For the sake of originality and fairness, I’ll be counting full studio albums only and excluding any best of and compilation albums.
Of course, I was unable to listen to every single album that was released over the 2012 period, so I’d like to encourage readers to suggest their own personal recommendations.
Chemistry – Trinity
Release date: January 25th
This may be the final album from Chemistry we see in a while, since the duo have announced they’ll be going solo for a bit in order to pursue their own projects. Thankfully, Trinity is another solid album that manages to do exactly what they’ve done in the past: put together a number of tracks that blend pop and R&B into something smooth and cool without sounding pretentious or over-produced. In total there are 15 songs making up the album, with 5 solo tracks from each vocalist and 5 from the pair as a unit. Nearly all of them are good, making it difficult for me to cherry-pick favourites – although at the moment, ‘Trinity’, ‘Lucid Dream’, and ‘Kanashimi Shower’ strike me as being particularly outstanding.
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