Music: Best o' the Year

I figured since Uncut, Mojo, Paste, Blender, Q, and probably some obscure Balinesian monthly have already put up their top albums of the year, I should probably do it too, before someone accuses me of just copying Pitchfork or something like that.

Here.....dadadadadada.....itttttt....dadadadadada.....is!:

1) Vampire Weekend-S/T

Woah. It's like totally overhyped, but whatever. It still kicks a lot of ass; you can't go wrong with songs about idealized nostalgia and dormitory lawns. You just can't.

2) Starfucker- S/T

Yah Portland! You did it again, uh uh, you did it again. This CD will make you gaze at the stars and fall in love all over again, and maybe even make you want to eff them like the band.

3) Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping

Who would have thought the follow up to pretty much the best album last year would be just as good and twice as sexual?

4) Sigur Rós- Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

I think this album didn't get due props because of its weirdo title that looks like the default script when we fill in unknown text at the magazine (quorum delorum et tu brute, etc.). It's good and fun and kinda makes you fall in love with Sigur Ros all over again (I really like falling in love, especially again, okay?)

5) No Age- Nouns

I was really really into this album for a solid 2 weeks. I played it all day and night, and even slept with it playing on my laptop under my covers. It's drunkish and scuzzy and passionate and about as lo-fi as I can tolerate, but still, it's music to my eardrums.

6) Fuck Buttons- Street Horrsing

Damn, this shit is good too. At first it's like tribal drum beats and shit, and then BLAAMMMMMMM, it's like a WWIII air-assault of thick-ass distortion and screaming into a playschool recorder and, well, it pretty much rules when you're driving to your job you hate and you want to beat heavily on your steering wheel.

7) Dodos- Visiter

Drums and acoustic guitar. Sounds boring, but these lads make the texture of their sound sad and sweet without going overboard into melancholy emo territory. Reminds me of the direction Death Cab for Cutie should have taken.

8) M83- Saturday's=Youth

You gotta love the French. The gave us Daft Punk, Justice, Baguettes, Parcour, and the Enlightenment. If you like that country or the band Air, you should probably listen to this.

9) Fleet Foxes- S/T

I honestly haven't fully gotten into this album, but I know its really good and probably belongs on everyone's top ten lists. And they're from Seattle! Go NW!

10) TV on the Radio- Dear Science

Same with this one. It's really great, but I haven't been excited to listen to it over and over again. Does that make me a bad person? Oh well, you should all listen to it, if anything to hear how far their production has come since Cookie Mountain.



Well. Regardless of what I say on this list, or how lackadaisical it seems to have been thrown together, you really should listen to everything on here.