The 10 Most Popular Spotinews Albums of 2012

Hey. It’s the last day of 2012 and here is a post with the 10 most popular albums of 2012 in terms of clicks from the Spotinews readers (including albums released before this year). See you next year and enjoy!

(Note #1: Some familiar albums, but also a few surprises!)

(Note #2: I won’t do a Top Tracks of 2012, but most of my favourites are available in my Top 40 Albums of 2012 playlist.)

(Note #3: Check out Spotinews 065!)

10. Django Django – Django Django
09. The Weather Station – All Of It Was Mine
08. Chairlift – Something
07. Amelia White – Beautiful and Wild
06. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
05. Bear in Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
04. Alcest – Les Voyages De L’Âme
03. Disappears – Pre Language
02. Musette – Drape Me in Velvet
01. Tenniscoats – Papa’s Ear

Top 40 Albums of 2012: 10-1

Howdy. So, here is my top 10 as promised. Please check out the playlist here and enjoy!

(Also check out the previous parts: 40-31, 30-21 and 20-11.)

(Note: I’ll be away for some days. See you next week!)

10. Amelia White – Beautiful and Wild
09. Toy – Toy
08. Dan Deacon – America
07. Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
06. Foxygen – Take The Kids Off Broadway
05. Bear in Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
04. Father John Misty – Fear Fun
03. Django Django – Django Django
02. Beach House – Bloom
01. Grimes – Visions

Top 40 Albums of 2012: 20-11

Hello again. This is the third part of my Top 40 Albums of 2012. I will be back with the top 10 tomorrow. Enjoy!

20. Lost in the Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs
19. Chelsea Wolfe – Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
18. Alcest – Les Voyages de L’Âme
17. Frida Hyvönen – To The Soul
16. Hundred Waters – Hundred Waters LP
15. King Tuff – King Tuff
14. Frankie Rose – Interstellar
13. How To Dress Well – Total Loss
12. Chairlift – Something
11. Bowerbirds – The Clearing

Top 40 Albums of 2012: 30-21

Hi. Here is part 2 of my Top 40 Albums of 2012. Enjoy!

30. Social Studies – Developer
29. Ryan Teague – Field Drawings
28. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
27. Cat Power – Sun
26. Balmorhea – Stranger
25. Grizzly Bear – Shields
24. Patti Smith – Banga
23. Wild Nothing – Nocturne
22. Kap Bambino – Devotion
21. Taken by Trees – Other Worlds

Top 40 Albums of 2012: 40-31

Hello. Here we go. I’m finished tinkering with my Top 40 Albums of 2012 and here is the first part. The next two parts will be up tomorrow and the final part on Sunday. Enjoy!

(Note: This is the list as it stands at this very date. If I had done it one month from now it’s highly possible a number of albums would have been switched.)

40. Idjut Boys – Cellar Door
39. Tamaryn – Tender New Signs
38. Autumn Owls – Between Buildings, Toward the Sea
37. Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
36. Port St. Willow – Holiday
35. Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
34. Mac DeMarco – 2
33. Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine
32. Bob Dylan – Tempest
31. Anna von Hausswolff – Ceremony

Top 12 Albums of 2012 (so far)

Hey. Here you have my top 12 albums of 2012 at this very moment. Ask me again tomorrow and 2-3 albums may be changed. You can check out one sample song from each album in my latest playlist, Spotinews 063. Enjoy!

(And in case there are some new readers, click the album cover to get to the album in Spotify)

(In alphabetical order)

Alcest – Les Voyages de l’Âme
Amelia White – Beautiful and Wild
Beach House – Bloom
Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
Chairlift – Something
Django Django – Django Django
Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Frankie Rose – Interstellar
Frida Hyvönen – To The Soul
Grimes – Visions
Lost in the Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It

Albums of 2011: 10-1

Hello. These are my top 10 albums of the year. Now I’m taking a week off for Christmas. Happy holidays and enjoy!

(The previous posts: 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 )

(Or check out this playlist with one track from each album.)

10. Widowspeak – Widowspeak
09. The Sandwitches – Mrs. Jones’ Cookies
08. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
07. tUnE-yArDs – W H O K I L L
06. I Break Horses – Hearts
05. Yuck – Yuck
04. Tommy Guerrero – Lifeboats and Follies
03. John Maus – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
02. Wild – Flag – Wild Flag
01. Ringo Deathstarr – Colour Trip

Albums of 2011: 20-11

Hey. The final part will be up tomorrow and then I will take a week off for Christmas. Enjoy!

20. Rubik – Solar
19. Lia Ices – Grown Unknown
18. Skeletons – People
17. Wet Illustrated – 1x1x1
16. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
15. Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
14. The Loom – Teeth
13. Tennis – Cape Dory
12. Ha Ha Tonka – Death of a Decade
11. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Albums of 2011: 30-21

Hello. Here we go again. Enjoy!

30. Clive Tanaka y su orquesta – Jet Set Siempre 1°
29. Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
28. Eilen Jewell – Queen of the Minor Key
27. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
26. Implodes – Black Earth
25. Yawn – Open Season
24. The Andersen Tapes – As I Write ‘Today’ Ten Times
23. Emika – Emika
22. Part Time – What Would You Say?
21. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints

Albums of 2011: 40-31

Hi. Over the next four days I will present my top 40 albums of 2011. Please note that all albums were available in most Spotify countries a couple of months ago, but I haven’t checked them this week. Enjoy!

