{"id":1898,"date":"2013-01-01T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2013-01-01T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:26:04","slug":"1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/1898\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 – albums of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My thirty albums of the year, ordered by how much I’ve enjoyed them rather than attempts at spurious objectivity. A terrific top 21 & the best of the also-rans. Downloads of many featured artists in the post below. A tight fight for the top spot, Leonard’s first. Hopefully, Frank will have plenty more opportunities to compete for this coveted honour.<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0 Leonard Cohen – Old Ways<\/strong><\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0 Frank Ocean – Channel Orange<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0 The XX – Coexist<\/p>\n

4\u00a0\u00a0 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill<\/p>\n

5\u00a0\u00a0 Dirty Projectors – Swing Low Magellan<\/p>\n

6\u00a0\u00a0 Bob Dylan – Tempest<\/p>\n

7\u00a0\u00a0 Aimee Mann – Charmer<\/p>\n

8\u00a0\u00a0 Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe<\/p>\n

9 \u00a0\u00a0Simone Felice<\/p>\n

10= Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry<\/p>\n

10= Beth Orton – Sugaring Season<\/p>\n

11 Jack White – Blunderbuss<\/p>\n

12 Father John Misty – Fear Fun<\/p>\n

13 Mary Chapin Carpenter – Ashes and Roses<\/p>\n

14 Lana Del Rey – Born To Die<\/p>\n

15 Field Music – Plumb<\/p>\n

16 Calexico – Algiers<\/p>\n

17 The Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made The Radio<\/p>\n

18 Band of Horses – Mirage Rock<\/p>\n

19 Brian Eno – Lux<\/p>\n

20= Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls<\/p>\n

20= Saint Etienne – Words & Music<\/p>\n

22 Alt-J – An Awesome Wave<\/p>\n

23 Beach House – Bloom<\/p>\n

24 Cornershop – Urban Turban<\/p>\n

25 Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg<\/p>\n

26 Shawn Colvin – All Fall Down<\/p>\n

27 Ry Cooder – Election Special<\/p>\n

28 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Americana<\/p>\n

29 Dexys – One Day I’m Going To Soar<\/p>\n

30 Bonnie Raitt- Slipstream<\/p>\n

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  My thirty albums of the year, ordered by how much I’ve enjoyed them rather than attempts at spurious objectivity. A terrific top 21 & the best of the also-rans. Downloads of many featured artists in the post below. A tight fight for the top spot, Leonard’s first. Hopefully, Frank will have plenty more opportunities to compete for this coveted honour. 1\u00a0\u00a0 Leonard Cohen – Old Ways 2\u00a0\u00a0 Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 3\u00a0\u00a0 The XX – Coexist 4\u00a0\u00a0 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill 5\u00a0\u00a0 Dirty Projectors – Swing Low Magellan 6\u00a0\u00a0 Bob Dylan – Tempest 7\u00a0\u00a0 Aimee Mann – Charmer 8\u00a0\u00a0 Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe 9 \u00a0\u00a0Simone Felice 10= Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry 10= Beth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}