Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Bloggy's 50 Favorites Albums of 2012

It's that time of year folks when there are lists upon lists, lists about lists, lists as far as the eye can see. I simultaneously love and loathe it. I love to read lists and I love to think of lists but I also feel like whenever you're including one thing you're excluding another thing. I'm also of the school that ranking art is subjective, ridiculous and super-fun! I've done things a little differently this year. I'm going to have three separate lists; A list of albums, a list of songs and a locals only list. I don't want any overlap on these lists to help expose the maximum number of artists. That means if an artist made my favorite song list they won't make my favorite album list. This also means that no local artists are eligible for my favorite albums list. Certainly there are artists who would have been included on every list if I decided not to have overlap but that is my decision and damnit, it's my blog! You'll also notice that I am saying "favorite" not best. I think the most controversial thing about this list (other than the overlap rule) will be the ranking I've chosen. I know that there will be people who say, "I can't believe you think X is better than Y." To those people I'd like to point back to the opening of this paragraph. Ranking art is subjective, silly and fun so chill-out, have fun and if you're a Spotify user click the album cover to go to the album on Spotify. Hopefully, all of these images don't make your computer crash, if they do I'm sorry. Happy listing!

50.

POP ETC - POP ETC



49.

Teen Daze - The Inner Mansions

48.

The Helio Sequence - Negotiations

47.

Lower Dens - Nootropics

46.

Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts

45.

John Talabot - ƒIN

44.

Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance

43.

Hot Chip - In Our Heads

42.

Gossip - A Joyful Noise

41.

Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal

40.

Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect

39.

The XX - Coexist

38.

Ava Luna - Ice Level

37.

Young Prisms - In Between

36.

Tanlines - Mixed Emotions

35.

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

34.

Django Django - Django Django

33.

Friends - Manifest!

32.

Frankie Rose - Interstellar

31.

Cat Power - Sun

30.

Hospitality - Hospitality

29.

Twin Shadow - Confess

28.

Jack White - Blunderbuss

27.

Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?

26.

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music

25.

Races - Year of the Witch

24.

Sharon Van Etten - Tramp

23.

Port St. Willow - Holiday

22.

Holy Other - Held

21.

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithful Man

20.

El-P - Cancer 4 Cure

19.

Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship

18.

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

17.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

16.

Beach House - Bloom

15.

Tennis - Young & Old

14.

The Walkmen - Heaven

13.

Tame Impala - Lonerism

12.

Toy - Toy

11.

Grizzly Bear - Shields

10.

Sports - Sports

9.

Teen Daze - All of Us, Together

8.

Team Me - To the Treetops!

7.

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

6.

DIIV - Oshin

5.

Weird Dreams - Choreography

4.

Lightships - Electric Cables

3.

Stealing Sheep - Into the Diamond Sun

2.

Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE

1.

Purity Ring - Shrines

So, there it is folks 2012 in 50 records. As I mentioned, you can click any album cover to open the album in Spotify. I've also created a playlist with one highlight song from each of these records that you can listen and subscribe to here. Feel free to tweet or Facebook me your thoughts.