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AP.net Feature: Staff Mid-2012 Top 10 Lists
Whew, time flies when you're listening to great music. At least it does for us, as the staff at AbsolutePunk can barely believe we're already in July. And just like last year, we have had a ton of great music released to us during the first six months of 2012. So naturally we shifted through our lists to individually select our top 10 records midway through 2012. You can check out all the lists here and make sure you leave a comment (or ten).
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here's a link to my list!
here's a shortened version: 10. Every Time I Die - Ex-Lives 9. The Maccabees - Given to the Wild 8. Now, Now - Threads 7. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do 6. Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods 5. Perfume Genius - Put Ur Back N 2 It 4. Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America 3. Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart 2. Trust - TRST 1. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory |
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My top 15 is something like this. Added links to songs for listening pleasure.
1. River City Extension - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger 8 piece folk group with cello and trumpet played on Gaslights old label, XOXO. 2. Mystery Jets - Radlands British indie pop band moves to Austin, TX to write a record. This is what is created. 3. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again British blues/folk singer with an incredible voice. FFO: Otis Redding 4. Dry The River - Shallow Bed For fans of: Mumford And Sons and Fleet Foxes 5. The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now Swedish folk singer who plays Appalachian folk. It's beautiful. 6. Vacationer - Gone FFO: Old pop punk bands singer, now writing music on drugs. 7. Alex Winston - King Con Trained opera singer makes a pop record. 8. Bowerbirds - The Clearing Just a beautiful folk record. 9. Jack White - Blunderbuss Basically a new slow and moody White Stripes record with better drumming. 10. Hop Along - Get Disowned For fans of: Lemuria and Laura Stevenson And the Cans 11. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 12. Fun. - Some Nights 13. Dr. Dog - Be The Void Americana rock band who is at times a throwback to many 70's acts. 14. Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs Members of Deer Tick and Dead Confederate make a dirty rock record. 15. Clock Opera - Ways To Forget For fans of: Two Door Cinema Club, Villagers, Muse Cloud Nothings would probably be next. |
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The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past mewithoutYou - Ten Stories Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory I feel everything else this year has either come short or hasn't fully grown on me yet / I haven't given it enough legitimate listens |
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10. Empires - Garage Hymns
9. Motion City Soundtrack - Go 8. Broadway - Gentlemen's Brawl 7. Icarus The Owl - Love Always, Leviathan 6. The Tower And The Fool - How Long 5. Organ Thieves - Somewhere Between Free Men & Slaves 4. Sharks - No Gods 3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock 2. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past 1. Make Do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved |
Good Old War
fun. Sara Watkins Jason Mraz Anthony Green The Early November Metric |
A link to my list: http://wp.me/p2wegb-3y
The basic version is: 1) Tonight Alive 2) The Rocket Summer 3) The Forecast 4) Rocky Loves Emily 5) Daytrader 6) Children 18:3 7) Neon Trees 8) Motion City Soundtrack 9) MxPx 10) You Me At Six |
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really fuckin' great. a more pop-rocky version of Titus Andronicus and a more grungy version of Surfer Blood. |
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Here's mine, in order, 1-10 (not 10-1).
Hop Along - Get Disowned The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds Like Pioneers - Oh, Magic Cursive - I Am Gemini mewithoutYou - Ten Stories Hot Water Music - Exister Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Make do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved TS and the Past Haunts - Gone and Goner Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Rot Gut, Domestic |
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shitty live band too |