❧ Eric Portelance

For the past several years, I’ve been keeping a list of my favourite new albums each year. Here’s my list for 2012.

1. Beach House – Bloom
2. Tame Impala – Lonerism
3. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
4. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Scrappy Happiness
5. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
6. Chromatics – Kill for Love
7. Grizzly Bear – Shields
8. Jack White – Blunderbuss
9. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
10. M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion
11. Matthew E. White – Big Inner

_Edit:_ I somehow overlooked the fact that Jack White’s Blunderbuss was released in 2012. Added to the list.

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