Top 10 of 2012

[Idioteque Stalker]

Another slow start for me. Help.

1. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence

[Dukefrukem]

I kinda want to put the new Roots album on this list, but it was released December 9th. :-/

[Boner M]

1. Woollen Kits - s/t
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

All solid (WKs are friends tho, so I can't pretend to be objective).

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Burial - Kindred EP
2. Evian Christ - Kings and Them
3. Matthew Dear - Headcage EP
4. Chairlift - Something
5. Grimes - Visions
6. Machinedrum - SXLND EP
7. John Talabot - ƒIN
8. Pete Swanson - Man With Potential
9. Jacques Greene - Concealer

[Acapelli]

1. Lil B - White Flame
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Jacques Greene - Concealer
4. Machinedrum - SXNLD
5. Tennis - Young & Old
6. Ceremony - Hysteria
7. Blondes - Blondes
8. Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
9. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
10. Future - Astronaut Status

got some catching up to do

edit: added some other stuff, could see the ceremony album growing on me

[ledfloyd]

1. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
4. Craig Finn - Clear Eyes Full Heart

[Idioteque Stalker]

I listened to pretty much everything posted here, but the only thing I can really get behind is Cloud Nothings. Took a minute to get past the slightly amateurish vocals, but it's a fucking good rock album and it sounds great. Albini for MVP.

Other thoughts:

Evian Christ is the most interesting thing I didn't much care for. I'll definitely be watching.

Enjoyed immensely the barking dog on the Machinedrum EP.

Didn't like Jacques Greene's Concealer EP, but it did lead into "Another Girl" which I had never heard and is pretty great.

Grimes was OK.

Damn you boner for always having impossible-to-get albums as your #1.

[Idioteque Stalker]

So now my list looks something like this:

1. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
2. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
3. Burial - Kindred

[D_Davis]

Man, finally a 2012 album that I like.

1. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One

[Boner M]

I love Oren. Gotta check that one out.

[ContinentalOp]

1. Chairlift- Something
2. A Place to Bury Strangers- Onwards to the Wall
3. Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune

Fucking Drive soundtrack got me into electropop big time. Like or love every song on Something so far.

[ContinentalOp]

I listened to pretty much everything posted here, but the only thing I can really get behind is Cloud Nothings. Took a minute to get past the slightly amateurish vocals, but it's a fucking good rock album and it sounds great. Albini for MVP.
Got my attention. Will seek out.

[Derek]

Got my attention. Will seek out.

Best quote about the album, by the lead singer:

"Steve Albini played Scrabble on Facebook almost the entire time [we were recording]. I don't even know if he remembers what our album sounds like."

Good to know he's still an asshole. :)

[ContinentalOp]

Best quote about the album, by the lead singer:

"Steve Albini played Scrabble on Facebook almost the entire time [we were recording]. I don't even know if he remembers what our album sounds like."

Good to know he's still an asshole. :)
It wouldn't be an Albini production without the assholism. My guess is that he was seemingly playing Scrabble on Facebook almost the entire time. Seemingly.

[D_Davis]

1. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
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2. Ohio Sky - Curses
3. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One

[Idioteque Stalker]

Spring update:

1. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
2. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
3. Mirel Wagner - s/t
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
5. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
6. Burial - Kindred
7. Mirrorring - Foreign Body
8. Frankie Rose - Interstellar
9. Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour/Golden Mile

Particularly keen on the first three. Also, where's the great hip-hop?

[D_Davis]

1. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
2. Ohio Sky - Curses
3. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane (http://stillbluestillturning.bandcamp .com/)
4. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One

--Man, this year has been a real bummer so far.

[D_Davis]

Also, where's the great hip-hop?

