Monthly Mix: The Playlist, December 2012

Alt-J offers up "Something Good"

     Well, friends, on the last day of 2012 comes the last Playlist of the year. Not only that, it is also the final post under the title "Feerock's World." Don't worry music fans, this site will be back next year under a different name and design with the same concept in mind. It will still have the same goal to recap some of the month's best music and to give insight on a few bands and their new albums.

     December handed out plenty of gifts, not to mention a bunch of stocking stuffers in the form of toasty mp3s. British indie quartet Alt-J kicks things off with "Something Good", a slow moving eerie cut off of their 2012 release An Awesome Wave. Another featured song comes from Cincinnati indie rockers Walk The Moon. The band handed us "Tightrope" as the second single and serves as a peppy dance number to get the blood flowing on these cold nights. Scottish indie-folkers Frightened Rabbit deliver the last featured cut of the month in the form of the somber, yet uplifting "Dead Now" which will be on their new 2013 record Pedestrian Verse.

     Thanks for reading, folks, it truly was a great year of music like usual. Have a good New Year's Eve and I hope to see you up around the bend.

December 2012 Playlist

1. Alt-J - Something Good

2. AWOLNATION - Kill Your Heroes

3. Walk The Moon - Tightrope

4. Mystery Pills - Anti-Pattern

5. Wild Cub - Thunder Clatter

6. Peace - Wraith

7. Girls Names - Hypnotic Regression

8. Bleeding Rainbow - Waking Dream

9. Frightened Rabbit - Dead Now

10. School of Seven Bells - Secret Days

11. OMN - Between Us Now

12. Memory Tapes - Neighborhood Watch

IN THE BONUS:

Top 5 Tracks of the Year:

5. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

4. Bear Hands - What I've Learned

3. The Shins - Bait and Switch

2. Lymbyc Systym - Falling Together

1. Tanlines - All of Me

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