Top 10 jazz albums of 2012 (roughly ranked in order of
preference)
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten
Freedom Summers
Tim Berne: Snakeoil
Darius Jones Quartet: Book
of Mae’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)
Fly Trio: Year of the
Snake
Josh Berman and His Gang: There Now
Henry Threadgill: Tomorrow
Sunny/The Revelry
Mike Reed’s People, Places and Things: Clean on the Corner
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: All There, Ever Out
Steve Lehman Trio: Dialect
Fluorescent
Dans les Arbres: Canopée
Top 10 rock, pop, electronic, hip hop, etc. albums of 2012
(roughly ranked in order of preference)
Julia Holter: Ekstasis
Laurel Halo: Quarantine
Tatsuro Kojima: 16g
Burial: Kindred; Truant/Rough Sleeper
Beach House: Bloom
Flying Lotus: Until
the Quiet Comes
Yoshi Horikawa: Wandering
Homeboy Sandman: Subject:
Matter; Chimera; The First of a Living Breed
Lambchop: Mr. M
Japandroids: Celebration
Rock
25 honorable mentions (alphabetical order)
Alcest: Les voyages de
l'âme
The Caretaker: Patience
(After Sebald)
Cicada: Let’s Go
Dirty Three: Toward
the Low Sun
Earth: Angels of
Darkness, Demons of Light II
Orrin Evans: Flip the
Script
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Grimes: Visions
Benedikt Jahnel Trio: Equilibrium
Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem
Kyojaku: 孤高の画壇
Lapalux: When You’re
Gone
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental
Youth
Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble: Hasselt
Saint Etienne: Words
and Music by Saint Etienne
Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio: Sources
The Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse
Serengeti: Kenny
Dennis
Ballaké Sissoko: At
Peace
Wadada Leo Smith: Ancestors
Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson: Stones
té: ゆえに、密度の幻想は綻び、蹌踉めく世界は明日を『忘却』す。
THEEsatisfaction: awE
naturalE
The xx: Coexist
Himuro Yoshiteru: Our
Turn, Anytime
