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2012 Favorite Albums

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Here are a few of my favorite albums from the past year. Listen for yourself in my “2012 Favorite Albums” playlist on Spotify.

2012 Albums I Anticipated

  • Andrew Bird – Break it Yourself / Hands of Glory
  • Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
  • The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
  • Beach House – Bloom
  • Feist – Metals
  • Grizzly Bear – Shields
  • Japandroids – Celebration Rock
  • Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
  • Mumford & Sons – Babel
  • Passion Pit – Gossamer
  • Regina Spektor – What we Saw from the Cheap Seats
  • Sigur Ros – Valtari
  • Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

2012 Albums that Surprised Me

  • Alex Winston – King Con

  • Bill Ryder-Jones – If…

  • Diiv – Oshin
  • Fang Island – Major
  • First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
  • Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
  • Lightships – Electric Cables
  • The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
  • Miike Snow – Happy to You
  • Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts
  • Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
  • Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
  • Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
  • Twin Shadow – Confess

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