The year is winding down and it has again been an impressive period for albums. To coincide with the release of the user voted 2012 Album of the Year results last night, we now unveil the records that have been getting a good play on the stereo this year at KYS. Find below the combined top 10 lists and our individual choices. KYS staff overall top 10 list:
The year is winding down and it has again been an impressive period for albums. To coincide with the release of the user voted 2012 Album of the Year results last night, we now unveil the records that have been getting a good play on the stereo this year at KYS.
Find below the combined top 10 lists and our respective individual choices for 2012.
KYS staff overall top 10 list:
1. Basement – Colourmeinkindness
2. Title Fight – Floral Green
3. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
4. Deftones – Koi No Yokan
5. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
6. Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
7. Meshuggah – Koloss
8. The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
9. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal
10. Code Orange Kids – Love Is Love // Return to Dust
KYS staff Australian top 10 list:
1. Twelve Foot Ninja – Silent Machine
2. Parkway Drive – Atlas
3. The Smith Street Band – Sunshine and Technology
4. Tame Impala – Lonerism
5. The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts
6. Hands Like Houses – Ground Dweller
7. Something For Kate – Leave Your Soul
8. The Broderick – Free to Rot, Free of Sin
9. Ne Obliviscaris – Portal of I
10. House Vs Hurricane – Crooked Teeth
Kane (Kane_H) –
Overall top 10:
1. Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
2. Deftones – Koi No Yokan
3. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
4. House Vs Hurricane – Crooked Teeth
5. Ne Obliviscaris – Portal of I
6. Twelve Foot Ninja – Silent Machine
7. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal
8. Hand of Mercy – Last Lights
9. The Faceless – Autotheism
10. Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Australian top 10:
1. House Vs Hurricane – Crooked Teeth
2. Ne Obliviscaris – Portal of I
3. Twelve Foot Ninja – Silent Machine
4. Hand of Mercy – Last Lights
5. Be’lakor – Of Breath and Bone
6. The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts
7. Kettlespider – Avadante
8. Make Them Suffer – Neverbloom
9. Thy Art Is Murder – Hate
10. Parkway Drive - Atlas
Tom (Maddo) –
Overall:
1. Title Fight - Floral Green
2. Basement - Colourmeinkidness
3. Daylight - The Difference In Good And Bad Dreams
4. Gypsy - Giant's Despair
5. Fire & Ice - Not Of This Earth
6. Make Do And Mend - Everything You Ever Loved
7. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
8. Stick Together - Surviving The Times
9. Brutality Will Prevail - Scatter The Ashes
10. The Rival Mob - Mob Justice Tape
Australian:
1. The Broderick - Free To Rot, Free Of Sin
2. Phantoms - S.O.S.
3. Postblue - Lap Year
4. Survival - Survival
5. Harbourer - EP 2012
6. Endless Heights - Lady Wisdom
7. Weightless - Self-Adjustment
8. The Weight - Prisoners Of The Flock
9. Civil War - Jaded Minds
10. Search And Destroy - Eye Of Terror
Jack (JackP) –
Overall:
1. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
2. Tame Impala - Lonerism
3. Meshuggah - Koloss
4. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
5. Trash Talk - 119
6. Gallows - Gallows
7. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
8. Baroness - Yellow & Green
9. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
10. Parkway Drive – Atlas
Australian:
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Something For Kate - Leave Your Soul to Science
3. DZ Deathrays - Bloodstreams
4. Parkway Drive - Atlas
5. Flume - Flume
6. The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
7. Hunting Grounds - In Hindsight
8. The Smith Street Band - Sunshine & Technology
9. Thy Art Is Murder - Hate
10. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
Natasha –
Overall:
1. Basement – Colourmeinkindness
2. Title Fight - Floral Green
3. Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm
4. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
5. Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love // Return To Dust
6. Hot Water Music – Exister
7. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
8. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
9. Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out!
10. Terrible Things - Pre-Transmission
Australian:
1. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
2. Anchors - Lost at the Bottom of the World
3. The Smith Street Band - Sunshine and Technology
4. Jamie Hay - King Of The Sun
5. Lincoln le Fevre – Resonation
6. Toy Boats - Diamond Teeth
7. Parkway Drive - Atlas
8. Blkout - Point Of No Return
9. Hand of Mercy - Last Lights
10. The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
Luke (LukeC) –
Overall:
1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan 

