You know the drill. Here’s what I thought rocked in April of this new year we call 2013 (featuring songs by Still Life Still, YesYou, STRFKR, CHVRCHES and many more).
This time, I only made the playlist on Rdio and Soundcloud (below). I might be done with Grooveshark, as I’m not really sure what they contribute to this site.
You know the drill. Here’s what I thought rocked in January of this new year we call 2013 (featuring songs by Alpine, Jagwar Ma, The Royal Concept, Youth Lagoon, Deptford Goth and many more).
I’m constantly trying to figure out what the best streaming site is to post all the tracks. I made playlists on Rdio and Grooveshark, but in both there were tracks not in their system. I’m kind of done with Songza as I’ve never really seen any benefit. But, Soundcloud. You had almost every track. Lucky you, you get embedded.
So many amazing videos in 2012, 29 of which I’ve collected here. If I had to narrow it down though to a top 3? Here’s my picks.
1) “Sweater” by Willow.
2) “Brian Wilson is A.L.I.V.E.” by Rich Aucoin.
3) “Midnight City”, “Reunion” and “Wait” by M83 (triology).
Check out the full list here.
Here’s my list of the best of 2012 lists (for songs and albums), collected from all the blogs that I read on a daily basis. I’ll be adding to this as well as new lists appear online. And of course, the master of all lists is over at Largehearted Boy. Check it out.
The 405 (albums)
Aesthetes Anonymous (top albums)
Alphabet Bands (tops songs / top everything)
All Things Go (top music videos / top remixes)
Audio Muffin (top albums)
Beats Per Minute (top albums / top EPs / top music videos / top songs)
Bedwetting Cosmonaut (best songs / best albums)
Breaking More Waves (top albums)
Captain’s Dead (favorite albums)
Cause = Time (best albums)
Chartattack (best songs / best videos)
Chromewaves (favourite albums
Consequence of Sound (top albums / top music videos / top songs)
Exclaim! (top 50 albums)
Everybody Taste (best albums / best songs)
Gorilla vs. Bear (albums / best mixes / music videos / songs)
Knox Road (top albums)
The Line of Best Fit (albums / songs)
Listen Before You Buy (top albums)
Mad Mackerel (top songs)
Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good (best albums / best songs)
Nialler9 (best new artists / best remixes / best songs)
Perfect Midnight World (top songs)
Pitchfork (top 50 albums)
Pretty Much Amazing (best albums / best mixtapes and EPs / best songs)
Quick Before It Melts (albums)
Rawkblog (favorite albums)
Rollo and Grady (top albums)
Skatterbrain! (favorite songs)
Snob’s Music (music)
Soft Signal (albums / songs)
SomeVelvet Blog (best albums)
Stereogum (best new bands / readers poll top songs / best albums)
Sunset in the Rearview (best albums / top EPs and Mixtapes)
The Recommender (best songs)
Their Bated Breath (best albums / best songs)
Tiny Mix Tapes (favorite albums)
Winnie Cooper (top albums)
You Ain’t No Picasso (favorite songs)
Like last year, I polled a bunch of music supervisors that I know about their top 5 albums of the year, plus their favourite song. Here’s what a few of them came up with. **By the way, if I e-mailed you about this and haven’t received your picks, send them along and I can add them to the list.
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Toddrick Spalding (High Bias Industries, @totalrecordnerd)
Albums:
1. Father John Misty – Fear Fun
2. The Evens – The Odds
3. ∆ (Alt-J) – An Awesome Wave
4. Meat Wave – Meat Wave
5. Doomtree – No Kings
Song: Nicki Manaj – “Starships” or Father John Misty “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
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Marsha Shandur (@marshamusic)
Albums:
Mo Kenney – Mo Kenney
Maximo Park – The National Health
Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe In Hope
Kirty – All I Really Know
Eef Barzelay – Songs For Mary
Song: David Berkeley – “The Fire In My Head” or Maximo Park “The National Health”
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David Hayman (Supersonic Creative, @davidhueyhayman)
Albums:
1. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
2. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
3. Bahamas - Barchords
4. C2C - Tetra
5. Foxygen - Take The Kids Off Broadway / Jack White (tie) - Blunderbuss
Song: Gary Clark Jr. - ”Bright Lights”
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Rebecca Rienks (E! Entertainment, @BuhbeccaBinks)
Albums:
Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Ceremony - Zoo
The Orwells - Remember When
Young Magic - Melt
Song: Diamond Rugs – “Gimme a Beer”
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Joel High (Creative Control, @cre8ve_ctrl)
Albums:
Titus Andronicus – Local Business
Delta Spirit – Delta Spirit
Best Coast – The Only Place
Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
Diplo – Express Yourself
Song: Die Antwoord – “Fatty Boom Boom”
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Jeremy Von Hollen (Instinct Entertainment, @jvonhollen)
Albums:
The Shins – Port of Morrow
Mother Mother - The Sticks
Dead Sara – Dead Sara
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
Neil Young – Psychedelic Pill
Song: K’naan - ”Better”
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Amine Ramer – (States Of Sound, @statesofsound)
Albums:
Beach House – Bloom
Matthew Dear – Beams
Kindness – World, You Need A Change Of Mind
Chromatics – After Dark 2 Masters
Glass Animals – Leaflings EP
Song: Guillemots – “Fleet”
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Amanda Krieg – (Format, @tadpoleaudio)
Albums:
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals – The Lion, The Beast, The Beat
Delilah – From The Roots Up
Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
Kishi Bashi – 151A
Of Monsters and Men – My Head Is An Animal
Song: Willy Moon “Yeah Yeah”
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Heather Guibert – (Neophonic, @FranciumEnt)
Albums:
Dead Sara – Dead Sara
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
Ellie Goulding – Halcyon
The Helio Sequence – Negotiations
Of Monsters And Men – My Head Is An Animal
Song: Stars – “Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It”
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Tom Hutch – (Grayson Matthews, @tomhutchmusic)
Albums:
∆ (Alt-J) – An Awesome Wave
Diamond Rings – Free Dimensional
Mosh – Monarchy
Grimes – Visions
Knife Party – Rage Valley
Song: A Tribe Called Red – “Electric Pow Wow Drum”
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Meghan Carlin – (Grayson Matthews)
Albums:
Action Bronson – Blue Chips
xxyyxx – xxyyxx
Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.d City
TNGHT – TNGHT
Song: Kendrick Lamar – “Money Trees”
So, here’s my list. For the first time since I’ve started making these, I’ve found all the tracks on one streaming service, Soundcloud (via their “Add To Set” feature). While I spend some time later on tonight putting these tracks on Rdio, Grooveshark, Spotify and the like, take a listen to the 34 songs I thought rocked in 2012.
Also, I couldn’t sort them from least to most favourite. Instead, they’re listed alphabetically.
Update: The playlists are now up on these sites.
