I'm not ranking these because I honestly already spent too much time thinking about what would make my list.













1. Deer Tick – Divine Providence
2. Anna Calvi – s/t
3. Wild Beasts – Smother
4. Racebannon – Six Sik Sisters
5. John Maus – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
6. Mr. Gnome – Madness In Miniature
7. Ty Segall – Singles 2007-2010
8. A$AP Rocky – Live Love A$AP
9. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream
10. Hanni El Khatib – Will The Guns Come Out
11. Motor City Drum Ensemble – DJ Kicks
12. A.A. Bondy – Believers
13. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
14. The Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
15. Dope Body – Nupping
16. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – s/t
17. The Men – Leave Home
18. Ford & Lopatin – Channel Pressure
19. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
20. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
21. Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
22. Freddie Gibbs – Cold Day In Hell
23. Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
24. Childish Gambino – Camp
25. Drive OST
26. Royal Bangs – Flux Outside
27. Bass Drum Of Death – GB City
28. Cass McCombs – Wit's End
29. Jamaica – No Problem
30. The Death Set – Michel Poiccard

1. Deer Tick – Divine Providence
12. A.A. Bondy – Believers
13. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
14. The Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
19. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
21. Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
28. Cass McCombs – Wit's End

all of the above are great; i kind of forgot about The Smith Westerns, but did listen to that quite a bit

25. Drive OST

i enjoyed the music during this movie but haven't got the soundtrack

Holy shit! Awesome.



Dig these a lot as well. I dunno, this may end up being my favorite Obner list this year. I need to look into the stuff on here that I don't know.

It's mostly on here for the first 6 songs. The instrumental stuff is ok but I don't think there's another run of songs on an album that I listened to more this year.

And thanks drink. That Racebannon just kinda grabbed hold the last couple months.

Motor City Drum Ensemble looks really odd in your list.

touché

I can always find at least one or two new albums that I really dig on shiv's year end lists.

i tell u what man i really like a lotta 'em album covers

i saw Deer Tick on Conan a while ago. Pretty good and better than whatever the last thing I heard from them was.

Also, I'm not totally sold on this year's Deer Tick album. Especially when the other dude sings.

I dunno why that Dawes clicked with me. I've never heard any of their other albums. Maybe the Middle Brother album had something to do with it.

You mean the guy who sings on Clownin' Around? That's one of my favorite songs on the album.

Yeah, for whatever reason it breaks the flow of the album to have such a different voice. I dunno, I like the album, but something about it is just off to me. I guess there's no "Dirty Dishes" or "Smith Hill" to alternately blow my mind and make me want to blow my brains out this time around. I need that from my Deer Tick.

As for Dawes, I can see where Middle Brother would do that.

It's kind of like the Wilco album for me - I like more than a couple of songs, but the album as a whole falls short when compared with their recent catalog. Still, this one could be a grower.

Yeah I've kinda been wishing they would just rock the fuck out once in awhile but I think they do the country-ish stuff better.

I could have sworn I posted something here about on-and-off with Anna Calvi. Probably was in Patrick's instead. Sorry, boss.

9. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream

I think I missed this one. I really can't remember because they just don't stop cranking them out. Hope its better than Castlevania

It is. Much better.

But I kind of like Castlemania, too.