ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

xp I'd say its one of their best albums!

Ummmmmm, look up, dog latin!

i don't get what's so weird about the name cooly g

Sounds like an old school hiphop name, like Schooly D or LL Cool J or something... think it misleads people.

any chance fiona apple places high? i was sad she didn't make it onto the singles list

― says a future man to his crystal son (reddening), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:37 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope and think so!

"hot knife" really would've been great on the trax list but i don't know how many people who didn't hear the album got to hear it. let's put it on em when the album comes up

xpost, oh shit, haha!

Algerian Goalie - I told ya!

CONVERGE!!

and yeah, i agree it's one of their best albums; their best, in my view, since Jane Doe.

I love this run of albums today, several were ones I voted for, incl my #1 Shackleton.

I liked the Drawback Organ side of that release, but it was Music for the Quiet Hour that really brought me in, and was the accompaniment to many long midnight drives I've been required to make by my job. It reminds me of nothing so much as Coil. It has that same mysterious patrolling-the-borderlands quality as Musick to Play in the Dark

Cooly G sounds like it should be the name of a late 80s/early 90s west coast gangster rap emcee, not the name of a Goldie-influenced house music producer/singer

xposts made this irrelevant but oh well

Yeah, just having read the name Cooly G on ilm and not anything else, I checked it out a while ago and was expecting some throwback hip-hop. That's not what this is.

the snippet of Converge I heard sounded a lot less rabid than the stuff on Jane Doe and the one after (the last time I listened to Converge). Have they changed much? I always thought the attraction with Converge was their ability to rip my face off with sound. There are few albums that have quite the effect as Jane Doe.

Listened to that Japandroids album on a roadtrip last week. Turned it off about 2/3rds of the way through once I gave up on any actual songs appearing.

it's not even 8am here on the west coast, and you are halfway finished with today's rollout!

Topman GENERATION: Finally, what's the story behind your name?
Cooly G: Cooly G is like, the coolest girl in the world. My dad is Jamaican and my mum is Guyanese, so I'm called a coolie, but people find that really bad if I was to spell it that way 'cos it's a slavery term. So I just put it with the 'y' so I don't have all these moany old people complaining about my name.

Topman GENERATION: Do your friends call you Cooly?
Cooly G: They do and I hate it! No one calls me my real name and I feel like I'm not real.

http://magazine.topman.com/category/ctrl-music/hyperdubs-finest-cooly-g/

AG is probably posting on Facebook as we speak

― every dog latin has his day (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:48 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WRONG! He's hassling me on last.fm to post in his '80s rock poll thread, which I will do soon enough... but he'll be pleased as punch when he gets around to looking in here, no doubt! :P

also, cooly g fans should check out shy one's bedknobs & boomkicks (spotify) - i think you'd find a lot to like in it. (it came out pretty quietly in december.)

... why would you give yourself a name that you hate

I mean, if I started recording stuff under the name P-K-Ninny I don't think I'd have much room to get annoyed when ppl started referring to me by that name

(guilty LOLs @ P-K-Ninny)

lol

i found another interview where she said shes been using the name since she was like 15 so perhaps she would take the opportunity to go back in time and pick something else if able

my MC name aged 12 was Cool EG, like, implying i was a good example of a cool person

not Cool IE?

My chef name is Coulis G.

that was bill gates mc name xp

http://i.imgur.com/182npJl.png

51. SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS MEET THE CONGOS Icon Give Thank (298 Points, 12 Votes) Spotify

well, Converge have definitely refined their style on this new one and made the whole package leaner and more palatable. they've trimmed the fat in a big way and it just doesn't let up. mind you, the process of becoming less and less rabid hasn't necessarily been a gradual trend since Jane Doe: You Fail Me and No Heroes were both extremely dirty-sounding records, and the new one is significantly less polished than Axe to Fall which came before it. they've just kind of followed their instincts with every new record and done what they thought was a fair thing relative to how they were feeling at a certain point in time.

ok Icon Give Thank is my first to place, that album is fantastic

My first to place too. Really good record.

Also, I think this means no Golden Void or Fushitsusha ;_;

solid record. Happy to see it make the countdown.

