Charts

Once in a blue moon, we ask our favorite musicians and contributors to share their favorite records of the year for us!

(2012 end-of-year lists) – ANTHONY KHOURY

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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.

Anthony Khoury (musician, Adonis)

1- Rufus Wainwright: Out Of The Game
2- Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
3- The XX: Coexist
4- Lana Del Rey: Born To Die
5- Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
6- Grizzly Bear: Shields
7- Yasmine Hamdan: Self-titled
8- Majida el Roumi: Ghazal
9- Bloc Party: Four
10- Possy: Ah Ya Donia

(2012 end-of-year lists) – EILEEN KHATCHADOURIAN

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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.

Eileen Khatchadourian (musician)
http://www.eileenkhatchadourian.com/

– Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes
– Sofia Jannok: Áššogáttis (By the Embers)
– Rossini: La petite messe solennelle
– Rufus Wainwright: Self-titled
– Amy Winehouse: Back To Black
– Raffi Wartanian: Pushkin Street
– PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
– Gotye: Somebody That I Used To Know (single)
– Brigitte: Et vous tu m’aimes?
– Adele: Skyfall (single)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – CHARBEL HABER

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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.

Charbel Haber (musician, Scrambled Eggs / Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra)
https://soundcloud.com/charbel-haber

– Earth: Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
– Eric Chenaux & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: Sentimental Moves LP
– Rhodri Davies: Wound Response LP
– A-Trio: Music To Our Ears
– Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi: Imikuzushi
– Swans: The Seer
– Scott Walker: Bish Bosch
– Hot Chip: In Our Heads
– Grimes: Visions
– Fushitsusha: Mabushii Itazura Na Inori

(2012 end-of-year lists) – SARY MOUSSA

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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.

Sary Moussa (musician, RadioKVM)

– Actress: R.I.P (Honest Jon’s)
– Loops Haunt: Zenith (Black Acre)
– Bandshell: Dust March (Hessle Audio)
– 2562: Air Jordan (When In Doubt)
– Monolake: Ghosts (Imbalance Computer Music)
– Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
– Objekt: Cactus/Porcupine (Hessle Audio)
– Richard Devine: Risp (Detroit Underground)
– Dark Sky: Black Rainbows (Black Acre)
– Nathan Fake: Iceni Strings (Border Community)
– Airhead: Wait (R&S Records)
– Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
– Burial: Kindred (Hyperdub)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – STEPHANE RIVES

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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.

Stéphane Rives (musician, The Incompetents / Under The Carpet / The Imaginary Soundscapes)
https://soundcloud.com/stephane-rives

1- Tindersticks: The Something Rain
2- Godspeed You! Black Emperor: ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
3- The Caretaker: Extra Patience (After Sebald)
4- Swans: The Seer
5- Grizzly Bear: Shields
6- Animal Collective: Centipede Hz
7- The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends
8- Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks
9- Venetian Snares: Affectionate
10- The XX: Coexist

(2012 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL

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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.

Fadi Tabbal (producer, sound engineer & musician, The Incompetents / Under The Carpet / Youmna Saba)
http://www.tuneforkstudios.com/

– Dr. John: Locked Down
– Grizzly Bear: Shields
– Julia Holter: Ekstasis
– Scott Walker: Bish Bosch
– Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
– Beach House: Bloom
– Spiritualized: Sweet Light Sweet Heart
– The XX: Coexist
– Tame Impala: Lonerism
– Swans: The Seer
– Godspeed You! Black Emperor: ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
– Eric Chenaux: Guitar & Voice

(2012 end-of-year lists) – SANDMOON

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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.

Sandra Arslanian (musician, Sandmoon)

1- Grizzly Bear: Shields
2- Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
3- Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
4- Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas
5- Other Lives: Mind The Gap EP
6- Lou Doillon: Places
7- Cat Power: Sun
8- Sarah Blasko: I Awake
9- Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
10- Evening Hymns: Spectral Dusk

(2012 end-of-year lists) – JAD MROUE

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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.

Jad Mroué (musician, Funny Death)

– Crystal Castles: (III)
– Tame Impala: Lonerism
– DIIV: Oshin
– Purity Ring: Shrines
– Grimes: Visions
– Beach House: Bloom
– Death Grips: The Money Store
– Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action At A Distance
– Passion Pit: Gossamer
– The XX: Coexist

Most listened to in 2012, regardless of date of release:

– Crystal Castles: Self-titled (2008)
– Crystal Castles: (II) (2010)
– The Chemical Brothers: Further (2010)
– Balam Acab: Wander/Wonder (2011)
– Tame Impala: Innerspeaker (2010)
– Selebrities: Delusions (2011)
– Housse De Racket: Alesia (2011)
– Dye: Taki 183 (2011)
– Passion Pit: Manners (2009)
– Toro Y Moi: Underneath The Pine (2011)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – SAM SHALABI

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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.

Sam Shalabi (musician, Shalabi Effect / Land Of Kush)
http://www.alien8recordings.com/artists/sam-shalabi

Not all from this year… and some just various stuff by those named:

– Beach House: Bloom
– Alexandre St-Onge: D’Ailleurs
– Eric Chenaux: Guitar & Voice
– Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe
– Scott Walker: Bish Bosch
– The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road
– Various Artists: Pictures Of Sound, One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio (980-1980)
– Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
– Lukas Ligeti: African Machinery
– Robert Ashley: Outside Of Time (it’s a book)
– Milton Nascimento: Milton 1970
– Rolling Stones: Some Girls
– Henry Cowell
– Luigi Nono
– Charlie Parker
– Bobbie Gentry
– Cairo (the city)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – RABIH BEAINI

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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.

Rabih Beaini (producer, DJ & musician, Morphosis)
https://soundcloud.com/rabih

1- Ben Vida: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends [PAN]
2- Koudede: Guitars From Agadez Vol.5 [Sublime Frequencies]
3- Madteo: Noi No [Sahko]
4- Dynamo Dreesen: Beats In The Mists Of Time [Acido]
5- Metasplice: Decant/Churn [Morphine promo]
6- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Generators [Editions Mego]
7- Funkineven: Night/Dusk [Wild Oats]
8- Bee Mask: When We Were Eating Unripe Pears [Spectrum Spools]
9- Sir Richard Bishop: Intermezzo [Ideologic Organ]
10- Theo Parrish: Any Other Styles [Sound Signature]