2012 Top 10 List

Howdy folks. 2012 was pretty good for tunes what for to listen to and I once again couldn't pare it down to just 10 albums. So I'm doing a top 50. Again. These aren't in any particular order but they all stood out to me in some meaningful way throughout the year. When I'm looking back on this year these will definitely be the releases I associate 2012 with.

1. Piotr Kurek - Heat
2. Mark Aubert - Fake Island
3. B.R. Garm - The 78th Morningtide
4. Giant Claw - Mutant Glamor
5. Zomes - Variations Vol. 1
6. Design - Hangin'
7. Matthew Dear - Beams
8. Fluorescent Heights - Tourism
9. Monster Rally - Beyond The Sea
10. Mind Spiders - Meltdown
11. Batida - Batida
12. Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
13. Andrea Belfi - Wege
14. V/A - The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2
15. Ashan - To Return To
16. Kendrick Lamaar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
17. DIIV - Oshin
18. Expo 70/Pulse Emitter/Date Palms/Faceplant - 4 Way Split
19. Fort Romeau - Kingdoms
20. Peaking Lights - Lucifer In Dub
21. Pop. 1280 - The Horror
22. Sand Circles -Motor City
23. Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos - Icon Give Thank
24. Bill Vermette - Archives 1
25. The Aloha Spirit - Under Wild Skies
26. Daniel Bachman - Oh Be Joyful
27. Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T
28. X.y.r. - Robinson Crusoe (Lost Soundtrack)
29. Evian Christ - Kings And Them
30. Tim Hecker - Instrumental Tourist
31. Gary War- Jared's Lot
32. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
33. Swans - The Seer
34. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
35. Holly Herndon - Movement
36. Innergaze - Mutual Dreaming
37. Uncanny Valley - Speaking In Prosthetic Tongues
38. Black Marble - A Different Arrangement
39. Gorgeous Bully - The Young Obese
40. Pierrot Lunaire - Theme For Ascension And Eternal Love
41. Suaves Figures - Nouveau Gymnastes
42. Gnod - The Long & Short Of It
43. Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou - The Bariba Sound 1970-1976
44. Black Velvet Stereo - Metal Rain Machine
45. Kevin Drumm - Relief
46. Can - The Lost Tapes
47. Ital - Hive Mind
48. Dolphins Into The Future - …On Seafaring Isolation
49. Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
50. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generators