Favourite albums of 2012

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2012 is now over, but what are everyone's musical highlights and favourites? I'll go first.

1. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
2. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
3. Enslaved - RIITIIR
4. Baroness - Yellow and Green
5. High On Fire - De Vermiis Mysteriis
6. Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned
7. Napalm Death - Utilitarian
8. Overkill - The Electric Age
9. Meshuggah - Koloss
10. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
11. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
12. Prong - Carved into Stone
13. Ministry - Relapse
14. Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
15. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
16. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
17. My Dying Bride - A Map to all our Failures
18. Wintersun - Time I
19. Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
20. Lamb of God - Resolution

Liars - WIXIW

That should have been on your list!

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity

I don't think I listened to any album from 2012. Hold on....

Wangan Midnight Max Tune 4 OST.

My highlights of 2012:

Grimes - Visions
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
The Weeknd - Trilogy
Purity Ring - Shrines
The Black Keys - El Camino
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Flume - Flume
Crystal Castles - III
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is An Animal
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Missy Higgins - The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
The xx - Coexist
Chairlift - Something
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Niki & The Dove - Instinct
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Mumford and Sons - Babel
Beach House - Bloom
Last Dinosaurs - In A Million Years
Alpine - A is for Alpine
Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
Lisa Mitchell - Bless this Mess
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Cat Power - Sun
Passion Pit - Gossamer
John Talabot - fin

Also, some highlights of the year that were EP releases:

Azealia Banks - 1991
TNGHT - TNGHT
Sky Ferreira - Ghost
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
Icona Pop - Iconic

Mine's Isles of Wonder (Music for the Opening Ceremony of London 2012 Olympic Games) and A Symphony of British Music (Music for the Closing Ceremony of London 2012 Olympic Games.

I don't really listen to any radio. Most of the music I consume is through Spotify and Last.fm recommendations, the We Are Hunted Top 100 Emerging Chart, Hype Machine (music blog aggregator), and through live support acts.

Right, though kexp does play a lot of those albums.

My list

Top 2

1. Of Monsters And Men-My Head Is An Animal
2. Passion Pit-Gossamer


The Rest

Niki And The Dove-Instinct
Japandroids-Celebration Rock
Metric-Synthetica
Fresh Espresso-Bossalona
P.G. Lost-Key
Bob Mould-Silver Age
Shovels And Rope-O' Be Joyful
King Tuff-King Tuff
Alt-J-An Awesome Wave

KREATOR – Phantom Antichrist
DEFTONES – Koi No Yokan
WOODS OF YPRES – Woods V: Grey Skies And Electric Light
WODENSTHRONE – Curse
REVENGE – Scum. Collapse. Eradication
FAUSTCOVEN – Hellfire And Funeral Bells
NAPALM DEATH - Utilitarian
ASPHYX – Deathhammer
BLACK BREATH – Sentenced To Life
INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance

Here are my top albums of 2012.

Pitbull- Global Warming
Daddy Yankee- Prestige
Thalia- Habitame Siempre
Khaled- C'est La Vie
Carlos Santana- Shape Shifter
Selena- Enamorada De Ti
Nelly Furtado- Spirit Indestructible
Paulina Rubio- Brava! Reload
Jennifer Lopez-Dance Again.... The Hits

My absolute favorite of 2012 is Of Monsters And Men - My Head Is An Animal hands down but here are some others:
Passion Pit - Gossamer
Electric Guest - Mondo
Walk The Moon - Walk The Moon
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
Miike Snow - Happy To You
First Aid kit - The Lion's Roar
The Vaccines - The Vaccines Come of Age
Grizzly Bear - Shields
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
The XX - Coexist
Metric - Synthetica
Alt J - An Awesome Wave

alt-J- An Awesome Wave
Frank Ocean- channel ORANGE
Django Django- Django Django
The xx- Coexist
Fun.- Some Nights
Zulu Winter- Language
Jack White- Blunderbuss
Junip- Fields

What came out in 2012 again?

E.S.C.A.P.E - Tarby