Offical 2012 Alt Music Thread

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Wow, it's not even 2013 yet and Toro y Moi already has one of the best albums of the year.
 

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What do you guys have as the song/album of the year?

For me, I got Tame Impala "Lonerism" as album of the year

For song of the year there is no clear cut favorite for me this year like Midnight City was last year. If I was forced to choose I would say either Chromatics "Back From the Grave" or Death Grips "I've Seen Footage"
Song of the year is Jai Paul's "Jasmine".
 

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couple of Top music list compiled by Apartment Therapy

• Buzzfeed's Ultimate 2012 Playlist: 11 hours of pop, rock, indie, and hip-hop jams.
• Spotify playlist compiled by Sasha Frere-Jones: A music critic for The New Yorker, SFJ has tastes that run the gamut.
• Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2012: An old stand-by for music news and information.
•SPIN Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2012: In their words, these 50 albums range "from the biggest-selling pop sensation (and pizza ad) of the year to anonymous Afro-psych from the wintry expanses of rural Sweden; from ground-breaking hip-hop IMAX cinema to garage-punk gnashing still being recorded by Steve Albini."
• Stereogum's Top 50 Albums of 2012: Stereogum, founded in 2002, was one of the first MP3 blogs, and it continues as a key source of indie music news, downloads, and videos.
• Pitchfork's Staff Lists: The Top 100 Tracks of 2012: Pitchfork is an online publication focusing primarily on indie rock, but with an additional interest in electronic, hip hop, dance, experimental, folk, and pop music.
• Gorilla vs. Bear's Albums of 2012: Texas-based music blog Gorilla vs. Bear is one of my personal favorites, and is always a great source for new indie bands.
• Said the Gramphone's Best Songs of 2012: Sean, a Montreal-based writer for Said the Gramphone, pairs his favorite songs of the year with poetic descriptions.
• KCRW DJs Present Top 10 Music Albums of 2012: 22 DJs from KCRW, Southern California's leading NPR affiliate, list their top picks.
• Top of the Tops by Over the Nights and Through the Fires: This list appears courtesy of my friend, who's a statistics-savvy graduate student. She took 131 year-end music lists and figured out the top 10 albums that made their top-10. A similar round-up with some different results appears on MetaCritic.
 
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