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KCRW DJ Chuck P’s Top 10 Albums of 2012

Check out Chuck P’s Top 10 list, and a few other favorites from 2012! See all of the DJ Top 10 lists here. 1. Swans – The Seer (Young God)…

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By Rachel Reynolds • Dec 25, 2012 • 1 min read

Check out Chuck P’s Top 10 list, and a few other favorites from 2012! See all of the DJ Top 10 lists here.

2. Shintaro Sakamoto – How To Live With Phantom (Fat Possum)

3. Las Cafeteras – It’s Time (Self Release)

4. The Holograms – Holograms (Captured Tracks)

5. Harry Taussig – Fate Is Only Twice (Tompkins Square)

6. Dinosaur Jr. – I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)

7. Demdike Stare – Elemental (Modern Love)

8. Deerhoof – Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)

9. David S. Ware – Planetary Unknown: Live At Jazzfest Saalfelden 2011 (Aum Fidelity)

10. Blues Control – Valley Tangents (101 DISTRIBUTION)

Top Single of 2012:

Savages – Husbands (Pop Noire)

Top Reissue of 2012:

My Bloody Valentine – EP’s 1988-1991 (Sony UK)

Top Compilation of 2012:

Various Artists – Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 (Chocolate Industries)

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    Rachel Reynolds

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