Favorite Albums 2012

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This is a list of my favorite 25 albums of 2012. I also include of playlist with one song from each album.

I got busy this year entering grad school so my music exploration faltered a bit. Can't say that I expanded my boundaries tremendously, but I did manage to find some interesting records. Usually my favorite album is something that I don't like at first but then have a transition where everything clicks. And that's what I got with Spiritualized this year. I really took to this direct approach to spirituality. Its indie rock but its contemplative and emotionally ranging, done with subtlety. I can't get into a discussion of them all but I fell in love with each during some week/s of this year.

1. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light

2. The Act of Estimating as Worthless – Amongst These Splintered Minds//Leaden Thoughts Sing Softly

3. Angel Olsen – Half Way Home

4. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory

5. Father John Misty – Fear Fun

6. Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N to It

7. Kindness – World You Need a Change of Mind

8. Royal Headache – Royal Headache

9. Japandroids – Celebration Rock

10. Lace Curtains – The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness

11. Small Professor – Gigantic, Vol. 1

12. Sleeping Bag – Women of Your Life

13. Pile – Dripping

14. Joey BADA$$ – 1999

15. Tigercats – Isle of Dogs

16. Total Victory – National Service

17. The Men – Open Your Heart

18. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe

19. BADBADNOTGOOD – BBNG2

20. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city

21. Recondite – On Acid

22. Sonnny & the Sunsets – Longtime Companion

23. Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt

24. Dustin Wong – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

25. Tame Impala – Lonerism

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1. Spiritualized - Freedom
2. The Act of Estimating as Worthless - My Left Thumb
3. Angel Olsen - Lonely Universe
4. Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless
5. Father John Misty - Writing a Novel
6. Perfume Genius - Take Me Home
7. Kindness - House
8. Royal Headache - Honey Joy
9. Japandroids - Adrenaline Nightshift
10. Lace Curtains - High Fantasy
11. Small Professor - Pear Razor
12. Sleeping Bag - In The Pocket
13. Pile - Prom Song
14. Joey Bada$$ - FromdaTomb$
15. Tigercats - Limehouse Nights
16. Total Victory - National Service
17. The Men - Open Your Heart
18. Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart
19. BADBADNOTGOOD - UWM (Feat. Leland Whitty)
20. Kendrick Lamar - The Art of Peer Pressure
21. Recondite - Tie In
22. Sonny & the Sunsets - Children of the Beehive
23. Jessica Pratt - Hollywood
24. Dustin Wong - Tea Tree Leaves Retreat
25. Tame Impala - Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control

Country Bumpkin

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Tracklist:

1. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Bring It on Home to Me
2. Denney and The Jets - Paranoid
3. Shovels & Rope/Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent - Boxcar
4. Palace Music - The Mountain Low
5. Fletcher C. Johnson - Just Your Kiss
6. Loudon Wainwright III - The Swimming Song
7. Silver Jews - Trains Across the Sea
8. King Tuff - Kind Of Guy
9. John Prine - Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You
10. Neil Young - Barstool Blues
11. The Strange Boys - Then
12. Austin Leonard Jones - Appaloosa
13. Sonny & the Sunsets - Dried Blood
14. George Harrison - If Not For You
15. Black Lips - How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died
16. Elvis Depressedly - Mickey's Dead
17. Deer Tick - Dead Flowers
18. Werewandas - Nytol
19. The Milk Carton Kids - New York
20. Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

How Do I Know

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Life isn’t always a fun mixtape. This is a collection of tracks about those few events in life where before will never be quite the same as after. It’s a reflective mixtape about anticipation, opportunity, challenge, anxiety, ambiguity, and uncertainty. Because if we’re honest with ourselves and entertain alternatives, no life decision can be made without doubt.

Tracklist:

1. Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming
2. Bill Callahan - Jim Cain
3. Tigercats - Kim & Thurston
4. Magnetic Fields - Torn Green Velvet Eyes
5. Here We Go Magic - How Do I Know
6. Brian Eno & John Cale - Spinning Away
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - People Ain't No Good
8. Low - Words
9. The Walkmen - Stranded
10. The Act of Estimating as Worthless - Coup D'etre Humain
11. Silver Jews - Random Rules
12. Palace Music - Work Hard/Play Hard
13. Neil Young - Lookin' For A Love
14. Blake Mills - Wintersong
15. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
16. The Men - Candy
17. Father John Misty - Fun Times in Babylon

Indietracks Compilation 2012

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50 songs for 1 GBP. Always a good mix.

