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1. Young Guv + The Skuzz: Heal Over Time, A Love Too Strong on Southpaw Records 2. The Mommyheads: Science and Reason, Vulnerable Boy on Dromedary Records 3. Purity Ring: Fineshrine, Shrines on 4AD 4. Lawrence Arabia: Traveling Shows, The Sparrow on Bella Union 5. Buttonhead: Champion Bread, 3D Opera Whale on Horse Arm Records 6. Blonde Summer: Slow Days Fast Company, Slow Daze EP, self-released 7. Sacred Caves: On the Outside, Sanctuarium EP on hausKat Records 8. Icky Blossoms: Perfect Vision, Icky Blossoms on Saddle Creek 9. The Stowaways: Changing Times, Changing Times, self-released 10. Fang Island: Sisterly, Major on Sargent House 11. Line & Circle: Roman Ruins, Roman Ruins 7" on White Iris 12. Serengeti: Amnesia, C.A.R. on Anticon 13. Heavenly Beat: Messiah, Talent on Captured Tracks 14. Misun: Coffee, The Sea EP on T&A Records 15. Grassfight: Look Homeward, Heathen, Icon EP 2, self-released 16. Wizards of Time: Little's Jingle, Will the Soft Curse Plague On? on Hidden Shoal 17. The Blank Tapes: I'm Back, I'm Back 7" on 20-Sided Records 18. Laetitia Sadier: Find Me the Pulse of the Universe, Silencio on Drag City 19. Kyle Adem: Armour, Armour on Ghost Motel Records 20. The History of Panic: The Chase, Fight! Fight! Fight! on Le Grand Magistery 21. Susanna Hoffs: Picture Me, Someday on Baroque Folk 22. Ice Choir: I Want You Now And Always, Afar on Underwater Peoples 23. Foxygen: Make It Known, Take the Kids Off Broadway on Jagjaguwar 24. Woodpecker: Every Boy in NY, Thanks Anyway, self-released 25. Eternal Summers: You KIll, Correct Behavior on Kanine 26. Panoramic & True: Product On, Wonderlust on Raymond Roussel Records 27. Illegitimate Sons: Gillian, American Music on Lee Miles 28. Motèl Mari: According to Who, Eternal Peasant on Other Electricities 29. múm: 0,000Orð, Early Birds on Morr Music 30. The Ugly Club: David Foster Wallace, You Belong to the Minutes, self-released 31. Frank Ocean: Pyramids, Channel Orange on Def Jam
1. Glocca Morra: Ya'll Boots Hats (Die Angry), Just Married on Kind of Like Records 2. Deep Time: Clouds, Deep Time on Hardly Art 3. Easter Island: Frightened, Frightened, self-released 4. Clare and The Reasons: The Lake, KR-51 on Frog Stand Records 5. Post War Years: Glass House, Glass House EP on Chess Club/Sony 6. Elk: Riverview, Daydreams on IndoorShoes 7. Aesop Rock: Zero Dark Thirty, Skelethon on Rhymesayers 8. Videoing: Crimson Wave, Reader on Slack Electric 9. Husky: History's Door, Forever So on Sub Pop 10. Alberta Cross: Magnolia, Songs of Patience on ATO Records 11. Debo Band: Asha Gedawo, Debo Band on Sub Pop 12. Mornin' Old Sport: Katie, Mornin' Old Sport on Misery Loves Co. 13. Erika Spring: Hidden, Spring EP on Cascine 14. Get People: Grove, Harmonize EP on Luv Luv Records 15. Gold Motel: Musicians, Summer House on Good As Gold/Thirty Tigers 16. Animal Kingdom: Get Away With It, The Looking Away on Mom+Pop Records 17. Del the Funky Homosapien & Parallel Thought: Different Guidelines, Attractive Sin on Parallel Thought 18. Poolside: Slow Down, Pacific Standard Time on Day & Night Recordings 19. Digits: Where Do You Belong, Where Do You Belong EP on Exclaim! 20. Holograms: Chasing My Mind, Holograms on Captured Tracks 21. Audacity: Garza Girls, Mellow Cruisers on Burger/Recess Records 22. The Dust Engineers: Snot Nosed Dweeb, Bail EP on No Horse Town 23. Arrange: Caves, New Memory on Arranged Recordings 24. The Appleseed Collective: Mani, Baby to Beast, self-released 25. Twin Shadow: Five Seconds, Confess on 4AD 26. Mission of Burma: Second Television, Unsound on Fire Records 27. Milk Maid: Do Right, Mostly No on Fat Cat Records 28. The Drowning Men: Smile, All the Unknown on Borstal Beat Records 29. Jonathan Byerly: I Still Pull the Silver (From the Penny Drawer), Catherine Market on La Société Expéditionnaire 30. Saint Motel: 1997, Voyeur on On The Records 31. Sunglasses: Swim, Namesake/Swim EP on Lefse
