ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

i'd be cool with kaputt as #1

i actually considered the possibility that you would be considering the same move, based on your posts on that thread :D

The Lumineers was going to be my fake #2.

lol i was considering making a fake #1 for kaputt

greyscale art, bro

is John Talabot a joke grafik as well?

hi morbs

flag morbs

gr80 u weren't feeling it at first iirc, right?

― flopson, Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:51 AM (4 minutes ago)

maybe? i remember taking a while to warm to "families" too

my dick in first place, put my dick in first place

Morbs what are your thoughts on the Miguel album? Do you think it should win?

maybe i went in to fin with too many expectations of what it was going to be

once i gave it some distance i was able to love it for what it is

The melodic austerity and purposeful restriction of sound palette on Fin meant that while I always liked it I could never love it in the way I do some of his remixes. I wish he'd leavened it with a couple of sun-coming-up beach rave tracks like his Teengirl Fantasy/XX/Chairlift remixes. Still a really strong album but it's like dance music for giant Easter Island heads or something.

xp remember you saying it wasn't sunny enough or something

i'd still pay a mint for a talabot remix collection

Still, I like everything in the top five this year so I can't really complain.

if "last land" and "h.o.r.s.e." aren't sun-coming-up anthems i don't know what are

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02. KENDRICK LAMAR Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (1293 Points, 40 Votes, 5 First Place Votes) Spotify

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01. MIGUEL Kaleidoscope Dream (1909 Points, 51 Votes, 7 First Place Votes) Spotify

OMGLOOKATHOSEFUCKINGSTATS ^

yes

i connect with talabot's own productions much more than his remixes, i find them much happier

cool, miguel album is waaay better

wow not even close

never in doubt number one!

Landslide!

and yeah miguel album is def much better than kendrick's

both good though! good rundown!

holy shit

Armor On is too low imo; its more of a piece than most concept albums. Its not just thatthe pacing is exquisitely calibrated but that along with the extended battle tropes never fails to imply a higher form of songwriting,music as a higher calling. Intensely visionary stuff

Multixps

"Adorn" still #1 in R&B airplay. If not for the absurd rule change, this would have been one of the longest running #1's on the R&B chart. As it is, we'll remember "Adorn" up there with the great R&B electroballads.

good lord what a blowout

that is a lot of points.

:o

biggest landslide on a year end poll ever?

Wow, that's a lot of votes/points. Well-deserved #1.

Psst Jordan

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yesssss miguel

Miguel was my #4; dude lavished us w great songs this yeat. Its only appropriate we reciprocated

51 votes - nearly half (or over half?) of all voters :o

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yay
great thread.

thanks matt!

The melodic austerity and purposeful restriction of sound palette on Fin meant that while I always liked it I could never love it in the way I do some of his remixes. I wish he'd leavened it with a couple of sun-coming-up beach rave tracks like his Teengirl Fantasy/XX/Chairlift remixes. Still a really strong album but it's like dance music for giant Easter Island heads or something.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp remember you saying it wasn't sunny enough or something

― flopson, Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, yes. basically what Matt DC said

Also Miguel was my #1 so fuck yeah. It's just such an accomplished and gorgeous and emotionally rewarding album on every level and his voice is just so fucking soulful.

Thanks Johnny and also J0rdan for the Trax poll. Oh and Seandalai

Well done, everyone. Tea and cakes all round.

woulda been my #1 if I'd voted

anyone who liked this miguel album and still hasn't heard his (possibly superior) first record should go and un-fuck that up

wish some dude was around to tell us what kinds of drinks the bobbins crew brought to the party this time

something polite, yet austere

This Top 10 utterly blows away the idea of 'tasteful' or 'dinner party music' as pejoratives. Everything here with the exception of Goat and Kendrick is total dinner party music and almost all of it is good-to-astonishing. And even the Kendrick has a sort of velvety soundtracky sumptuousness to the production that means it sort of qualifies as well.

Kendrick was my #1, Miguel was my #21