Favourite Album from April:
British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
And a couple of others I liked, and need to listen to more:
Neon Neon - Praxis Makes Perfect
Kurt Vile - Wakin’ On a Pretty Daze

Favourite Album from April:

British Sea PowerMachineries of Joy

And a couple of others I liked, and need to listen to more:

Neon NeonPraxis Makes Perfect

Kurt VileWakin’ On a Pretty Daze

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Favourite Songs from April

British Sea Power - A Light Above Descending

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

Disclosure - You & Me (feat. Eliza Doolittle)

Fainting by Numbers - Watching the Dub

Ghostpoet - Meltdown

Laura Marling - Master Hunter

Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)

The National - Don’t Swallow the Cap

Neon Neon - Mid Century Modern Nightmare

Poliça - Tiff (feat. Justin Vernon)

Primal Scream - It’s Alright, It’s OK

Queens of the Stone Age - My God is the Sun

Kurt Vile - Goldtone

Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Under the Earth

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Favourite Albums from March:

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

David Bowie - The Next Day

And also a mention for another of my favourite albums which came out at the end of February and I listened to at the start of March:

Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In

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Favourite Songs from March

Beliefs - Catch My Breath

David Bowie - Dirty Boys

British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy

Chvrches - Now Is Not the Time

Daughter - Still

John Grant - Glacier

Little Boots - Broken Record

Low - So Blue

Laura Marling - Where Can I Go?

Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards - Sheets

Primal Scream - 2013

Rilo Kiley - Let Me Back In

Caitlin Rose - Waitin’

Savages - She Will

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

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Favourite Albums from February:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away


FoalsHoly Fire

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Favourite Songs from February

AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues

Chvrches - Recover

Fainting By Numbers - A Stone In The Ground

Foals - Milk & Black Spiders

Ghostpoet - MSI MUSMID

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Jagwar Ma - The Throw

Little Boots - Motorway

Low - Just Make It Stop

Laura Mvula - Green Garden

Caitlin Rose - No One To Call

Tegan and Sara - I’m Not Your Hero

Kurt Vile - Wakin’ On A Pretty Day

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege

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Really liking CHVRCHES at the moment, latest single Recover is a real earworm.
Also developing a bit of a crush on Lauren Mayberry :)

Really liking CHVRCHES at the moment, latest single Recover is a real earworm.

Also developing a bit of a crush on Lauren Mayberry :)

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Favourite Songs from January

AlunaGeorge - Diver

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Let The Day Begin

David Bowie - Where Are We Now?

Billy Bragg - Handyman Blues

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street

Disclosure - White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)

Everything Everything - Kemosabe

Factory Floor - Fall Back

Foals - My Number

I Am Kloot - These Days Are Mine

Peace - Wraith

Pulp - After You

Suede - Barriers

Teleman - Cristina

Villagers - Nothing Arrived

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Favourite Album from January:
I Am Kloot - Let It All In
Runner-up:
Villagers - {Awayland}

Favourite Album from January:

I Am Kloot - Let It All In

Runner-up:

Villagers{Awayland}

BBC Sound of 2013

Here’s my personal top five of the fifteen artists selected by the BBC, because obviously everyone wants to know:

1. AlunaGeorge

2. Chvrches

3. Savages

4. Angel Haze

5. Peace

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Favourite Comics of 2012

A few of my favourite series this year:

Avengers Academy written by Christos Gage

Batwoman written by J.H. Williams III and Haden Blackman

Daredevil written by Mark Waid

New Mutants written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning

Thor: God of Thunder written by Jason Aaron

Thunderbolts/Dark Avengers written by Jeff Parker

Uncanny X-Force written by Rick Remender

Wolverine and the X-Men written by Jason Aaron

X-Factor written by Peter David

X-Men Legacy written by Christos Gage

And some collections:

Scalped Vols. 9: Knuckle Up & 10: Trail’s End Jason Aaron/R.M. Guera

The Unwritten Vols. 5: On To Genesis & 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words Mike Carey/Peter Cross

The Walking Dead: Compendium Vol. 2 Robert Kirkman/Charlie Adlard

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Favourite Compilations and Reissues of 2012

