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The Third Wheel: Tricycle Records High Fives in Music for 2012

Albums
1. Geographer – Myth
2. Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who
3. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
5. Waxahatchee – American Weekend
-Erin Venibles, Staff
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Albums
1. Purity Ring – Shrines
2. Tame Impala – Lonerism
3. DIIV – Oshin
4. Wild Nothing – Nocturne
5. Frankie Rose – Interstellar
Songs
1. Wild Belle – Keep You
2. Chvrches – The Mother We Share
3. Purity Ring – Obidear
4. Tame Impala – Elephant
5. Diiv – Doused
-Rebecca Coseboom, Stripmall Architecture
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Albums
1. Tame Impala – Lonerism
2. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
3. Electric Six – Absolute Pleasure
4. Garfunkel & Oates – Slippery When Moist
5. UV Race – Racism
-Andrew Galluccio, The Northern Key
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Songs
1. Dum Dum Girls — Lord Knows
2. Father John Misty — Misty’s Nightmare #1 & 2
3. Nelson Can – Apple Pie
4. Grimes – Oblivion
5. A Place to Bury Strangers – Alone
-Luisa Black, Rich Girls (The Blacks)
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Albums
1. Geographer – Myth
2. M83 – Hurry Up Were Dreaming
3. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dreams
4. The Drums – Portamento
5. Tamaryn – Tender New Signs
-Danny Lannon, The Frail
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Top 5 Locals Bands (I fell in love with this year)
1. Teenage Sweater
2. Sioux City Kid & The Revolutionary Ramblers
3. Doe Eye
4. The Soft Moon
5. Magic Fight
-Julie Schuchard, Co-Founder Tricycle Records
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Music We Loved in 2011

The Third Wheel Blog

2011 was a great year in music.
Check out what Tricycle Artists and Staff fell in love with.

Luisa Black, The Blacks and Rich Girls
Top 5 Songs of 2011

  1. The Kills – Baby Says
  2. The Drums – Book of Revelation
  3. Kanye West & JAY Z – Niggas in Paris
  4. Dum Dum Girls – Caught in One
  5. Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks

Nate Blaz, Geographer
Top Album of 2011

  1. Shabazz Palaces, Black Up

Julie Schuchard, Tricycle Co Founder
Top 10 Records of 2011

  1. PJ Harvey – “Let England Shake”
  2. The Black Keys, El Camino
  3. Handsome Furs- “Sound Kapitol”
  4. Austra- “Feel It Break”
  5. Girls – “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”
  6. Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Watch The Throne”
  7. Bon Iver – “Bon Iver”
  8. The Black Lips- “Arabia Mountain”
  9. M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  10. The Kills, Blood Pressures

Don Joslin, The Union Trade and Tricycle Co Founder
Top 10 Records of 2011

  1. Explosions in the Sky, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
  2. Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
  3. M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  4. Blind Pilot, We Are the Tide
  5. For a Minor Reflection, For a Minor Reflection- EP
  6. British Sea Power, Valhalla Dancehall
  7. Caspian, Tertia
  8. Air Formation, Nothing to Wish For (Nothing to Lose)
  9. This Will Destroy You, Tunnel Blanket
  10. Russian Circles, Empros

Erin Venables, Super Awesome Tricycle Intern
Top 10 Records of 2011

  1. Beirut – The Rip Tide
  2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
  3. The Black Keys – El Camino
  4. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper – Mammoth Swoon
  5. Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread
  6. Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania
  7. Twin Sister: In Heaven
  8. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
  9. Cults – Cults
  10. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Andrew Galluccio, The Northern Key
Top 10 Records of 2011

  1. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  2. Washed Out: Within Without You
  3. Real Estate: Days
  4. Cut Copy: Zonoscope
  5. Charles Bradley: No Time for Dreaming
  6. Wilco: The Whole Love
  7. Wooden Birds: Two Matchsticks
  8. M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  9. Twin Sister: In Heaven
  10. Vetiver: The Errant Charm

Israel Chavarin, The Frail
Top Album of 2011

  1. The Black Keys El Camino