Nialler9′s Best of 2012: Albums of the year
Hit play and hear a song from each one of my top 40 albums of 2012 or find the entire Spotify/Deezer albums playlist below…
- Chromatics – Kill For Love (review)
- Alt J – An Awesome Wave (posts)
- Hundred Waters – Hundred Waters (review)
- Grimes – Visions (review)
- Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city (review)
- Kindness – World, You Need A Change Of Mind (review)
- El-P – Cancer For Cure (review)
- Blondes – Blondes (review)
- John Talabot – Fin (post)
- Daphni – Jiaolong (review)
- Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt ( review)
- Chairlift – Something (review)
- Grizzly Bear – Shields (review)
- Mumblin’ Deaf Ro – Dictionary Crimes (review)
- Actress – R.I.P.
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
- Chad Valley – Young Hunger (review)
- Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano II (review)
- THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE
- Tanlines – Mixed Emotions
- The Cast Of Cheers – Family (review)
- Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
- Mossy Nolan – Mossy Nolan (review)
- Chelsea Wolfe – Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
- Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Explusion
- The xx – Coexist (review)
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble
- Clock Opera – Ways To Forget
- Owensie – Citizens (review)
- Hot Chip – In Our Heads
- Captain Murphy – Duality (review)
- Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love
- Keaton Henson – Dear…
- Death Grips – No Love Deep Web (post)
- Evian Christ – Kings & Them (post)
- Dam Mantle – Brothers Fowl
- Strange Passion – Explorations in Irish Post Punk, DIY and Electronic Music 1980-83 (review)
- Alice Cohen – Pink Keys (post)
- Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In the Universe (review)
- JJ Doom – Keys to the Kuffs
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