The Sound and The Furry’s Favorite Albums of 2012
#14. Daughn Gibson - All Hell (White Denim Records)
The Sound and The Furry’s Favorites of 2012 List will continue over the coming week. This will include favorite albums, EPs, tracks, videos, and my pick for “Band to Watch”. The list will culminate with a 22-track Favorites of 2012 downloadable mix featuring a track from each of the incredibly amazing bands on this list.
Blank Maps - “Just Call”
From their new Blank Maps EP - out now on Tiny Lights Recordings.
(by Blank Maps)
Thom Piddock of Blank Maps. Their new Blank Maps EP dropped in August and is out now on Tiny Lights Recordings!
Check out “We Go Way Back” below, then head over to their Bandcamp and listen to the rest of the EP as well as other singles!
(photo by Caroline Briggs via Blank Maps on Facebook)
Mike Roth of Cobalt & the Hired Guns. Their new album Everybody Wins! is out now!
Check out my favorite Cobalt track “You Left Your Sweater…” below, and if anyone is gonna be in the Washington DC area Sunday night (8/10), y’all should join me at DC9 for a superfun time with Cobalt & the Hired Guns and Orchard Wall - I’ll be there with my beard on!
(photo via Cobalt & the Hired Guns on Facebook)
A/J Jackson of Saint Motel. Their debut album Voyeur dropped last week (7/10) and is out now on On The Record! RECOMMENDED.
Check out “Daydream/Wetdream/Nightmare” below and be sure to grab the whole album wherever you buy music!
(photo by Emese Gaal)
Vincent Kircher of Jaill. Their 2010 album That’s How We Burn is out now on Sub Pop Records!
(photo by James Bailey for kexplive)
Matthias Frey of Sweet Sweet Moon. His EP Pomidou is out now on Siluh Records, and he’s also got two new singles out - “Smoke Up” and a cover of Beirut’s “My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille”.
(photo by Christian Pitschl via INK MUSIC)
Adam Abrutyn of Ezra Furman & The Harpoons. Their fantastic latest album Mysterious Power is out now on Red Parlor Records!
(photo by presta)
Kyle Morton of Typhoon. Their brand new EP A New Kind of House dropped earlier this week on Tender Loving Empire! Paste Magazine recently named Typhoon one of the 20 SXSW Bands You Might Not Know (But Should).
(photo by jeremy davis)
Logan Kroeber of Dodos. Their upcoming album No Color arrives on 3/15 on Frenchkiss Records and will feature heavily alt-country it-girl and New Pornographer Neko Case!
(photo by Mary Rehak)
Daniel Silbert of Steel Train. Their 2010 self-titled album is out now on Terrible Thrills!
(via steeltrain)
Ben Knox Miller of The Low Anthem. Their brand new album Smart Flesh is out today (2/22) on Bella Union!
(photo by Gerry Hardy)
Dave Hartley of Nightlands and The War on Drugs. Nightlands’ debut Forget the Mantra and The War on Drugs’ Future Weather both dropped in late 2010 on Secretly Canadian!
(photo by Guillaume Sautereau / POPnews)
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