1. The Henry Clay People: Hide, Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives on TBD Records 2. A Place to Bury Strangers: You Are the One, Worship on Dead Oceans 3. Ami Saraiya and The Outcome: I'm Pregnant, Soundproof Box, self-released 4. Exray's: Ancient Thing, Trust a Robot on Howells Transmitter 5. Wintersleep: Resuscitate, Hello Hum on Roll Call Records/ILG 6. Everest: Rapture, Ownerless on ATO Records 7. Dive: How Long Have You Known, Oshin on Captured Tracks 8. Arc in Round: Hallowed, Arc in Round on La Société Expéditionnaire 9. Jezzy and the Belles: Confess Child, Compasses and Maps, self-released 10. Edmund II: Riptide, Floating Monk on Joyful Noise Recordings 11. Drug Cabin: Whatever Never, Drug Cabin EP on 401K Music 12. Dent May: Home Groan, Do Things on Paw Tracks 13. Ozarks: Pyramids of Love, Ozarks, self-released 14. Right Away, Great Captain!: I Am Aware, The Church of the Good Thief on Favorite Gentlemen 15. Air Traffic Controller: Blame, Nordo on Sugarpop Records 16. Hacienda: Don't Keep Me Waiting, Shakedown on Collective Sounds 17. Jesca Hoop: Born To, The House that Jack Built, self-released 18. Amanda Jo Williams: The Bear Eats Me, The Bear Eats Me on Neurotic Yell Records 19. Beachwood Sparks: Forget the Song, The Tarnished Gold on Sub Pop 20. Jen Schande: Nice Fez, Songs for and Inspired by Valencia on Squirrel Records 21. Wood Ear: Leave My Walls, Steeple Vultures EP on Church Key Records 22. Future of What: I Wait For You, Moonstruck EP, self-released 23. The Corduroy Road: Love You Can't Shake, Two Step Silhouette, self-released 24. Echo Lake: Wild Peace, Wild Peace on Slumberland Records 25. New Beard: Doom, New Beard on Shoulder Tap Music 26. Two Wounded Birds: To Be Young, Two Wounded Birds on Holiday Friends Records 27. Sonny & The Sunsets: I See the Void, Longtime Companion on Polyvinyl 28. Sam Densmore: She's Going to Want You, Ku-Thar'-Tik on Buddy Cat Music 29. Hard Drugs: The Hardest Part, Party Forever on Storyboard 30. The Young: Livin' Free, Dub Egg on Matador 31. Seventeen Evergreen: Burn the Fruit (Pegasus), Steady On, Scientist! on Lucky Number
1. Crocodiles: Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9), Endless Flowers on Frenchkiss Records
2. Amanda Mair: Sense, Amanda Mair on Labrador
3. Giant Giant Sand: Forever And a Day, Tucson on Fire Records
4. Anna Ternheim: Walking Aimlessly, The Night Visitor on V2/Cooperative Music
5. Jonathan Boulet: This Song Is Called Ragged, We Keep the Beat, Found the Sound, See the Need, Start the Heat on Modular Records
6. Jaill: Waste a Lot of Things, Traps on Sub Pop
7. Anabot: I Am Not Afraid of the Dark, Anabot EP, self-released
8. Bobby Womack: Please Forgive My Heart, The Bravest Man in the Universe on XL
9. Dntel: Bright Night, Aimlessness on Pampa Records
10. Nouela: Fight, Chants on The Control Group
11. Guided by Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO (New Version), Class Clown Spots a UFO on Guided by Voices Inc.
12. Fallon Cush: In the Nick of Time, April, self-released
13. James Apollo: Two by Two, Little War, Little Less on Marterry Music
14. Emily Jane White: Black Silk, Ode to Sentience on Antenna Farm Records
15. Thieving Irons: Poison, Behold, This Dreamer!, self-released
16. Skyline Pigeons: Tennessee, House of Mysteries, self-released
17. The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library: Faith in Free Part I, Faith in Free EP, self-released
18. Magic Trick: Torture, Ruler of the Night on Hardly Art
19. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band: Warm Body, Prehistory EP on Dead Oceans
