Here are 15 of the top 10 releases from 2012.

The usual rubric still obtains - these are 15 of the top 10. Ten is too few, and the margin for error is lessened a little bit by expanding things, I hope. They're in alphabetical order so as to avoid any other kind of ranking. Likewise, I would eschew the potential hubris of trying to claim any kind of critical acumen here - as ever, these are recordings that I've returned to again and again as a listener, and recordings that I feel reward repeated listening.

When I first sat down to make my usual list of things I've been listening and enjoying my way through, I was a little taken aback to notice just how many of my initial listings were reissues [the exquisite vinyl represses/reissues of Biosphere's "Substrata," and William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops"] or box sets/collections [the complete reissue of all studio recordings by Roxy Music and The Books, Andras Schiff's new recording of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" and Stephen Wilson's work on "Larks' Tongues in Aspic."

As I hope this list suggests, while those exquisite slices of the recontextualized past did, indeed, camp out on my audio system and exert a modest amount of dominance on RTQE, they weren't alone. Here are some more.

happy holidays to you all. I wish you peace.
Gregory

	Wil Bolton	Under A Name That Hides Her	Hibernate
	Can	The Lost Tapes	Mute
	Peter Cusack	Sounds From Dangerous Places	ReR Megacorp
	Brian Eno	Lux	Warp
	Elephant9 with Reiner Fiske	Atlantis	Rune Grammofon
	En	Already Gone	Students of Decay
	Eyvind Kang	The Narrow Garden	Ipecac
	Jason Lescalleet	Songs About Nothing	Erstwhile
	Marconi Union	Weightless	Just Music
	Polica	Give You The Ghost	Really Gross National Product
	Terry Riley	Aleph	Tzadik
	Shackelton	The Drawbar Organ EPs	Woe To The Septic Heart!
	Richard Skelton	Verses of Birds	Corbel Stone Press
	Laurie Spiegel	The Expanding Universe	Unseen Worlds
	Stian Westerhus	The Matriarch and The Wrong Kind of Flowers	Rune Grammofon

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