Your Holiday Shopping: KCRW DJs Pick Their Top 10 Music Albums of 2012

Jason Bentley ARTIST ALBUM   Gary Clark Jr Blak and Blu (Warner Bros) Hot Chip In Our Heads (Domino) First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar (Wichita) Jack White Blunderbuss (Third Man/Colombia) The Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio (Blue Note) Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (ATO) deadmau5 >album title goes here< (Ultra) Quantic & Alice Russell Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts) Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) Grizzly Bear Shields (Warp) Photo Credit: Jeremiah Garcia

Anne Litt ARTIST ALBUM   Gary Clark Jr Blak and Blu (Warner Bros) Heartless Bastards Arrow - (Partisan) Cate Le Bon Cyrk (The Control Group) Hot Chip In Our Heads (Domino) Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (ATO) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day and Night) Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) Quantic & Alice Russell Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts) Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives (Barsuk) Grizzly Bear Shields (Warp) Photo Credit: Starbright31

Chris Douridas ARTIST ALBUM   Frank Ocean channel ORANGE (Def Jam) Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel (Epic) Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) Me'Shell Ndegeocello Pur Une Ame Souveraine - A Dedication to Nina SImone (Naive) Crybaby Crybaby (Ais) deadmau5 >album title goes here< (Ultra) Electric Guest Mondo (Downtown) Tomas Barfod Salton Sea (Friends of Friends) Hundred Waters Hundred Waters (Ingrooves) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day and Night) Photo Credit: Ryan Rogers

Tom Schnabel ARTIST ALBUM   Buika En Mi Piel (Warner Music Latina) Melody Gardot The Absence (Verve) Mighty Sparrow Sparromania! (K7!) Quantic Ondatropica (Soundway) Tito Puente Quatro: The Definitive Collection (Sony Music Latin) Easy Star All Stars Easy Star's Thrillah (Easy Star) Zani Diabate and Les Heritiers Tientalaw (Sterns Africa) Caravan Palace Panic (Café de la Danse) Giovanna Pessi & Susanna Wallumrod If Grief Could Wait (ECM) Aha! Quintet Freespace (Jazz Compass) Photo Credit: Michele Yamamoto

Garth Trinidad ARTIST ALBUM   Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (ATO) Santigold Master of My Make Believe (Atlantic) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel (Epic) Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Big Enough? (Nonesuch) Kendrick Lamar Good Kid: m.A.A.d. City (Interscope) Rhye The Fall (Innovative Leisure) Electric Guest Mondo (Downtown) Four Tet Pink (Text) Maga Bo Quilombo Do Futuro (101 DISTRIBUTION) Photo Credit: Starbright31

Raul Campos ARTIST ALBUM   Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (ATO) Hot Chip In Our Heads (Domino) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day and Night) The XX Coexist (Young Turks) Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Carla Morrison Dejenme Llorar (Cosmica) Mexican institute of Sound Politico (Nacional) Beach House Bloom (Sub Pop) Rhye The Fall (Innovative Leisure) Photo Credit: Koury Angelo Photography

Liza Richardson ARTIST ALBUM   Jack White Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia) Chilly Gonzales Solo Piano II (Art & Crafts) Heartless Bastards Arrow (Partisan) The Walkmen Heaven (Fat Possum) Menahan Street Band The Crossing (DAPTONE) Kishi Bashi 151A (Joyful Noise) Twin Shadow Confess (4AD Ltd) Phèdre Phèdre (Daps) Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Big Enough? (Nonesuch) Gary Clark Jr Blak and Blu (Warner) Photo Credit: Michael Dease

Jason Kramer ARTIST ALBUM   Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (Ato) Cody Chestnut Landing on a Hundred (Vibration Vineyard) Alt-J An Awesome Wave (Atlantic) Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Big Enough? (Nonesuch) Yuna Yuna (Fader Label) Jake Bugg Jake Bugg (Mercury UK) Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) Peace! Delicious - EP, unreleased The Neighborhood I'm Sorry (The [r]evolve Group) Photo Credit: blinkeng

