DiS Users' Albums of the Year 2012 - voting thread
Ho ho ho, it's that time of year again. In case you've missed out on this in the past, the rules are as follows:
Vote for your top 5 favourite albums released in 2012. Please number them, and they will receive 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point, from your first to last choice, respectively. If you just can't decide and choose not to number them then they will each receive 3 points each.
No alterations, please, so if you're waiting to see if that Big Boi album will snip your top 5 then just vote later in the month. I'm on holiday until January 3rd, after which the results will be out.
Happy voting, everyone!
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1. Death Grips - The Money Store
2. Crystal Castles - (III)
3. Polica - Give you the Ghost
4. Exitmusic - Passage
5 Xiu Xiu - Always
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHeP9Sve48
1. Chromatics - Kill for Love
2. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
3. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
4. Death Grips - The Money Store
5. Tame Impala - Lonerism
Tame Impala sneaks in at the last minute ahead of Japandroids or Dirty Projectors. Thanks a lot for bravely organising this!
If changes are allowed...
Could I please change Titus and Tame Impala to Japandroids and Kendrick Lamar respectively? Cheers
gonna get in here nice 'n early and then regret it a few weeks down the line
1/ Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
2/ Burial - Kindred
3/ Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
4/ Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
5/ John Talabot - ƒin
wait, fuck, does Burial count? I would say that at 31m it's good enough
it may be three tracks long but it's such a fucking important release this year, and longer than some other top albums to boot
probably good to clarify nice and early
nice and early apparently has wormed its way into my lexicon
if Burial doesn't count then I vote:
1/ Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
2/ Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
3/ Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
4/ John Talabot - ƒin
5/ Japandroids - Celebration Rock
The no Burial one, for our sanity.
Yeah, let's count Burial - it's long enough, after all.
let's do a separate EPs of the year thread then. Simplez.
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4421081
1. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
2.Sigur Rós - Valtari
3.Guillemots - Hello Land!
4.Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
5.Pariisin Kevät - Kaikki on satua
Genuinely no idea why this was posted as a reply here but OH WELL
1. RM Hubbert - Thirteen Lost & Found
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.a.a.d. city
3. Liars - WIXIW
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Honourable Mention: John Talabot - ƒin. It was a completely arbitrary choice between him and Holter, but these were my top 6 by some distance.
1. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
2. Foreign Fields - Anywhere But Where I Am
3. Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America
4. Grimes - Visions
5. Chromatics - Kill For Love
and...
6. Circa Survive - Violent Waves
7. Dawn Richard - Armor On
8. Boy Friend - Eqyptian Wrinkles
9. HEALTH - Max Payne 3 OST
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Thanks for remindingme that I need to download the Circa Survive album!
It's bloody good.
Particularly this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qVB5fzgYJo
1. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2. Liars - XIXIW
3. Chromatics - Kill for Love
4. Efterklang - Piramida
5. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Thank you medulla
1. Chromatics - Kill for Love
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. Blondes - Blondes
4. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
5. FOE - Bad Dream Hotline
Done a top 40 here http://seaninsound.tumblr.com/post/37020296745/my-40-favourite-albums-of-the-year-2012-as
1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid m.a.a.d City
3. Four Tet - Pink
4. Django Django - Django Django
5. The xx - Coexist
Got a feeling I'm gonna be flying solo
with my vote for The xx
A brave list!
It's okay, it's only one of them there “troll” accounts
confused
1. Why? - Mumps, etc.
2. Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ EPs
3. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
4. Swans - The Seer
5. Burial - Kindred
Rubbish year, IMO
1 Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
2 Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend, Ascend
3 Inner Tube - Inner Tube
4 Stepdad - Wildlife Pop
5 The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now
i would think it was a rubbish year too if those were my top five albums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1esrEb9p0Wc
I wholeheartledy apologise for posting my 5 favourite albums of the year
subjectively, based on a number of factors I associate with the last 365 days and the music the soundtracked them, in a year where I didn't find so many albums I enjoyed as much.
You collossal fucking prick.
tbf I think he was probably just looking for a reason to use
that youtube link and happened to hit reply to your post.
fair enough
insult redacted.
I forgot this is how the internet works
apology accepted
needlessly_defensive this'd this
but i'm not a rapper
Great year, IMO
1 Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
2 Cloud Nothings -Attack on Memory
3 Wild Nothing - Nocturne
4 Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
5 Trust - TRUST
But there's many more that could have snuck in that top 5!
1. Tindersticks - The something rain (by an absolute mile)
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
3. Errors - Have some faith in magic
4. Lone - Galaxy garden
5. Max Richter - Vivaldi The 4 seasons: recomposed
I am having a very dense morning.
I'm trying to start a new thread about something completely different. How the hell do I do it. I've been staring blankly at the site for hours. Clues please (and feel free to patronise me as much as possible, I deserve nothing less...)
open the music forum
scroll to the bottom.
Thanks Sean.
And thanks Furio for making me feel less stupid.
:D
Sean, you need a button at the top that's like #bottom but has more of a #newtopic feel
We need a lot of things
The ability to use speech marks is far higher on my agenda right now!
This is what i do
Alt-0147 “
Alt-0148 ”
it took me many months to figure this
1. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
2. Polica - Give You The Ghost
3. Purity Ring - Shrines
4. Tom Williams & The Boat - Teenage Blood
5. Death Grips - The Money Store
1. Helm - Impossible Symmetry [Pan]
2. Bee Mask - When We Were Eating Unripe Pears [Spectrum Spools]
3. Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line [Blackest Ever Black]
4. Ukkonen - The Isolated Rhythms of... [Uncharted Audio]
5 Deep Magic - Closed Eyes [Debacle]
Cheers medulla
1. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
2. Dan Deacon - America
3. Grimes - Visions
4. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
5. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
I see you went for Ocean Roar!
Dan Deacon, Grimes and Tall Ships are all in there somewhere for me too, but I went for Clear Moon. :)
I did listen to Clear Moon again recently
It's one of those records that washes over you quite easily. I think it might need several more listens, could be a grower.
To be honest you could rotate that top five any way you liked and I wouldn't be that bothered; all worthy AOTY choices for me. Hot Chip just missed out :(
1. Bo Ningen - Line The Wall
2. R.M. Hubbert - Thirteen Lost and Found
3. Orcas - Orcas
4. Islet - Illuminated People
5. Ukkonen - The Isolated Rhythms Of...
1. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
2. Max Richter – Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
3. Kishi Bashi – 151a
4. Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory
5. TV Girl – The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle
1. Troyka - Moxxy
2. Death Grips - No Love Deep Web
3. TrioVD - Maze
4. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
5. Trish Clowes - And in the Night Time she is There
1. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2. Chromatics - Kill For Love
3. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
4. The xx - Coexist
5. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
1. The Lost Rivers - Sin & Lostness
2. Diiv - Oshin
3. The Megaphonic Thrift - S/T
4. Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T
5. Terry Malts - Killing Time
1. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
2. Jessie Ware - Devotion
3. Burial - Kindred
4. Chromatics - Kill For Love
5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Nice
Superb list.
'John_Ho's is as stunning a list as you're likely to read this year - 10/10' - NME
1. Efterklang - Pyramida
2. Purity Ring - Shrines
3. The Invisible - Rispah
4. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
5. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
Gonna stick my neck out with
1. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
2. Liars - WIXIW
3. Swans - The Seer
4. Go Kart Mozart - on the hot dog streets
5. Jason lytle - Dept of disappearance
That's a list which can safely be called 'uncompromising'
1. Chromatics- Kill for love
2. Sharon Van Etten-Tramp
3. Grimes-Visions
4. Tamaryn-Tender New Signs
5. The Soft Moon- Zeros
1. Beach House - Bloom
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
1. BATS - The Sleep of Reason
2. John Talabot - Fin
3. Burial - Kindred*
4. Django Django - Django Django
5. Therapy? - A Brief Crack of Light
*I'm not letting an incredible 30-minute record slip by because it happens to contain only three tracks.
