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saw119


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Well, since the world hasn't ended and we haven't all been caught up the kind of scenario outlined in the Loss Adjustor I thought I'd post my personal highlights of 2012 which I think has been a particularly good year for new music.

Albums of the Year (in no particular order)

Django Django
Melody's Echo Chamber
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Beak >>
Geoff Barlow & Ben Salisbury - Drokk
Unthanks & The Rastrick & Brighouse Brass Band - Diversions Vol. 2
Go-Kart Mozart Are On The Hot Dog Streets
Laetitia Sadier - Silencio
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Beaulieu Porch
Julian Cope - Psychedelic Revolution
First Aid Kit - The Lions Roar
Moon Duo - Circles

Disappointment of the Year

Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Worst of the Year

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Film of the Year

Sightseers

 

Now it's your turn.

 



-- Edited by saw119 on Saturday 22nd of December 2012 05:49:17 PM



-- Edited by saw119 on Saturday 22nd of December 2012 06:05:57 PM

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liltman


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Loved the Django Django and Hawley albums. Sweet Heart Sweet Light was an odd one. Some great songs but some MOR as well, but the weird thing was the production on it. For someone like Pierce, who is famous for taking ages getting things sounding perfect, I thought some tracks sounded really muddy and all the poorer for it. Only tried the new Animal Collective one once but I found that a letdown.

-- Edited by liltman on Saturday 22nd of December 2012 05:20:38 PM

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Oh fun! I kind of agree with you about the Spiritualized album being a disappointment. I thought it was kind of bland for him, but all my friends had been raving about it.

Anyway here's my top 10 list for albums:

  1. Fiona Apple-The Idler Wheel
  2. Frank Ocean-Channel Orange
  3. Beach House-Bloom
  4. Animal Collective-Centipede Hz
  5. Richard Hawley-Standing at the Sky's Edge
  6. Tame Impala-Lonerism
  7. Lotus Plaza-Spooky Action at a Distance
  8. David Byrne at St. Vincent-Love this Giant
  9. Toy
  10. Dirty Projectors-Swing Lo Magellan

I thought Bat For Lashes had an amazing cover for the Haunted Man but the album itself didn't do anything for me. But I've never been really into her music to begin with.



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I felt that often Pierce's voice was too high in the mix and the rest of the instruments were kind of indistinct and just sort of chugged away in the background in a nondescript fashion, really quite bland at times.

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I find your lack of Muse very disturbing.

I don't have a specific top 10 as such but here are some I've enjoyed...

Muse - The 2nd Law
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart
Andy Burrows - Company
Bloc Party - Four

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I haven't bought that many albums this year so apologies that my list is biased towards albums I've actually heard: Rant by The Futureheads, Keys to the Kuffs by JJ Doom, In Our Heads by Hot Chip, ill Manors by Plan B, Love at the Bottom of the Sea by The Magnetic Fields and um, The Ecstatic by Mos Def even though I've been listening to it for three years now.

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Nice to see Mr. Walker gets a mention. I think that and the Air album are the only new ones I've bought this year :s

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Lots of fine sounds this year...

Dirty Three - Towards The Low Sun
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't bend, ascend!
Brian Eno - Lux
Leonard Cohen - Old Ways
Moon Duo - Circles
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
Cheval Sombre - Mad Love
Earth - Angels of darkness, demons of light II

Still haven't got round to checking out the Goat album which is supposed to be spectacular. The new Saint Etienne had some greta moments but was overall a bit daft for me. ...trail of dead has to be the most disappointing album this year for me, if only because I never expected anything special from the Sigur Ros one in the first place.

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The only new albums I've listened to this year - Richard Hawley, The XX, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith. I'm not great at keeping up to date with music. Gonna listen to some of the things you guys just recommended and be dragged into the 21st Century.

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I love Lists and List making.

Heres mine - straight from my Last FM account.

Top Songs
The Exact Colour of Doubt - Liars
Nobody's Business - Rihanna Feat. Chris Brown
Tidal Wave - The Laurels
Awake - Electric Guest
Say Arr Ee - Bullion

Other 2012 Tunes that I really liked
Oblivion - Grimes
SEOD - Kindness
Sunshine Punch - Day Ravies
Its not easy being mean - Good Heavens
Crystallized - Melodys Echo Chamber
He's in Stock - The Twerps
All Through the Night - Wolf & Cub
Bendin' - HTRK
Ruin - Cat Power
Holes - Electric Guest
This Head I Hold - Electric Guest
Under the Gun - Electric Guest
Amber - Electric Guest

Top Record
To be honest I don't have an all time fav record from 2012. Lots of records I got into but not listening to them 6 months on - well not all the way through. But look for lists sake I'm going to say my fav record of the year was Bish Bosch purely because its a Scott Walker record. I have it on vinyl, CD and MP3 format. Committed.

Tame Impala - Lonerism
Grizzly Bear - Shields
WIXIW - Liars
Sebastien Tellier - My God is Blue
Electric Guest - Mondo
Lower Spectrum - From Here on In EP
The Laurels - Plains
Nuggets - Antipodeon Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era.



-- Edited by cutcopy on Tuesday 1st of January 2013 09:06:29 AM



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Here is my list of records I liked, in alphabetical order:


The Antlers - Undersea

Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales

By The Sea - S/T

The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)

Ricardo Donoso - Assimilating the Shadow

Emeralds Just To Feel Anything

Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE

Laurel Halo - Quarantine

How To Dress Well - Total Loss

Holy Other - Held

Jam City - Classical Curves

Julia Holter - Ekstasis

Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton

Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth

The Motion Sickness of Time Travel - S/T

Poliça - Give You The Ghost

Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9: Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras

Sun Araw - The Inner Treaty

Tindersticks - The Something Rain

WTNG 89.9fm: Solid Bronze (Numero Group compilation, various artists)



-- Edited by calumlynn on Thursday 3rd of January 2013 01:35:08 PM

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(Tindersticks was probably my favourite)

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I have recently listened to "Lonerism" and agree that it's one of the best. I need to check out some of the others too.

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Belbury Poly and Pye Corner Audio were great

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Didn't immerse myself in enough new albums to give a definitive list.
Fair play Calum, I've heard of about two of yours! You study music though I think, so I'm not gonna feel that bad about it.

Here's my top tracks:

Laura - Bat For Lashes
I Like To Shift Girls - The Rubberbandits
Simple Song - The Shins
Motion Sickness - Hot Chip
I Follow Rivers - Lykke Li
Myth/Wishes - Beach House
Off To The Races - Lana Del Rey
When I Was Wild/The National Health - Maximo Park
Gravedigger's Song/Grey Goes Black - Mark Lanegan
Nowhere Is Home/She Got A Wiggle - Dexys
Don't Stare At The Sun - Richard Hawley
Breezeblocks - Alt J


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