Alex DiVincenzo
 

"One of my New Year's resolutions is to say yes. Yes to love. Yes to life. Yes to staying in more!" - Elizabeth Lemon

1. The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
2. The Tower and The Fool - How Long
3. Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions: Volume Number One
4. fun. - Some Nights
5. The Saddest Landscape - After the Lights
6. Misser - Every Day I Tell Myself I'm Going To Be A Better Person
7. Modern Baseball - Sports
8. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
9. No Trigger - Tycoon
10. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

11. Verse - Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace
12. Make Do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved
13. Mixtapes - Even on the Worst Nights
14. Hot Water Music - Exister
15. Every Time I Die - Ex-Lives
16. Code Orange Kids - Love is Love // Return to Dust
17. The Forecast - Everybody Left
18. The Early November - In Currents
19. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
20. I Call Fives - I Call Fives

21. The American Scene - Safe For Now
22. Pentimento - Pentimento
23. The New & Very Welcome - House Fires of the Modern Age
24. Yellowcard - Southern Air
25. Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
26. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
27. As I Lay Dying - Awakened
28. The Chariot - One Wing
29. Stick To Your Guns - Diamond
30. The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give

My personal highlight of 2012 was releasing Trophy Scars' Alphabet. Alphabets. on vinyl. It still surprises me that I did it. Finally getting my Blink tattoo was cool as well. Plus a ton of great shows. Here's to more in 2013.

I love that Trophy Scars album

Me too! That's why it's so amazing. And we only have about 20 copies left, which is pretty mind blowing.

That Trophy Scars record is absolutely fantastic. One of the most emotional records I've ever heard.

You forgot Periphery and the Contortionist. Glad to see you added metal to your list of bests

Awesome list. I haven't listened enough yet but the Circle Takes The Square album is great so far.

...Misser right above Modern Baseball seems a bit like preferring sentimentality over sentiment...

I liked Periphery's first album but never got around to the next one. Never really gave The Contortionist a chance either. I'll have to check them out.

You mean because I like Transit/TTNY? While that's true, I'm also a sucker for a catchy chorus, which that album is full of. I've also only spent about a month with the Modern Baseball album, so it may very well move up over time.

Highly recommend the new Contortionist album.

Tower & The Fool getting the love they deserve. Great album.

Man, I should have listened to this Birds In Row record everyone was hyping before the year ended. It definitely would have found its way on the list.