Top Ten Records of 2012
1. alt-J - An Awesome Wave
2. Oddisee - People Hear What They See
3. Pinkunoizu - Free Time
4. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
5. Tame Impala - Lonerism
6. Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka - They!Live
7. Gang Colours - The Keychain Collection
8. Ryan Davis - Particles of Bliss
9. Chrome Canyon - Elemental Themes
10. The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
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Best Song
1. Blur - Under The Westway
Runners-up (in no particular order)
Bat For Lashes - Laura
Rudimental - Feel The Love
Lower Dens - Brains
Laetitia Sadier - Auscultation To The Nation
Plan B - Ill Manors
Slugabed - Mountains Come Out Of The Sky
Perfume Genius – Hood
Top Ten Gigs
1. alt-J / Michael Kiwanuka / The Maccabees - Mercury Prize gig, St Luke's Church, London
2. Radiohead / Caribou - O2 Arena, London
3. Jack White / First Aid Kit
4. Phenomenal Handclap Band - Hooga, Chelmsford
5. Withered Hand / Darren Hayman / Seamus Fogarty - The Shacklewell Arms, London
6. Simone Felice - Union Chapel, London
7. Lower Dens - Hoxton Bar and Grill, London
8. Slow Club at Club Attitude, Village Underground, London
9. Milagres / Vadoinmessico / Peter and Kerry - Barfly, Camden
10. Friends - The Lexington, London
Top Ten Festival Performances
1. The Stone Roses - V Festival
2. The National - ATP Festival
3. Michael Rother - ATP Festival
4. Perfume Genius - ATP
5. Wild Beasts - ATP
6. The Antlers - ATP
7. Tom Jones - V Festival
8. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - V Festival
9. Tim Hecker - ATP Festival
10. Wilko Johnson - Village Green festival
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