BEST ALBUMS OF 2012 [16-20]

16. Jimmy Edgar - Majenta

Jimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based music producer with a taste for electrifying beats. His 2012 album Majenta contains some tantalizing tracks, including This One's For The Children, Sex Drive and Let Yourself Be, all of which can be listened to in the player below...




17. The Presets - Pacifica

The Presets is an Austrialian electronic duo formed in 2003 by Julian Hamilton (vocals, keyboards) and Kim Moyes (drums, keyboards). Their debut album Beams was released in 2005, containing the favorite track Are You The One? The second album Apocalypso came out in 2008, including the single This Boy's In Love. (Check out the cool Kim remix of the track.)

Last year saw the release of the duo's third album Pacifica, containing some of their strongest material so far. Favorite tune is the opening track Youth In Trouble...

The track Promises comes with a cool Plastic Plates remix...

18. Grimes – Visions

Claire Boucher aka Grimes is a Canadian musician and music video director. Her third album Visions marks the peak of her musical career so far and contains some highly original material drawing upon influences from industrial rock, electronic pop, hip hop and RnB to create what has been described as airy cyborg-pop. Top track of the album is Oblivion...

19. The XX – Coexist

The xx followed up their highly acclaimed 2009 self-titled debut album with Coexist in the fall of 2012. The new material is not as strong as their first album, but still offers some high quality tracks, such as Fiction. Here's a recent edit of the track...

20. RAC - Chapter One

The Remix Artist Collective (RAC) has churned out an impressing number of high quality remixes in recent years. They have compiled some of their greatest reworks on the release Chapter One...