7. Divine Fits, 'A Thing Called Divine Fits'

The indie rock gods giveth and they taketh away. And so while 2012 will be remembered as the year that we lost Handsome Furs to a sad divorce, it will also be known as the year that we gained Divine Fits. The newborn outfit is comprised of Furs’ Dan Boeckner, Spoon’s Britt Daniels and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown, but much like Boeckner’s original group Wolf Parade, the diverse talents (and vocals) mesh into a surprisingly unified whole. Despite being somewhat hastily assembled, the resulting upbeat and infectious debut album is, well, divine enough to redeem the very term super group. -- Joshua Ostroff