Ryan Townsend
1. Hammock - Departure Songs: post-rock masterwork.
Sprawling, densely layered double album, sounds like planets spiraling
over fiscal cliff
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2. The Walkmen - Heaven: indie music for
grownups...family vacations, storytime, and bittersweet love (the only
kind). And it sounds amazing
3. The Killers - Battle Born: Brandon Flowers is
gifted. Ambitious, soaring, passion-pop songs that tell Our Story, circa
'12. Not trendy.
4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock. If crafting fuzzy,
stadium-sized, 3XL anthems is so easy, ask yourself this: Why am I not
in the Spin 50?
5. Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is An Animal: many
instruments, voices make a pleasant racket...should sound plastic but
instead is sublime
6. From Indian Lakes - Able Bodies: Making Central Cal
proud with mathpop time-shifts, sharp-edged guitars, AND singable,
intelligent songs.
7. Kathleen Edwards - Voyaeur: Sounds like spring in
the dead of winter. Folksy, modern, tragicomic songs delivered by
veteran songstress.
8. Jealous Sound - A Gentle Reminder: gently reminding
us how needed Blair's heartbroken lyricism is. Heard it before? Yes.
Still vital? Yes
9. Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes: All my downtime
makes me nervous, Finn says. Somehow I get that. Pure gutpunch stories
via Nashville.
For those of you who aren't music junkies, let me
apologize in advance...this will be annoying. 2012 Top Ten Albums in 140
characters each
10. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror: surprised by how
much I enjoyed outrageously abrasive production/infectious melodies.
Over. The. Top.
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