(

Yeah I'd agree with Lex really, I think Dawn is gaining a rep as people forget that she was in that diddy girl group.

Clash magazine
http://www.clashmusic.com/features/the-top-40-albums-of-2012

1. BOBBY WOMACK The Bravest Man In The Universe (XL Recordings)
2. ALT-J An Awesome Wave (INFECTIOUS MUSIC)
3. FRANK OCEAN ‘Channel ORANGE’ (MERCURY)
4. DEATH GRIPS ‘The Money Store’ (EPIC)
5. GRIMES ‘Visions’ (4AD)
6. EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS ‘Here’ (VAGRANT/ROUGH TRADE)
7. FLYING LOTUS ‘Until The Quiet Comes’ (WARP)
8. DJANGO DJANGO ‘Django Django’ (BECAUSE MUSIC)
9. BETH JEANS HOUGHTON AND THE HOOVES OF DESTINY ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose’ (MUTE)
10. GRIZZLY BEAR ‘Shields’ (WARP)
11. JACK WHITE ‘Blunderbuss’ (XL Records)
12. GANG COLOURS ‘The Keychain Collection’ (BROWNSWOOD)
13. TAME IMPALA ‘Lonerism’ (MODULAR)
14. KENDRICK LAMAR ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ (AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE)
15. KINDNESS ‘World, You Need A Change Of Mind’ (FEMALE ENERGY/POLYDOR)
16. NENEH CHERRY AND THE THING ‘The Cherry Thing’ (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND)
17. THE XX ‘Coexist’ (XL)
18. THE WEEKND ‘Trilogy’ (ISLAND)
19. THE MACCABEES ‘Given To The Wild’ (POLYDOR)
20. EFTERKLANG ‘Piramida’ (4AD)
21. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ‘Centipede Hz’ (DOMINO)
22. SWANS ‘The Seer’ (YOUNG GOD)
23. LIARS ‘WIXIX’ (MUTE)
24. POLIÇA ‘Give You The Ghost’ (MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES)
25. JIMMY CLIFF ‘Rebirth’ (ISLAND)
26. SHACKLETON ‘Music For the Quiet Hour’ (WOE TO THE SEPTIC HEART)
27. PERFUME GENIUS ‘Put Ur Back N 2 It’ (MATADOR)
28. MATTHEW DEAR ‘Beams’ (GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL)
29. CHROMATICS ‘Kill For Love’ (ITALIANS DO IT BETTER)
30. MICACHU AND THE SHAPES ‘Never’ (Rough Trade)
31. ACTRESS ‘R.I.P.’ (HONEST JONS)
32. DZ DEATHRAYS ‘Bloodstreams’ (HASSLE)
33. JAKE BUGG ‘Jake Bugg’ (MERCURY)
34. MARCONI UNION ‘Different Colours’ (JUST MUSIC)
35. THE VACCINES ‘Come Of Age’ (COLUMBIA)
36. JULIA HOLTER ‘Ekstasis’ (IGetRVNG)
37. BRETON ‘Other People’s Problems’ (FATCAT)
38. YEASAYER ‘Fragrant World’ (MUTE)
39. THE SHINS ‘Port Of Morrow’ (Columbia)
40. Willis Earl Beal ‘Acoustmatic Sorcery’ (XL)

How many lists have both Death Grips albums?

Yeah I'd agree with Lex really, I think Dawn is gaining a rep as people forget that she was in that diddy girl group.

tbh i think most people steadfastly refuse to believe dawn and kalenna had any agency in it to begin with

Exactly - glorified back-up singers.

That Clash list has the worst case of one album too late that I've ever seen.

i haven't seen any Dawn press that has downplayed or sneak dissed D-DM -- Danity Kane on the other hand

it's an odd situation because on the one hand it's the peg for covering her at all, on the other it's a peg that affords her attention but not necessarily respect

also a lot of this is skewed by so much of her coverage coming from US

Eww, this Edward Sharpe album is not nice at all.

More Fact:
http://www.factmag.com/2012/12/03/the-50-best-albums-of-2012/32/

one of my most open-minded and pop-loving IRL music friends asked me if i was joking around when i put LTTP on my year-end list

that jeremih mixtape may be the most inexplicably over-praised of 2012, even in a year when frank ocean and the weeknd existed. wtf do hipsters love about it so much? SO NOTHINGY.

stop acting a sucker with that H-word shit

it's just R&B you don't like, and that's OK

ppl who rep for that jeremih mixtape are not what i'd call "hipsters"

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Hipster party?

That Silent Servant album is terrific btw, DJP might like that one. One of the guys from Sandwell District, creepy late-night tube carriage sort of ambience.

In case anyone is still paying attention to the Guardian's endless rollout, their #7 is that Alt-J album. Never heard it myself.

it's a load of willy wee.

I gave it a spin a couple months ago after I'd determined it wasn't some witch house shit (that name, oy!). I'll give it this...it doesn't really sound like much of anything else that's out right now. However, just because that's the case doesn't mean it's all that great.

As a card carrying hipster, dues fully paid, I'd like to defend that Jeremih tape. Or at least Rosa Acosta.

what a token hipster video chick choice

I was just about to say "hipster is a category only ever applied to other people" but Josiah has gone and contradicted that, in any case, fairly banal statement.

Specifically other people who like OMG SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT things to oneself.

What you gonna hate on next, Adorn? Miguel = Hipster Music.

I like "Breezeblocks" from Alt-J, but the album devolved really quickly into some sub-Dave Matthews shit, complete with the strained ballad singing and "world music" signifiers that actually aren't.

Silent Servant is FANTASTIC btw, holy shit

ppl who rep for that jeremih mixtape are not what i'd call "hipsters"

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:27 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

disagree tbh lol

it's kind of funny to me to read breathless "zomg it's techno-meets-noise!" descriptions as if 80s/90s industrial dance never happened, though; this really reminds me of a quieter, dubby version of the Doubting Thomas album from 1991

Silent Servant is FANTASTIC btw, holy shit

Yay! Really goes off at about track 4.