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Maccabees
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Future Of the Left
Bat For Lashes
Daananaykroyd
Sky Larkin
Pains of being Pure At Heart
Patrick Wolf

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
1. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
4. Metric - Fantasies
6. School of Seven Bells - Alphinisms
7. The Veils - Sun Gangs
8. The Maccabees - Wall of Arms

And I can't decide which is the 10th, it's a toss up between Handsome Furs, Dark Night of the Soul (if that's technically 'out'), Bat for Lashes, Soap&Skin, My Latest Novel, St Vincent, Fever Ray... gosh, lots!

As I believe Mike is aware (and as I mentioned in the thread about tracks of the year), DiS has a whole week of Year So Far In Review stuff running on DiS next week.

cheers

I seem to remember you not being too keen on it at first. It's really grown on me too.

10-20 - 10-20
Falty DL - Love is a Liability
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
Martyn – Great Lengths
Lukid - Forma
EL-B - The Roots Of EL-B
Mordant Music & Shackleton - Picking O'er The Bones
Legion of Two - Riff
Durrty Goodz - Ultrasound
V/A - Tectonic Plates Vol.2

hmmm

So if I have then any would be by default. So Take Five, ait?

Emeralds - What Happened
Wooden Shjips - Dos
ISIS - Wavering Radiant
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
Zu - Carboniferous

in no particular order:
Dananananaykrod - Hey Everyone
Telepathe - Dance Mother
Action Beat - The Noise Band From Bletchley
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Rye Wolves - Oceans Of Delicate Rain
Wavves - Wavvves
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Big Business - Mind The Drift
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By

can't remember, missed lots...

Eat Skull - Wild and Inside
The Strange Boys - And Girls Club
Jeffrey Novak - After the ball
Zola Jesus - New Amsterdam
Zola Jesus - Tsar Bomba
Nothing People - Late Night
Heavy Times - Ypsi Vacation
Black Vatican - Zed Omega
Ganglians - Woodsist 12"
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns

Calories - Adventuring
Obits - I Blame You

Oh and what I've heard from that NOFX album is rad, so that as well.

So a top 10 may be pushing it,

But I am liking
Mastodon
Gallows
Ghost of a Thousand
Alexisonfire

Need to give the Xcerts, Dananananaykroyd, Lamb Of God, Green Day and Architects a bit more of a listen to fully form my opinion.

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Jeff Lewis - Em Are I
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Anni Rossi - Rockwell
Let's Wrestle - In The Court Of Wrestling Let's
D.M Stith - Heavy Ghost
Women - Women
Teitur - The Singer
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
Casiotone - Vs. Children

Or so.

marissa nadler- little hells
optimo- sleepwalk
animal collective- merriweather post pavillion
prins thomas- live at robert johnson
dirty projectors- bitte orca
henrik schwarz- the grandfather paradox
phoenix- wolfgang amadeus phoenix
emeralds- what happened
dj quik and kurupt- blaqkout
bill callahan- sometimes i wish we were an eagle

Phoenix
Moderat
Faunts
The Whitest Boy Alive
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Animal Collective
Alela Diane
The Field
Bat For Lashes
Woodenbirds

(I suspect Sunset Rubdown will be on there considering the buzz and the quality of the first record)

Mastodon
Fever Ray
Dirty Projectors
Japandroids
Dinosaur Jr
Enter Shikari
Doom
Future Of The Left
Kylesa
Dark Was The Night

Horrors - Primary Colours
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - S/T
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
Grizzly Bear - Veckitimest
Cursive - Mama, Im Swollen
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Eminem - Relapse
Trophy Scars - Bad Luck
Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Twilight Sad - Killed My Parents and Hit the Road
The Field - Yesterday And Today
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest
Patrick Wolf-The Batchelor
Sonic Youth-The Eternal
Fanfarlo-Reservoir
Dinosaur Jr.-Farm
Danananananaykroyd-Hey Everyone!
Cymbals Eat Guitars-Why Are There Mountains
Bat For Lashes-Two Suns
Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bill Callahan-Sometimes i wish we were an Eagle