Gary Calamar ARTIST ALBUM   Father John Misty Fear Fun (Sub Pop) Gary Clark Jr Blak and Blu (Warner) Metric Synthetica (MOM & POP MUSIC) The Heavy Glorious Dead (Counter Records) Jack White Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia) Family Of The Year Loma Vista (Nettwerk) Jason Lytle Dept. Of Disappearance (ANTI) Ultraista Ultraista (Temporary Residence) Meiko The Bright Side (Fantasy) Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball (Columbia) Photo Credit: Starbright31

Dan Wilcox ARTIST ALBUM   Father John Misty Fear Fun (Sub Pop) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Beach House Bloom (Sub Pop) Lushlife Plateau Vision (Western Vinyl) THEESatisfaction awE naturalE (Sub Pop) Daughn Gibson All Hell (White Denim) Levek Look a Little Closer (Lefse) Grizzly Bear Shields (Warp) The Daredevil Christopher Wright Nature of Things (FILE UNDER MUSIC) Dr. John Locked Down (Nonesuch) Photo Credit: prusakolep

Eric J. Lawrence ARTIST ALBUM   Heartless Bastards Arrow (Partisan) The Futureheads Rant (Nul) - unreleased Cate Le Bon Cyrk (The Control Group) Euros Childs Summer Special (National Elf Library) Django Django Django Django (Ribbon Music) The Wave Pictures Long Black Cars (Moshi Moshi) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Field Music Plumb (Memphis Industries) Shawn Lee Synthesizers in Space (Eighteenth Street) The Scantharies The Scantharies (Memphis Industries) Photo Credit: Marc D'Amour

Chuck P ARTIST ALBUM   Swans The Seer (Young God) Shintaro Sakamoto How To Live With Phantom (Fat Possum) Las Cafeteras It's Time (Self Release) The Holograms Holograms (Captured Tracks) Harry Taussig Fate Is Only Twice (Tompkins Square) Dinosaur Jr. I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar) Demdike Stare Elemental (Modern Love) Deerhoof Breakup Song (Polyvinyl) David S. Ware Planetary Unknown: Live At Jazzfest Saalfelden 2011 (Aum Fidelity) Blues Control Valley Tangents (Thrill Jockey) Photo Credit: Michele Yamamoto

Anthony Valadez ARTIST ALBUM   Kendrick Lamar Good Kid: m.A.A.d City (Interscope) Ana Tijoux La Bala (Nacional) Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk (Hiatus Kaiyote) Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) Frank Ocean channel ORANGE (Def Jam) Cody Chesnutt Landing On A Hundred (Redeye) Me'Shell Ndegeocello Pur Une Ame Souveraine - A Dedication to Nina SImone (Naive) XXYYXX XXYYXX (Relief In Abstract) Rainy Milo Limey (Brownswood) Quantic w/ Alice Russell Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts) Photo Credit: Koury Angelo Photography

Jeremy Sole ARTIST ALBUM   Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) The Souljazz Orchestra Solidarity (Strut) Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) Rhye The Fall (Innovative Leisure) Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tamahawk (Hiatus Kaiyote) Cody ChesnuTT Landing On A Hundred (Redeye) The Decoders Vol.2 (The Decoders) DJ Day Land of 1000 Chances (Piecelock 70) Pyramid Blue Pyramid Blue (Lovemonk) Los Miticos Del Ritmos Los Miticos Del Ritmo feat. Quantic (Soundway) Photo Credit: Andy Sternberg

Travis Holcombe ARTIST ALBUM   Chromatics Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) Jake Bugg Jake Bugg (Mercury) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day & Night) Kendrick Lamar Good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope) Nick Waterhouse Time's All Gone (Innovative Leisure) Tanlines Mixed Emotions (True Panther) Meek Mill Dreamchasers 2 (Self Released) Bonde do Role Tropical/Bacanal (Mad Decent) VA G.O.O.D. Music: Cruel Summer (Island / Def Jam) Allah-Las Allah Las (Innovative Leisure) Photo Credit: prusakolep

