Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2012 (So Far)
Rolling Stone decided to release a mid-year review of albums produced thus far into 2012. If you are looking for some new tunes, a lot of these are definitely worth checking out. The bolded titles are some of our favorites.
Bruce Springsteen “Wrecking Ball”
Fiona Apple “The Idler Wheel..”
John Mayer “Born and Raised”
Sleigh Bells “Reign of Terror”
Leonard Cohen “Old Ideas”
The Beach Boys “That’s Why God Made the Radio”
Cloud Nothings “Attack on Memory”
Best Coast “The Only Place”
Japandroids “Celebration Rock”
Killer Mike “R.A.P. Music”
Jack White “Blunderbuss”
Neil Young and Crazy Hourse “Americana”
Patti Smith “Banga”
Azelia Banks “1991 EP”
The Shins “Port of Morrow”
Bonnie Raitt “Slipstream”
Dr. John “Locked Down”
Regina Spektor “What We Saw from the Deep Side”
Escort “Escort”
Hospitality “Hospitality”
Garbage “Not Your Kind of People”
Norah Jones “Little Broken Heart”
Himanshu “Nehru Jackets”
Alabama Shakes “Boys and Girls”
Schoolboy Q “Habits and Contradictions”
Django Django “Django Django”
Smashing Pumpkins “Oceania”
Amadou & Mariam “Folila”
Sharon Van Etton “Tramp”
Beach House “Bloom”
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros “Here”
Justin Townes Earle “Nothing’s Gunna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now”
M. Ward “A Wasteland Companion”
Allo Darlin’ “Europe”
Bobby Womack “The Bravest Man in the Universe”
Usher “Looking for Myself”
Adam Lambert “Trespassing”
Rufus Wainwright “Out of the Game”
Grimes “Visions”
El-P “Cancer 4 Cure”
