Once again I couldn't stop at 60 but forced myself to end the list at 120. Bon Iver tops the list which also topped many people's end of the year list of favorite albums. I can't stop listening to it. I loved his first album but this one moved way beyond the song into pure sound. The War on Drugs was a close second for me. It sounded like so much that has gone before it but also utterly unique. Fleet Foxes and Wilco both put out wonderful albums this year. I really liked the Jesse Sykes album which was very different than the previous album. This one sounded very California psychedelic retro... sort of like Moby Grape with a female singer. The California sound from the 70s is all over this list but especially the new Dawes album. The Radiohead album was another surprise that I kept on repeated play. The more I played it the higher it rose on the list. Most of this stuff is fairly mellow but... I'm 60 now.
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver
- The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
- Wilco - The Whole Love
- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Marble Son
- Radiohead - The King of Limbs
- The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
- Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
- M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
- Atlas Sound - Parallax
- Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Holo
- St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
- The Antlers - Burst Apart
- Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
- Peaking Lights - 936
- Middle Brother - Middle Brother
- The Black Keys - El Camino
- The Horrors - Skying
- Tom Waits - Bad As Me
- Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
- The Decemberists - The King is Dead
- Cass McCombs - Humor Risk
- Sigur Ros - Inni
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
- Washed Out - Within and Without
- CANT - Dreams Come True
- My Morning Jacket - Circuital
- The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
- Tune-Yards - Whokill
- Panda Bear - Tomboy
- Anthony Hamilton - Back to Love
- Destroyer - Kaputt
- James Blake - James Blake
- Yuck - Yuck
- The Stokes - Angles
- The Kills - Blood Pressures
- Adele - 21
- Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
- A.A. Bondy - Believers
- Cults - Cults
- Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
- Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
- Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
- Joe Henry - Reverie
- Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
- Vetiver - The Errant Charm
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mind
- Yellowbirds - The Color
- Cut Copy - Zonoscope
- Lucinda Williams - Blessed
- Battles - Gloss Drop
- Over The Rhine - The Long Surrender
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - A Corporate World
- EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
- Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
- TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
- Real Estate - Days
- Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
- Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
- Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO ( & Other American Stories)
- Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
- Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
- Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys
- Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
- Joss Stone - LP1
- Wye Oak - Civilian
- Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain
- Cavemen - CoCo Beware
- The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
- Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
- Feist - Metals
- Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis
- The Cave Singers - No Witch
- Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
- Todd Snider - The Storyteller
- Paul Simon - So Beautiful So What
- Jolie Holland - Pint of Blood
- The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
- Matthew Sweet - Modern Art
- J. Mascis - Several Shades of Why
- Ry Cooder - Pick Up Some Dust and Sit Down
- John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
- Cass McCombs - Wit's End
- Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
- Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler
- Greg Brown - Freak Flag
- The Airborne Toxic Event - All At Once
- Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys
- Bright Eyes - The People's Key
- Robbie Robertson - How To Become A Clairvoyant
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
- Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
- Seryn - This Is Where We Are
- Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
- Ben Harper - Give Till It's Gone
- Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
- Danger Mouse - Rome
- R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
- Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
- DeVotchKa - 100 Lovers
- David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
- Blitzen Trappen - American Goldwing
- Wild Flag - Wild Flag
- Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567
- Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Wisper
- Release The Sunbird - Come Back To Us
- The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
- Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
- Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
- Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid
- Tyler Ramsey - The Valley Wind
- East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms
- Bjork - Biophilia
- Marketa Irglova - Anar
- Pieta Brown - Mercury
- Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow
- The Nightwatchman - World Wide Rebel Songs
- The Ettes - Wicked Will
There were some great collections this year too.- The Beach Boys - Smile
- Rockpile - Live at Montreaux 1980
- Various Artists - Rave On Buddy Holly
- Various Artists - Johnny Boy Would Love This... A Tribute To John Martyn
- Jimi Hendrix - Winterland
- Primal Scream & The MC5 - Black To Comm: Live at the Royal Festival
- Neil Young - A Treasure
- Various Artists - The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
- Iggy Pop - Roadkill Rising... The Bootleg Collection 1977-2009
- Etta James - Heart & Soul: A Retrospective
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Singles Collection: 1992-2011
- The Hollies - Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years: The Complete Hollies 1963-1968
- The Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010
- Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966-1968
- Gorillaz - The Singles Collection: 2001-2011
- Ty Segall - Singles 2007-2010
- Ladytron - Best of Ladytron 2000-2010
- The Vagrants - I Can't Make A Friend 1965-1968
- Chicago - Live in 1975
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