[one-half]

25. Gathered Ghosts – Gathered Ghosts
mp3: Gathered Ghosts – Feels Like Nothing
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[one-half-last]

24. Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams
mp3: Dum Dum Girls – Hold Your Hand
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[one-half]

23. Yung Life – Youth’s Hours
mp3: Yung Life – I Be Scared
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

22. White Life – White Life
mp3: White Life – Time Is Wasting
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

21. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
mp3: The War On Drugs – Baby Missiles
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

20. Active Child – You Are All I See
mp3: Active Child – Hanging On
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

19. Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
mp3: Shabazz Palaces – Swerve… the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

18. Peaking Lights – 936
mp3: Peaking Lights – All The Sun That Shines
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

17. Son Lux – We Are Rising
mp3: Son Lux – Rising
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

16. SPORTS – SPORTS
mp3: SPORTS – Mind Has Changed
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

15. Panda Bear – Tomboy
Panda Bear – Surfer’s Hymn
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

14. Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care
mp3: Luke Temple – Ophelia
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

13. gsstoak – MT. INTERNET
mp3: gsstoak – goleg
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

12. Moss Of Aura – Wading
mp3: Moss Of Aura – Jaminal
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

11. Dominant Legs – Invitation
mp3: Dominant Legs – Where We Trip The Light
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

10. Born Gold – Bodysongs
mp3: Born Gold – Early Birthday
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

9. John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
mp3: John Maus – Believer
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

8. Future Islands – On The Water
mp3: Future Islands – Balance
[/one-half-last]

[one-half]

7. Police Academy 6 – Police Academy 6
mp3: Police Academy 6 – Fill in the Blanks (featuring Top Girls)
[/one-half]

[one-half-last]

6. Gauntlet Hair – Gauntlet Hair
mp3: Gauntlet Hair – Top Bunk
[/one-half-last]

5. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
mp3: Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

4. Wye Oak – Civilian
mp3: Wye Oak – Civilian

3. Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
mp3: Handsome Furs – Serve The People

2. Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation
mp3: Youth Lagoon – Cannons

1. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
mp3: Kurt Vile – In My Time

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Holy crap there was truck loads of good music this year. This list is, of course, by no means perfect, and I most certainly could switch around the order with whatever mood I’m in that day. But in the end Mr. Kurt Vile and his beauty of an LP was played and enjoyed more than any other album this year. The same can be said for Sound Kapital (Youth Lagoon has just been killing my ears lately – so it shot up the chart). Wye Oak’s Civilian was a definite grower on me. For some odd reason the first couple of plays on that album didn’t fly too well, but over time I really began to cherish that set of tunes. Supremely powerful and well written. Now on to 2012…where many big big big big things await (stay tuned).