Best of 2012 IRP List

1. Alphabet Botanical – A New Feeling
2. Fun. – All Alone
3. Kodaline – All I Want
4. Regina Spektor – All The Rowboats
6. Princeton – Andre
10. Miike Snow – Archipelago
11. The Little Ones – Argonauts
12. San Cisco – Awkward
13. We Were Evergreen – Baby Blue
14. The Burning Of Rome – Ballad Of An Onion Sprout
16. Lakes Of Canada – Bated Breath - I really like this song but I wasn't going to add it because the lead singer sounds too much like one of the Indigo Girls or Melissa Ethridge, turns out it's actually a guy who looks a lot like Zach Galifianakis!
17. Boy Girl Party – Be A Jerk
18. The Family Crest – Before Your Father Hears Us
19. Ra Ra Riot – Beta Love
20. Alphabet Backwards – Big Top
21. Benjamin Gibbard feat. Aimee Mann – Bigger Than Love
22. Mother Mother – Bit By Bit
26. Miniature Tigers – Boomerang
28. Sondre Lerche – Boxing Day
32. Local Natives – Breakers
33. alt-J – Breezeblocks
34. Matt Corby – Brother
37. The Sweet Serenades – Can’t Get Enough
38. Hey Geronimo – Carbon Affair
39. All We Are – Cardhouse
43. Tessa Rose Jackson – Change Time
46. Cat Power – Cherokee
48. Loon Lake – Cherry Lips
49. Spector – Chevy Thunder
50. Oriel Joans – Chin Up
52. Lucy & The Cloud Parade – Cloud 9
54. Sleigh Bells – Comeback Kid
57. It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! – Crow Hill
65. Frightened Rabbit – Dead Now
69. Atoms For Peace – Default
70. Django Django – Default
73. Family Cave – Direction
74. Of Monsters And Men – Dirty Paws
80. Meursault – Dull Spark - They need to mature.  I'm leaving them on the list so I remember to check in on them later.  With some real studio time (not Garage Band in their basement) and a good producer, they could put out a really good album.
82. Blaudzun – Elephants
84. A.C. Newman – Encyclopedia Of Classic Takedowns - I was going to write "this sounds like a rip off of the New Pornographers", then I saw that the artist is AC Newman of the New Pornographers, so nevermind.
86. Andrew Bird – Eyeoneye
94. Pacific Air – Float
96. Haim - Forever
98. Dan Croll – From Nowhere
99. Half Moon Run – Full Circle
100. The Mynabirds – Generals
103. Skip The Use – Ghost
105. The Royal Concept – Gimme Twice
107. Dog Is Dead – Glockenspiel Song
112. Admiral Fallow – Guest Of The Government
113. Islands – Hallways
116. Kopecky Family Band – Heartbeat
119. Acre Yawn – Hesitation Win - I don't know that this is actually a band anymore but I did like them.  The girl, Haley Barnes, has a very different voice.
120. Miner – Hey Love
121. The Mowgli’s – Hi Hey There Hello
123. Husky – History’s Door
124. The Lumineers – Ho Hey
127. Phillip Phillips – Home
134. Ms Mr – Hurricane
135. Air Traffic Controller – Hurry Hurry
136. Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folks - I Lost Myself
140. Mikhael Paskalev – I Spy - I love this guy! write more later
142. Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait
143. Peter Bjorn & John – I Wish I Was A Spy
145. Swiss Lips – In The Water
147. Kishi Bashi – It All Began With A Burst
149. Farah Loux – K.I.D.S.
152. Bat For Lashes – Laura
153. A Yawn Worth Yelling – Leave Us Be! Let Us Go!
156. Matt & Kim – Let’s Go
160. Tiger Town – Lions & Witches
161. Boy – Little Numbers
162. Alex Winston – Locomotive - I like her live but I don't care for her recorded stuff
163. Murder By Death – Lost River
166. thenewno2 – Make It Home - Reminds me of War of the Worlds
169. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros – Man On Fire
180. Miss Li – My Heart Goes Boom
182. New Beard – My People Are Around
186. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – Never Go Back
187. Zerbin – New Earth
188. Two Door Cinema Club – Next Year
189. Fidlar – No Waves
190. Edward Appleby – No, We Really Couldn’t Have
193. Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World
194. Max And The Moon – Out Of My Head
199. The Lighthouse And The Whaler – Pioneers
201. Sea Wolf – Priscilla
202. Saint Hotel – Puzzle Pieces
204. Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine
205. The Temper Trap – Rabbit Hole
207. Modern Rivals – Riku
209. Hacienda – Savage
211. Bombay Show Pig – Shackles And Chains
212. The Jungle Giants – She’s A Riot
215. Stealing Sheep – Shut Eye
216. The Shins – Simple Song
217. Gaz Coombes – Simulator
218. Eye Emma Jedi – Sin
219. Moulettes – Sing Unto Me
225. Jukebox the Ghost – Somebody
226. Mystery Jets – Someone Purer
229. Thumpers – Sound Of Screams - I like the drums in this song but not totally sold on the whole song.
230. Grizzly Bear – Speak In Rounds
231. The Deadly Syndrome – Spirit Of The Stairs
232. Freelance Whales – Spitting Image
233. Rin Tin Tiger – Spooky Spider
235. Youngblood Hawke – Stars (Hold On)
238. The Elwins – Stuck In The Middle
239. Avalanche City – Sunset
240. Ball Park Music – Surrender
241. The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather
243. MVSCLES – Sweet n’ Sour
244. M. Ward – Sweetheart
245. Passion Pit – Take A Walk
246. Other Lives – Take Us Alive
247. Jim Noir – Tea
250. Paul Banks – The Base
251. Dry The River – The Chambers & The Valves
253. Pear Shape – The Coca Cola Kid
256. Little Green Cars – The John Wayne 
257. Clare & The Reasons – The Lake
259. Family Of The Year – The Stairs
264. The Musgraves – The Way You Make Me Want You
265. Ben Howard – The Wolves
270. The Milk – Time For Heroes
271. Lord Huron – Time To Run
274. Jake Bugg – Two Fingers
287. Roll Acosta – White As Gold
288. Wake! Owl – Wild Country
290. First Aid Kit – Wolf


Now on to the Best of 2013, wish me luck.