Mos Def < Ecstatic
DJ JS-1 < Ground Original 2: No Sell Out (horrendous album art though)
DJ Quik & Kurupt < Blaqkout
P.O.S. < Never Better
DOOM < Born Like This
Phoenix < Wolfgang...
Blame One < Days Chasing Days
Grizzly Bear < Veckatimist
ISIS < Wavering Radiant
Trail of Dead < Century of Self

The Field- Yesterday and Today
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Clark - Totems Flare
Bike for Three! - More Heart than Brains

That's all for now...

Maybe include newest SFA too...

These are the ten I've listened to most so far this year. I suspect that Japandroids and Future of the Left will knock a few of these out once I've had the chance to listen more.

In No Order -

1. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
2. Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
3. Handsome Furs - Face Control
4. The Thermals - Now We Can See
5. The Tragically Hip - We Are the Same
6. Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart
7. Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
8. The Horrors - Primary Colours
9. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
10. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

Action Beat
Astrid Williamson
Barzin
Calories
Headdress
Lauter
Marissa Nadler
Odawas
The Broken Family Band
The Delano Orchestra

Favourite EP : Last Harbour

Favourite mini-album : the Tupolev Ghost

the longcut - open hearts (album of the year so far by miles)
isis - wavering radiant
grizzly bear - veckatimest
dananana - hey everyone
animal collective - merriweather post pavillion
mono - hymn to the immortal wind
wintersleep - welcome to the night sky
my latest novel - deaths & entrances

however twilight sad will probably be challenging te longcut by the end of the year

craigx

Go 09. Still to get to Animal C, Grizzly, Pains, YYYs....Emusic's not doing me many favours in NZ. Prix...Alphabetical
Andrew Bird
Bat for Lashes
Fanfarlo
Horrors
Joe Gideon & The Shark
Metric
Phoenix
Sunset Rubdown
SFA

Bat for lashes
Dananananakroyd
Andrew Bird
FUTURE OF THE LEFT
Animal Collective
Manic Street Preachers
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Anthony & the Johnsons

...these are the only ones that make it so far. Marmaduke Duke was good for 5 minutes, Trail of Dead doesnt really have the longevity (or I just over indulged), Doves was distinctly average.

But Kong will be here in a few days. SO that'll probably be the best thing ever.

Horrors - Primary Colours
Micachu - Jewellery
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
St. Vincent - Actor
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Fever Ray - S/T
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Sholi - S/T

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Black Dice - Repo
Calories - Adventuring
Cryptacize - Mythomania
Enablers - Tundra
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Wavves - S/T
Wooden Wand - Born Bad
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals

Animal Collective - MPP
Ducktails - Ducktails
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Tobacco - Fucked-Up Friends
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
White - White
Black Dice - Repo
Emeralds - What Happened

The Horrors - Primary Colours
Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night
Grammatics - Grammatics
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Cheval Sombre - Cheval Sombre
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - 93 Million Miles From The Sun
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
What Price, Wonderland?
Facel Vega/Harbour
Animal Collective
Sonic Youth
Obits

looking forward to hearing the Shitty Limits, Lovvers and Ox Scapula lps.

Merriweather Post Pavilion (Animal Collective)
Dark Was the Night (Various Artists) - if that counts
The Hazards of Love (The Decemberists)
Bromst (Dan Deacon)
Actor (St. Vincent)
Kingdom of Rust (Doves)
Dark Days/Light Years (Super Furry Animals)
My Maudlin Career (Camera Obscura)
Hombre Lobo (Eels)
Bitte Orca (Dirty Projectors)

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/so-far-so-good-2009s-best-albums-to-date-part-2

That's...

