I think it is still not too late to post (my own version of) a 'best of' list for the year 2012. And as I am frequently inclined to do, a music-centered list would be a must.
What I'm going to post here, and here on out, concurrently with posts about my running, is a list of albums from 2012 that I have listened to which have made quite an impact - personally, and universally. I know, I know - to use the term universally is a bit of a stretch, unless I'm talking about some garbage dump truck pop star whose jumble of incoherent noise is totally unavoidable no matter where you go, which most definitely I am not to.
But bet from up here, you can't hear Justin Bieber. Or Nicki Minaj.
The first album to be featured here is one that is the most recently-released and that is currently on heavy rotation, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's latest album (after a while) entitled 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!.
Released in 1st October, it has been a good whole decade since the Canadian collective last released a record. In between that period of their absence, the Black Eyed Peas had gone from a relative nobody to the biggest pop star in the world to a heap of garbage teetering towards the end of their relevance that-was-their-sixth-studio-album The Beginning.
Not pictured: a music band.
I can't even begin to describe the majesty of GY!BE's latest long player other than to just take a listen at the opening track "Mladic".
Never has my five minutes drive to office been so majestic it's like every time, I'm John Cusack driving the van-thing in the movie 2012, running away from a collapsing airport runway. No, scrap that - too majestic. Ah well, anything majestic of your choice is just as good, I suppose.
Majestic!
Gah! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
(You can purchase the album online through the Constellation Records website. MP3 files only retails at $8.)
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