The Fashionably Late Top 50 of 2012: #41 - Crocodiles

When it comes to year-end lists, y'all know I don't mess around. I don't post my picks from the previous year for weeks after the next year has started. In 2012, there was a bounty of music that entered the world that made me deliriously happy to be blessed with the sense of sound. So I pondered, marinated, and contemplated for weeks. Music from 2012 has been digested for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And now, friends, it's time. Time to share with you what I consider the cream of quite a crop indeed. You might see things omitted here that you think should be on a Best Of list. This list isn't what I think you want to read. This list is what I feel about last year. If it's not here, I either didn't spend enough time with it or just didn't love it enough. A big thank you to all of the artists who created the music that I fell in love with last year.

WHO: Crocodiles

WHAT: Endless Flowers

WHEN: June 2012

WHERE: Frenchkiss

WHY: I'm not sure what happened, but Crocodiles has gone positively lovey dovey...well, at least, a little anyway. But I tell y'all what, those purveyors of beautiful noise still make a ferocious wall of fuzzy, scuzzy sound, the occasional burst of sunshine and hearts or no. Endless Flowers doesn't quite have that edge that made me love predecessor Sleep Forever as much as I did, but turn that volume up and it's still a mighty fine little listen.

MY JAMS: "Dark Alleys" "My Surfing Lucifer" "Welcome Trouble"