Tracklist:

1. Standard Fare - 51107
2. Young Romance - Swollen Hearts, Bitten Tongues
3. The Hobbes Fanclub - Your Doubting Heart
4. Veronica Falls - Come On Over
5. Liechtenstein - Fast Forward
6. ballboy - The National Trust (Pumpkinfield Session)
7. Bart & Friends - There's No Place I'd Rather Be
8. The Birthday Kiss - Starting to Come Back to Life
9. Evans the Death - Telling Lies
10. Joanna Gruesome - Pantry Girl
11. September Girls - Hells Bells
12. Colour Me Wednesday - Holiday From Your Life
13. Allo Darlin' - City All to Himself
14. Go Sailor - Last Year
15. Stevie Jackson - Dead Man's Fall
16. Doggy - Quand Tu Dors
17. The Rosie Taylor Project - For Esmé
18. Electrophönvintage - Siq
19. The Monochrome Set - On My Balcony
20. Darren Hayman & The Long Parliament - Vinegar Tom
21. Echo Lake - Even the Blind
22. The Sunbathers - Round and Round
23. Orca Team - Resolutions
24. Golden Grrrls - Beaches
25. Tigercats - Limehouse Nights
26. T.O.Y.S - Fun Time for the Love Shy
27. Mikrofisch - Let's Kiss and Listen to Bis
28. White Town - Cut Out My Heart
29. Love Dance - Skisse #3
30. Gold-Bears - Something to Think About
31. Vacaciones - Ahora sí!
32. The School - Never Thought I'd See the Day
33. The ABC Club - Scattered Light
34. Language of Flowers - Where You Belong
35. Jasmine Minks - Poppy White
36. Sea Lions - I Never Stopped Missing That Girl
37. Werewandas - Nytol
38. Velodrome 2000 - Charity Shopping
39. Cosines - Winter A-Go-Go
40. Minibar - La Extrana Pareja
41. The June Brides - Just the Same
42. The Smittens - First Bus
43. The Just Joans - Nobody's Ever Called Me Baby
44. The 10p Mixes - My Monster
45. Markie Plays Girlpop! - Robot Man
46. Themakingof - Everything is Fine
47. Tender Trap - Love is Hard Enough
48. The Silver Factory - The World May Bring Us Down
49. This Many Boyfriends - How is This Even a Job?
50. Robberie - I Look Back on This City and Fall in Love with Her Again

The Intangible Newness of Doing the Same Old Thing

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A mixtape by rapper, Milo.

This is a playlist that should help people deal with reality. It seems like there is a really weird Digital Age trend of focusing on planet-transcendence and making life “magical” or whatever. That’s much older than the Digital Age but you get the point. All the Lady Gaga enthusiasts who are making appeals to who knows what, Kid Cudi’s insistence on being from the Moon, Wayne’s insistence on being from Mars, etc. This playlist focuses on the mundane, the ordinary, the normalcy of everyday life and trying to grapple with that in authentic ways. Ultimately realizing this life we have has enough to explore and keep us busy for much longer than Teen Moms 2 will be on TV.

No appeals to being from planets outside this giant blueberry, or having a million dollars to buy a laser beam equipped yacht or any of those hullabaloos; primarily because that cannot be honest. And you’re selling yourself short every time you subscribe to these stale notions of The Ideal. Hopefully this can spark some thought into more elaborate and unique daydreams. This is the playlist for the every-person, the idealistic pragmatist who recognizes the beauty in struggling with, what Reggie Watts calls, “binary existence.”

