Some of our favourite Long Playing Records of 2012

SEA PINKS 'Freak Waves' CF Records

THE BABIES 'Our House On The Hill' Woodsist

DUNES 'noctiluca' Post Present Medium

DEEP TIME '   ' Hardly Art

SIMON JOYNER 'Ghosts' Sing, Eunuchs!

U.S. GIRLS 'Gem' Fat Cat

 

VARIOUS ARTISTS 'SOME SONGS Side-by-Side' LP box Set 

 

HOUSEHOLD 'Items' Dull Knife

GROUP RHODA 'Out of Time Out of Touch' Night School

 

IRMA VEP 'HA HA' Turquoise Coal

PARQUET COURTS 'Light Up Gold' Dull Tools

GRASS WIDOW 'Internal Logic' HLR records

THE PHEROMOANS 'Does This Guy Stack Up?' Upset The Rhythm

 

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITTI 'Mature Themes' 4AD

INIGO UGARTEBURU 'Back & Forth' Talo recordings

JULIA HOLTER 'Ekstasis' RVNG

LEONARD COHEN 'Old Ideas' Columbia

CHAIN & THE GANG 'In Cool Blood' K

WHITE FENCE 'Family Perfume Volume 1' Woodsist

                                                     

THEE OH SEES 'Putrifiers II' In The Red

MOUNT EERIE 'Clear Moon' P.W. Elverum & Sun

SIC ALPS '   ' Drag City

Here is the 2009th year of our lord in list form

Laetitia's List (in no particular order):

• Silk Flowers gig at the corner
• Secret Life Of Us seasons 2-4
• Lucy's Caramel and Macadamia Cheesecake
• Frederik the Cat
• Nisennenmondai at Islington Mill
• Chain & the Gang record
• Richard Serra sculptures 
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti at the Deaf Institute
• Former Bullies at Islington Mill 
• The Sopranos box set
• Times New Viking record
• Good Grief shop!
• Irma Vep
• Perry's Tomato Gravy
•  the film 'Mutual Appreciation' 
• Waiters at the Corner
• Single Ladies by Beyonce
• Beyonce Live in Los Angeles
• Decades by Joy Division
• Ceylon Tea
• Mad Men series 2
• The Films of the Maysles Brothers
• Sonia Delaunay Paintings
• White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
• Pintxos- Ham on bread- Basque-style
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
• Raymond Pettibon Book

Perry's Lists:

LIVE things

• Young At Heart Chorus at RNCM
• Marina Abramovich Presents... At Whitworth Art Gallery
• Nisennenmondai at Islington Mill
• Silk Flowers at the Corner
• Mika Miko(R.I.P) at Manchester Academy
• Times New Viking and Haunted Graffiti at Urbis

Books (not necessarily new, but studied and loved)

• Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty (buenaventura press)
• Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford (Knopf) Thanks to Matthias  for the recommendation
• Running Dog, Players, End Zone by Don DeLillo (Knopf)
• 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme
• The Stories of John Cheever (the big red book)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
•  In The Sweet Bye & Bye by Margaret Kilgallen (red cat)

12"s and 7"s -  not in order

• Christmas Island - '19' (captured tracks)
  
• Dum Dum Girls - 'Dum Dum Girls' (captured tracks)
  
• Magic Kids - 'Hey Boy' (goner)
  
• YellowFever - 'Culver City' (hugpatch)
  
• Oh Sees/ Ty Segall - 'Maria Stacks/ the Drag' (castleface)
  
• Girls At Dawn - S/T (horizontal action)
  
• The Beets -'Don't Fit In My Head' (captured tracks)
  

LP's -  not in order

• Simon Joyner - 'Out Into The Snow' (team love)
  
• Chain & the Gang - 'Down With Liberty...Up With Chains' (K)
  
• Ty Segall - 'Lemons' (goner)
  
• Oh Sees - 'Dog Poison' (captured tracks)
  
• Mika Miko- 'We Be Xuxa' (post present medium)
  
• Finally Punk - 'Casual Goths' (germs of youth)
  
• Nisennenmondai - 'Fan' (bijin)
  
• Sic Alps - 'A Long Way Around To A Shortcut' (drag city re-ish)
  
• Cass Mccombs - 'Catacombs' (domino)
  
• Silk Flowers -'As Above So Below' (captured tracks)
• Anni Rossi - 'Rockwell' (4AD)
  
• Times New Viking - 'Born Again Revisited' (matador)
  
• The Fresh & Onlys - 'The Fresh & Onlys' (castleface)
  
• Box Elders - 'Alice & Friends' (goner)
  
• Neil Burrell - 'You Have Reached... Outer Space' (self-released, re-ish pending)
  
• Former Bullies - 'Greetings' (comfortable on a tightrope)
  
• Irma Vep - 'Dylans Birthday Present' volumes 1 and 2 (volume 1 on comfortable on a tightrope, volume 2 available as free download)
• Mount Eerie - 'Wind's Poem' (PW Elverum and Sun /Tomlab)

Films (not necessarily new)

• Antichrist by Lars von Trier
  
• White Ribbon and Funny Games (USA) by Michael Haneke
  
• I for India
  
• Billy The Kid
  
• Sisters In Law
  
• Beautiful Losers
  
• Paradise Lost
  

2009 you were too kind, 2010 pleased to meet you.Treat us nice.