Doves
DJ Hell
Beastie Boys
Odd Nosdam
Fink
Trentemoller
Raphael Saadiq
The Deer Tracks
Phoenix
Yppah

MD

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Obits - I Blame You
And So I Watch You From Afar - s/t
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Trail of Dead - The Century of Self
Maybeshewill - Sing The Word Hope In Four Part Harmony
worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
The Mars Volta - Octahedron (possibly, only listened to it twive so far)

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
School of Seven Bells
Animal Collective
Doves
Fever Ray
Handsome Furs
Andrew Bird
Wilco
Dan Auerbach

William Basinski - 92982
Portable - Version
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

..I think that's it

Because I am having a hard time categorising the last five with so many great albums out this year, I am limiting it to my top five. In no order:

Hospice by The Antlers
You And I by Cut Off Your Hands
Grammatics by Grammatics
Wooden Arms by Patrick Watson
Fantasies by Metric

Other contenders include Maria Taylor, Faunts, Andrew Bird, Josh Freese, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Doves, The Veils, and a ton more.

Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Death - For The Whole World To See (does that count?)
Sleepy Sun - Embrace
Crystal Stilts - s/t
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish..
Animal Collective - MPP
Fever Ray - s/t
Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night
Blank Dogs - In The Red
The Horrors - Primary Colours

1) St. Vincent - Actor
2) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
3) Grammatics - s/t
4) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
5) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
6) Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
7) Woods - Songs Of Shame
8) Wavves - Wavvves
9) King Creosote - Flick The Vs
10) Loney, Dear - Dear John

Special mentions to:

Diamond Watch Wrists - Ice Capped At Both Ends
Mount Eerie - White Stag
Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
The Thermals - Now We Can See
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Blue Roses - Blue Roses
Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
Timber Timbre - s/t

1. Leaves - We Are Shadows
2. The Boxer Rebellion - Union
3. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
4. Chatmonchy - Kokuhaku
5. Asobi Seksu - Hush
6. Red Light Company - Fine Fascination
7. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
10. The Sleepover Disaster - Hover

Emeralds - What Happened
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
DJ Hell - Teufelswerk
Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking
Micachu - Jewellery
Isis - Wavering Radient
Wolves In the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Desire - II
Svarte Greiner - Kappe
Danny Norbury - Light In August

2. Manic Street Preachers "Journal for Plague Lovers"
3. Future of the Left "Travels With Myself and Another"
4. Art Brut "Art Brut Vs. Satan"
5. Pet Shop Boys "Yes"
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart"
7. Jarvis Cocker "Further Complications"
8. Dananananaykroyd "Hey Everyone!"
9. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse "Dark Night of the Soul"
10. Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters "'Em Are I"

Got a feeling Phoenix and Wilco may work their way in there soon though.

and pretty off the cuff:

Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Zu - Carboniferous
Cobalt - Gin
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain
Nadja - When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV
Tombs - Winterhours
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II-Dialogue With The Stars

Mastodon, Napalm Death and Gnaw maybe ought to be in their somewhere perhaps. Maybe Tim Hecker too.

In mild order
Grammatics - S/T
Sucioperro - Pain Agency
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Century of Self
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Isis - Wavering Radiant
In Case Of Fire - Align The Planets
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia

.....these have all been excellent

Horrors - Primary Colours
Martyn - Great Lengths
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Mastadon - Crack The Sky
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
------
And just missing out or I couldn't decide....

Eels - Hombre Lobo
Danananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
Really Like the new Jack Penate album the new Future Of The Left
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

That's more than 10 isn't it!

This has been a really great year for albums so far and I hope it continues but for me I just think Two Suns is head and shoulders above the rest.

