A whole hell of a lot of good music this year. If you'd like to hear any of these, let me know and I'll post the links up.

01. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
02. The xx - The xx
03. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
04. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz
05. Ben Frost - By the Throat
06. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
07. Tribulation - The Horror
08. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
09. Wilco - Wilco (the album)
10. Girls - Album
11. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
12. Olafur Arnalds - Dyad 1909
13. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
14. Linkwood - System
15. Cornershop - Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast
16. Washed Out - Life Of Leisure EP
17. Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
18. Reagenz - Playtime
19. Leyland Kirby - Sadly the Future Is No Longer What It Was
20. The Horrors - Primary Colours
21. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
22. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
23. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
24. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
25. Air - Love 2

qual. yet i've only heard 2 of these...

I have to say, I've heard more albums for this list that I ever thought I would .

I thought XX would have been a lock for your #1.

ya know, it was down to the album that i listened to most, and Phoenix wins out, only by a hair. i bought the vinyl version, and ended up playing it almost daily since i bought it.

That Fever Ray has gotten a lot of love. I sampled it over the weekend, it sounds great. That xx did it for me. Its been a polarizing album with critics. For me anyway, it was the most subtle and original of the conventional sounding albums of the year.

agree on The xx. so stripped back, yet so interesting. nothing else sounds anything like it, which i love.

i have alot of these on my list

nice dude. which ones?

i know you're into techno stuff. did you hear the Linkwood - System album?

Phoenix, XX, YYY, Wilco, Washed Out, Doves, Whitest Boy Alive.... i havent heard Linkwood but Ill check them out

yeah, I haven't heard that Linkwood either, RIYL?


this is probably the closest to my list

I like the list

right on dudes.

i'll up the Linkwood later today.

i haven't heard any of these.

no i kid.
i heard some um.

checking out xx now.

Linkwood - System

http://moourl.com/8coif

Boomkat review:

et another product of Scotland's incredibly fertile dance music scene, Linkwood and the Firecracker crew have been causing international waves of appreciation for their skewed view of real authentic house and deep disco. Everyone from Echospace's Steve Hitchell to Derrick May, Carl Craig and Tama Sumo have been after a piece of Linkwood, including his tracks on their labels, in mixes and regualarly spinning them out in clubs across the world. 'System' is his long awaited debut album, released through Trus'me's brilliant Prime Numbers imprint, where he sits in the good company of Detroit cats like Reggie Dokes and 313-indebted heads such as Actress and the label owner himself. Tracks like 'Robot parade' show an appreciation of the wider spectrum of Detroit and Chicago music with a Juan Atkins meets Shari Vari electro funk killer featuring Dollskabeat on vocals and Moog from Fudge Fingas, while 'Tears' is an immense soul boogie cut with the tripping filter techniques of Theo Parrish written right through it. 'Falling' harks back again to classic electro-soul, and 'Pumpernickel' is one of the coolest space disco tracks we've heard all year. His cohort Fudge Fingas pops up again on the ace 'Fudge Boogie' with achingly fresh Juno and Moog keys, and 'Chicago Pt.2' is just a shockingly heavy slab of discofunkhouse-whatever-you-want-to-call-it, guaranteed to make a big mess on your dancefloor. The production levels and attention to details are extraordinarily high and should easily place this in the top 5 albums of it's type for this year. Very cool wares, very big recommendation.

Wow,
So proud that I count at least 5 of these as being in my tops for the year, as did others I thought I would not even know most of your list.


Now I need to go check out this XX..been sort of shoving it aside as same ole same ole up until now.

nice, I didn't realize you were that high on the yyy's record. They're becoming one of my favorite current bands. Though I'd like to hear more of the sound from that very first EP mixed in with the softer side...they rocked hard.

noooo, i think you're gonna love the xx dude.

honestly, when it first came out i took a listen and it didn't thrill me. but we started playing it here at work, and man, so great. i love that album from start to finish.

Where's Baroness?!!?

It's around 30 i'd say. Really dig their latest. Best from them imo.

That Linkwood is dope man, good recommendation, Ill try to upload that Cinnamon Chasers that I was telling you about... i never made my list, but that would have made my top 5

right on. yeah, that Linkwood is proper funk.

looking forward to the Cinnamon Chasers!

Just noticed you have The Whitest Boy Alive in your list, which was #8 for me. Awesome.

so good. i heard the recorded most of it live in one take. hearing how tight it is, that's pretty amazing.

Wow, thats definitely impressive if they did most of it in one take