the ruth saxelby bit for alunageorge is quite good just for placing them in about the right critical spot ("1980s UK electro pop duos, from Yazoo to Eurythmics") where it's been so easy to tip too far either side of the dance/r&b question. felt like a sensible clarification for me anyway.
Or 1990s UK electro pop groups like Sneaker Pimps.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
well, i liked them too
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Sneaker Pimps implies a level of dead-eyed monitor lizardity that I'd be loath to apply to AlunaGeorge. Morcheeba, maybe.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
I thought "Nightmusic" was gonna be the runaway song from Visions, but I don't think the album version (or video) storms the keep the way it does in a live setting
― you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
XLR8R's Best of 2012: Tracks #25-#1http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2012/12/xlr8rs-best-2012-tracks-part-two
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
The RA #1 track by Andres reminds me of Roule/Cryadamoure output circa 1998. So, I quite like it.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
(Crydamoure, even)
if hearing keyshia cole as anything more than passable/tedious and schlocky is to be the real r&b rubicon then ima hand in my gun & badge right now
― r|t|c, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 7:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
word. and I realize she's not as bad about it as she used to be, but I can't take the way she sings.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
i would probably have been with you before i heard her latest - when i listened it was so refreshing both because she'd unexpectedly improved and because only hearing that emo MJB style done so sincerely and unashamedly did you realise just how far out of the critical discourse it's got
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I've got Elle Varner for that (although not really emo).
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah elle varner is more...theatre kid? there's something kinda cutesy about her even on the heartbreakers, you don't feel like she's ever on the edge of a meltdown, which is where keyshia kinda lives.
there's melanie fiona, though i think her album is actually better when she's playful rather than overwrought, apart from "4am" obv. keyshia's entire thing is to be overwrought and it's whether she can sweep you along or not. she rarely did, until this album.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't really get into the Melanie Fiona album too much faux-Motown retread I'm too bored to even finish this sen-
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
"4AM" is dope and "6AM" is cute on some I see what you did there tho.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
this is such a "c'mon son" moment smh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Tiny Mix Tapes albums list for all your vaporwave needs:http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2012-favorite-50-albums-of-2012
1. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch2. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful3. Swans - The Seer4. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon / Ocean Roar5. Laurel Halo - Quarantine6. Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe7. Actress - R.I.P.8. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems9. YYU - TIMETIMETIME&TIME10. Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II11. Grimes - Visions12. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange13. Holly Herndon - Movement14. BEBETUNE$ - inhale c-4 $$$$$15. DJ Rashad - TEKLIFE Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi16. Death Grips - The Money Store17. Daughn Gibson - All Hell18. The Caretaker - Patience (after Sebald)19. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman20. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.D. city21. Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester22. Demdike Stare - Elemental23. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home24. Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles25. Mediafired - The Pathway Through Whatever26. Sun Araw/M. Geddes Gengras/The Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9: Icon Give Thank27. White Suns - Sinews28. Tim Hecker / Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist29. 情報デスクVIRTUAL - 札幌コンテンポラリー30. Dolphins Into The Future - Canto Arquipélago31. Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing32. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel33. Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended34. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II35. Burial - Kindred EP36. The Men - Open Your Heart37. Tame Impala - Lonerism38. Ian Martin - Mechanical Rain39. Ahnnu - Pro Habitat40. Lil B - White Flame41. Heat Wave - Fukd In Tha Game42. Death Grapes - No Love Deep Web43. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music44. Apple, Fiona - The Idler Wheel is Wiser...45. Arca - Stretch 246. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind47. Internet Club - Vanishing Vision48. Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales49. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line50. Mykki Blanco - Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Glad to see Mount Eerie that high.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Grimes" next to "Frank Ocean" on all these lists never fails to make me think of Frank Grimes
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
DEATH GRAPES
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:31 (40 minutes ago) Bookmark
haha
i can't disagree
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
[...] a rear-guard action, a fight to preserve a space for R&B rather than demand or even anticipate anything of it. [...]