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/60/93/609325895-1.jpg (http://variex.bandcamp.com/album/the-glass-swan-project-anti-love-songs-for-lovers)

[Acapelli]

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/60/93/609325895-1.jpg (http://variex.bandcamp.com/album/the-glass-swan-project-anti-love-songs-for-lovers)
i know you shouldn't judge a book (or in this case, an album) by its cover, but my god that's an awful cover

that's some livejournal circa 2003 stuff

[D_Davis]

1. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
2. Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves (released 12/25/11 - including it for 2012)
2. Ohio Sky - Curses
3. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane
4. Khari Mateen - Waiting for Sunrise
5. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One

[D_Davis]

1. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
2. Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves (released 12/25/11 - including it for 2012)
3. Ohio Sky - Curses
4. Nefarious! - The Dream Theory
5. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane
6. The Chromatics - Kill for Love
7. Khari Mateen - Waiting for Sunrise
8. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One

[D_Davis]

1. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
2. Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves (released 12/25/11 - including it for 2012)
3. Bvdub - Serenity
4. Ohio Sky - Curses
5. Nefarious! - The Dream Theory
6. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane
7. The Chromatics - Kill for Love
8. Aaron Freeman - Marvelous Clouds
9. Gaston Arevalo - Deriva
10. Khari Mateen - Waiting for Sunrise

The Rest:

Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One

[D_Davis]

1. De La Soul's Plug 1 and Plug 2 present....First Serve
2. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
3. Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves (released 12/25/11 - including it for 2012)
4. Port St. Willo - Holiday
5. Bvdub - Serenity
6. Ohio Sky - Curses
7. Nefarious! - The Dream Theory
8. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane
9. Aaron Freeman - Marvelous Clouds
10. The Chromatics - Kill for Love


The Rest:



Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
Gaston Arevalo - Deriva
Khari Mateen - Waiting for Sunrise

[ContinentalOp]

1. Spiritualized- Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
2. Chairlift- Something
3. Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
4. Tanlines- Mixed Emotions
5. The Magnetic Fields- Love at the Bottom of the Sea
6. A Place to Bury Strangers- Onwards to the Wall
7. Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
8. The Wedding Present- Valentina

Chromatics' new CD is pretty good so far, very eclectic compared to their last one. Giving it a couple more spins before I throw it in.

[Boner M]

Alright this new Mount Eerie - also the first I've heard :eek: - is stupidly good. #1 with a bullet.

[Derek]

Alright this new Mount Eerie - also the first I've heard :eek: - is stupidly good. #1 with a bullet.

First 2012 album or first from Mount Eerie album?* If it's the latter, you definitely need to check out Wind's Poem, which isn't as good, but still pretty awesome. Hard to believe Elverum has another Mount Eerie album coming later this year - apparently a companion piece to Clear Moon called Ocean Roar, which is supposed to be noisier and foggier.


About two-thirds to completion I started forming them into two distinct albums, which are two sides to the same idea. It’s clarity vs. obscurity, vision vs. fog blanket.

Can't. Friggin. Wait.

*n/m I see already ranked a few other albums from this year.

[Boner M]

First 2012 album or first from Mount Eerie album?* If it's the latter, you definitely need to check out Wind's Poem, which isn't as good, but still pretty awesome. Hard to believe Elverum has another Mount Eerie album coming later this year - apparently a companion piece to Clear Moon called Ocean Roar, which is supposed to be noisier and foggier.
1st Mount Eerie; 2nd Elverum behind The Glow. My housemate has nearly everything on his HD, so I'll catch up soon. Is Wind's Poem the black metal-inspired one?

[Boner M]

fwiw, my favorites of 2012 (that I can see staying in the top 10 by the year's end) are:

1. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
2. Chromatics - Kill For Love
3. Lower Plenty - Hard Rubbish
4. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful

[Derek]

Is Wind's Poem the black metal-inspired one?

Heh, yup. Though a very loose inspiration. Like Clear Moon, I'd say it's more Lynch/Twin Peaks inspired throughout, not just in its sampling of the TP theme song. :)

[Boner M]

Yeah, I was getting major Badalamenti/Lynch vibes on CM. Among the best kind of vibes.