Tracklist:

1. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young- “Almost Cut My Hair”
2. Joni Mitchell- “California”
3. Solander- “Flight”
4. Open Mike Eagle- “Dishes”
5. Busdriver- “Mr. Mistake (Bested By The Whisper Chasm)”
6. Why?- “By Torpedo or Crohn’s”
7. Fleet Foxes- “Blue Spotted Tail”
8. Sage Francis- “Best of Times”
9. Yes- “Yesterday & Today”
10. Bobby McFerrin- “Drive”
11. Neil Young- “Pocahontas”
12. Serengeti- “The Whip”
13. The Roots- “Hall & Oates”
14. They Might Be Giants- “Dr. Worm”
15. Junip- “Sweet & Bitter”
16. Talking Heads- “This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)”

Open Mike Eagle: Rent Party Extension (2012)

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nice rap EP. if you only listen to one try Boss Fight

Everybody Taste: Why don't we take the day off?

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This guy, Matt Carr, has a nice blog called Everybody Taste. He also makes mixtapes like a professional of which this is one. If you like, check out his others via the link in the "mixtape pros" section.

Tracklist:

1. Tronics - Time Off
2. Blood Feathers - On A Holiday
3. Tanlines - All of Me
4. Harlem - Be Your Baby
5. Lower Dens - Blue & Silver
6. Terry Malts - Tumble Down
7. The Tough Shits - Heard She Kisses On The Mouth
8. Father John Misty - Nancy from Now On
9. The Babies - Here Comes Trouble
10. The Strange Boys - Doueh
11. Robyn Hitchcock - Television
12. Cass McCombs - Sacred Heart
13. So Many Wizards - Lose Your Mind
14. Creation - Try and Stop Me
15. The Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason (Demo Version)
16. Chromatics - Kill For Love
17. The Walkmen - Paper House
18. Michael Hurley - Be Kind To Me

The Act of Estimating as Worthless (2012)

Amongst These Splintered Minds​/​/​Leaden Thoughts Sing Softly

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For Ex-Lovers Only 05

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a summery mix compiled by Dead Man in 2011

Tracklist:

1. House By The Lake - National Park
2. Pretend A Great Name - Rainy Days
3. Sameblod - Feel My Breath
4. Neighbors - August
5. Tashaki Miyaki - All I Have To Do Is Dream
6. Bright Future - The Optimist
7. Summer Camp - I Want You
8. Washed Out - Amor Fati
9. Niva - Transforma
10. Papercuts - Marie Says You've Changed
11. Promises - One Two Thirteen
12. Möscow Club - Thinking Of You
13. Houndsds - Alone
14. Beach! - Summertime
15. Times New Viking - Ever Falling In Love
16. Unouomedude - Frequency
17. Rubblebucket - Silly Fathers
18. The Proctors - Fun Sunday
19. Twin Library - The Winter Hive
20. The Mantles - Raspberry Thighs
21. Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile
22. Julie & The Carjackers - June
23. Work Drugs - Curious Serge
24. Persian Rugs - Always All

For Ex-Lovers Only 03

 

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compiled by Dead Man in March 2011

 

Tracklist:

1. Memphis - Apocalypse Pop Song
2. Dream Diary - Young Veronica
3. Belong - Perfect Life
4. Moonbeams - Girl Upstairs
5. French Films - Golden Sea
6. Computer Magic - Found Out
7. Dignan Porch - Yards
8. Brave Irene - No Fun
9. Colleen Green - Dance The Night Away
10. Moon Duo - Mazes
11. The Vaccines - Blow It Up
12. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - My Terrible Friend
13. Cold Cave - Catacombs
14. Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
15. The Sandwitches - Summer Of Love
16. Melted Toys - Come On
17. Blank Dogs - Another Language
18. Vivian Girls - Dance (If You Wanna)
19. Ringo DeathStarr - Do It Every Time
20. The Notes - Those Days, Those Nights
21. Lower Dens - Batman
22. Ceremony - It's Too Late
23. Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure
24. Crystal Stilts - Flying Into The Sun

Fletcher C Johnson: It Rained Something Wicked (2010)

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some killer killer country/garage

The Sorry Shop: Bloody, Fuzzy, Cozy (2012)

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It's a good world where albums like this are just given away for free - at least for consumers.

I'm going to starting linking to free and name your price music.

For Ex-Lovers Only. The Return

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The For-Ex Lovers Only series took a long hiatus but is now back with two new mixtapes.

