BEST OF 2K12 – SIXES FOR 6

So we’re about six months into the year. Here’s my six favourite albums and six favourite tracks.

ALBUMS

1. The Men – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)

2. Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory (Wichita Recordings/Carpark)

3. Grimes – Visions (4AD)

4. Run Walk – Health (Forthcoming on Holy Roar)

5. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

6. Beach House – Bloom (Bella Union/Sub Pop)

TRACKS

1. Hodgy Beats – In A Dream (self-released)

2. Danny Brown – Grown Up (Scion A/V / Fool’s Gold)

3. Major Lazer – Get Free Feat. Amber Coffman (Mad Decent)

4. Jai Paul – Jasmine (XL)

5. Holograms – Hidden Structures (Captured Tracks)

6. Peace – Follow Baby (Deadly/Columbia)

Also, have to give a big shout out to the How To Dress Well mixtape “LIVE YOURSELF” that’s been demanding a lot of my attention recently. Especially for the Carly Rae Jepsen rework about 33 minutes in….