[Raiders]

I didn't much care for the sampling of Wind's Poem I heard. Black metal, which it definitely felt like in the few minutes I listened to, is far from being something I can take for any period of time. It was my first attempt at Mount Eerie. From the sampling I have just done of Clear Moon, seems a little more like my speed, so I'll probably give it a full run through.

For me, 2012 is pretty bare so far, but like all three albums and actually, the Beach House is pretty stellar:

1. Beach House, Bloom
2. James Blackshaw, Love is the Plan, The Plan is Death
3. Cloud Nothings, Attack On Memory

I usually start getting into music once summer really starts and there is a lot of lazy weekends and vacation time.

[Idioteque Stalker]

If black metal isn't your thing (I'm not really a fan but I still love Wind's Poem) then check out Lost Wisdom as well. It's probably Elverum's most serene album--short and potent.

1. Death Grips - The Money Store
2. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
3. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
4. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
5. Mirel Wagner - s/t
6. Beach House - Bloom
7. The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
8. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
9. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
10. Burial - Kindred

Surprised by how much I like Bloom. I think it's my favorite since their debut.

[D_Davis]

10. Mirrorring - Foreign Body


About 1/2 of this is really good.

[Idioteque Stalker]

About 1/2 of this is really good.

I'd go 3/4, but I agree it's a little inconsistent. I forgot the Lips so I'm gonna have to kick it off regardless.

[D_Davis]

1. De La Soul's Plug 1 and Plug 2 present....First Serve
2. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
3. Isidore - The Privateer
4. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
5. Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves (released 12/25/11 - including it for 2012)
6. Port St. Willow - Holiday
7. Bvdub - Serenity
8. Ohio Sky - Curses
9. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane
10. The Chromatics - Kill for Love


The Rest:



Aaron Freeman - Marvelous Clouds
Nefarious! - The Dream Theory
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
Gaston Arevalo - Deriva
Khari Mateen - Waiting for Sunrise

[Acapelli]

Grimes - Visions
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Beach House - Bloom
TOPS - Tender Opposites
CFCF - Exercises
Merchandise - Children Of Desire
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Gentleman Jesse - Leaving Atlanta
Kyarypamyupamyu - pamyupamyurevolution
Nzca/Lines - Nzca/Lines
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The Walkmen - Heaven
Mean Jeans - On Mars
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
Phèdre - Phèdre
Mind Spiders - Meltdown
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
Paula - Relaxed Fit
Tennis - Young & Old
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
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d'Eon - LP
Lil B - God's Father
Lil B - Trapped In Basedworld
capsule - STEREO WORXXX
Nude Beach - Nude Beach II
Lil B - White Flame
Lil B - The Basedprint 2
Lil B - #1 Bitch
Actress - R.I.P.
Terry Malts - Killing Time
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Ladyhawke - Anxiety
Clock Opera - Ways To Forget
Totally Enormous Extreme Dinosaurs - Trouble
Kindness - World, You Need A Change Of Mind
Ceremony - Zoo
Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks

[Acapelli]

that last group is basically the only albums i won't be revisiting

pretty great year for music, and i still haven't listened to the new liars, future of the left, the intelligence, waka flocka flame, jam city, lemonade and eternal summers

[Boner M]

Have you heard the Royal Headache LP, Aca? It was released last year but got a wider reissue this year.

[Acapelli]

Have you heard the Royal Headache LP, Aca? It was released last year but got a wider reissue this year.
i have not, but comparisons to the black keys aren't really exciting me

how accurate are those comparisons?

[Idioteque Stalker]

how accurate are those comparisons?

Gonna chime in and say not very much at all. One might say they both mix soul and rock, but the Black Keys are more "blues" while Royal Headache are more "punk." I don't find them very similar at all in the end and I like Royal Headache a lot more.