Paul Simon Graceland 25th Anniversary Edition

Graceland

Various Artists Songs For Desert Refugees

Songs For Desert Refugees

Elbow dead in the boot

dead in the boot

WITCH We Intend To Cause Havoc

We Intend To Cause Havoc

Favourite Remixes of 2012

1. Jessie Ware Running (Disclosure Remix)

2. Friends Friend Crush (Leo Zero Remix)

3. Little Boots Every Night I Say A Prayer (Tensnake Remix)

4. Hot Chip Look At Where We Are (Four Tet Remix)

5. Jessie Ware Night Light (Joe Goddard Remix)

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Favourite Albums of 2012

 1. Stealing Sheep Into the Diamond Sun

Into the Diamond Sun

 2. Jessie Ware Devotion

Devotion

 3. Dr. John Locked Down

Locked Down

 4. Hot Chip In Our Heads

In Our Heads

 5. Jack White Blunderbuss

Blunderbuss

 6. Frank Ocean channel ORANGE 

channel ORANGE

 7. First Aid Kit The Lion’s Roar

The Lion's Roar

 8. Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man

The Haunted Man

 9. Poliça Give You The Ghost

Give You The Ghost

10. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble

Trouble

11. Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny “Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose”

"Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose"

12. Orbital Wonky

Wonky

13. Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Ball

14. Friends Manifest!

Manifest!

15. Rocket Juice & the Moon Rocket Juice & the Moon

Rocket Juice & the Moon

16. Django Django Django Django

Django Django

17. Graham Coxon A+E

A+E

18. Tame Impala Lonerism

Lonerism

19. The 2 Bears Be Strong

Be Strong

20. Goat World Music

World Music

21. Lucy Rose Like I Used To

Like I Used To

22. Leonard Cohen Old Ideas

Old Ideas

23. Mokoomba Rising Tide

Rising Tide

24. Paul Weller Sonik Kicks

Sonik Kicks

25. Bobby Womack The Bravest Man In The Universe

The Bravest Man In The Universe
(Well, at least, this is what I’ve decided on right now, I’ll probably change my mind in a week, there are too many of these, and other albums, that I haven’t listened to enough)

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Favourite Songs of 2012, Top 50

8tracks playlist of most of the songs

50 Paul Weller That Dangerous Age

49 Richard Hawley Leave Your Body Behind You

48 Metric Youth Without Youth

47 Leonard Cohen Darkness

46 Lykke Li Come Near

45 Emmy the Great God of Loneliness

44 Lana Del Rey Born to Die

43 Gorillaz DoYaThing

42 Eugene McGuinness   Shotgun

41 I Am Kloot  Hold Back the Sky

40 Lucy Rose  Bikes

39 Bobby Womack   Please Forgive My Heart

38 Azealia Banks  Jumanji

37 Rocket Juice & The Moon Hey, Shooter (feat. Erykah Badu)

36 Arcade Fire Abraham’s Daughter

35 Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny  Franklin Benedict

34 Sleigh Bells Comeback Kid

33 Blur Under the Westway

32 The 2 Bears Work

31 Graham Coxon Running For Your Life

30 Orbital Wonky (feat. Lady Leshurr)

29 Spoek Mathambo Let Them Talk

28 Bruce Springsteen We Take Care of Our Own

27 Dr. John Ice Age

26 Friends Mind Control

25 Regina Spektor All the Rowboats

24 Sharon Van Etten Serpents

23 Field Music (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing

22 Foals Inhaler

21 Hot Chip Flutes

20 The xx Angels

19 Savages Husbands

18 Jack White Sixteen Saltines

17 Django Django Default

16 Frank Ocean Pyramids

15 Poliça Violent Games 

14 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds We No Who U R

13 Niki & the Dove DJ Ease My Mind

12 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Stronger

11 The Shins Simple Song

10 Santigold Disparate Youth

 9 M.I.A. Bad Girls

 8 First Aid Kit Emmylou

 7 Stealing Sheep Genevieve

 6 Little Boots Every Night I Say a Prayer

 5 Solange Losing You

 4 Bat For Lashes Laura

 3 AlunaGeorge Your Drums, Your Love

 2 Grimes Oblivion

 1 Jessie Ware Wildest Moments