Best of Rock
(Read the reviews)
NOTE: I'm still reviewing hundreds of 2012 albums so the list below is wildly incomplete.
8/10
7.5/10
- Abu Lahab: Humid Limbs of the Torn Beadsman (self)
- Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
- King Tears Bat Trip: King Tears Bat Trip (Hanged Man)
7/10
- Julia Holter: Ekstasis (RVNG)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor: Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend (Constellation)
- Tea Rockers Quintet: Ceremony (EnT-T)
- Beach House: Bloom (Subpop)
- Zammuto: Zammuto (Temporary Residence)
- Demdike Stare: Elemental (Modern Love)
- Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel (Epic)
- Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
- Cloud Nothings: Attack On Memory (Carpark)
- Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
- Ty Segall: Slaughterhouse (In The Red)
- Frank Ocean: Channel Orange (Def Jam)
EPs and minis:
- Abu Lahab: We Beheld the Last Contraction of the Seraph (2012) (mini) 7.5/10
- Burial: Kindred (Hyperdub) (EP) 7/10
- Lapalux: When You're Gone (Brainfeeder) (EP) 7/10
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Playlist
- Fiona Apple: Every Single Night
- Abu Lahab: And No Health Was Left in Us
- Julia Holter: Marienbad
- Zammuto: Yaj
- Eyesores: Fire Shuffle
- Fiona Apple: Hot Knife
- Julia Holter: Fur Felix
- Lapalux: Gutter Glitter
- Necro Deathmort: Imperial
- Beach House: The Hours
- Tame Impala: Apocalypse Dreams,
- Perfume Genius: AWOL Marine
- Lambchop: Gone Tomorrow
- Death Grips: I've Seen Footage
- Mark Lanegan: The Gravedigger's Song
- M Ward: Primitive Girl
- Beach House: Wild
- Actress: Caves Of Paradise
Extended tracks
- Godspeed You Black Emperor: Mladic
- King Tears Bat Trip: Stolen Police Car
- Cloud Nothings: Wasted Days
- Tea Rockers Quintet: Three
- Demdike Stare: Kommunion
- Frances White: The Ocean Inside
- Richard Garet: Areal
- Burial: Kindred
- Kristin Norderval: Nightcall
- Man Forever: Ur Eternity
- Dodecahedron: View From Hverfell
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Jazz
- Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
- Fire Orchestra: Exit
- Phantom Orchard: Trouble In Paradise (Tzadik)
- Matt Ulery: By A Little Light
- Mary Halvorson Quintet: Bending Bridges
- Vijay Iyer: Accelerando
- Darius Jones Quartet: Book of Mae'bul
- Christian Scott: Christian aTunde Adjuah
- Jonah Parzen-Johnson: Michiana
- Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio
- Geri Allen: A Child Is Born
- David Virelles: Continuum
- Brad Mehldau Trio: Ode
- Masabumi Kikuchi: Sunrise
- Henry Threadgill: Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry
- Rob Mazurek Septet: Skull Sessions
- Scott Dubois: Landscape Scripture
- Miles Okazaki: Figurations
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