2012: six months on
My favorite releases so far <3
- Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Chords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do
- Grimes - Visions
- BIG BANG - ALIVE
- Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
- Burial - Kindred EP
- Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
- Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
- Chromatics - Kill For Love
- Allo Darlin’ - Europe
- CFCF - Exercises EP
- Florrie - Late EP
- Beach House - Bloom
- Charli XCX - Heartbreaks and Earthquakes Mixtape
- Daughn Gibson - All Hell
- Julia Holter - Ekstasis
- Adam Lambert - Tresspassing
- EL-P - Cancer For Cure
- First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar
- AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It EP
- Chairlift - Something
- Laurel Halo - Quarantine
- Diplo - Express Yourself EP
- Azealia Banks - 1991 EP
- Kitty Pryde - hahaha i’m sorry EP
- Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
- John Talabot - ƒin
- Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Explosion
- EXO-M - MAMA EP
- Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
- s / s / s - Beak & Claw EP
These are all albums I ADORE. There are a few others I could have included in this list if I felt more familiar with them, like Hot Chip’s In Our Heads and Liars’ WIXIW, as well as Killer Mike and Saint Etienne’s records. Take this list with a grain of salt, but I can surely say all of these releases have made 2012 my favorite year in music so far so lived.