(And in case you are new around here, just move the mouse over the album cover to see the title and click to open the album in Spotify.)

40. Jonathan Johansson – Klagomuren
39. Real Estate – Days
38. The Mast – Wild Poppies
37. M83 – Hurry Up, We´re Dreaming
36. Papercranes – Let’s Make Babies in the Woods
35. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
34. Jonathan Wilson – Gentle Spirit
33. Puro Instinct – Headbangers in Ecstasy
32. Future Islands – On the Water
31. Moon Duo – Mazes

Top 11 Albums of 2011 (so far)

Howdy folks. In alphabetical order, here you have my top 11 albums of 2011 so far*. It will be interesting to see how many of these releases can make my final top 30 list in December. Enjoy!

(Note that a couple of recently added albums are missing simply because I haven’t been able to give them the amount of listening time they deserve.)

Clive Tanaka y su orquesta – Jet Set Siempre 1°
Ha Ha Tonka – Death of a Decade
Lia Ices – Grown Unknown
Ringo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
Skeletons – People
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
Tennis – Cape Dory
The Sandwitches – Mrs. Jones’ Cookies
Tommy Guerrero – Lifeboats and Follies
Tune-Yards – W H O K I L L
Yuck – Yuck

Four Notable New Releases (week 23)

Hi again. Here are four notable new releases, from various genres, all added to Spotify earlier today. Enjoy!

Depeche Mode – Remixes 2: 81-11
Ford & Lopatin – Channel Pressure
Gomez – Whatever’s On Your Mind
My Morning Jacket – Circuital

Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact

Hey there. The excellent new album by Gang Gang Dance was added to Spotify earlier this week. Read this review and enjoy!

(Genre: experimental/art/avant-garde electronic/rock or something like that…)

Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact

Three Recent Additions (week 15)

Hello friends. After five blog posts yesterday I decided it was time to slow down a little bit today. Here are three recent additions to Spotify. Enjoy!

(Genres: Alison Krauss & Union Station = bluegrass, Paul Simon = singer-songwriter and Lisa Ekdahl = jazz)

Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplane
Lisa Ekdahl – Lisa Ekdahl at the Olympia, Paris
Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What

Three Recent Late Additions

Hello friends. Here are three albums that were added for most Spotify regions a couple of weeks ago. However, as of this week they are available for all listeners. If you are a new reader you may not be familiar with my policy of only writing about releases that all Spotify listeners can listen to. Anyhow, enjoy!

(Genres: Acid House Kings = indie pop, Rotten Sound = grindcore and The Naked and Famous = electronic/pop.)

(Music Sounds Better With You for France and the UK here. Cursed for Finland here.)

Acid House Kings – Music Sounds Better With You
Rotten Sound – Cursed
The Naked and Famous – Passive Me, Aggressive You

Four Albums I Forgot (2011)

Hello again. Here you have four albums from 2011 that for different reasons slipped under my radar. Enjoy!

(No time for genres, sorry.)

Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT
Hanna Turi – Some Old Tapes
MillionYoung – Replicants
Stricken City – Losing Colour

Four Albums I Forgot (2010)

Morning. Here are four albums from 2010 that I must have forgotten about at the time of their release. Usually I just try to save these releases for the slower Spotify periods, but not this time. Enjoy!

(No time for genres, sorry.)

(A post with four 2011 releases should be up shortly.)

Former Ghosts – New Love.
Gustaf Ljunggren – Fractions and Pastures
Sea Of Bees – Songs For The Ravens
The Notes – Wishing Well

Four New Releases (March 28)

Hi. After some listening I’ve selected these four new releases. All albums were added to Spotify earlier today. Enjoy!

(Note: I saved some goodies for tomorrow!)

(Genres: Hatchback = electronic, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter = folk-rock, Mountaineer = folk/pop and William Fitzsimmons = singer-songwriter)

(UK version for the William Fitzsimmons album here.)

Hatchback – Zeus & Apollo
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Marble Son
Mountaineer – The Real McQueen
William Fitzsimmons – Gold In The Shadow

K Records – part 4

Evening. This is the fourth and final part with selections from American indie label K Records. Enjoy!

(Part 1, 2 and 3.)

(Genres: Electric Sunset = chillwave, Mahjongg = electronic/rock, Tender Forever = pop, The Blow = experimental electronic/pop and The Microphones = experimental lo-fi folk)

Electric Sunset – Electric Sunset
Mahjongg – The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger
Tender Forever – No Snare
The Blow – The Concussive Caress, Or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With The Vacuum
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2

K Records – part 3

Howdy. Here you have part three (of four) with selections from indie label K Records. Enjoy!

(The genres: Beat Happening = indie rock, Karp = noise/punk rock, Little Wings = folk singer-songwriter, Some Velvet Sidewalk = rock and The Crabs = indie pop/rock)

Beat Happening – You Turn Me On
Karp – Self Titled LP
Little Wings – Light Green Leaves
Some Velvet Sidewalk – Whirlpool
The Crabs – What Were Flames Now Smolder