Best Rock Albums of 2012

Lots of good alt. albums this year but fairly slim pickens in rock.

Soundgarden- King Animal. Keepers of the flame of Seattle grunge.

Neil Young-- Psychedelic Pill. The long songs take it.

Beach House-- Bloom. Best electropop.

Beachwood Sparks-- Tarnished Gold. The Byrds for today.

Bob Mould-- Silver Age. Aging well.

Dirty Projectors-- Swing Lo Magellan. Cerebral & nervy like The Talking Heads.

Patti Smith-- Banga. Forever young and authentic.

All on LP.

Forgot Dr. John-- Locked Down. It's really a Dr.J/Dan Auerbach album.

Tame Impala – Lonerism (retro 60's)

Grimes – Visions (Canadian electronic)

Jack White – Blunderbuss

Beach House – Bloom

.... while I loved "Blunderbuss" @ "Sun" (Cat Power), they were, from a sonic standpoint, too much digititis, (etched), too much of one frequency or another, not a record to sit and really enjoy, (lp).

Calexico "Algiers"