ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

yes that's very interesting

owned

Voices From The Lake & the Blondes LP were my two headphones albums this year; "foggy forest w/a highway bisecting it running into a metropolis" is OTM.

Dark York is great (as is Reservation) - the murkiness is kinda the point. Here's some non-"Wut" tracks:
Fresh
Mind Body
Lavandin

is it too late to vote

I'm really surprised to see the School Of Seven Bells albums come in here, it's not that I wanted it to be higher, I just actually thought it would be.

-s.

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30. TAME IMPALA Lonerism (426 Points, 15 Votes, 2 First Place Votes) Spotify

tame impala record is solid and i like the ringodrums but i don't really get excited about it

good album

nice! ghostory was a major comeback from their nap-inducing 2nd album

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Only problem I have with their second album is that I feel it was a bit too long, but I'm fond of more than a few of the songs on there.

Ghostory is fantastic, just as Disconnect From Desire and Alpinisms are fantastic

I love that all three albums use a similar toolkit to explore subtly different moods/headspaces, but what I really love is that they did their own version of "Soon" on this album and it was fucking awesome and should have placed super high on the tracks poll

also love non-classical songs where a dude gets to sing a bass G

it's never too late to vote cozen. the only problem being, your vote won't be counted anymore.

It's funny, I've seen them live three times and the album was in my top 40, yet at the same time I was somewhat bewildered by the extreme enthusiasm, e.g. super-annoying oversold crowd at the last show, #6 and 4 in the other polls. But good for them.

*waits for boring rock portion of the rollout to be over*

; )

day 3 of 4 having all the indie favorites is par for the course on ilm polls i think

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29. MUNGOLIAN JETSET Mungodelics (428 Points, 15 Votes) Spotify

ah fuck, I left an unnecessary pound sign in the graphic. POLL IS RUINED!

re indie, i still have some slight hope that the tindersticks album will place.

my indie favorites were mostly on day 2 thx

big run of uneven records today

Surprised by this. Three great tracks but very patchy.

ilm is spinning off its axis

also love non-classical songs where a dude gets to sing a bass G

country-gospel quartets?

also doo-wop

Wondering whether Smalhans will crack the top 10...

hoping it will crack the top 1

Le1f album was my #1, love the mastering tbh. I voted for that and Neneh Chsrry (many xposts)

And Tame Impala placing I am done talking about my ballot until the top 10

And with Tame Impala etc

yesss, pleasantly surprised to see mungodelics place. it was a lot better than i thought it would be, i've come to really like every track.

People On Strong Stuff is the only one I ever skip.

this is another total lounge album that I am really, really digging

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28. IAMAMIWHOAMI Kin (430 Points, 13 Votes, 2 First Place Votes) Spotify

Was pleasantly surprised at the highness of this one. Sanpaku and Kitchen Person, should they show up sometime soon, will likely feel the same way.

Well, either the "sure-fire certainties" from my ballot are going to place incredibly high, or they weren't actually sure-fire certainties at all. I'm hoping the former.

this is an album I always think I'm going to enjoy more than I actually do when I play it

i refuse to listen to an artist with such a ridiculous name. to make things worse it is even in capitals.

um

Actually, it's in all lowercase. Just all caps here.

she was better when she was xtina

haha otm

Kin grew on me more than any other album in 2012. Ended up in my top 5 despite being really rather unimpressed by it initially.

From the name I assumed they must be some metal/indie act which has put me off checking them out.

listening to the voices from the lake that's on spotify -- the combination of artificial sounds and natural sounding sounds is pleasant. i like it -- there's a weird heartbeat effect that is making me kinda anxious though!

i can't really get into this; not sure why tbh

xxp Does have a touch of iLIKETRAINS, or w/e it was, about it. Excellent Swedish electro-pop though.

Is there a particula track to check out first?

r

I only have time to dip in and out of this during the rollout, but I just want to say that I am enjoying the grayscale debate as a sideshow to the poll. Discussions of thread aesthetics are one of the things that set ILM polls apart from the rest of the world.