I guess.......

1 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion + Fall Be Kind
2 Neko Case Middle Cyclone
3 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
4 Six Organs Of Admittance RTZ
5 Cass McCombs Catacombs

6 Ape School Ape School
7 Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night
8 The Fiery Furnaces I'm Going Away
9 Oneida Rated O
10 John Doe & The Sadies Country Club

11 The Long Lost The Long Lost
12 Bardo Pond Peri
13 Akron/Family Set Em Wild Set Em Free
14 Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
15 Nosaj Thing Drift

16 Bardo Pond Volume 7
17 Goodnight Loving Goodnight Loving
18 Jim O'Rourke The Visitor
19 Neil Young Dreamin' Man
20 King Midas Sound Waiting for You

Dreamin' Man, oh yes.

i can see counting them as one since fall be kind sounds like an extension of the MPP sound.

Good picks as usual. Still need to hear those 6 Organs albums (heard most of RTZ before, I think) and maybe those Bardo Pond things. Might need to check out Nosaj Thing, too.

i listed them as one more so because someone would've disagreed if i listed em separately ... 1-2
mainly i just think animal collective ruled this year. it's a huge difference between them and the rest of my list.

the nosaj record is pretty good.

Overlap, as usual. Including our Top 2. I like that Nosaj for sure. Dreamin' Man is killer, but live album recorded in the 90s. Self-restricted from the list.