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 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
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
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
Favourite Albums from February:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
Foals - Holy Fire
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
Really liking CHVRCHES at the moment, latest single Recover is a real earworm.
Also developing a bit of a crush on Lauren Mayberry :)
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
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
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
Favourite Compilations and Reissues of 2012
Paul Simon Graceland 25th Anniversary Edition
Various Artists Songs For Desert Refugees
Elbow dead in the boot
WITCH 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)
Favourite Albums of 2012
1. Stealing Sheep Into the Diamond Sun
2. Jessie Ware Devotion
3. Dr. John Locked Down
4. Hot Chip In Our Heads
5. Jack White Blunderbuss
6. Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
7. First Aid Kit The Lion’s Roar
8. Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man
9. Poliça Give You The Ghost
10. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble
11. Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny “Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose”
12. Orbital Wonky
13. Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
14. Friends Manifest!
15. Rocket Juice & the Moon Rocket Juice & the Moon
16. Django Django Django Django
17. Graham Coxon A+E
18. Tame Impala Lonerism
19. The 2 Bears Be Strong
20. Goat World Music
21. Lucy Rose Like I Used To
22. Leonard Cohen Old Ideas
23. Mokoomba Rising Tide
24. Paul Weller Sonik Kicks
25. Bobby Womack 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)
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
