Anyone who knows a chronic music enthusiast knows that we live to make lists. Yeah, High Fidelity has us pegged in many ways. It’s a month past the midway point but I’d like to share my favorites from the first half of 2012. I started this awhile ago so that’s why some of the stuff I have written about lately isn’t featured here. I’m not going to ramble on too much because there is going to be a lot of music for you to dive into. I’m kicking it off with my Top 25 Albums and a Spotify playlist with my favorite track from each.
Top 25 Albums:
- Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
- Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
- Japandroids - Celebration Rock
- Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
- Torche - Harmonicraft
- Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
- Grass is Green - Ronson
- Zammuto - Zammuto
- Poniak - Echo Ono
- Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
- Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
- Father John Misty - Fear Fun
- King Tuff - King Tuff
- Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
- Beach House - Bloom
- Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
- Jack White - Blunderbuss
- El-P - Cancer for Cure
- Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
- Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
- Guided by Voices - Let’s Go Eat the Factory / Class Clown Spots a UFO
- Death Grips - The Money Store
- OFF! - OFF!
- Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship
- Dr. Dog - Be the Void
Top 5 EPs:
- Speedy Ortiz - Sports EP
- J.Nolan x Reese Jones - The Archetype EP
- Graph - EP 3
- Mr. Dream - Fatherland
- Habitat - Habitat
Top 5 7"s:
- California X - "Sucker" / "Mummy"
- Animal Collective - "Honeycomb" / "Gotham"
- The Black Angels - "Watch Out Boy" / "I’d Rather Be Lonely"
- LAMC 7 SERIES: LAMC #2 - Future Islands / Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Split
- LAMC 7 SERIES: LAMC #1 - A Place to Bury Strangers / Ceremony Split
Top 5 Shows:
- Pile / Grass is Green / Ovlov / Fat History Month - January 28, 2012 @ O’Brien’s
- Bar Brains / H2O - April 16, 2012 @ Paradise Rock Club
- Codeine / Thalia Zedek - June 30, 2012 @ Brighton Music Hall
- Future Islands / Ed Schrader’s Music Beat / Skimask - April 28, 2012 @ Paradise Rock Club
- Cursive / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Conduits - April 2, 2012 @ The Middle East Downstairs
Top 5 Disappointments:
- Suckers - Candy Salad
- The Big Pink - Future This
- Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
- The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
- The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Top 5 Artists I “Didn’t Get”:
- Kitty Pryde
- The Caretaker
- Chromatics
- Perfume Genius
- Frankie Rose
Top 5 Comedy Albums:
- Patrice O’Neal - Mr. P
- Doug Stanhope - Before Turning the Gun on Himself
- Louie CK - Word: Live at Carnegie Hall
- Bobcat Goldthwait - You Don’t Look the Same Either
- Hannibal Buress - Animal Furnace
Top 5 Movies:
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Prometheus
- Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
- 21 Jump Street
- The Avengers
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