20. Baby Monster: City of Lovers, City of Lovers EP, self-released
21. The Inner Banks: Ana Peru, Wild on Dag!
22. Scott Lucas and The Married Men: Blood Half Moons, Blood Half Moon on The End Records
23. Elisa Luu: Se fosse per me, Un Giorno Sospesso on Hidden Shoal
24. Shake the Baron: Big Sur, Ghost Hits on Super Duper Records
25. Michael the Blind: Another Circle of Fifths, Are's and Els on Alder Street Records
26. The Mynabirds: Body of Work, Generals on Saddle Creek Records
27. The Tallest Man on Earth: 1904, There's No Leaving Now on Dead Oceans
28. Caged Animals: I Will Take My Own Hand, Summer EP on Lucky Number Music
29. Mike Scheidt: In Your Light, Stay Awake on Thrill Jockey
30. Island Twins: The Wolf's Lair, Island Twins on Fighting Ghosts Records
31. d'Eon: Al-Qiyamah, LP on Hippos in Tanks
1. King Tuff: Bad Thing, King Tuff on Sub Pop 2. Hallelujah the Hills: Get Me in a Room, No One Knows What Happens Next on Discrete Pageantry Records 3. Rec Center: No. 2, Tin Year on New Granada Records 4. The Doc Marshalls: Here They Come, Look Out, Compadre on Twinpost Music 5. Still Flyin': Travelin' Man, On a Bedroom Wall on Ernest Jenning Record Co. 6. The Cult: Lucifer, Choice of Weapon on Cooking Vinyl 7. Billy & Dolly: Gold, Dally Bon Idyll on Shit Krystal Records 8. Pure Bathing Culture: Ivory Coast, Pure Bathing Culture on Father/Daughter Records 9. Lemonade: Neptune, Diver on True Panther 10. Plushgun: Waste Away, Me. Me. on Tommy Boy Entertainment 11. The Danks: Automocar, Are You Afraid of the Danks on Hidden Pony 12. Joe Norkus: Call You Up, EP EP on Trekky Records 13. Teen Daze: Brooklyn Sunburn, All of Us, Together on Lefse Records 14. Marissa Nadler: Apostle, The Sister on Box of Cedar Records 15. Dana Buoy: Call to Be, Summer Bodies on Lefse Records 16. Violens: Unfolding Black Wings, True on Slumberland 17. Jherek Bischoff: Young and Lovely, Composed on the Leaf Label 18. Birthmark: Shake Hands, Antibodies on Polyvinyl 19. MV & EE: Too Far to See, Space Homestead on Woodsist 20. Parlovr: You Only Want It 'Cause You're Lonely, Kook Soul on Dine Alone Records 21. Grand Rapids: Feels Like a Lifetime, Feels Like a Lifetime single on Too Pure Records 22. Young Lungs: Attack of the Montana Red, Bood on the Streets 7", self-released 23. Gemma Ray: Runaway, Island Fire on Bronze Rat 24. Sun Kil Moon: UK Blues, Among the Leaves on Caldo Verde 25. Exitmusic: Passage, Passage on Secretly Canadian 26. Best Coast: The Only Place, The Only Place on Mexican Summer 27. Toys That Kill: Stye, Fambly 42 on Recess Records 28. Blue Foundation: Lost, In My Mind I Am Free on Dead People's Choice Records 29. Young Man: Do, Vol. 1 on Frenchkiss 30. Like Pioneers: Boggs, Oh, Magic on Abandoned Love Records 31. Tu Fawning: Bones, A Monument on City Slang
1. PS I Love You: Sentimental Dishes, Death Dreams on Paper Bag Records 2. Apollo Ghosts: What Are Your Influences, Landmark on You've Changed Records 3. Higgins: Easy Thing, Straight A's on Serious Business Records 4. Boy: This Is the Beginning, Mutual Friends on Gronland Records 5. Cheers Elephant: Falling Out, Like Wind Blows Fire, self-released 6. Ane Brun: Do You Remember (with First Aid Kit), It All Starts WIth One on [PIAS] America 7. Airiel: Flashlight Tag, Kid Games EP on Shelflife Records 8. Sea of Bees: Broke, Orangefarben on Team Love 9. Hope for Agoldensummer: Daniel Bloom, Life Inside the Body on Mazarine Records 10. Island Twins: Lying in State, Island Twins, self-released 11. Father John Misty: Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings, Fear Fun on Sub Pop 12. Orpheum Bell: Poor Laetitia, The Old Sister's Home, self-released 13. The Spinto Band: Take It, Shy Pursuit on Spintonic Recordings 14. Alice and Michi: Dedication, Strange Bloom on Kenji Records 15. Ramona Falls: Spore, Prophet on Barsuk Records 16. Nick Waterhouse: Some Place, Time's All Gone on Innovative Leisure 17. Old Bricks: Anthem, City Lights on Grip Tapes 18. Daughn Gibson: In the Beginning, All Hell on White Denim/Milestone Records 19. S. Carey: Two Angles, Hoyas EP on Jagjaguwar 20. Dead Mellotron: Stranger, Glitter on Sonic Cathedral Recordings 21. Royal Headache: Girls, Royal Headache on What's Your Rupture 22. Siddhartha: The Fire Next Time, If It Die on Neurotic Yell Records 23. Beach House: Myth, Bloom on Sub Pop 24. Jenny Berkel: Love Is a Stone, Here on a Wire, self-released 25. Sean Bones: Here Now, Buzzards Boy on Solid Gold 26. The Cribs: Chi-Town, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull on Wichita Recordings 27. jj: Beautiful Life, jj n° 4 on Secretly Canadian/Sincerely Yours 28. The Spring Standards: Only Skin, yellow/gold on Parachute Shooter Records 29. The Driftwood Singers: I Don't Live Here Anymore, I Don't Live Here Anymore on Trailer Fire Records 30. The Young: Livin' Free, Dub Egg on Matador 31. Reptar: Orifice Origami, Body Faucet on Vagrant Records