1-3: Animal Collective, The Horrors, Franz Ferdinand
4-6: Fever Ray, Dirty Projectors, Passion Pit
7-10: Kasabian, Maximo Park, Daestro, Manics

Thing is, some of these records I haven't listen to enough, but nothing seems to be matching the kind of stuff that was out in '02 or '05. Possibly because I'm spreading myself musically too thinly and my way of digesting music through meticulous ratings systems, looking onto it as how easy it is to sing back after five listens as opposed to the actual merit of songwriting/production, because nothing is as gripping as it was when I was 13. Sigh.

Animal Collective - MPP
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus (shocking name)
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind

I got a feeling I'm missing loads, there are also a few I need to listen to more really ...

...but so far:

1) Sunset Rubdown, Dragonslayer
2) Fever Ray, Fever Ray
3) Emmy the Great, First Love
4) Patrick Wolf, The Bachelor
5) Isis, Wavering Radiant
6) Handsome Furs, Face Control
7) Antony & the Johnsons, The Crying Light
8) Horrors, Primary Colours
9) Wintersleep, Welcome to the Night Sky
X) Nadja, When I See the Sun…

...and if those last two don't count:

Bat for Lashes, Two Suns
Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca

1) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2) Ghinzu - Mirror Mirror
3) Grizly Bear - Veckatimest
4) Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
5) The Love Language - S/T
6) Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
7) M. Ward - Hold Time
8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
9) The Horrors - Primary Colours
10) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

Darn, didn't see this until tonight. And I posted my halfterm list at http://anulaibar.com/svammel/?p=338 (It's in Swedish, but you might like to see it anyhow) June 28. But well then here's my top ten, so far, in no order...:

Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Hauschka - Snowflakes and Carwrecks
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
Kronos Quartet - Floodplain
Kyte - Science For The Living
Nils Petter Molvær - Hamada
Robert Logan - Inscape
Soap & Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

And as a complementary mention, it's not an album, but if it was, it'd be on the list: Ólafur Arnalds - Found Songs

Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

Thursday, Jeff Lewis, Danananackroyd and Bat for Lashes are all good but only those top three have made a real impact on me.

florence + the machine,
the horrors,
the maccabees,
peter doherty,
bat for lashes,
yeah yeah yeahs,
kasbian,
pretty much it

from the ones i have bought that were this years, i very much like
soap&skin
moderat
the sight below (which is fucking incredible)
maybeshewill
phoenix
...erm, i can't remember any more!
those Wixel ones are amazing too. an album a month! awesome.

1. Woods - Songs of Shame

(1) 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - S/T
(2) Animal Collective - MPP
(3) The Horrors - Primary Colours
(4) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - S/T

That's about it so far. There's a few more albums that I like of course, but they aren't likely to make my top ten by the end of the year. I'm certainly not going to just stick them in because I can't think of anything else.

Too early for a top ten if you ask me.

1. Japandroids
2. Animal Collective
3. Sonic Youth
4. Grizzly Bear
5. Mastodon
6. The Thermals
7. Phoenix
8. Dinosaur Jr.
9. Dirty Projectors
10. The Antlers

some others that were good: Cymbals Eat Guitars, White Rabbits, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Isis.

The Temper Trap "Conditions"
Dinosaur Jr "Farm"
Wilco "(The Album)"
Pink Mountaintops "Outside Love"
Karnivool "Sound Awake"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Its Blitz!"
U2 "No Line on the Horizon" that's right, U2 are up there with the best
The Mars Volta "Octahedron"
Antony and the Johnsons "This Crying Light"
Cross the Lips of Grace "The Epilogue of Suffering"

1) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3) The Thermals - Now We Can See
4) St. Vincent - Actor
5) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

I also find myself rather pleased with the new Current 93 album, Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, and The Rural Alberta Advantage's new one.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - S/T
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Fever Ray - S/T
Woods - Songs of Shame
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Antony and The Johnsons - The Crying Light

Worth Noting - I've only listening to Veckatimest once, and while I enjoyed it, I need to listen more before it goes on the list. Same for Horrors (only I've only heard it twice)

Also Note - The Crying Light, Noble Beast, AND Merriweather Post Pavilion all came out on January 20th whilst Barack Obama became president. Best day ever.

