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WATMM's 2012 Album Of The Year - VOTING!

eh Speedy

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WATMM's 2012 Album Of The Year - Voting  

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  1. 1. Vote for as many of your favorite albums as you like.

    • 1991 - 1991
      12
    • 1991 - High Tech High Life
      9
    • 36 - Lithea
      8
    • Actress - R.I.P
      44
    • Aesop Rock - Skelethon
      7
    • Aleksi Perälä - Mental Union (2xCD)
      22
    • Ametsub - All Is Silence
      9
    • AMPMX - Monster Guts
      4
    • Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
      27
    • Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
      15
    • Automatic Tasty - Speech and Silence
      10
    • Beach House - Bloom
      10
    • Beak> - Beak>>
      3
    • Biosphere - Compilation 1991-2004
      8
    • Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy
      6
    • Blockhead - Interludes After Midnight
      2
    • The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
      14
    • Clark - Iradelphic
      18
    • Claro Intelecto - Reform Club
      6
    • CN - Obscure Research
      18
    • Coppice Halifax - Verdant Acre
      4
    • Christ. - Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack
      10
    • Chromatics - Kill for Love
      6
    • Cthulhu Detonator - Infernal Machines
      6
    • Cygnus - Cybercity Z-ro
      9
    • Daphni - Jiaolong
      7
    • Death Grips - The Money Store
      16
    • Death Grips - No Love Deep Web
      8
    • DeepChord presents Echospace - Silent World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
      6
    • DeepChord - Sommer
      7
    • Deftones - Koi No Yokan
      5
    • Demdike Stare - Elemental
      5
    • Die Antwoord - Ten$ion
      8
    • Drexciya - Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller Volume II
      20
    • Drokk - Music inspired by Mega-City One
      3
    • Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
      8
    • El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
      7
    • Fennesz - AUN
      5
    • The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
      2
    • Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
      23
    • Four Tet - Pink
      18
    • Frog Pocket - Frog & The Volcano
      3
    • The Future Sound of London - Environments 4
      5
    • Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
      4
    • Global Goon ‎- Horizon
      6
    • Global Goon - Journeys
      6
    • Global Goon ‎- Plastic Orchestra
      9
    • Goat - World Music
      5
    • Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
      19

  2. 2. It makes me cut them up in to groups of 50.

    • Grimes - Visions
      22
    • Grischa Lichtenberger - And IV [Inertia]
      17
    • Grizzly Bear - Shields
      14
    • Holy Other - Held
      16
    • The Host - The Host
      8
    • Hype Williams - Black is Beautiful
      8
    • I:Cube - M Megamix
      2
    • Ital Tek - Nebula Dance
      11
    • Jam City - Classical Curves
      8
    • JJ Doom - Key to the Kuffs
      11
    • Jodey Kendrick - Plus Ten (2xCD)
      10
    • Jodey Kendrick - Steel Erector
      8
    • John Tejada - The Predicting Machine
      2
    • Julia Holter - Ekstasis
      5
    • Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d city
      13
    • Kettel & Secede - When Can
      4
    • Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues
      6
    • Konx-Om-Pax - Regional Surrealism
      9
    • KTL - V
      4
    • Last Step - Sleep
      12
    • Laurel Halo - Quarantine
      13
    • Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
      8
    • Legowelt - The Paranormal Soul
      14
    • Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation
      4
    • Lone - Galaxy Garden
      32
    • Lorn - Ask the Dust
      9
    • Loscil - Sketches From New Brighton
      8
    • Lukid - Lonely At the Top
      12
    • Mala - Mala In Cuba
      5
    • Manual - Awash
      2
    • Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary
      7
    • Matthew Friedberger - Matricidal Sons of Bitches
      2
    • Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
      7
    • Meat Beat Manifesto - The Forger/Test EP
      2
    • Mohn - Mohn
      9
    • Monolake - Ghosts
      11
    • Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics
      11
    • Mouse on Mars - WOW
      3
    • Mr 76ix - Experiment Four
      12
    • My Bloody Valentine - EP's 1988-1991
      6
    • My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (2xCD remaster)
      4
    • Nathan Fake - Steam Days
      9
    • Oberman Knocks - Beatcroff Slabs
      4
    • Orbital - Wonky
      6
    • Otto von schirach - Supermeng
      6
    • Squarepusher - Ufabulum
      28
    • Panabrite - Soft Terminal
      3
    • Panabrite - The Baroque Atrium
      3
    • Panabrite - Blue Grotto
      2
    • Para One - Passion
      2

  3. 3. Continued...

