MUSIC
Happy new year! Today marks my 6th anniversary of joining last.fm; I’m a graph junkie and love the listening stats the site generates, especially round this time of year when it makes compiling best-of-the-year lists easier.
Lists of my favourite music of 2012 after the jump.
I feel like it was a better year for songs than for albums, there were some great ones though…
A L B U M S
Favourite albums:
Others I enjoyed, in no particular order:
- Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
- Mark Lanegan – Blues Funeral
- Markus Wormstorm – Not I, but a friend
- We Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
- Shearwater – Animal Joy
- Susanne Sundfør – The Silicone Veil
- Strand of Oaks – Dark Shores
- Legend – Fearless
- Bittereinder – Die Dinkdansmasjien
- Peter Broderick – These Walls of Mine
Honourable mention to KONGOS‘ Lunatic, which came out in SA last year but I’d made a mental note to include this year instead…and then didn’t, because it didn’t feel like a 2012 album…
T R A C K S
Favourite track:
Others I enjoyed, in no particular order:
- Jim Moray – Big Love
- Tape Hiss and Sparkle – Fountain of Love
- Mother Mother – Let’s Fall In Love
- Gravenhurst – The Foundry
- Yesterday’s Pupil – Harm
- Spleen United – Groundspeed
- We Are Augustines – Chapel Song
- Susanne Sundfør – Can You Feel The Thunder
- Desmond & The Tutus – Tattoo
- Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
- Strand of Oaks – Hard To Be Young
- The Invisible – The Stain
- Trentemøller – My Dreams feat. Marie Fisker
- Pinback – Proceed to Memory
- Pétur Ben – Runes
- Lucy Kruger – Four White Walls
- Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
- Frightened Rabbit – Off
- El-P – Oh Hail No
- DIIV – Doused
- Matthew Dear – Earthforms
- The Great Apes – Human Machine Wild Animal Mountain
L I V E
Most enjoyable gigs I’ve attended this year:
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