[Boner M]

Yeah, what IS said. I think the fact they're touring together has made that comparison more prominent (had never heard them mentioned in the same sentence til then).

I'd say Reigning Sound is a better reference, or just the Buzzcocks with R&B vocals.

[Russ]

the Buzzcocks with R&B vocals.
I'm having difficulty conjuring up that mental image..

[D_Davis]

1. De La Soul's Plug 1 and Plug 2 present....First Serve
2. Motorpsycho & Staale Storloekken - The Death Defying Unicorn
3. Dali's Car - InGladAloneness
4. Isidore - The Privateer
5. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
6. Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves (released 12/25/11 - including it for 2012)
7. Port St. Willow - Holiday
8. Bvdub - Serenity
9. Ohio Sky - Curses
10. Still Blue Still Turning - Hurricane



The Rest:



The Chromatics - Kill for Love
Aaron Freeman - Marvelous Clouds
Nefarious! - The Dream Theory
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
Gaston Arevalo - Deriva
Khari Mateen - Waiting for Sunrise

[Idioteque Stalker]

Pretty terrible summer:

1. Death Grips - The Money Store
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
4. Mirel Wagner - s/t
5. The xx - Coexist
6. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
7. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
8. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
9. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
10. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

Apparently I'm depressed.

How do other xx fans feel about Coexist? Seems strange to me that people are disappointed by it being quiet. I'm nearly convinced it's as strong as their debut. Also, year still sucks for hip-hop.

[Pop Trash]

Also, year still sucks for hip-hop.

This year seems to suck for most things. Is it just me or is music stuck in the doldrums? I was looking through the AV Club's list of best albums of the year and it all seemed so stale. Fiona Apple and Jack White? I like both of them but it seems left from some other era. Then you have your Grizzly Bears and Dirty Projectors and whatnot. It all just seems very safe and postpost hipstery indie. This feels like 1992 all over again. Where's Nirvana when you need them?

[Boner M]

It was better then cos you were younger then, duh.

[elixir]

It's just you. :)

[elixir]

How do other xx fans feel about Coexist? Seems strange to me that people are disappointed by it being quiet. I'm nearly convinced it's as strong as their debut. Also, year still sucks for hip-hop.
I was pretty disappointed with it, but I want to try again since I wasn't especially taken with their debut upon first listen (and now I love it). Still though, it's not merely "quiet," but there are crescendos and rises and stuff on their s/t that doesn't seem to be there in Coexist, and I missed that...but I'm going to spin it another time soon.

[sevenarts]

I think this was a pretty good year for music. Actually, I think the whole good year/bad year thing is largely ridiculous, and that there's almost always going to be a wealth of good music if you know where to look for it. I'm putting together my top list now and there's tons of stuff I loved, both from old favorites and new discoveries. The list isn't going to be as big as last year, when I put together 50 entries, but that's largely a function of me being very busy this year and having less time for music - I'm sure if I'd put in the time I could easily double the size of this list with great music. There may be years when certain *genres* of music are better or worse, but I don't really buy that there are years when music as a whole is suffering.

[Acapelli]

i've decided that my hands down favorite is miguel's kaleidoscope dream. nothing else comes close

my revised top 10:

1. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2. Grimes - Visions
3. G.O.O.D. Music - Kanye West Presents Cruel Summer
4. Beach House - Bloom
5. The xx - Coexist
6. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
7. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
8. Jessie Ware - Devotion
9. NZCA/Lines - NZCA Lines
10. Chromatics - Kill For Love

oh so close:
Metz - Metz
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Merchandise - Children Of Desire

[Acapelli]

I think this was a pretty good year for music. Actually, I think the whole good year/bad year thing is largely ridiculous, and that there's almost always going to be a wealth of good music if you know where to look for it. I'm putting together my top list now and there's tons of stuff I loved, both from old favorites and new discoveries. The list isn't going to be as big as last year, when I put together 50 entries, but that's largely a function of me being very busy this year and having less time for music - I'm sure if I'd put in the time I could easily double the size of this list with great music. There may be years when certain *genres* of music are better or worse, but I don't really buy that there are years when music as a whole is suffering.
this

[Robby P]

Kaleidoscope Dream, Channel Orange and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City are my albums of choice this year.