1. Diamond Rugs: Gimme a Beer, Diamond Rugs on Partisan Records 2. Moonface: Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips, With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery on Jagjaguwar 3. Theresa Andersson: Hold on to Me, Street Parade on Basin Street 4. Leigh Marble: Walk, Where the Knives Meet Between the Rows on Laughing Stock Records 5. Tic Tic Boom!: For Feeling, Before the Sun Rises EP, self-released 6. Terrible Feelings: Intruders, Shadows on Deranged Records 7. The Waco Brothers and Paul Burch: Great Chicago Fire, Great Chicago Fire on Bloodshot Records 8. Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Brugada, Crown & Treaty on EMI 9. CFCF: Exercise #3 (Building), Exercises on Paper Bag Records 10. Lushlife: Big Sur, Plateau Vision on Western Vinyl 11. Suckers: Turn on the Sunshine, Candy Salad on Frenchkiss 12. Susurrus Station: Play the Fool, Antinomie on Aio Records 13. Twin Trip: Heavy Load, Twin Trip on Flower Records 14. Horse Feathers: Fit Against the Country, Cynic's New Year on Kill Rock Stars 15. Johnny Bertram and the Golden Bicycles: Miracle, Neon City on Esperanza Plantation 16. Bryan Scary: Ballroom Kid, Daffy's Elixir on Paper Garden Records/Lavaslope Records 17. Stars in Coma: Dismantle Your Heart, Midnight Puzzle on KinGem Records 18. Mystery Pills: The Glass Traditions, Mystery Pills EP, self-released 19. Brendan Benson: Bad for Me, What Kind of World on Readymade Records 20. Finn Riggins: Benchwarmers, Benchwarmers EP on Tender Loving Empire 21. Torche: Kicking, Harmonicraft on Volcom Entertainment 22. The Dandy Warhols: Sad Vacation, This Machine on The End Records 23. Electric Guest: American Daydream, Mondo on Downtown Records 24. Coke Weed: Magpie, Nice Dreams, self-released 25. The Forty Nineteens: Turn It Around, No Expiration Date on Heyday Records 26. Toro Y Moi: Dead Pontoon, June 2009 on Carpark
1. Bear in Heaven: Reflection of You, I Love You, It's Cool on Dead Oceans/Hometapes 2. Joshua McCormack: Terminal Velocity, The Phantom King on Mecca Lecca Recording Co. 3. Hollis Brown: Ride on the Train, Nothing and the Famous No One EP, self-released 4. I Am Dive: A Morning Walk, The Constellations EP on Slanty Shanty Records 5. Whitejacket: The Modern, Hollows and Rounds, self-released 6. Lux: The Window, We Are Not the Same, self-released 7. Zammuto: Too Late to Topologize, Zammuto on Temporary Residence 8. Orbital: Never, Wonky on ACP Recordings 9. Simone Felice: New York Times, Simone Felice on Team Love Records 10. Hoots and Hellmouth: Why Would You Not Want to Go There?, Salt on sonaBLAST! 11. Bobby Conn: Underground Vktm, Macaroni on Fire Records 12. The Pale Corners: REM, REM on Since Records 13. Jenny Gillespie: Sunshine Blood, Belita EP on Narooma Records 14. Midtown Dickens: Only Brother, Home on Trekky Records 15. Kishi Bashi: It All Began with a Burst, 151a on Joyful Noise Recordings 16. Zambri: ICBYS, House of Baasa on Kanine 17. Weird Dreams: Little Girl, Choreography on Tough Love 18. Young Hines: Rainy Day, Give Me My Change on Readymade Records 19. Ryan Power: I Don't Care, I Don't Want to Die on NNA Tapes 20. AU: Get Alive, Both Lights on Hometapes 21. Tigercats: Full Moon Reggae Party, Isle of Dogs on Fika Recordings/Acuarela Discos 22. Unison: Brothers & Sisters, Unison on Lentonia 23. Twin Steps: Pinkie Promise, Serial Parade EP on Cola Bruin 24. Emily Wells: Passenger, Mama on Partisan Records 25. Dinosaur Feathers: Beatcha, Whistle Tips on Ernest Jenning Record Co. 26. oOoOO: NoWayBack (feat. Butterclock), Hurting Us EP on Tri Angle
1. La Sera: Please Be My Third Eye, La Sera Sees the Light on Hardly Art 2. Each Other: Sit Still, Traces to Nowhere 7" on Crikey Records 3. Solander: Book of Advice, Passing Mt. Satu on Tenderversion 4. Tanlines: Brothers, Mixed Emotions on True Panther 5. The Wedding Present: You're Dead, Valentina on Scopitones 6. TacocaT: Spring Break-Up, Take Me To Your Dealer on Hardly Ar 7. Yellow Ostrich: Marathon Runner, Strange Land on Barsuk 8. Cats on Fire: A Few Empty Waves, All Blackshirts to Me on Soliti 9. Mirel Wagner: No Death, Mirel Wagner on Friendly Fire 10. Retribution Gospel Choir: The Stone (Revolution), The Stone Revolution EP on Sub Pop 11. Yukon Blonde: Stairway, Tiger Talk on Dine Alone Records 12. Zeus: Are You Gonna Waste My Time?, Busting Visions on Arts & Crafts 13. Julia Holter: In the Same Room, Ekstasis on RVNG 14. Luke Roberts: His Song, The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport on Thrill Jockey 15. Adam and The Amethysts: Prophecy, Flickering Flashlight on Kelp 16. Morningbell: You Think I Don't Know (But I Know), Basso Profundo, self-released 17. Lee Ranaldo: Off the Wall, Between the Time and the Tides on Matador 