50: BIGG JUS
MACHINES THAT MAKE CIVILIZATION FUN
49: HELM
IMPOSSIBLE SYMMETRY
48: HALEEK MAUL
OXYCONTEEN
47: THE XX
COEXIST
46: PURITY RING
SHRINE
45: ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE
TIMON IRNOK MANTA
44: TRIAD GOD
NXB
43: CARTER TUTTI VOID
TRANSVERSE
42: SCHOOLBOY Q
HABITS AND CONTRADICTIONS
41: COCAINE 80s
EXPRESS 0G EP
40: BAT FOR LASHES
THE HAUNTED MAN
39: BLACK BREATH
SENTENCED TO LIFE
38: MIGUEL
KALEIDOSCOPE DREAM
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Miguel seeks to craft R&B that is informed but not dominated by hip-hop, a form that looks back to the genre’s heights rather than its rap-hook-singing recent vintage. On Kaleidoscope Dream, songs like ‘Adorn’, ‘Do You…’, and ‘Where’s The Fun In Forever’ find him reaching for Marvin Gaye rather than R. Kelly. Overall, it’s a testament to his evolved songwriting, reverence to the past, and refusal to be pigeonholed. With contemporaries Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, he’s ushering in a new era of R&B.
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37: LE1F
DARK YORK
36: GUNPLAY
BOGOTA RICH: THE PREQUEL
35: YOUNG SMOKE
SPACE ZONE
34: LORENZO SENNI
QUANTUM JELLY
33: ALTERED NATIVES
TENEMENT YARD VOL.3
32: D’EON
MUSIC FOR KEYBOARDS VOL.1
31: NAS
LIFE IS GOOD
30: SUPREME CUTS
WHISPERS IN THE DARK
29: RICARDO VILLALOBOS
DEPENDENT AND HAPPY
28: ARIEL PINK & R. STEVIE MOORE
KU KLUX GLAM
27: SCOTT WALKER
BISH BOSCH
26: GRIMES
VISIONS
25: MAIN ATTRAKIONZ
BOSSALINIS & FOOLIYONES
24: THE INTERNET
PURPLE NAKED LADIES
23: HEROIN IN TAHITI
DEATH SURF
22: FUTURE
PLUTO
21: DEAN BLUNT & INGA COPELAND
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
21: DEAN BLUNT & INGA COPELAND
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
19: LANA DEL REY
BORN TO DIE
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The debut album from the most divisive pop star in some time did nothing but further polarize the conversation. Unfortunately, the conversation usually revolved too much around the idea of Lana Del Rey and not the music of Lana Del Rey. Whatever your opinions on retro-fetishism and her “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” PR spin, Born To Die is a phenomenal accomplishment: 15 songs (including bonus cuts, but not counting the expanded Paradise edition) with few if any missteps, a malleable but distinct voice, a well-oiled pop soundtrack that seamlessly fuses its many influences, and a pair of zeitgeist-defining songs (‘Blue Jeans’ and ‘Video Games’). When was the last time a record — and a major label debut, at that — could say all that?
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18: WILEY
STEP FREESTYLES
17: I:CUBE
“M” MEGAMIX
16: FRANK OCEAN
CHANNEL ORANGE
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As revelatory as his nostalgia, ULTRA mixtape was, it’s amazing that Frank Ocean was able to surpass himself on channel ORANGE. Sonically, the album owes as much to Pharrell as Prince, as much to Marvin Gaye as Keith Sweat. The album’s first half is impressive enough, kicking off with synth super-ballad ‘Thinkin Bout You’, the windswept ‘Sierra Leone’, and the ‘Benny and the Jets’-referencing ‘Super Rich Kids’, but by the time ‘Pyramids’ plays, it’s game over: a 10-minute, prog-R&B epic that doesn’t break under its lofty ambition – it embraces it. As the afterglow of ‘Pyramids’ is just wearing off, Ocean hits you with the sexuality-charged trio of gospel confessional ‘Bad Religion’, Andre 3000 duet ‘Pink Matter’, and the high-concept, easy-listener ‘Forrest Gump’. To quote Three Stacks: “that Ocean so mother****ing good.”
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15: SAND CIRCLES
MOTOR CITY
14: JULIA HOLTER
EKSTASIS
13: MADTEO
NOI NO
12: JEREMIH
LATE NIGHTS WITH JEREMIH
11: ACTRESS
R.I.P
10 Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung 6
09 Swans – The Seer
08 Terrence Dixon – From the Far Future Pt. 2
07 Jam City – Classical Curves
06 How To Dress Well – Total Loss
05 Spaceghostpurrp – God Of Black
04 Horrid Red – Celestial Joy
03 Cooly G – Playin Me
02 Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996 / Dutch Tvashar Plumes
01 Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
http://www.factmag.com/2012/12/03/th...ums-of-2012/1/
Yet another list for Frank and Lana
