Best Albums of 2012
2nd Quarter
Well we are officially at the halfway point which means that it is time for another installment of our top albums of the quarter list. As always we will be discussing albums that dropped during this particularl 3 month span and as far as 3 month spans go, well this fucker was tasty as shit.
Plenty of wonderful albums were released, a few that may very well be considered classics by whatever species takes over after we are gone. It is a god damned exciting time to be a music fan and an obsessive.
This time around we include contributions from our two newest contributors, the internet mystery man known only as Employee and one K. Love Eckstadt which I assume is a made up name by a member of a wiccan cult.
Since we last spoke Joel has opted for voluntary sterilization much to the relief of his 7 child brides that have pumped out his 43 children.
We discovered that Brandon aka Brando looks like the love child of Russell Crowe and Orson Wells.
Tom got even more handsome.
Del got even shorter.
And Tim, well Tim is now wearing colored denim.
Over the past 3 months we have cemented our position as the internets number one recipe sharing music site and the top news source for men 20-45 who live in their parents basement and still see Ron Paul as a viable presidential candidate. It has been exciting and I am sure the next 3 will be just as exciting.
Joel Frieders
Horizon EP
For some reason I've listened to this more while trying to get motivated than as a decompression tool, and I think that stems from the fact that imagining myself pulling three footers gets me excited now that I'm pot-free. If you've ever needed a reason to sit and do nothing, Ambinate is the perfect fucking soundtrack. Plus I hear he's Armenian.
Sand & Snow
This band is fucking awesome. Also, this is the one album my wife has joined me in adoring the piss out of. It sounds super-produced and I think it was a purposeful intention, because it sounds monstrously fucking gorgeous. Del LeFevre is a piece of shit.
Sexy Weekend EP
The voice on this dude is one of my favorite voices in rock today, it's both labored and effortless, and if their laundry bill have anything to say about them, these muthafuckers stink. I like my rock singers like I like my prison wardens: contrarian, shingle-hoofed, and named Shamus. I LOVE THIS BAND.
Tom Doz
Fear Fun
I don't know if Fear Fun will be topped for my best album of 2012. I listen to this at least once a day. Josh Tillman has invaded my brain; I see his face on my burnt toast and the shape of his cock in the clouds.
151a
Kishi Bashi (K Ishibashi) has put together a stellar album. The strings on the 151a are magnificent. On the track, Bright Whites K smashed together influences from the two big Paul's: McCartney and Simon. It is nearly perfect.
Barchords
Bahamas in the moniker of singer/songwriter Afie Jurvanen and this album is as smooth as Joel's freshly shaven head. The harmonies all over this album are subtle and warm. Listen to the sustain on the guitar on Lost In The Light and you'll be a changed (wo)man.
Brandon Backhaus
Cancer For Cure
This mother fucker El-P. He’s still got me deciphering lines from Fantastic Damage. Delivered in the coded language of the gods, with just the right amount of smack you up side the head dummy, over blistering, beautifully-layered, complex yet hard-hitting beats this side of pole in your hole.
R.A.P. Music
This would be my ex-gangster roommates first choice. He’s taken to defiantly yelling Killer Mike over my more Del-friendly song choices. This is amplified when whiskey is involved. Then again when whiskey is involved I’m less likely to make Del-friendly song choices.
4NML HSPTL
This album further solidifies Open Mike as an originator and lover of hummus. Who want this hummus? A continuation of his take on glitch hop, only more confident, more self-assured, with some of the best smart rap hooks in the bidness. This guy gets called smart so much it’s stupid. But I’m sure that’s better than the other way around.
Del LeFevre
Wildlife Pop
These fearless freaks of pop went out and crafted THE album of the summer. That Call Me Maybe girl can suck on My Leather, My Nails!
Kill For Love
Chromatics' Johnny Jewel's mind was still in Drive-land during the making of this album. He took his rejected Symmetry soundtrack, harnessed the conceptual nuts and bolts of it, and created a stellar grower of an album. Each listen is better than the last.
The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle
A melting pot of samples, big drum beats, and new popped out vocals blended so expertly that you question if TV Girl isn't in reality some machine sent from the future to destroy all other music for us. Shuffled up, TV Girl are wild, innocent and hypnotically catchy.