Heart of the Congos is the best roots reggae album ever made, and this is the closest the Congos have come to making anything close to as weird and wonderful since back then. That said, I have to say I find Sun Araw's whole style very samey. It's cool to listen to, but I'm never sure if the Congos' voices are being used to their full potential or simply just as adornments to spice up Sun Araw. As such I can't really tell one track from another on this record, but I'm very glad collaborations like this can exist.

*prods people to post youtube links or at least standout track titles*

i think "sunshine" is the most memorable one on here Lex

Yeah, "Sunshine" is far and away the best track. Otherwise a solid album but rambles in places.

Sunshine xp

Icon Give Thank and Playin' Me were both on my ballot, and both share the properties of seeming insubstantial/difficult to pin down while still being very rewarding listens.

i love this album! so strange and beautiful. especially love that soul-shaking bass voice

Loving "Sunshine" right now. Will have to free up time to listen to the rest of this later on.

Icon Give Thank and Playin' Me were both on my ballo

both very woozy and seductive listens in one way or another

musky dusky fugstep

http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/F78_Jamaica_9.jpg

where is my mind?

Be back after a break with more.

recap...

77. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Centipede Hz (204 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
76. JEREMIH Late Nights With Jeremih (206 Points, 10 Votes)
75. BIGBANG Alive EP (210 Points, 6 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
74. DAPHNI Jiaolong (213 Points, 9 Votes)
73. TWIN SHADOW Confess (214 Points, 8 Votes)
72. VATICAN SHADOW Ghosts of Chechnya (216 Points, 7 Votes)
71. NITE JEWEL One Second of Love (216 Points, 8 Votes)
70. LONE Galaxy Garden (216 Points, 9 Votes)
69. NINA KRAVIZ Nina Kraviz (218 Points, 7 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
68. METZ Metz (219 Points, 10 Votes)
67. GUNPLAY Bogota Rich: The Prequel (220 Points, 9 Votes)
66. KATY B Danger EP (223 Points, 8 Votes)
65. LOWER DENS Nootropics (227 Points, 7 Votes)
64. ACTION BRONSON & PARTY SUPPLIES Blue Chips (230 Points, 7 Votes)
63. CHRISTIAN MISTRESS Possession (232 Points, 8 Votes)
62. GRIZZLY BEAR Shields (233 Points, 8 Votes)
61. LAUREL HALO Quarantine (246 Points, 8 Votes)

60. DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan (254 Points, 8 Votes)
59. SHACKLETON Music for the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs (258 Points, 7 Votes, 3 First Place Votes)
58. CHIEF KEEF Finally Rich (262 Points, 10 Votes)
57. SILENT SERVANT Negative Fascination (277 Points, 11 Votes)
56. RICARDO VILLALOBOS Dependent and Happy (278 Points, 8 Votes)
55. ORBITAL Wonky (278 Points, 11 Votes)
54. COOLY G Playin' Me (282 Points, 11 Votes)
53. JAPANDROIDS Celebration Rock (290 Points, 11 Votes)
52. CONVERGE All We Love We Leave Behind (296 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First Place Vote)
51. SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS MEET THE CONGOS Icon Give Thank (298 Points, 12 Votes)

what's remarkable is how the Congos' voices still sound so great even after all these years and also how as elder statesmen who otherwise make their bread and butter from straight-up pop-roots revival music centring around covers of reggae standards, they're still up for a crazy experimental venture like Icon Give Thanks. 2012 really has been about old muckers coming back and blowing people's expectations.

Love this album. Sun Araw's laptop exotica needed a soul, and the Congos are a fine option.

Re-listening to 'Sunshine'. So lovely and woozy. I like Sun Araw just fine, but he could never have made something as good as this without the genius of the Congos.

Voted: Laurel Halo
Long-listed: Lone (WOO NOTTINGHAM PRIDE), Cooly G
Bought, but went off: Dirty Projectors, Orbital
Quite like: Daphni, Sun Araw/Congos

thanks again for this poll JF. I'm quite surprised this has to be the first year where I've heard (if not heard of) so many records on the list. Usually at this point I'm completely bewildered. Don't know if this says something about music in 2012 or my own involvement with it, or something else.

Which other 'old muckers' will make it? Scott Walker's a given, Cale probably not, Cohen maybe, Young probably. Any obvious ones I've missed?

Dylan, unlikely.

How could I forget Dylan, especially as I voted for 'Dusquene Whistle' in the tracks poll.