1) The National - High Violet
2) Sleigh Bells - Treats
3) Deftones - Diamond Eyes

havent heard The National record, but other than that, big high five.

Doesn't it, though?? It's not strictly '77/'78 recordings, not without some current updating, so I'm going to count it as eligible.

01. Unwelcome Guests - Don't Go Swimming

The rest are interchangeable for slots 2 and 3:

02. Jonsi - Go
03. Clem Snide - The Meat of Life
04. Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You At All
05. Mixtapes - Maps
06. Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms

Count me as a big fan as well.

Dern. I never even snagged it. And I'm a Walkmen fan.

really liking this eerie soundtrack done By Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross right now



definitely will be in my top 20 for this year

also maybe,

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs maybe?

too early to tell right now

relistened to deerhunter (pretty good) and that lower dens album from another thread. need to relisten to walkmen and j roddy and try a couple of these others out...

thanks for the suggestions -- keep 'em comin'

Glad I'm not the only one. Its a great score.

I haven't put a lot of thought into it yet but these are probably mine:

1. Arcade Fire - Suburbs
2. The Love Language - Libraries
3. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts

Could easily be there after a few more listens:
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
The Walkmen - Lisbon
The Black Keys - Brothers

still waiting on the special edition vinyl of this i ordered...

Bobby Bare Jr.

Black Keys

Los Lobos "Tin Can Trust"

1. The National
2. LCD Soundsystem
3. Tame Impala

Really? When I saw that movie, my reaction to the soundtrack was "How has Trent Reznor not had an original idea since 1989?"

Bare Jr.
Josh Ritter
Either Mary Gauthier or Ray Wylie Hubbard

Wow, lots of love for the Bare Jr. album. Is it significantly better than his other stuff? I've always found him to be hit or miss.

I've never been a huge NIИ but I always appreciated what they did. I actually expected something a little different so maybe that skewed my view of the score, but I think if that was a direction he wanted to go towards, he could be very good at it. Atticus Ross who worked on it with him also did a great score for Book of Eli, which I think won some awards in the field. This isn't going to be in my top 25, but it has a certain appeal at moments.

This is another I haven't heard yet. All the praise kind of put me off it.

Black Keys
Les Savy Fav
The Walkmen

Even being the big Les Savy Fav fan that I am, I think that album is pretty weak.

i thought so at first. now i can't stop.

nothing is really coming to my mind on this as an obvious choice. maybe a bad sign for the year for me.

it's my #4 right now

National
Walkmen
Black Keys

I really haven't listened to much, but I still love that Beach House album. I also like the Crocodiles album. Haven't seen that mentioned, I don't think.