It’s time to change. Again. The always shapeshifting entity known as Bolachas – this sort of webzine (whatever that word really means) that was once also a download blog, a mp3 blog, a carefully curated platform for unknown artists to promote their music for free, a netlabel, a promoter, some sort of booking agency – turns 9 this year.
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1. Fiona Apple. The Idler Wheel…
2. David Byrne & St. Vincent. Love This Giant
3. Point Reyes. Golden
4. Sharon Van Etten. Tramp
5. Bill Fay. Life is People
6. Matt Elliott. The Broken Man
7. Swans. The Seer
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Psychedelic Pill
9. Hundred Waters. Hundred Waters
10. Spiritualized. Sweet Heart Sweet Light
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Check this out, a best of 2012 list that actually wasn’t posted until the year ended! A typical characteristic of a list like this – composed of the individual lists of some people whose music tastes I enjoy enough to ask them to contribute to the blog – is a certain conservatism (although there are some newcomers ranking pretty high, like Hundred Waters, Purity Ring, alt-J or Point Reyes) with some albums that manage to sneak into the top 10 despite not being the artists’ top moments (GY!BE, Spiritualized, Andrew Bird). Was 2012 that boring or are we the boring ones who only listen to boring music? Have your say in the comments section and post your own lists. Enough with the small talk…