Top 50 Of 2012
After much deliberation and a lot of music listening, I've narrowed down my list to a top 50. 50 at first seemed a bit excessive, and to some probably the placement of anything beyond 20 could be interchangeable. Not to me though, some of these I just loved more than others, but feel it necessary to praise the lower end of my list. I've never done a list this large before but here goes. Keep in mind.. this is my list, not yours, so if you disagree... that sucks I guess. I don't forsee anything else releasing this year to catch my eye. |
| 1 |  | Japandroids
Celebration Rock
Best songs - Everything except "For the Love of Ivy" |
| 2 |  | Grizzly Bear
Shields
Best Songs - Sleeping Ute, Yet Again, Speak in Rounds, A Simple Answers |
| 3 |  | Spiritualized
Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Hey Jane, So Long You Pretty Thing, Too Late |
| 4 |  | The Men
Open Your Heart
Open Your Heart, Ex-Dreams, Candy, Please Don't Go Away |
| 5 |  | Cloud Nothings
Attack on Memory
Stay Useless, No Future/No Past, Fall In, No Sentiment |
| 6 |  | Pinback
Information Retrieved
Proceed to Memory, Sherman, True North |
| 7 |  | Dirty Projectors
Swing Lo Magellan
About to Die, Offspring are Black, Impregnable Question, Gun Has No Trigger |
| 8 |  | DIIV
Oshin
How Long Have you Known? , Doused, Human, Follow |
| 9 |  | Tame Impala
Lonerism
Feels Like We Only Move Backwards, Apocalypse Dreams, Be Above It |
| 10 |  | Titus Andronicus
Local Business
Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape at the Flood of Detritus, Still Life With a Hot Deuce on a silver Platter, In a Big City, My Eating Disorder |
| 11 |  | Ty Segall
Twins
The Hill, Thank God For the Sinners, They Told Me too |
| 12 |  | Woods
Bend Beyond
Is It Honest, Bend Beyond, Cali in a Cup |
| 13 |  | Thee Oh Sees
Putrifiers II
Floods New Light, Hang a Picture |
| 14 |  | Lotus Plaza
Spooky Action at a Distance
Monoliths, Strangers, |
| 15 |  | Beach House
Bloom
Wishes, Lazuli, Myth |
| 16 |  | Passion Pit
Gossamer
I'll Be Alright, Carried Away, Constant Conversations |
| 17 |  | Swans
The Seer
Mother of the World, The Wolf, |
| 18 |  | Mission of Burma
Unsound
Second Television, This is Hi-Fi, Dust Devil |
| 19 |  | Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel...
Werewolf, Every Single Night, Hot Knife |
| 20 |  | Mind Spiders
Meltdown
Wait For Us |
| 21 |  | Cat Power
Sun
Ruin, Cherokee |
| 22 |  | METZ
METZ
Headache, Wet Blanket |
| 23 |  | Jack White
Blunderbuss
Love Interruption, Sixteen Saltines |
| 24 |  | Baroness
Yellow and Green
Take My Bones Away, March to Sea |
| 25 |  | The Shins
Port of Morrow
Rifle's Spiral, Simple Song |
| 26 |  | Ty Segall Band
Slaughterhouse
Wave Goodbye, The Tongue, I Bought My Eyes |
| 27 |  | Sleigh Bells
Reign of Terror
Road to Hell, Born to Lose |
| 28 |  | Shearwater
Animal Joy
Breaking the Yearlings |
| 29 |  | The xx
Coexist
Angels, Chained |
| 30 | | Pontiak
Echo Ono
Lions of the Least |
| 31 |  | Holograms
Holograms
Chasing My Mind, Monolith |
| 32 |  | Dinosaur Jr.
I Bet On Sky
Watch The Corners |
| 33 |  | Animal Collective
Centipede Hz
Today's Supernatural, Applesauce |
| 34 |  | Fang Island
Major
Sisterly, Asunder |
| 35 |  | Wild Nothing
Nocturne
Shadow, Paradise |
| 36 | | The Tallest Man on Earth
There's No Leaving Now
1904, Revelation Blues |
| 37 |  | Unsane
Wreck
No Chance |
| 38 |  | Naomi Punk
The Feeling
Voodoo Trust, Burned Body |
| 39 |  | Deftones
Koi No Yokan
Leathers, Tempest |
| 40 |  | PAWS
Cokefloat!
Jellyfish, Bloodline |
| 41 |  | Cate Le Bon
CYRK
CYRK, Puts Me to Work |
| 42 |  | Ceremony
Zoo
Hysteria |
| 43 |  | Mac Demarco
2
Freaking Out the Neighborhood |
| 44 |  | Nude Beach
II
Walking Down My Street |
| 45 |  | Moon Duo
Circles
Sleepwalker |
| 46 | | Lace Curtains
The Garden of Joy and the Well of Lonliness
Bedroom Fantasy |
| 47 |  | The Evens
The Odds
King of Kings |
| 48 | | Swearin'
Swearin'
Here to Hear |
| 49 |  | The Orwells
Remember When
In My Bed |
| 50 |  | Of Montreal
Paralytic Stalks
Dour Percentage |
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