Resident Advisor Top 20 Albums of 2012

[Phigure]

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1704

01. Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
02. Actress - RIP
03. John Talabot - fIN
04. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
05. Daphni - Jiaolong
06. Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour
07. Vessel - Order of Noise
08. Shed - The Killer
09. Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime World 3
10. Barker & Baumecker - Transsektoral
11. Jam City - Classical Curves
12. Grimes - Visions
13. Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994 - 1996
14. Recondite - On Acid
15. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
16. Chromatics - Kill for Love
17. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy
18. Smallpeople - Salty Days
19. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
20. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line

thoughts? quite a few i haven't listened to yet that i'm really feeling (voices from the lake is reaally nice)

grimes gtfo though

also RIP really deserved #1

[Forum]

Shed and Shackleton are the only artists there there i care about and both those albums were disappointing

grimes gtfo though

Actress was a poor mans sheet one wannabe

[wub]

YAgree with most of that list (that I've heard), would suggest the Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees should be on the list as well, but overall not bad as far as the epicentre of Hipstechno can manage.

[Johnlenham]

John Talabot is high on alot of these lists. Might have to listen to it again in abit.

[joeki]

Quite a few similarities with my own List. Didn't include Voices from the lake because it is technically a mix.

http://latenightendings.wordpress.com/2 ... year-2012/

[collige]

Predictable is the only word that comes to mind

[Devry_Kaneda]

Classical Curves was as boring as they come. Strawberries was the only track that I bumped repeatedly.

[ultraspatial]

Predictable is the only word that comes to mind

this

I completely gave up on checking RA for anything after that review of KU:PALM

[Devry_Kaneda]

tbf I thought KU:PALM was pretty mediocre outside of a few standouts.

[AxeD]

These people know.

[Shum]

Predictable is the only word that comes to mind

[kidshuffle]

i guess there is a reason i dont read RA

[knell]

Predictable is the only word that comes to mind

"arbitrary" was the word for me

[ultraspatial]

tbf I thought KU:PALM was pretty mediocre outside of a few standouts.

I loathe the vocal tunes, but the rest of the album is pure fiyah
Anyway, even if you don't like it, it's nowhere near as bad as they made it up to be imo.

[Devry_Kaneda]

^fair enough. shape charge is a percy.

[fractal]

grimes really deserved #1

[garethom]

Was 2012 the year of the disappointing album?

Loads of artists on that list I really rate, and no albums that I ever want to listen to again.

Probably only Clubroot and The xx that I was really looking forward to that delivered.

[Genevieve]

'R.I.P.' was pretty good but a huge let down after 'Splazsh'

Overal boring list

[ultraspatial]

Was 2012 the year of the disappointing album?

That's what I was thinking, but there were loads of good albums. It's just that the ones I was most looking forward to were total disappointments for me (Mala in Cuba and Shackleton's).
Hyperdub were on a roll with albums this year (Terror Danjah, Scratcha DVA and Cooly G's were all great; even the LV and Laurel Halo ones, which I didn't like at first, grew a bit on me). Same goes for Keysound with Keepers Of The Light and Dasaflex. And the Ruff Sqwad comp if that counts.
Then there's Geiom, Brackles, J:Kenzo, Photek, Data, Commix, Enei, DRS, Jon Convex... + other alright ones

[garethom]

Was 2012 the year of the disappointing album?

That's what I was thinking, but there were loads of good albums. It's just that the ones I was most looking forward to were total disappointments for me (Mala in Cuba and Shackleton's).
Hyperdub were on a roll with albums this year (Terror Danjah, Scratcha DVA and Cooly G's were all great; even the LV and Laurel Halo ones, which I didn't like at first, grew a bit on me). Same goes for Keysound with Keepers Of The Light and Dasaflex. And the Ruff Sqwad comp if that counts.
Then there's Geiom, Brackles, J:Kenzo, Photek, Data, Commix, Enei, DRS, Jon Convex... + other alright ones

That's my point. Yeah there were plenty of good albums, but from all the people that I was expecting amazing things from, everything was a dud.