The first loop of the year brings Rober Awards multiple nominees Real Estate back on top with their jaunty new single, ‘Easy’. Our brand new chart includes some releases by up and coming artists such as Julia Holter, Stay+, New Look or Grimes, as well as notable comebacks from the likes of Mark Lanegan Band; The Shins; The Magnetic Fields and Leonard Cohen, who came to London to present his new album ‘Old Ideas’, easily his best since the influential 80’s classic ‘I’m Your Man’.
Check the first edition of 2012 after the jump.
| 1-REAL ESTATE Easy (Domino) |
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| 2-JULIA HOLTER Marienbad (RVNGintl) |
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| 3-NEW LOOK Nap On The Bow (K7!) |
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| 4-LANA DEL REY Off To The Races (Interscope) |
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| 5-THE SHINS Simple Song (Columbia) |
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| 6-STAY + Dandelion (RAMP) |
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| 7-MARK LANEGAN BAND The Gravedigger;s Song (4AD) |
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| 8-GRIMES Genesis (4AD) |
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| 9-SHEARWATER Breaking The Yearlings (Sub Pop) |
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| 10-CASS MCCOMBS Bradley Manning (Domino) Download |
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| 11-CAT POWER FEAT. MANNY PACQUIAO King Rides By (Self Released) Download |
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| 12-THE WEEKND Montreal (Self-Released) Download 'Echoes Of Silence' Mixtape |
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| 13-araabMUZIK I Remember (Duke Productions) |
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| 14-TODD TERJE Swing Star Pt. 1 (It's The Arps EP) (Olsen/Smalltown Supersound) |
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| 15-GONJASUFI Feedin' Birds (Warp) |
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| 16-LEONARD COHEN Darkness (Columbia) |
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| 17-BEAR IN HEAVEN The Reflection Of You (Dead Oceans) |
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| 18-FRANKIE ROSE Know Me (Slumberland) Download |
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| 19-RICK ROSS FEAT. STYLES P Keys To My Crib (Self-Released) Download 'Rich Forever' Mixtape |
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| 20-NICOLAS JAAR FEAT. SCOUT LARUE & WILL EPSTEIN And I Say (Self-Released) |
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| 21-THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Andrew In Drag (Merge) |
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| 22-PERFUME GENIUS All Waters (Matador) Download |
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| 23-CLOUD NOTHINGS Stay Useless (Carpark) |
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| 24-JON TALABOT FEAT. PIONAL So Will Be Now... (Permanent Vacation) |
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| 25-XIU XIU Hi (Polyvinyl) Download |
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| 26-SLEIGH BELLS Born To Lose (Mom & Pop) |
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| 27-SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Lafaye (Vagrant) |
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| 28-FOUR TET Moma (Asa Wa Kuru) |
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| 29-GRINDERMAN Bellringer Blues (Nick Zinner Remix) (Mute) |
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| 30-AZEALIA BANKS Liquorice (Self-Released) |
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| 31-PORCELAIN RAFT Unless You Speak From Your Heart (Secretly Canadian) |
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| 32-BEBETUNE$ ##BLACK AND RED# (Self-Released) Download |
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| 33-THE 2 BEARS Work (Southern Fried) |
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| 34-KLAUS & KINSKI Ojo Por Ojo (Jabalina) |
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| 35-DUB PHIZIX & SKEPTICAL FEAT. STRATEGY Marka (Exit) |
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| 36-MACHINEDRUM No Respect (SXLND EP) (LuckyMe) Download 'Fader Mix' |
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| 37-COMMON Raw (How You Like It) (Warner) |
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| 38-LA YEGROS Uy Uy Uy (Self-Released) Lisen Studio Version |
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| 39-ZAMMUTO Crabbing (Idiom Wind EP) (Make Mine) Listen |
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| 40-DIRTY THREE Rising Below (Drag City) Lisen Studio Version |
An extended selection of our current favourite tracks can be heard @ our hype machine page.