Boards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY

Always feel completely uplifted when I hear this.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwwnNlOZmRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbCaINe-No

probably.

... so Continuous Thunder by Japandroids.

(Can't Youtube at work).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CPqgKyKIs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLeVs7FdAiA

That was really fucking hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXrMXnsHKeY

(I know the demo version went online two years ago but it still counts)

I thought that was the weakest thing on there. Can't stand the vocals. Coy carp that was on the bonus disc would be my pick.

http://soundcloud.com/wiaiwya/david-tattersall-the-sunshine

It's not on YouTube but here's the SoundCloud link. This track blew me away when I first heard it on Riley, still my favourite of the year though thumbs up for Godspeed & Japandroids too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxUEzOvU-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIitQNXVgb8

Teeters on the brink of falling apart and being over-blown, but just holds it together to be my favourite track of 2012.

But you can copy the link from a google search, like this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AztLPSGcow

(hope this works)

I thought it was far and away the best thing on the album to the point where the rest suffered as a result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiC9XNQSxFQ

The best thing they've ever done (off probably their best album to date too). Utterly hypnotic, it builds and builds and then drops away so beautifully and so cleanly at the five minute mark. I've listened to this song so much more than any others this year, it's embarrassing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyOdS9N-WXk
(I've including an audio link rather than the headache-inducing spinning video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8NT-6sCd3o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlHa6-ORPcw

relentlessly dystopian and chilling synth-heavy grime for the apocolypse

geographer - blinders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk1JywThdxI

So here are FIVE with no links:

Gauze - Deftones
Good Kid - Kendrick Lamar
Halfgate - Grizzly Bear
Evil's Sway - Japandroids

And I can't think of a 5th one to put so I'm a liar as well as a cunt.

No Sentiment - Cloud Nothings (if that was this year)

is one of my favourites by them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NA48f66kk

youtube is blocked at work though
imagine in your heads a really cracking song with an ace video though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukVgY8I_nA

Nedry - Violaceae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apbZ1_L5hc

Cormac - Narcosa (Jennifer Cardini's Vision Of Us Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnjHM7DPBLU

Ms Mr – Hurricane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brJozYDT0Ts

Holly Herndon - Fade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmJKaPT5U8

Om Unit - Dark Sunrise (feat. Tamara Blessa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiFGxAOtGNw

Two Inch Punch - Paint It Red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXU5D9RnZh8

Lower Dens - Brains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzjF8IjE8

TNGHT - Higher Ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HzyUHxmkg0

Max Cooper - Autumn Haze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fcHuMkQG0

Retro Stefson - Glow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOASDHQ1-sg

Cold Showers - BC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu26V4mUuVY

Fau & Deam - Long Trip Around You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0hKO9KM5ng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOpkr8uNWpk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbd4h1kaFlY

And to make it a top 5:

Kendrick Lamar - The Art Of Peer Pressure
Mac Demarco - Baby's Wearin' Blue Jeans
Echo Lake - Even The Blind
Guided By Voices - Waves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqw4wo8vdY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggR6RuBh8I0

http://youtu.be/555XMqqDYtU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMh5oT1OaBs

Incredibly beautiful song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzQs550NLcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2AGpJFpwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ih7KzKLLWA

not listened to the album in months!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigtCrO77L8

i.e. life-affirming and wonderous

I HOPE THAT CHUMBAWUMBA WILL UNDERSTAND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcOwVD4V30

Is the right answer. But not the video edit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxajLWwzqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vYV7DjeYk

personally I can't stand them but I can see the appeal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVC1LP5AuVk

but at least 4 fantastic tracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Ms0A6BGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlwiSPgcNiw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6-wlhviKw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx-KWrVP70

I'm going to need to take a look at my life's priorities when a Wave Pictures related release passes me by. Off to purchase it now.

David Tattersall really is a relentlessly productive individual with a remarkably high quality control. I heard about a Jason Molina covers album in the pipeline which would be excellent (as was the Springsteen covers album released a couple of years ago).

Now Jimmy Saville has been demoted in the public's affections creating a vacancy in the national treasure department, there is definitely a case for promoting David. THE CAMPAIGN STARTS HERE. Who's with me?

And if you disagree I am a giant bat and your opinion a cave into which I will shit golden effigies of your face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEd0BbunCQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeFmaHHneGo

'DAT BEAT

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuG9i5cwGW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1lfsSaOqw

all of the frank ocean album
beauty and a beat
to the WO-OR-OR-OR-OR-OR-OR-ORO-O-O-OO-O-O-ORLD

need to listen to it again. immaculada was great and i quite like leave home.

http://youtu.be/qJ_PMvjmC6M

it's great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZptOs8Gu9k

(also best video)

BUT I adore this Four Tet track, 'Lion':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdTNcc0NZ-g

Frozen is mighty fine too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oHAFqmmrik

Makes me feel like a king when the spaghetti western bit kicks in.

By some distance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqdgp0WNsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm636VSQXUU

played so so so so so so so may times and can't get sick of it

Just pips 5 seconds for me. http://vimeo.com/45115458

Shadow is a far superior song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzxATVcs31I&feature=share&list=ALYL4kY05133r-Kqe_gNehgdzcAi2H6TFv

Certainly the bed-wetting anthem of the year. I'd love to say Books by Tall Ships but the original version was released two years ago so not technically a 2012 tip. So anyway yeah COP A LOAD OF THIS INSTEAD (Dan Deacon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADHZcdc0Ik

more memorable female vocals and a beat higher in the mix

possibly my album of the year though

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzjF8IjE8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VesyhH8zams

Loner is excellent and the last minuite of Kindred is stunning. Ashtry Wasp just has everything though.