2012 was pretty good, yeah? Was everyone holding back until it was confirmed The Electric Six wouldn't be putting out an album this year?
Can't decide on an order...
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Chromatics - Kill for Love
The Walkmen - Heaven
Could easily have filled a list of 10 this year :)
1. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
3. Mount Eerie – Clear Moon / Ocean Roar
4. Liars – Wixiw
5. Electric Electric – Discipline
1. Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
4. Hildur Gudnadóttir - Leyfdu Ljosinu
5. The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
Ah yeah
Great No 1
1. Piramida, Efterklang
2. Koi No Yokan, Deftones
3. RIP, Actress
4. Have Some Faith In Magic, Errors
5. Chromatics, Kill For Love
Surprised by the lack of The Men love
1. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
2. The Men - Open Your Heart
3. Metz - Metz
4. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
5. The Twilight Sad - No-one Can Ever Know
some tasty lists here
1. Chromatics - Kill For Love
2. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
3. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
4. Twin Shadow - Confess
5. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE
Umm...before I change my mind again
1. Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
2. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
3. Echo Lake - Wild Peace
4. Bob Dylan - Tempest
5. The Lost Rivers - Sin and Lostness
Top four are definite. Lana Del Rey, Jim White, The Walkmen, Errors, FOE, Sharon Van Etten and Perfume Genius keep swapping for the fifth place. I'm going for Sin and Lostness just because it's so frickin' loud and relentless!
fuck you all
1.) Tindersticks - The Something Rain
2.) Swans - The Seer
3.) Yppah - Eighty One
4.) Scott Walker - Bisch Bosch
5.) Irrepressibles - Nude
i'm still awaiting albums from Ryoma Maeda, Matryoskha and Kashiwa Daisuke though which may well become top 5
Shit, I left The Irrepressibles off by mistake.
Whoops! My hard copy of that's STILL not arrived :(
1. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. The Walkmen - Heaven
4. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
5. Cat Power - Sun
1. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
2. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid m.a.a.d City
3. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
besides top 2 being classics, not that strong of a year in my opinion. better than 2011, miles behind 2010.
1. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. Liars - WIXIW
4. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
5. Nils Frahm - Screws
1. BJ the Chicago Kid - Pineapple Now-Laters
2. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
3. The Walkmen - Heaven
4. Freddie Gibbs - Baby Face Killa
5. Sic Alps - Sic Alps
i haven't listened to scott walker enough yet. that's a good one though
Pineapple Now-Laters
<3
Mad love for that album. The guy's voice is phenomenal.
1. Future Of The Left - the plot against common sense
2. Twilight Sad - No-One Can Ever Know
3. Firt Aid Kit - The Lions Roar
4. Deftones - Kio No Yokan
5. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
I absoultely love the FOTL record. Every time i listen to it I have a new favourite track on it...
The plot against common sense is great, my number one also. I'm now going to spotify your other top 5 as maybe I'll like those as it seems you have good taste.
Right now polymers is my favorite track but like you it is subject to change.
Notes On Achieving Orbit, for me
Sheena Is A T-Shirt Salesman, I Am The Least Of Your Problems, Goals In Slow Motion and Failed Olympic Bid close behind.
Only narrowly missed out to BATS on my list.
Oh add Cosmo's Ladder to that list
I heard an interview with Falco , where he said that Cosmo's Ladder was his personal favorite.
1. Basement - Colourmeinkindness
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3. Title Fight - Floral Green
4. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
5. Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living
1. Purity RIng - Shrines
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
4. Teengirl Fantasy - Tracer
5. Niki & The Dove - Instinct
yeah Niki & The Dove, fuck you.
I'm not sure this is definitive, but I believe in democracy
1. The Men - Open Your Heart
2.Shearwater - Animal Joy
3.Godspeed You! - Allelujah!
4.Joey Bada$$ - 1999
5.Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
1. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. Liars - WIXIW
4. The Unwinding Hours - Afterlives
5. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
1. Jessie Ware - Devotion
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Twin Shadow - Confess
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5. Grimes - Visions
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Moonface with Siinai - Heartbreaking Bravery
3. Bear in Heaven - I love you, it's cool
4. Fang Island - Major
5. Young Jesus - Home
1. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
2. BATS - The sleep of reason
3. Hot Chip - In our heads
4. El-P - Cancer for cure
5. Swans - The Seer
Feel a bit wrong leaving out Orbital, FOTL, Four Tet, but hey. Been a good year...
1. Death Grips - The Money Store
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Royal Headache - S/T
4. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
5. Purity Ring - Shrines
1. Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs
2. Ramona Falls - Prophet
3. Gungor - A Creation Liturgy
4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
5. Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who
1. Chromatics - Kill For Love
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Liars - Wixiw
5. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
1. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2. Swans - The Seer
3. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujuah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Great year, still so much to catch up on.
1. Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
2. Polica - Give You The Ghost
3. Rob St. John - Weald
4. Lost in the Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
1. Passion Pit - Gossamer
2. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
3. John Talabot - ƒin
4. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
5. Twin Shadow - Confess
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Lower Dens - Nootropics
3. DIIV - Oshin
4. Walkmen - Heaven
5. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
1. Efterklang - Piramida
2. Twin Shadow - Confess
3. Chromatics - All For Love
4. Jessie Ware - Devotion
5. Dirty Projectors - Swing Low Magellan
Hard this year. Lots of good albums but no really outstanding ones, could have chosen any 5 from about 20 .
I meant 'Kill for Love' and 'Swing Lo' of course
1. Chromatics - 'Kill for Love'
2. Twin Shadow - 'Confess'
3. Chairlift - 'Something'
4. The Lost Rivers - 'Sin & Lostness'
5. Jesse Ware - 'Devotion'
Difficult. It's a shame Memory Tapes 'Grace/ Confusion' isn't released 'til tomorrow as it's really, really good and would have made it to the 2 spot but hey ho. Go 'Kill for Love!
Pointless putting Memory Tapes in as it's not released 'til
1. Vessel - Order of Noise
2. The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
3. Ruff Sqwad - White Label Classics
4. LHF - Keepers of the Light
5. Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
1. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
2. Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
3. Tame Impala - Lonerism
4. Burial - Kindred
5. DIIV - Oshin
I became a father this year, consequentially I didn't have much opportunity to explore new music. So what... the Tindersticks album is a colossus.
1. Liars - WIXIW
2. Actress - RIP
3. Lower Dens - Nootropics
4. The Babies - Our House on the Hill
5. White Lung - Sorry
So many cool albums came out this year!
Whoops
I started that post fully intending on including Death Grips' Money Store. Wally.
Just realised I left Yppah out of mine :-\
1. Cat Power - Sun
2. Goat - World Music
3. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
4. The Murder of Crows - Imperfecta
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Honourable mentions to Shearwater, Sharon van Etten, Wobble/Levene, Chromatics, Tu Fawning, Black Walls, Grizzly Bear and Django Django amongst others..
1 future of the left - the plot against common sense
2 Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
3 Swans - The Seer
4 The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
5 NHK'Koyxen - Dance Classics Vol 1
Loads of other great great albums but I've returned to these 5 above all. (Scott Walker seems like it'll be more than a flash in the pan)
1. SWANS - THE SEER
2. liars - wixiw
3. motion sickness of time travel - s/t
4. KTL - v
5. beak> - >>
and
6. carter tutti void - transverse
7. KTL - v
8. goat - world music
9. burial - kindred
10. vatican shadow - ornamented walls
best reissue:
sleep - dopesmoker.
good, good year
1. Chromatics - Kill For Love
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. Flying Lotus - Untill the Quiet Comes
4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
5. Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet
1.) Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
2.) Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
3.) Death Grips - The Money Store
4.) PAWS - Cokefloat!
