Best Albums of 2012

自分で始めておいて、毎年これをやらなければならないのかと考えると、気が重い毎日でした。だから、来年はやるかわかんないです。それか、ふつうにします。

肝心な音楽のことですが、店をやっていた頃は、それなりに狙いがあったので、偏りがあったと思いますが、今年はニュートラルな位置から色々を聴いたこともあり、案外普通じゃないかと思います。他のチャート上位でよく挙っているR&B、ヒッホップ、ポップス路線、そして大御所の作品には、同列じゃない気がしてスルー。あと重複しますが、0.5扱いは、正規のリリースはまだ先とか、デジタルとか、EP的なものとかです。この先もミックステープなど、見落としがちなリリースが増える時代かと思いますが、このブログでは、出来るだけフォローしていけたらと思います。

50 Callers – ‘Reviver’ (Partisan)
49 Slim Twig – ‘Sof’ Sike’ (Paper Bag)
48 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – ’12 Bar Bruise’ (Flightless)
47 Angel Olsen – ‘Half Way Home’ (Bathetic)
46 Dope Body – ‘Natural History’ (Drag City)
45 Bear In Heaven – ‘I Love You, It’s Cool’ (Dead Oceans)
44 Crystal Castles – ‘(III)’ (Fiction/Casablanca)
43 Deep Time – ‘Deep Time’ (Hardly Art)
42 Bitch Prefect – ‘Big Time’ (Bedroom Suck)
41 The Pheromoans – ‘Does This Guy Stack Up?’ (Upset The Rhythm)
40 You’ll Never Get to Heaven – ‘s/t’ (Divorce)
39 Lower Dens – ‘Nootropics’ (Ribbon)
38 Jessica Pratt – ‘Jessica Pratt’ (Birth)
37 Sam Flax – ‘Age Waves’ (The Sound Of Sweet Nothing)
36 Memory Tapes – ‘Grace/Confusion’ (Carpark)
35 Black Marble – ‘A Different Arrangement’ (Hardly Art)
34 Mac DeMarco – ‘2’ (Captured Tracks)
33 Woollen Kits – ‘Four Girls’ (Trouble In Mind/R.I.P. Society)
32 Tyvek – ‘On Triple Beams’ (In The Red)
31 CS Yeh – ‘Transistions’ (Detjil)
30 Frankie Rose – ‘Interstellar’ (Slumberland/Memphis Industries)
29 How To Dress Well – ‘Total Loss’ (Acéphale/Weird World)
28 Purity Ring – ‘Shrines’ (4AD)
27 Levek – ‘Look A Little Closer’ (Lefse)
26 The Men – ‘Open Your Heart’ (Sacred Bones)
25 Thee Oh Sees – ‘Putrifiers II’ (In The Red)
24 Brother Sun, Sister Moon – ‘s/t’ (Cooper Cult/Denovali)
23 Sharon Van Etten – ‘Tramp’ (Jagjaguwar)
22 Ice Choir – ‘Afar’ (Undearwater Peoples)
21 TOPS – ‘Tender Opposites’ (Arbutus/Atelier Ciseaux)
20 Julia Holter – ‘Ekstasis’ (RVNG Intl./Domino)
19 Laurel Halo – ‘Quarantine’ (Hyperdub)
18 Bare Wires – ‘Idle Dreams’ (Southpaw)
17 Naomi Punk – ‘The Feeling’ (Couple Skate/Captured Tracks)
16 Vinyl Williams – ‘Lemniscate’ (Salonislam/No Pain In Pop)
15 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – ‘Mature Themes’ (4AD)
14 Daughn Gibson – ‘All Hell’ (Mistletone/White Denim)
13 Chad Valley – ‘Young Hunger’ (Cascine)
12 DIIV – ‘Ousin’ (Captured Tracks)
11 White Lung – ‘Sorry’ (Deranged)
10 Chairlift – ‘Something’ (Young Turks/Columbia)
9 Tame Impala – ‘Lonerism’ (Modular)
8 Beach House – ‘Bloom’ (Sub Pop)
7 Cloud Nothings – ‘Attack On Memory’ (Carpark/Wichita)
6 Ty Segall – ‘Twins’ (Drag City)
5 Death Grips – ‘The Money Store’ (Third Worlds/Epic)
4 Grimes – ‘Visions’ (Arbutus/4AD)
3 Chromatics – ‘Kill For Love’ (Italian Do It Better)
2 Chris Cohen – ‘Overgrown Path’ (Captured Tracks)
1 Mount Eerie – ‘Clear Moon/Ocean Roar’ (P.W. Elverum & Sun.)

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