This is the standings after about a hundred posts. 245 albums on the list and 558 "votes"

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - 28
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca - 16
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - 15
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - 15
The Horrors - Primary Colours - 13
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone! - 12
Fever Ray - Fever Ray - 12
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another - 10
Isis - Wavering Radiant - 10
Mastodon - Crack The Skye - 10
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - 10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! - 9
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer - 8
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns - 7
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle - 7
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm - 7
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers - 7
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals - 7
Horrors - Primary Colours - 6
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor - 6
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust - 5
Sonic Youth - The Eternal - 5
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years - 5
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast - 4
Antony And The Johnsons - This Crying Light - 4
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Vs. Children - 4
Dan Deacon - Bromst - 4
Emeralds - What Happened - 4
Grammatics - Grammatics - 4
Handsome Furs - Face Control - 4
Japandroids - Post Nothing - 4
Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum - 4
Micachu - Jewellery - 4
Obits - I Blame You - 4
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike - 4
St. Vincent - Actor - 4
Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions - 4
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self - 3
Calories - Adventuring - 3
Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night - 3
Fanfarlo - Reservoir - 3
Marissa Nadler - Little Hells - 3
Metric - Fantasies - 3
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind - 3
Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum - 3
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love - 3
The Field - Yesterday And Today - 3
The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms - 3
The Thermals - Now We Can See - 3
Va - Dark Was The Night - 3
Wavves - Wavvves - 3
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade - 3
Woods - Songs Of Shame - 3
93Millionmilesfromthesun - 93 Million Miles From The Sun - 2
Action Beat - The Noise Band From Bletchley - 2
And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar - 2
Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan - 2
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue - 2
Black Dice - Repo - 2
Condo Fucks - Fuckbook - 2
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why Are There Mountains - 2
Dj Hell - Teufelswerk - 2
Dj Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout - 2
Doom - Born Like This - 2
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - 2
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking - 2
Jeffrey Lewis And The Jitters - Em Are I - 2
Let's Wrestle - In The Court Of Wrestling Let's - 2
Maccabees - Wall Of Arms - 2
Martyn - Great Lengths - 2
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart - 2
Maybeshewill - Sing The Word Hope In Four Part Harmony - 2
Moderat - Moderat - 2
Mos Def - The Ecstatic - 2
Nadja - When I See The Sun Always Shines On Tv - 2
Nothing People - Late Night - 2
Passion Pit - Manners - 2
School Of Seven Bells - Alphinisms - 2
Telepathe - Dance Mother - 2
The Mars Volta - Octahedron - 2
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country - 2
Tobacco - Fucked-Up Friends - 2
Wilco - (The Album) - 2
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky - 2
Zu - Carboniferous - 2
09-10-20 - 09-10-20 - 1
Ac Newman - Get Guilty - 1
Advance Base - Battery Life - 1
Alela Diane - To Be Still - 1
Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals - 1
Animal Hospital - Memory - 1
Anni Rossi - Rockwell - 1
Asobi Seksu - Hush - 1
Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings - 1
Barzin - Notes To An Absent Lover - 1
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (Re-Issue) - 1
Big Business - Mind The Drift - 1
Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains - 1
Black Vatican - Zed Omega - 1
Blame One - Days Chasing Days - 1
Blank Dogs - In The Red - 1
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta Ii-Dialogue With The Stars - 1
Bosque Brown - Baby - 1
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career - 1
Chatmonchy - Kokuhaku - 1
Cheval Sombre - Cheval Sombre - 1
Clark - Totems Flare - 1
Clem Snide - Hungry Bird - 1
Clues - Clues - 1
Cobalt - Gin - 1
Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon - 1
Copy Haho - Bred For Skills & Magic Ep - 1
Cross The Lips Of Grace - The Epilogue Of Suffering - 1
