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segueing from conversation going on in the Japandroids thread...

its june. we're halfway through the year, and by now a substantial amount of music should probably be receiving "best of the year?" acclaim.

but for some reason, this year has produced very little music to interest me. i need some serious suggestions, because this aint right.

so far for me:

1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

2. Beach House - Bloom

3. Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharoah

4. Chromatics - Kill For Love

5. Oberhofer - Time Capsuls II

while these albums all kick ass, i have virtually nothing else from 2012 to contend.

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Cory Branan -- Mutt

Torche -- Harmonicraft

Sharon Van Etten -- Tramp

Narrows -- Painted

Alabama Shakes -- Boys & Girls

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires -- There Is A Bomb In Gilead

The Menzingers -- On The Impossible Past

Waxahatchee -- American Weekend

are all fighting for a spot in this years "Best Of" thusfar

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Lots of good stuff this year already. The Infernöh LP may be the best record to come out all year!

best 12"s

Infernöh - War Tjard

Loma Prieta - IV

Mark McGuire and Charles Berlitz - Inner Tube

Walls - The Future Is Wide Open

Slices - Still Cruising

Mauser - Isolation

Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan – Vanity Fair

Criminal Code - Cold Thought

No Faith - s/t

best 7"s

Lower - Walk On Heads

Herpes - s/t

Hell / Thou - Resurrection Bay

Salvation - House Of The Beating Hell

Backslider - Maladapted

Power Trip - s/t

Vaaska – Condenado

Callous - Mother//Sister

best cassette releases

Casanovas In Heat - Demo

Lussuria - American Babylon I, II & III

Villages - The Spilling Past

Zoloa - Cocolia

Gun Outfit - 12 Songs

Grinning Death's Head - Golden Dawn

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Lots of amazing releases came out this year.

Dowsing - It's Still Pretty Terrible

Gates - You Are All You Have Left to Fear http://gates.bandcamp.com

Hop Along - Get Disowned http://hopalong.bandcamp.com

Japandroids - Celebration Rock

mewithoutYou - Ten Stories

Suis La Lune - Riala http://topshelfrecor...com/album/riala

The Tower and the Fool - How Long http://runforcoverre.../album/how-long

The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past

Anticipating (I'm pretty sure these will make it):

Math the Band - Get Rad

Mixtapes - Even on the Worst Nights

Prawn - Ships http://topshelfrecor...com/album/ships

The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

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sharon van etten - tramp

shearwater - animal joy

father john misty - fear fun

tallest man on earth - theres no leaving now

shins - port of morrow

margot and the nukes - rot gut domestic

beach house - bloom

zammuto - s/t

lotus plaza - spooky action at distance

richard hawley - standing at the sky's edge

the men - open your heart

spiritualized - sweet heart sweet light

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No particular order:

The Skints - Part and Parcel

The Pinstripes - I

The Forthrights - S/T E.P.

Off - S/T

Classics of Love - S/T

Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls

Jack White - Blunderbuss

Most anticipated:

Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out!

Obi Fernandez - Confessions, Waves and the Garden State

No Doubt - Push and Shove

The Beatdown - Walking Proud

Also, I guess I need to get my ears checked, because I just don't understand what everybody likes so much about the Menzingers. I tried to give "On The Impossible Past" a listen, and I just don't get why everybody has been going crazy about it. Maybe I should try it again...

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