Best Albums of 2012 shortlist Pt. 1
3 ♥I feel like this year is going to be SO hard for me to whittle down to 25-50 albums. But here’s shortlist in no order, just my favorite albums of this year so I all I have to do is eventually rank them. Unlike past years, I’m not going to go back and listen to highly ranked albums that I just completely missed unless they’re just new albums that get released now or after this.
If I’m missing something egregious, send me a note and let me know.
The Idler Wheel… (Fiona Apple)
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (Kendrick Lamar)
Payback (Danny!)
Channel Orange (Frank Ocean)
Life Is Good (Nas)
Habits & Contradictions (Schoolboy Q)
The Boom & The Blight (Two Gallants)
Young & Old (Tennis)
Gone (Vacationer)
Attack On Memory (Cloud Nothings)
Rot Gut, Domestic (Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s)
The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (Nada Surf)
Hospitality (Hospitality)
Boys & Girls (Alabama Shakes)
Blak And Blu (Gary Clark, Jr.)
Master of My Make-Believe (Santigold)
The Stoned Immaculate (Curren$y)
Celebration Rock (Japandroids)
The OF Tape Vol. 2 (Odd Future)
Traveling Alone (Tift Merritt)
Is Your Love Big Enough?(Lianne La Havas)
Russian Roulette (The Alchemist)
Animal Joy (Shearwater)
Mirage Rock (Band of Horses)
The Lumineers (The Lumineers)
Born To Die (Lana Del Rey)
Devotion (Jessie Ware)
R.A.P. Music (Killer Mike)
Oceania (Smashing Pumpkins)
Language (Zulu Winter)
Signs & Signifiers (J.D. McPherson)
Threads (Now, Now)
The Only Place (Beach House)
Nootropics (Lower Dens)
Neck Of The Woods (Silversun Pickups)
Arrow (Heartless Bastards)
Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Lonerism (Tame Impala)
Home Again (Michael Kiwanuka)
Here (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes)
People Hear What They See (Oddisee)
Dejenme Llorar (Carla Morrison)
Plumb (Field Music)
Tramp (Sharon Van Etten)
Women & Work (Lucero)
Delta Spirit (Delta Spirit)
Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Justin Townes Earle)
The Lion’s Roar (First Aid Kit)
Voyageur (Kathleen Edwards)
Bloom (Beach House)
Shields (Grizzly Bear)
How To Live With A Phantom (Shintaro Sakamoto)
Lonesome Dreams (Lord Huron)
Old World Romance (Sea Wolf)
Lost Songs (…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead)
Violent Waves (Circa Survive)
Beautiful Things (Anthony Green)
Fear Fun (Father John Misty)
