Playlist 12/30/12

Spoon - Got Yr Cherry Bomb - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
The xx - Chained - Coexist (Young Turks)
Jets to Brazil - Starry Configurations - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jadetree)

Rainer Maria - Already Lost - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together (Grunion)
Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Grouplove - Don't Say Oh Well - Grouplove EP (Canvasback)


Rilo Kiley - Science vs. Romance - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)
Twin Sister - I Want a House - Vampires with Dreaming Kids


Tilly & the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Smoosh - Rock Song - Free to Stay (Barsuk)
The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off with the Milkman? - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)


Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career - The Boy with the Arab Strap (Matador)
Cub - Magic 8 Ball - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
La Sera - Sleeptalking - La Sera (Hardly Art)


Elliott Smith - Talking to Mary - New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
M. Ward - Seashell Tale - End of Amnesia (Future Farmer)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Tel Que Tu Es - 5:55 (Because Music/Vice)


The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner Bros)
The Builders and the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman)
Oakley Hall - Living in Sin in the USA - Gypsum Strings (Brah)


Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - The Big Guns - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)
Iron & Wine - Me and Lazarus - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros)


The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely - Get Lonely (4AD)

Murder by Death - Shiola - In Bocca al Lupo (East West)
Bright Eyes - One for You, One for Me - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)

Owls - Anyone Can Have a Good Time - Owls (Jade Tree)
Les Savy Fav - New Teen Anthem - 3/5 (Frenchkiss)
American Analog Set - The Only One - Know By Heart (Tigerstyle)

Playlist 12/16/12

BEST OF 2012 (a compendium in no particular order by Ashley and Sarah)

Jack White - "Sixteen Saltines" - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
White Mystery - "Birthday" - Blood & Venom (S/R)
The Evens - "Wanted Criminals" - The Odds (Dischord)

Cursive - "The Sun and Moon" - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Titus Andronicus - "Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus" - Local Business (XL)
Los Campesinos! - "Songs About Your Girlfriend" - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Tilly and the Wall - "Love Riot" - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Best Coast - "The Only Place" - The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
Teen - "Sleep Is Noise" - In Limbo (Carpark)

The Mynabirds - "Disarm" - Generals (Saddle Creek)
Tennis - "Take Me to Heaven" - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Hospitality - "Friends of Friends" - Hospitality (Merge)

First Aid Kit - "King of the World" - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
M. Ward - "Primitive Girl" - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
The Tallest Man on Earth - "Little Brother" - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

Jens Lekman - "The End of the World Is Bigger than Love" - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
The Magnetic Fields - "Andrew in Drag" - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Chairlift - "I Belong in Your Arms" - Something (Kanine)

Lana Del Rey - "Dark Paradise" - Born to Die (Polydor)
Echo Lake - "Monday 5 AM" - Wild Peace (Slumberland)
Beach House - "New Year" - Bloom (Subpop)

Deerhoof - "The Trouble with Candyhands" - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
Dum Dum Girls - "Season in Hell" - End of Daze (Subpop)
Miike Snow - "Archipelago" - Happy to You (Universal Republic)

Sun Airway - "Wild Palms" - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)
Fiona Apple - "Werewolf" - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
Justin Townes Earle - "Look the Other Way" - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

Two Gallants - "Broken Eyes" - The Bloom and the Blight (S/R)
Cat Power - "Sun" - Sun (Matador)
She & Him - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)

Playlist 12/2/12

Tilly and the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Sun Airway - Close - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)

U.S. Girls - Down in the Boondocks - GEM (Fat Cat)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Lonerism (Modular)
O+S - Permanent Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)

Guided by Voices - Hangover Child - The Bears for Lunch (GBV)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars - Higher than the Stars EP (Slumberland)
The National - Wasp Nest - Cherry Tree (Brassland)

The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - s/t (8 Ft)
Desaparecidos - Backsell - Marikkkopa 7" (self)
Titus Andronicus - My Eating Disorder - Local Business (XL)

The Evens - Architects Sleep - The Odds (Dischord)
Slam Dunk - Dying Breed - Welcome to Miami (File Under: Music)
Ty Segall - Would You Be My Love - Twins (Drag City)

The Russian Futurists - Paul Simon - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
Dirty Projectors - Here Til It Says I'm Not - About to Die (Domino)

Jens Lekman - A Man Walks into a Bar - You Are the Light (Secretly Canadian)
The Good Life - A New Friend - Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
New Beard - Spinning - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)

Bat for Lashes - All Your Gold - The Haunted Man
M Ward - There's a Key - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Angel Olsen - Acrobat - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)
Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)

Cataldo - My Heart Is Calling/Following - Signal Flare (self)
The Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)