1. Treefight for Sunlight - "Treefight for Sunlight"
2. Cut Copy - "Zonoscope"
3. Sondre Lerche - "Sondre Lerche"
4. The Red Button - "As Far as Yesterday Goes"
5. Duran Duran - "All You Need Is Now"
6. The High Llamas - "Talahomi Way"
7. The Nines - "Polarities"
8. Brent Cash - "How Strange It Seems"
9. The Leisure Society - "Into the Murky Water"
10.Cleaners From Venus - "English Electric"/"The Stopping Train"

excellent album § I haven't heard it enough to rank it.
I picked it from your list on RYM.

Merci beaucoup et viens plus souvent nous rendre visite ici !!

1. PJ Harvey - Number one for me in what has been a down year.
2. Lykke Li - A diverse set of songs that took me by surprise.
3. TV on the Radio - I like this about equally with their first two albums, but Dear Science is still slightly ahead of them all.
4. The Decemberists - Simply a good collection of songs, their best since Picaresque.
5. James Blake - Usually not my type of thing, but there's a simple emotional resonance with these songs.
6. Drive-By Truckers - They can always be counted on.
7. White Denim - I've just listened to this a couple of times, but it has potential to move up.
8. Paul Simon - His best songwriting since Graceland
9. Charles Bradley - Some good old-school soul for your soul.
10. Tennis - The pleasant pop surprise of the year. They don't sound like Sleigh Bells, but they fill that niche for me.

Listened to, didn't make the cut (No particular order)
R.E.M.
Fleet Foxes
Iron and Wine
Destroyer
Bill Calahan
Bon Iver
Death Cab for Cutie
Gang Gang Dance
Radiohead
Panda Bear
Raphael Saadiq
Kills
Okkervil River

I've a whole wishlist of albums that I still need to check out, so this is very much a provisory list:

01. Nicolas Jaar-Space Is Only Noise If You can See
02. Tyler, The Creator-Goblin
03. tUnE yArDs-Who Kill
04. Panda Bear-Tomboy
05. Hauschka-Salon Des Amateurs
06. The Low Anthem-Smart Flesh
07. La Boutique Fantastique-La Boutique Fantastique
08. James Blake-James Blake
09. White Hills-H.p.1
10. Black Devil Disco Club-Circus
11. Fleet Foxes-Helplessness Blues
12. James Pants-James pants
13. Death Grips-Ex Military
14. Digitalism-I Love You Dude
15. Ghostpoet-Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholy Jam


Most fun-track so far this year: Forrest Gump, by electronica duo Digitalism and Julian Casablancas. It's been a while that the Strokes frontman sounded this inspired.
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Honourable mention should go to the burgeoning Future Garage scene, the latest hybrid in Electronica. It's very closely related to Dubstep, albeit with lesser dark undertones. (Both tracks are actually from 2010, but I only discovered them recently).

Pariah-Orpheus
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Jack Dixon-We Had A Better Life
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Top 10 thus far:

1. Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner in the Dark
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. City and Colour - Little Hell
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
6. The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
8. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
9. Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
10. Vetiver - The Errant Charm

Still haven't heard the new Horrors but I'm sure that will be in there if it's anything like their last album


1. Cults
2. Tennis(Am I the only one who thinks they sound like the love child of Neko Case and the Dittybops?)
3. Lykke Li
4. PJ Harvey
5. the Vaccines (shocked at how dismal their reviews have been)
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
7. Cat's Eyes
8. The Joy Formidable
9. EMA
10.Fleet Foxes

I get that now. She lacks Neko powerhouse vocals, but has a similar approach in the delivery. I still listen a little of Bethany's early demos, but far fewer now and the comparison is more of an abstract, personal one. Blame it on Cults- they do are the ones that sound like a better produced Best Coast. ~doesn't mean it is a bad thing~

I'm actually surprised by the lack of tUnE-yArDs since it is one of the unique sonic landscapes and best albums of the year. Reminded me of Bitte Orca striking me in 2009.

1. Danger Mouse - Rome
2. The Antlers - Burt Apart
3. The Yard Apes - Devil's Road
4. Tune Yards - Who Kill
5. Wild Beasts - Smother
6. Josh T Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
7. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Tell Me
8. The Dodos - No Color
9. Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
10. The Kills - Blood Pressures
11. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
12. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
13. TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
14. Radiohead - King Of Limbs
15. Panda Bear - Tomboy
16. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
17. EMA - Past Lives Martyred Saints
18. Anna Calvi - s/t
19. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
20. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

Just Missed:
James Blake, Yuck, Low, Woods, Metal Mountains, Wu Lyf, Gruff Rhys, Braids, Wye Oaks, Cults.

and I forgot Destroyer as well.