{"id":75,"date":"2012-06-25T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckinabox.com\/blog\/files\/halfway_2012.php#unique-entry-id-310"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:19:13","slug":"halfway-my-favorite-albums-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Halfway: My favorite albums of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s around the halfway point of 2012 and here&rsquo;s my top 10 of my favorite albums so far. In a rough order from my most favorite.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Beach House<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloom_(Beach_House_album)\" rel=\"external\">Bloom<\/a><br \/>2. <strong>Santigold<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_of_My_Make-Believe\" rel=\"external\">Master of My Make-Believe<\/a><br \/>3. <strong>Sleigh Bells<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reign_of_Terror_(album)\" rel=\"external\">Reign of Terror<\/a><br \/>4. <strong>Lower Dens<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16555-nootropics\/\" rel=\"external\">Nootropics<\/a><br \/>5. <strong>Actress<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R.I.P._(Actress_album)\" rel=\"external\">R.I.P.<\/a><br \/>6. <strong>Nite Jewel<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16347-nite-jewel-one-second-of-love\/\" rel=\"external\">One Second of Love<\/a><br \/>7. <strong>Polica<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16410-give-you-the-ghost\/\" rel=\"external\">Give You The Ghost<\/a><br \/>8. <strong>Grimes<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visions_(Grimes_album)\" rel=\"external\">Visions<\/a><br \/>9. <strong>Mi Ami<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16403-decade\/\" rel=\"external\">Decade<\/a><br \/>10. <strong>The Flaming Lips<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Flaming_Lips_and_Heady_Fwends\" rel=\"external\">The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few that other albums I also really like that may take a few more listens to be higher on the list but are definitely among my favorites are the new albums by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kill_For_Love\" rel=\"external\">Chromatics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ufabulum\" rel=\"external\">Squarepusher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/niki-and-the-dove\/13145\" rel=\"external\">Niki &#038; the Dove<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Always_(Xiu_Xiu_album)\" rel=\"external\">Xiu Xiu<\/a>. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormingthebase.com\/rapoon-stray-cd\/\" rel=\"external\">Rapoon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16222-we-will-always-be\/\" rel=\"external\">Windy &#038; Carl<\/a> albums are also very good. We&rsquo;ll see if the top 10 changes when I do my end of the year round up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s around the halfway point of 2012 and here&rsquo;s my top 10 of my favorite albums so far. In a rough order from my most favorite. 1. Beach House &#8211; Bloom2. Santigold &#8211; Master of My Make-Believe3. Sleigh Bells &#8211; Reign of Terror4. Lower Dens &#8211; Nootropics5. Actress &#8211; R.I.P.6. Nite Jewel &#8211; One Second &#8230; <a title=\"Halfway: My favorite albums of 2012\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=75\" aria-label=\"Read more about Halfway: My favorite albums of 2012\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john_beck","wp-image-borders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XpZy-1d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=194","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":0},"title":"Happy New Year&#x21;","author":"John Beck","date":"January 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year! 2009 has come and gone and has left us with many great memories.My favorite film of the year was Inglorious Basterds. I also really enjoyed Moon. Sure I haven't gotten to the movies that much this year but those two were my favorite.I have watched a whole\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=42","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":1},"title":"Top 50 albums of 2012","author":"John Beck","date":"February 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This year was more difficult than in year past and it hurt me to leave out a lot of great albums. With that being said here\u2019s my personal favorite albums of 2012. 1. Beach House - Bloom 2. A Place to Bury Strangers - Worship 3. 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My three favorites were Enter the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=40","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":5},"title":"Beach House &#8211; Wishes","author":"John Beck","date":"March 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My favorite band just released a new video from their 2012 album \u201cBloom\u201d and it\u2019s happens to be my favorite track off that album and my favorite track of that year. Awesome. To make it even better, directed by one of my favorite music video directors: Eric Wareheim, it\u2019s awesome!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}