"Pye Corner Audio/Holly Herndon/Goat/Diiv/Beak> are solid but others do similar better imo"
like what?
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
pan records have had a great year :) have been meaning to start a pan records s/d for a while.
Shame Matthew Bourne hasn't made any lists so far, Montauk Variations is a beautiful beautiful record probably my favourite of the year. Stewart Lee chose it as his record of the year, that's the only place I've seen it.
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Steve!
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Heatsick Steve (oh, lol)? I finally gave Deviation a proper listen this weekend; really enjoyed it, it's soo *Steve*, which sounds kind of trite, but what I mean is (we went to the same school) he's always done a good job of walking the line between super serious and super fun and all the while doing it with style.
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Is the Sensate Focus/Heatsick remix thing worth tracking down?
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's up on the PAN soundcloud page:https://soundcloud.com/pan_recs
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
everybody knows steve
― epic album: the pluto (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
xp ooh didn't think of looking there, thanks!
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
I wanted to like that Pelt album more than I ended up doing
― when worlds coincide (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Anyways, I think the fact that "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" exists means that outre psych/drone fans will always have time for the Clean
― when worlds coincide (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm. Wonder what Lee Gamble's favourite joke was?
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
What's some good dad techno?
Gotta be something by Michael Mayer, although most of that Kompakt stuff sounds more like house to me. I should properly said the RA list was dominated by "dad house" but dad techno had more of a ring to it. Like the man say, nobody listens to techno.
― viborg, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
Actually there's something a little perverse about the phrase "dad house" but that's probably just me.
FWIW, acclaimedmusic.net, in their most recent metapoll of 68 published critic polls (so far, with idiosyncratic weighting), available only to registered members ATM, scores these as the top 20 polled albums of the year:
1. Frank Ocean 2. Tame Impala 3. Grimes 4. Grizzly Bear 5. Kendrick Lamar 6. The XX 7. alt-J 8. Chromatics 9. Jack White 10. Beach House 11. Swans 12. Dirty Projectors 13. Django Django 14. Cat Power 15. Fiona Apple 16. Sharon Van Etten 17. Japandroids 18. Flying Lotus 19. Jessie Ware 20. Alabama Shakes
Grimes and Django Django are beloved in the UK, less so elsewhere. Fiona Apple, Japandroids and Swans are North American critic fare. The XX and Dirty Projectors won high rankings mostly in the non-Anglophone world.
― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
surprised at cat power doing so well, most of the reviews i skimmed for that seemed to be saying it was just so-so
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Always weird to me when a band like Tame Impala suddenly gets a ton of praise for a second album that doesn't sound too different from the first. Did critics come late to the debut? Was this one promoted more?
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
i would guess it's mostly critics coming late to the debut and catching up in time for the second
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I remember people being all over the first Tame Impala. I remember being surprised how quickly they caught on, their first U.S. tour sold out everywhere, etc. Though the response may have been a bit too late for the polls on the first one.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Rock-A-Rolla Top 50 Albums of 2012
01 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay02 Goat - World Music03 Om - Advaitic Songs04 Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II05 Baroness - Yellow & Green06 Swans - The Seer07 Melvins Lite - Freak Puke08 Old Man Gloom - No09 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner10 Amenra - Mass V11 GY!BE - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!12 Converge - All We Love We Leave13 The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet14 Ey Vind Kang - The Narrow Garden15 Eagle twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpent's Scale16 Scott Walker - Bish Bosch17 Mono - For My Parents18 Torche - Harmonicraft19 Dysrhythmia - Test Of Submission20 Liars - WIXIW21 Black Bananas - Rad Times Express IV22 Hexvessel - No Holier Temple23 Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum & Alter24 Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild25 Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing26 Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Ame27 Meshuggah - Koloss28 Enabler - All Hail the Void29 Jodis - Black Curtain30 Orange Goblin - A Euology for the Damned31 Switchblade - Switchblade32 Open Ambarchi - Sagittarian Domain33 Menace Ruine - Alight in Ashes34 Killing Joke - MMXII35 Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus - Didymoi Dreams36 Father Murphy - Anyway, Your Children Will Deny It37 Ash Borer - Cold of Ages38 Nazoranai - Nazoranai39 Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai40 Unsane - Wreck41 Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas42 Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn43 Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-6544 Royal Thunder - CVI45 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil46 JK Flesh - Posthuman47 Lento - Anxiety Despair Languish48 Okkultokrati - Snakereigns49 KTL - V50 Black Shape of Nexus - Negative Black
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
<3 rock-a-rolla
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
14 Ey Vind Kang - The Narrow Garden
"Eyvind Kang" didn't look exotic enough?
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
seriously what's the appeal of this lotus plaza song? it's something I would expect from a local amateur band who just had their first exposure to indie rock.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
wtf why hadn't I heard anything about "climax" before these lists came out?? SUCH AN ANTHEM.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 20 December 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
not sure if anyone saw this earlier, so re-posting:
http://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-2012-splice-today-albums-poll
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 20 December 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
yaaay inspector norse: http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/best-2012-tunes-5-1
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 20 December 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
Putting '212' in the top five is just fucking lazy, Mixmag.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 December 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
wow, having their top songs of the year list spread through 20 pages that AREN'T EVEN FUCKING LINKED TOGETHER is just infuriating
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure Mixmag knew about 212 last year.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there are so many EOY lists that i haven't even bothered to look at because of the intolerable clickthru thing
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
That Rock-A-Rolla list is great. Never read it, is it a site or a mag?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
212 was released in December 2011, so maybe Mixmag's 2011 poll was decided earlier on?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure it came out earlier than that? it was on a lot of end of year lists last year
― just sayin, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:27 (eleven years ago) link
it feels like it's been around forever
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
Video on Youtube was uploaded in September 2011 and that's how I heard it.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
it was doing the rounds from at least september 2011, which is when the official youtube was uploaded
xp
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
In September 2011, the song was chosen as the Record of the Week by Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
cunnilanguage
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
mixmag must have mentioned it in their 2011 coverage though, surely?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
looks like the earliest they mentioned it was january 4th?
http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/big-tunes/jan12
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
weak
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
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")
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
'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
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link