1. LP1 - FKA Twigs
2. Atlas - Real Estate
3. pom pom - Ariel Pink
4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5. Sunbathing Animal - Parquet Courts
6. Our Love - Caribou
7. Broke With Expensive Taste - Azealia Banks
8. Lost in the Dream - The War On Drugs
9. Too Bright - Perfume Genius
10. In Conflict - Owen Pallett
11. They Want My Soul - Spoon
12. Sea When Absent - A Sunny Day In Glasgow
13. Salad Days - Mac DeMarco
14. Benji - Sun Kil Moon
15. Ruins - Grouper

Or something like that…

I lost my iPod in the middle of last November, and for months I couldn't download the newest iTunes, so an end of the year music list wasn't really on my mind back in December/January with near zip access to music for the last three months. But anyway, here it is:

1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

2. Kurt Vile – Waking on a Pretty Daze

3. Disclosure – Settle

4. Eleanor Friedburger – Personal Record

5. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe

6. My Bloody Valentine – m b v

7. Phosphorescent – Muchacho…

I found this in my email inbox from a list I wrote at work at the very beginning of the year. I think it's still an accurate representation of my 2012 favorites.

Top Albums of 2012
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
Beach House – Bloom
Grimes – Visions
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo, Magellan
Chromatics – Kill for Love
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
Tanlines – Mixed Emotions
Grizzly Bear – Shields
DIIV – Oshin
Metric – Synthetica
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes…

This year presented a pretty awesome mix of new artists to adore, old favorites releasing long-awaited follow-ups, and new staples from old names I only now discovered for myself. As usual, it seemed like this year couldn’t live up to the previous; for me, it’s hard to follow in the footsteps of a year that saw the release of new albums from Joanna Newsom (with eighteen songs, no less), AND Deerhunter (not to mention Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian…). But especially after this fall season, 2011 stands on its own.

Honorable Mentions:

Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other…

1. Beach House - 1,418
2. Deerhunter - 1,098
3. Animal Collective - 1,094
4. Joanna Newsom - 959
5. Owen Pallett - 881
6. The Fiery Furnaces - 821
7. Delorean - 820
8. Vampire Weekend - 772
9. Atlas Sound - 611
10. Lady Gaga - 605
11. The Morning Benders - 564
12. LCD Soundsystem - 548
13. Tame Impala - 537
14. The Flaming Lips - 497
15. No Age - 475
16. Sufjan Stevens - 439
17. Cut Copy - 387
18. The Radio Dept - 385
19. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 329
20.…

Based on play counts, obviously:

The first four are definitely the year's big winners; all but one play by the Flaming Lips happened this year. Nearly all of the Fiery Furnaces plays have been in the past three months.

1. The Flaming Lips - 1,678
2. Deerhunter - 1,129
2. Animal Collective - 1,129
4. The Fiery Furnaces - 1,006

5. The Magnetic Fields - 709
6. Cut Copy - 582
7. Radiohead - 530
8. My Bloody Valentine - 476
9. Grizzly Bear - 453
10. Belle and Sebastian - 450
11. Iron & Wine - 430
12. Passion…

What kind of iPod do you have?: 30 GB black
How many songs are in your iPod?: 5,085
What song are you listening to right now?: I'm In Love With A Ripper - Yacht

Put your songs in alphabetical order:

What is the first song?: A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
What is the last song?: 2090 - Yeasayer

Put the songs in album order:

What is the first song?: Dancing Queen - ABBA
What is the last song?: Sunset Rodeo - Liars

Put the songs in artist order:

What is the first song?: Try Again - Aaliyah
What is the last…

1. What are you listening to right now?
Percussion Gun - White Rabbits

2. What song makes you sad?
We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling - of Montreal; it sums up the rest of the album so well, it's really pretty heartbreaking.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Geez, I dunno. Right now probably anything by Katy Perry or "Pokerface" by Lady GaGa.

4. Your all time favorite band?
I have to pick one?? I guess I'd still go with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
I haven't discovered anything…

There were bound to be several for many of the letters, so I just picked one (obviously). I'm bored.

A - Architecture in Helsinki
B - Band of Horses
C - Cut Copy
D - Death Cab for Cutie
E - Elliott Smith
F - Fleet Foxes
G - Girl Talk
H - Hercules and Love Affair
I - Interpol
J - Joanna Newsom
K - The Knife
L - LCD Soundsystem
M - My Bloody Valentine
N - Neutral Milk Hotel
O - of Montreal
P - Pixies
Q - Qzumba Zoo
R - Radiohead
S - Sufjan Stevens…

Trossles's top albums

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (693)

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2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (576)

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3. Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun (531)

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4. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (524)

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5. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (507)

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6. Radiohead - OK Computer (492)

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7. Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die (473)

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8. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (471)

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9. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (403)

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