A Return to Vinyl
The biggest development in music for me, in 2012, wasn’t related to a specific release or artist. I’ve been increasingly troubled by the fact that artist’s aren’t getting adequate, proportional pay for streaming services like Rdio and Spotify, so I’ve started to make a conscious effort to pay for music. I’ve been circling the new releases bin at our very fine neighbourhood record store for weeks, purchasing a couple of used records here and there, but Kara opened the floodgates by buying me the PJ Harvey record for Christmas. I forgot how much fun vinyl is, how great it sounds, and how investing money in an object makes you give it more attention and consideration.
Favourite 2012 releases
- Andy Stott: Luxury Problems
- Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, m.a.a.d. City
- Actress: R.I.P.
- Grimes: Genesis
- Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes
- Dirty Projectors: Swing Low Magellan
- Grizzly Bear: Shields
- Wild Nothing: Nocturne
- Bloom: Beach House
- Purity Ring: Shrines
- Julia Holter: Ekstasis
- Blut Aus Nord: 777: Cosmosophy
- Burial: Kindred EP
- Chromatics: Kill For Love
- Tame Impala: Lonerism
High rotation in 2012
- The Roots: Undun
- Wolves in the Throne Room: Two Hunters and Celestial Lineage
- St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
- PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
- Yamantaka Sonic Titan: YT//ST
- Prurient: Bermuda Drain
- The Sight Below: Glider
- Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano; Carlo Maria Giulini: Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan: Verdi: La Traviata
- Shabazz Palaces: Black Up and Shabazz Palaces EP
- Mastodon: The Hunter
- Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo
- Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
- Mastodon: The Hunter
- Anna-Sophia Mutter; Herbert Von Karajan: Berlin Philhamonic Orchestra: Brahms: Violin Concerto
- Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Explorations
- Mobb Deep: The Infamous
- Andy Stott: Passed Me By and We Stay Together
- Actress: Splazsh