{"id":292416,"date":"2012-12-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/12\/19\/nates-favorite-albums-of-2012-music-podcast\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:05","slug":"nates-favorite-albums-of-2012-music-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/12\/19\/nates-favorite-albums-of-2012-music-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate&#39;s Favorite Albums of 2012 [Music Podcast]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As a supplement to this week&#8217;s &#8220;Favorite Music of 2012&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=5382\">podcast,<\/a> we&#8217;ll be posting top 10 album lists from all four participants over the course of the day. Here&#8217;s Nate&#8217;s list.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album from Late-2011, but It Still Counts &#8216;Cause I Say So<br \/>\nTom Waits, <em>Bad As Me<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Like Tom Waits? Sputtering carnival barkers? Tom Waits? Tight three-minute songs, featuring a host of guest musicians? Tom Waits? Good! This one&#8217;s pretty self-explanatory (Tom Waits). And, as a bonus, Tom Waits&#8217;s first studio album in seven years comes with a Grammy nomination&#8212;which is something they still give out! In case you&#8217;re not already on the Tom Waits bandwagon, don&#8217;t lose hope. Have a visual taste of Tom Waits in all his Tom-Waits-y glory:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHn_Kb4Dz40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Album that Best Represents What Goes on in Chad&#8217;s Brainspace<br \/>\nDan Deacon, <em>America<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Like some electronic music? But you don&#8217;t want to completely lose real instruments, either, right? Get a bit apprehensive whenever someone recommends another &#8220;electronic&#8221; album (whatever that means these days)? Looking for something that feels more composed than the rest? Good! Dan Deacon&#8217;s <em>America<\/em> is deeply layered and textured with electronic sound, while still requiring an orchestra to record. It can be charging and frantic, and it can be sweepingly grandiose. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GjKRmoVhWWU\">America,<\/a> man.<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album Whose Songs Would Have Been Hits on an 80s Movie Soundtrack<br \/>\nOberhofer, <em>Time Capsules II<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Need to step back from the electronic brink sometimes? Miss hearing something that&#8217;s not only guitar-based, but sounds refreshingly analog? Like the greatest hits of the 80s, but don&#8217;t know what to do because listening to the <em>Breakfast Club<\/em> soundtrack is just too depressing to bear? Good! There&#8217;s practically a movement within independent music, now, to blanket your songs with an 80s throwback vibe&#8212;except it&#8217;s nearly all found in the world of synth\/dance-y stuff. Oberhofer&#8217;s got the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/P1e_xAnMi3k\">guitar-based hit singles<\/a> you&#8217;ve been missing from the 80s soundtracks that never existed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Favorite Album from an Icelandic Band<br \/>\nOf Monsters and Men, <em>My Head Is an Animal<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Iceland? Good!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghb6eDopW8I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album That Really Gets Going in the Middle<br \/>\nBat for Lashes, <em>The Haunted Man<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hear a lot of albums this year? There are a lot of songs on those albums, huh? So many of them were just dull, right? And so many of the &#8220;nice&#8221; songs were, in the end, unremarkable? Good! This album seems like one of those, at first. Often slow and atmospheric, it may come off, initially, as a bit too agreeable . . . a bit to cool. Just before the middle, though, if it didn&#8217;t hit you earlier, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KkY5667gG6U\">emotional resonance<\/a> begins settling in, if you&#8217;ll let it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album from a Band with a Symbol for a Name<br \/>\n\u2206 (Alt-J), <em>An Awesome Wave<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Only just finished editing\/producing the music podcast? It takes a long time, doesn&#8217;t it? Are you realizing you don&#8217;t have much time for these write-ups before it goes live? Good! Me, too. Then, you won&#8217;t mind if I just leave this video as the testament to this album. If you don&#8217;t like this song, frankly, there&#8217;s no chance you&#8217;ll like the album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVeMiVU77wo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album That I&#8217;m Surprised None of these Other Jerks Picked <br \/>\nKishi Bashi, <em>151a<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Like Animal Collective sometimes? Like Sigur R\u00f3s sometimes? Like Owen Pallet sometimes? Like multi-instrumentalists who release an album that reminds you, alternatingly, of the best of each of those groups, yet not derivative of any of them? Good! K Ishibashi&#8217;s first full-length gives you <em>a lot<\/em>. There are songs you&#8217;re going to favorite on first listen. On second and third listen, you&#8217;ll have some new favorites. On fourth and fifth listen . . .<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album with Exactly the Rock for Which I was Looking<br \/>\nSleigh Bells, <em>Reign of Terror<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wanna rock? <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/g0_BlUbGBSo\">Good!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album That I Initially Wrote Off As Redundant<br \/>\nCat Power, <em>Sun<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Like Cat Power? Maybe only some of Cat Power, though? Honestly, maybe you&#8217;re a little tired of Cat Power these days? Good! Because this particular Cat Power album is filled with restraint&#8212;thus, the initial feeling that it was merely warmed over versions of songs she&#8217;d already written before. On closer inspection, though, it&#8217;s that same restraint which allows all the subtly wonderful melodies and intricate production details on this album to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PDbPrOuXq2s\">shine through spectacularly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album That I Don&#8217;t Like, but, on Which Is One of My Favorite Songs of the Year<br \/>\nBrendan Benson, <em>What Kind of World<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Like songs? Sometimes just a certain song? And sometimes the rest of the album doesn&#8217;t work for you? But that one song, right? It&#8217;s addictive and on your playlist for months? Good! This one&#8217;s for you. As long as you can let your guard down long enough to be a sucker for a semi-sincere power ballad, then you&#8217;re gonna love <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/X9dGf4teXxo\">this.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a supplement to this week&#8217;s &#8220;Favorite Music of 2012&#8221; podcast, we&#8217;ll be posting top 10 album lists from all four participants over the course of the day. Here&#8217;s Nate&#8217;s list. Best Album from Late-2011, but It Still Counts &#8216;Cause I Say So Tom Waits, Bad As Me Like Tom Waits? Sputtering carnival barkers? 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