18. THEESatisfaction: QueenS, awE naturalE on Sub Pop 19. Mike Wexler: Pariah, Dispossession on Mexican Summer 20. Said the Whale: Heavy Ceiling, Little Mountain on Hidden Pony 21. Freshkills: Positive Vibes, Raise Up the Sheets on Bat Rabies Alert/The End Records 22. Rusko: Somebody to Love, Songs on Mad Decent/Downtown 23. Conduits: Top of the Hill, Conduits on Team Love Records 24. Young Prisms: Floating in Blue, In Between on Kanine 25. Way Yes: Important, Walkability EPon Lefse Records 26. Sharks: Arcane Effigies, No Gods on Rise Records 27. Bensh: How Come Nao, Clues on Odd One In Records 28. Oberhofer: HEART, Time Capsules II on Glassnote 29. WhoMadeWho: Below the Cherry Moon, Brighter on Kompakt 30. The Shins: Simple Song, Port of Tomorrow on Columbia 31. Spoek Mathambo: Let Them Talk, Father Creeper on Sub Pop
1. Team Me: Show Me, To the Treetops on Propellor Recordings 2. Erin Passmore: Downtown, Downtown EP on Hidden Pony 3. Kaiser Chiefs: Little Shocks, Start the Revolution Without Me on Fictional/Universal Music Group 4. Denison Witmer: Brooklyn With Your Highest Wall, The Ones Who Wait on Asthmatic Kitty 5. England in 1819: Air That We Once Breathed, Alma, self-released 6. Sourpatch: Cynthia Ann, Stagger and Fade on HHBTM Records 7. School of Seven Bells: The Night, Ghostory on Vagrant Records 8. Elika: No One Gets Lost, Always the Light on Saint Marie Records 9. Sophia Knapp: Close to Me, Into the Waves on Drag City 10. Fort Lean: Sunsick, Sunsick 7" on Neon Gold/Black Bell 11. The Elkcloner: Crossfire, The Elkcloner on Musebox Records 12. Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers: Brave Women, Bone Soldiers on You've Changed Records 13. Dirty Three: Rising Below, Toward the Low Sun on Drag City 14. Bowerbirds: Tuck the Darkness In, The Clearing on Dead Oceans 15. Parakeet: Tomorrow, Tomorrow 7", self-released 16. Eux Autres: Right Again, Sun Is Sunk on Bon Mots Records 17. Dunes: Vertical Walk, Noctiluca on Post Present Medium 18. Jay Farrar/ Yim Yames/ Anders Parker/Will Johnson: Old LA, New Multitudes: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie on Rounder Records 19. Good Old War: Calling Me Names, Come Back As Rain on Sargent House 20. The Mary Onettes: Love's Taking Strange Ways, Love Forever on Labrador 21. Cygnets: Teenager, Dark Days, self-released 22. Lissy Trullie: It's Only You, Isn't It, Lissy Trullie on Downtown Records 23. Gabriel & The Hounds: The World Unfolds, Kiss Full of Teeth on Communion 24. Eric Chenaux: Amazing Backgrounds, Guitar & Voice on Constellation 25. Juston Stens: Edge of the Moon, Trash or Treasure, self-released 26. Memoryhouse: The Kids Were Wrong, The Slideshow Effect on Sub Pop 27. Plants and Animals: Lightshow, The End of That on Secret City Records 28. Mike O'Neill: Henry, Wild Lines on Zunior 29. Y La Bamba: Squawk, Court the Storm on Tender Loving Empire 30. Jonathan Segel: (Ever and) Always, All Attractions on Magnetic 31. First Person Shootr: You New Web, Mobility for Gods on Lefse Records
1. Amy Ray: Glow, Lung of Love on Daemon Records 2. Wild Nothing: Nowhere, Nowhere 7" on Captured Tracks 3. Burning Hearts: Burn, Burn, Burn, Extinctions on Shelflife Records 4. Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters: Loose Ends, Lungs, Dirt, and Dreams on Adair Park Recordings 5. Oy Vey: The Brooklyn Side, Recession Girls, self-released 6. Winter Pills: Rogue Highway, All My Lovely Goners on Signature Sounds 7. Dirty Ghosts: Shout It In, Metal Moon on Last Gang Records 8. Damien Jurado: Nothing Is the News, Maraqopa on Secretly Canadian 9. Rosie Thomas: Where Was I, With Love on Studio Litho 10. Terry Malts: Tumble Down, Killing Time on Slumberland 11. Field Music: (I Keeping Thinking About) A New Thing, Plumb on Memphis Industries 12. Ariane Moffatt: In Your Body, MA on Audiogram 13. Christopher Paul Stelling: Mourning Train to Memphis, Songs of Praise & Scorn on Mecca Lecca Recording Co. 14. Perfume Genius: All Waters, Put Your Back N 2 It on Matador 15. Zebra & Snake: Empty Love Song, Sweetest Treasure EP on 100% Records 16. Shearwater: Breaking the Yearling, Animal Joy on Sub Pop 17. Sick Friend: The Draft Dodger, The Draft Dodger on Bird & Flag 18. Leland Sundries: Apparition, The Foundry EP on L'Echiquier Records 19. Barna Howard: Promise, I Won't Laugh, Barna Howard on Mama Bird Recording Co. 20. Sara Radle: The Pins, Same Sun Shines on Jeez Louise 21. Sleigh Bells: Comeback Kid, Reign of Terror on Mom & Pop Music 22. Cursive: The Sun and Moon, I Am Gemini on Saddle Creek 23. Guy Capecelatro III: Girlfriends, North for the Winter on Dromedary Records 24. Lambchop: If Not I'll Just Die, Mr. M on Merge Records 25. Beach Fossils: Shallow, Shallow 7" on Captured Tracks 26. Unicycle Loves You: Sun Comes Out (And I Don't Care), Failure on Mecca Lecca Recording Co.
