Top 74 of 2012

 2012 - A slow year on SIART as far as posts go... Still, I listened to plenty of music this year, and seeing as how it's been a few years since I've done a best of list I decided to get into the year end spirit and offer up the records that made my year brighter. I haven't ranked them, but the top 5 would probably be my faves of the year. And yeah, it's 74, not 75. That is just the way it worked out. The one record that should be on here but isn't is Unknown Mortal Orchestra's self titled album from 2011. I discovered it the last week of 2011 and played it almost all of 2012. Still listen to it regularly. Can't wait for their new one next month - should make 2013's best of!

    1    Violens - True
    2    Whomadewho - Brighter
    3    Tame Impala - Lonerism
    4    TOY - Toy
    5    Pond - Beards, Wives, Denim
    6    Metric - Synthetica
    7    Bob Hund - Later Som Miljarder
    8    Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
    9    Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
    10    Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II
    11    Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
    12    Smile - A Flash In The Night
    13    Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble
    14    Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat And Bone
    15    Com Truise - In Decay
    16    Menomena - Moms
    17    Sam Sparro - Return To Paradise
    18    Breton - Other People's Problems
    19    Orbital - Wonky
    20    Thee Satisfaction - Awe Naturale
    21    The Time & Space Machine - Taste The Lazer
    22    Plug 1 & Plug 2 present First Serve
    23    Allah-Las - Allah-Las
    24    John Cale - Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
    25    The 2 Bears - Be Strong
    26    Gotye - Making Mirrors
    27    Lovelock - Burning Feeling
    28    Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
    29    Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour
    30    Santigold - Master of My Make Believe
    31    Kimbra - Vows
    32    Amadou & Mariam - Folila
    33    Barry Adamson - I Will Set You Free
    34    Fac Dance 2 compilation
    35    Chromatics - Kill For Love
    36    Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
    37    Daphni - Jialong
    38    The Darcys - Aja
    39    David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
    40    Frankie Rose - Interstellar
    41    Graham Coxon - A+E
    42    The Herbaliser - There Were Seven
    43    Hot Chip - in Our Heads
    44    Jah Wobble & Keith Levene - Yin And Yang
    45    John Talabot - fin
    46    Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
    47    Miike Snow - Happy To You
    48    Phenomenal Handclap Band - Form & Control
    49    The Raveonettes - Observator
    50    St. Etienne - Words and Music By...
    51    Spoek Mathambo - Father Creeper
    52    Stars - The North
    53    Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
    54    thenewno2 - Thefearofmissingout
    55    Yeasayer - Fragrant World
    56    Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
    57    DJ Food - The Search Engine
    58    Big Boi - Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
    59    Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
    60    Chrome Canyon - Elemental Themes
    61    Solid Gold - Eat Your Young
    62    Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance
    63    PIL - This Is PIL
    64    Reptar - Body Faucet
    65    Robot Orchestra - Beat The Odds
    66    Shawn Lee - Synthesizers in Space
    67    Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Crown And Treaty
    68    Todd Terje - It's The Arps
    69    Zombie Zombie - Rituels d'un Nouveau Monde
    70    Lindstrøm - Six Cups of Rebel/Smalhans
    71    BNLX - LP
    72    Actress - R.I.P.
    73    Grimes - Visions
    74    Four Tet - Pink