Slowcoustic’s Favourite Music of 2012
JBM – Stray Ashes
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The Great American Desert – Carson City
Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
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Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk
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Father John Misty – Fear Fun
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The Wooden Sky – Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun
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Right Away, Great Captain! – The Church of the Good Thief
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Field Report – Field Report
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The Tallest Man On Earth – There’s No Leaving Now
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Bro. Stephen – Baptist Girls
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Matthew Ryan – In The Dusk Of Everything
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Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
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Andy Shauf – The Bearer of Bad News
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Neil Halstead – Palindrome Hunches
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I Am Oak – Nowhere or Tammensaari
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Elephant Micah – Louder Than Thou
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Strand of Oaks – Dark Shores
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Meursault – Something For The Weakened
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Kim Janssen – Ancient Crime
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Dusted – Total Dust
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Zachary Lucky – Saskatchewan
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Pickering Pick – Prayer Flag
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Aidan Knight – Small Reveal
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The Tree Ring – Brushbloom
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This is 24 albums and to make it an even 25 and to take an easy way out, I give you the 25th spot. This spot is reserved for albums that can be interchanged into the list at any point due to their worthy-ness:
Will Johnson – Scorpion
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa
Reuben Bullock – Man Made Lakes
The Sumner Brothers – I’ll Be There Tomorrow
Will Stratton – Post-Empire
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EDIT
I asked twitter and they said “yes” to my question of including an album that I don’t technically own (wink, wink) but that was released only on another continent in 2012. The album (so far) doesn’t even have a release date in Canada/North America I think…so it would be a 2013 release IN Canada, but….whatever! So then an album released fairly late in 2012 that I would have included near the top of the list above is…
Fionn Regan – The Bunkhouse Vol I: Anchor Black Tattoo
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I think it is a pretty good list. I will want to change it in approximately 14 minutes (although only slightly). I also 100% recommend all these albums and think you should give a few spins to hear what I am hearing in them.
~Smansmith
Thanks for the beautiful music. Your list has helped me find some more overlooked artists this year (like Kim Janssen) and it’s a treat as always.