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…aaaand finally, the top five albums which I enjoyed the most in 2012. A couple of these suffered a bit from being released neither on tape nor vinyl – the two formats to which I listen the most – and one benefited immeasurably from being in the van constantly for months. Nevertheless, these things are always subjective and in a way it doesn’t much matter about the details, for whatever reason I have enjoyed these albums the most, and that’s that. There are plenty more awesome records out there to which I have never even listened, I am sure, but that’s not how these things work, is it. If you want a definitive list go to Metacritic or somewhere like that and get an average list of the average of everyone’s taste averaged out across the year. The result will be average, of course, but it’s hard to argue that it isn’t in some sort of way definitive in terms of what ‘best mus...

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