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Best Records of 2012

Posted on July 4, 2014

  1. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (Columbia)
  2. Jack White – Blunderbuss (Third Man)
  3. Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)
  4. Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Mute)
  5. Quantic & Alice Russell – Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts)
  6. Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth (Sunpower)
  7. The Coup – Sorry to Bother You (Anti-)
  8. Social Studies – Developer (Antenna Farm)
  9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat and Bone (Mom and Pop)
  10. Kelly Hogan – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (Anti-)
  11. Magic Bullets – Much Ado About (Mon Amie)
  12. John K. Samson – Provincial (ADA?Epitaph)
  13. Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
  14. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
  15. The New Kinetics – Contact (Aural Gravy)

Best Reissues of 2012

  1. Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch)
  2. Woody Guthrie – Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
  3. The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (Capitol)
  4. Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute)
  5. The Avengers – S/T (Water)

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