Last week, I told that on the December 12 I was going to start re-listening to all those album I thought that could be part of the list of the best albums of 2012 or to the ones I still feel that need another listen for me to get into it. This doesn’t mean that now I won’t listen to any new albums; actually, my very long list still have some albums which aren’t crossed out. But now I’m going to fully deepen into 2012 and try to start considering seriously which albums could be part of the list. Does neither means that I only listened to albums once: there are some albums of 2012 that I have already listened to at least five times as there are other that I only listened to them once as there is one album that I only listened to half of it but when I said that I didn’t like it, I was told by many people to give it another change -this is the Death Grips’ album.
After the read more you’ll see my very long list of albums released in 2012. Let me guide you through the list: the albums crossed out are the ones I have already listened to and the ones in bold are the ones that I’ll give more importance. BUT, if you think that there is one of the albums that I should also be in bold, you only need to tell me for me to do it. AND, as always, if you like any other album released in 2012 isn’t on the list and you think I should listen to it, you know that you are more than welcomed to recommend it to me.
You should also know that I’m completely lost with this list. I have no idea which album will be my number 1; I feel none of them deserve that position, but that doesn’t mean that i don’t like 2012 for music I think that there were great records; I just can’t see one album that stood out. Actually, I thought of putting one of them first on the list, but I’m not sure that I’m being too objective. If you want to try to guess, you are more than welcomed to do so, too.
R.I.P – Actress
Shut Down The Streets –AC Newman
Charmer – Aimee Mann
Europe – Allo’ Darlin’
- Luxury Problems - Andy Scott
Break It Yourself – Andrew Bird
Centipede HZ – Animal Collective
Mature Themes - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Juventud Americana - Ases Falsos
Ya – Banda De Turistas
The Haunted Man – Bat For Lashes
Bloom – Beach House
BEAK» - BEAK >
The Palace Garden - Beat Connection
The Only Place - Best Coast
Sugaring Season – Beth Orton
Cobra Juicy – Black Moth Super Rainbow
Four - Bloc Party
In Time To Voices – Blood Red Shoes
Kindred EP – Burial
Patience (After Sebald) – The Caretaker
Déjenme Llorar - Carla Morrison
Sun – Cat Power
Something – Chairlift
We Are Nobody – The Chap
Kill For Love - Chromatics
Attack On Memory - Cloud Nothings
America – Dan Deacon
The Money Store – Death Grips
History Speaks – Deep Sea Diver
Breakup Song - Deerhoof
Swin Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors
A Thing Called Divine Fits – Divine Fits
Oshin – DIIV
Django Django – Django Django
End Of Gaze EP – Dum Dum Girls
Pale Fire – El Perro Del Mar
Bos Taurus – Fantasy Rainbow
- Fear Fun – Father John Misty
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do - Fiona Apple
The Lion’s Roar - First Aid Kit
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean
Until The Quiet Comes - Flying Lotus
Pink - Four Tet
Interstellar - Frankie Rose
- Cruel Summer - G.O.O.D Music
Visions - Grimes
Shields - Grizzly Bear
Arunima – Hello Seahorse!
A Different Ship - Here We Go Magic
- In Our Heads – Hot Chip
- Holograms - Holograms
Total Loss – How To Dress Well
Hundred Waters – Hundred Waters
Human Again - Ingrid Michaelson
Blunderbuss – Jack White
Celebration Rock - Japandroids
I Know What Love Isn’t - Jens Lekman
Devotion - Jessie Ware
fin - John Talabot
Ekstasis - Julia Holter
Good kid, m.A.A.d city – Kendrick Lamar
R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
- Mr. M - Lambchop
Born To Die – Lana Del Rey
- Quarantine – Laurel Halo
WIXIW - Liars
Con Mi Tiempo Y El Progreso - Linda Mirada
Mundo Anfibio – Lisandro Aristimuño
Love At The Bottom of the Sea – The Magnetic Fields
Grace/Confusion – Memory Tapes
Moms - Menomena
- Beams - Matthew Dear
Kaleidoscope Dream - Miguel
Wasteland Companion - M. Ward
Open Your Heart – The Men
Clear Moon – Mount Eerie
Ocean Roar – Mount Eerie
Transcendental Youth – The Mountain Goats
Mujer Divina - Natalia Lafourcade
- Instinct – Niki And the Dove
- Paralytic Stalks – of Montreal
Ondatrópica - Ondatrópica
Gossamer - Passion Pit
Lucifer - Peaking Lights
Put Your Back In 2 It - Perfume Genius
- Information Retrieved- Pinback
The Horror – Pop. 1280
Shrines - Purity Ring
Magpie - Sassparilla
- What We Saw From The Cheap Seats – Regina Spekor
Tramp - Sharon Van Etten (RE-LISTENING NOW!)
- Valtari – Sigur Rós
Youth – Simian Ghost
- Reign Of Terror - Sleigh Bells
- Oceania - The Smashing Pumpkins
Sweet Heart Sweet Light - Spiritualized
Love This Giant - St. Vincent and David Byrne
- The North - Stars
Would You Stay – Steffaloo
The Seer - Swans
Lonerism - Tame Impala
There’s No Leaving Now - The Tallest Man On Earth
Heavy Mood – Tilly & The Wall
Local Business - Titus Andronicus
TRST – Trust
Slaughterhouse – Ty Segall Band
Twins – Ty Segall
Hair – Ty Segall & White Fence
Trilogy – The Weeknd
Heaven - The Walkmen
Choreography – Weird Dreams
Double Vision - Win Win
Bend Beyond – Woods
Always – Xiu Xiu
Coexist – The XX
This list consists of 118 albums: 102 were listened, 16 are still to be listened for the first time and 38 are marked to be re-listened.