Cryptacize - Mythomania - 1
Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain - 1
Cursive - Mama, Im Swollen - 1
Cut Off Your Hands - You And I - 1
D.M Stith - Heavy Ghost - 1
Daestro - Uknown - 1
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid - 1
Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul - 1
Danny Norbury - Light In August - 1
Dd/Mm/Yyyy - Black Square - 1
Death - For The Whole World To See - 1
Desire - Ii - 1
Discovery - Discovery - 1
Dj Js-1 - Ground Original 2: No Sell Out - 1
Dm Smith - Heavy Ghost - 1
Ducktails - Ducktails - 1
Durrty Goodz - Ultrasound - 1
Eat Skull - Wild And Inside - 1
Eels - Hombre Lobo - 1
El-B - The Roots Of El-B - 1
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid - 1
Eminem - Relapse - 1
Emmy The Great - First Love - 1
Enablers - Tundra - 1
Engineers - Three Fact Fader - 1
Enter Shikari - Common Dreads - 1
Facel Vega/Harbour - Uknown - 1
Falty Dl - Love Is A Liability - 1
Faunts - Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. - 1
Fink - Sort Of Revolution - 1
Florence + The Machine - Lungs - 1
Gallows - Grey Britain - 1
Ganglians - Monster Head Room - 1
Ganglians - Woodsist 12 - 1
Ghinzu - Mirror Mirror - 1
Ghost Of A Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations - 1
God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl - 1
Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away - 1
Harlem - Free Drugs - 1
Hauschka - Snowflakes And Carwrecks - 1
Headdress - Lunes - 1
Heavy Times - Ypsi Vacation - 1
Henrik Schwarz - The Grandfather Paradox - 1
In Case Of Fire - Align The Planets - 1
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - 1
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter - 1
Jeffrey Novak - After The Ball - 1
Joe Gideon & The Shark - Harum Scarum - 1
Karnivool - Sound Awake - 1
King Creosote - Flick The Vs - 1
Kronos Quartet - Floodplain - 1
Kylesa - Unknown Awareness - 1
Kyte - Science For The Living - 1
Lauter - Uknown - 1
Leaves - We Are Shadows - 1
Legion Of Two - Riff - 1
Loney, Dear - Dear John - 1
Lukid - Forma - 1
M. Ward - Hold Time - 1
Manics - Uknown - 1
Mordant Music & Shackleton - Picking O'er The Bones - 1
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal - 1
My Latest Novel - Deaths & Entrances - 1
Nils Petter Molvær - Hamada - 1
Odawas - The Blue Depths - 1
Odd Nosdam - T.I.M.E. Soundtrack - 1
Optimo - Sleepwalk - 1
P.O.S. - Never Better - 1
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms - 1
Pet Shop Boys - Yes - 1
Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands - 1
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love - 1
Pj Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By - 1
Portable - Version - 1
Prins Thomas - Live At Robert Johnson - 1
Prix... - Alphabetical - 1
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia - 1
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It - 1
Red Light Company - Fine Fascination - 1
Robert Logan - Inscape - 1
Rye Wolves - Oceans Of Delicate Rain - 1
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio - 1
Sholi - Sholi - 1
Silversun Pickups - Swoon - 1
Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night - 1
Sleepy Sun - Embrace - 1
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns - 1
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy - 1
Sucioperro - Pain Agency - 1
Svarte Greiner - Kappe - 1
Teitur - The Singer - 1
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself - 1
The Answering Machine - Another City, Another Sorry - 1
The Antlers - Hospice - 1
The Antlers - Hospice - 1
The Boxer Rebellion - Union - 1
The Broken Family Band - Please And Thank You - 1
The Deer Tracks - Aurora - 1
The Delano Orchestra - Will Anyone Else Leave Me - 1
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come - 1
The Longcut - Open Hearts - 1
The Love Language - The Love Language - 1
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage - 1
The Sight Below - Glider - 1
The Sleepover Disaster - Hover - 1
The Strange Boys - And Girls Club - 1
The Temper Trap - Conditions - 1
The Tragically Hip - We Are The Same - 1
The Twilight Sad - Killed My Parents And Hit The Road - 1
The Veils - Sun Gangs - 1
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules - 1
Tombs - Winterhours - 1
Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship - 1
Trentemøller - Harbour Boat Trips 01 – Copenhagen - 1
Trophy Scars - Bad Luck - 1
U2 - No Line On The Horizon - 1
Va - Tectonic Plates Vol.2 - 1
Vetiver - Tight Knit - 1
Video Nasties - On All Fours - 1
What Pricew, Onderland? - It Is True It Is Shakey - 1
White - White - 1
White Rabbits - It's Frightening - 1
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers - 1
William Basinski - 92982 - 1
Willie Isz - Georgiavania - 1
Women - Women - 1
Wooden Birds - Magnolia - 1
Wooden Shjips - Dos - 1
Wooden Wand - Born Bad - 1
Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know - 1
Zola Jesus - New Amsterdam - 1
Zola Jesus - Tsar Bomba - 1

