EOY 2012: Rockdelux (Spain)

[Honorio]

Published in RDL 313 (December 2012)



The best international albums of 2012 for the Rockdelux staff were:
1. SWANS “The Seer”
2. FRANK OCEAN “Channel Orange”
3. SCOTT WALKER “Bisch Bosch”
4. KENDRICK LAMAR “good kid, m.A.A.d. City”
5. BEACH HOUSE “Bloom”
6. GRIMES “Visions”
7. CHROMATICS “Kill for Love”
8. THE xx “Coexist”
9. LAUREL HALO “Quarantine”
10. DEATH GRIPS “The Money Store”
11. DOMINIQUE A “Vers les lueurs”
12. KILLER MIKE “R.A.P. Music”
13. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE “Centipede Hz”
14. FLYING LOTUS “Until the Quiet Comes”
15. BOB DYLAN “Tempest”
16. CLOUD NOTHINGS “Attack on Memory”
17. LAMBCHOP “Mr. M”
18. SHACKLETON “Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs”
19. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI “Mature Themes”
20. DAN DEACON “America”
21. FIONA APPLE “The Iddler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do”
22. BILL FAY “Life Is People”
23. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR “Allellujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!”
24. LEONARD COHEN “Old Ideas”
25. SHARON VAN ETTEN “Tramp”
26. DR. JOHN “Locked Down”
27. JULIA HOLTER “Ekstasis”
28. ACTRESS “R.I.P.”
29. SQUAREPUSHER “Ufabulum”
30. GRIZZLY BEAR “Shields”
31. NENEH CHERRY & THE THING “The Cherry Thing”
32. MALA “Mala in Cuba”
33. DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT “Love This Giant”
34. ANDY STOTT “Luxury Problems”
35. TAME IMPALA “Lonerism”
36. RAIME “Quarter Turns Over a Living Time”
37. PERFUME GENIUS “Put Your Back N 2 It”
38. DJANGO DJANGO “Django Django”
39. SPIRITUALIZED “Sweet Heart, Sweet Light”
40. BOBBY WOMACK “The Bravest Man in the Universe”
41. EL-P “Cancer for Cure”
42. GO-KART MOZART “On the Hot Dog Streets”
43. JAPANDROIDS “Celebration Rock”
44. ALT-J “An Awesome Wave”
45. DIRTY PROJECTORS “Swing Lo Magellan”
46. PURITY RING “Shrines”
47. STAFF BENDA BILILI “Bouger le monde!”
48. CRYSTAL CASTLES “(III)”
49. MIGUEL “Kaleidoscope Dream”
50. NEUROSIS “Honor Found in Decay”



