ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Propagation sounds really amazing to me right now. I don't remember that being the case the few other times I've played this.

it will be interesting to see if TOY shows up after "Colour's Running Out" got snubbed

Lex have you heard Neu!

i think i have but not very much/not in any detail/not in my last.fm, maybe just a track somewhere? or maybe it was can

also i didn't realise that was a woman singing, lol

Neu! is the reason I couldn't get into this Lower Dens. And lord knows I have enough of the 'gaze guitars.

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64. ACTION BRONSON & PARTY SUPPLIES Blue Chips (230 Points, 7 Votes)

lower dens was on my list. it's not wispy shoegaze, and although on the whole it's not close to motorik, a few songs do pay homage to neu! Brains has the motorik beat, and Propagation has the neu!/la dusseldorf style "you are surveying the landscape from above like a mythical stoned beast in the year 3449" guitar tone.

blue chips rad

yesssssss

blue chips! top 5 for me

nice. action bronson killed it this year.

last year.

idk what this is

― questino (seandalai), Monday, January 28, 2013 10:50 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is my reaction to basically everything on here, aside from gd anco, which is my autosignal for "do something else now, nothing else you care about will follow a discussion of this band" but maybe this time i'm wrong (still waiting)

i think i have but not very much/not in any detail

well you may like something by them - obv point is the 1st alb.

LL my #1 was meridian brothers :)

i'm pretty sure that if anything i cared about a lot (swans aside) is going to place, it'll probably be today
and it doesn't matter if it does or doesn't -- i realize that -- it's just another reminder that my world is small and i guess everyone else's is too, así es la vida

yaaay gr8080 -- that is a good choice. not my #1 but respectable!

not really my #1 either but I really wanted to see it place

fairly sure ms j. foster will make the cut

and i don't mean jodie

had i submitted my ballot s few days later however, My Dick would have been my #1

YAY! Galaxy Garden made it! Fucking chuffed.

I wish that would've been discovered in time for nominations, for real. There's always 2013, thanks to the "year of impact" clause.

Also: as far as Animal Collective are concerned, I've always thought they were a load of shite. Sorry folks.

it's ok, turrican

Yay for "Blue Chips". If I'd submitted a weighted ballot, that one would have been top 3. I have a feeling that mixtape will overshadow his actual major label debut.

his 2012 output was strong altogether.. a bunch of the singles/videos that weren't from "blue chips" were just as good.

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63. CHRISTIAN MISTRESS Possession (232 Points, 8 Votes) Spotify

i thought it was weird that blue chips became the consensus best 2012 AB mixtape, he was really consistent all year

hah mordy will be chuffed

aw yeah! christian mistress! just in time!

(also i agree abt Jojo)

Two tracks into the Lower Dens album and I'm definitely feeling it.

The first "real" metal inclusion (though apparently Metz got some votes over in the metal poll).

that was some magical bitching on my part, good job me

I just bought that one from Amazon and await hearing it!

no idea why I didn't vote for that one. Or did I? Oh well.

if you like awesome female singers, you need to give christian mistress one chance, pls
the songs are also memorable/catchy, nothing EXXXTREME METAL about it, more hard rock imo
it's great, hooray

Yeah, I can get with this.

(The opening track, at least)

christian mistress! my first vote to place. yay.

I haven't heard this yet. What's the deal?

and i was getting so despondent about being way outside the ilm critical zeitgeist. ALL Is FOrgiven!

Nice to see Christian Mistress place. I didn't vote for it here (I didn't like it as much as the prior album; felt it didn't hold together) but did put "Haunted Hunted" on my singles ballot.

i just told you the deal, now go listen to it!

yeah the previous album was better

First take: a harder Heart with riffs instead of hooks.

nothing EXXXTREME METAL about it, more hard rock imo

Put a couple of tracks on. Wanted some harder riffage tbh.

Deep Purple Heart

so much NWOBHM in their sound. Totally approachable.

hahaha i put on "haunted hunted" and i...kind of like this!

i like the crunching, deeper guitar riffs more than the guitar which keeps going widdly-widdly over the top (forgive my ignorance of proper metal terms here). her voice is pretty awesome! walks the line between seriousface and silliness quite adeptly.