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)