5.) Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
1. Death Grips - The Money Store
2. Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
3. Killer Mike - RAP Music
4. Amanda Palmer - Theatre is Evil
5. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
1. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2. Chromatics - Kill for Love
3. Liars - WIXIW
4. Spritiualized -Sweet Heart, Sweet Light.
5. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
1. Grimes - Visions
2. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
3. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
4. Liars - WIXIW
5. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
1. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
2. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
3. Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions
4. Menomena - Moms
5. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
1. High on fire - de vermis mysteriis
2. Kendrick Lamaar - good kid, maad city
3. Converge - all we love we leave behind
4. Killer mike - R.A.P. music
5. Traxman - da mind of traxman
No love for high on fire? Seriously?
Not in my top five
But High On Fire would/will be in my top 10. Immense.
1. Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Vol. III
2. Chromatics - Kill For Love
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Claro Intelecto - Reform Club
5. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Just missing out... Blondes, Burial, Lee Ranaldo, Clark, Portico Quartet, The Invisible, Efterklang.
1. DIIV - Oshin
2. Royal Headache - S/T
3. Chromatics - Kill For Love
4. Liars - WIXIW
5. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
thank you Medulla.
1. The Walkmen - Heaven
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. Beach House - Bloom
4. Paul Banks - Banks
5. Lower Dens - Nootropics
1. Swans - The Seer
2. Extra Life - Dream Seeds
3. Vessel - Order of Noise
4. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
5. Sutekh Hexen - Behind The Throne
EXTRA LIFE
given that, I clearly need to check out the rest. Mosta these lists look like LCD Soundsystem five times
1. Vessel - Order of Noise
2. Jam City - Classical Curves
3. Ital - Hive Mind
4. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
5. THEESatisfaction - Awe Naturale
The Vessel album is amazing. Have I just not been reading enough or did the Internet overlook it entirely. Might be the best thing Triangle have put out so far.
oooooo
excellent list
Thank you for doing this again
1) Lotus Plaza
2) Cloud Nothings
3) Liars
4) Dan Deacon
5) Hot Chip
Plus loads of love for Beak>
now am I being a fuckwit
but the 1 to 5 point scale thing, do I give my favourite album position 1 (1 point) or 5 (5 points)
Please feel free to sned me abuse over this question
just rank 1. as best and 5. as least best
and medulla will work his mathematical magic
Favourite at 1 (5pts)
actually nervous
1. Alt-J
2. Kendrick Lamar
3. Flume
4. Sharon Van Etten
5. Polica
The Scottish vote is as follows: -
5) Julia Holter: Ekstasis
4) The British Expeditionary Force: Ekstasis
3) Clark : Iradelphic
2) Swans: The Seer
1) Godspee: 'Allalujah! etc....
I thank you.
Only one of these are going to make a dent in the top 20 or whatever but hey-ho
1: Krallice - Year Past Matter
2: Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame
3: Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4: Mario Diaz de Leon - 'Hypnos'
5: Kayo Dot - 'Gamma Knife'
Alcest still rockin' it!
Need to give it a listen. Kayo Dot thingy was highly impressive, tho Dowsing Anemone was also recorded virtually live and on a much grander scale
that Diaz De Leon record
is absolutely amazing.
State Faults - Desolate Peaks
White Lung - Sorry
Liars - WIXIW
The xx - Coexist
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Always get that feeling I'm forgetting something.
Tadah!
1. Purity Ring - Shrines
2. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
3. Passion Pit - Gossamer
4. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble
5. Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Here's mine:
1) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
2) Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3) The Cribs - In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
4) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
5) Muse - The 2nd Law (yes, genuinely)
I haven't listened to that Muse album yet
frightened to, but seeing that it's your number 5, might take the plunge ..argh.
I really liked the Muse album too
Not sure it makes my top 5, but it is close
As I suspected, an interesting year
Normally by this stage one of two albums are clearly ahead of all the others.
There is no sign of that this year - I can't see any pattern at all.
Matches what I thought - lots of interesting and good records but no obviously truly outstanding ones.
Here goes...
1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. The Men - Open Your Heart
3. Japadroids - Celebration Rock
4. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
5. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
(Making up the top ten would be... Kill for Love, Fin, Money Store, Heaven & good kid m.aa.d city)
Hi.
1. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3. Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton
4. Arrange - New Memory
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
aighttt
1. Hot Chip- 'In Our Heads'
2. Perfume Genius- 'Put Your Back N 2 It'
3. Julia Holter- 'Ekstasis'
4. How To Dress Well- 'Total Loss'
5. Pulled Apart By Horses- 'Tough Love'
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
3. Islet - Illuminated People
4. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
5. Daphni - Jiaolong
First vote for Animal Collective? Also for my own benefit I have to say that I feel terrible for leaving out Cloud Nothings
Ok
so I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask if I can please swap Daphni for Julia Holter
somebody else voted for Islet!
Go Islet. Woo
1. The 2 Bears - Be Strong
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Django Djnago - Django Django
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
1. BATS - The Sleep Of Reason
2. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
3. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
4. Django Django - Django Django
5. Jogging - Take Courage
1) Tindersticks -The Something Rain
^seriously where the hell has this been in all end of year lists, inexplicable.
2) Swans - The Seer
3)Saint etienne - Words and music by... (best pop/dance album of year)
4)The Frank and Walters-Greenwich mean time
5)Wild Nothing-Nocturne/Twin Shadow-Confess/Go-kart mozart-on the hot dog streets/Hot chip/Efterklang/Dirty Projectors--take your pic
Scott Walker and Martin Rossiter albums are on pre-order which is why it's a little annoying we do this in December instead of january.
You could've voted later in the month; I'm not totalling it until early January.
notice that everyone who's chosen 'The Something Rain' puts it as their number 1 choice?
which makes me think a lot of other people haven't bothered listening to it, cos they're old guys and not some next big thing new darlings.
suckers..
Nah I listened to it
Just didn't think it was very good
I just never read enough about it to give it a listen
Though apparently David Kitt is involved with them. I quite like him, maybe I should see what they're like.
OK...
1. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
2. DIIV - Oshin
3. Sigur Ros - Valtari
4. Joey Bada$$ - 1999
5. John Talabot - fin
1. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4. Pinkunoizu - Free Time!
5. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
YES
1. Keaton Henson- Dear
2. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
3. Purity Ring - Shrines
4. Rolo Tomassi- Astraea
5. The XX- Co-exist
1. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
2. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
3. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
4. Liars - WIXIW
5. Death Grips - NO LOVE DEEP WEB
hard, but these are the ones i kept coming back to
1. Beach House - Bloom
2. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
3. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
4. Frankie Rose - Interstellar
5. Ty Segall/White Fence - Hair
Pretty DiS
1. Chromatics- Kill For Love
2. Yppah- Eighty One
3. Purity Ring- Shrines
4. Death Grips- The Money Store
5. Sleigh Bells- Reign of Terror
1. Deftones: Koi No Yokan
2. Grizzly Bear: Shields
3. Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid etc
4. Cloud Nothings: Attack On Memory
5. Django Django
1. Future Of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
2.Baroness - Yellow & Green
3.Django Django - Django Django
4.Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
5.Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
1. Swans - The Seer.
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city.
3. Basement - Colourmeinkindness.
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange.
5. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
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6. Torche - Hamonicraft.
7. Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America.
8. Goat - World Music.
9. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind.
10. Martyrdöd - Paranoia.
1. Death Grips- The Money Store
2. Dragged Into Sunlight- Widowmaker
3. Perfume Genius- Put Your Back N2 It
4. Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid MAAD City
5. Swans- The Seer
1. Shearwater - Animal Joy
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
4. Echo Lake - Wild Peace
5. AU - Both Lights
1. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
2. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
3. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. RM Hubbert - Thirteen Lost And Found
Here goes
1 swans - the seer
2 pig destroyer - book burner
3 keiji haino, Jim o'rourke Oren ambarchi - imikuzushi
4 black breath - sentenced to life
5 high on fire - de vermis mysteriis
IMHO:
1) Swans - The Seer
2) Cat Power - Sun
3) Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
4) Hallock Hill- The Union / Hem of Evening*
5) Baroness - Yellow/Green
*Check out the 'lost 12 of 2012' thing for info if you want. Don't if you don't, free country.
1) Beach House: Bloom
2) North Sea Scrolls: North Sea Scrolls
3) Euros Childs: Summer Special
4) Django Django: Django Django
5) Emeralds: Just to Feel Something
1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
3. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. The School - Reading too much into everything
5. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
4. Twin Shadow - Confess
5. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Trick to put down just 5.
1. Alt-J
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
4. Purity Ring - Shrines
5. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday, Roman Reloaded
A snapshot
1. Beach House - Bloom
2. John Talabot - ƒin
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
1) Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America
2)First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
3) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4) Grizzly Bear - Shields
5) Allo Darlin' - Europe
thanks medulla
1. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. Hallock Hill - The Union | A Hem of Evening
4. Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
5. Mac Demarco - 2
1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. Chromatics - Kill For Love
3. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
4. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
5. Its a Tame Impala / Sun Kil Moon tie / Jesse Ware tie breaker.
extra 'tie' typo. sorry.
not to mention 'its'
and the fact you've just awarded three albums 1/3 of a point each
5 of the best albums of 2012
1. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
2. Metric - Synthetica
3. Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
4. Orbital - Wonky
5. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
Garbage?
A new garbage album?
Yup. They played in Singapore a few months back and were alarmingly entertaining.
I think the album's so-so myself, but there are some bangers on there.
I'll have the check these out
especially the Metric one
on that note deep-blue, any electronic albums you'd recommend i check out from the last few tears? our tastes seem to align quite well there
:')
YEARS
1. Dirty Projectors - Swing lo magellan
2. Muse - 2nd Law
3.Metz - Metz
4. Death Grips - The Money Store
5. Cloud Nothings - Attack on memory
Can this thread get a Sticky, by the way?
It'll remind people later on in the month to actually vote, should they so wish.
1. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
4. Django Django - Django Django
5. Shearwater - Animal Joy
1. Ufomammut - Opus Alter
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Chromatics - Kill for Love
4. Alt-J - An Awesome wave
5. Purity Ring
(i haven't listened to enough albums this year, i must be getting old).
1. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
2. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
3. Blood Red Shoes - In Time to Voices
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. My Jerusalem - Preachers
1. Chromatics: Kill For love
2. Liars: WIXXIW
3. Flying Lotus: Until the quiet
4. Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet
5. Grizzly Bear: Shields
A Whisper In The Noise - To Forget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh0KBoYyqQ
Orcas - Orcas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSlWUwlyOp0
Geographer - Myth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AS1v4QC-M
Me and My Drummer - the Hawk the Beak the Prey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhpFqHUKCQ
Brambles - Charcoal (this is just one of 20+ great modern classical albums out this year)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmumHbqZQE
Poppy Ackroyd is out on December 10th which from the songs I've heard will probably be up there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUGadC3yf80
1. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnAFXMQbnc8
2. Title Fight - Floral Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qx8hnxlR8
3. White Lung - Sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkwFYh1nF9U
4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3w2s3UxO4
5. Dikembe - Broad Shoulders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJUhRSchxOc
1. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE
4. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
5. Chromatics - Kill For Love
This was really hard
1. Burial - Kindred
2. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
3. Actress - R.I.P.
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
5. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
and...
6. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
7. Grimes - Visions
8. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
9. Grizzly Bear - Shields
10. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
I wrote a bit more about them here. Not very exciting, but yeah http://howthewest.tumblr.com/post/37095267926/my-favourite-albums-of-2012
1 - Chromatics - Kill For love
2 - Errors - Have some faith in magic
3 - Django Django - Django Django
4 - Blondes - Blondes
5 - Efterklang - Piramida
not necessarily the best, but the 5 I would describe as my favorites based on soundtracking the year. 2-5 are almost interchangeable though, Number 1 is the only clear winner.
I think ...
1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
2. The Jim Jones Revue - Savage Heart
3. Laura J. Martin - The Hangman Tree
4. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
5. Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy - The Marble Downs
1. The Raveonettes - Observator
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Blood Red Shoes - In Time To Voices
4. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
5. VCMG - Ssss
Awright...love for Blood Red Shoes- I think this album is really good!
Great Lists.
Out of the albums i HAVE listened to (I have not yet listened to most of these, eg Chromatics... but now have most queued up on Spotify...) I would say:
1. Polica, Give You The Ghost
2. Beach House, Bloom
3. Oberhofer, Time Capsules II
4. The Walkmen, Heaven
5. Japandroids, Celebration Rock
Hon mentions: Best Coast, School of Seven Bells, Kindness, The Shins, Chairlift, Grimes etc etc etc....
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1.Frank Ocean: Channel ORANGE
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... etc etc etc
4. Grimes - Visions
5. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
A solid year IMO
In no particular order:
The Men - Open Your Heart
Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Hey Sholay - ((O))
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
Other contenders:
Baroness - Yellow & Green (my hospital stay favorite this year; coincidentally).
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Melody's Echo Chamber
Cheval Sombre - Mad Love
Grizzly Bear - Shields
1. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
2. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
3. The 2 Bears - Be Strong
4. Lindstrøm - Smalhans
5. John Talabot - ƒIN
Mmm, synth-centric. I debated choosing between Hot Chip and The 2 Bears so something different could slip in, but honestly those are two of the records I've played and loved the most this year.
Tough year. Lots of good records but no one album stood head and shoulders above the rest.
If i had to choose a top 5 I'd go with...
(1) First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
(2) Polica - Give you the Ghost
(3) Django Django - s/t
(4) Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
(5)Andrew Bird - Hands Of Glory
Top five records
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Keaton Henson - Dear
3. Future of the Left - Plot Against Common Sense
4. First Aid Kit - Lions Roar
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Amazing year. Been truly spolit.
1. SWANS - The Seer
2. Pinback - Information Retrieved
3. Sun Kil Moon - Among the Leaves
4. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch
5. Black Twigs - Paper Trees
gah, *spoilt
No order
Burial - Kindred
Godspeed - Ascend
J Talabot - Fin
Grizzly Bear - Shields
P Genius - Put Yr Bak N 2 It.
OM Fucking G
Just heard Swans album.
Replace Shields with The Seer.
1.Title Fight - Floral Green
2.Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
3.Grizzly Bear - Shields
4.El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
5.The Men - Open Your Heart
that was easy
This is difficult.
1. Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid M.a.a.d City
2. Japandroids- Celebration Rock
3. BJ The Chicago Kid- Pineapple Now, Laters
4. Ka- Grief Pedigree
5. Frank Ocean- Channel ORANGE
1. Liars - WIXIW
2. The Irrepressibles - Nude
3. Chromatics - Kill For Love
4. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
5. Twin Shadow - Confess
1. Bad Books - II
2. Now, now - Threads
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
5. Bob Mould - Silver Age
Hats off to you for Now, Now (it will be in my top 5 too)
1. Susanne Sundfor - The Silicone Veil
2. Martha Wainwright - Come Home To Mama
3. Chairlift - Something
4. Iamamiwhoami - Kin
5. Toy - Toy
Possibly a little early to post, but as of right now
1.Actress – R.I.P
2.Chromatics – Kill For Love
3.Shackleton – Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs
4.Dean Blunt – The Narcissist II / Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black Is Beautiful
5.Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos – ‘FRKWYS Vol. 9: Icon Give Thank’
Also really liked the FlyLo, Burial, Tame Impala & Laurel Halo records amongst many others - been a great year
1 Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
2 The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
3 Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
4 Cat Power - Sun
5 Winhill/Losehill - Swing Of Sorrow
1. Chairlift - Something
2. Bear in Heaven - I love you it's cool
3. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
4. Royal Headache
5. Bob Mould - Silver Age
1.Goat - World Music
2. DIIV -Oshin
3. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
4. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
5. The Men - Open Your Heart
I'm going for that right now, there were others i've really liked Japandroids, Jack White, EL-P, Bob Mould, Errors, Grimes, Orbital, Ty Segall's other 2 releases and probably more but those stick out at the moment
1. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
2. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
3. Jessie Ware - Devotion
4. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
5. Nedry - In a Dim Light
1. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
2. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
3. Four Tet - Pink
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Errors - Have some faith in magic
1. Shearwater - Animal Joy
2. John Talabot - Fin
3. Negative Pegasus - Looming
4. Thavius Beck - The Most Beautiful Ugly
5. Chairlift - Something
1. Chromatics - Kill for Love
2. Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
3. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
4. Killer Mike - R.A.P Music
5. Polica - Give You The Ghost
1) Swans - The Seer
2) Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
3) Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
4) mewithoutYou - Ten Stories
5) The Leg - An Eagle To Saturn
Mine
1. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
2. Menomena - Moms
3. Orbital - Wonky
4. Django Django - Django Django
5. Liars - WIXIW
All about the heavy stuff this year...
1. Swans - "The Seer"
2. Neurosis - "Honor Found in Decay"
3. Deftones - "Koi No Yokan"
4. Amenra - "Mass V"
5. Liars - "WIXIW"
1. Tindersticks ´Something Rain
2. Grimes ´Vision´
3. Andrew Bird ´Break it yourself´
4. Jack White ´Blunderbuss´
5. Chromatics ´Kill for love´
1. Django Django - Django Django
2. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
3. Sinkane - Mars
4. Eugene McGuiness - An Invitation To The Voyage
5. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
1. Lone - Galaxy Garden
2. Swans - The Seer
3. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
4. Echo Lake - Wild Peace
5. Beach House - Bloom
1. iLiKETRAiNS - The Shallows
2. Efterklang - Piramida
3. Sigur Ros - Valtari
4. Shearwater - Animal Joy
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
1 Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
2 Waxahatchee - American Weekend
3 Grimes - Visions
4 Purity Ring - Shrines
5 Django Django - Django Django
1. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
2. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
3. Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d. city
4. Bob Dylan - Tempest
5. Grizzly Bear - Shields
purity ring- shrines
ghosting season- the very last of the saints
title fight- floral green
bats- the sleep of reason
holy other- held
aw shit no
put motion sickness of time travel in at 4th =
that = was a typo
1. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
2. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
3. DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol.1: Welcome to the Chi
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
1. Swans - The Seer
2. Goat - World Music
3. Sun Araw & The Congos - RVNG's FRKWYS vol 9 - Icon Give Thank
4. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
5. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
1. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
2. Allo Darlin' - Europe
3. Matthew E. White - Big Inner
4. Swearin' - Swearin'
5. Spider Bags - Shake My Head
1. How to dress well - Total Loss
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Jessie Ware - Devotion
4. Blondes - ST
5. Stumbeline - Spiderwebbed
difficult as Orbital, St Etienne, Wild Peace, Daphni and John Talabot could have replaced any of the others in the places 3-5
*echo lake
1. Metz - Metz
2. Death Grips - The Money Store
3. Whirr - Pipe Dreams
4. The Men - Open Your Heart
5. Forget Cassettes - O Cursa
The Nedry album was probably number 6. Not that it's important.
Whirr love
I enjoyed that album a lot this year.
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Metz - Metz
3. Liars - WIXIW
4. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
5. Deftones - Koi Mo Yokan
1.Swans - The Seer
2.Liars - WXIXW
3.Metz - Metz
4.Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5.Dinosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
Something like this...
1. Django Django - Django Django
2. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
3. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
4. AU - Both Lights
5. Zammuto - Zammuto
1.Django Django - Django Django
2.Jack White - Blunderbluss
3.Field Music - Plumb
4.Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5.Donald Fagen - Suken Condos
1. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
2. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4. Purity Ring - Shrines
5. Mirrorring - Foreign Body
in no paticular order
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Errors - Have some faith in magic
Fourt Tet - Pink
Allo Darlin - Europe
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Yours Truly Cellophane Nose
didn't get a lot of new records this year
and struggle to think of new records by new(ish) artists, also two of these I've only heard on spotify :/ , so there:
Guided by Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
X-TG - Desertshore
Ariel Pink - Mature Themes
Bob Mould - Silver Age
1- Liars- wixiw
2- Swans- The seer
3- Julia holter- Ekstasis
4- Godspeed- Allalujah
5- Menoma- Moms
1. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2. Swans - The Seer
3. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
4. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
5. The Unwinding Hours - Afterlive
Hey medulla, when is the deadline?
Dec. 31st. I'm totalling on January 4th or 5th once I'm back home.
1) Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2) *Ancients - Star Showers Over The Euphrates
3) Baroness - Yellow & Green
4) Soundgarden - King Animal
5) Title Fight - Floral Green
1) Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
3. DIIV - Oshin
4. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
5. Grimes - Visions
1 Grizzly Bear - Shields
2 Santigold
3 Divine Fits
4 Metz
5 Tame Impala
1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend!
2. Fiona Apple -The Idler Wheel..
3. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
4. Swans - The Seer
5. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
In no particular order;
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Sport-Colors
Hot water music - Exister
Lazy Habits-Lazy Habits
Flying Lotus - Until the quiet come
ok in this order
1.
2
3
4
5
I normally dont vote cos i cant remember what came out when and nothing i
buy seems to come out the year it was release. However...
1.Swans - The Seer
2.Om - Adviatic Songs
3.Carlton Melton - Photos of Photos
4.Goat - World Music
5.KTL - V
(Godspeed narrowly missing out on fifth spot there, and the fushitsusha albums as well - and all the keiji haino albums that came out this year)
Reissues - Relaxing with..The heads & the lost tapes by Can.
1. Efterklang - Piramida
2. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
3. The invisible - Rispah
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
1. Foe - Bad Dream Hotline
2. Tall Ships - Everything Touching
3. Polica - Give You The Ghost
4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
5. Bright Light Bright Light - Make Me Believe In Hope
Following Antelope's suggestion to offer more than a list...
The nearly rans…
10. Azusa Plane – Where The Sand Turns to Gold
A scintillating drone excursion – possibly not worth his tinnitus induced suicide, but a great legacy that any fan of drone should listen to.
9. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
Feels like a 70s folk chanteuse doing drone, spellbinding and entrancing.
8. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber
While no-one can touch Broadcast for retro-futurism, this does a good job of coming close.
7. Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sea
Charming and tuneful folk that really needn’t be compared with the gloomier Warpaint. Much more interesting than First Aid Kit.
