already. Would love to get some of your recommendations. Here are some
of my favorites:
{my running favorites of 2012 playlist (updated monthly) on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/user/
{my running weekly album picks playlist on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/user/
Favorite albums of 2012 thus far (alphabetical, did my best to limit
it to 25, but plenty more I can recommend):
Air -- Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Andrew Bird -- Break It Yourself
Chicha Libre -- Canibalismo
Conduits -- Conduits
Dr. Dog -- Be the Void
Dr John -- Locked Down
Jay Farrar/Jim James/Anders Parker/Will Johnson -- New Multitudes
Floratone -- Floratone II
Laura Gibson -- La Grande
Heartless Bastards -- Arrow
Hospitality -- Hospitality
Michael Kiwanuka -- Home Again
Cate Le Bon -- Cyrk
Little Barrie -- King of the Waves
Brad Mehldau Trio -- Ode
The Pines -- Dark So Gold
Plants and Animals -- The End of That
Pond -- Beard, Wives, Denim
Quantic w/ Alice Russell -- Look Around the Corner
Frankie Rose -- Interstellar
Royal Baths -- Better Luck Next Life
Christopher Paul Stelling -- Songs of Praise & Scorn
Toure-Raichel Collective -- The Tel Aviv Session
Jack White -- Blunderbuss
Zeus -- Busting Visions
Favorite 10 new discoveries in 2012 so far:
Conduits
Chicha Libre
Get the Blessing
Hospitality
Michael Kiwanuka
Little Barrie
The Megaphonic Thrift
Pond
Quick and Easy Boys
Royal Baths
Spirit Family Reuniion
The Young