2012 Amber Friesen Year-End Lists

ok i'm 9 months pregnant and seem to be incapable of the qualitative analysis required to make a true top-10 list. instead i'll just list a few favourites from 2012 in no particular order:

albums:

- alt-J - An Awesome Wave

- Of Monsters & Men - My Head is an Animal

- Metric - Synthetica

- Policia - Give You the Ghost

- Beach House - Bloom

- The Jezebels - Prisoner

- Chromatics - Kill for Love

songs:

- "Taro" and "Dissolve Me" by alt-J were the 2 undoubted favourites. I also really liked "George Square Thatcher Death Party" by Mogwai, "Picking up the Pieces" by Paloma Faith, and "Ungirthed" by Purity Ring

2012 P. Michael Freed Year-End Lists

2012: A Few Favorites

 

A lot of rock.  Order is mostly arbitrary.  Favorite track noted on some. 

 

Divine Fits, A Thing Called Divine Fits (Shivers)

Jack White, Blunderbuss (Sixteen Saltines)

Japandroids, Celebration Rock (The House That Heaven Built)

Tame Impala, Lonerism

Grizzly Bear, Shields (Yet Again)

Cloud Nothings, Attack on Memory (Stay Useless)

Beach House, Bloom (Wild)

Justin Townes Earle, Nothing's Going to Change . . . (Down on the Lower East Side)

Father John Misty, Fear Fun

The Shins, Port of Morrow (It's Only Life)

2012 Megan Ramer Year-End Lists

The Lumineers | The Lumineers | “Ho Hey”

Sufjan Stevens | Silver and Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5 | “Christmas In The Room”

Beach House | Bloom | “Myth”

Mumford & Sons | Babel | “I Will Wait”

Of Monsters and Men | My Head Is an Animal | “Dirty Paws”

Sinead O’Connor | How About I Be Me (and you be you)? | “4^th and Vine”

Black Prairie | A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart | “How Do You Ruin Me?”

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | The Heist | “Same Love”

Most blared single on my car radio

fun. | “We Are Young”

2012 Rick Sieber Year-End Lists

TOP 10 ALBUMS

1. Don’t Be A Stranger - Mark Eitzel
2. Plumb - Field Music
3. Sweet Heart Sweet Light - Spiritualized
4. Spooky Action From a Distance - Lotus Plaza
5. Lonerism - Tame Impala
6. Port of Morrow - The Shins
7. Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors
8. Electric Cable - Lightships
9. Long Slow Dance - The Fresh & Onlys
10. Mr. M - Lambchop

TOP 40 TRACKS

1. “Jet Out of the Tundra” - Lotus Plaza
2. “We All Have to Find Our Own Way Out” - Mark Eitzel
3. “Under the Westway” - Blur
4. “Gone Tomorrow” - Lambchop
5. “We Take Care of Our Own” - Bruce Springsteen
6. “Hey Jane” - Spiritualized
7. “The Descent” - Bob Mould
8. “Silver & Gold” - Lightships
9. “Good Kid” - Kendrick Lamar
10. “I Believe in Action” - Here We Go Magic
11. “Fire Alarm” - The Fresh & Onlys
12. “Think About Me” - The New Pornographers
13. “Oh Mercy” - Mark Eitzel
14. “Offspring Are Blank” - Dirty Projectors
15. “Bait and Switch” - The Shins
16. “So Long You Pretty Thing” - Spiritualized
17. “The Nu Temptations” - Redd Kross
18. “A New Town” - Field Music
19. “Apocalypse Dreams” - Tame Impala
20. “Untitled” - Killer Mike (featuring Scar)
21. “Call Me Maybe” - Carly Rae Jepsen
22. “White Galactic One” - Lotus Plaza
23. “4th & Vine” - Sinead O’Connor
24. “My Valentine” - Paul McCartney
25. “Narrow Way” - Bob Dylan
26. “Wild” - Beach House
27. “No Way Down” - The Shins
28. “Who’ll Pay the Bills” - Field Music