I know the year is young but has anyone found great/good songs in 2012?

The Quiet Resistance by Dutch band Nemesea is the first 10/10 album of the year. (It's metal, so Tone won't like it.) But it's interesting metal, bit more imaginative than your usual fayre. Not released in 2012, but I heard them the first time this year: April Rain by Delain and The Unforgiving by Within Temptation. Both amazing, near perfect metal albums. Curiously all Dutch bands. There must be something in the canals.

2012 has got off to a cracking start.

Chris

Released mid-January, this album is phenomenal. This is the closing track from it and I hope gives us all a new outlook on the world at the start of this year so we may become more progressive than we have ever been as our global situation demands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13FKQP7u10

Recently discovered this band, "Of Monsters and Men", from Iceland. Great stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ-kXZsUa_w

Ooooohhhh excellent suggestion Pmarino!

I know, right? Great sound.

noice choice there i found this last week, even though it was released last year its just amazing to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6XFLJImt-A&ob=av2e

Fossil Collective, On and On, technically around for a year, but not available on any ep/album til this year:
http://youtu.be/KZb8F_ScRD4

The Shins have an album coming up, heres the lead off song:
http://soundcloud.com/theshins/simple-song

Bassist and Keyboardist from Fleet Foxes started a new band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdKiL6ouF9k

Nice.