Top Albums of 2012 (picked by labels, artists, & blogs)

[Spooks]

Realization while making the list: Not a single one of the bands in my top 50 played Coachella this year. Time to skip this festival.

Godspeed, Death Grips, Flying Lotus or Frank Ocean (I guess he's considered an artist) didn't make your list???

[getbetter]

Oh I've definitely felt the same way about the past two years, that's the reason I haven't gone. I'm right with you on that. I was just trying to point out that for Coachella it's hard to book bands that will make your favorite 2013 albums when the festival lineup is decided in 2012.

Moving on...

Even so the whole Coachella/camping experience is a lot of fun regardless how many GREAT bands are playing.

[HeavensWeep]

Here at Consequence of Sound, we cover the same news stories and bands as Pitchfork but also pretend to be into the Foo Fighters so that we can appear to have a unique voice in the blogosphere.

[xanman86]

[nosurprises12]

Anyone with a poster of themselves on their wall is a grade-A tool.

[IceyHotshot]

^ Agreed

[xanman86]

Anyone with a poster of themselves on their wall is a grade-A tool.

Agreed. I was surprised this list didn't include Frank Ocean or Grizzly Bear as well. Guess he needed to make room for two Death Grips albums in his top 20.

[IceyHotshot]

Agreed. I was surprised this list didn't include Frank Ocean or Grizzly Bear as well. Guess he needed to make room for two Death Grips albums in his top 20.

I bet xanman has a poster of himself on his wall. But in his case, he's probably meeting a celebrity.

[GolfWang]

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entert...58f_story.html

[Spooks]

The truth hurts, we know....

ps I would have included Frank Ocean in there but pretty good list!

We're Sorry, But... 10 Albums You Guys Totally Got Tricked into Liking

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasu...wFullText=true

[TallGuyCM]

The truth hurts, we know....

ps I would have included Frank Ocean in there but pretty good list!

We're Sorry, But... 10 Albums You Guys Totally Got Tricked into Liking

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasu...wFullText=true

Haha, I actually agree with every one of those except for The xx and HTDW.

[nosurprises12]

Did anyone actually think Kesha was any good in the first place?

[IceyHotshot]

12 year old girls did.

[nosurprises12]

True. I guess my point is more that all the other 9 titles were your typical indie fare from this year and that one is the odd-man out.

[Spooks]

Anyone pick up MBV or William Basinski this year?

Top 10 Album Reissues of 2012

http://lamusicblog.com/2012/12/news/...ssues-of-2012/

[Spooks]

Peter Hale of Here We Go Magic - Top 10 of 2012
11) Willy Mason - Carry On
10) Cleaners From Venus -- Vol. 1 and 2 (box set)
9) Pond -- Beards, Wives, Denim
8) Fiona Apple -- The Idler Wheel
7) Delicate Steve -- Positive Force
6) TEEN -- In Limbo
5) CAN -- The Lost Tapes
4) WITCH -- Introduction and In the Past / Including Janet (reissues)
3) Jeremy Denk -- Jeremy Denk Plays Ligeti and Beethoven
2) K.S. Chithra -- Finderskeepers Compilation (comp/reissue)
1) Here We Go Magic -- A Different Ship

Dan Deacon's Top Ten LPs of 2012
1 Ed Schrader's Music Beat: Jazz Mind
2 Dope Body: Natural History
3 Beach House: Bloom
4 Lightning Bolt: Oblivion Hunter
5 Horse Lords: Horse Lords
6 Johnny Greenwood: The Master Soundtrack
7 Chester Endersby Gwazda: Shroud
8 Matmos: The Ganzfeld EP
9 Man Forever: Pansophical Cataract
10 SŌ Percussion: Where (we) Live

Paul Banks' Top ten things of 2012
Dredd 3d
Reddit
Downtown neighborliness after Sandy
Netflix watch instantly content updates
Stay Cchemin by Rick Ross
Kill List
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Thee Oh Sees
Mexico City
Kendrick Lamar

Ex Cops - Top Songs of 2012
Brian's List
Frank Ocean - Crack Rock
Beach House - Wild
Spiritualized - Hey Jane
Mac Demarco - Ode to Viceroy
Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle
Dirty Projectors- impregnable question
Ex Cops - You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb
Perfume Genius - Hood
Melody's Echo Chamber - Endless Shore
Savages - Husbands
Amalie's list:
Wild nothing - Disappear always
Taylor swift - We are never ever getting back together
Frankie Rose - moon in my mind
Chairlift - I belong in your arms (Japanese version)
My best fiend - cool doves
Loreen - euphoria
Ex cops - you are a Lion i am a lamb
Azeealia banks - liquorice
King Krule - Octopus
Mac demarco - Ode to viceroy

