1. Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison - Cheater's Game
2. Eric Brace & Peter Cooper – The Comeback Album
3. Daniel Romano - Come Cry With Me
4. Andrew Duhon - The Moorings
5. Warren Hood Band – S/T
6. Lloyd Cole – Standards
7. The Grapes of Wrath - High Road
8. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - Old Yellow Moon
9. New American Farmers - Brand New Day
10. Carla Bruni - Little French Songs
11. Dolly Varden – For A While
12. Bobby Long - Wishbone

Yours?

Top 10, in order, more-or-less:
• Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?
• Tom Zé - Tropicalia Lixo Logico/Tribunal do Fiecebuqui
• Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
• Bombino - Nomad
• My Bloody Valentine - MBV
• Cleaners From Venus - The Late District
• David Bowie - The Next Day
• The Bamboo Kids - Safe City Blues
• Johnny Marr - The Messenger
• Wire - Change Becomes Us

Single of the year:
• Daft Punk - "Get Lucky"
Unfuckingdeniable. If this song doesn't bring a smile to your face or get you moving (at least a little), you are either dead or an incurable, cooler-than-thou hipster.

Or maybe you just don't care for it.

but... i like blanket statements.
oh, and i rest my case.

1. Bamboo Kids - Safe City Blues
2. Zachary James & the All Seeing Eyes - Space Case
3. Night Marchers - Allez Allez
4. The Yum Yums - Play Good Music
5. Grapes of Wrath - High Road
6. The Computers - Love Triangles, Hate Squares
7. Attic Lights - Super De Luxe
8. Silver Seas - Alaska
9. Warm Soda - Someone For You
10. The Cliks - Black Tie Elevator
11. The Connection - Let It Rock
12. Beach Day - Trip Trap Attack
13. The Postelles - ...And It Shook Me
14. Red Jacket Mine - Someone Else's Cake
15. Jungle - Pacific Oblivion
16. Dirty Fences - Too High to Kross
17. The Fleeting Ends - Our Eyes Are Peeled
18. Primitive Hearts - High and Tight
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
20. Junip - Junip

Haven't spent much time with Surf City We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This, but first listen sounds okay.

Here's the upper 1/4 of what I've been listening to so far:

01. Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
02. Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
03. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
04. These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
05. Autechre – Exai
06. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
07. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
08. Pissed Jeans – Honeys
09. Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
10. Shugo Tokumaru – In Focus?
11. Portal – Vexovoid
12. Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi – Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour In All the Mystery
13. Grouper – The Man Who Died in His Boat
14. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
15. Deerhunter – Monomania
16. The Men – New Moon
17. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
18. Mainliner – Revelation Space
19. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
20. William Tyler – Impossible Truth

May end up pretty high on this list once I get in more listens:
The Besnard Lakes – Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
Steve Gunn – Time Off
The Knife – Shaking the Habitual (kinda surprised that I actually like this)

Stuff I want to hear but haven't gotten around to yet:
The Ex and Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
Run the Jewels
James Holden - The Inheritors

Parquet Courts is technically 2012, but I'm keeping it on here anyway for now. I didn't see a single mention of it anywhere last year.

Futurebirds - Baba Yaga
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
The Virgins - Strike Gently
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Bombino - Nomad
Daniel Romano - Come Cry With Me
The Strokes - Comedown Machine
The Computers - Love Triangles, Hate Squares*

*-hotshot debut

1. Deafheaven / Sunbather (runaway favorite so far)...

the rest: (in no kind of order)
Fen / Dustwalker
Cult of Luna / Vertikal
Coheed & Cambria / Afterman:Descension
Mogwai / Les Renevants EP
Pillowfight / Pillowfight
Enforcer / Death By Fire
Venemous Maximus / Beg Upon the Light
Incura / Incura
Baptists / Bushcraft
Nero di Marte / Nero di Marte
Killswitch Engage / Disarm the Descent
Anciients / Heart of Oak
Death in June / Snow Bunker Tapes
Ghost / Infestissumam
The Ocean / Peligial
Spacehog / As It Is On Earth
Dangerous Boys Club / Pris
Bleached / Ride Your Heart
QOTSA / ...Like Clockwork
Kylesa / Ultraviolet
ASG / Blood Drive
Scorpion Child / Scorpion Child

i think sigur ros is a big return to form and may end up atop my list. i thought valtari was terribly boring.

According to what I have/kept in my itunes this year:
Aaron Neville - My True Story
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Dead Mechanical - OK Night
French Films - White Orchid
Kid Canaveral - Now That You Are A Dancer
Kingsbury Manx - The Bronze Age
Lemuria - The Distance Is So Big
Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
The Lovely Bad Things - The Late Great Whatever
Low - The Invisible Way
Rose Melberg - September
Tullycraft - Lost In Light Rotation
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

Also super-recently acquired a really liking:
Dog Party - Lose Control
Hospital Job - Downer Downer Downer
Night Birds - Born To Die In Suburbia
Gateway District - Old Wild Hearts

Songs I love off of albums that I kinda think are alright:
Bad Religion - True North
David Bowie - You Will Set The World On Fire
Milk Carton Kids - Hope Of A Lifetime
Two Hours Traffic - I Don't Want 2 Want U
Wavves - Demon To Lean On
Waxahatchee - Swan Dive

not in order.

a$ap rocky - long.live.a$ap
foxygen - we are the 21st century ambassadors of peace and magic
pissed jeans - honeys
nails - abandon all life
inspectah deck & 7L & esoteric - czarface
rhye - woman
parquet courts - light up gold
kanye west - yeezus
doldrums - lesser evil
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
wampire - curiosity
snowden - no one in control
classixx - hanging gardens
killer mike & el-p - run the jewels
freddie gibbs - esgn
daughn gibson - me moan
noisem - agony defined

there's a bunch more that i haven't given enough of a listen yet to decide on.

1. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
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2. Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving

That might be all at this point.

peaking:
thundercat
thee oh sees
kanye
prurient
k vile
junip
r hitchcock
these new puritans
foxygen
daft
royal trux ep
d gibson

tumbling:
BoC
doldrums
waxahatchee
majical clouds
l cole
deerhunter

the silver seas - alaska
son volt - honky tonk
bamboo kids - safe city blues
the grapes of wrath - high road
the resonars - crummy desert sound
unknown mortal orchestra - II
mikal cronin - mcII
junip - junip
john moreland - in the throes
daniel romano - come cry with me
scud mountain boys - do you love the sun
the phoenix foundation - fandango
eels - wonderful glorious
smith westerns - soft will
foxygen - we are the 21st century ambassadors of peace & magic

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Push the Sky Away"
Boards of Canada "Tomorrow's Harvest"
Jim Guthrie "Takes Time"
Phosphorescent "Muchacho"
James Holden "The Inheritors"
Daughn Gibson "Me Moan"
Van Dyke Parks "Super Chief: Music for the Silver Screen"
Eluvium "Nightmare Ending"
Low "The Invisible Way"
Scott Churchman "Ignore That Noise"
Rhye "Woman"
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro "Adam Green, Binki Shapiro"
Kurt Vile "Wakin' On A Pretty Daze"
Wavves "Afraid of Heights"
The Knife "Shaking the Habitual"
My Bloody Valentine "MBV"
Brokeback "Brokeback & The Black Rock"
William Tyler "Impossible Truth"
Van Dyke Parks "Songs Cycled"
Saltland "I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us"
Akron/Family "Sub Verses"
Nightlands "Oak Island"
Colin Stetson "New History Warfare Vol. 3"
Helado Negro "Invisible Life"
Suuns "Images du futur"
Sean Nicholas Savage "Other Life"
Doldrums "Lesser Evil"
Yo La Tengo "Fade"
Beliefs "Beliefs"

Highlighted some of the lesser knowns.

Billy I haven't heard your #1, but I just bought a recording console from Bruce for my studio and album. Nice guy. Recommend a song?

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Parquet Courts - Light up Gold
Night Marchers - Allez Allez
Foxygen - We are...

Enjoying these:

French Films - White Orchid
Generationals - Heza [still think their debut was much better but this is growing]
Tropical Popsicle - Dawn of Delight
FutureBirds - Baba Yaga
Pure X - Crawling Up the Stairs
Postelles - . . .and It Shook Me
The Virgins - Strike Gently
James Skelly & the Intenders - Love Undercover
GRMLN - Empire
Spectrals - Sob Story
Surf City -We Knew . . .
Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Ready for Boredom
Foxygen - We Are The . . .
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
Wild Nothing - Empty Estate ep
Leagues - You Belong Here
Escondido - Ghost of Escondido
Secret Colours - Peach
Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
Smith Westerns - Soft Will
Games - ST
Phosphorescent - Muchacho




A few tracks off of these:

Georgiana Starlington - Paper Moon
Hollis Brown - Ride on the Train
The City and Horses - Strange Range
Work Drugs - Mavericks
The Aikiu - Ghost Youth
City Society - st just a few tracks
Small Black - Limits of Desire
Javi Garcia - Great Controversy
Jagwar Ma - Howlin
Pastels - Slow Summits
Gabriel Bruce - Love in Arms
Noah & the Whale - Heart of Nowhere I know, sue me, can't help myself


Off Main St and Good:
Junor Byles - Best of
Bunny Wailer - Dub D'sco
AM & Shawn Lee - Le Musique Numerique . . .disco? nothing I was expecting from AM's sound but apparently they have worked together before this
Postiljonen - soon to be released, balearic downtempo pop

I’ll play. I’m probably missing some in here but I figured I'd limit it to 10.
1. Low Culture – Screens
2. Night Marchers – Allez Allez
3. Big Eyes – Almost Famous
4. Night Birds – Born to Die in Suburbia
5. Off With Their Heads – Home
6. Shellshag – Forever
7. The Wild – Dreams Are Maps
8. The Hussy – Pagan Hiss
9. STNNNG – Empire Inward
10. Elway - Leavetaking

Josh Ritter~ The Beast In Its Tracks
Daniel Romano~ Come Cry With Me
Handsome Family~ wilderness
Eric Burdon~ 'Til Your River Runs Dry

Thass all I got.

The whole album is on spotify if you are a spotify user.

Here are a few of my favorites though if you're not:







Kelly Willis is Bruce's wife. They are both solo artists and I **think** that this is their only album as a duo. I've listened to a few of his solo albums on spotify and they also sound pretty good but I've yet to pick any of them up or look into her solo work at all. That's cool that you bought his recording console. Hope you can make some similar magic with it.

I really really like that Games album, but I believe it's a late 2012 release.

that dude looks like frostingspoon.

Bassholes - Boogieman Stew
Oblivians - Desperation
Human Eye - 4: Into Unknown
Satanic Rockers - Fu Kung
Counter Intuits - Sheets of Hits
Banque Allemande - Willst du Chinese sein musst du die ekligen Sachen essen
Cuntz - Aloha
The Feeling of Love - Reward Your Grace
Sweet Talk - Pickup Lines
The Howling Hex - The Best of The Howling Hex
Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion
The Hussy - Pagan Hiss
Spray Paint - Spray Paint
The Ooga Boogas - Ooga Boogas

Savages: has no one thought the singer sounds like Geddy Lee?

Deerhunter: holy horrible album Monomania