Top Music of 2012

Here we go!  This is what caught my musical attentions in 2012...

Best Albums...
1. Chromatics - Kill for Love
2. Trust - Trst
3. Kindness - World, You Need a Change of Mind
4. Miike Snow - Happy to You
5. Santigold - Makers of My Make-Believe
6. Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
7. Lana Del Ray - Born to Die
8. Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour
9. Grimes - Vissions
10. Passion Pit - Gossamer
11. We Have Band - Ternion
12. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
13. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
14. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
15. Stars - The North
16. Teengirl Fantasy - Beams
17. Twin Shadow - Confess
18. Matthew Dear - Beams
19. Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
20. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
21. Lemonade - Diver
22. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
23. Beach House - Bloom
24. Lindstrøm - Six Cups of Rebel
25. New Build - Yesterday Was Loved and Lost
26. Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
27. Yeasayer - Fragrant World
28. Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns
29. Azari & III - Azari & III
30. Four Tet - Pink
31. Saint Etienne - Words and Music by Saint Etienne
32. Ricardo Villalobos - Dependant and Happy 1 and 2
33. Crystal Castles - (III)
34. Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
35. Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional
36. Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
37. The xx - Coexist
38. Of Monsters & Men - My Head is an Animal
39. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
40. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
41. Grizzly Bear - Shields
42. The Big Pink - Future This
43. Matt and Kim - Lightning
44. Purity Ring - Shrines
45. Sigur Ros - Valtari
46. Martin Rossiter - The Defenestration of St. Martin
47. Battles - Dross Glop
48. Heliopause - The Lumo Tape
49. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah!  Don't Bend! Ascend!
50. Bloc Party - Four

Best Single (and Video)...
• M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls"

Best Comeback...
• Blur's "Under the Westway"

Best Concert...
• New Order - Sony Centre Toronto (Oct. 23rd)

Happy 2013 everyone!