Time to take stock. What is your year in music looking like so far?

Paul Coughlan kindly made Spotify playlists for both. Thanks Paul!

1. Grimes – Visions (4AD)
2. Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)
3. Kindness – World, You Need A Change Of Mind (Polydor)
4. El-P – Cancer For Cure (Fat Possum)
5. Chairlift – Something (Young Turks)
6. Hundred Waters – Hundred Waters (Elestial Sound)
7. Blondes – Blondes (RVNG Intl.)
8. THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE (Sub Pop)
9. John Talabot – Fin (Permanent Vacation)
10. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe (XL)
11. Death Grips – The Money Store (Epic)
12. Alt J – An Awesome Wave (Infectious)
13. Actress – R.I.P. (Honest Jon’s)
14. The Cast Of Cheers – Family (Schoolboy Error)
15. Niki And The Dove – Instinct (Mercury)
16. Tanlines – Mixed Emotions (True Panther)
17. Clock Opera – Ways To Forget (Island)
18. Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love (Domino)
19. Clark – Iradelphic (Warp)
20. Julia Holter – Ekstasis (RVNG Intl.)
21. Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Mute)
22. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum)
23. Django Django – Django Django (Because)
24. Mossy Nolan – Mossy Nolan
25. Keaton Henson – Dear… (Oak Ten Records)

Spotify playlist link.

Top Irish albums of 2012 so far

It’s actually been a great half-year for EPs from Irish acts so far this year. For now, here are my top 12 Irish albums…

1. The Cast Of Cheers – Family
2. Mossy Nolan – Mossy Nolan
3. Funeral Suits – Lily Of The Valley
4. Logikparty - Oh Cult!
5. Last Days Of 1984 – Wake Up To The Waves
6. Grand Pocket Orchestra – Ronald & Sylma
7. The Gandhis – After Autumn
8. No Monster Club – Dublin
9. Ghost Estates – Ghost Estates
10. Katie Kim – Cover & Flood
11. Seamus Fogarty – God Damn You Mountain
12. The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock  - The Brutal Here & Now

Spotify playlist link.