Resident Advisor Top 20 Albums of 2012

[kidshuffle]

2012: the year we remembered "don't believe the hype"

[Kirei]

The Laurel Halo album really doesn't do anything for me. As for the rest, pretty meh.

[Phigure]

Predictable is the only word that comes to mind

well its RA, you kind of have to take it for what it is

[Shum]

what are some of you lot on about? the Shackleton album is ace.

[joeki]

I agree. People on here probably haven't heard half of the albums in that list.

RIP and Classical Curves could be dividers, some will like it (I love RIP and CC isn't bad as some make it out to be, there's more melodic tracks than Strawberry...). But a lot of the others are bare essential 2012 material, regardless of your 'taste' (unless you only listen to fucking dungeon).

Raime, Lee Gamble, Shed, Shackleton and especially Andy Stott & VESSEL are essential listings in any end of year feature. Good on RA for including them, all outrageous albums.

In that list I also loved Grimes (Visions has half a dozen good pop songs, I appreciate it and it is a massive improvement over her previous albums), Recondite (massive year) and Villalobos.

The rest I haven't properly heard and I simply didn't like Fin & Quarantine (Fin had its moments, the odd good track, but Laurel Halo is overrated crap).

[garethom]

I agree. People on here probably haven't heard half of the albums in that list.

Bit presumptuous lol. Not like people on here would have an active interest in underground music.

[exfox]

Was 2012 the year of the disappointing album?

more like the year of the unexpected album i'd say. lots of albums didn't disappoint imo, but some of the albums i thought were amongst the best this year were either from artists i would not have expected to release an album, nevermind such good albums (slugabed, lazer sword, benjamin damage & doc daneeka), others were from artists that came back out of nowhere in good form (especially in indie: micachu and yeasayer blew me away), others were from unlikely associations (laurel halo & hyperdub, mouse on mars & monkeytown, ...), etc.

[ultraspatial]

I agree. People on here probably haven't heard half of the albums in that list.

The Grimes & Villalobos albums are the only ones I haven't checked out, and I'm not gonna because I don't like either artists.

a lot of the others are bare essential 2012 material, regardless of your 'taste' (unless you only listen to fucking dungeon)...
Shackleton and especially Andy Stott & VESSEL are essential listings in any end of year feature.

I don't only listen to "dungeon" (though I do love it) and I found all 3 of those extremely overrated. For years Shackleton was my favourite producer, but his 2012 was just totally underwhelming for me. The Andy Stott and Vessel ones sent me straight to sleep, couldn't even listen to them start to finish in one listen. Also, they're not essential in any way.

[joeki]

Well, that's like your opinion man. But if its any comfort, I don't really consider you as an indicator for what good music is to me any way. Different page and all that.

[Johoosh]

Andy Stott is a badboy

[ultraspatial]

Well, that's like your opinion man. But if its any comfort, I don't really consider you as an indicator for what good music is to me any way. Different page and all that.

You are the one making universal statements.

[joeki]

and plenty of like-minded sources seem to agree with me. You don't, end of story.

[ultraspatial]

and plenty of like-minded sources seem to agree with me. You don't, end of story.

So if you + certain sources that for some reason people listen to think something it's essential, it should be unquestionably good? Cool

[Genevieve]

and plenty of like-minded sources seem to agree with me. You don't, end of story.

Wait, so when you and people with a similar music taste say it's essential (regardless of taste), it IS universally essential?

I hope you stopped listening to Grimes before posting in this thread m8

[hutyluty]

ultraspatial, i've noticed that everything you like i don't like and everything i like you don't like. just thought i'd share.

[wolf89]

Barker & Baumecker - Transsektoral

is deserving of being in there.

Grimes and Laurel Halo.

No

[ultraspatial]

ultraspatial, i've noticed that everything you like i don't like and everything i like you don't like. just thought i'd share.

[joeki]

The long answer :

I will never stop listening to her. Whatever dude, Ultraspatial just took my post quite literally, which he was entitled to but I suspect he might also have been a little ticked off by the dungeon comment (why otherwise mention it in the reply). The like-minded people bit was sort of a softening of my reply denoting that people I have a mutual taste with on the board, seemed to agree with basically a lot of similar top albums (like RA, my own choice, and a couple of members here whom I know have similar taste here) putting emphasis on the fact that the same sort of albums seem to be popping up in our lists.



Btw, the phrase 'essential in any end of years list' is quite common media-phrase no? And I like to pick on Dungeon, that surely was known by now.

The Short answer :

I am king of music. I'm always right.

[wolf89]

god she just can't sing

and it sounds it's trying too hard instrumentally whilst sounding compeltely characterless. All style over substance. I can't help but just think it is appalling hipster music based entirely on hype.

Not helped much by the fact if you watch interviews with her she seems totally clueless

EDIT: talking about grimes

[zerbaman]

Fucking grimes, I fucking hate her shit so much. Her stuff actually sounds like shit and it isn't even well composed. Her music really angers me.


And fuck RA in general. Snooty snooty snooty shit.