2012

As December bleeds into January and we all prepare for the annual inebriated trek to our own personal Two Street in commemoration of a New Year and its promised disappointments and regrets, we (me) at PtMiiC feel it's important to look back on the one about to be left behind. Like yourself, I have scanned over enough self important takes compiled mid-November by some spineless, faceless bottom feeder, breathlessly extolling the virtues of culturally neutered R 'n' B-infused Pop tailor made for the stupidest kind of overeducated White person, or whatever crap he feels the need to tell people he liked to make himself feel in touch, with maybe a nod to Merchandise as the "underground" pick to play on his iPod while "on the train", that the thought of putting up "a list" of my own seems even more ridiculous than usual. And yet here I am, doing just that. 'Cos these things are kind of fun to think about in a perverse way. And for all the complaining I and everyone else do about new music, there was actually plenty of good stuff that came out this year. I've but grazed the rotund labia protecting the scabbard of Music in 2012 with my undulating member, and I'm still far from digesting that which has come my way, but here's a couple that really stuck to the ribs thus far:

LPs:
Astor Alcor (Kye)
Cheater Slicks Reality is a Grape (CDR)
FNU Ronnies Saddle Up (Load)
Jason Lescalleet Songs about Nothing (Erstwhile)
Mad Nanna I Made Blood Better (NGL)
Modra The Line for the Men's Room (Savage Quality)
Richard Papiercuts A Sudden Shift (Pena)
Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda Crosshatches (Erstwhile)
Scott Walker Bish Bosch (4AD)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)

EPs:
Acolytes "Known Nonsense" (Savoury Days)
Call Back the Giants "Incidents of Travel" (White Denim)
Folded Shirt "Tiny Boat" b/w "Mouth Clock" (Fashionable Idiots)
Hoax 2nd E.P. (YA!)-Thought the Pain Killer one was kinda disappointing TBH
Home Blitz "Frozen Tracks" (Mexican Summer)
Lloyd Pack "Know Your Lloyd Pack" (Siltbreeze)
Meat Thump "Box of Wine" b/w "Feel Good" (NGL)-RIP Brendon. This single makes Laughner solo sound like the joke it wuz.
Mordecai "Drag Down" b/w "Waste" (Wantage USA)
Pink Reason "Ache For You" b/w "Darken Daze" (Savage Quality)
Satanic Rockers "Eviction" b/w "Rat vs. Boredom" (Quemada)

Promising demos:
The Floor Above had two pretty good ones. And even though I'm very biased, seriously, Slave Master. Anyway I'm not 17 years old, I don't buy demos.

Reissues/Archival (Too many to count, plus who cares? Anyway, five that readily spring to mind):
Elaine Radigue Feedback Works (Alga Marghen)
Shadow Ring Remains Unchanged (Kye)
XWave Cities on Flame (Little Big Chief)-does this count? new track on B-side but rest was '08. My answer is Yes!
Wicked Lady "both collections" (Gueressen)
COLOURED  FUCKIN' BALLZZZ Ball Fukkkin Power (Zing Zing)

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