Top 50 Albums of the Year 2012

Over the last 12 months, I have acquired 430 CDs....

Here are 50 of my favourites...

Rock & Pop

Disc of the Year

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air (2CD)

New Releases

Bidiniband - In the Rock Hall

Fehlfarben - Xenophonie
Paul Buchanan - Mid Air (2CD)

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Neal Morse - Momentum

The Killers - Battle Born

Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made

Muse - The 2nd Law

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend, Ascend!

Brian Eno - Lux

Recent Releases

And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs

Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (2CD)

Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto

Explosions in the Sky - Take Care Take Care Take Care

Reissues

Isaac Hayes - Black Moses (2CD)

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place

Family 5 - Wege zum Ruhm

Matthew Florianz - The Tone T(h)ree

Compilations

Edgar Froese - Solo 1974-1983 The Virgin Years (4CD)

Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head (4CD)

Cockney Rebel - Cavaliers : An Anthology 1973-1974 (4CD)

Live

Udo Lindenberg - Live aus dem Hotel Atlantic (2CD)

King Crimson - ProjeKct One Jazz Café London December 1-4 1997 (8CD)

Gentle Giant - Live in Stockholm '75

Collection

Various - Trojan Presents Dub (2CD)

Jazz

Disc of the Year

The Bad Plus - Made Possible

Contemporary Jazz

Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet

Terje Rypdal - Vossabrygg

The Bad Plus - Made Possible

John McLaughlin - Now Here This

Classic Jazz

Duke Ellington - Money Jungle

Oscar Peterson - Walking the Line

Gene Ammons - Jammin' in Hifi

Compilations

Soft Machine - Tales of Taliesin (2CD)

Miles Davis - Complete Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68 (6CD)

Miles Davis - Complete Columbia Recordings with John Coltrane (6CD) 

Live

Eric Dolphy - At the Five Spot Vol 1

John Coltrane - My Favourite Things Coltrane at Newport

Miles Davis - In Person at the Black Hawk Friday & Saturday (2CD)

Collection

Sharp Shades and Fingersnaps (2CD)

Classical

Disc of the Year

Cage - Complete Piano Music Vols 1-10 (18CD)

Single Composers

Gould - String Quartet, Op. 1

Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated

Cage - Complete Piano Music Vols 1-10 (18CD)

Single Artists*

LaSalle Quartet - Schoenberg - Berg - Webern String Quartets

Glenn Gould - Hindemith Piano Sonatas

Glenn Gould - A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons

Various Composers*

Four American Quartets - Glass/Herrmann/Antheil/Evans

Musik am Preussischen Hofe - CPE Bach/Friedrich II/ Eichner

Concertos for Four Violins - Torelli/Mossi/Valentini/Locatelli/Leo

*I realise I need to sort this out - the discs in the "Various Composers" category are each by a single artist, meaning they really ought to be in the "Single Artist" catagory - filing classical CDs is always difficult - any suggestions gratefully received...

Overall Disc of the Year

The Bad Plus - Made Possible

And of course an honourable mention goes to...

...after all, it would be unfair to vote for myself...

Also, out in 2013 at some point...

Happy New Year!