Best of Austin Music 2012
I never thought the independent music scene in Austin could ever top the late 1990s, when I was really loving on bands such as Spoon, Knife in the Water, The Kiss Offs and Silver Scooter. Of course, I have since been proven wrong by the massive explosion of incredible music currently being made in this city on a daily basis. For the second time in my life, a majority of my favorite bands hail from Austin; and it has been an honor and privilege to track the progress of these bands over the last couple of years for AdobeAirstream.
You probably know by now that I really hate to play favorites, but 2012 will forever be remembered as the year that we witnessed the release of two seminal albums by Austin bands:
Leelanau by Dana Falconberry
Plague by The Eastern Sea
That said, there was a ton of other truly amazing LPs released in 2012 in addition to those two musical masterpieces (a word I very rarely use)…
Resonating Symphony by Belaire
Banana Moon by Burgess Meredith
Deep Time by Deep Time
Before You Were Born by Frank Smith
Daydream Western by The Lonesome Heroes
And, there were also a lot of great EPs released in 2012 too…
Let Them Talk by Agent Ribbons
Rocketship Girl by Grace London (an honorary Austinite, in my mind)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacBp-3oUhc
In Arnica by Marmalakes