Friends Of Indie Music Filter: Best Of 2012

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”