ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

i tried with this, but it didn't grab me as much as the last album

basically it's a dude in 2012 making sparkly rave music with lots of gorgeous synths and samba syncopation

Did you mean that the other way? Inspector Norse is a massively polite track.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, January 28, 2013 9:41 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it was explained to me in the other thread that it's a rowdy upending of good taste to emphasize all the fun embarrassing elements of disco, apparently

lone falls under the "uk bass"/"FACT music" umbrella i guess? i listened to this album and thought it was better than the singles i'd heard previously, but there's something about the synths he uses that i find slightly...off, and i didn't return to it much.

i also didn't return to nite jewel much, i feel like i'm basically on board with her and what she's going for, but still waiting for that one song that'll blow me away

Liked the track 'Crystal Caverns 1991' but wasn't feeling the album.

basically Lone strikes me as what 808 State would be doing now if they were still a going concern, there's that same type of metallic reverb sheen across his tracks and a similar love of syncopation

i also didn't return to nite jewel much, i feel like i'm basically on board with her and what she's going for, but still waiting for that one song that'll blow me away

Yeah, I definitely feel like this with NJ. Though probably what we're waiting for is in completely opposite directions. ^__^

Crystal Caverns 1991 is probably the best track on it

btw this was like #18 on my ballot, I do like this album a ton but a bunch of better stuff came out this year

I never got round to Galaxy Garden although I liked the previous Lone album, is he still doing Black Dog-ish throwback techno?

The Vatican Shadow album is amazing and my first vote to place I think. Intrigued by Nite Jewel as well.

oh yeah, Black Dog is another good reference point, I always forget about them

haha actually "Black Dog meets 808 State" is probably the best description of what dude is doing

i also didn't return to nite jewel much, i feel like i'm basically on board with her and what she's going for, but still waiting for that one song that'll blow me away

Yeah, I definitely feel like this with NJ. Though probably what we're waiting for is in completely opposite directions. ^__^

― emil.y, Monday, January 28, 2013 2:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha well surely she has to please at least one of us at some point then!

So glad the Professor Norse controversy hasn't petered out yet. Is it wild? Is it crazy? Is it a dance party sensation?

Lone's take Radiohead's "Feral" was one of my favorites on the King of Limbs remix album. I'd never bothered to check out his own stuff, but this album is sounding really nice so far.

that Lone album is great. Like Zomby doing his old skool rave thing with Rustie's gleaming synths. Crystal Caverns 1991 definitely the stand-out, but the whole record is excellent.

didn't notice this had started! yes to BIGBANG... justice after missing out on the tracks poll.

kept meaning to check out the Daphni and Vatican Shadow records but never got around to it.

man I just went back and played a few seconds of "Inspector Norse" after playing a few seconds of Lone/Machinedrum's "As A Child" and afaic the controversy should roll long and hard through all of 2013

The Lone album sounded pretty good on first listen, love the cover too.

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69. NINA KRAVIZ Nina Kraviz (218 Points, 7 Votes, 1 First Place Vote) Spotify

what is this

wow really surprising. i'm very pro-nina kraviz in general - her 2009 single "i'm gonna get you" is an ALL-TIME CLASSIC imo - but i didn't think this album was much more than your typical three-star fine-enough dance lp

xp I thought he meant it was less polite than Norse? But I don't know...

― emil.y, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:43 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that's what I mean. I love Inspector Norse (my #1 track), but DJP is OTM here. I think Lone's mission is to pick up where early-90s aardkore left off.

pretty pleased to see kraviz place though, she's such an awesome dj. oddest place i saw her pop up in 2012 - midway through the khodorkovsky documentary about russian corruption

That spotify link is actually not for the right thing (the album doesn't appear to be available there). Here's a sampler on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rekids/rekids010cd-promo-nina-kraviz

lone album is great, its weird to see something that's basically 90s IDM on the list in 2013

The IDM description kind of goes against the impolite shiny rave description... Which is it, ILM?

(To be honest, it doesn't sound like it'd nec. be my thing, though I still have fondness for various IDM tropes.)

it's a proper party album though. the only other thing i can equate with galaxy garden is young smoke's space zone (which i will spend a good chunk of this poll waiting in vain to appear)

Neil was spot on with his Zomby call on the Lone record, it's very Where Were U In 92

yeah thats probably a better reference point than idm actually

Dunno, people who were into the Nina Kraviz album seemed to be really really into it, although it didn't do much for me at all.

Seemingly more bobbins in the albums poll than in the tracks poll already.

which... is kind weird, no?

Anyone making a Spotify playlist?

I haven't played this Nina album in a long time, but these clips on Soundcloud are reminding me why I liked it.

which... is kind weird, no?

It's definitely kind of surprising. It's not like any of the albums that have placed have been from particularly auterish or crossover artists either.

jesus either my keyboard or my brain is broken, I keep missing words in my posts

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68. METZ Metz (219 Points, 10 Votes) Spotify

the only metz i know is the french town where there's an atp tournament every year

in that case, i much prefer the tennis metz tbh. found this album a bit tedious.

I find it strange, that with a decade of microhouse and minimal house under the bridge, people are saying Inspector Norse is polite. It's not exactly nosebleed gabba, but it's got loads of bounce and plenty of stuff going on in there.

WTF is METZ?

This Metz album seems okay, but if I'm in the mood for something like this I'll just play Hot Snakes.

oh cool, i was hoping someone else would go for metz! they're consistently good, but "sad pricks" stuck out for me (tee hee)

youtube - sad pricks

didn't vote for it but i enjoyed that albums the few times i heard it. it's very jesus lizardy guitar rock dog latin

WTF is METZ?

sort of a 2012 take on jesus lizard, drive like jehu, occasional in utero-style drumming,

I heard that the Metz is a good record for us metal doods. True?

The Metz record made me dig out old Jesus Lizard, so thanks Metz!

the only metz i know is the french town where there's an atp tournament every year

Didn't know this, I'm assuming they're named after that rather than the alcopop.

unlike andrew wkd

it doesn't have the same lustre or immediacy as JL, or DLJ for that matter, perhaps because it's plying in a second-hand kind of way for the same effect so many years down the track.

metz record holds up fairly well; theres always a place for one or two records like this a year