Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2012

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published: 6 / 12 / 2012

Our writers look back upon and reflect upon their favourite albums of last year

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CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. Beach House - Bloom 2. Jack White - Blunderbuss 3. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball 4. Breathless - Green to Blue 5. Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B 6. Alabama Shakes - Girls and Boys 7. Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth 8. Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten 9. Best Coast - The Only Place 10.Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill Gig of the Year: Radiohead: Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, 11/6/2012 MALCOLM CARTER 1. Distractions - The End Of The Pier 2. Erin Costelo - We Can Get Over 3. Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill 4. Bill Fay - Life is People 5. Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks 6. Woods - Bend Beyond 7. Christina Martin - Sleeping with a Stranger 8. Dodson and Fogg - Dodson and Fogg 9. First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar 10.Bruce Foxton - Back in the Room ANDREW CARVER 1. Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped 2. Bison B.C. -Lovelessness 3. Evoken - Atra Mors 4. Howling Wind - Of Babylon 5. Moon Duo - Circles 6. Daniel Romano - Come Cry With Me 7. Grime Kings -First View Of The New 8. Holograms - Holograms 9. Ash Borer - Cold of Ages 10.Dum Dum Girls - End Of Daze ANDY CASSIDY 1. Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill 2. Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio 3, Happy Martyr - One Square Mile 4. Flaming Lips - Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn 5. Nelson Bragg – We Get What We Want Gig of the Year – Morrissey, MEN Arena, Manchester, 29/7/2012 JOHN CLARKSON 1. White Space – The Crescent Wave 2. Distractions – The End of the Pier 3. Cathode Ray –The Cathode Ray 4. Glissando – The World Without Us 5. Paul Buchanan – Mid Air 6. Twilight Sad- No One Can Ever Know 7. I Like Trains – The Shallows 8. Arto Vaun - The Cynthia Sessions 9. Last Harbour – Your Heart, It Carries the Sound 10.Kat Parsons – Talk to Me Gig of the Year – Dexys, Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 19/9/2012 DAN CRESSEY 1. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls 2. Neneh Cherry and The Thing - The Cherry Thing 3. P.O.S. - We Don’t Even Live Here 4. Felice Brothers - God Bless You Amigo 5. M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion 6. El-P - Cancer For Cure 7. Wrongtom Meets Deemas J - In East London 8. Pulled Apart By Horses - Tough Love 9. Hank III - Ghost to a Ghost / Gutter Town (technically this is 2011, but I only managed to get it this year, so I’m including it here). 10.Phoenix Da Icefire - The Quantum Leap DIXIE ERNILL 1. Experimental Pop Band - Vertigo 2. This Many Boyfriends - This Many Boyfriends 3. Our Arthur - Humour Me 4. Go Betweens - Quiet Heart 5. Two Wounded Birds - Two Wounded Birds Gig of the Year –Experimental Pop Band/Davey Woodward, El Rincon, Bristol, 12/11/2012 DAVE GOODWIN 1. Plan B –Ill Manors 2. Spector - Enjoy It While It Lasts 3. Cowbell –Beat Stampede 4. Die! Die! Die! -Harmony 5. Horrors - Skying 6. We Are Augustines - Rise Ye Sunken Ships 7. Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas 8. Hives - Lex Hives 9. Lee Fields and the Expressions - My World 10.Heavy - The Glorious Dead Gig of the Year – Howler, Nottingham, 31/1/2012 BEN HOWARTH 1. Anais Mitchell – Young Man In America 2. Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown and Treaty 3. Wave Pictures – Long Black Cars 4. Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky’s Edge 5. Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament – The Violence 6. Quiet Loner – Greedy Magicians 7. Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves 8. It Hugs Back – Laughing Party 9. Maia – Pepper Stars 10.Last Harbour – Your Heart It Carries The Sound Gig of the Year - Wave Pictures, Rochester Gordon House Hotel, 10/8/212 ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Wodensthrone – Curse 2. Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense 3. Minus The Bear – Infinity Overhead 4. Easy All Stars – Thrillah 5. Papier Tigre – Recreation CHRIS JONES 1. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems 2. Beach House - Bloom 3. Brother Sun, Sister Moon – Brother Sun, Sister Moon 4. Clubroot – III 5. Death Grips - No Love Deep Web 6. DIIV - Oshin 7. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 8. Neil Halstead - Palindrome Hunches 9. Tindersticks - The Something Rain 10.Wild Nothing - Nocturne NICK ROBINSON 1. Joe Brown - The Ukulele Album 2. Tom Moriarty - Fire in the Doll’s House 3. Smoke Feathers - Liberation 4. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Frankie Said 5. Jules Winchester - Something In Those Eyes 6. Charlie Dore - Finally, a Limousine 7. Megan Henwood - Making Waves 8. Fairport Convention - By Popular Request 9. Dion - Tank Full of Blues 10.Richard Thompson - Cabaret of Souls Gig of the Year - Chris Jagger and Acoustic Trio, Crooked Billet, Stoke Row, Oxfordshire, 24/10/2012 JAMIE ROWLAND 1. Open Mike Eagle - 4nml Hsptl 2. Walkmen - Heaven 3. of Arrowe Hill - Love Letters, Hate Mail and the Haunted Self 4. Calexico - Algiers 5. Sharon van Etten - Tramp 6. Busdriver - Beaus$Eros 7. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz 8. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange 9. Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter 10.Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan MARK ROWLAND 1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 2. Tame Impala – Lonerism 3. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes 4. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City 5. Grizzly Bear – Shields 6. Julia Holter – Ekstasis 7. Death Grips – The Money Store 8. THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE 9. El-P – Cancer 4 Cure 10.Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Ergo Phizmiz - Eleven Songs 2. Tomat - 0106 June 3. Black Dice - Mr Impossible 4. Ty Segall - Twins 5. James Yorkston - I was a Cat from a Book 6. Yuichiro Fujimoto - Speaks Melodies 7. Pollens - Brighten and Break 8. K-Conjog - Set Your Spirits Freak 9. Staff Benda Bilili - Bouger Le Monde 10.Fránçois and The Atlas Mountains - E Volo Love DOMINIC SIMPSON 1. Swans - The Seer 2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allulujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! 3. Hundred Waters - Hundred Waters 4. Zeleinople -The World Is A House On Fire 5. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradioso U.F.O. - Son of a Bitches Brew 6. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season 7. Peaking Lights - Satan 8. Julia Holter - Ekstasis 9. Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship 10.Last Harbour - Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ANTHONY STRUTT 1, Raveonettes – Observator 2. Chrysalids - Neither love Nor Money 3. Toy - Toy 4. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill 5. Leonard Cohen - Old ideas. 6. Ian McNab - Little Episodes 7. A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship 8. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch 9. Tindersticks - The Something Rain 10. Mark Eitzel - Don't Be a Stranger. Gig of the Year – Peter Hook and the Light, Queens Hall, Leicester, 26/11/2012 LISA TOREM 1. Simon Townshend - Looking Out, Looking In 2. Dead Belgian - Love and Death: The Songs of Jacques Brel 3. Tori Amos - Gold Dust 4. Rebekka Karijord - We Become Ourselves 5. James McCartney - The Complete EP Collection Gig of The Year: The Zombies, Mayne Stage, Chicago PAUL WALLER 1. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die 2. Vales - Clarity 3. Two Wounded Birds - Two Wounded Birds 4. Candy Sniper - Left Turn 4 Records: The Archives (free download) 5. Jaill - Traps 6. Flats - Better Living 7. Grimes - Visions 8. Baroness - Green/Yellow 9. Cate Le Bon - CYRK 10.Ceremony – Zoo DENZIL WATSON 1. North Sea Scrolls - The North Sea Scrolls 2. Django Django - Django Django 3. Stranglers - Giants 4. Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre is Evil 5. Hugh Cornwell - Totem and Taboo 6. Vaccines - Come of Age 7. Richard Hawley - Standing at Sky's Edge 8. Lana Del Ray - Born to Die 9. Sieben - No Less Than All 10. GiRLSPiT - Have I Done Enough To Go Home Yet?