    • Pausal - Forms
      3
    • Photodementia - Fig. 03
      34
    • Plug - Back On Time
      13
    • Polysick - Digital Native
      8
    • Purity Ring - Shrines
      10
    • Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 3:All Pathways Open
      8
    • Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games
      13
    • Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
      9
    • Recondite - On Acid
      8
    • Retina.it - Descending Into Crevasse
      3
    • Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime World Vol. 3
      8
    • Slugabed - Time Team
      7
    • Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs
      17
    • Sand Circles - Motor City
      7
    • Scald Rougish - Auen Ansici/Bardachd
      10
    • Scuba - Personality
      8
    • Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gendras & The Congos - Icon Give Thank
      7
    • Sunken Foal - Friday Syndrome Vol. 1
      3
    • Swans - The Seer
      15
    • Tame Impala - Lonerism
      15
    • Taylor Deupree - Faint
      3
    • Terrence Dixon - From The Far Future 2
      2
    • Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya
      9
    • Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman
      10
    • Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
      2
    • Ukkonen - The Isolated Rhythms Of...
      5
    • Vaervaf - Hipcatch
      3
    • Vessel - Order Of Noise
      6
    • Vladislav Delay - Kuopio
      22
    • Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake
      8
    • The Wyrding Module - Mellifluous Ichor From Sunless Regions
      6
    • The xx - Coexist
      7
    • Yagya - The Inescapable Decay of My Heart (instrumental versions)
      3
    • Yeasayer - Fragrant World
      6
    • Young Smoke - Space Zone
      5
    • v/a - Hotline Miami Soundtrack
      9

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syd syside Grand Master

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Why make a fuss about what other people like? Trying to stereotype people who do as a bunch of sheep hipsters seems a bit pointless and distasteful.

 

who's doing that?

 

 

maybe I misread this but it seems like awepittance suggested that most watmmers listen to pitchfork to decide what they like instead of thinking for themselves.

 

pretty crazy that watmm is going to vote a pitchpork fave #1 album of the year, would i come off as more of a dick if i said totally expected instead?
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Guest Sprigg

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There's so much on this list that I haven't listened to. There's enough here to keep me busy for months.

 

Also, no haxan cloak? :(

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I heard Vladislav Delay's new album the other day, because of this thread... Fantastic album.

 

That is why I like these 'best of the year' polls.

 

Same, I like to support music that did a lot for me and its great to see people share similar excitement for the same music that I did, but there is so much music that it is of more importance to hear people share similar excitement for music I haven't heard.

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how was this list compiled? 2 albums i mentioned are not included. do they have to be listed twice in the nominations thread?

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how was this list compiled? 2 albums i mentioned are not included. do they have to be listed twice in the nominations thread?

 

yeah, i think so.

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eh Speedy Grand Master

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how was this list compiled? 2 albums i mentioned are not included. do they have to be listed twice in the nominations thread?

 

Indeed sir, indeed. I'm moving to at least 3 or 4 nominations per release next year. This list is far too long.

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I think Actress is pretty over-perceived; I really don't understand the hype. One of my main complaints is that his tracks don't really go anywhere for the most part. Once the main loop gets established, he pretty much just drones on it for another 5-6 minutes, where he may add/change one or two elements, or drop in some short break section, but it's never enough. Maybe I just don't think the loops are good enough to be hammered on that long? He does have a way with texture and his music has vibe, but I find his harmonic content to be pretty drab (i.e. Shadow of Tartarus, Raven). Let's have more material like Gershwin.

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I dont want to place too much emphasis on what's "good" and "bad." I'm tired of defending my opinion like it matters, it doesn't. The Actress album, and no music, can be ripped apart like this. I hate when it becomes some ego procedure.

 

I love R.I.P. because it has been part of my life in a very serious way. Last summer I was listening to it on my drives around town, at 2 in the morning, from place to place. It's a romantic album, because it enhances your life, and sticks with you.

 

What happened was, when I was listening to it on and off last summer, I was not really too big on it. I skipped tracks, and felt it was on about the same level as the Lone album.

