2012

Hands down the greatest reissue of the year is Type's royal treatment of Porter Ricks' timeless Biokinetics.  A record that shook me up more times this year than I can count.  All things told, I spent a good part of the year listening to Seefeel, Aphex Twin and Elis Regina, however these twenty new records are all outstanding.  This was also the year I finally started to appreciate remixes.  Four Tet's ghosting of The xx's Angels completely stripped away what already wasn't there, leaving things swathed in static.  Laurel Halo's work for Lianne La Havas and Kuedo was equally top notch. 


20 Favorite Records, 2012

1. Devotion - Jessie Ware - PMR/Island
2. Quarantine - Laurel Halo - Hyperdub
3. Instrumental Tourist - Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Software
4. Centipede Hz - Animal Collective - Domino
5. Coexist - The xx - Young Turks
6. Valley Tangents - Blues Control - Drag City
7. Core To The Brave - Richard Youngs - Root Strata
8. Imagine Yourself Here - Zaïmph - Yew
9. Comets Come Alive - Orphan Fairytale - Blackest Rainbow 
10. Ekstasis - Julia Holter - RVNG
11. Winterlude - Sam Willis - Half Machine
12. Solo Piano II - Gonzales - Gentle Threat
13. R.I.P. - Actress - Honest Jon's
14. The Expanding Universe - Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds
15. Green Just As I Could See - Andrea Neumann & Bonnie Jones - Erstwhile
16. Wound Response - Rhodri Davies - Alt Vinyl 
17. Retina Waves - Cupp Cave - Ramp
18. Sequitur - Steve Hauschildt - Kranky
19. Silencio - Laetitia Sadier - Drag City
20. Interstellar - Frankie Rose - Slumberland