Favourite album of 2012

You could read my review of them on my blog, but I actually just reviewed the song titles before listening to the album, and not the album itself.

edit - just realised I wrote but not published it... published now!

'Meta' Album reviews. Do not want.

Should I listen to them, if so what songs?

Of course you should listen to them... that's the point! Even if it's just to confirm how shit they are.

I would listen to the following:

Tessellate
Breezeblocks (most "singley" on the album)
& Fitzpleasure

But then that's jut my opinion.

Also, i thought the new Maccabees album, Given To The Wild, was excellent. This video even has a fixie (actually a single speed) in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkcnPnY_2Mk

etc

New Dirty Projectors isn't a patch on the older stuff. Disappointed.

I finally got round to listening to Foal's 2010 release, Total Life Forever, loved it, doesn't count as a 2012 release just because I'm slow.

Crystal Castles is good.

Too many disappointments overall.

Obvz Nicki Minaj takes the crowning glory.

LOL JK

Total Life Forever is a fookin banger.

New Dirty Projectors isn't a patch on the older stuff. Disappointed.

Which older stuff? I definitely agree that Bitte Orca is their best yet but Swing Lo is strong.

Agree Bitte Orca but also Rise Above

Managed about half that FOTL album, wacky student shit

New Girls Aloud next year!

As excited as I am by this, we did a shoot at the studio they're recording it in, walked in just as the engineer was leaving the vocal booth whilst miming cutting his own wrists...

lol @ simon price

Simon Price is a Manics fan, therefore his opinion is invalid

Simon Price is a Manics fan, therefore his opinion is invalid

Oh, it's him!
He's a friend of a friend from a while back. He DJ'd at my friends birthday party. It was desperately poor from beginning to end. He even bought along his Manics book to sign if people wanted to buy it.

I wouldn't let him into my gig (if i had one).

He even bought along his Manics book to sign if people wanted to buy it.

Haha!

^ exactly that except that book is probably good...

Managed about half that FOTL album, wacky student shit

+1. Though I didn't think it was all that wacky. Very Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and they were only relevant 10 years ago.

Album(s) of the year:

?

http://youtu.be/zgPIhGKNado

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs deserves a mention.

And +1 to Four Tet - Pink

the twilight sad album is awesome.

liking the tame impala album but only heard it for the first time today so will not count it just yet

Deftones - Koi no yokan

RIght answer.

think the only albums this year have been mix ones friends have recorded me,
liked lee perry and orb,
liked bonobo black sands remixed
the rest are all just digital remasters done for old gits like me that remember and are stupid to buy them again

They played in Hackney on Friday night, I had tickets but didn't go as I fell asleep in my armchair

I went to this but missed EHH, Vondlepark played too. Not half bad.

Incase you're wondering, James Blake was pretty poor. Lone, Pariah and Space Dimension Controller did what was needed.

Which leads me onto Lone - Galaxy Garden definitely being worth a listen.

^ yeah - I would have that in my list actually - Lone

Has does anyone see a field of autotuned r&b when then look back at 2012.

I can't believe no pitchfork reader has spewed out the obligatory Frank Oceon blowjob lips yet.

Vondelparks supposed to be playing somewhere this Friday too, I'd like to see that

I was pretty hyped about both the Lone record and the Lee Perry/Orb record, and I have to say I haven't been grabbed by either of them, maybe its a case of not spending enough time with them, but my expectations were high and they just didn't quite deliver.** EDIT: **The Nathan Fake record on the other hand was great.

If you like ambient/field recording type stuff, the Robin The Fog record is amazing, field recordings done in the old BBC world service building then mixed on reel to reel tapes. it really is incredible.