Posted // 2012-07-10 - For one of the best release days of the year, the albums range from awesome indie, dark hip-hop, delicate experimental instrumentals and jammin’ Ethiopian.
Must Have:
Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan
”Dance For You”
Best Ethiopian-by-way-of-Boston now on Sub Pop Records:
Debo Band, Debo Band
”Asha Gedawo”
Best beatsmithing and rhyme-spitting combo:
Aesop Rock, Skelethon
”Zero Dark Thirty”
Best experimental instrumentals:
Delicate Steve, Positive Force
”Positive Force”
Honorable Mentions:
Husky, Forever Go
Clare and the Reasons, Kr-51
Holograms, Holograms
Marina and the Diamonds, Electra Fire
Old Crow Medicine Show, Carry Me Back