ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

wow this Haim really sounds like a lost late-90s pop hit. i was kinda skeptical at first but it's really good.

sorry to spam with this question again, but did you all just take your submitted ballots and copy and paste them into a document? i'm wondering if there's any way to access my ballot so i can remember how i voted.

For me, in order to appreciate stuff like the KFW I need to know a little more about the concept, the method, the ideas behind it or else it's really just a long sequence of atonal arpeggios burbling away that aren't necessarily pleasant or interesting to listen to. What is the idea behind an issue generator?

Get the feeling it was Lindstrom stans who pushed that into the list, over half the votes were for the remix.

yea mine is in a word document, the same one i used to narrow down my choices

and i have decided i don't get the kfw and probably won't. i haven't heard anything of this other than one album + that and none of it has really stuck w/ me (blasphemy)

kfw in ilm eoy shocka - amazing to see that place

I think I like the OG Haim better. it just has a bit more brio to it.

Yeah I'm digging this Haim track. Is it cause of the Lindstrom remix? I'll listen to the original next for comparison, but this is really good.

Yeah I like this Haim! I think I kinda prefer the live over the recorded version myself. Lol @ bassplayer playing with her mouth open

something about the melody of the haim song i can't quite vibe with, it's a good melody but there's almost too much of it, and it's a bit too jerky for my tastes. lindstrøm remix fine, naturally, but if anything retains too much of the original

i listened to both, they are pretty pleasant i guess

wow this Haim really sounds like a lost late-90s pop hit. i was kinda skeptical at first but it's really good.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:14 AM (3 minutes ago)

Yeah, especially that bass!

My wife will like this, thanks!

wow really like haim both versions

Only Haim track I need is "Don't Save Me".

I hope this is going to make the list. More tracks I only know about thanks to the nominations.

Moved on to the original -- think I like it even better!

is this like popular popular in the UK? it should be.

despite being a huge lindstrom fan i think i like the orig more

http://i.imgur.com/Llryc1Z.png?1

58. ANGEL HAZE "New York" [218 points, 9 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

Not heard the OG Haim, but hated their vocals on the remix. What's going on underneath is ace though. Isn't it a Lindstrom and Prins Thomas remix btw? Credit where it's due!

xp

Haim's wide-open melodicism is their main virtue IMO.

Trap Goin Haim! I do like this

Haim's wide-open melodicism is their main virtue IMO.

i thought it was cool hats

wow this Haim really sounds like a lost late-90s pop hit

it does make me want to listen to 'i love you always forever' a lot.

HAZE!

voted for the album but she is one of the artists of the year and this is easily one of the best songs here. way too low if anything though i suspect vote-splitting probably occurred.

i'm a fire in the midst of the forest round bitches
and i rap elliptical orbits round bitches
ANACONDA, i sit with an open mouth bitches

ZS, I ILXmailed you your ballot.

great song. first one to place that i voted for. reservation was very strong as an album too.

<3 "New York"

(seandalai could u email me my ballot if u have time please? i forgot to save it)

xpost thanks seandalai, appreciate it

KFW is pretty generic/forgettable. not recommended

oooh yeah New York is great

More spookiness, was just playing New York like half an hour ago, same train ride. (Maybe Epizootics! will be up next! Channelling!)

it does make me want to listen to 'i love you always forever' a lot.

― my chemtrails romance (c sharp major), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:25 AM Bookmark

that was one of the exact songs on my mind (also "Lovefool")

"New York" is cool but I voted for "Werkin' Girls" instead. hope it's still to come.

I really like the Angel Haze album but haven't had enough with it to separate into fave tracks. She is great though.

I'm Saaaatan, and I'm gonna take yr ass to church now.

this whitman's pretty aight but if i really wanted kinda smarmy atavism i'd probably stick to todd terje or whatever

But yeah 'New York' sticks out as a highlight now I listen to it again. Love the sinnerman handclaps, gabba-style kick drum and the 'I run Neyak' refrain.

feels like a menacing Pass that Dutch, in a really good way

yeah def

Love the KFW and Angel Haze, voted for both. This list is going solid so far!

loving this Haim song. I just hope they don't go the "epic indie" route

wtf does that mean

this is the horror film-style video for "new york" btw - dunno why it's not on youtube any more http://vimeo.com/45790839

omg thank you, i've been looking for it again, thought it had been scrubbed from the internet

Angel Haze was a relatively late in the year discovery for me, but I adore her. Think lex is right re: vote-splitting, though.

the Angel Haze song sounds like it's sampling Lumidee "Never Leave You (Uh Oh)"

the one i'm curious about is angel haze's version of "cleaning out my closet". on the one hand, the most viscerally powerful thing i've heard maybe this decade. on the other, it would feel weird to be all "voting 4 this in a poll" about a song i could only listen to once.

the lumideers

lol. i would enjoy hearing a version that actually does (xp re: lumidee)