6. Black Swan – Aeterna
Dark and foreboding drone with a choral bent; favourite drone album this year…
And my top five…
5. Ringo Deathstarr – Mauve
A garage rock blast at shoegaze with spiky opening and closing salvos of fuzzy anthems split by a dense churning and druggy maelstrom of tremolo (Brightest Star – Girls We Know). Best old school shoegaze album since Tamaryn’s The Waves.
4. Matthew Dear – Beams
Thumping layered electro-industrial pop with hooks-a-plenty in an 80s pastiche that’s fun (rather than dull).
3. Liars – WIXIW
Tune-laden spooky electro that provides an easy intro to Liars’ brand of experimentation.
2. Now, Now – Threads
An album’s worth of singles that would give prime 90s alt rock strong competition if it had been released 15 years ago. Young love lyrics that make me feel like a teenager every time I sing along to them.
1. Grimes – Visions
Uplifting dance pop, almost like Orbital with vocals – catchy, diverse and a keeper (with my track of the year: Genesis).
Also enjoyed: Polica, Purity Ring, The Maccabees, Hecker/Lopatin.
Biggest disappointment: Twilight Sad (by a long way).
Not checked out, but will be checking out in the New Year: Yppah, Japandroids, DIIV, Actress, Lau, Stumbleine and Fiona Apple
1. Chromatics - Kill For Love
2. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
3. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. Liars - WIXIW
1. Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
2. Django Django - s/t
3. Run Walk - Health
4. The Cast of Cheers - Family
5. Hawk Eyes - Ideas
away we go
1. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
4. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D city
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
...
1. Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
2. Death Grips- The Money Store
3. Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
4. Grimes- Visions
5. Four Tet- Pink
Top 5 of 12
1. Actress - R.I.P.
2. IX Tab - Spindle And The Bregnut Tree
3. Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary
4. Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
5. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
1) Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
2) Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
3) The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
4) of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
5) RYAT - Totem
1, Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2, The Walkmen - Heaven
3, Deftones - Koi No Yokan
4, Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
5, Shearwater - Animal Joy
As usual I don't really listen to a lot of the current years albums until next year
However:
Godspeed - Allelujah! Don't Bend
John Talabot - Fin
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Four Tet - Pink
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
No order.
change Four Tet for Actress - RIP
sorry if it's not too late
change Actress for Kendrick Lamar - good kid...
I should really listen to new albums when they come out.
1) Foe - Bad Dream Hotline
2) CrystalCastles - (III)
3) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
4) Django Django - S/T
5) Grimes - Vision
1) The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2) Django Django - Django Django
3) Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
4) Sigur Rós - Valtari
5) The Walkmen - Heaven
1) Now, Now - Threads
2) Baroness - Yellow & Green
3) Four Tet - Pink
4) Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky
5) Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
1. Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
(How anyone can be disappointed with that album I do not know - absolutely blinding / powerful / beautiful/ magnificent)
2. Metz - Metz (quite brilliant punk album salavaging the best of Albini and adding their own spin. Greatness awaits. Also gig of the year)
3. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense (after a few years of "nearly theres" post McLusky this is now the real deal. A giant of an album in what was a great quality year for rock with a bit of brain)...and they were sensational at ATP
4. The Lost Rivers - Sin & Lostless (A massive album of noise delight - set to be seminal in its genre. Just joyous sound.)
5. Toy - Toy (does nobody here like Toy? A krautrocking gothic trip packed with quality songs and a top quality buy)
Ouch there are lots of other I loved too - Tindersticks, Swans, Lower Dens, Exitmusic, Holograms, Diiv, Ringo Deathstarr, Godspeed, I Like Trains - all excellent efforts but deffo not Tame bleedin Impala (!)
I liked Toy!
I will certainly be including Toy in my top 5 as well :) I just haven't completed it yet. I actually love 3 of the 5 you've posted there nickd :)
OK, I lied- as much as I liked Toy, it just bubbled under top 5 for me. I'm also noticing Jack White is strangely absent on this list party this year (after tons of gushy reviews by everyone when it came out)
1. frank ocean - channel orange
2. frank ocean - channel orange (download)
3. frank ocean - channel orange (cd)
4. frank ocean - channel orange (vinyl)
5. frank ocean - channel orange (flac)
but the vinyl is So much WARMER!!
Spoiled vote? Or is Frank Ocean getting 5 and your other votes are wasted?
Can you please just do this properly and respect that it takes me hours to compile?
Thanks,
off the top of my head so probably not right
1. Richard Dawson - The Magic Bridge
2. Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi - Imikuzushi
3. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
4. Goat - World Music
5. MCMXCI - Skogen, Flickan och Flaskan
with help from my last.fm
1. Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
3. Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns
4. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild
5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Here we go
1) Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
2) Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
3) Deftones - Koi No Yokan
4) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
5) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
No sticky yet? Can someone with power get on this?
Oh, it's done, but didn't show this before. My bad.
alright so
1. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
2. Tame Impala - Lonerism
3. Swans - The Seer
4. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
5. El-P - Cancer For Cure
1. Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
List!
1. The Antlers - Undersea (EP, does it count?)
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3. Bloc Party - Four
4. Jack White - Blunderbuss
5. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE
Ah Fuck. Ignore That. I MEANT:
The Antlers - Undersea (EP, does it count?)
And if it doesn't:
1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. Django Django - Django Django
3. Bloc Party - Four
4. Jack White - Blunderbuss
5. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE
Sorry. I easily forget what did or didn't come out this year.
Here we go (after lots of rumination...)
1. Black Twig- Paper Trees
2. Japandroids- Celebration Rock
3. Twilight Sad- No One Can Ever Know
4. Bob Mould- Silver Age
5. Feeder- Generation Freakshow
I cant decide on my top 5
its too hard but my top 2 would be..........
1 Beach house- Bloom
2 Helio Sequence- Negotiations.
After that nothing really comes close anyways.
...
1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
3. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
4. Lukid - Lonely At The Top
5. John Talabot - fin
Not listened to loads, but of those I have...
1. Shearwater - Animal Joy
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
4. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild
5. Sharon van Etten - Tramp
FUCK
too late to add Lasorda? Late entry for absolutely amazing record.
good year for music with the old guard more than returning to form
1. Orbital - Wonky
2. Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Righteous Icons
3. VCMG - SSSS
4. Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar
5. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
ok here we are:
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Beach House - Bloom
Hospitality - Hospitality
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Lightships - Electric Cables
Disappointments this year:
Shearwater (I loved the previous 2 albums...), Efterklang (very good but just somehow I can't be arsed to listen to it), Bat For Lashes (almost brilliant but a few songs I don't like), Dead Can Dance (50% awesome, 50% boring), Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zero's (nothing wrong with it but nothing to it when compared to the first album)
1. Isidore - Life Somewhere Else
2. Tame Impala - Lonerism
3. Keaton Henson - Dear
4. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
5. Lone Wolf - The Lovers
1. DIIV - Oshin
2. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
3. X-TG - Desertshore/The Final Report
4. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
5. Chris Cohen - Overgrown Path
1. The Crimea - Square Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmyY4cnUHw
2. mewithoutYou - Ten Stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9MJWYEN80
3. Darren Hayman - The Violence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jv9xtAWTv4
4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw
5. Cursive - I am Gemini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TwSuoq4eUY
1. El-P: Cancer for Cure
2. Orbital- Wnky
3. FOTL - Common Sense
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5. Killer Mike - RAP Music.
At the mo. I don;t do my list till Feb so I can catch up!
