Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Spill Best of 2012
Contribution for www.spillmagazine.com http://www.spillmagazine.com/Best_Of_2012.html
Friday, December 7, 2012
Least worst 20 albums of 2012
No point in
waiting any longer. I’ve decided to do a
top 20 this year of the least worst albums of 2012:
20 Lee Ranaldo
– Between the Times and the Tides
19 Paul
Buchanan – Mid Air
18 I Like
Trains – The Shallows
17 Leonard
Cohen – Old Ideas
16 Peter
Broderick – www.itstartshear.com
15 Earth –
Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
14 Bob Mould –
Silver Age
13 The
Soulsavers – The Light, The Dead See
12 Seti the
First – Melting Cavalry
11
Tindersticks – The Something Rain
10 RM Hubbert
– Thirteen Lost & Found
Scotland’s
most accomplished guitarist turns in a stellar follow up to First & Last.
9 Dinosaur Jr
– I Bet On Sky
J Mascis can
still churn out the heavy riffs like nobody else.
8 Sun Kil Moon
– Among the Leaves
A Mark Kozelek
private joke? Possibly. He’s still a damn good guitarist.
7 Dirty Three
– Toward the Low Sun
Epic comeback
album from the Aussie rockers.
6 Dakota Suite
– An Almost Silent Life
A more varied
release than usual for Dakota Suite…
5 Mark Eitzel
– Don’t Be A Stranger
This album
sounds like nothing special at first, but it’s quite an addictive collection of
songs, from the most enjoyable whiner in music today.
4 Neil Young
& Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
In Driftin’
Back this album has one of the tracks of the year and definitely the longest.
3 Mark Lanegan
Band – Blues Funeral
A strong
collection of songs from the uber-serious Lanegan.
2 Caught In
The Wake Forever – Against A Simple Wooden Cross
Not an easy
listen. But what an album. Debut album of the year.
1 The Twilight
Sad – No One Can Ever Know
This should
have been a wrong move, but the electronic-tinged material is brilliantly
cold. Now if they could just find
directions to Ireland…
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