Monday, March 4, 2013

Keep Your Head up, My Love: A.B.’s 2012 Music Blog









Top Tracks of 2012--
(Consolidated list as shown on the daily fb feed)

1. Geographer - Kits
2. Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
3. The Lumineers – Stubborn Love
4. Grimes - Genesis
5. Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built
6. Purity Ring - Fineshrine
7. CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share
8. Sigur Ros - Varua
9. Civil Twilight & Ra Ra Riot - River
10. Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks
11. Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen
12. Capital Cities – Safe and Sound
13. Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
14. Geographer - Boulder
15. Stars – Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give it
16. Muse - Madness
17. Grimes - Oblivion
18. Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days
19. Citizens! – True Romance
20. The Lumineers – Ho Hey
21. Bloc Party – Day Four
22. The xx - Chained
23. Tribes - Sappho
24. Chairlift – I Belong in Your Arms
25. Walk the Moon – Anna Sun
26. Frank Ocean – Thinkin About You
27. Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait
28. Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running
29. A Silent Film – Harbour Lights
30. Metric – Breathing Underwater
31. The Eastern Sea – The Match
32. Of Monsters & Men – Dirty Paws
33. Blondfire – Where the Kids Are
34. Lushlife - Magnolia
35. Grizzly Bear – A Simple Answer
36. Kitten – Cut it Out
37. Major Lazer – Get Free
38. Royal Teeth - Wild
39. The Gaslight Anthem – “45”
40. Ben Howard – The Wolves












Top 40 Playlist + Honorable Mention (shown below) --



Songs likely to be higher when I unfairly judge myself looking back at this next year:

12. Capital Cities – Safe and Sound
29. A Silent Film – Harbour Lights
36. Kitten – Cut it Out
40. Ben Howard – The Wolves

And likely half a dozen or so Honorable Mention tracks I'm sure.












The Last 15 Cut :

Passion Pit – Where I come From
Usher - Climax
Ritual Union – Little Dragon
Phillip Phillips - Home
Little Dragon – Sunshine
The Shins – A Simple Song
Smoke & Jackal – No Tell
Vacationer – Good as New
Animal Kingdom – Strange Attractor
Django Django – Default
Crystal Fighters – At Home
Saint Etienne – Tonight
Islands - Hallways
Dirty Projectors – Gun Has No Trigger



Spotify:
This list is the top 40 + Last 15 Cut + another ~40 Honorable Mention

Top 5 New Band/Artist discoveries (for me) in 2012

The Lumineers
Grimes
Of Monsters & Men
Kitten
CHVRCHES

 









Overall Top 15 Albums of 2012
1. Grimes - Visions
2. Geographer - Myth
3.The  Lumineers - The Lumineers
4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
5. Sigur Ros - Valtari
6. Twin Shadow - Confess
7. Of Monsters & Men - My Head is an Animal
8. Frank Ocean - channel Orange
9. Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
10. Stars  - Never Trust a Happy Song
11. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
12. Purity Ring - Shrines
13. Kitten - Cut it Out EP
14. Bloc Party- Day Four
15. Civil Twilight - In Light