As it stands as of right now. Still trying to take in a handful of things that I've acquired over the past couple of weeks.

Here's 48. I like all of this a lot.

01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 9.5/10
02. Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited 9/10
03. Dan Deacon - Bromst 8.5/10
04. Cryptacize - Mythomania 8.5/10
05. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor 8.5/10
06. Ganglians - Monster Head Room 8.5/10
07. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 8.5/10
08. Thee Oh Sees - HELP 8.5/10
09. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 8/10
10. Real Estate - s/t 8/10

11. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years 8/10
12. The Dodos - Time to Die 8/10
13. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 8/10
14. Oneida - Rated O 8/10
15. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution 8/10
16. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem 8/10
17. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy 8/10
18. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms 8/10
19. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic 7.5/10
20. HEALTH - Get Color 7.5/10

21. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong 7.5/10
22. Woods - Songs of Shame 7.5/10
23. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle 7.5/10
24. Circulatory System - Signal Morning 7.5/10
25. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights 7.5/10
26. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship 7.5/10
27. Atlas Sound - Logos 7.5/10
28. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free 7.5/10
29. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains 7.5/10
30. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country 7.5/10

31. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 7.5/10
32. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs 7.5/10
33. Here We Go Magic - s/t 7.5/10
34. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 7.5/10
35. Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong 7.5/10
36. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic 7.5/10
37. Tyvek - s/t 7.5/10
38. NOMO - Invisible Cities 7.5/10
39. Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth 7.5/10
40. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions 7/10

41. Black Dice - Repo 7/10
42. Sufjan Stevens - The BQE 7/10
43. Vetiver - Tight Knit 7/10
44. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue 7/10
45. Lhasa - s/t 7/10
46. DOOM - Born Like This 7/10
47. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook 7/10
48. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) 7/10

These are my favorite EPs and 7"s of the year.

01. Times New Viking - Stay Awake EP 8/10
02. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP 8/10
03. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP 8/10
04. Abe Vigoda - Reviver EP 8/10
05. No Age - Losing Feeling EP 8/10
06. Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave 7" 7.5/10
07. Ganglians - s/t EP 7.5/10
08. Washed Out - Life of Leisure EP 7.5/10
09. Suckers - s/t EP 7.5/10
10. Black Dice - Chocolate Cherry 7" 7/10

And I've rated stuff.

Still formulating opinions on Emeralds (both albums), White Rainbow, Kitchen's Floor, Julianna Barwick, William Fowler Collins, and Molina & Johnson.

I'm still gonna finish my year in review thing, but it's going to go at least a few more weeks into the new year.

I like this list a lot... a lot in common with mine... so why is Animal Collective #1?

I forgot about the Cymbals Eats Guitars.... and do I really need to hear Tortoise?

Glad to see Ganglians getting some love.

lol--Drinky's list as usual hits the sweet spot for me the closest. it's just uncanny how close our tastes are in places.

I'd do one of these, but the amount of new music I heard this year is embarrassingly small.

Well, the last time I listened to that Animal Collective album, it totally bowled me over. I know you've always been pretty resistent to the Animal Collective hype, but I've been a pretty big fan of them over most of the past decade. I think this may be the best thing they've ever done.

As for the Tortoise album, that really depends on whether or not you feel like you need to hear another Tortoise album. It's a pretty good one, the best thing they've put out since Standards (not counting that mini box set thing).

Good stuff as always Drink. Great call on Oneida and HEALTH, I completely forgot both of those somehow. Love seeing Jackie-O that high on another list as well.

I think I need to give Califone a shot. I have heard them here and there and always mean to listen further and never get around to it. Is this one a good starting point? Same with Times New Viking. I love everything I've heard, but just haven't spent enough time with either of the records.

I would say that both records are fine starting points for either band.

Really just about anything from either band will work. You may even like Califone's Deceleration albums which are more ambient/instrumental/sound-collage type stuff. Also, if you're not already familiar with them, Red Red Meat, the band that preceded Califone, was pretty great.