Oberhofer - Time Capsules II (Glass Note; 2012)

Modest mice heard what the flowers were saying to the wide-eyed puppets at dawn.

Miike Snow - Happy To You (Downtown / Universal Republic; 2012)

Drum rolls rose the confectionery sugar from each air vent in a tropical solitude.

Hundred Waters - Hundred Waters (Elestial Sound; 2012)

Casio keys under ice stole sparkles from passing wolf eyes.

Zammuto - Zammuto (Temporary Resistance; 2012)

 The woods plugged us to the arctic jungle via star children.

Matthewdavid – Tonalism Marfa Jingle Collage (dublab.com; 2012)

No, I've..../there is only all this warble of creation going on/ gonging on now/ birds, what stranger place is this?

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Julianna Barwick - Vow (Asthmatic Kitty; 2011)

Grand space or hall old as civil war ancestral stairs spiraled out to gardens, night....

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Howlin Rain - The Russian Wilds (Agitated; 2012)

Whenever I stagger into the Empire like a crow, the fluorescent lights are much too much for my glassy eyes in stardust by the discount bin.

Spoek Mathambo - Father Creeper (Sub Pop; 2012)

Put some red on it or else it will keep bubbling, frothing, and disconnecting tissues meant for skeletal bridges.  

Rocket Juice & The Moon - Rocket Juice & The Moon (Honest Jons; 2012)

Poison rises from the garden to give kisses to the moon and bless back the buttercups from surprising the miniature mice.

The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet (Warners; 2012)

Rat traps in the cellar will click and clack until they take me to you on the gingerbread staircase.

Breton - Other People's Problems (FatCat; 2012)

Crystal shards take everything but the silences when the angular bodies are coathangered into meat tricycles.

Madonna - MDNA (Interscope / Live Nation; 2012)

The silhouette of your cigarette means a beautiful killer might blue cloud this bedsheet.

The Shins - Port of Morrow (Columbia / Aural Apothecary; 2012)

Joyful pepper spray winds us up from almost any well.

Matt Jones & The Reconstruction - Half Poison, Half Pure (self-released; 2012)

Cellos are often asphyxiated by clean porcelain hands through the midnight gale.

s / s / s - Beak and Claw E.P. (Anticon; 2012)

After the radio broke, we began to dress in shattered cassette tapes.

Robert Pollard - Mouseman Cloud (Fire Records; 2012)

Answering machines get glimpses of bad hair days and bloody guitar strings.

Phédre - Phédre (Daps; 2012)

Lovers in need of organs only rot as lovely as the fruit.

Dunes - Noctiluca (Post Present Medium; 2012)

Spinning CDs reflect old fingerprints when you breathe against the glass of the jukebox.

Xiu Xiu - Always (Polyvinyl / Bella Union; 2012)

Soft needles knew the beating heart beside the municipal garbage can on Christmas Eve. in Boston.

Ceremony - Zoo (Matador Records; 2012)

If punk is dead, then so are the drumsticks in Thrasher's Palace.