ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Argh stfu about the sodding pictures already.

ok

I voted for Purity Ring, mid ballot. Can't really add much to the comments on the PR thread, but its a interesting mix of teen poetry recital and UK bass that works despite its ingredients.

gr8080 otm. helpful input for future polls imo. on the plus side i agree that jf's look is pretty neat and he's doing a great job on this, for which i'm grateful.

xp *cries about pictures*

i really can't decide what is worse, the name or the music. just speaking of purity ring, that's probably applicable for the albums before as well. what is the appeal of this kind of generic progressive rock music with a digital touch?

clams casino is 1/2 of purity ring, right? its weird because i'm into is solo stuff but cant get w/ PR

oh word? I had no idea Clams Casino's dayjob is Purity Ring. Makes sense, tho.

i don't think its the same guy or if it is i was completely unaware

i heard a couple songs off this on the radio and it reminded me a bit of the most recent Dirty Projectors album - does it qualify as progressive rock? I guess I'm picky when it comes to what progressive rock I like - as I didn't like either Purity Ring or Dirty Projectors.

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45. BAT FOR LASHES The Haunted Man (329 Points, 13 Votes) Spotify

ok wait n/m i'm totally wrong re: clams casino/purity ring

This is low but not by much

didnt like this one as much as two suns in the end but its still good

bat for lashes is prob my fav clams casino project

way behind but the ricardo villalobos album sounded so stillborn to me for the most part, worse than tedious autechre. i did enjoy one track on it though, "samma," buried in the middle. it's like autechre when they aren't tedious, lol.

I never hear anyone talk about it, really, but "Oh Yeah" is my favorite track on this record. "All Your Gold" close behind. Outside of those, I neither love nor hate anything about it. It just is.

oh j0rdy

agreed on 'oh yeah'

oh j0rdy

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Lovely as ever, but nothing on THM has latched on to my brainpan like "What's a Girl to Do" or "Daniel". Production here was perhaps too stripped down for its own good.

better than the album before but still not very compelling. except laura. she reminds me a little of tori amos. esp. on oh yeah. without the fairy queen aura.

Too low. Not as instantly engaging as Two Suns but a really rich, rewarding piece of work. Especially love Laura, Lilies, All Your Gold, Oh Yeah and Marilyn.

I never hear anyone talk about it, really, but "Oh Yeah" is my favorite track on this record

Yeah, that's a good one. I kind of hear an echo between the "oh yeah"s there and on the Chap's "Even Your Friend": http://youtu.be/frrO0y2pqZQ

three strong songs i that i can remember off the top of my head on the haunted man (marylin, laura, all your gold), but the rest was a bit mushy iirc

marilyn

she names all her best songs after people

'ronald reagan' was a p bad song tho

she reminds me a little of tori amos.

every time someone posts this about B4L it delays my giving her a real chance because i just go off and listen to tori for a while instead

If you guys want to look at the albums in color, I made an appendix imgur gallery. Only up to #51 so far. I'll do the rest after lunch:

http://imgur.com/a/HGHgu

I often have a problem with BfL albums where I don't immediately link songs to their titles but it was even more pronounced on this album; before the tracks poll I could have only told you the title of "Laura"

having said that, I really really love "Lillies", "Oh Yeah", "Horses of the Sun" and "All Your Gold" as well

damn a bunch of my faves hung up in the 40s

bfl was my #3, it's a fantastic record imo

There was a Purity Ring thread? Shrines was my number one. Love that shit to pieces apart from 'Grandloves', which had a hugely annoying guy singing one of the verses. Pretty much resigned to the fact that ppl are sorta indifferent to them now, but when I first heard 'Ungirthed' I thought OMG this is gonna be huuuuge.

i am now going to listen to "lillies" again and be completely baffled by the stripped-down production comments

BfL suffered by dint of coming in on the heels of a bunch of other albums that I was super obsessed with and I therefore didn't give it as much time as I did the previous two; however, I did give it enough time to put it on my ballot

haha "stripped-down production" won't make any sense unless you play that song right after "Glass"

yeah i mean two suns was maybe a little overstuffed in places, i'd call haunted man "more focused" w/out necessarily having less going on

they're both awesome albums, i guess i just feel w/e ppl were saying earlier about anco and dirty proj abt how haunted man was received

I heard a lot of records this year that sounded fine and diverting but not too many that had this much detail and substance and unfolded a bit more each time I played it. Not that I wouldn't have liked another pop song as good as Daniel.

the last song "deep sea diver" is pretty impressive, it has something haunted about it, some nice percussion on it.

"rest your head" is a major sleeper on the back half of the record, probably my 2nd fav track on it after "oh yeah".

4 more today?

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44. BEAK> ">>" (332 Points, 13 Votes, 1 First Place Vote) Spotify

>> @ 44

@< @< @<

great album

yarg, this is great! wish i would have listened to it in 2012!

not really feeling it but >> >>>>> > imo

Updated: http://imgur.com/a/HGHgu

okay lol seriously? All of my deep obsessions from 2012 are showing up here!