Non-Fiction Sidebar: Twelve+ Songs of 2012

  A song of the year...and some runners-up separated by thin line of hyphens that also represents a hair's breadth. The list makes no claim to quality. I'll leave that to music journalists. Instead, the motivation seems to be sharing the love. (And included for the sake of asymmetry: two guilty pleasures and one favourite discovery, dating from 2009.)


   1. "Pyramids" - Frank Ocean

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   2."Night and Day (2 Bears feat. Trim Edit)" — Hot Chip
   3. "Kiko" — Dead Can Dance
   4. "All That is My Own" (feat. Cosey Fanni Tutti) — X-TG
   5. "Reason with Me" — Sinéad O'Connor
   6. "Wulfstan II" — Beak>
   7. "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" — The Weeknd
   8. "Her Fantasy" — Matthew Dear
   9. "NYC: 73-78" — Philip Glass & Beck
   10. "I'm a Sinner" — Madonna
   11. "A Ring on Every Finger" — Liars
   12. (tie) "Loner" — Burial / "Luxury Problems" — Andy Stott / "Ahora" - Daphni

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   GP1. "Those Who Live for Love Will Live Forever" — Prince Rama
   GP2. "Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa)" — Maroon 5

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   FDDF2009. "Let's Practise" — Lindstrøm & Christabelle