Ashtray wasp 98/100
Loner 97/100
Kindred 92/100

http://vimeo.com/46435159

but I find Paradise lovelier

http://soundcloud.com/jaipaul/jai-paul-jasmine

That album is solid gold from start to finish

Pub rock has glorious existential meltdown; England circa 2012 is thrown forcibly to and at the canvas

http://m.soundcloud.com/#/theprenew/ccc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkjFHk_9ms

finally mentioning the Pre-New at some point on these boards!

although I'd probably go with Night on Leather Mountain or Pre-New Anthem

http://soundcloud.com/smalltownsupersound/neneh-cherry-the-thing-dream/s-TtYIX

Also features my favourite comment of the year at 5'23".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnjXwqB3mG8

Best beat of the year hands down. Really uplifting hometown anthem. Great chorus hook. The DaVinci verse is a thing of beauty.

Hip hop should make you smile ear to ear. This whole track does that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29I0srhPwg

closely followed by
Angel Haze - Werkin Girls
Animal Collective - Applesauce
Rhye - Open

I still get all tingly when listening to it and live it's something else.

it does seem like a revamped Enya. Enya 2.0

great song, great album, great band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV7PmyLaBhs

Probably their best song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aplrUI-NkYA

but about 5 of the 8 songs on post-nothing are better than it

genuinely terrible.

Second half is the best piece of music i've heard from this year, yeah.

i quite like numb, but i still feel it by Title Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIbndxFYsSU

Haukivesi Spirit by Ukonnen's pretty good too.

House That Heaven Built > Younger Us > Wine and Roses > Fire's Highway > Evil's Sway > Love of Ivy > Adrenaline Nightshift > Continuous Thunder

different album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJdqw-JzW08

My fav slap of 12 anyway. A two-note tuba stab and an escalating synth line is about all I need in life. The hook is a major earworm as well.

Seriously, that horn part that first comes in about 2 minutes 30 has to be the most amazing piece of music I've heard this year. The sound of it is incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLkDj9jfkSk

Generally I find this bands output a bit rubbish, but this is a great example of what makes a track of the year for me, a band whose output never grabs you, just getting it all totally right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aTOyFRwJ0

amazing album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0vYLlqwuuc

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4iX5D9Z64

http://soundcloud.com/kilowatts/09-kilowatts-the-world-in-a

Mindblowing piece of Electronic music.

The atmosphere, detail and ambition in this song floors me. plus it reminds me of the film Drive with the getaway narrative, it's gorgeous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFGJ7Yu4lM

you can end the thread now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFFocv8IaDg

probably listened to it about 20 times a day when i first heard it

perfect

I prefer Cold Nites

http://soundcloud.com/fluid-radio/mount-eerie-the-place-i-live

I could also name Through the Trees or Over Dark Water from that album

Still not sick of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znApO8xOszo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5spChEdr1q8

I like it.

Great album.

meant to play it for months! Doing it today.

Straight album track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyJfw3sqOPA

Superb remix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xamSpJCGfnI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3shBXlqsw

still pure <3

It's vinyl only (with an mp3 link) but I've been spellbound ever since I first heard that single.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrqogUE2XA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9YccKgmTE8

maybe tying with grimes

those verses get my adrenaline pumpin'

In your arms

is pretty special

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-K-wxjJebQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4rmGFdMkRI

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwrel&v=-ipN220W-04#

He was amazing live this year, an inspiration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPNkUZCsgOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMnTh4Xb8A

Mystikal on his James Brown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnYiW5dnhQ

that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lneHT10-CY

beach house suckaaaaas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJIbNepRCS8

and what Dro did to the beat was lol too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APQRafRDh2Q

music's ultimate talentless poseur.
OO I'VE DONE DRUGS ME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaMDljanpyM
Hated it with vocals at first but it's really grown on me.

Tall Ships - T=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JYt3eYDQY0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNpW6u-_nng

I want to drown in this, in the whole record - so sorely overlooked. it is music to immerse yourself in during an hour or so of biblical rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Facftbyf9Vw

http://youtu.be/GFr3g8Nr7qs

there'll be a few of these.

http://youtu.be/nq9Ev_oA9kI

He's put out a lot of REALLY good stuff this year, but this is my favourite.

His first EP, brilliant release, absolutely brilliant, but this is my favourite from that.

http://youtu.be/mMX3Inb85yA

http://youtu.be/GglYtHJhBhY

NOT the best thing to have in a playlist of gentle nu-disco and ting when you're brutally hungover, but otherwise exemplary noisey bidness.

http://youtu.be/r9uuHXujk0Q

these two, pariah, blawan, randomer, truss, nautiluss, gingy & bordello, locked groove and audionite (amongst others) have put out fantastically askew and often rough tech sounds this year, but i'm off out and none of you really want me to bang up another 15+ links.

from Turbo Record's really rather good 'New Jack Techno' compilation

http://youtu.be/r3S12vgoV4k

Honest guv, this is the last one.