Resident Advisor Top 20 Albums of 2012

[ezza]

Well, I disagree, I think the fact her voice isn't that great (in the traditional sense), actually makes it better . It's more her tone than her ability to sing which I like, she has quite an unusual sound. & that mixed with the instrumentation does it for me

agree to disagree, it's all just personal taste

[wolf89]

her voice sounds put on is the problem. like she is trying to compensate for the fact she can't sing.

but yeah let's not derail this thread too much.

[Phigure]

she looks like a troll doll


but way worse

[SCope13]

she looks like a troll doll


but way worse

need to keep a picture of that on my cell so if I ever have an inconvenient boner I can just glance at that and be good to go

[ezza]

she is unfortunate looking

[cloquet]

that is an awful picture of her

[incnic]

she is pretty cute imo
thats a bad pic
:-{

[cloquet]

[joeki]

Grimes is fully sick. I really don't get the hate :/ Got a very unique sound, doing something different & alot of her shit is catchy as fuck

yeah if unique means bland production, poor songwriting and shit singing

actually it makes sense. Trendy over hyped content lacking music for someone who buys trendy over priced fashion.

I don't know, I included it in my Best Albums of the Year because it was less trendy for me than her two previous albums. In fact, I think it is a straight pop album. I listen to plenty of underground stuff so I'm not too worried about this making me more (or less whatever floats your boat) hipster.
If I'm going to listen to pop, I need albums with decent melody. Her singing isn't great (perhaps neither is her production) but there are certain melodic qualities in this release that I do like.
I also had two Death Grips albums in there, Vatican Shadow's Ornamented Walls and Raime's new album: plenty of hard to digest stuff. I like both!

[Phigure]

[Forum]

She looks even worse than her music, didn't think it was possible

[alfreton audio]

No LONE? your list is invalid.

[zerbaman]

She looks bare crusty

[incnic]

shallow anti hipster hipsters IMO

[zerbaman]

I rate hipsters. I hate shit tunes.

[Viineri]

Recondite - On Acid; easily top 5 for me this year.

[zerbaman]

[Muncey]

People need to learn to stop hyping and expecting too much then they won't be disappointed by the likes of Mala in Cuba and Shackletons album, both I thought were fantastic.

Daphni and John Talabots albums were very good. Keepers of the Light deserves to be up there, one of the stand out albums for me. I need to give Actress - RIP, Andy Stott - Luxury Problems, Vessel - Order Of Noise more listens.

Sigur Ros - Valtari was a good album (The Bug recommended it on fb).