2. Every Time I Die - Ex-Lives
3. Thrice - Anthology

4. Say Anything - Anarchy, My Dear
5. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
6. Make Do And Mend - Everything You've Ever Loved

7. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
8. Minus The Bear - Infinity Overhead
9. Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
10. The Heavy - The Glorious Dead



Australian:
1. Something For Kate - Leave Your Soul To Science
2. Weightless - Self-Adjustment
3. The Weight - Prisoners Of The Flock
4. Tame Impala - Lonerism
5. Hands Like Houses - Ground Dweller
6. Buried In Verona - Notorious
7. The Bride - Ambassadors
8. Parkway Drive - Atlas
9. The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
10. Safe Hands/Vanity – Split
Morgan (MBLACK) –
1. Meshuggah - Koloss
2. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
3. The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
4. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
5. The Algorithm - Polymorphic Code
6. Sigur Rós - Valtari
7. Space Ghost - You're There
8. Tame Impala - Lonerism
9. Grimes - Visions
10. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
Australian:
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
3. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
4. Flume - Flume
5. Breaking Orbit - The Time Traveller
6. Electric Sea Spider - Supercash
7. Kettlespider - Avadante
8. Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
9. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 12 Bar Bruise
10. Hermitude – Hyperparadise
Mark (markhouston) –
Overall:
1. Hands Like Houses – Ground Dweller
2. Architects – Daybreaker
3. Pierce the Veil – Collide With The Sky
4. Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood Of Colour
5. Parkway Drive – Atlas
6. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
7. The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts
8. Stick To Your Guns - Diamond
9. Gallows – Gallows
10. Daytrader – Twelve Years
Australian:
1. Hands Like Houses – Ground Dweller
2. Parkway Drive – Atlas
3. The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts
4. The Smith Street Band – Sunshine and Technology
5. Luca Brasi – Tassie
6. Anchors – Lost At The Bottom Of The World
7. House Vs Hurricane – Crooked Teeth
8. In Hearts Wake – Divination
9. Local Resident Failure – A Breath Of Stale Air
10. Buried In Verona – Notorious
Lockie (Lockie_Murders) –
Overall:
1. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
2. Periphery - II
3. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
4. Architects - Daybreaker
5. Young Guns - Bones
6. Solace - Call & Response
7. I The Mighty - Karma Never Sleeps
8. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
9. Circa survive - Violent Waves
10. The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
Australian:
1. The Smith Street Band - Sunshine & Technology
2. Strangers - Persona Non Grata
3. Parkway Drive - Atlas
4. Heroes For Hire - No Apologies
5. In Hearts Wake – Divination
6. The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
7. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
8. Hands Like Houses - Ground Dweller
9. House Vs Hurricane - Crooked Teeth
10. Thy Art Is Murder – Hate
Max (MaxW) –
Overall:
1. Basement - Colourmeinkindness
2. Title Fight - Shed
3. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
4. Expire - Pendulum Swings
5. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
6. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
7. Ceremony - Zoo
8. Daylight - The Difference In Good and Bad Dreams
9. Brutality Will Prevail - Scatter The Ashes
10. Trash Talk - 119
Australian:
1. Endless Heights - Lady Wisdom
2. Civil War - Jaded Minds
3. Distance - Half Of What You See
4. The Broderick - Free To Rot, Free Of Sin
5. Toy Boats - Diamond Teeth
6. Pro Team - Fault Lines
7. Heroes For Hire - No Apologies
8. Tame Impala - Lonerism
9. Parkway Drive - Atlas
10. The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
Tim (Maxwell) –
Overall:
1. Basement - Colourmeinkindness
2. Title Fight - Floral Green
3. The Smith Street Band - Sunshine and Technology
4. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
5. Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love // Return To Dust
6. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
7. The Tower And The Fool - How Long
8. Misser - Every Day I Tell Myself I'm Going To Be A Better Person
9. Annabel - Youth In Youth
10. Anchors - Lost At The Bottom Of The World