Our Favorite Releases of 2012 That We Didn’t Work
Daniel Gill
1. Daphni – JIAOLONG
2. Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
3. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
4. Four Tet – Pink
5. Kindness – World You Need A Change Of Mind
6. Purity Ring – Shrines
7. King Tuff – King Tuff
8. Peaking Lights – Lucifer
9. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
10. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Also loved records from Beach House, Chromatics, El-P, Hot Chip, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Animal Collective, Tame Impala, Clinic, Divine Fits, Sufjan’s Silver & Gold box set, Hospitality, Oh No, Lambchop, Black Marble, Kendrick Lamar, JJ, and tons more
Sarah Hogan
LPs
1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
2. Chromatics – Kill For Love
3. Jeremih – Late Nights With Jeremih
4. Tame Impala – Lonerism
5. Mac DeMarco – 2
6. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
7. Kindness – World You Need A Change Of Mind
8. John Talabot – ƒin
9. Tomas Barfod – Salton Sea
10. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
EPs
1. Disclosure – The Face
2. TNGHT – s/t
3. LOL Boys – Changes
4. AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It
5. Girl Unit – Club Rez
Honorable Mentions: The 10 to the 110 to the 101 to the Alvarado exit over to Sunset, past Fountain.
Gloria Lee
1. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
2. Late Nights with Jeremih
3. The xx – Coexist
4. Four Tet – Pink
5. Tanlines – Mixed Emotions
6. John Talabot – Fin
7. Chromatics – Kill For Love
8. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
9. The Walkmen – Heaven
10. Holy Other – Held
Anton Hochheim
LPs
1. Kala OK – Reminiscence of a Bodily Blues
2. Mac DeMarco – 2
3. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
4. JJ DOOM – Key To The Kuffs
5. Kindness – World You Need A Change of Mind
6. Tame Impala – Lonerism
7. THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE
8. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
9. The Congos/Sun Araw/ M Geddes Gengras – Icon Give Thank
10. Dimlite – Abscission
Reissues
1. Cleaners From Venus – Reissues
2. Ilaiyaraaja – Fire Star
3. Sensations Fix – Music Is Painting In The Air
4. Personal Space – Electronic Soul 1974-1984
5. Can – The Lost Tapes