2012 In Music

2 January 2013

Welcome one and all to my annual run down of this years music. Well, I say “this” years, but it’s actually last years now but you know what I mean, right?

So, what did [this/last] years music have for us? As seems to be the trend of recent years, a distinct lack of amazing albums to be perfectly honest – sure, I could collate 20 or so into a list but only a couple are good pieces of work from start to finish so it seems like an exercise in futility.

That plus I’m lazy.

Mostly the futility thing, though.

BUT! That’s not to say there hasn’t been lots of good music put out in 2012. Oh no. There are good tracks by the bucket load (playlist load?), and it seems to me that in this day and age counting down anything other then tracks at the end of the year would be foolish – albums only wouldn’t represent half of the good music put out.

And weirdly a lot of that good music is what you might refer to as “pop music”, or at least heavily influenced by the aforementioned pop, but there’s nothing wrong with that now, is there?

Anyway. BRING ON THE LIST:

30. POLIÇA – Lay Your Cards Out
29. Jack White – Sixteen Saltines
28. The Shins – Simple Song
27. Frank Ocean – Pyramids
26. M.I.A. – Bad Girls
25. Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
24. Daughter – Smother
23. AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It
22. Bloc Party – Day Four
21. Atoms For Peace – Default
20. David Byrne and St. Vincent – Who
19. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
18. TNGHT – Higher Ground
17. Pulp – About You
16. Dirty Projectors – Gun Has No Trigger
15. Tom Odell – Another Love
14. Blur – Under The Westway
13. Death Grips – Hacker
12. The xx – Sunset
11. Beak> – Yatton
10. Bat For Lashes – Laura
9. Savages – Husbands
8. Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven
7. Chairlift – I Belong In Your Arms
6. Grizzly Bear – Yet Again
5. Grimes – Oblivion
4. Jai Paul – Jasmine
3. Cat Power – Ruin
2. Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days
1. HAIM – Forever

Of course, the other benefit of waiting until the year is actually over is that you can put in all the tracks that actually came out that year, including that sneaky new Pulp/James Murphy track that appeared over Christmas (and, while I mention it – could we have a full album like that please?).

And of course, there’s a Spotify playlist of most of the above as well:

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2 January 2013