― Tim F, Sunday, 26 December 2010 03:50 (1 year ago) Bookmark
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
my most-delayed eoy chore is giving The MF Life one more front-to-back listen to honestly assess whether i'm being too kind to it
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
I really like both the Lando Kal and Tom Demac tracks from the XLR8R poll, but in whose warped mind are they topped by that George Fitzgerald schlock? The RA poll this year seemed significantly more conservative than previous years. Pretty much strictly house for the top 10 and otherwise just safe bets for a few token non-house genres.
― viborg, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i am kinda glad that RA didn't feel the need to make token non-dance gestures in their eoy lists this year, and i'm not seeing pachanga boys or anthony naples on any other lists so it's weird to call it conservative. maybe i just like more focused genre lists though?
the juno list is also really good and pretty stylistically similar to the ra list
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
non-house /= non-dance!
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the tip on the Juno list.
one of the best UK techno records in a generation
Wow, really? I don't listen to that much UK techno specifically, but I'd think that would apply more to Getting Me Down. Maybe that's not technically techno?
― viborg, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
pachanga boys
And yeah by "conservative" I meant leaning heavily towards dad techno.
― viborg, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah, but in the past ra hasn't exactly included much outside of the techno/house/post-dubstep world, but they would throw in a few more token indie picks than they did this year
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
idk half of the ra list hasn't really shown up elsewhere, dad techno or no
Christianity Today - Top Albums of 2012http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/december-web-only/2012-ct-music-awards.html?
1. Phil Madeira (et al.), Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us (Tone Tree Music)2. Bonnie Raitt, Slipstream (Redwing Records)3. Punch Brothers, Who's Feeling Young Now?(Nonesuch)4. Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball(Columbia)5. Andrew Peterson, Light for the Lost Boy (Centricity Music)6. Anais Mitchell, Young Man in America (Thirty Tigers)7. Carolina Chocolate Drops, Leaving Eden(Nonesuch)8. Bob Dylan, Tempest (Columbia)9. Andrew Osenga, Leonard the Lonely Astronaut(101 Distribution)10. Julie Lee, Julie Lee & the Baby-Daddies (Still House Road Music)11. Rosie Thomas, With Love (101 Distribution)12. Lecrae, Gravity (Reach Records)
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
So,they're broad-minded about some/most of those Tempest lyrics?
― dow, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
or Tempestlyrics even?
― dow, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
mercy on the near-sighted typists
I'm glad TRAXMAN and Rashad are appearing on these lists, but Young Smoke isn't getting a lot of love and that was my favourite footwork LP of the year, certainly better than Traxman's effort.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of which:
http://www.spin.com/articles/best-dance-electronic-EDM-albums-2012
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
fairly sure only someone who believes they know what "dad-techno" is would use the term "dad-techno"
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
adult contechnorary
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
It's true, I'm actually a big fan of dad techno. But still.
― viborg, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
What's some good dad techno?
― dow, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwqZ48XZoNg
― rooster in my raggett (crüt), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/official_my_dad_loves_techno_trucker_hat-p148086321445607244en7ly_216.jpg
― Tim F, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
Got zero time for bands wanting to revive Slowdive unless it's the first track on Pygmalion.
was casually trying to pick up this thread and passed by this tim f post. totally OTM. 'rutti' is stunning and the only track i can listen from slowdive nowadays - even tho i don't really need to.
(in a way, labradford kinda did that sometimes. albeit in a less "underwater romance" way)
― rusty_allen, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
Complex's top 50 albums:
http://www.complex.com/music/2012/12/2012-year-in-review-the-50-best-albums-of-2012/
― some dude, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
well, d-40 throwing shade at spin's list is FINALLY RICH
― epic album: the pluto (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
though all kidding aside, Ka in the top 10 is a dope move
― epic album: the pluto (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
why is there no love for taylor swift?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
didn't seem like this one got as much enthusiasm as in the past? her last album hit #26 on Pazz & Jop, that's prob as high as she'll get anytime soon
― some dude, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
also "i knew you were trouble" is really only the second single to get a major push and it came out after most YE list deadlines
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 07:18 (eleven years ago) link
I thought WANEGBT would place in a few lists considering it was released around the third quarter of 2012
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
"You Belong With Me" was #10 on P&J, again I don't see the new one getting that kind of traction.
― some dude, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
It came out before the album as a standalone single
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 09:21 (eleven years ago) link