10) Dan Deacon - Bromst
9) F&TM - Lungs
8) YYY's - It's Blitz!
7) The Field - Yesterday & Today
6) The Horrors - Primary Colours
5) Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - s/t
4) Animal Collective - MPP
3) Fever Ray - s/t
2) Grizzly Bear - Vektameist
1) Phoenix - WAP

This will change every day until mid December....

Emmy the Great, First Love
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavillion
Bat for Lashes, Two Suns
St. Vincent, Actor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!
Dinosaur Jr., Farm
Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
'Em Are I, Jeffrey Lewis
Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors
Grace/Wastelands, Pete Doherty

Don't think I could name ten really top-drawer releases, but standouts for me:

The Longcut - Open Hearts
Brakes - Touchdown
Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
That Fucking Tank - Tankology
Circlesquare - Songs About Dancing and Drugs
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
Feedle - Go and Get Your Head Fucked

and I'm absolutely, 100% convinced that Kong - Snake Magnet is going to join the list.. Out on Monday.

Longcut album is earth-shatteringly good - criminal that it seems to be passing people by so far but should hopefully get a bit more press alongside physical release in October.

1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
2. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
4. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
5. The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours Pt. 1
6. Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
7. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
8. Big Business - Mind The Drift
9. Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
10. Dinosaur Jr - Farm

1. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
[= Women - S/T if you count as '09 for UK release]
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. St Vincent - Actor
4. Tartufi - Nest Of Birds And Wire
5. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
6. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
7. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
8. Micachu - Jewellery
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
10. Japandroids - Post Nothing

1. Dear Reader- Replace Why With Funny
2. Soap&Skin- Lovetune For Vacuum
3. Loney dear- Dear John
4. DM Stith- Heavy Ghost
5. Clem Snide- Hungry Bird
6. Orphans & Vandals- I Am Alive And You Are Dead
7. Bruce Peninsula- A Mountain Is A Mouth
8. Sin Fang Bous- Clangour
9. Ohbijou- Beacons
10. My Latest Novel- Deaths & Entrances
11. Laura Gibson- Beasts Of Season
12. Bishop Allen- Grrr…
13. The Second Hand Marching Band- A Dance To Half Death
14. Broken Records- Until The Earth Begins To Part
15. Venice Is Sinking- Azar
16. The Electones- If You’ll Be Null, I’ll Be Void
17. The Dø- A Mouthful
18. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
19. Fanfarlo- Reservoir
20. Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern- Pram Town

Although maybe Bowerbirds, Shugo Tokumaru, Lord Cut-Glass and others could sneak their way in to that list with more listens. Great year.