1. Ben Kweller: Mean to Me, Go Fly a Kite on The Noise Company 2. Heartless Bastards: Parted Ways, Arrow on Partisan 3. Andrew Sisk: Pause, Treelines, self-released 4. Islands: This Is Not a Song, A Sleep & A Forgetting on Anti Records 5. Bears: Eleven a.m., Greater Lakes on Misra Records 6. Virals: Magic Happens, Magic Happens/Comes the Night 7" on Sexbeat 7. The 2 Bears: Warm and Easy, Be Strong on Southern Fried 8. Eight and a Half: Scissors, Eight and a Half on Arts & Crafts 9. Ezra Furman: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Year of No Returning, self-released 10. Sharon Van Etten: Serpents, Tramp on Jagjaguwar 11. Mark Lanegan Band: The Gravedigger's Song, Blues Funeral on 4AD 12. The Just Barelys: Lions, Mad Bits on Dead Bum 13. Silver Swans: Let it Happen, Forever on Twentyseven Records 14. Boy Friend: Egyptian Wrinkle, Egyptian Wrinkle on Hell, Yes! 15. Silverhawk: Class War, The Forest for the Trees, self-released 16. Digital Leather: Young Doctors in Love, Modern Problems on FDH Records 17. The Valery Trails: Horizon, Ghosts and Gravity, self-released 18. Royal Baths: Darling Divine, Better Luck Next Life on Kanine 19. Robert Deeble: Undertow, Heart Like Feathers on Mind Bomb Publishing/Dead Letter Records 20. Fleming: Slip, Play for Manuel EP on Electric Diving School 21. Ed Vallance: Crystalline, Volcano on Proof Records 22. Barry Adamson: Turnaround, I Will Set You Free on Central Control 23. The Twilight Sad: Another Bed, No One Can Ever Know on FatCat 24. of Montreal: Wintered Debts, Paralytic Stalks on Polyvinyl 25. The Pharmacy: Dig Your Grave, Dig Your Grave EP on Kind Turkey Records 26. Windy and Carl: Remember, We Will Always Be on Kranky
1. Standard Fare: Suitcase, Out of Sight, Out of Town on Melodic Records 2. Porcelain Raft: Put Me to Sleep, Strange Weekend on Secretly Canadian 3. Evan Voytas: Can't Let Anybody Know Who You Are, Feel Me on Dovecote 4. Buxton: Boy of Nine, Nothing Here Seems Strange on New West Records 5. Imperial Teen: Runaway, Feel the Sound on Merge 6. Hospitality: Friends of Friends, Hospitality on Merge 7. Doug Jerebine: Ashes and Matches, Doug Jerebine Is Jesse Harper on Drag City 8. Exdetectives: The Lawn, Take My Forever on Post Planetary 9. Elephant Micah: If I Were a Surfer, Louder Than Thou on Product of Palmyra 10. Harriet: I Slept WIth All Your Mothers, Tell the Right Story EP, self-released 11. Grabbel and the Final Cut: The Finest Thing, Get Your Feet Back on the Ground EP on Captured Tracks 12. Frankie Rose: Know Me, Interstellar on Slumberland Records/Memphis Industries 13. Trailer Trash Tracys: Dies in 55, Ester on Domino Record Co. 14. Grimes: Oblivion, Visions on Arbutus 15. Rags & Ribbons: Even Matter, The Glass Masses, self-released 16. Cloud Nothings: Stay Useless, Attack on Memory on Carpark 17. pacificUV: Funny Girl, Weekends on Mazarine 18. Night Genes: Cyber Me, Like the Blood, self-released 19. Buried Beds: Ivory Towers, Small Stories EP on Admiral Byrd 20. Nada Surf: When I Was Young, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy on Barsuk Records 21. The Darcys: Josie, Aja on Arts & Crafts Records
1. Cotton Mather: My Before and After, Kontiki on Star Apple Kingdom 2. Secret Colours: Faust, EP3, self-released 3. kayln rock: Alex the Great, Passenger on Black Hat Music 4. Grand & Noble: This Light, Grand & Noble, self-released 5. Old Monk: Sacred Birds, Birds of Belize on Eenie Meenie Records 6. Anthony Green: Big Mistake, Beautiful Things on Photo Finish Records 7. Public Jones: Alright, The Fall, self-released 8. Dare Dukes and The Blackstock Collection: Meet You at the Bus, Thugs and China Dolls, Mazarine Records 9. Moist: Hold On, Temporary Arrangements on I/O Music 10. The Big Pink: Stay Gold, Future This on 4AD 11. Guided By Voices: The Unsinkable Fats Domino, Let's Go Eat the Factory, self-released 12. Run Dan Run: Lovesick Animal, Normal on Hearts and Plugs 13. Expensive Looks: Nothing More, Dark Matters on Group Tightener 14. Cate Le Bon: Puts Me to Work, CYRK on The Control Group 15. Paul Brill: Sunny Guy, Breezy on Scarlet Shame Records 16. Howler: Back of Your Neck, America Give Up on Rough Trade 17. Laura Gibson: La Grande, La Grande on Barsuk Records 18. Keepaway: Cake, Black Flute on Greedhead 19. I, Colossus: The Ocean, One EP, self-released 20. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Major, Out of Frequency on Small Giants 21. Matthew Dear: Headcage, Headcage EP on Ghostly International
