I haven't kept my friendship with the music blog Let Your Ears Decide a secret. I get way too much great music sent my way from curator Emily Poncetta to ignore it. I wrote about her blog in the Source this summer and routinely credit her in BENT posts.
One of the great things about music lovers is, when it comes to year end lists, there is truly no right or wrong way to do them. Just look at the 2012 top ten album lists from KEXP DJ's and you'll see there are an infinite number of ways to parse out the year in music.
To that end, I've invited Ms. Poncetta to share with my readers her take on how the best of 2012 shaped up. Check out her top 10 list below as well as a Spotify playlist she put together.