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electroheart's Best of 2012: Albums + EPs
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Top 25 Albums
#15. Adrian Lux - Adrian Lux
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Originally posted by beatdreams
...Adrian did a really amazing job of keeping the album true to EDM while making it appeal to the masses. Each song has a different feel but fits together in a cohesive collection.
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Originally posted by Electronica Oasis
As a whole, this album has value far beyond the Beatport community. Many of these productions are just fantastic songs that, in a perfect world, would trickle into the mainstream. Lux’s production prowess might, one day, see his skills being used to score movies or develop indie pop-bands. Don’t let the radio edit length of these tracks confuse you, this isn’t a Swedish mega-album full of 3-minute gimmicky drops, samples and loops. This is a true CD full of songs. Actual songs. Remember those, house heads?
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Trinity: All I Ever Wanted, Teenage Crime, Wildheart
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#14. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
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Originally posted by Delusions of Adequacy
Each man delivers touches that are downright unique to their brand of music, but together, they carry a strong penchant for the greatness of indie rock. It's never groundbreaking, but it doesn't have to be either – A Thing Called Divine Fits celebrates music with terrific, yet humble, results.
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Originally posted by Under The Radar
A Thing Called the Divine Fits does a fantastic job building on many of the strengths of its members to create a new, exciting project.
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Trinity: My Love Is Real, Would That Not Be Nice, Baby Gets Worse
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#13. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
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Originally posted by The Boston Phoenix
This stirring collection makes Father John Misty's debut one of the best solo efforts this year, a true freak-folk standout.
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Originally posted by PopMatters
It'll be hard to find a more awe-inspiring album this year than Fear Fun. This is a record that deserves a spot in just about any contemporary music collection.
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Trinity: Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings, O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me, Only Son of the Ladiesman
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#12. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
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Originally posted by The A.V. Club
The beauty of The Idler Wheel… is how it transmits each of those feelings in excruciating, frank, and lovely detail.
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Originally posted by Entertainment Weekly
It isn't easy listening. But it's worth it.
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Originally posted by BBC Music
It is punchy, vibrant, compelling stuff.
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Trinity: Daredevil, Werewolf, Hot Knife
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#11. Purity Ring - Shrines
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Originally posted by BBC Music
Purity Ring have pulled off the feat of producing one of the year's most arresting debuts – a Grimm Tales for the 2010s, shrouded in the illusory threads of contemporary club music – while sounding like no-one else but themselves.
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Originally posted by The Fly
It's a record that effortlessly juxtaposes chopped up electronics and ghostly effects with James' supersweet voice to create eleven strange but simple pleasures.
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Originally posted by NME
Shrines is a euphoric treat in its own right, made all the more thrilling by its heady potential.
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Trinity: Crawlersout, Ungirthed, Lofticries
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Fiona Apple she's great
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Definitely gotta check these artists!
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Fiona and PUrity Ring
I need to check the otherz out.
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Purity Ring are so high on mine. Mine so far is a mess, but it's how I rated them. I'm surprised with the outcome of some of mine, you'll see eventually.
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Originally posted by supercalz
Purity Ring are so high on mine. Mine so far is a mess, but it's how I rated them. I'm surprised with the outcome of some of mine, you'll see eventually.
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can't wait!
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OMFG, this is FLAWLESS.
Crystal Castles, Lana, Havana, No Doubt, Carly, Marina, Santi AMAZING so far.
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Originally posted by collin
OMFG, this is FLAWLESS.
Crystal Castles, Lana, Havana, No Doubt, Carly, Marina, Santi AMAZING so far.
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Thanks
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Everyone go hype supercalz's best of thread: http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=319606
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Top 10 EPs
#4. Wynter Gordon - Human Condition, Pt. 1: Doleo
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Originally posted by Fact Magazine
...a formidable songwriter with an instinctive knack for a dramatic hook...
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Originally posted by Fact Magazine
...Gordon’s superb command over her voice and material that makes her new direction one of the most gratifying of 2012.
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Trinity: Kids, Stimela, Don't Waste Your Time
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Top 10 EPs
#3. Azealia Banks - 1991
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Originally posted by Exclaim
Manically happy, infectiously danceable and too clever by half, if 1991 does one thing, it proves that Banks's breakout hit, "212," was no fluke.
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Originally posted by HipHopDX
Azealia Banks has an endearing charm, magnetic glow, and aggressively attitudinal confidence that come together as 1991's short collection is equally catchy and unique rendering her one to continue watching.
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Trinity: 1991, Van Vogue, 212
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Father John Misty, Fiona Apple, Purity Ring.
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4/5
Father John Misty
I love shrines.
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Originally posted by blackheart
4/5
Father John Misty
I love shrines.
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Gonna go ahead and assume the -1 is Adrian Lux.
You need to bop to him. The King of Crossover Progressive House.
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Top 10 EPs
#2. Sky Ferreira - Ghost
In this short collection of songs we get to see Sky dabble in different styles and prove she can succeed in all of them as well as having a very dynamic voice that can sing just about any genre. This EP shows that she's not afraid to take risks and she's honest about who she is and where she wants to take her music. That may be several different directions at once, but somehow she brings them all together perfectly. Her influences aren't quite as clear as I'd like them to be but I think she's trying to be a more electronic, danceable Fiona Apple/Jagged Little Pill... just what we needed. There is a spot for her on the music scene somewhere and thankfully we, including her, had Ghost to flesh it out.
Trinity: Lost In My Bedroom, Red Lips, Everything Is Embarrassing
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I totally thought 1991 was gonna be the #1 EP I need to hear more of Sky She's been improving from what I've heard.
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I totally thought 1991 was gonna be the #1 EP I need to hear more of Sky She's been improving from what I've heard.
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The top 4 EPs might as well all be #1. I love them equally so it was tough to rank them.
Sky's definitely improving. Most of her fans from before seem to not like it because they want catchy pop from As If!.
But I find that EP sort of dated and for her to continue that style just wouldn't be genuine.
She's on her way to being the electronic grunge-pop queen. it kind of sounds cheesy when I put it that way but I think she's cool.
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Originally posted by electroheart
The top 4 EPs might as well all be #1. I love them equally so it was tough to rank them.
Sky's definitely improving. Most of her fans from before seem to not like it because they want catchy pop from As If!.
But I find that EP sort of dated and for her to continue that style just wouldn't be genuine.
She's on her way to being the electronic grunge-pop queen. it kind of sounds cheesy when I put it that way but I think she's cool.
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Well she's always had a hipster side to her so this doesn't surprise me
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Sky Ferreira! but I need to listen to her EP in full
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