Dan Deacon: "Guilford Avenue Bridge"

Another 2012 holder just recently getting a video, "Guilford Avenue Bridge" is probably the most abrasive song off of Dan Deacon's superb-if-inconsistent America, an album which - as a whole - saw the Baltimore-repping producer greatly expand upon (if not largely abandon) the hokey 8-bit aesthetic that made  his 2007 breakthrough Spiderman of the Rings so compelling. It is, however, a logical extension of 2009's Bromst, a record that was intended to be his "real" breakthrough but that arguably fewer people heard than Spiderman.

Dan Deacon: "True Thrush"

"True Thrash" is a little more focused, less fragmented, than a lot of Dan Deacon's usual work, but that doesn't mean there aren't a ton of grace notes flickering around playfully in the background. Deacon is one of the more prominent members of Baltimore's revived music scene, with his Wham City collective representing a pretty health chunk of that tight knit community.

America is out 8/27 on Domino.