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Posted December 11th 2012

Our Top 5’s of 2012!

Well here it is! It’s very nearly the end of another busy year at Melting Vinyl and we wanted to share with you our favourite albums/singles/EPs and live shows of the year. Don’t forget it’s our Christmas Party tomorrow night at The Green Door Store so come and party with us, Coves, The Peppermint Beat Band and Tarq Bowen! You can even come and tell us how great/tragic our music of 2012 is! We cannot wait for 2013, exciting things are coming up! From all of us we wish you a very VERY Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Anna – Director

Singles:
Sharon Van Etten – ‘Serpents’ (Jagjaguwar)
St Vincent and David Byrne – ‘Dinner For Two’ (4ad)
Hooded Fang – ‘Vacationation’ (Full Time Hobby)
Of Monsters and Men – ‘Mountain Sound’ (Universal Music Group)
Race Horses – ‘MY YEAR ABROAD’ (Stolen Records)

Live Shows:
Johnny Flynn + The Sussex Wit – Revelation St Mary’s, Ashford
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins –  St Georges Church, Brighton
Sharon Van Etten – Komedia, Brighton
Cheek Mountain Thief – Purcell Room, London
The Physics House Band – Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton

Tom Ricards – Production

Albums/singles/ep’s:
Blur – ‘Under The Westway’ (EMI)
Deftones – ‘Koi No Yokan’  (Reprise)
Sigur Ros – ‘Valtari’ (XL)
Easy Star – ‘All Stars’ – Thrillah (Easy Star)
High Contrast – ‘The Agony & The Ecstasy’ (Hospital Records)

Live Shows:
Jimmy Cliff – Boomtown Festival, Winchester
Bon Iver (with The Staves) – Wembley Arena, London
Micah P Hinson – The Basement, Brighton
Chapelier Fou – Blind Tiger Club, Brighton
Jaill – Green Door Store, Brighton

Richard Nast – Ticketing/ Accounts

Albums/singles/ep’s:
Ravens & Chimes – Holiday Life (Better Looking Records)
Holy Vessels – Last Orders At The Marshall Arms (Hello Babe!)
Dolomite Minor – The Velvet Print (Unsigned)
Coves – Cast A Shadow (Cross Keys Records)
Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Recordings)

Live Shows:
Kimya Dawson – The Haunt, Brighton
Raven’s & Chimes – The Hope, Brighton
Band Of Skulls – Concorde 2, Brighton
Exit Music – The Green Door Store, Brighton
Pearl Jam – The MEN, Manchester

Emma Constant – Marketing

Albums/Singles
Blur – ‘Under The Westway’ Single (EMI)
Hot Chip – ‘In Our Heads’  (Domino)
Beach House – ‘Bloom’ (Bella Union)
Dark Dark Dark – ‘Who Needs Who’ (Supply and Demand Music)
The Staves – ‘Dead, Born & Grown’ (Atlantic Records)

Live Shows:
Alabama Shakes – Concorde 2, Brighton
Blur – Hyde Park, London
Beth Jeans Houghton – The Haunt, Brighton
Jack White – The Roundhouse, London
Beach House – The Haunt, Brighton

Will Parish – Programming/Production/Rep

Albums/EPs:
North Atlantic Oscillation – Fog Electric (Kscope)
The Invisible – Rispah (Ninja Tune)
Coves – Cast A Shadow EP (Cross Keys Records)
Temples – Shelter Song 7″ (Heavenly)
Post War Years – The Bell EP (Banquet Records)

Live Shows:
Explosions In The Sky – C2, Brighton
Beth Jeans Houghton – The Haunt, Brighton
Turbowolf/The Subways – Ringlokschuppen, Bielefeld, Germany
The Computers – St James’ Launderette, Brighton.
Physics House Band – Komedia Studio, Brighton

Sam Barnes – Marketing Intern

Albums:
Circa Survive – Violent Waves (Unsigned)
Gallows – Gallows (In at the Deep End Records)
Deftones – Koi No Yokan (Reprise)
Marmozets – Vexed EP (Unsigned)
Flood Of Red – They Must Be Building Something EP (Unsigned)

Live Shows:
The Bronx – The Boileroom Guildford
Gallows – The Haunt Brighton
Alexisonfire Farewell Show – Brixton Academy London
Thrice Farewell Show – HMV Forum London
The Ghost Of A Thousand – Coalition Brighton