Your favorite albums of 2012 - Spring edition

[nicolas]

Please provide a top 5 (or more) of your favorite albums of 2012, even if you've just heard 5 records

Mine (I've heard 7 albums)

1. Bhi Bhiman - Bhiman (thanks Rocky R, it's a great record) folk 4.5
2. The El Gusto Orchestra of Algiers - El Gusto OST (Algerian Buena Vista) 4
3. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden (old time music revival) 4
4. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (post hardcore) 3.5
5. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (folk) 3.5

6. Django Django - s/t 3.5 (pop)
7. Leonard Cohen - old ideas 3 (old singer songwriter)

NB I still haven't heard the Springsteen album but I'm gonna do it today or tomorrow

[SuperFurry]

1 . The Maccabees - Given To Wild
2 . The Men - Open Your Heart
3 . Django Django - Django Django
4 . Mount Carmel - Real Women
5 . First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
6 . Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
7 . Shearwater - Animal Joy
8 . Heartless Bastards - Arrow
9 . Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
10 . Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
11 . Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
12 . Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
13 . Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden
14 . Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
15 . Bleeding Knees Club - Nothing To Do
16 . Cate Le Bon - CYRK
17 . Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
18 . Dr Dog - Be The Void
19 . Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
20 . La Sera - Sees The Light

[Stephan]

1. Beach House - Bloom (8.5)
2. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (8.0)
3. Anaïs Mitchell - Young Man in America (8.0)
4. Dr. John - Locked Down (8.0)
5. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas (7.5)
6. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (7.5)
7. John Talabot - ƒIN (7.5)
8. Django Django - Django Django (7.5)
9. Julia Holter - Ekstasis (7.0)
10. The Shins - Port of Morrow (6.5)

Looking forward to: Big Boi, MGMT, Mumford & Sons, Regina Spektor, The Tallest Man On Earth, Kanye West

[Rocky Raccoon]

I'm kinda behind in my listening this year, but of the albums I've heard, these six have the best chance of making my year-end list.

1. Cloud Nothings
2. Bhi Bhiman
3. Cate Le Bon
4. Sleigh Bells
5. Bruce Springsteen
6. First Aid Kit (Remember when Swedish tennis players were great but the music sucked? Now it's the opposite)

[Romain]

1. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself 8,5/10
2. Field Music - Plumb 8,5/10
3. Django Django - S/t 8,5/10
4. Tindersticks - Something Rain 8,5/10
5. Ewert and The Two Dragons - Good Man Down 8/10
6. Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester 8/10
7. Stuck in the sound - Pursuit 7,5/10
8. Skip the use Can be late 7,5/10
9. Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral 7/10
10. Air - Le voyage dans la lune 7/10

[antonius]

Up until now I enjoyed
Burial - Kindred EP- probably top 3 for the year.
Voices from the Lake - but I don't think that this will last all year
Tindersticks - The something rain - which I started listening to through the MA game
The Men

Records that I also listened to, but didn't get through to me yet: Grimes, Springsteen, John Talabot, Monolake, Swans, Leonard Cohen
Still in queue: Beach House, Julia Holter, Mark Lanegan

[Gillingham]

01. Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
02. Clark - Iradelphic
03. Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE
04. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
05. Lambchop - Mr. M
06. Sharon van Etten - Tramp
07. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
08. Tindersticks - The Something Rain
09. Blaudzun - Heavy Flowers
10. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa

Still, Burial's Kindred EP is the best release of 2012 in my opinion.
I will wait for the official release of Bloom and my expectations are quite high.

[Brad]

1. Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
2. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
3. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
4. Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
5. John Talabot - ƒIN

Thanks!