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Top 50 Songs of 2012 -

1. Purity Ring - Fineshrine
2. TNGHT - Higher Ground
3. Death Grips - Bitch Please
4. Tindersticks - Chocolate
5. Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle
6. Spiritualized - Hey Jane
7. The Weeknd - D.D.
8. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
9. Perfume Genius - Normal Song 
10. El-P - The Full Retard
11. Frank Ocean - Forrest Gump
12. Joey Bada$$ - Survival Tactics (feat. Capital Steez)
13. Bat for Lashes - Laura
14. Kitty Pryde - Okay Cupid 
15. AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
16. Theophilus London - Big Spender (feat. A$AP Rocky)*
17. The xx - Angels
18. Miguel - Use Me*
19. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert)
20. Hop Along - No Good Al Joad
21. Jens Lekman - Become Someone Else’s 
22. Tame Impala - Mind Mischief
23. Baauer - Harlem Shake
24. Young Magic - Sparkly
25. The Tallest Man on Earth - There’s No Leaving Now
26. First Aid Kit - King of the World
27. Schoolboy Q - Hands on the Wheel
28. Cloud Nothings - Wasted Days
29. Usher - Climax*
30. Jack White - Sixteen Saltines
31. Darq E Freaker & Danny Brown - Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine)
32. Mac Demarco - Freaking Out the Neighborhood*
33. Odd Future - Rella
34. Alabama Shakes - Heartbreaker
35. Jessie Ware - Running
36. How to Dress Well - & It Was U
37. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
38. The Men - Turn it Around
39. Alt-J - Matilda*
40. Title Fight - Head in the Ceiling Fan
41. Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows*
42. Zammuto - Too Late to Topologize
43. Beach House - Wild
44. Lil B - I Own Swag*
45. Grimes - Oblivion
46. Father John Misty - Funtimes in Babylon
47. Ondatrópica - Descarga Tropica
48. Fun. - Some Nights (Intro.)
49. Passion Pit - Constant Conversations
50. XXYYXX - About You

* - Newly Added Tracks

(Source: Spotify)

Top 50 Songs of 2012: #4, Tindersticks - Chocolate

His eyes were still beautiful, deep brown, his lips still chocolatey and orangey.

Tindersticks’ “The Something Rain” was one of the first records of 2012 I reviewed and “Chocolate” being one of the first opening tracks. It’s a nine-minute spoken-word/jazz essay that set the coolest first impression for experimental music this year. With its lush instrumentation and immersive prose, “Chocolate” delivers as the album’s stand-out track by a long shot and even offers the best lyrical plot twist in spoken word this year. I couldn’t stress it enough, but the nine minutes are worth it. 

(Source: Spotify)

Lambchop - Mr. M

Good tension in music comes from a calculated set-up. St. Vincent’s 2011 LP “Strange Mercy” was a bipolar masterpiece; it understood how to take ugly and beautiful and sync it up for dramatic results. Through all the madness, it found something very poetic. Lambchop’s “Mr. M” falls right through the potholes in the creating process of musical tension. The album offers mouth-watering, angelic productions but pairs it up with startlingly out of place vocals by Kurt Wagner. The opening track “If Not I’ll Die,” in itself, begins masterfully with a picaresque string and mild-mannered drum accompaniment and then you hear a 54-year-old alt-country singer oddly deliver the lyric “Don’t know what the fuck they talk about.” Listening to this album brings the same uncomfortable feeling of walking in shoes several sizes smaller than yours. Despite its passive-aggressive deliberations, “Mr. M” results as an unorthodox experience that baffles the mind trying to find the beauty in this confusion. (5/10)

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Tindersticks - The Something Rain

Progressive, minimalist jazz compositions are a galore on Tindersticks’ “The Something Rain,” a strong body of unique qualities. Opening with one of the greatest spoken-word/minimalist jazz tracks spanning nine minutes, “Chocolate,” the album takes a dive into the next eight tracks with an oft-kilter mix of maudlin and a barrage of instruments to follow suit. It’s not the finest piece of music of its kind, aside from the opener, but Tindersticks certainly deserve acclaim for their sheer level of musicianship; one of complicated proportions. (6/10) 

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