Popgun Booking's Top 10 LPs of 2012
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
DIIV - Oshin
Trust - TRST
Django Django - Django Django
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Disappears - Pre Language
Chairlift - Something
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Nic Offer from !!!'s Top 10 Albums of 2012
Death Grips - The Money Store
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Beach House - Bloom
Various Artists - Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Ariel Pink's Haunte Graffiti - Mature Themes
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dreams
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
Romare - Meditations of Afrocentrism EP

Lower Dens - 2012 Top 10s
Jana:
Michael Rother & Camera - Camber Sands (National ATP)
Jennifer Castle - Red 7 (Austin, TX)
Austra - Voxhall (Pop Revo Festival, Aarhus, DK)
Rob Delaney - Sons of Hermann Hall (Dallas, TX)
Louis C.K. - Jones Hall (Houston, TX)
In the Land of Pain - Alphonse Daudet (book)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - Ray Monk (book)
Horse Lords - s/t (album)
Novoline - Golden Hits No. 1 (self-released cassette)
Steve Moore & Majeure - Brainstorm (split LP)
The Comedy (film)
Geoff:
Deep Time - Self-Titled Album (album)
Novoline - Golden Heads vol. 1 tape release (album)
Jennifer Castle - Castlemusic (album)
Beach House - Bloom (album)
Dan Deacon - America (album)
All night concert series at the Soft House in Baltimore
Kronos Quartet's performance of Tusen Tankar (One thousand thoughts) (live performance)
Tetzlaff performing live at the Berlin Philharmonic
The Master (film)
Alantutorial (youtube)
Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World (book)
Nate:
unicorn hard on and container live at the bank, baltimore
drainolith "fighting" lp
nova line "golden hits vol. 1" cassette
moon pool and dead band live at the mug, detroit
addiction to peruvian chicken at chicken rico in the highlandtown neighborhood of baltimore
kick ass bandmates marriages in houston and new hampshire
gay marriage and marijuana legalization
horse lords lp and live, various locales, baltimore
austra live at pop revo, aarhus, Denmark
lord bird "2012 is real" cassette
Will:
swans - live @ bowery
deep time - s/t (album)
novo line - live in the uk
savages - live @ la route du rock, st-malo, fr
dirty three - live @ prima vera, barcelona, es
damien echols - life after death (book)
tim hecker -live @ all tomorrow's parties, camber sands, UK
darktown strutters - live, houston, tx
austra - live in aarhus, dk
ssion - live in monterey, mex

[ocbruin84]

too much list

[Neutral Milk Hotel]

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-...racks-of-2012/

Grimes...yeah...

[SoulDischarge]

DESERVED. Fuck all of you. Also, very pleased to see "Jasmine" in the top 10.

[Spooks]

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-...racks-of-2012/

Grimes...yeah...

Just looked at top 20 and laughed. Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean named twice lol. Pitchfork is so predictable sometimes!

ps At least Andy Stott and Bat for Lashes made it....

[Spooks]

Top 20 Bass Music Albums of 2012

http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/blog...s-of-2012.html

First list where I never heard of any music from #1...

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasu...wFullText=true

[Miroir Noir]

The "Genesis" thing was so predictable.

[getbetter]

So does the reissuse Refused had this year not count for these best reissuse of 2012 list?

[SoulDischarge]

I adore Chromatics, but there's no way that album in its released state deserves to be so high on so many lists. If I could include my personal edit of it, it'd be top 20 material for sure, but we're judging albums based on how they exist, not how we wish they existed.

