For posterity's sake.....

Volume 1

Poliça - Dark Star
Freddie Gibbs - Anything To Survive w  Freeway, Sly Polaroid & Adrian
Wendy Rene - After Laughter
Lee Fields & The Expressions - I Still Got It
THEESatisfaction - Extinct
The Dø - Bohemian Dances
Tanlines - All Of Me
Grimes - Genesis
Porcelain Raft - Is It Too Deep For You?
Young Galaxy - Cover Your Tracks
Koushik - Nothing's The Same
The Peach Kings - Little Things
35bag - Find Me Pt.2
Action Bronson - Double Breasted
Teebs - While You Dooooo (Extended)
Clams Casino - I'm Official [Squadda B]

Volume 2

The Replacements - Androgynous
Islands - This is Not A Song
Andrew Bird - Lusitania
Hospitality - Argonauts
The Shins - September
Vetiver - Can't You Tell
Jagwar Ma - Come Save Me
Tennis - Origins
Cate Le Bon - Puts Me To Work
Jessie Baylin - I Feel That Too
Damien - Jurado - Maraqopa
Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters - My World Is Empty Without You
Michael Kiwanuka - I Need Your Company
King Creosote - Bootprints
Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow
Wild Beasts - Devil's Crayon (Acoustic)
Heartless Bastards - Marathon

Volume 3

Daughn Gibson - In the Beginning
Major Lazer - Get Free
Tomas Barfod feat. Nina Kinert - November Skies
Gardens & Villa - Orange Blossom
The Beastie Boys - Flute Loop
Quantic & Alice Russell - Magdalena 
The Walkmen - We Can't Be Beat
Kindness - Anyone Can Fall In Love
Frank Ocean - Super Rich Kids (feat. Earl Sweatshirt)
Kwes. - Honey
Beach House - Irene
Chromatics - Back from the Grave
Craft Spells - Burst
The Mynabirds - Radiator Sister
Jack White - Love Interruption

Volume 4

Cat Power - Manhattan
Chris Cohen - Rollercoaster Rider
John Maus - Bennington (2007)
Grizzly Bear - gun-shy
Twin Shadow - Run My Heart
Wild Nothing - Only Heather
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Baby
Delicate Steve - Luna
Ombre - Weight Those Words
King Krule - Rock Bottom
Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice
Django Django - Storm
Quantic & Alice Russell - Una Tarde en Mariquita
Andrew Bird - Near Death Experience Experience
Dirty Projectors - Just From Chevron
Fiona Apple - Anything We Want
Eternal Summers - Good As You
Lambchop - Gar

Volume 5

The xx - Chained
Melody's Echo Chamber - You Won't Be Missing That Part of Me
Mac Demarco - Dreaming
Andrew Bird - Three White Horses
Jessica Pratt - Mother Big River
Bat For Lashes - Laura
Cold Specks - Winter Solstice
Chris Cohen - Open Theme
Nightmoves - Colored Emotions
Miguel - Adorn
Kendrick Lamar - Poetic Justice ft. Drake
Chromatics - There's a Light Out On the Horizon
Le1f - Wut (5kinAndBone5)
Big Boi - CPU
Grimes - Genesis
Action Bronson & Alchemist - Modern Day Revelations feat Roc Marciano
Purity Ring - Belispeak
Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen

Oh, hello there.  I missed you too!  Aauugghh, STOP IT.  I know.

It's been a painful hiatus, but if anything can get me out of the funk, it's the year-end list.  As always, the list is just a snapshot of my year in music; I've never been more off my game and am sure my critical faculties abandoned me long ago.  Even I think my list is weird.  But this is what tickled my fancy in 2012.  Truthfully, I was uninspired by music for extended stretches of this year, but you put together a list like this and wonder how that's possible...  

Ima Numba One Stunna

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange.  I can't believe I even considered anything else.  There is nothing else.  Channel Orange owned this year and easily settled itself among my favorite R&B albums ever.  Sh!%, I never even realized what my favorite R&B albums were until this bad boy came along and got me thinking.  Mr. Ocean's year out of the studio doesn't hurt the cause either.  Hard not to love this kid.

The Noble Challenger

Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Barbaro - Look Around the Corner.  This album won the sentimental vote and definitely filled our apartment more than any other this year.  Quantic just keeps getting better at what he does, and this time around, he found the perfect muse for his signature blend of latin- and funk-inflected soul.  

#s 3-9, in no particular order

Poliça - Give You the Ghost

Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

Chris Cohen - Overgrown Path

Cat Power - Sun

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Lambchop - Mr. M

Chromatics - Kill For Love

#s 10-25, in no particular order

Hospitality - s/t

Jessica Pratt - s/t

Tanlines - Mixed Emotions

Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

Ariel Pink - Mature Themes

Beach House - Bloom

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

Tame Impala - Lonerism
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

Lower Dens - Nootropics

The xx - Coexist

Big Boi - Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city

Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man

Individual Awards

Jam of the Year: Frank Ocean - 'Super Rich Kids'

Best non-album single: Radiohead - 'Daily Mail'/'Staircase'

Album I most want to hear live: Beach House

Most intriguing: Daughn Gibson - All Hell

Biggest disappointment: Bjork - Biophilia

Best opening tack: Walkmen - 'We Can't Be Beat'

Guaranteed Starbucks pleaser: Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again

Go-to good time: Tanlines

Best soundtrack: Drive OST

Best archaeological dig: Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram

Biggest what have you done for me lately victim: Cloud Nothings

Doin it for me lately: Jessica Pratt and Bat for Lashes
New obsession: Tom Waits catalogue (thx MA)

Best week o' shows: 4/16: Horrors @ Bimbo's; 4/17: WU LYF @ Independent; 4/19: Wild Beasts @ Independent; 4/20-22: Coachella

Not so guilty pleasure:  Ellie Goulding - 'Anything Can Happen'