Best Albums of 2012

[Fourthisto]

Great 2012 albums for me so far (in no particular order):

Chairlift - Something
The Bog Pink - Future This
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

You're batting .333. Keep that up and you'll be an All Star someday, kid.

Kinda like Beach Boys meets Battles meets Beta Band.

Too many Bs for my liking.

[Legalize]

So far loving:

Pop. 1280
Cloud Nothings
Porcelain Raft

Looking forward to:

Sleigh Bells
A Place to Bury Strangers
No Age
The Men
Bear in Heaven
Band of Skulls
Lower Dens
Mind Spiders
Wymond Miles

Growing on me:

Islet
Pulled Apart by Horses
The Big Sleep

[Predot]

Looking forward to:

A Place to Bury Strangers
 

You can stream the EP here.

[Buzzstein]

Looking forward to:

A Place to Bury Strangers
 

You can stream the EP here.

It is awesome.

[frizgolf]

Looking forward to:

A Place to Bury Strangers
 

You can stream the EP here.

It is awesome.

I dunno. It's kinda samey-sounding to me. The fuzz/buzz wears on me.
I'll take "change of key" for $200, Alex.

[euro60]

Great 2012 albums for me so far (in no particular order):

Chairlift - Something
The Big Pink - Future This
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

You're batting .333. Keep that up and you'll be an All Star someday, kid.

Batting .333 is an All-Star average, so thanks, I think I'm already there 

[Fourthisto]

Batting .333 is an All-Star average, so thanks, I think I'm already there 

Doing well 8% into the season does not an All Star make.

[Rafe]

Batting .333 is an All-Star average, so thanks, I think I'm already there 

Doing well 8% into the season does not an All Star make.

Haha. Quite.

[bluebastard]

For those who care, the Mark Lanegan Band album, Blues Funeral, is solid. Nothing spectacular but it doesn't need to be.

Early favs thus far:

Various Artists - The Lemon Tape (a collection of Montreal psych-pop that is perfect for unusually sunny days)
Chris Zabriskie - Undercover Vampire Policeman (d/l it for free from his website--if you like minimal piano, this is a must hear)
Victor Villarreal - Invisible Cinema (from the Cap'n Jazz/Joan of Arc guitarist; damn good and damn catchy)

[MissKitty]

So far for 2012, I'm liking
Ben Kweller - Go Fly a Kite
Delorentos - Little Sparks
Bite the Buffalo - Bromigos
Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave
Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape

[cyclone]

The (Richard Swift produced) new Damien Jurado is probably my favorite album of his since I Break Chairs.  And I got a new appreciation for it when he recently said it was heavily influenced by a lot of the Jesus People Movement obscure Christian psych/folk records from the 60s/70s which I have been digging up for a few years now myself via a couple of a wonderful resources.  Great, great record.

[Buzzstein]

Looking forward to purchasing the django django album after February pay day. It was released the other day, and the three tunes i've heard are grand.

Not bad. Kind of reminds me of The Beta Band at times.

[Rafe]

Yeah, they're definitely interesting.

Kinda like Beach Boys meets Battles meets Beta Band.

Good call. I like them well enough, but may not buy the album after all. Your "two songs in a row" thoughts are pretty much mirrored by me now. a couple of terrific songs on there, though.

[MissKitty]

The new Palomar album is really growing on me.

[mik]

Craig Finn's solo and Heartless Bastards' latest are both super!