[Acapelli]

don't know why i haven't listened to the kendrick lamar album yet. i love the singles and his guest appearances

[Idioteque Stalker]

I would usually agree with sevenarts, and maybe I "don't know where to look," but all I know is no album this year would make even my top 5 from last year. Every genre I care about--ambient, hip-hop, rock, electronic, whatever--has an album from last year that is stronger than any this year IMO (except singer/songwriter stuff, this year was really strong in that department).

I sampled a few songs from Miguel a while back and promptly wrote it off. I'll do a double take out of respect for the love here.

Btw, Kendrick is probably the best pure hip-hop album of the year, but it's still pretty spotty.

[Pop Trash]

It was better then cos you were younger then, duh.

I realize this sounded "my pop culture when I was 12 was better than your pop culture" but I actually meant music (at least of the popular variety) was pretty stagnant and shitty around '90-'91 and I feel we are still in that early part of the decade holding pattern now. We need a dangerous band willing to throw up all over the Grammys.

[Acapelli]

We need a dangerous band willing to throw up all over the Grammys.
huh?

[Pop Trash]

Cloud Nothings sound like Superchunk.

[Acapelli]

Cloud Nothings sound like Superchunk.
well cloud nothings do sound like 90s indie rock, which is why i do really enjoy "attack on nothing"

i fucking love superchunk

[ledfloyd]

http://tongue-tiedlightning.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-year-in-music.html

my top ten of the year.

[EyesWideOpen]

Also, year still sucks for hip-hop.

Nonsense:

Action Bronson & The Alchemist - Rare Chandeliers
De La Soul - First Serve
El-P - Cancer for Cure
G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer
Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown - Dice Game
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Nas - Life is Good
OC & Apollo Brown - Trophies
Sean Price - Mic Tyson

[Ivan Drago]

1. Gossamer - Passion Pit
2. Ten$ion - Die Antwoord
3. Babel - Mumford and Sons
4. Shrines - Purity Ring
5. Royalty - Childish Gambino
6. Album Title Goes Here - deadmau5
7. III - Crystal Castles
8. Elysium - Pet Shop Boys
9. My Head Is An Animal - Of Monsters and Men
10. Magic Hour - Scissor Sisters

[dreamdead]

Still a lot that I need to hear. And I'm counting Kimbra's debut as last year, though it came out in America this year, otherwise that'd knock off something. That said,

1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
3. Willits + Sakamoto - Ancient Future
4. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
5. Anathema - Weather Signals
6. Grimes - Visions
7. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
8. Blut Aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy
9. Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
10. Enslaved - Riitiir

[EyesWideOpen]

Besides G.O.O.D. Music being my easy number 1 no real order for the other ones:

G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer
Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives
Crystal Castles - (III)
Disasterpeace - FEZ Soundtrack
El-P - Cancer for Cure
Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown - Dice Game
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Nas - Life is Good
OC & Apollo Brown - Trophies
Sean Price - Mic Tyson

Although after only a few listens of the new Big Boi album which I just bought today it will definitely be going on my list.

[kopello]

Nonsense:

Action Bronson & The Alchemist - Rare Chandeliers
De La Soul - First Serve
El-P - Cancer for Cure
G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer
Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown - Dice Game
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Nas - Life is Good
OC & Apollo Brown - Trophies
Sean Price - Mic Tyson

Yes! Trophies is such an underrated album, Apollo Brown's beats are crazy good.

[D_Davis]

De La Soul - First Serve
El-P - Cancer for Cure


First Serve is awesome, and thanks for reminding me about the El-P. Need to check that out.

