Best Rock Album in 2012

Dgarretson...Love that record! Quite a swing from his brooding J.Tillman stuff which is also great. Talented dude.

Bob Mould's Silver Age is his strongest in a string of recent good ones-- including 2012 vinyl reissues of two seminal Sugar albums. Mould is a kind of thinking man's Josh Homme, with rock roots as deep as Frank Black but without the recognition factor of the Pixies. The LP recorded at Hyde Street Studio is natural, both monolithic and finely detailed. R&R isn't dead, at least not this year.

You are welcome, Toddnkaya.

If you like female singers, you might try Jessie Baylin's latest disc. She is very good.

Neal

2009's "Embryonic" by The Flaming Lips is one of my favorites in recent years and worth a plug here.

How is Grizzly Bear? Have it and the Sons album on order.