Top Album Releases for 2012 in Perfect Sound Forever

I've just noticed that Perfect Sound Forever, the e-zine that has hosted 91 of my Vinyl Anachronist columns since 1998, has just put up its writers' picks for the best albums of 2012. I've included mine below, but you can visit PSF to see all of the lists.


1. Scott Walker Bish Bosch


2. Jack White Blunderbuss


3. 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


4. Patti Smith Banga


5. TrondheimSolistene Souvenir


6. Barry Brusseau The Royal Violent Birds


7. Eivind Buene Possible Cities/Essential Landscapes


8. Electric Shepherd The Imitation Garden


9. Janet Feder Songs With Words


10. Boy Eats Drum Machine The Battle


11. Robert Sarazin Blake Put It All Down in a Letter


12. The Ready Stance Damndest


13. Vacant Fever Kill Kill Kill


14. Burial Kindred


15. Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired


16. Hoff Ensemble Quiet Winter Night


17. The English Beat The Complete Beat


18. The Memorials Delirium


19. The Satin Chaps Might I Suggest...the Satin Chaps?


20. The Shins Port of Morrow