1. Swans - The Seer
2. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend
4. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
5. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. BATS - Sleep of Reason
3. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
4. Bloc Party - Four
5. Polica - Give You The Ghost
1. John Talabot - ƒin
2. Orbital - Wonky
3. Jack White - Blunderbuss
4. Cody Chestnutt - Landing On A Hundred
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
1. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
2. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
3. Goat - World Music
4. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
5. Beak > - >>
1) Polica - Give You the Ghost
2) Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
3) Stealing Sheep - Into the Diamond Sun
4) The XX - Co-exist
5) Jack White - Blunderbuss
1. Future of the Left - Plot Against.... (by far)
2. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
3. The Winter Olympics- Profit & Loss
4. The Killers- Battle Born
5. Dingus Khan - Support Mistly Swans
1. Jam City - Classical Curves
2.Actress - R.I.P
3.Julia Holter - Ekstasis
4.Laurel Halo - Quarantine
5.Chairlift - Something
Also love:
Glacial - On Jones Beach, Exitmusic - Passage, JK Flesh - Posthuman, Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You, Alog - Unemployed, KTL - V, Twin Shadow - Confess
YAY LISTS!
1. 'Sun' - Cat Power
2. 'One Day I'm Going To Soar' - Dexys
3. 'Given To The Wild' - Maccabees
4. 'WIXIW' - Liars
5. 'Toy' - Toy
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
The Pre New - Music For People Who Hate Themselves
Swans - The Seer
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Firewater - International Orange
A good year, also need to mention great albums by The Chap, Chromatics, Gravenhurst, Killing Joke, FOTL and Tindersticks.
Saw a tweet by the Pre-New today
...announcing that their next album would be released in Powerpoint format only. I nearly downloaded their current album on the spot in tribute.
2012 - pretty good.
1. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
2. Burial - Kindred
3. Actress - RIP
4. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
5. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Mystical Sun - 26000
Module - Imagineering
Cymophane - S/T
Nothing But Noise - Not Bleeding Red
Stephen Hummel - Meld
Anawaty/Russell - Analog Universe
Odyssey - Music For Subway
Hectic Zeniths - S/T
Orbital - Wonky
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel S/T
Ethernet - Into The Woods
Kalapataru Tree - Luminosophy
Ekoplex - Discovering The Ancient
1. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
2. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
3. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
4. Chris Cohen - Overgrown Path
5. Why? - Mumps, etc.
all my favourite bands have decided to release albums this year, which is very nice of them, but predictable of me to have them as my favourites. SO WHAT
honourable mentions to the Deerhoof, Wild Nothing, Her Parents and Angelo Harmsworth albums
Guess I'll finally get round to mine
1. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
2. Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
3. Liars - WIXIW
4. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
5. Menomena - Moms
Results from Urmston are in
1. Liars
2. Efterklang
3. Blondes
4. VCMG
5. Yeasayer
DIIV so close I could taste it.
unranked, cba
grizzly bear - shields
why? - mumps, etc.
hot chip - in our heads
first aid kit - the lion's roar
purity ring - shrines
special mentions to: perfume genius, beach house, passion pit, wild nothing and burial. great bunch o' lads.
Hmmmm I'm Leaving mine unranked.
Deftones- Koi No Yokon
Dinghus Khan- Support Mistley Swans
Mount Eerie- Clear Moon
Death Grips- The Money Store
Future of the Left- The Plot Against Common Sense
i didnt 'this' this ... it was a total acccident :/
gutted
1. diiv - oshin
2. ghosting season - the very last of the saints
3. the twilight sad - no one can ever know
4. lotus plaza - spooky action from a distance
5. the soft moon - zeroes
Nothing has really excited me that much this year
- mostly been getting into some old bands and buying many electronic 12"s. Would have been shocked if you'd told me at the beginning of the year that I'd be saying that and that FOTL wouldn't have made this list, but it just didn't make any sense to me. Satisfaction = bad punk rock?
So:
1. Cage & Aviary - Migration
2. Liars - WIXIW
3. Peaking Lights - Lucifer
4. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - S/T
5. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
1. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
3. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back...
4. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
5. Cheek Mountain Thief - Cheek Mountain Thief
Not a vintage year, but still a whole load of great stuff to listen to.
1. Liars - WIXIW
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. GY!BE - 'Allelujah...
4. Why? - Mumps Ect...
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
1. Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
2. Julia Holter- Ekstasis
3. Chelsea Wolfe- Unknown Rooms
4. Fairhorns- Dkoi Doki Run
5. Internet Forever- s/t
1. Petar Dundov - Ideas from the Pond
2. Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour
3. Swans - The Seer
4. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
5. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy
I think...
1. Dikembe - Broad Shoulders
2.Joie De Vivre - We're All Better Than This
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4.You Blew It! - Grow Up, Dude
5. Dads- American Radass (This is Important)
Honourable Mentions to The Men, Title Fight, Allo Darlin, The Menzingers, John Talabot, and Prawn,
1) Beach House – Bloom
2) Cemeteries – The Wilderness
3) Black Moth Super Rainbow – Cobra Juicy
4) The Durutti Column – Short Stories for Pauline
5) Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action At A Distance
6) DIIV - Oshin
7) Perfume Genius - Put Yr Back N 2 It
8) Jesse Ruins - Dream Analysis
9) Cold Pumas - Persistent Malaise
10)Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
Big Boi having turned out to be top 15 rather than top 5 material, I'm going for
1. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
4. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City
5. El-P - Cancer4Cure
(Just outside: Stars, Everyone Everywhere, Choromatics, Future of the Left, Johan Johansson, Sleigh Bells, Cloud Nothings, Clams Casino)
EP of the Year is a perfect tie between TNGHT and Adventures.
2012 (LPs)
1. The Walkmen - Heaven
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. The Irrepressibles - Nude
4. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
5. TOY - TOY
6. Barker and Baumecker - Transsektoral
7. Lower Dens - Nootropics
8. Purity Ring - Shrines
9. Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
10. Poliça - Give You the Ghost
11. John Talabot - fIN
12. Elsiane - Mechanics of Emotion
13. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
14. Claro Intelecto - Reform Club
15. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
16. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
17. Gary Beck - Bring A Friend
18. Ricardo Donoso - Assimilating the Shadow
19. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
20. Austin Cesear - Cruise Forever
After much deliberating..
1. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
2. The Walkmen - Heaven
3. Beach House - Bloom
4. Diiv - Oshin
5. Chromatics - Kill For Love
Honourable mentions to Ariel Pink, Polica, Goat, Lotus Plaza, Jens Lekman and Twin Shadow
1. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
2. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
3. A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship
4. Black Marble - A Different Arrangement
5. John Talabot - Fin
Honourable mentions: Crypts / Mount Eerie / Chromatics / Slug Guts / Crystal Castles / The Soft Moon / Poliça / 2:54
1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, mAAd city
2. Liars - WIXIW
3. Grizzly Bears - Shields
4. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
5. Sharon van Etten - Tramp
and best Kiwi music = Home Brew
Haven't heard that much, but still a tough battle for 5th...
1. Shazza van Etten - Tramp
2. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
3. Now Now - Threads
4. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
here goes
1. Chromatics - Kill for Love
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. Stumbeleine - Spiderwebbed
4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
5. Menomena - Moms
The Pale-eyed Top 5 Albums of 2012
1. Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America
2. Field Music - Plumb ?
3. Poliça – Give You The Ghost
4. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
5. First Aid Kit- The Lion’s Roar
After much consideration...
1. Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. The Twilight Sad - No-one Can Ever Know
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. Holy Other - Held
1. Linden - Bleached Highlights
2. Lightships - Lightships
3. BMX Bandits - In Space
4. Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
5. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
1. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4. Dan Deacon - America
5. Polica - Give You the Ghost
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
3. Grimes - Visions
4. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
5. JOhn Talabot - Fin
1 Passion Pit - Gossamer
2 Django Django - Django Django
3 Liars - WIXIW
4 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5 Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
no order
death grips - the money store
light asylum - light asylum
gatekeeper - exo
carter tutti void - transverse
swans - the seer
and some albums just missing the cut...
andy stott - luxury problems
the soft moon - zeroes
hot chip - in our heads
actress - r.i.p.
scott walker - bish bosch
oh
1 zammuto - zammuto
2 goat - world music
3 japandroids - celebration rock
4 leeches of lore - frenzy, ecstasy
5 stalking horse - specters
no non-white people in my top five for the fourth year running
pretty racist bud
yeeeah
1. Fang Island – Major
2. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
3. Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
4. Titus Andronicus – Local Business
5. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
and since no one cares....here's the next 5!
6. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
7. Screaming Females – Ugly
8. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
9. The Walkmen – Heaven
10. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
mine
1. Bear in Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
2. Michael Mayer - Mantasy
3. Chromatics - Kill For Love
4. Lindstrom - Smalhans
5. DIIV - Oshin
1. Alt-J: An Awesome Wave
2. Purity Ring: Shrines
3. Graham Coxon: A+E
4. Cloud Nothings: Attack On Memory
5. Burial: Street Halo/Kindred EPs
Here we go
1. LV - Sebenza
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Serengeti - C.A.R
4. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
5. Open Mike Eagle - 4NML HSPTL
1. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
2. Dingus Khan - Support Mistley Swans
3. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon / Ocean Roar
4. Swans - The Seer
5. Can - Lost Tapes
6. Django Django - Django Django
7. Fucked Up - Year Of The Tiger EP
8. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
9. The Shins - Port Of Morrow
10. Grizzly Bear - Shields
11. GYBE - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
12. Antlers - Undersea EP
13. Woods - Bend Beyond
14. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
15. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.a.a.D City
16. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
17. Lee Ranaldo - Between The Times And Tides
18. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
19. Grimes - Visions
20. Babies - Our House On The Hill
21. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
22. Meursault - Something For The Weakened
23. Mirroring - Foreign Body
24. Dan Deacon - America
25. Four Tet - Pink
26. Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - MSOTT
27. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
28. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
29. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
30. Mono - For My Parents
1. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
2. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
3. Holy Other - Held
4. Purity Ring - Shrines
5. GY!BE - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
mine
1. Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky
2. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
3. POLICA - Give you the ghost
4. Guided By Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO
5. Sun Kil Moon - Among the leaves
My votes go to
1. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Jam City - Classical Curves
4. Roc Marciano - Reloaded
5. John Talabot - ƒIN
so
1. John Talabot - Fin
2. Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs
3. Beak - >>
4. Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne
5. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
unranked
Bloc Party — Four
Now, Now — Threads
Moonface — Heartbreaking Recovery
A Place to Bury Strangers — Worship
Internet Forever — Internet Forever
1. Chromatics - Kill For Love
2. Burial - Kindred
3. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
4. Sharon van Etten - Tramp
5. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Eagulls - EP I'm assuming doesn't count, if it does this is my no. 1. but if it does adjust below
1. Purity Ring - Shrines
2. Toy - Toy
3. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild
4. Joie de Vivre - We're All Better Than This
5. Modern Blonde - Sorry!
hon. mention to Crystal Castles - III, and of course Chromatics
OK - I'm ready...
1. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
2. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
3. Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma
4. Efterklang - Piramida
5. Team Me - To The Treetops
1 Sharks - No Gods
2 FOE - Bad Dream Hotline
3 Our Lost Infantry - New Art History
4 Hold Your Horse Is - Frimley
5 Bloc Party - Four
1. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
2. The Lost Rivers - Sin and Lostness
3. Metz - Metz
4. Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS
5. The Men - Open Your Heart
1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid,m.A.A.d city
2.Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
3.Joey Badass - 1999
4.El-P - Cancer4Cure
5.The 2 Bears - Be Strong
.
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
3. The Maccabees - Given To the Wild
4. Burial - Kindred EP
5. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, M.A.A.D. city
1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. Shearwater - Animal Joy
3. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
5. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
.
1. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
2. Chromatics - Kill for Love
3. Four Tet - Pink
4. Hundred Waters - Hundred Waters
5. Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
last minute shuffling
1) Actress - RIP
2) Juju & Jordash - Techno Primitivism
3) KTL - V
4) Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
5) Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
My top ten is in constant flux. Earth, Sir Richard Bishop, Aluk Todolo probably deserved a place. Ditto Nick Edwards, Shackleton and Frank Ocean. Great year for records.
In fact revise that
1) Earth
2) Actress
3) Juju & Jordash
3) Raime
5) Flying Lotus
Sorry Medulla!
This:
1. Deep Time - S/T
2. Peepholes - The Overspill
3. Trouble Books - Concatenating Fields
4. Moon Duo - Circles
5. Tigercats - Isle Of Dogs
1. Anathema-Weather Systems
2. Errors-Have Some Faith In Magic
3. Spiritualized-Sweet Heart Sweet Light
4. Tindersticks- The Something Rain
5. Beach House- Bloom
1 Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
2 Polica - Give You The Ghost
3 Chairlift - Something
4 Yppah - Eighty One
5 Lilacs & Champagne - Lilacs & Champagne
Then - Foe, Dan Deacon, Sharon Van Etten, Tennis & Richard Hawley
Top 5:
1) Polica - Give You The Ghost
2) Twin Shadow - Confess
3) Chromatics - Kill For Love
4) Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
5) Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
MOR MOR MOR how do you like it?
1 - Death Grips - The Money Store
2 - Grimes - Visions
3 - Django Django - Django Django
4 - Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
5 - Grizzly Bear - Shields
mancINi.
1) Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
2) The Wedding Present - Valentina
3) Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
4) Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves
5) The Vaccines - ...Come of Age
1. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
2. Actress - R.I.P.
3. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Laurel Halo - Quarantined
If it's not too late:
1. Efterklang – Piramada
2. Boy – Mutual Friends
3. Sleep Party People – We Were Drifting On A Sad Song
4. Hjaltalin – Enter 4
5. Get Well Soon – Scarlet Beast O’Seven Heads
TwothousandandthirtIN
1. Django Django - Django Django
2. Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
3. Death Grips - The Money Store
4. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat + Bone
5. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
expanded version in discussion thread: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4421085#r7240791
1. Teeth - The Strain
2. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
3. Burial - Kindred
4. Liars - WIXIW
5. Godspeed YBE - Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend
1. Django Django - Django Django
2. Calexico - Algiers
3. Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
4. Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
5. Tame Impala - Lonerism
I would have surely voted for Hidden Orchestra and Portico Quartet, but I reckon they don't have a chance here anyway. Moreover, I'm quite surprised that I'm the first person to vote for Calexico and Trail of Dead.
1. Field Music - Plumb
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Killer Mike - RAP Music
4. The Walkmen - Heaven
5. Melody's Echo Chamber - s/t
R.O.N.
1. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America
4. Goat - World Music
5. Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme
1. Polica - Give You The Ghost
2. Liars - WIXIW
3. FOE - Bad Dream Hotline
4. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
also Aesop Rock, Grimes, Kendrick, Cat Power
Can't really decide a top 5 but just take these...
1. Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
2. Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs
3. Orbital - Wonky
4. TrioVD - Maze
5. Warsaw Village Band - Nord
uhh forgot TrioVD had a new one out
thanks for the unintentional reminder!
VOTING HAS CLOSED.
Results later on. Watch this space...
Any news, boss?
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4316896
actually, instead of joking
here's the real one
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4422788