Best international songs of 2012:
1. FRANK OCEAN “Pyramids”
2. CHROMATICS “Lady”
3. GRIMES “Oblivion”
4. BEACH HOUSE “Myth”
5. THE xx “Angels”
6. SPIRITUALIZED “Hey Jane”
7. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE “Today's Supernatural”
8. LEONARD COHEN “Darkness”
9. GRIZZLY BEAR “Yet Again”
10. DOMINIQUE A “Rendez-nous la lumière”
11. M. WARD “Primitive Girl”
12. BATIDA “Alegria”
13. M.I.A. “Bad Girls”
14. HOT CHIP “Motion Sickness”
15. BOB DYLAN “Tempest”
16. SAINT ETIENNE “I've Got Your Music”
17. SHARON VAN ETTEN “Serpents”
18. THE WALKMEN “The Witch”
19. ANDREW BIRD “Danse Caribe”
20. FATHER JOHN MISTY “Nancy From Now On”
21. MAJOR LAZER “Get Free”
22. DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT “Who”
23. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI “Only in My Dreams”
24. JACK WHITE “Sixteen Saltines”
25. LEE RANALDO “Off the Wall”
26. CAT POWER “Ruin”
27. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “Andrew in Rag”
28. TIGERCATS “Full Moon Reggae Party”
29. FLYING LOTUS feat. LAURA DARLINGTON “Phantasm”
30. BEST COAST “The Only Place”
31. LAMBCHOP “If Not I'll Just Die”
32. TWIN SHADOW “Five Seconds”
33. JENS LEKMAN “Become Someone Else's”
34. MARK EITZEL “You Ain't Alone”
35. BILL FAY “The Never Ending Happening”
36. MARK LANEGAN BAND “The Gravedigger's Song”
37. THE FLAMING LIPS feat. YOKO ONO/PLASTIC ONO BAND “Do It!”
38. BOB MOULD “The Descent”
39. LIGHTSHIPS “Girasol”
40. MALA “Cuba Electronic”
41. TAME IMPALA “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”
42. THE ORB feat. LEE SCRATCH PERRY “Soulman”
43. THE SOFT PACK “Bobby Brown”
44. TINDERSTICKS “This Fire of Autumn”
45. PURITY RING “Crawlersout”
46. PERFUME GENIUS “Take Me Home”
47. BOBBY WOMACK “Please Forgive My Heart”
48. CROCODILES “Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)”
49. SQUAREPUSHER “4001”
50. CLOUD NOTHINGS “Wasted Days”
51. WILD NOTHING “Shadow”
52. CALEXICO “Sinner in the Sea”
53. ALABAMA SHAKES “You Ain't Alone”
54. CRYSTAL CASTLES “Wrath of God”
55. DJANGO DJANGO “Default”
56. MATTHEW DEAR “Her Fantasy”
57. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Wrecking Ball”
58. KENDRICK LAMAR “Backbeat Freestyle”
59. TAKEN BY TREES “Large”
60. CULT OF YOUTH “Golden Age”

[Otisredding]

National Albums

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1 - Hidrogenesse - Un digito binario dudoso: Recital para Alan Turing
2 - Evangelistas, Los - Homenaje a Enrique Morente
3 - Damunt, Lidia - Vigila el fuego
4 - Grupo de Expertos Solynieve - El eje de la Tierra
5 - Remate - Una araña a punto de comerse una mosca
6 - Klaus & Kinski - Herreros y fatigas
7 - Alvarez, Lorena y su Banda Municipal - Anonimo
8 - Font, Antonia - Voste es aqui
9 - Bien Querida, La - Ceremonia
10 - Pegasvs - Pegasvs
11 - Pascual, Joaquin - La frontera
12 - Punsetes, Los - Una Montana es una Montana
13 - Talabot, John - fIN
14 - Pérez Cruz, Sílvia - 11 de novembre
15 - Cuchillo - Encanto
16 - I Am Dive - Ghostwoods
17 - Lliso, Cristina - Si alguna vez
18 - Extraperlo - Delirio especifico
19 - Vil, Violeta - Lapidas y cocoteros
20 - Mishima - L'amor Felic
21 - Débil, La - Sángrala
22 - Betunizer - Boogalizer
23 - Alex Under - La máquina de bolas
24 - Palau, Ferran - L'aigua del rierol
25 - Rodés, Maria - Sueño triangular
26 - Sr. Chinarro - !Menos Samba!
27 - Gallardo, Marina - This Is The Sound
28 - Toteking & Shotta - Héroe
29 - Espanto - Rock'n Roll
30 - Vallve, Pau - De bosc
31 - Arbol - She Read The Wrong Book
32 - Hijo, El - Los movimientos
33 - Claveles, Los - Mesetario
34 - Tórtel - Entusiasmo
35 - Vélez, Soledad - Wild Fishing


