Album of the Year (2012)

Mrs. Magician - Strange Heaven

Honorable mentions for me:
My Best Friend - In Ghostlike Fading
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
Beach House - Bloom
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Crystal Castles - (III)

ham really let me down this year with not posting a thesis on this years music.

I was actually going to make this very thread in a week. I will still post my favorite 20-30 albums from this year then. I doubt I ever make a list of 100+ again

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

as long as we all pretend cold embrace isn't on it

Not sure which of these I'll say is my favorite over another, but these three were tops for me:

Jack White - Blunderbuss
Punch Brothers - Who's Feeling Young Now?
White Rabbits - Milk Famous

Japandroids - Celebration Rock

I could be forgetting some records but I feel like not too much has really grabbed me this year. At least there was nothing that I rocked most days for a period of weeks. With that said, on to the stuff I did dig.

Recently I've been enjoying Luxury Problems by Andy Stott (laptop/shitty speakers won't play it as intended). I'll go ahead and second some jams that others have mentioned: Converge, Frank Ocean.

Oh shit, Burial's Kindred EP came out this year. Ashtray Wasp is one of my favorite songs in a while. And Joey Bada$$'s 1999 mixtape is dope.

/edit I forgot the TNGHT EP.

Beach House - Bloom

M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

Art By Numbers -Reticence: The Musical

I've really been out of the music loop this year in comparison to other years. Anyhow, I still venture outside my cave a few times:

Purity Ring - Shrines. Cocaine in an album. I'm sure there's better albums this year from a talent/art/critic perspective. The songs all sound very similar and it's only 38 minutes long, but even as a Waffles Power User+, I don't think I've ever heard an album half as catchy as this.

Other albums I enjoyed a great deal:
Twin Shadow - Confess
Beach House - Bloom
Grimes - Visions
Hot Chip - In Our Heads

scal_sl said:

I've really been out of the music loop this year in comparison to other years. Anyhow, I still venture outside my cave a few times:

Purity Ring - Shrines. Cocaine in an album. I'm sure there's better albums this year from a talent/art/critic perspective. The songs all sound very similar and it's only 38 minutes long, but even as a Waffles Power User+, I don't think I've ever heard an album half as catchy as this.

Other albums I enjoyed a great deal:
Twin Shadow - Confess
Beach House - Bloom
Grimes - Visions
Hot Chip - In Our Heads

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I like where your head's at. Other top ones for me include:
Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (holy fuck so good)
Freelance Whales - Diluvia (a bit of a change, but a fun album for sure)
The Royal Concept - The Royal Concept EP (cheating since it's just an EP, but I love their sound although it's quite similar to Phoenix)
Yeasayer - Fragrant World (part of the reason for this is the cool way in which they "leaked" the entire album via the scavenger hunt. The album itself is great in my opinion)

I'm sure I'll think of some more.