Aaron Byrd ARTIST ALBUM   Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomohawk (Hiatus Kaiyote) Mala Mala in Cuba (Brownswood Recordings) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes (Warp) Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Big Enough? (Nonesuch) Me'Shell N'Degeocello Pour Une Ame Souveraine - A dedication to Nina Simone (Naive) Romare Mediatations on Afrocentrism E.P. (Black Acre) The Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio (Blue Note) Ana Tijoux La Bala (Nacional Records) Domenico Cine Prive (Plug Research) Photo Credit: Marc D'Amour

Mathieu Schreyer ARTIST ALBUM   Lucas Santtana O Deus Que Devasta Mas Também Cura (Mais Um Discos) Michael Kiwanuka Home Again (Interscope) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Blundetto Warm My Soul (Heavenly Sweetness) Mala Mala In Cuba (Brownswood Recordings) Balthazar Rats (Play It Again Sam) Cody Chesnutt Landing on a Hundred (Redeye) Gui Amabis Trabalhos Carnívoros (self released) Matthew Halsall Fletcher Moss Park (Gondwana) Tindersticks The Something Rain (Constellation) Photo Credit: Starbright31

Mario Cotto ARTIST ALBUM   Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Andy Stott Luxury Problems (Modern Love) Kindness World You Need A Change of Mind (Casablanca) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day & Night) Chromatics Kill For Love (101 DISTRIBUTION) Tin Man Neo Neo Acid (Absurd Recordings) John Talabot Fin (Permanent Vacation) Shintaro Sakamoto How to Live With a Phantom (Fat Possum) Django Django Django Django (Ribbon Music) Blondes Blondes (RVNG Intl.) Photo Credit: nachotronic

Marion Hodges ARTIST ALBUM   Hospitality Hospitality (Merge) Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian) The Sea & Cake Runner (Thrill Jockey) Father John Misty Fear Fun (Sub Pop) Julia Holter Ekstasis (Rvng Intl.) The Ice Choir Afar (Underwater Peoples) Chromatics Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) Diiv Oshin (Captured Tracks) A Place to Bury Strangers Worship (Dead Oceans) Grizzly Bear Shields (Warp) Photo Credit: Marc D'Amour

Valida Carroll ARTIST ALBUM   First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar (Wichita) Husky Forever So (Sub Pop) Kimbra Vows (Warner) Night Moves Colored Emotions (Domino) Beachwood Sparks The Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop) Allah-Las Allah-Las (Innovative Leisure) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day and Night) Family Of The Year Loma Vista (Nettwerk) Beach House Bloom (Sub Pop) Photo Credit: Koury Angelo Photography

Bo Leibowitz ARTIST ALBUM   Laila Biali Live in Concert (Laila Biali) George Cables My Muse (HighNote) Chick Corea & Gary Burton Hot House (Concord) Lorraine Feather Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media) Sara Gazarek Blossom & Bee (Palmetto) Wes Montgomery Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance) Catherine Russell Strictly Romancin' (World Village) Arturo Sandoval Dear Diz (Concord) Gary Smulyan Smul's Paradise (Capri) Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts An Attitude For Gratitude (Palmetto) Photo Credit: prusakolep

Chris Muckley ARTIST ALBUM   Frank Ocean channel ORANGE (Def Jam) Poolside Pacific Standard Time (Day & Night) Django Django Django Django (Ribbon) Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (ATO) Cody ChesnuTT Landing On A Hundred (Redeye) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular) The Cactus Channel Haptics (Hope Street) Friends Manifest! (Fat Possum) Dark Time Sunshine ANX (Fake Four, Inc.) The Shins Port Of Morrow (Columbia) Photo Credit: Michele Yamamoto

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