Seattle Met Asks: What Were Your Favorite Albums of 2012?
With 2012 winding down, we decided to ask some of our favorite local acts for their favorite records of the year. We consulted artists that had earned Culture Fiend's Album of the Month distinction in 2012 and nearly all were happy to oblige. We didn’t want you to feel left out either, so we asked our readers to send in their choice for the best local record of 2012 and tallied the votes.
The winners are... (*indicates Seattle band):
Reader’s Choice: Favorite Seattle Record
1. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – The Heist (by a landslide, recieving over 60 percent of the vote)
T2. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
T2. Seapony - Falling
Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Delta Spirit – Delta Spirit
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Dr. Dog - Be the Void
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa*
Erik Blood - Touch Screens*
The Way We Were In 1989 - Floating Islands EP*
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Oliver Franklin - When the Moon*
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Elbow - Dead in the Boot
Sigur Ros - Valtari
Sacred Earth - Breathing Space
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Carole King - Legendary Demos
The Nields - The Full Catastrophe
Paul Simon - Live in New York City
Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream
Spoonshine – Song of the Sockeye*
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Beach House - Bloom
Deep Sea Diver - History Speaks*
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Emily Wells - Mama
Beach House - Bloom
Blue Light Curtain - Clouds in Our Hair*
OC Notes – Pre Future Post Modern Love Songs: aka AlienBootyBass*
Dead Mellotron - Glitter
DIIV - Oshin
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa*
La Sera - Sees the Light
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Sleeping in the Aviary - You and Me, Ghost
Deep Sea Diver - History Speaks*
Kithkin - Takers and Leavers*
Tea Cozies - Bang Up*
Ash Reiter – Hola
