Sunday 23 December 2012

Fagburn Awards 2012: Albums Of The Year

1. Go-Kart Mozart - On The Hot Dog Streets.
2. Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar.
3. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball.
4. Tracey Thorn - Tinsel And Lights.
5. Hunx - Hairdresser Blues.
6. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas.
7. David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant.
8. Country Soul Sisters: Women In Country Music 1952-1978 - Various Artists. 
9. The Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom Of The Sea.
10. Brian Eno - Lux.

Special award for the most over-rated album and most patronised artist: Frank "So Brave" Ocean - Channel Orange.

PS Thought I'd follow everyone else's lead and make up for the lack of news and stuff by padding things out with some pointless lists.
Enjoy!


6 comments:

  1. mine own.

    1 frank ocean - channel orange
    2 fiona apple - the idler wheel...
    3 death grips - money shop
    4 kendrick lamar - good kid, maad city
    5 killer mike - r.a.p music
    6 miguel - kaleidoscope dreams
    7 crystal fighters - star of love remixes
    8 mouse on mars - Parastrophics
    9 flying lotus - until the quiet comes
    10 captain murphy - duality

    yeah, there's reasons why names keep popping up on lists, and it's not just to make your contrarian, fangirl biased narrow niche-ass all butt-hurt. although that's fun, too.
    x

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  2. Didn't like the Justin Bieber albumen, Fagburn?
    That Dexys one was the only album that I really loved this year.

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    1. I haven't actually heard it.
      Much of the charm of his first album, like early Michael Jackson, was the unbroken voice...

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  3. Influenced by: Suicide / Kraftwerk / Aphex / Autechre / Orbital / The Fall / JAMC /

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  4. You know who you like it with best!

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