Edit 2/10/13: I'm pulling Cat Power's Sun from the top list, and replacing it with Δ (Alt-J)'s An Awesome Wave. Unfortunately I hadn't heard An Awesome Wave until after the new year, and after I had made this list. I've been listening to it so much, I had to go back and put it on the list. The decision on which album to pull was hard, but in the end I chose Cat Power's Sun because compared to the rest of their discography, I feel like it was lacking. Still a great album, I recommend it for people to check out.
As 2012 comes to an end, I've prepared my Best of list. The choices were made mostly by researching my last.fm account and seeing what I listened to most. For the albums released later in the year that wouldn't be represented fairly in this manner, I just went through the list of albums I got this year and kind of picked and chose through them. I've got a couple other little things besides the best of list also, so without further *yadda yadda yadda* here we go!
We'll start with the small things:
Best remix album of the year: Bonobo's Black Sands Remixed
This album featured a number of remixes of the track "Eyesdown" which was my favorite song on the Black Sands album, and there's a great remix by Machinedrum, here is the video for that!
Bonobo - "Eyesdown (Machinedrum Remix)"
And now we have a double whammy. Best recording of the year, and best video of the year! This is Gorillaz, Andre 3000 (of Outkast), and James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem). The actual song is 13 minutes, and can be listened to here. For the video they use a shortened version, kind of a shame if you ask me, would have been cool to have a new epic video, but this one is damn good anyway. Here it is!
Gorillaz ft. Andre 3000 and James Murphy - "Do Ya Thing"
And now I have for you, a track from what I'm calling the best remake album. Inverse Phase remade Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine in an 8-bit format, calling the album Pretty Eight Machine. Here's their version of the track "Head Like a Hole." You can listen to, and purchase the whole album here.
Inverse Phase - "Head Like I/O"
And now for the list! I give you the Best 50 albums of 2012!
*Δ (Alt-J) - An Awesome Wave*
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
Alpha - Eleventh Trip
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Avett Brothers, the - The Carpenter
Big Gigantic - Nocturnal
Black Vortex - Self Imposed Isolation
BT - If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I
BT - Morceau Subrosa
Calvin Harris - 18 Months
Caravan Palace - Panic
Cinematic Orchestra, the - The Cinematic Orchestra Presents In Motion 1
Com Truise - In Decay
Communist Daughter - Lions & Lambs
Dan Deacon - America
Deadmau5 - Album Title Goes Here
Die Antwoord - Ten$ion
Dirty Projectors, the - Swing Lo Magellan
Dntel - Aimlessness
Dr. Dog - Be the Void
Efterklang - Piramida
Feed Me - Feed Me's Escape from Electric Mountain
Geographer - Myth
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Ben! Ascend!
Grimes - Visions
Grizzly Bear - Sheilds
High Contrast - The Agony & The Ecstasy
Hot Chip - In Our Heads
Lazer Sword - Memory
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Lorn - Ask the Dust
Machindrum - SLXND
Magnetic Fields, the - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Metric - Synthetica
Muse - The 2nd Law
Nada Surf - The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
Parov Stelar - The Princess
Ramona Falls - Prophet
Ronald Jenkees - Days Away
Shigeto - Lineage
Shins, the - Port of Morrow
Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns
Squarepusher - Ufabulum
Tape Five - Swing Patrol
Vitalic - Rave Age
White Rainbow - ∞∞∞∞INFINITY•BEAT•TAPE∞∞∞∞∞
xx, the - Coexist
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Zombie Nation - RGB
