ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Techno and house music.

xpost house and techno as opposed to d'n'b, dubstep, jungle, "bass" etc

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67. GUNPLAY Bogota Rich: The Prequel (220 Points, 9 Votes)

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didn't vote for any Gunplay but if i had i would've voted for 601 & Snort. cool to see him place, though.

would have voted for this if i'd got into it in time

bitches ain't shit freestyle (track starts at 1:15)
"never had a gift, damn sure i had a curse / now who next to climb out the back of that hearse?"
m1

yeah that track is great!

i think my fav gunplay track in 2012 wasn't on this tape though (was it on another? or just standalone?)

take this

NO STRAITJACKET I'M JUPITER JACK DANIELS

did Metz place in the Metal poll?

erm, i also hadn't seen the actual video before today and now i wish i hadn't posted it or watched it :////

xp lol it was #112. should be an interesting week.

ha lex, that is a fantastic summation of my conflicted relationship with Gunplay

every time I hear him on something, I go "wow this dude is great" and then I watch him in something or read an interview and it's like "there is no way in hell I can support any of this"

erm, i also hadn't seen the actual video before today and now i wish i hadn't posted it or watched it :////

Yeah, that was...troubling.

i'm annoyed because i have been SO INTO that track for the past month, one of the best discoveries of the rap EOY lists for me, just in awe of how he lands his syllables and his obvious love of words but how he never loses the rush of energy, and then, ugh

haha P sure you posted that youtube in the rap thread and I remember thinking at the time "really, Lex is okay with this video?"

M1 is straight fiah tho

nah i only heard it for the first time about a month ago

i post youtubes without watching too much though. ALWAYS CHECK

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66. KATY B Danger EP (223 Points, 8 Votes)

That was eligible?

he says he started making Vatican Shadow tracks because... he wanted more Muslimgauze albums to listen to.

That was one of the comparisons that popped into my head when I tried listening to some Vatican Shadow. I've tried really hard, but never found any Muslimgauze I've liked at all.

4-song EPs should not be eligible for album polls

and 4-song EPs with 2 completely inessential songs should not be voted for in album polls, regardless of whether "aaliyah" is the best track ever or not

4 normal length songs, that is, it's not like this is a suite of 4 epics

the whole thing is like quarter of an hour long

I'm all for EPs being eligible, because if not here then where?

There's plenty of great Muslimgauze, the problem is about 90% of it is redundant, so after 3 albums one wonders why bother.

That k-pop thing above was an EP so..xp

take it to the EPs poll

so much for keeping tracks and albums separate

I'm in favor of EPs in the album poll. I don't think this one really is a strong, long, or coherent enough collection to merit a vote.

i didn't object to EPs being eligible because some "EPs" are basically album-length, and some 6/7-track EPs feel as substantial as a mini-album (like the bigbang one, i presume), but i thought people would regulate it themselves to stop it being ridiculous. COME ON, 4 songs and 15 minutes doesn't belong in an albums poll.

In the three years that J0rdan, seandalai and I have been doing the eoy poll, eps have always been eligible on the albums ballot. Don't remember what the rules were before, but sometimes eps are so great they need to be voted for...but there aren't enough to have an ep poll.

this is kind of the ILM equivalent of putting five National album tracks on your singles ballot

Also, I've only heard "Aaliyah" and I have no opinion on the other three tracks. They might suck, but a 4 song 15 min ep is definitely eligible.

Yeah I'm all for inclusivity at the nominations stage...if enough people consider an EP worth voting for, it makes the countdown, otherwise it doesn't.

i'm ok with people voting for eps but i'm opposed to them voting for anything by katy b

'Aaliyah' and 'Got Paid' are both fantastic but really that's like eight minutes worth of decent music.

i don't see what's wrong with EPs being included in the album poll. i agree w/ lex tho that in the end it's prob a bit slight to warrant a vote, but i don't think EPs should be cast off.

That's 8 more minutes of decent music than the AnCo album, so fair game imho.

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zing!

i voted for two EPs myself, i'm not arguing they shouldn't be included, i'm saying that the self-regulation has failed in this instance and these voters need to have a word with themselves

^yeah

should have just voted for the two good songs in the tracks poll and called it quits

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65. LOWER DENS Nootropics (227 Points, 7 Votes) Spotify

couldn't get into this

idk what this is

i liked this way more than the first Lower Dens album, nice sophomore curveball

Yeah, it was better than the first and definitely better than Jana Hunter's solo albums were. Still, it's not something I throw on regularly.

Talk about something else with a couple great songs and a lot of "meh". "Brains" is fantastic, but I found the second half of that to be pretty boring.

It appears to be wispy shoegaze stuff?

thank you for pulling the DJP batsignal, will now be checking out Lower Dens

it's kind of motorik indie rock iirc