Aviva’s Top Albums/Songs/Shows 2012

*In No Particular Order

Top 10 Albums //

Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young Now?

Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself

Metz – S/T

Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid M.A.A.D City

Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t

Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion

Grimes – Visions

Dry The River – Shallow Bed

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

DIIV – Oshin

Top 20 Songs //

Solange – Losing You

Andrew Bird – If I Needed You 

Punch Brothers – Another New World

Twin Shadow – Five Seconds

Magnetic Fields – Andrew In Drag

Kendrick Lamar – Swimming Pools (Drank)

David Byrne / St. Vincent – Who

Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute

Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built

Beach House – Myth

MIA – Bad Girls 

Frank Ocean – Thinking About You (Ryan Hemsworth Bootleg)

Alabama Shakes – Hold On 

Purity Ring – Fireshine

Lee Fields – I Still Got It

Sufjan Stevens – Justice Delivers Its Gift 

Future Islands – Tomorrow 

How To Dress Well – & It Was You

The Goat Rodeo Sessions – Here & Heaven  

Blood Orange – Bad Girls 

Top 20 Shows // 

Morrissey @ Rapids Falls Theatre

Punch Brothers @ Lee’s

Sappyfest @ Sackville, NB

“We Have An Anchor” Band @ TIFF Lightbox

Charles Bradley @ Lee’s

Sandro Perri @ Wavelength Anniversary

Beach Boys @ Molson Amp

Cold Specks @ Music Gallery

DIIV @ NXNE

Dry The River @ Garrison

Maylee Todd @ All Caps!

Magnetic Fields @ Sound Academy

Perfume Genius @ Drake

Patrick Watson @ Glenn Gould

Andrew Bird @ Echo Beach

M83 @ Sound Academy

Dirty Projectors @ Club Soda (Montreal)

Destroyer @ Opera House

Hidden Cameras @ Harbourfront

Trust @ Wrongbar