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A Non-Exhaustive "Best Tracks Of 2012" List

Jog your memory or shout about shit that's been left out.

Look, journalists like end of year lists because they're easy to read and stuff like forming paragraph structure is really difficult when you're typing while standing, because you've got one eye on the screen and another on the mulled wine steadily running out at the bar. Which is why pretty much every music round-up starts as a sincere and comprehensive look back, then just ends up being a quivering pile of "WHY HAVEN'T YOU INCLUDED GRIMES AND FRANK OCEAN?! AT LEAST PRETEND INDIE WAS STILL A THING IN 2K12" reader complaints.

So to counter that, in no particular order, and with the strict intention to either jog your memory or rile you into pointing out all the stuff I missed and what a terrible person I am and, ugh, what a dickbag, why am I allowed to write about music…here's a list of my personal top ten favs this year. Enjoy!

1. Chronik: "Man In The Boot"

Look at that adorable and welcoming face of Chronik's. How could anyone not fall in love with the constant air of terror during "Man In The Boot"? For really real though, after years of skulking around grime, this track was the first of Chronik's that I kind of got obsessed with, all the more because of the threatening as fuck video that sucks you in, only to do that whole "ahhh, it was all a joke" thing at the end. Jesus.