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. Animal Hospital - Memory
5. Concern - Truth And Distance
6. Arne Weinberg - Alpha and Omega
7. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
8. Micahcu - Jewellery
9. DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
10. Sun O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions

1 Animal Collective - MPP
2 Maria Taylor - LadyLuck
3 Bibio - Ambivelance Avenue
4 Sunset Rubdown - DragonSlayer
5 Fanfarlo - Reservoir
6 Mos Def - Ecstatic
7 Horrors - Primary Colours
8 Lily Allen - It's not me, It's you
9 Pains of being Pure at Heart - S/T
10 Dangermouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul

Mentions

Andrew Bird (Love him, just can't get into his new one), Handsome Furs, Beirut, La Roux, Doves

The Horrors - Primary Colours
Official Secrets Act - Understanding Electricity
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Animal Collective - MPP
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Sorry, that's all...

Trail of Dead - Century of Self
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Zu - Carboniferous
Kylesa - Static Tentions
Acoustic Ladyland - Living With A Tiger

Only 7 so far...

Can't wait to hear the new Maybeshewill, Worriedaboutsatan, Twilight Sad, Muse, Mew, BLK JKS and Future of the Left albums. This year can only get better, I'm concerned that I won't have the money for all these new releases.

1) Micachu and The Shapes Jewellery
Blue Roses Blue Roses
Fanfarlo Reservoir
Soap&Skin Lovetune for Vacuum
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion
Super Furry Animals Dark Days / Light Years
Manic Street Preachers Journal Plague For Lovers
Bat For Lashes Two Suns
Doves Kingdom of Rust
10) Anthony and The Johnsons The Crying Light

no order
Animal Collective - MPP
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Horrors - Primary Colours
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Micachu - Jewellery
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Wavves - Wavves
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Animal Collective
Patrick Wolf
The Field
Grizzly Bear
Phoenix
DJ Sprinkles
Micachu
SFA
Bill Callahan
Troyka

Acoustic Ladyland will hopefully be on my doormat today.

Al-Namrood - Astfhl Al Tha'r
Belbury Poly – From An Ancient Star
Carrion Wraith - Carrion Wraith
Cobalt - Gin
Crocodiles – Summer of Hate
Mokira – Persona
Oneida – rated O
Quad Throw Salchow – Speed
Saito Koji – Beautiful
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
Thee Oh Shees – Help

GxMx

matt & kim - grand (surprised no-one else has said this, it's one of my favs)
animal collective - MPP
camera obscura - my maudlin career
dananananaykroyd - hey everyone!
crocodiles - summer of hate
little boots - hands
japandroids - post-nothing
the horrors - primary colours
dan deacon - bromst
micachu - jewellery

also really like: dirty projectors, florence and the machine, yeah yeah yeahs, lets wrestle, future of the left, grammatics, emmy the great, phoenix, passion pit, swan lake, fever ray

this thread just makes me sad as although I've heard most albums on the lists, I know I'm never going to find enough time to really get into most of them.

Phoenix-Wolfgang Amadeaus Phoenix
Sunset Rubdown- Dragonslayer
Grizzly Bear- Veckatamist
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- s/t
Japandroids- Post-Nothing
Cymbals Eat Guitars- Why There Are Mountains
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Its Blitz!
The Thermals-Now We Can See
Bat For Lashes- Two Suns
Wavves- Wavvves

but Doves would be number one easily. Havent heard anything that is consistent all the way through (e.g. YYY, Jarvis, Temper Trap)
except for this.
2. Super Furry Animals - best one for a few years.

wild beasts - two dancers
tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs
mika miko - we be xuxa
silk flowers - silk flowers
dananananaykroyd - hey everyone!
sky larkin - the golden spike
micachu - jewelery
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
dutch uncles - dutch uncles
the invisible - the invisible

Wolfgang Amadues Phoenix - Phoenix
Two Dancers - Wild Beasts (which is almost comically brilliant)

Thursday
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Horrors
Asobi Seksu
Gallows
The Lonely Island