Shine Sideshow

In 2012 I've been very unfaithful, music-wise. I'm made for long, intense relationships with an album: I used to listen to the same one over and over, until I could sing every song without missing any word. But in 2012 I've been jumping from song to song and record to record, mostly aimlessly, but let's say I was experimenting. So, leaving a mark in my 2012 aren't the artists I've been eagerly awaiting new releases from, like Rufus Wainwright or Alanis Morrissette (yes, I adore her), but the ones that actually survived in a sea of songs I've listened to only once or twice, before hitting that particular folder in my head called "oblivion".

From Finner by Of Monsters and Men
"My head is an animal" was a surprise for me and probably the album I've listened to the most in the first part of 2012 (before my Smiths phase, but that's quite a different story: just be glad it's inappropriate for me to rant about it here). If a song is about the sea (or seagulls, salt and sushi - but this last one is pretty rare), chances are that I probably like it: and this happens to be my favourite track off the album, indeed.

The Enemy by The Raveonettes
A more personal choice: my memory will always link this song to a beautiful concert I attended last December in Paris. I like how even the Raveonettes' songs that sound lighthearted and bright, always come with a slightly dark accent, a hopeless sort of reminder that, well, we're doomed anyway.