National Songs

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1 - Grupo de Expertos Solynieve - La nueva reconquista de Graná
2 - Bien Querida, La - Arenas movedizas
3 - Klaus & Kinski - Ojo por diente
4 - Talabot, John - Destiny
5 - Punsetes, Los - Alférez provisional
6 - Espanto - Rock'n roll
7 - Alvarez, Lorena y su Banda Municipal - La boda
8 - Hidrogenesse - Captcha Cha-Cha
9 - Débil, La - Sángrala
10 - Pegasvs - El final de la noche
11 - Lliso, Cristina - No viajas sola
12 - Font, Antònia - Per jo i tots els ciclistes
13 - Pérez Cruz, Sílvia - Memoria de pez
14 - Extraperlo - Ardiente figura
15 - Sr. Chinarro - Hot Mothers
16 - Mishima - L'última ressaca
17 - Prin' La lá - Kiss The Future
18 - Crepúsculo, Joe - Enséñame a amar
19 - Claveles, Los - Estafas
20 - Linda Mirada - Secundario

[Honorio]

OTHER ROCKDELUX LISTS

I've included only the items that included specific comments from the critics, most of the lists included 25 items or more and writing the complete lists would be exhausting.

Compilations:
1. WOODY GUTHRIE “Woody at 100”
2. DAVID SYLVIAN “A Victim of Stars 1982-2012”
3. CAN “The Lost Tapes”
4. TIM MAIA “World Psychedelic Classics 4. Nobody Can Live Forever. The Existential Soul of Tim Maia”
5. LOS ENEMIGOS “Desde el jergón”

Re-releases :
1. MY BLOODY VALENTINE “Isn't Anything” (1988) / “Loveless” (1991)
2. THE WEEKND “Trilogy” (2011)
3. PAUL SIMON “Graceland (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1986)
4. KIKO VENENO “Échate un cantecito (Edición 20 aniversario)” (1992)
5. VAN DYKE PARKS “Song Cycle” (1968) / “Discover America” (1972) / “Clang of the Yankee Reaper” (1975)

International EPs:
1. BURIAL “Kindred EP”

International Live Shows:
1. SWANS
2. BON IVER
3. LOW
4. JAPANDROIDS
5. DOMINIQUE A (nicolas was there!)
6. WILCO (and I was there!)
7. REFUSED
8. THE CURE
9. DANIEL JOHNSTON
10. OF MONTREAL

International DJs:
1. KODE9

International Clips:
1. M.I.A. “Bad Girls” Dir: Romain Gavras

Spanish DJs:
1. DJ2D2

Spanish Clips:
1. LOS PUNSETES “Alférez Provisional” Dir: Canada

Spanish Live Shows:
1. LISABÖ
2. TRIÁNGULO DE AMOR BIZARRO (I was there too)
3. LOS EVANGELISTAS
4. LA CASA AZUL
5. KIKO VENENO

Spanish EPs:
1. KRESY “Basement Trax”

Music DVDs:
1. SURFIN' BICHOS “Buzos haciendo surf. Un documental sobre Surfin' Bichos”

Comics:
1. SHINTARO KAGO “Reproducción por mitosis y otras historias” (Spanish compilation of 14 different stories)

Books:
1. PETER CAMERON “Algún día este dolor te será útil” (originally published in 2007 as “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You”)

Pop Books:
1. SIMON REYNOLDS “Retromanía. La adicción del pop a su propio pasado” (originally published in 2011 as “Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past”).
2. NEIL STRAUSS “Todos te quieren cuando estás muerto. Viajes al interior de la fama y la locura” (originally published in 2011 as “Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness”).
3. ALEX ROSS “Escucha esto” (originally published in 2010 as “Listen to This”).
4. SANTIAGO AUSERÓN “El ritmo perdido. Sobre el influjo negro en la canción española”
5. GORM HENRIK RASMUSSEN / NICK DRAKE “Pink Moon. Nick Drake. Canciones” (includes a book originally published in 1986 as “Pink Moon: A Story About Nick Drake” and the lyrics of Nick Drake songs translated to Spanish).

Movies:
1. LEOS CARAX “Holy Motors”
2. TERENCE DAVIES “The Deep Blue Sea”
3. DAVID CRONENBERG “Cosmopolis”
4. STEVE McQUEEN “Shame”
5. BÉLA TARR “El caballo de Turín” (original title “A tórinoi ló”, English title “El caballo de Turín”).