Top Tracks of 2012 – 10 to 6

December 23, 2012

So we’re continuing our rundown of the Top Tracks of 2012 according to SGTMT.

Today we’ve reached the top 10. This lot caused quite a stir at SGTMT HQ but not as much as our top 5, that will arrive shortly. Here we go:

No. 10 – Bob Mould – The Descent

We said:
The tunes, the drums, and the guitar that sounded like a swarm of bees attacking a tank. Just pure beauty.

Get the Silver Age by Bob Mould on Amazon

No. 9 – Ms Mr – Hurricane

We wrote:
Every now and again something arrives that is so sublimely perfect that all my hard and fast rules no longer apply, the precedents are broken and I get all gibberish and oddly sweaty. Ms Mr are ‘that’ band. Just let Ms Mr single Hurricane spin around a few times and you’ll soon agree – genius in digital form.

Get Hurricane on Amazon

No. 8 – Mystery Jets – Someone Purer

We said:
This sublimely beautiful track deals with issues of fear, pain, rejection, sin and comes up with the musical 42, the answer – Rock and Roll. Right then. Problem solved.

Buy Radlands by Mystery Jets on Amazon

No. 7 – Madeon – Icarus

We wrote:
Girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and playing drums, girls, punk rock and play…

Get Icarus on Amazon

No. 6 – Haerts – Wings

We said:
Cleaning is always best performed with some musical accompaniment. And today the tune crackling on the SGTMT Gramophone is the gorgeous gold nectar of Wings by HAERTS. If music were a cleaning product this would be Fairy Liquid. It gets the job done whilst being gentle on the ears, soothing to the soul and down right super-fantastic.