TRACKLIST:

DISC ONE

1. Black Tambourine - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
2. jj - Beautiful Life
3. Yuck - Natsu Nandesu
4. The Wake - The Back Of Beyond
5. Young Prisms - Dead Flowers
6. Strawberry Whiplash - Now I Know It's You
7. Crystal Stilts - Radiant Door
8. Craft Spells - Your Tomb
9. Weird Dreams - Hurt So Bad
10. La Sera - Please Be My Third Eye
11. Real Estate - Easy
12. Lotus Plaza - Strangers
13. Whirr - Junebouvier
14. Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats
15. Frankie Rose - Know Me
16. Bubblegum Lemonade - Your Valentine (Takes Me Back In Time)
17. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Helium
18. Eternal Summers - Secret Language
19. Wild Nothing - Nowhere
20. Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)
21. The Bilinda Butchers - Hai Bby (Ft. Tiny Microphone)
22. Colleen Green - Goldmine
23. Reading Rainbow - Dead End
24. Best Coast - The Only Place
25. The Frank And Walters - Indie Love Song

DISC TWO

1. Snow In Mexico - I Need To Sleep
2. Beach House - Wild
3. John Maus - No Title (Molly)
4. Tennis - Traveling
5. Howler - Back Of Your Neck (Radio Edit)
6. Soda Shop - Farewell
7. The Ivy Walls - Flash Love
8. Beach Fossils - Shallow
9. Twin Cabins - Cool Kids
10. Grimes - Genesis
11. Silver Swans - Around You
12. Chromatics - Candy
13. Violens - Der Microarc
14. Summer Heart - A Million Times
15. Replicas - You Disappear
16. Bowerbirds - In The Yard
17. Four Visions - Sparked Fire
18. Weekend - Hazel (Radio Version)
19. Grass Widow - Goldilocks Zone
20. The Sorry Shop - Go On
21. Little Chords - Always/Never
22. Those Darlins - Waste Away
23. Zola Jesus - In Your Nature (David Lynch Remix)
24. Belle & Sebastian - Crash (Exclusive Cover Version Of The Primitives)

For Ex-Lovers Only 04

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Basically I stole the idea for my mixtapes from this guy, Dead Man or Outdoor Miner (the same guy, I think). This is one of his mixes which I can't find on the internet anymore. This was compiled in 2011. I'll probably put his others up in random order. Any requests to take this down will be accepted.

Tracklist:

1. Hong Kong In The 60s – When You Were Dreaming
2. World Tour – Sparks
3. Air Waves – Knock Out
4. The Shutes – Hits Like Mourning
5. Chalk And Numbers – He Knew
6. Girls Names – Bury Me
7. Best Coast – Gone Again
8. Palpitation – New Mexico
9. The Fresh & Onlys – Do You Believe In Destiny?
10. Summer Heart – Please Stay
11. Seapony – Where We Go
12. Big Troubles – Phantom
13. Being There – Tomorrow
14. Gospel Music – Automobile (With Tracyanne Campbell)
15. The New Spring – The Glow
16. Young Dreams – Young Dreams
17. Cults – Never Heal Myself
18. Lover Lover – Freebirds
19. Burning Hearts – The Swallows
20. Il Abanico – Keep Calling
21. Craft Spells – After The Moment
22. Saskatchewan – Dreamboat
23. Blouse – Into Black
24. Lunch – Turn Around

Hyperbolic Chamber Music

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this isn't a mixtape but it may as well be. 26 rappers, 1 track, 22 minutes.

Old World, Vol. 1: Rocksteady and the Like

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Tracklist:

1. Jackie Mittoo – Black Out
2. Hugh Malcolm – Love Brother Love
3. Owen & Leon Silveras – Next Door Neighbour
4. Justin Hinds & Dominoes – Fire
5. The Ethiopians – Come On Now
6. Desmond Dekker – Keep a Cool Head
7. Tommy McCook & The Skatalites – Silver Dollar
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Small Axe
9. The Heptones – It's Like Heaven
10. The Jamaicans – Ba Ba Boom
11. Honey Boy Martin – Hey Leroy
12. Toots & The Maytals – Redemption Song
13. The Melodians – Come On Little Girl
14. Hemsley Morris – Stay Loose
15. The Paragons – Happy Go Lucky Girl
16. Alton Ellis – You Make Me So Very Happy
17. Phyllis Dillon – Don't Stay Away
18. The Slickers – Johnny Too Bad
19. Stranger & Patsy – When I Call Your Name
20. Eric Donaldson – Got To Get You Off My Mind
21. The Uniques – My Conversation
22. Jimmy Cliff – You Can Get it if You Really Want It
23. The Kingstonians – Singer Man
24. Duke Reid Group – Soul Style
25. Scotty – Draw Your Breaks
26. The Gaylads – Hard To Confess
27. Ken Boothe & Delroy Wilson – Won't You Come Home
28. The Gladiators – Hello Carol
29. Higgs & Wilson – Don't Mind Me
30. Clancy Eccles – The Revenge
31. The Termites – My Last Love

