We’ve not counted these up but these are the albums of 2012 that we are very pleased will be going to go forward with us into 2013. In no particular order but Chromatics was best, wasnt it? It was tho, right? And all the little extra bits from them made that all the more obvious. They are on a roll.
Baroness Yellow/Green
Rock music (remember?) done very well
Cat Power Sun
1st time I’ve connected with Chan
Chromatics Kill For Love
My fave really
Dexys One Day I’m Going To Soar
So fucking great it hurts
DIIV Oshin
Old skool indie tunes with a touch of kraut
Petar Dundov Ideas From The Pond
Kraftwerky trance
Goat World Music
Deranged Swedish Psych
Larry Gus Silent Congos
Weird BombSquad antics on DFA
Julia Holter Ekstasis
Transcendant
Levek Look A little Closer
The Free Association tackled by Air
Lindstrom Six Cups Of Rebel
deranged
Liars WIXIW
Graceful, dark and weird.
Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance
DIIV’s cousin, tight, looping indie rock
Melody’s Echo Chamber Melody’s Echo Chamber
A weirdly great pop record
Memory Tapes Grace/Confusion
Deeply trippy prog disco pop
Metz Metz
Fast and fun and loud and great
Niki & The Dove Instincts
Pop hits allll over
NZCA/Lines NZCA/Lines
delineated
Lana Del Rey Born To Die
Earworms all. I love this record.
Santigold Master Of Make Believe
Love this, minus the MIAisms
The Shins Port Of Morrow
So shit live but such great tunes
Andy Stott Luxury Problems
Took me a bit of time but this is great
Swans The Seer
Rock writ big and very empthaically
Jon Talabot fIN
delicous
Tame Impala Lonerism
Not definitive but definitely very good
Jack White Blunderbuss
Gig of the year. So good.
Bobby Womack The Bravest Man In The Universe
Jawdropping
Zelionople The Fire…
Last thing at night, very Mark Hollis
Various Electro Diskow
Mixmag’s 80s comp. badass.