White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Brightblack Morning Light
The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
haven't heard the new Joanna Newsom; probably decent.
oh great. should i just make a list?
Best Albums:
1. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
2. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
5. Joanna Newsom - Ys
6. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
7. Scott Walker - The Drift
8. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
9. Calexico - Garden Ruin
10. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Some that I haven't heard that could be on my list if I did:
1. Ghosttface Killah - Fishscale
2. Ali Farka Toure - Savane
3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
4. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
5. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Most Overrated of the Year:
1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
3. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
1)Camera Obscura -Lets Get Out of this Country
2) Belle and Sebastian - the Life Pursuit
3) the Guillemots- Through the Windowpane
4) Lily Allen -Still Alright
5) the Gossip
6) Muse -Black Holes and Revelations
7) Artic Monkeys- Whatever...
8) Izzy Campbell and Mark Lanegan
9) the Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
10) Lily's - Everything Wrong is Imaginary
11) the Blood Arm - Lie Lover Lie
12) the High Violets -To Where You Are
to be honest, i don't actually own many albums released this year. i don't think my CD collection is complete enough to be worrying about hearing ALL the new stuff. *sigh* i'll catch up one day. anyway, the albums from this year i do have, i really like. junior boys & peter bjorn & john. they're both awesome. however, i intend to buy a few more. my wonderful girlfriend gave me a $100 gift voucher at jb hi-fi so hot chip isn't far away haha :D
1.The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
2.Scott Walker - The Drift
3.Joanna Newsom - Ys
4.Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
5.David Gilmour - On An Island
I'm afraid I've only heard six albums from this year though I'm going to try to borrow some modern classics from my local library.