 

Then, recently, I put it on, and it was like a friend, an instant friend that I remembered. And it all fit into a puzzle that made perfect sense. Even if it isn't conceptually perfect, and even if there is much better to come, I do think it signals the start of what might be a prosperous period in music, where we go away from too much abstraction and analysis, back toward beauty, romance, life, embracing disaster, and getting off the internet. So that's what it means to me, regardless of whether it is objectively a great album.

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I consider this the song of 2012 (summer... different songs for fall, spring, winter)

 

 

 

someone said it's harmonically uninteresting. it is, quite simple, just back and forth between two notes. however, when the string/flutes come in... that's what matters. I consider it more like background, atmosphere, life music than something to listen to really closely for intellectual details.

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I was initially blown away by RIP and still am, if not more so. With music its hard to sometimes pinpoint why I like it so much, just as I used to not understand Burial's appeal much at all but now love his new stuff. But I think it does come to atmosphere that grips my attention these days and RIP is one of those albums that teleports me to imaginary landscapes that warms my soul.

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Nothing but love for RIP, although this track by cohort Lukid really blew me away -

 

 

It's the closing track on Lonely At The Top, which was/is and excellent album that I'd rate only slightly below RIP, think it was one of bleep's top albums of 2012 too. Worth checking out for fans of Actress.

 

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Its funny that RIP has the most votes but is the least well received in the thread. Did people just vote for it because everyone listened to it?

 

I noticed this as well, I voted for it cause I bought it and love it. Its characteristic of watmmers to hate on what is popular as well.

 

edit: @Bob, yeah really enjoyed that Lukid album.

 

My List: Actress, Aleksi, Deepchord, Global Goon, Lukid, The Host, Jam City, Photodementia, Raime ... would also include Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Mature Themes, James Ferraro's SUSHI and probably a bunch more that have slipped my mind atm.

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Its funny that RIP has the most votes but is the least well received in the thread. Did people just vote for it because everyone listened to it?

 

I noticed this as well, I voted for it cause I bought it and love it. Its characteristic of watmmers to hate on what is popular as well.

 

edit: @Bob, yeah really enjoyed that Lukid album.

 

My List: Actress, Aleksi, Deepchord, Global Goon, Lukid, The Host, Jam City, Photodementia, Raime ... would also include Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Mature Themes, James Ferraro's SUSHI and probably a bunch more that have slipped my mind atm.

 

This is applicable to most of the internet.

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Its funny that RIP has the most votes but is the least well received in the thread. Did people just vote for it because everyone listened to it?

 

I noticed this as well, I voted for it cause I bought it and love it. Its characteristic of watmmers to hate on what is popular as well.

 

edit: @Bob, yeah really enjoyed that Lukid album.

 

My List: Actress, Aleksi, Deepchord, Global Goon, Lukid, The Host, Jam City, Photodementia, Raime ... would also include Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Mature Themes, James Ferraro's SUSHI and probably a bunch more that have slipped my mind atm.

 

This is applicable to most of the internet.

 

True, but I am not saying people don't genuinely dislike RIP, just that its directed to the most heat because it is on top. People like their "underdog" to win.

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that actress album should have been called 'attempts'

zing!

 

also yeah, caves of paradise is good, but overall I agree with the sentiment that RIP doesn't really go anywhere, and a lot of tracks are way too long for just having one rather uninteresting element repeating over and over...

 

on the other hand though, I don't really think Photodementia or any of the other albums in the lineup deserve the historic title of being "album of the year" either... I guess 2012 was just kind of underwhelming after Room(s) and An Empty Bliss Beyond This World blew me away in 2012.

 

Still sticking with my early 2012 favorites Hipcatch, and Patience (After Sebald), because I immersed myself so deeply in them when they came out, in a hazy, unique time in my life.

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I just wish RIP had more tracks like this, this is one of my favorite individual songs of 2012

 

 

This is one of my favorites as well but I rarely listen to RIP out of context/individual tracks. Never in my life have I heard album that takes such care and patience to guide me on a journey from death to rebirth. IWAAD being the track that is akin to waking up from a dream.

 

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Voted.

 

 

 

These need some more love imo:

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Others are doing well. Not a fan of ufabulum though.

RIP is also getting way more votes than I expected, but that's fine by moi.

 

 

And where is NHK'Koyxen, no love for the dance classics:

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Or Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist:

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Or Clams Casino - Instrumental Mixtape:

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Also I nominate "Ochre - National Ignition" for "watmms 2013 album of the year" ^_^

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