Nothing stood out as remarkable or revolutionary this year. Here's what I dug the most:
10. Go-Kart Mozart - On the Hot Dog Streets
10. Go-Kart Mozart - On the Hot Dog Streets
9. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
8. James Blackshaw - Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
7. CS Yeh - Transitions
6. Julia Holter - Exstasis
5. Bobby Conn - Macaroni
4. Saint Etienne - Words and Music by...
3. Beach house - Bloom
2. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
1. Lil B - God's Father
Honarable mentions:
Taken by Trees - Other Worlds
Swans - The Seer
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
Antony and the Johnsons - Cut the World
Heroin in Tahiti - Death Surf
Heroin in Tahiti - Death Surf
Daughn Gibson - All Hell
Fascinator - Birth EP
Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional [Note: guilty pleasure of the year]
Elite Gymnastics - Ruin 3/4
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Sun Kil Moon - Among the Leaves
Great list! Some stuff here that I need to check out more of. Glad to see Go Kart on a year end music list.
ReplyDeleteNo Momus this year? Here is a list; time, and chance, will perhaps tell which albums really stand out.
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Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos,
Tom Zé - Tropicália Lixo Lógico
Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille - I Wish I Didn't Dream
Momus - Bibliotek
"Blue" Gene Tyranny - Detours
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Wechsel Garland - Dreams Becoming Things
Dom Kennedy - Yellow Album
Bobby Conn - Macaroni
The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made The Radio
The Distractions - The End of the Pier
Rebecca Gates - The Float
Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
Nits - Malpensa
Jim Noir - Jimmy's Show
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn'tng It
Stew - Making it
Monochrome Set - Platinum Coils
THEESatisfaction - awE naturalE
Kindness - World, You Need a Change of Mind
Laetitia Sadier - Silencio
Wiley - Evolve or Be Extinct
Arlt - Feu la Figure
Dylan Mondegreen - Dylan Mondegreen
El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire
Chris Cohen - On An Overgrown Path
Kristina Train - Lose You Tonight
Bob Lind - Finding You
Sun Kil Moon - Among the Leaves
Daughn Gibson - All Hell
James Blackshaw - Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
Sara Serpa & Ran Blake - Aurora
Marc DeMarco - 2
Graveola E O Lixo Polifônico - Um E Meio
Azita - Year
The Boats - Ballads of the Research Department
Paul Banks - Banks
Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me
Callers - Reviver
Efterklang - Piramida
Eleni Mandell - I Can See the Future
Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge - Gonwards
Graham Gouldman - Love And Work
Eric Chenaux - Guitar & Voice
Jon DeRosa - A Wolf In Preacher's Clothing
Lau Nau - Valohiukkanen
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Lindstrom - Smalhans
Matthew E. White - Big Inner
Matthew Friedberger - Matricidal Sons of Bitches
Midget - Lumière d'en bas
Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe
Shintaro Sakamoto - How To Live With A Phantom
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
The North Sea Scrolls - The North Sea Scrolls
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Tindersticks - The Something Rain
Fred Thomas - Kuma
Tracey Thorn - Tinsel & Lights
Trembling Bells & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Marble Downs
Giant Sand - Tucson: A Country Rock Opera
Wiley - Evolve or Be Extinct
Wasn't too into Bibliotek. I heard each song after they were recorded, because Nick posted them on his facebook, but haven't heard it in its entirety. There's plenty on your list that I've never even heard of, so I will definitely try to check everything out. If I were to go back and edit my list, I'd surely throw on Dean Blunt's The Narcissist II as well as Human Teenager's Animal Husbandry. Oh, well, I'm not in top form these days...
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