2012 music

[junior]

i love lana's paradise edition. gods and monsters is life.

 

[shnen]

ian skelly's album cut from a star is beautiful

 

[More Cowbell]

The French electronic music producer Uppermost released a free album today, and I would definitely suggest it if you are into chill electronic music. The album has few stand-out tracks, but on the whole is a very pleasant listen that flows nicely. Uppermost makes great use of samples, too.

My favourite song from the album is Beautiful Light, it has a great vibe, cool samples, and the vocals are really neat as well.

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[Glen]

spaceghostpurrp's new mixtape dropped last night and it's one of the best hiphop releases this year

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[More Cowbell]

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New Liquicity Yearmix just in, listen to it if you even remotely enjoy DnB and all its related genres, it's fantastic.

 

[Deschain]

my lists:

Metal
01 The Great Old Ones: Al Azif
02 Woman is the Earth: This Place That Contains My Spirit
03 A Forest of Stars: A Shadowplay For Yesterday
04 Addaura: Burning For the Ancients
05 Sinistro: Sinistro
06 Omega Centauri: Universum Infinitum
07 Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
08 Meshuggah: Koloss
09 Hypno5e: Acid Mist Tomorrow
10 Monolithe: Monolithe III

NOT METAL
01 mewithoutYou: Ten Stories (AotY)
02 Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs
03 Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!'
04 fun.: Some Nights
05 7Vortex: Leave In Past
06 Swans: The Seer
07 Clark: Iradelphic
08 School of Seven Bells: Ghostory
09 Bat For Lashes: The Haunted Man
10 Author & Punisher: Ursus Americanus

 

[Arch]

Welp: 2012

11. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
10. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
09. Beach House - Bloom
08. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
07. The Shins - Port of Morrow
06. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
05. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
04. Crystal Castles - (III)
03. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel blah blah blah blah
02. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - A!DB!A
01. Swans - The Seer

Underdog of the year goes to Crystal Castles. An album I initially disregarded as trash quickly grew on me to become one of my favorites of the year.

EDIT:
I also have a list of the best singles of 2012 with commentary here: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Chardizzle/the_best_singles_of_2012

17. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
16. M83 - Steve McQueen
15. Dinosaur Jr. - Watch the Corners
14. Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless
13. Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
12. Santigold - Disparate Youth
11.Purity Ring - Fineshrine
10. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
09. Beach House - Myth
08. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarassing
07. Blur - Under the Westway
06. Swans - Mother of the World
05. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
04. Crystal Castles - Affection
03. The Shins - Simple Song
02. Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness
01. Guided By Voices - White Flag

 

[Ouro]

Unsurprisingly, LONG.LIVE.A$AP is garbage. He blew all his good material prior to the release. Ghetto Symphony and Angels are good tracks but overall its just weak lyrics over weak beats.

He is also name dropping designer brands like niggas in the hood give a fuck about Maison Martin Margiela or Raf Simmons.

Whoever was behind this album didn't know in which direction to take it. Instead of drawing on Rocky's alleged influences and making them his own, they just had him jack other people's flows and drop them on the shitty ambient beats.

Hopefully Ferg's release wont be as bad...

 

[pookar]

hes been namedropping raf simons, rick owens, maison martin margiela, jeremy scott, ETC in all of his previous works. I dont think this was a strong release, closer to mediocre, but i absolutely love 1 train and ghetto symphony. to say it was far off from anything hes released earlier is silly though.. its pretty much the same stuff

 

[X5Dragon]

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[Squarewalker]

My list:

4/5:

26. JK Flesh - Posthuman
25. Necro Deathmort - The Colonial Script
24. Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas
23. Saltillo - Monocyte
22. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
21. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
20. Sigur Rós - Valtari
19. Desolate - Celestial Light Beings
18. The Flashbulb - Opus at the End of Everything
17. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
16. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
15. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
14. Rush - Clockwork Angels
13. Anathema - Weather Systems
12. Jessica Curry - Dear Esther: Official Soundtrack
11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
10. BATS - The Reason of Sleep
09. Enslaved - RIITIIR
08. Periphery - II

4.5/5:

07. Lifeformed - Fastfall
06. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
05. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
04. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
03. mewithoutYou - Ten Stories
02. Grizzly Bear - Shields
01. Beach House - Bloom

 

[No Luck Involved]

Not usually huge into pop but just listened to some songs by Cover Drive and really enjoying it... She has an amazing voice, put over some agreeable chord progressions and a half decent beat and I can already see a nice guilty pleasure of an album!

 

[cant say]

I know this is a late entry but I just did my votes for triple j's hottest 100. Took me forever to cut down to a top 10.

1) Flume - On Top (feat. T-Shirt)
2) Chet Faker - I'm Into You
3) Hermitude - Get In My Life
4) Major Lazer - Get Free (feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors)
5) St Lucia - September
6) Feed Me & Crystal Fighters - Love is All I Got
7) ShockOne - Chaos Theory
8) The Gaslight Anthem - ''45''
9) TNGHT - Higher Ground
10) Frank Ocean- Thinking Bout You