December 23, 2012
QRO’s year-end list reflects the oddity and diversity of 2012 – the year the world didn’t end. Lots of releases, little agreement – it was 2012:
| 60 | The Wedding Present Valentina David Gedge’s old stuff ain’t all of his that’s great. Read review |
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| 59 | Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory Youth angst that’s anything but immature. Read review |
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| 58 | Joyce the Librarian They May Put Land Between Us Librarians produce great folk musicians, June Tabor being one. |
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| 57 | CHAPPO Moonwater Brooklyn’s neu-psych/glam contingent makes magic wherever it goes – Moonwater is a keeper. |
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| 56 | Garbage Not Your Kind of People More so than many other ‘comeback’ albums, showed audiences that Garbage still has it and really never went anywhere. Read review |
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| 55 | Walk the Moon Walk the Moon ‘The Song of the Summer’ – and more… Read review |
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| 54 | The Avett Brothers The Carpenter Authentic and original country-folk. Read review |
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| 53 | Shearwater Animal Joy Nothing Shearwater has done has ever disappointed, yet this is still somehow the masterpiece. Read review |
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| 52 | Eight and a Half Eight and a Half All the best alt-star collaborations are from Canada. Read review |
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| 51 | House of Heroes Cold Hard Want Even if you were just exposed to them this year, Cold Hard Want is as hard rocking and catchy as ever. |
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| 50 | Disappears Pre Language Their kraut-garage mix works well in any language, or in none. |
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| 49 | Escort Escort Each and every track is a toe tapper. That can’t be said of many albums. |
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| 48 | Maccabees Given To the Wild A still-young band easily rising in Brit-rock cred & love. |
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| 47 | White Birds When Women Played Drums Judging from the public apology single “I Had a Dream I Did Everything Right”, it’s been a rough year for White Birds’ James Harvey. Here’s to a happier 2013 for an amazing songwriter. |
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| 46 | Thieving Irons Behold, This Dreamer! QRO favorite Nate Martinez delivers intelligently and exquisitely on his second Thieving record. Read review |
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| 45 | Nada Surf The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy Yeah, Nada Surf are still around – and still great. Read review |
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| 44 | The Fresh & Onlys Long Slow Dance Melodic, sweet, expansive: a perfect pop love letter straight from the heart. |
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| 43 | Zambri House of Baasa Electronic sisters do it oh so well on all fronts. Read review |
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| 42 | Wild Nothing Nocturne The finest of the fuzzy rock eighties revival. Read review |
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| 41 | Trampled By Turtles Stars and Satellites On the leading edge of the modern bluegrass revival. |
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