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. Death Grips - The Money Store
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
4. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
5. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
6. The xx - Coexist
7. Mirel Wagner - s/t
8. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
9. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
10. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

11. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
12. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
13. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - s/t
14. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
15. Tame Impala - Lonerism
16. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
17. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
18. Captain Murphy - Duality
19. Lambchop - Mr. M
20. Mac DeMarco - 2

EPs:
Burial - Kindred
TNGHT - s/t
Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour/Golden Mile

Turns out this wasn't as much a weak year as last year was freakishly awesome.

[D_Davis]

I doubt I'll finished another new book this year (just started my first re-read of King's It), so here are my top 10 books first read in 2012:

1. The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis
2. Comanche Moon, by Larry McMurtry
3. Celebrant, by Michael Cisco
4. Devil Read, by Joe R. Lansdale
5. Dead Man's Walk, by Larry McMurtry
6. The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry
7. Matadora, by Steve Perry
8. In Other Worlds, by A.A. Attanasio
9. When We Were Executioners, by J.M. McDermott
10. The Big Blowdown, by George Pelecanos

Looks like McMurtry is the big winner this year.

[EyesWideOpen]

I doubt I'll finished another new book this year (just started my first re-read of King's It), so here are my top 10 books first read in 2012:

1. The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis
2. Comanche Moon, by Larry McMurtry
3. Celebrant, by Michael Cisco
4. Devil Read, by Joe R. Lansdale
5. Dead Man's Walk, by Larry McMurtry
6. The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry
7. Matadora, by Steve Perry
8. In Other Worlds, by A.A. Attanasio
9. When We Were Executioners, by J.M. McDermott
10. The Big Blowdown, by George Pelecanos

Looks like McMurtry is the big winner this year.

You're cute.

I've now listened to the new Big Boi album like 8 times and I can safely say it is my favorite album of the year.

[D_Davis]

You're cute.


LOL!

Woops! ;)

[Boner M]

No order of preference yet:

Blank Realm - Go Easy
Blues Control - Valley Tangents
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
Lower Plenty - Hard Rubbish
Rat Columns - Sceptre Hole
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Tyvek - On Triple Beams
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

HM: Lamps, Swans, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, Aluk Todolo, Shackleton (Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ EPs), Frank Ocean, Rites Wild, Clams Casino

Still need to hear: Big Boi, Flying Lotus, Scott Walker, many others

[Idioteque Stalker]

No order of preference yet:

Blank Realm - Go Easy
Blues Control - Valley Tangents
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
Lower Plenty - Hard Rubbish
Rat Columns - Sceptre Hole
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Tyvek - On Triple Beams
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

HM: Lamps, Swans, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, Aluk Todolo, Shackleton (Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ EPs), Frank Ocean, Rites Wild, Clams Casino

Still need to hear: Big Boi, Flying Lotus, Scott Walker, many others

Excited to hear many of these, but disappointed to not see Mount Eerie.

[kopello]

I didn't think the new Big Boi was very good.

1a. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.a.a.d city
1b. Swans - The Seer
3. Andy Stot - Luxury Problems
4. Swearin' - s/t
5. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
6. Death Grips - The Money Store
7. Sigh - In Somniphobia
8. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
9. Killer Mike - Rap Music
10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

Random HMS, no order

Screaming Females - Ugly, THEESatisfaction - awE naturalE, Sun Araw - Icon Give Thank, Action Bronson & the Alchemist - Rare Chandeliers, Reks - Straight No Chaser, Dr. John - Locked Down, Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel..., Mac DeMarco - 2, Daughn Gibson - All Hell, OC and Apollo Brown - Trophies

Even before the album came out I really thought that The Seer was going to be my AOTY, but the new Kendrick Lamar has really grown on me. I'm sure I have some more I wanna listen to but I'm kinda burned out on catching up.

