(2012 end-of-year lists) – FIRAS ABOU FAKHER

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Firas Abou Fakher (musician, Mashrou’ Leila)

1- Mumford & Sons: Babel
2- Lana Del Rey: Born To Die
3- Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
4- Grizzly Bear: Shields
5- Grimes: Visions
6- The Tallest Man On Earth: There’s No Leaving Now
7- Bob Dylan: Tempest
8- Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes

Older releases listened to extensively in 2012:

1- The Beatles: Revolver
2- Cliff Martinez: Drive OST
3- Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch The Throne
4- Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX: We’re New Here
5- Yoko Kanno: Cowboy Bebop OST

Published by z.nawfal

ZIAD NAWFAL is a Beirut-based DJ, radio host, music promoter and producer, and the co-founder of ground-breaking independent label Ruptured with Lebanese studio owner and engineer Fadi Tabbal. Nawfal has spent the better part of the last 20 years exposing Lebanon and the world to the special local and regional independent music talent, on his long-running radio shows ‘Ruptures’ and ‘Decalages’ on Radio-Lebanon 96.2FM. Since 2010, he is also the managing director of Irtijal, the first and foremost festival for experimental music in Lebanon.

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