Apoplectic Skeptic

I am impossibly proud of the work our kickass studio crew did in my recent absence… upon my return I simply had to weigh in on some details, lingering overdub bits, that final burnish. Oh, and a final vocal with Mike that I’m pretty stoked about (tracking this Monday).

Kyle, Matt, Mike, Tony… great job, boys. So much good music, I can’t wait to get this new series on the site.

thelicenselab:

We’ve assembled the favorite musical bits from 2012 as curated by our team of creative cohorts here at The License Lab, and listed a whole bunch of them for you (in no particular order, but with a ton of links so as to enable y’all to click through and find out more):

• Regina Spektor — What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
• Imogen Heap — You Know Where To Find Me
• Beach House — Bloom
• The Tallest Man On Earth — There’s No Leaving Now
• Frank Ocean — channel ORANGE
• The xx — Coexist
• Best Coast — The Only Place
• Hammock — Departure Songs
• Hans Zimmer — The Dark Knight Rises soundtrack
• Stars — The North
• “Miracle” by Ghost Beach
• Meiko — The Bright Side
• Hot Chip — In Our Heads
• Sigur Ros — Valtari
• Daniel and the Lion — Death Head (Side A)
• “Look Out Mama” by Hurray For the Riff Raff
• “Harlem Shake” and “Yaow!” by Baauer
• John Mayer — Born and Raised
• Efterklang — piramida
• Ab-Soul — Control System
• Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
• Santigold — Master Of My Make-Believe
• The Babies — Our House on the Hill
• Japandroids — Celebration Rock
• Daughter — The Wild Youth EP
• Arrange — New Memory
• “Echo” by Jethro Fox
• Lord Huron — Lonesome Dreams
• Capital Cities — eponymous EP
• TNGHT — eponymous
• Gotye — Making Mirrors
• Air — Le Voyage Dans La Lune
• Diplo — Express Yourself
• Burial — Kindred
• Keane — Strangeland
• The Lumineers — eponymous
• Spiritualized — Sweet Heart Sweet Light
• Carly Rae Jepsen — Kiss
• Shiny Toy Guns — III
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros — Here
• John K. Samson — Provincial
• Andrew Bird — Break It Yourself
• Mychael Danna — Life of Pi soundtrack
• Active Child — You Are All I See
• Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It
• Field Report — eponymous
• AlunaGeorge — You Know You Like It
• Chad Valley — Young Hunger
• Twin Shadow — Five Seconds
• Michael Kiwanuka — Home Again

As you can tell, among the couple of dozen writers and staff at The Lab we like a lot of different things… if you enjoy similar diverse tastes in music, there’s a good chance you’ll like what we’re building with our catalogs of production music specifically built and curated for commercial licensing. We’ve received your emails and requests for non-commercial downloads, and we’re hoping to release some of our albums publicly in 2013, but precisely when, where, and how remains to be seen. Stay up to date with all the latest by following us on tumblr, on twitter, or liking our facebook page. We’ll be sure to make any announcements at those channels as soon as we know more.

Have any favorites of your own that we absolutely must hear? Please send along your recommendations in an email or a tumblr reply or a tweet… we’d love to find out what you dug listening to this year.

So much good new music, what a time to be in the music business. We’re excited for what 2013 may hold. Happy New Year, everybody… and thanks for helping make 2012 a special one.