[nosurprises12]

Hey, a list with some good stuff on it:

TinyMixTapes Favorite 50 Albums of 2012
50. Mykki Blanco - Cosmic Angel: Illuminati Prince/ss (Self-Released)
49. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
48. Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales (Ghost Box)
47. INTERNET CLUB - VANISHING VISION (Self-Released)
46. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph)
45. Arca - Stretch 2 (UNO NYC)
44. Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel (Epic/Clean Slate)
43. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (Williams Street)
42. Death Grips - No Love Deep Web (Self-Released)
41. Heat Wave - Fukd In Tha Game (Self-Released)
40. Lil B - White Flame (Self-Released)
39. ahnnu - pro habitat (WTR CLR)
38. Ian Martin - Mechanical Rain (Further)
37. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular)
36. The Men - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
35. Burial - Kindred [EP] (Hyperdub)
34. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (In The Red)
33. Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended (Farrah Abraham/MTV Press)
32. Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel (Spectrum Spools)
31. Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile)
30. Dolphins Into The Future - Canto Arquipélago (Underwater Peoples)
29. 情報デスクVIRTUAL - 札幌コンテンポラリー (Beer On The Rug)
28. Tim Hecker / Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (Mexican Summer)
27. White Suns - Sinews (Load)
26. Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos - Icon Give Thank (RVNG Intl.)
25. Mediafired - Pathway Through Whatever (Beer On The Rug)
24. Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (Kye)
23. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home (Bathetic)
22. Demdike Stare - Elemental (Modern Love)
21. Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester (Hanson)
20. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
19. Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman (Planet Mu)
18. The Caretaker - Patience (after Sebald) (History Always Favours The Winners)
17. Daughn Gibson - All Hell (White Denim)
16. Death Grips - The Money Store (Epic)
15. DJ Rashad - TEKLIFE Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi (Lit City Trax)
14. BEBETUNE$ - inhale C-4 $$$$$ (Self-Released)
13. Holly Herndon - Movement (RVNG Intl.)
12. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE (Def Jam)
11. Grimes - Visions (4AD)
10. Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II (Hippos In Tanks)
09. YYU - TIMETIMETIME&TIME (Beer On The Rug)
08. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
07. Actress - R.I.P (Honest Jon’s)
06. Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe (Beer On The Rug)
05. Laurel Halo - Quarantine (Hyperdub)
04. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon / Ocean Roar (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
03. Swans - The Seer (Young God)
02. Dean Blunt And Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful (Hyperdub)
01. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)

[GolfWang]

Jody Rosen of Slate:

Albums

1. Future, Pluto
2. Kellie Pickler, 100 Proof
3. Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox
4. Bob Dylan, Tempest
5. Micachu and the Shapes, Never
6. Melanie Fiona, The MF Life
7. Ka, Grief Pedigree
8. Miguel, Kaleidoscope Dream
9. JB and the Moonshine Band, Beer for Breakfast
10. Usher, Looking 4 Myself
11. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee
12. Jeremih, Late Nights with Jeremih
13. fun., Some Nights
14. R. Kelly, Write Me Back
15. Jens Lekman, I Know What Love Isn't
16. Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
17. Prinzhorn Dance School, Clay Class
18. 2 Chainz, Based on a T.R.U. Story
19. Keyshia Cole, Woman to Woman
20. Action Bronson, Blue Chips

Songs

1. Frank Ocean, “Thinkin Bout You”
2. Kacey Musgraves, “Merry Go ‘Round”
3. Justin Bieber, “Die in Your Arms”
4. fun. ft. Janelle Monée, “We Are Young”
5. Alan Jackson, “So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore”
6. Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”
7. Santigold, “Big Mouth”
8. Ca$h Out, “Cashin' Out”
9. Miguel, “Adorn”
10. Rhye, “The Fall”
11. Tim McGraw, “Better Than I Used To Be”
12. Usher, “Climax”
13. Ka, “No Downtime”
14. Kendrick Lamar, “Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe”
15. Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra, “Lost”
16. Danny Brown, “Grown Up”
17. Luke James, “I Want You”
18. Gerardo Ortiz, “Amor Confuso”
19. Kitty Pryde, “Okay Cupid”
20. RDX, “Jump”
21. Anthony Hamilton, “Pray for Me”
22. Taylor Swift, “22”
23. Solange, “Losing You”
24. Blonds, “Run”
25. Gotye, “Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra”


Aside from this being a mostly atrocious list, at least someone got the number one album of 2012 right.

Also, it bothers me that "Thinkin' Bout You" by Frank Ocean keeps popping up on 2012 lists. That was in my top 5 songs of 2011.

[SoulDischarge]

It bothers me because it's one of the weakest songs on Channel Orange and a good reason why I didn't give the full album a chance earlier on in the year.

[Gribbz]

Hey music publications, that Spiritualized record is really good. Get fucked.

[xanman86]

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/12...lbums-of-2012/

[nosurprises12]

RA's Top 20 Albums

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