{"id":777,"date":"2012-12-23T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-12-23T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T20:43:25","slug":"my-favorite-music-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/2012\/12\/23\/my-favorite-music-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"my favorite music of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I call this list my favorite music of the year, not the best of, because I haven’t heard more than a third of all the music that people have been talking up in their end-of-year lists. Who am I to say what’s best? (Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city<\/em> is probably the best, but I’m following Ann Power’s advice<\/a> not to pontificate if the only hip hp you really paid attention to this year was the albums by Lamar and Killer Mike.) And yet I still had a ton of great music to enjoy in 2012. In no particular order:<\/p>\n

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ALBUMS OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jessie Ware, Devotion<\/em><\/p>\n

Debut album of the year, fore sure. I love a burst of you-go-girl R&B uplift, and this year Jessie Ware served up the freshest serving. Devotion<\/em> distills lots of tasteful influences \u2014 Sade, Soul II Soul, Everything But The Girl, Aaliyah, 2-step \u2014 and adds a dash of that futuristic gloss that British club music does uniquely well. Not a weak track to be found here.<\/p>\n