1. Thee American Revolution: Blow My Mind, Buddha Electrostorm on Fire Records 2. CITIZENS!: Girlfriend, True Romance on Kitsuné 3. The Pale Corners: Fireflies, Firefiles on Since Records 4. Great Aunt Ida: Romance, Nuclearize Me on Zunior 5. The Lower 48: The End, Where All Maps End, self-released 6. Inspired and the Sleep: Chops, KaleidoscopeYears, self-released 7. Chains of Love: Breaking My Heart, Breaking My Heart 7" on Manimal Vinyl 8. Ross and the Wrongens: Summer Sun, Life in the Loos, self-released 9. Jacaszek: Dare-Gale, Glimmer on Ghostly International 10. Wooden Wand & The Briarwood Virgins: Big Mouth USA, Briarwood on Fire Records 11. Young Antiques: Supermodel, A Man, Not a Biography on Two Sheds Records 12. Seventeen Evergreen: Angels, Psyentist EP on Lucky Number 13. The Lost Lovers Brigade: Tigers, Little Skeleton, self-released 14. i am Love: Truest, Truest EP, self-released 15. AU: Solid Gold, Solid Gold 7" on Hometapes 16. Bleached: Searching Through the Past, Searching Through the Past 7" on Suicide Squeeze 17. Lil Daggers: Dada Brown, Lil Daggers on Song, by Toad Records 18. David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels: Paint the Town, Paint the Town, self-released 19. Loves It!: My So Called Life, Yay!, self-released 20. Boris: Spoon, New Album on Sargent House 21. Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun: We Were Wild, Wildfire on Greyday Records
1. Jukebox the Ghost: The Stars, Everything Under the Sun on Yep Roc 2. The R's: Call of the Ice, De Flora et Fauna on Nat Geo Music 3. Sunbears!: Give Love a Try, You Will Live Forever on New Granada Records 4. Kramies: Coal Miners Executive Club, The European EP on Hidden Shoal Records 5. Races: Big Broom, Big Broom EP on Frenchkiss Records 6. Fucked Up: I Hate Summer, self-released 7. Fonda: Better Days, Better Days EP on Minty Fresh Records 8. Gregory Scott Slay: Keep It Secret, Horsethief Beats on Communicating Vessels 9. Owen: I Believe, Ghost Town on Polyvinyl Records 10. Pterodactyl: School Glue, Spills Open on Brah 11. Los Campesinos!: By Your Hand, Hello Sadness on Arts & Crafts 12. The DO: Slippery Slope, Both Ways Open Jaws on Cinq7/Wagram Records 13. Tycho: Hours, Dive on Ghostly International 14. Mandolin Orange: Haste Make, Haste Make / Hard Hearted Stranger on Redeye Label 15. Honheehonee: A. Is for Animal, Shouts, self-released 16. Toy Bombs: Prairie Eye, Will Work for Free, self-released 17. Caveman: Old Friend, Coco Beware on Original Recordings Group 18. J Mascis: I've Been Thinking, Circles 7" on Sub Pop 19. Kris Orlowski: Way You Are, Warsaw EP, self-released 20. Treefight for Sunlight: Facing the Sun, A Collection of Vibrations for Your Skull on Friendly Fire Recordings 21. Korallreven: As Young as Yesterday, An Album of Korallreven on Acéphale/Hybris
1. Jonathan Coulton: Sucker Punch, Artificial Heart, self-released 2. Bear & Moose: I'm Back, Bear/Moose, self-released 3. Abbie Barrett and The Last Date: Draw Me In, The Triples: Volume 1, self-released 4. 200 Years: Solar System, 200 Years on Drag City 5. Luke Roberts: Unspotted Clothes, Big Bells and Dime Songs on Thrill Jockey 6. The Jezabels: Try Colour, Prisoner on Mom + Pop Records 7. Jennifer O'Connor: Running Start, I Want What You Want on Kiam Records 8. Keep Shelly in Athens: DIY, Our Own Dream EP on Forest Family 9. Al Tuck: Slapping the Make on You, Under Your Shadow on New Scotland Records 10. Cass McCombs: The Same Thing, Humor Risk on Domino Records 11. ARMS: Fleeced, Summer Skills, self-released 12. Built Like Alaska: Antique Love, In Troubled Times on Future Farmer 13. Atlas Sound: Terra Incognita, Parallax on 4AD 14. Quilt: Penobska Oakwalk, Quilt on Mexican Summer 15. Kurt Vile: The Creature, So Outta Reach EP on Matador 16. Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica, Replica on Software/Mexican Summer
1. Phantogram: Don't Move, Nightlife on Barsuk 2. Batwings Catwings: Radio, Radio 7" on Gravy Records 3. Girl in a Coma: Smart, Exist & All the Rest on Girlie Action 4. The Loom: For the Hooves That Gallop, and the Heels That March, Teeth! on Crossbill 5. Alpine White: When She Gets Home, The Hale EP, self-released 6. Fallon Cush: Disintegrate, Fallon Cush, self-released 7. Blouse: Videotapes, Blouse on Captured Tracks 8. Shelby Earl: Under Evergreen, Burn the Boats on Local 638 Records 9. The Dead Leaves: Harm, Cites on the Sea on Liberation Music 10. Grand Atlantic: Carved from Stone, Constellations, self-released 11. Jupe Jupe: Once Around the Sun, Reduction in Drag, self-released 12. Down With Webster: Royalty, Time to Win, Vol. 2 on Universal/Motown 13. Carter Tanton: Murderous Joy, Free Clouds on Western Vinyl 14. Robin Bacior: Ohio, Rest Our Wings on Convo Recordings 15. Rich Aucoin: It, We're All Dying to Live on Sonic 16. Punks on Mars: Hey! Tiffany, Hey! Tiffany 7" on Zoo Music
