De 171 interessantste platen van 2012 volgens ons.
A Place To Bury Strangers | worship | |
Alabama Shakes | boys & girls | funky soul groove |
Allah-Las | s/t | laid-back sixties folky garage |
Apache Dropout | bubblegum graveyard | |
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti | mature themes | |
Arno | future vintage | |
Audacity | mellow cruisers | kruising Cloud Nothings/Weezer/Nirvana |
Babies | our house on the hill | Upbeat catchy pop, beetje Go-Betweens stijl |
Baby Woodrose | third eye surgery | Monster Magnet met een poptik |
Bad Lovers | actin’ strange | |
Balthazar | rats | |
Barbaras | s/t | lekker speelse garage op Goner met noisy tik |
Baroness | yellow & green | heavy southern (post)rock |
Beach House | bloom | |
Beachwood Sparks | tarnished gold | neo countryfolk in stijl vd Byrds |
Believo! | hard to find | |
Best Coast | the only place | |
Blaudzun | heavy flowers | |
Blue Flamingo | a search for cms | |
Bones | monkeys with guns | rockabillypunkrock a la Social Distortion |
Bovell, Dennis | mek it run | dub topper |
Boy | mutual friends | |
Branan, Cory | mutt | |
Buck, Peter | s/t | REM man |
Bugg, Jake | s/t | jongeman met tik van Dylan en Arctic Monkeys |
Byrne, David/ St Vincent | love this giant | |
Cale, John | shifty adventures in nookie wood | |
Calexico | algiers | |
Carach Angren | where the corpses sink | black metal uit Limburg |
Cat Power | sun | |
Cheap Freaks | bury them all | |
Cheap Time | wallpaper music | |
Chesnutt, Cody | landingon a hundred | alsof Marvin Gaye en Stevie Wonder samenwerken |
Cloud Nothings | attack on memory | feloe indierock met 90’s Nirvana / Pixies tik |
Dead Can Dance | anastasis | |
Deep Time | s/t | |
Die Jungen | at breath’s end | totale Phil Spector vibe |
Dignan Porch | nothing bad will ever happen | heerlijke indie pop liedjes |
DIIV | oshin | zweef pop met mooie melodietjes |
Dinosaur jr | I bet on sky | goeie liedjes |
Django Django | s/t | |
Dr John | locked down | Black Key Auerbach blaast Dr nieuw leven in |
Dum Dum Girls | end of daze | goeie girlgroup sound |
Dylan, Bob | tempest | zijn beste in jaren volgens velen |
Earle, Justin Townes | nothing’s gonna change | moderne southern countrysoul |
Estrogen Highs | irrelevant future | beetje Wire stijl plaat op Trouble in Mind |
Etten, Sharon van | tramps | |
Experimental Tropic Blues Band | liquid love | Belgen die a/d hand van Jon Spencer tekeer gaan |
Fay, Bill | life is people | herontdekte seventies zanger |
Fields, Lee | faithful man | mid seventies stijl soul |
Foxygen | take the kids off broadway | |
Fresh & Onlys | long slow dance | |
Genital Hospital | eyes full of terror | rammelende garagepunk met country tik |
Gentleman Jesse | leaving atlanta | ultieme popliedjes tussen garage en Costello |
Gibbs, Otis | harder than hammered hell | goeie Americana |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor | allelujah! Don’t bend! Ascend! | majestueus epos |
Golden Earring | tits ‘n ass | |
Golightly, Holly | Sunday run me over | |
Graveyard | lights out | heavy retro 70’s rock |
Guided by Voices | class clown spots a ufo | |
Heavy | the glorious dead | goeie stadion soul op zijn Engels |
Helio Sequence | negotiations | pop in Shins/Band of Horses hoek |
Hogan, Kelly | I like to keep myself in pain | soul |
Hollows | vulture | Blondie in moderne verpakking |
Hood, Patterson | heat lightning rumbles | Drive-By Truckers zanger |
Hooded Fang | tosta mista | geworteld in UK diy sound van mid seventies |
Howler! | america give up | beste Strokes plaat sinds de eerste Strokes |
Intelligence | everybody’s got it easy | |
Japandroids | celebration rock | |
John Coffey | bright companions | goeie Nederlandse hardcore |
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | meat + bones | terug naar hun rauwere beginperiode |
Jurado, Damien | maraqopa | |
Katatonia | dead end kings | melancholieke, donkere heavy rock |
Kelly, Scott | the songs of townes van zandt | Neurosis zanger met zijn andere kant |
Khatib, Hanni El | will the guns come out | |
Kik | springlevend | goeie nederbeat plaat |
King Tuff | s/t | |
Kiwanuka, Michael | home again | soft soul a la Curtis Mayfield |
La La Lies | pretty tales and promises | |
La Sera | sees the light | |
Lamps | under the water | rauwe garage op In The Red |
Lanegan, Mark | blues funeral | |
LaVette, Bettye | thankful ‘n thoughtful | oude soulster gaat rauw te keer |
Legs | aaaa the memphis legs | op Goner Records en met een Oblivian |
Liminanas | crystal annis | sexy Franse garagepop op zijn best |
Liquor Store | yeah buddy | |
Loscil | sketches from new brighton | kabbeldekabbel topper |
Lotus Plaza | spooky action at a distance | Deerhunter gitarist |
