Top Ten Records of 2012

1. alt-J - An Awesome Wave

2. Oddisee - People Hear What They See

3. Pinkunoizu - Free Time

4. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It

5. Tame Impala - Lonerism

6. Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka - They!Live

7. Gang Colours - The Keychain Collection

8. Ryan Davis - Particles of Bliss

9. Chrome Canyon - Elemental Themes

10. The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough 

Full write up here

 

Best Song

1. Blur - Under The Westway

Runners-up (in no particular order)

Bat For Lashes - Laura

Rudimental - Feel The Love

Lower Dens - Brains

Laetitia Sadier - Auscultation To The Nation

Plan B - Ill Manors

Slugabed - Mountains Come Out Of The Sky

Perfume Genius – Hood

 

Top Ten Gigs

1. alt-J / Michael Kiwanuka / The Maccabees - Mercury Prize gig, St Luke's Church, London

2. Radiohead / Caribou - O2 Arena, London

3. Jack White / First Aid Kit

4. Phenomenal Handclap Band - Hooga, Chelmsford

5. Withered Hand / Darren Hayman / Seamus Fogarty - The Shacklewell Arms, London

6. Simone Felice - Union Chapel, London

7. Lower Dens - Hoxton Bar and Grill, London

8. Slow Club at Club Attitude, Village Underground, London

9. Milagres / Vadoinmessico / Peter and Kerry - Barfly, Camden

10. Friends - The Lexington, London

 

Top Ten Festival Performances

1. The Stone Roses - V Festival

2. The National - ATP Festival

3. Michael Rother - ATP Festival

4. Perfume Genius - ATP

5. Wild Beasts - ATP

6. The Antlers - ATP

7. Tom Jones - V Festival

8. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - V Festival 

9. Tim Hecker - ATP Festival

10. Wilko Johnson - Village Green festival

 

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