favorite albums of 2012.5

2012 is already halfway over and that means mid-year list time! this has been a pretty stellar year for music thus far for me with (hopefully) many more to come in the following six months. as always, this is not definitive by any means, but simply the 10 records that i have found myself playing the most this year. in no real order. enjoy! 

chairlift - something

burial - kindred

big bang - alive/still alive

death grips - the money store

beach house - bloom

hot chip - in our heads

the tallest man on earth - there's no leaving now

lone - galaxy garden

the cribs - in the belly of the brazen bull

iamamiwhoami - kin

that's it so far. i just got the new fiona apple and i have a feeling that will be pretty high up there come the years end. agree? disagree? what am i missing? let me know. you all rule


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on a permanent basis, i apologise...

so yesterday one of my all time favorite bands, blur, released two (!) new songs, 'under the westway' and 'the puritan'; playing them live on a rooftop in london and streaming it over twitter. both songs are wonderful, but 'under the westway' is truly beautiful and a real treat; a longing, celebratory anthem to a city the way only blur can write them. its things like this that make me hold out hope for a new blur album sometime in the hopefully near future. if anything it will be great to see them play these during the closing ceremony concert at the olympics. good morning, indeed.





be sure to check out their rooftop performance of these two beauties at http://www.blur.co.uk/livestream/ . there is an advert for their new boxset at the beginning of the video, so skip to 1:29 for the goodness.


the baron