Best album of the year so far (2012)

[Big_Unit]

The Djangoes were awesome at The Old Market on Monday...

 

[JBizzleBeard]

Father John Misty - Fear Fun

 

[Mr Banana]

AlunaGeorge. Haven't released an LP yet but the EP is pretty much all I've listened to. Only a slightly wanky exaggeration to say that the male half, a producer, George Reid, has completely changed the way I think about music and production. Also, the new single shows Aluna can do more with her voice than the high-pitched 90s garage schtick.

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[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Going to add Twins by Ty Segall and Line The Wall by Bo Ningen to my best of the year.

 

[Smithy]

Going to add Twins by Ty Segall and Line The Wall by Bo Ningen to my best of the year.

Was just going to add Twins by Ty Segall myself. Saw him at the Green Door Store not too long ago and he puts on an incredible live show.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Was just going to add Twins by Ty Segall myself. Saw him at the Green Door Store not too long ago and he puts on an incredible live show.

He is back in England before Christmas so hoping for some dates.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Ginger - 555% for me

Pledge music is the way forward for music releases and gives the fan an input into the making of an album

There are some great pledge campaigns running at the mo so get involved people

 

[Buzzer]

The Bobby Womack 'Bravest Man in the Universe' is growing on me a lot, definitely file under "slow burner".

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

Keane - Strangeland

 

[Buzzer]

I couldn't get to grips with the Dexys Midnight Runners (now re-branded as just Dexys) album "One Day I'm Going To Soar". You kind of expect something pretentious from Kevin Rowland but this album is just way too self-indulgent to be taken seriously. The album has got rave reviews but to me it sounds like a concept album where they've taken old Billy Joel songs and given them a pub-funk makeover.

And the same reviewers who have torn Tim Burgess apart for his haircut don't seem to mind that Dexys all dress the same with the theme being Street Jazz Saxophonist - beret, flying jacket, chunky knit fisherman jersey, big pleated trousers. Not even the presence of Mick Talbot rescues it for me and he's usually a reliable barometer of a good album.

I'd be interested to hear anyone else's views on the album.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Tempest.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Jake Bugg

 

[rcf0712]

In our Heads - Hot Chip, or El Camino - Black Keys, probably the former, quite awesome, saw then in Singapore in June and they cut it, big time.

 

[Dover]

Rush -- Clockwork Angels
Chris Robinson Brotherhood -- Both albums
Paloma Faith -- Fall to Pieces
Paul Weller -- Sonik Kicks.

 

[The aloof gatekeeper]

I tend not to listen to albums; don't have enough time. But the only band who've got three songs on my Best of 2012 playlist are We Are The Physics, so my vote goes to Your friend, the atom.

 

[Pevenseagull]

all of the Guided By Voices/ Robert Pollard solo albums (that doesn't leave much room for the rest of the top 10)

Spain - "The Soul Of Spain"
John Murry - The Graceless Age
Sun Kill Moon - Among the Leaves
Mark Eitzel - Don't Be A Stranger

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Whilst seemingly unremarkable at first, a lot like Yellow House, Grizzly Bear's 'Shield' is a great album. I don't know how, or why, I can never get into their stuff straight away, but after the 4th or 5th listen everything clicks.