Lower Dens | nootropics | sfeervolle psychedelische indiepop |
Lytle, Jason | department of disappearance | Grandaddy zanger |
Mama Rosin | bye bye bayou | cajun stomp geproduceerd door Jon Spencer |
Marvelous Darlings | a single life | Fucked Up man bewijst POP songs te kunnen schrijven |
Mekuria, Getachew & the Ex | y anbessaw tezeta | |
Men | open your heart | |
Merritt, Tift | travelling alone | |
Metz | s/t | beukwerk a la oude Shellac/Big Black |
Midnite Snaxxx | s/t | beste lofi garagepop plaat van het jaar |
Miles, Wymond | under the pale moon | Fresh & Onlys man geeft Echo & B sound nieuw leven |
Mono | for my parents | instrumentale postrock |
Moon Duo | circles | |
Morlix, Gurf | blaze ffoley’s 113th dream | |
Moss | ornaments | |
Mould, Bob | silver age | |
Mrs Magician | strange heaven | zomerse garagepop topper |
Mumford and Sons | babel | |
Murry, John | graceless age | donkere singer songwriter plaat |
My Dying Bride | a map of all failures | |
Nice Face | horizon firesy anbessaw | |
Nude Beach | II | goeie seventies Top 40 pop toppers |
Oberhofer | time capsules II | |
Oberst, Conor | one of my kind | Bright Eyes man met zijn beste in jaren |
Ocean, Frank | channel orange | |
Om | advaitic songs | postmetal drone met oosterse invloeden |
Orwells | remember when | |
Outer Minds | s/t | goeie sixties garage met Black Lips tik |
Peaking Lights | lucifer | |
Plateaus | s/t | trashy garagepop topper met licht surf tikje |
Presley, Lisa Marie | storm & grace | mooie southernsoul geprod door T Bone Burnett |
Prophet, Chuck | temple beautiful | lekker rauwe rammelplaat |
Radar Eyes | s/t | |
Rangda | formerly extinct | heavy psychedelica met Six Organs of A man |
Rats on Rafts | moon is big | nederlandse postpunk / wave toppers |
Raveonettes | observator | |
Rayon Beach | this looks serious | spooky en synthy lp op HoZac |
Redd Kross | researching the blues | eighties powerpop mannen met goeie comeback |
Ringo Deathstarr | mauve | shoegaze |
Ritter, Josh | bringing in the darlings | Ritter grijpt mooi terug op fifties sound |
Rival Sons | head down | retro 70’s rock |
River City Tanlines | coast to coast | punkrock met Alicja (Lost Sounds) Trout |
Robinsons, Chris | magic door | Black Crowes man op zijn Allman Brothers |
Segall, Ty | twins | qua stijlen mooie doorsnee van zijn werk |
Segall, Ty & White Fence | hair | |
Shins | port of morrow | |
Sic Alps | s/t | mooie psychpop/indie garage |
Six organs of Admittance | ascent | veel mooie Neil Young-achtige gitaarsoli |
Slug Guts | playin in time with the deadbeat | Birthday Party revisited |
Soldaat, Anne | s/t | |
Sonny & the Sunsets | longtime companion | moderne countryplaat |
Spilt Milk | carnet de voyage | |
Spiritualized | sweet heart sweet light | groots klinkende “gospel rock” |
Springsteen, Bruce | wrecking ball | |
Stone, Angus | broken lights | singer songwriter met mooie Neil Y soli |
Summer Twins | s/t | lome zomerliedjes uit de garage |
Swans | the seer | magnum opus waarin hun hele carrière samenkomt |
Tallest Man on Earth | there’s no leaving now | |
Tamaryn | new signs | groots wappernde shoegaze |
Tame Impala | lonerism | neo hippie psychedelica topper |
Teenage Bottlerocket | freak out | 1-2-3-4! |
Terry Malts | killing time | perfecte popliedjes |
Tiger High | the myth is this | met ex-Reigning Sound lid |
Toy | s/t | shoegazery krautpop |
Trail of Dead | lost songs | hun beste in lange tijd |
two:forty-five (2:45) | s/t | |
Ty Segall Band | slaughterhouse | furieuze garagerock plaat |
Tyvek | on triple beams | |
Ufomammut | oro : opus alter/primum | |
Vaccines | come of age | |
View | cheeky for a reason | mooie melancholieke britpop |
Walkmen | heaven | |
Wallflowers | glad all over | tussen Elliot Murphy en The Clash |
Ward, M | a wasteland companion | goeie popliedjes in alle stijlen |
Waterhouse, Nick | time’s all gone | precies tussen rhtyhm & blues en soul |
White Fence | family perfume vol 2 | |
White Wires | WWIII | powerpop liedjes met hooks en refreintjes |
White, Jack | blunderbuss | |
Wild Nothing | nocturne | 80’s stijl , als Smiths/Cure/New Order |
Witchcraft | legend | heavy rock met 70’s tik |
Wo Fat | black code | heavy psychbluesmetal uit Texas |
Woods | bend beyond | Fleet Foxes-y folkpop met drone invloeden |
Woollen Kits | four girls | Australische garagepop met scherpe randen |
Woven Hand | laughing stalk | furieuzer en harder dan ooit tevoren |
Xray Eyeballs | splendor squalor | The Cure in garageverpakking |
XX | coexist | |
Young Guz & the Scuzz | a love too strong | stadion garagepop tussen GBV en Tom Petty |
Young, Neil | psychedelic pill | Neil soleert er sfeervol op los |
ZZ Top | la futura | Rick Rubin doet ze klinken als in hun beginperiode |