[Jaspersharpe]

2012 is almost over so what have you been listening to? In no order, these are all very good:

Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Mystery Jets - Radlands
St Etienne - Words and Music by
Hot Chip - In Our Heads
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Howler - America Give Up
Paloma Faith - Fall To Grace
Various Cruelties - Various Cruelties

Sure I'll think of some more.....

[andy_e]

Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

[Jaspersharpe]

Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Heard that London Can Take It tune loads on the radio - meant to investigate further.....

[andy_e]

This is the one...

[Gallant]

Recently picked up a copy of Baroness' Yellow and Green, it's a pretty weird, but rather good album.
In more punk tonings:
Great Cynics - Don't need much
Apologies, I have none - London
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
Off! - Off!

[dontfollowme]

1.   Grimes – Visions
2.   Walkmen - Heaven
3.   The XX - Coexist
4.   Sharon Von Etten – Tramp
5.   Beach House – Bloom
6.   Holy Other – Held
7.   John Talabot – Fin
8.   Errors – Have some faith in magic
9.   Lower Dens - Nootropics
10.   Mmoths - Mmoths

[SA Chris]

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - EVEREST

Is it on the album?

por moi (in no particular order)

Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Django Django - Django Django
Alt J - The Perfect Wave (thanks for the tip gme)
The Sea and Cake - Runner (was this your tipoff FD?)
Four Tet - Pink
Liars - WIXIW (thanks to Panton...?)
Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
Daphni (AKA Caribou)- Jaiolong
Orbital - Wonky

[andy_e]

No, it's been released as a single though and it's amazing!

[SA Chris]

it's amazing!

I wasn't disputing that fact. Just that you referenced the album, then a single not on the album, which got me all confused and wondering if I had been too hasty buying the album and maybe it had been rereleased with Everest on it, which would have annoyed me no end.

But no, all is good.

[Wood FT]

1.   Grimes – Visions
2.   Walkmen - Heaven
3.   The XX - Coexist
4.   Sharon Von Etten – Tramp
5.   Beach House – Bloom
6.   Holy Other – Held
7.   John Talabot – Fin
8.   Errors – Have some faith in magic
9.   Lower Dens - Nootropics
10.   Mmoths - Mmoths

some gems there

[Stabbsy]

Not in any order :-

Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Orbital - Wonky
XX - Coexist
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
Human Don't Be Angry - Human Don't Be Angry

[Jaspersharpe]

Forgot the Richard Hawley album. Really good.

[Luthor]

My top 10 of 2012 (not ranked in order):


Crystal Castles   III
Grimes            Visions
Blondes           Blondes
Lorn              Ask the Dust
Burial            Kindred EP
Chromatics        Kill for Love
Policia           Give you the Ghost
Peter Dundov      Ideas from the Pond
Daphni            Jiaolong
Blanck Mass       White Math EP

[Bonjoy]

Jeff Corbett – Mellaconti
Hornblend – Night Riser
Fire Garden – Toot n Sway
Pink Ushion - Kieserschmass
Bryan Tandi – Yesterday’s Tomorrow

[Jaspersharpe]

How could I forget Bryan Tandi? The man is a genius.

[Duma]

I've listened to very little new music this year, but the Jake Bugg album is really good

[SA Chris]

Beth Orton - Sugaring Season

Missed that, good heads up. So pleased she is still going strong.

Some other great recommendations, the time of year the Spotify goes into overdrive!

[Steamboat Stello]

Jeff Corbett – Mellaconti
Hornblend – Night Riser
Fire Garden – Toot n Sway
Pink Ushion - Kieserschmass
Bryan Tandi – Yesterday’s Tomorrow

Fire Garden as in Sheffield's finest Prog Rock protagonists? Didn't realise they were still about!

[Johnny Brown]

Jeff Corbett – Mellaconti
Hornblend – Night Riser
Fire Garden – Toot n Sway
Pink Ushion - Kieserschmass
Bryan Tandi – Yesterday’s Tomorrow

I mean those records are okay, but Jeff Corbett has done way better, and Kieserschmass started well but ends badly. And Bryan Tandi's entire oeuvre consists of moaning about child support payments: no ta!

I've enjoyed:

Bill Fay: Life is people
Remarkable comeback album from the man some have called the British Bob Dylan. Two cult albums followed by a lifetime of obscurity, and then this. 5 stars in Mojo!

Grimes: Visions
Weird one this, on paper it's twaddle (and some of it is) but also some proper magic. At the same time demonstrates some great influences whilst sounding very original. Live shows look .

The Stone Roses: live at Heaton Park (bootleg)
Obvs. 'Reni makes Dave Grohl look like he's still at high school'. Not my words, the words of NME magazine. Kiss my face.

Liked the Public Service Broadcasting stuff too. Interesting interview on Radcliffe and Maconie where he claimed he'd never even heard Neu! until he started playing his stuff to others...

Be interested in other folks' reviews/ recommendations (appreciated more than just lists as I've no idea who most are nowadays...)

[Jim]

Great thread, as Johnny says a bit of review is good rather than just lists.
Need some new tunes and need to get my stereo plugged in again

[Carnage]

These I loved (all  Australian and well worth checking out)-

Tame Impala - 'Lonerism'

The Presets - 'Pacifica'

Flume - 'Flume'

edit: -

I forgot to add (not Australian)-

Aesop Rock - 'Skelethon'

Of Monsters and Men - 'My Head is an Animal'.

[Stubbs]

In the words of Manowar 'if you're not onto metal you are not my friend', consider that a review for the albums below, but if that isn't enough and you haven't heard of them, I've added a song off each.

Baroness, Yellow and Green:  It's amazing when you discover you've been sleeping on a band, and once you hear their new stuff, the even better news is that they have two great albums on their back catalogue.



Turbonegro, Sexual Harassment: An album that sounds like the sort of parties you really should have stopped going to when you left university, but every now and again you still find yourself drinking strong lager and having a slapping contest...



Gojira - Enfant Sauvage - A french mathy metal band singing in english about environmental matters, heavy as fuck.



Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living -  Second best show if the year in a sweaty OBL afterr they'd already played 5 other shows the same day



Bossk - Pick Up Artist  OK so not a new album but a new tune, hopefully an album on the way!



Deftones - Koi No Yokan  - It's the Deftones, you should know what sort of awesomeness you're going to get.



The Sword - Apocryphon - A band that writes space rock about smoking weed and piloting spaceships, I guess you're either into this shit or not...



Future album I'm most excited about: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/07/iggy-pop-patti-smith-pirates-album?INTCMP=SRCH

[Falling Down]

The Turbonegro LP is brilliant.  Reminds me of The Dwarves, Stooges and Lazy Cowgirls.

I'll submit my annual report tomorrow.

[TobyD]

I liked the XX's coexist a lot. 

[andy_e]

Burial            Kindred EP

Well, if we're playing it like that...

Burial - Kindred
ASC & Ulrich Schnauss - 77
Amadou et Mariam - Folila
Vibronics - The French Connection
Indigo - Symbol #7
Sam KDC - Symbol #8
ASC & Sam KDC - Decayed Society

That's all I can think of off the top of my swede.