Best Albums - 2012

30. How To Dress Well - Total Loss

29. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

 

















28. Grizzly Bear - Shields

27. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze

26. Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion

25. Polica - Give You The Ghost


















24. Chairlift - Something

23. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

22. Menomena - Moms


















21. Jessie Ware - Devotion

20. Scott Kid- White Noise

19. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

18. Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect

17. Craft Spells - Gallery

16. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

15. Frankie Rose - Interstellar

14. Alby Daniels - This Dawn

13. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

12. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 

11. Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves

 

















10. Grimes - Visions

9. Tame Impala- Lonerism

8. The Walkmen - Heaven

7. Dive - Oshin

6. Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend

5. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp

4. Chromatics - Kill For Love


















3. Beach House - Bloom

2. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It


















1. Wild Nothing - Nocturne

St. Vincent

Best Songs - 2012 (pick your order)

Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrasing


 Craft Spells - Burst


Porcelain Raft - Put Me To Sleep


Sun Kil Moon - Young Love


Beach House - Myth


Chromatics - Kill For Love


Perfume Genius - Floating Spit


Frankie Rose - Gospel/Grace


Rhye - Open


Beach Fossils - Shallow


Bat For Lashes - Laura


Cloud Nothings - No Future/No Past


Abby Daniels - This Dawn 


Memoryhouse - Walk With Me


Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built


Neptune - Lemonade1


Doe Paoro - Born Whole


How To Dress Well - & It Was U

 
Twin Shadow - 5 Seconds


DIIV(Dive) - How Long Have You Known?

5 Best Music Videos - 2012

5. Grimes - Oblivion 


4. tUnE-yArDs - My Country


3. Explosions In The Sky - Postcard from 1972


2. Wild Nothing - Paradise


1. Polica - Wandering Star

5 Best Covered Tracks - 2012

5. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Jeremy (Magnetic Fields)


4.  Field Music - Rent (Pet Shop Boys)


3. Bon Iver - Who Is It (Bjork)


2. Mark Kozelek - Randolph's Tango (Thin Lizzy)


1. Chromatics - Ceremony (Joy Division)

10 Best Album Covers - 2012

10. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

9. Jessie Ware - Devotion

8. Scott Kid - White Noise

7. Polica - Give You The Ghost 

6. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze

5. Phedre - Phedre

4. Lower Dens - Nootropics

3. Chromatics - Running From the Sun

2. Las Malas Amistades - Maleza























1. Nicolas Jaar - Don't Break My Love

Crafting Spells

Walkmen Heaven

getting the families involved. playing a few dates with Beach House (!!!)

DIVE (er)

The band, and the album. One of the most gifted tracks of '12, and an album to hold us over till the next Washed Out offerings. These songs just do it.

beach house, myth

At long last. Well, two years isn't so long.

we dream in PoP

Memoryhouse may be the definition of dream pop. Beach Fossils and Frankie Rose make blissful returns, ditching fuzz, no doubt Wild Nothing-indebted.

we Dream in Pop

Wild Nothing - Nowhere



memoryhouse - Walk With Me

Beach Fossils - Shallow



Frankie Rose - Interstellar

{2011 videos}

Some fine videos. And fine videos require great songs.

5. Youth Lagoon - "Montana"


4. Active Child - "Playing House"


3. Memory Tapes - "Today Is Our Life"


2. St. Vincent - "Cruel"


1. Low - "Try To Sleep"