Grimes

Now that I’m back from abroad, I’m amped to finally be sharing my list of stand-out indie tracks from the last year!

In no particular order, below are my top 50 artists and/or tracks of 2012. Since I started blogging midway through the year, some of these artists have been honored with a post prior and some have not. Thus for the sake of diversifying, in some cases the featured track below is not necessarily my favorite but a varying version of the original or new track entirely (but equally adored, obv).

1. Alpine – Hands

 

2. Little Dragon – Ritual Union

 

3. Trails & Ways – Border Crosser (Seshen Remix)

 

4. Air Traffic Controller – You Know Me

 

5. Electric Guest – This Head I Hold (their cover of Little Dragon’s Ritual Union is a must-listen as well)

 

6. Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch – Sweet Nothing

 

7. Beat Culture – Useless

 

8. Tennis – Origins

 

9. Tanlines – S.A.W.

 

10. Beach House – Myth

 

11. Blackbird Blackbird – Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush Cover)

 

12. Dems – Down on You (Hannes Fischer Remix)

 

13. Charli XCX – I’ll Never Know

 

14. Lord Huron – The Stranger

 

15. Ellie Goulding – Figure 8 (Alias Mix)

 

16. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED) – Tapes & Money

 

17. Flight Facilities – Clair de Lune (ft. Christine Hoberg)

 

18. Wild Belle – It’s Too Late

 

19. Dirty South & Alesso – City of Dreams

 

20. Alt-J – Something Good

 

21. Bumblebeez – Next to You

 

22. St. Lucia – Closer Than This

 

23. Crystal Castles – Wrath of God

 

24. Sky Ferreira – Everything is Embarrassing

 

25. Ben Howard – The Fear (Moonlight Matters Rework)

 

26. No Ceremony/// – Feelsolow

 

27. The 1975 – You

 

28. Ultraista – Smalltalk

 

29. The Zolas – Knot In My Heart

 

30. Southern Shores – New Love

 

31. Django Django – Default

 

32. AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It (Bondax Remix)

 

33. Dan Croll – From Nowhere

 

34. Germany Germany – With You (ft. Kotomi)

 

35. Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks (The Knocks Remix)

 

36. Sun Airway – Close

 

37. Grimes – Genesis

 

38. Youth Lagoon – Daydream

 

39. Miike Snow – Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)

(Track begins at 3:05)

 

40. Wild Child – The Tale of You & Me

 

41. The Naked and Famous – Young Blood

 

42. Dwntwn – See My Eyes

 

43. Passion Pit – Take A Walk

 

44. Beat Connection – Think/Feel (ft. Chelsey Scheffe)

 

45. Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute

 

46. Years & Years – I Wish I Knew

 

47. MS MR – Hurricane

 

48. Kindness – House

 

49. Hot Chip – How Do You Do (Todd Terje remix)

 

50. Wild Cub – Thunder Clatter

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

These tracks also received a considerable amount of air time on my playlist this year.

1. The Xx – Sunset

 

2. Bloc Party – Truth

 

3. Cat Power – Ruin

 

4. Adventure Club – Retro City (Bronze Whale Remix)

 

5. Panama – It’s Not Over

 

6. Santigold – Disparate Youth

 

7. Phebe Starr – Alone With You

 

8. Viceroy – Chase Us Around – (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver Remix)

 

9. U-Tern – You Don’t Know Me

 

10. The Establishment – Love Like This