2012 Top 10 List

In no particular order...

1. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (Carpark)

2. Evans the Death - Evans the Death (Slumberland)

3. Swearin' - Swearin' (Salinas)

4. Ringo Deathstarr - Mauve (Sonic Unyon)

5. Holograms - Holograms (Captured Tracks)

6. The Babies - Our House On The Hill (Woodsist)

7. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)

8. DIIV - Oshin (Captured Tracks)

9. Violens - True (Slumberland)

10. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)

Honorable Mentions:
Sourpatch - Stagger and Fade (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
Grass Widow - Internal Logic (self-released)
Literature - Arab Spring (Square of Opposition)
Screaming Females - Ugly (Don Giovanni)
you're jovian - Stereochronic (Punkadelia)
Grimes - Visions (4AD)
Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior (Kanine)
Lorelei - Enterprising Sidewalks (Slumberland)
Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)

Singles / EPs:
Girls Names - "Hypnotic Regression" (Slumberland)
Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats 7" (Slumberland)
The History of Apple Pie - Do It Wrong 7" (Marshall Teller)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Jeremy 7" (Slumberland)
French Films - "When People Like You Filled the Heavens" (GAEA)
The Detective Agency - Daggers EP (self-released)
Adored - Five Song EP (self-released)
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP (Mexican Summer)
Novella - Novella EP (Italian Beach Babes)
Craft Spells - Gallery EP (Captured Tracks)

♡ coolest moment of 2012: Black Tambourine shows ♡