[Derek]

No order of preference yet:

Blank Realm - Go Easy
Blues Control - Valley Tangents
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
Lower Plenty - Hard Rubbish
Rat Columns - Sceptre Hole
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Tyvek - On Triple Beams
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

HM: Lamps, Swans, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, Aluk Todolo, Shackleton (Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ EPs), Frank Ocean, Rites Wild, Clams Casino

Still need to hear: Big Boi, Flying Lotus, Scott Walker, many others

Love it, but no Elemental?

[Boner M]

Love it, but no Elemental?
It'd be #1 with a bullet if it weren't a comp (which didn't stop Triptych from topping last year's list but I'll bend the rules to spread love around more).

Mount Eerie slipped out of my consciousness, so I'll revisit it soon.

[Milky Joe]

No order of preference yet:

Blank Realm - Go Easy
Blues Control - Valley Tangents
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
Lower Plenty - Hard Rubbish
Rat Columns - Sceptre Hole
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Tyvek - On Triple Beams
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

HM: Lamps, Swans, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, Aluk Todolo, Shackleton (Quiet Hour/Drawbar Organ EPs), Frank Ocean, Rites Wild, Clams Casino

Still need to hear: Big Boi, Flying Lotus, Scott Walker, many others

Recs for you:

Matt Carlson - All Moments
Mad Scene - Blip
Mark Feehan - MF
Modra - The Line for the Men's Room
Sic Alps - s/t

TON of great reissues too.

[Boner M]

A Brian Turner follower, eh? ;)

Really liked the Sic Alps album from a few years ago, should get on the new one.

[sevenarts]

I didn't think the new Big Boi was very good.


It's really disappointing. I loved Sir Lucious Leftfoot and had high hopes for the new one, but it's so bad. I respect that he wanted to try something new but it was a struggle to get through it.

[Milky Joe]

A Brian Turner follower, eh? ;)

Really liked the Sic Alps album from a few years ago, should get on the new one.

Heh, you might say that. We move in similar circles.

If you haven't heard the second Sic Alps album Napa Asylum either, I heartily recommend that one as well. They're one of the best bands going today IMO. They just put out a 7" of Tronics covers that rules also.

[EyesWideOpen]

It's really disappointing. I loved Sir Lucious Leftfoot and had high hopes for the new one, but it's so bad. I respect that he wanted to try something new but it was a struggle to get through it.

That's funny. I feel exactly the opposite. I thought Sir Lucius Leftfoot was disappointing and generic. And like I mentioned earlier his new one is my favorite of the year.

[slqrick]

Fairly standard/boring.

1. Frank Ocean - channel orange

The Walkmen - Heaven
Kendrick Lamar - good kid
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze (EP)
Grizzly Bear - Shields
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Big KRIT - Live from the Underground
Nas - Life is Good
Japandroids - Celebration Rock

[elixir]

something like this

10. Privilege, Pt. V: Portrait of a Reputation - Parenthetical Girls
9. (III) - Crystal Castles
8. Zeros - The Soft Moon
7. TRST - Trust
6. Lonerism - Tame Impala
5. Kill for Love & Running from the Sun - Chromatics
4. Luxury Problems - Andy Stott
3. Bloom - Beach House
2. Violet Replacement Parts I & II - Grouper
1. WIXIW - Liars

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Burial - Kindred EP
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper EP
2. John Talabot - FIN
3. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid m.a.a.d City
4. Disclosure - The Face EP + Latch (12")
5. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
6. Matthew Dear - Beams
7. Beach House - Bloom
8. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
9. Chromatics - Kill For Love
10. Grimes - Visions

10 Favorite Songs of 2012
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Talk Normal - Bad Date
King Dude - Holy Land
Bat For Lashes - Laura
Future Islands - Tomorrow
Stargate - Driving Hyperreality
Burial - Loner
The Drum - Night Driving
Trust - Sulk
Andy Stott - Numb
Jai Paul - Jasmine