40. Mynabirds - What We Lose in the Fire, We Gain in the Flood
39. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
38. Bobby Bare Jr. - A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head
37. Glossary - Feral Fire
36. Nick Curran & the Lowlifes - Reform School Girl
35. Nobunny - First Blood
34. Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
33. Mother's Children - That's Who!
32. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
31. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
30. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
29. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
28. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
27. Twin Shadow - Forget
26. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
25. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
24. Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions
23. Ike Reilly Assassination - Hard Luck Stories
22. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
21. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing



20. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding

19. No Age - Everything In Between

18. Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy

17. Wavves - King of the Beach

16. The Walkmen - Lisbon

15. Two Cow Garage - Sweet Saint Me

14. Ted Leo - The Brutalist Bricks

13. The Small Change - Every Line in My Head

12. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

11. The Black Keys - Brothers

10. Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight to the World

09. The Postelles - Self-titled

08. Ex Humans - Self-titled

07. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away

06. J. Roddy Walston - J. Roddy Walston & the Business

05. Harlem - Hippies

04. Spoon - Transference

03. The Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do

02. The National - High Violet

01. Beach House - Teen Dream

I really wanted to add comments to every album, but I'm too fucking tired. Liquor biz + holiday season =

Nice.



This first got released in the fall of '09 on iTunes which is why I ranked it last year. It would definitely still be on my list for this year.

Also on my goddamn weirdest list would be that Shooter Jennings album. Did you hear that?

I didn't. Should I? And I know Ike Reilly got released digitally last year, but the physical copy was released this year and that's what I bought.

Yeah, that wasn't a criticism, merely an observation. I listened to Ike all last fall so I didn't include it.

Shooter

Yeah, thanks for this. It was a late addition to my list. Scratched an Exploding Hearts itch.

I wasn't even aware of that Ike record until around Christmas 2009, so it would probably be on a 2010 list for me as well.

I ranked it in 2009 as well.

I'm surprised, given the overlaps in taste, you didn't rank Glossary higher.

i still need to hear that Ex-Humans album

They probably would've been higher but I haven't listened to that album since the summer, so it fell because of that.

I think a lot of people do.

What is ex humans?

It's punk rock.

Nice Nice Nice List