Hi-Fi Killers, Vol. 1

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Tracklist:

1. Sammy – Hi-Fi Killers
2. Guv’ver – She’s Evil
3. Fuck – Fuck Motel
4. Versus – Sunburned
5. 18^th Dye – Can you Wink!
6. Sonic Youth – 100%
7. Archers of Loaf – Fabricoh
8. Air Miami – Dolphin Expressway
9. Superchunk – For Tension
10. Yo La Tengo – Upside-Down
11. Crowsdell – Sugar Coated
12. Track Star – Bad Time
13. Unrest – Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl
14. Eric’s Trip – Girlfriend
15. The Olympic Deathsquad – Sometimes I Can Breathe
16. Dump – Flap My Arms
17. Hood – I’ve Forgotten How To Live
18. Swell – Forget About Jesus
19. Guided By Voices – The Official Ironmen Rally Song
20. Pavement – Shady Lane (Krossfader)
21. The Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
22. Quasi – Our Happiness Is Guaranteed
23. Sebadoh – The Freed Pig
24. Urusei Yatsura – Kernel

A Dance Party in Slow Motion

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Tracklist:

1. WALSH – Helicopter Does Not Exist
2. The Radio Dept. – Never Follow Suit
3. Jesse Boykins III – B4 The Night Is Thru (prod. by Machine Drum)
4. Little Dragon – Blinking Pigs
5. Princeton – To The Alps
6. Amenta – Eleutherios (prod. by Throwing Snow)
7. Air France – It’s Good To Be Around You
8. Active Child – Playing House (feat. How to Dress Well)
9. SBTRKT – Never Never (feat. Sampha)
10. John Talabot – Depak Ine
11. Neighbors – Watergun
12. Quadron – Slippin
13. Destroyer – Savage Night At the Opera
14. Wild Nothing – Bored Games
15. Benoit & Sergio – Corinne (Metronomy Cover)
16. Memory Tapes – Pink Stones
17. King Krule – The Noose of Jah City
18. FISHING – TLC
19. Evy Jane – OHSO (Andy Dixon Remix)
20. The Whitest Boy Alive – Burning
21. Nicolas Jaar – With Just One Glance (feat. Scout Larue)
22. Walter Jones – I’ll Keep On Loving You

Gentleman

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Tracklist:

1. Dune Rats – Woo!
2. Kickstand – Teenage Kicks
3. Bleached – Searching Through the Past
4. Harlem – Be Your Baby
5. Teenage Cool Kids – Beyond the Grasp of Guilt
6. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Gentleman
7. Dignan Porch – Yards
8. The Young Crooks – Young Sons
9. Track Star – Bad Time
10. Total Slacker – Magical Date Night
11. The Clean – Anything Could Happen
12. Those Darlins – Be Your Bro
13. Mark Sultan – We’re Sinking
14. Fergus & Geronimo – Stange Wool
15. Let’s Wrestle – If I Keep on Loving You
16. Hunx and His Punx – Lovers Lane
17. Thee Oh Sees – If I Stay Too Long
18. La Sera – Please Be My Third Eye
19. The Sugargliders – Give Me Some Confidence
20. The Spits – Life of Crime
21. The Lucksmiths – There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
22. The Strange Boys – Laugh at Sex, Not Her
23. The UV Race – Girl in My Bed
24. Allo Darlin’ – Dreaming
25. Black Lips – Don’t Mess Up My Baby
26. The Babies – Meet Me in the City
27. Shannon and the Clams – You Will Always Bring Me Flowers
28. The King Khan and BBQ Show – I’ll Never Belong
29. Colleen Green – Why Do U Call Me?
30. Twerps – Bring Me Down