2012 Top 10 List

Top 30 albums of 2012 (in no particular order)

Jason Lescalleet – Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile)
Goat – World Music (Rocket)
Raime – Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
Vatican Shadow – Jordanian Descent (Hospital Productions)
Bersarin Quartett – II (Denovali)
The Touré-Raichel Collective – The Tel Aviv Session (Cumbancha)
Carter Tutti Void – Transverse (Mute)
Philippe Petit & Friends – Cordophony (Home Normal) / Philippe Petit – Una Symphonia Della Paura (Utech)
Eli Keszler – Catching Net (Pan)
Merchandise – Children of Desire (Katorga Works)
Sic Alps – s/t (Drag City)
Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – s/t (Honest Jon’s)
Chris Corsano – Cut (Hot Cars Warp Records)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Blood Lust (Rise Above)
Troum – Grote Mandreke (Beta-Lactam Ring)
Ricardo Villalobos – Dependent and Happy (Perlon)
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
Locrian & Mammifer – Bless Them That Curse You (Profound Lore)
Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular)
Menahan Street Band – The Crossing (Dunham/Daptone)
Alexander Tucker – Third Mouth (Thrill Jockey)
Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One (Touch)
Fabio Orsi – The New Year Is Over (Silentes Minimal Editions)
Strategy – s/t (Peak Oil)
Big Blood – Old Time Primitives (Don’t Trust The Ruin)
La Zikabilo – Todos A La Mesa (no label)
Pelt – Effigy (MIE Music)
Four Tet – Pink (Text Records)
Fushitsusha – Hikari To Nazukeyo / Mabushii Itazura Na Inori (Heartfast)
Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996 (Pan)

Top Compilations & Reissues

Philadelphia International Classics: The Tom Moulton Remixes (Harmless)
Future Sounds of Buenos Aires (ZZK)
Can – The Lost Tapes (Spoon)
Günter Schickert – Überfällig (Bureau B)
Total – Hard & Low (Turgid Animal)
Shangaan Shake (Honest Jon’s)
Egisto Macchi – I Futuribili (The Omni Recording Corp.)
Codeine – When I See The Sun (Numero Group)
Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 (Chocolate Industries)
Ahmed Abdul Malik/Chick Ganimian – Oud Vibrations (Fingertips)
Pulse Emitter/Date Palms/Expo 70/Faceplant – 4 Way Split (Immune)