1. Will Currie & The Country French: Railroad, Awake, You Sleepers! on File Under: Music 2. Gauntlet Hair: Top Bunk, Gauntlet Hair on Dead Oceans 3. Richard Swift: Whitman, Walt Wolfman on Secretly Canadian 4. My Brightest Diamond: Reaching Through to the Other Side, All Things Will Unwind on Asthmatic Kitty 5. Brown Shoe: Colt Rider, The Gift Horse, self-released 6. Library Voices: Generation Handclap, Summer of Lust on Dine Alone Records 7. T.W. Walsh: Make It Rhyme, Songs of Pain and Leisure on Graveface 8. Class Actress: Keep You, Rapprocher on Carpark Records 9. Sandro Perri: Love and Light, Impossible Spaces on Constellation Records 10. Deer Tick: Miss K, Divine Providence on Partisan Records 11. Spectrals: Big Baby, Bad Penny on Wichita Recordings 12. Real Estate: It's Real, Days on Domino Record Co. 13. A Classic Education: Baby, It's Fine, Call It Blazing on Lefse 14. Andrew Bird: Hospital, Norman on Mom+Pop Records 15. The Beets: Doing as I Do, Let the Poison Out on Hardly Art 16. Turf War: Cheers to the Years, Years of Living Dangerously on Old Flame Records 17. Gospel Music: This Town Doesn't Have Enough Bars for Both of Us, How to Get to Heaven from Jacksonville, FL on Kill Rock Stars 18. Twerps: Dreamin', Twerps on Underwater Peoples 19. Still Corners: Cuckoo, Creatures of an Hour on Sub Pop 20. Kathryn Calder: Who Are You?, Bright and Vivid on File Under: Music 21. Sun Hotel: Talks, Gifts EP, self-released
1. Oberhofer: Gotta Go, Gotta Go/Mahwun 7" on White Iris 2. Cuff the Duke: Count on Me, Morning Comes on Paper Bag Records 3. Crooked Fingers: Typhoon, Breaks in the Armor on Merge 4. Talkdemonic: Revival, Ruins on Glacial Pace Recordings 5. Dreamers of the Ghetto: Tethers, Enemy/Lover on Temporary Residence Limited 6. PAPA: I Am the Lion King, A Good Woman Is Hard to Find EP on Hit City U.S.A./Psychedelic Judaism 7. Comet Gain: And Arcade From the Warm Rain That Falls, Howl of the Lonely Crowd on Fortuna Pop 8. The Morning Clouds: The Wrong Things, Wasted Youth Blues EP on Lefse Records 9. Rachael Yamagata: Starlight, Chesapeake on Frankenfish Records 10. Loney Dear: My Heart, Hall Music on Polyvinyl 11. Icebird: Going and Going. And Going, The Abandoned Lullaby on RJ's Electrical Connections 12. John Wesley Harding: Sing Your Own Song, The Sound of His Own Voice on Yep Roc Records 13. The Asteroid Shop: Dandelion, The Asteroid Shop on The Council 14. Siskiyou: Twigs and Stones, Keep Away the Dead on Constellation Records 15. Exitmusic: The Sea, From Silence EP on Secretly Canadian 16. Masters of the Hemisphere: Belushi, Maybe These Are the Breaks on Kindercore 17. Future Islands: Balance, On the Water on Thrill Jockey 18. Cosmo Jarvis: She Doesn't Mind, Is the World Strange or Am I Strange? on The End Records 19. The Moth and the Mirror: Lights in the Sky, Honestly, This World on Olive Grove Records 20. Color Radio: Quiet House, Architects on Mapless Records 21. Zola Jeus: Vessels, Conatus on Sacred Bones
1. Dum Dum Girls: Bedroom Eyes, Only in Dreams on Sub Pop 2. Elba: From a Sinking Ship, Elba, self-released 3. The Workhouse: The Whistler, The Coldroom Sessions on Hungry Audio 4. Sóley: I'll Drown, We Sink on Morr Music 5. Veronica Falls: Come on Over, Veronica Falls on Slumberland 6. Yukon Blonde: Fire, Fire/Water EP on Nevado Records 7. Nurses: Fever Dreams, Dracula on Dead Oceans 8. Halloween Alaska: Dance By Accident, All the Night Calls Came In on Amble Down 9. Megafaun: State/Meant, Megafaun on Hometapes 10. Big Troubles: Misery, Romantic Comedy on Slumberland 11. Waters: For the One, Out in the Light on TBD Records 12. Elliot Brood: If I Get Old, D ays Into Years on Paper Bag Records 13. Dan Mangan: Oh Fortune, Oh Fortune on Arts and Crafts 14. Young Man: Nothing, Ideas of Distance on Frenchkiss Records 15. Mekons: Space in Your Face, Ancient & Modern on Sin Record Label 16. The Gift: Race Is Long, Explode on La Foilie 17. Jens Lekman: An Argument with Myself, An Argument With Myself EP on Secretly Canadian 18. Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps: Scholarships, Little Wind, self-released 19. Gem Club: Breakers, Breakers on Hardly Art 20. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Same Mistake, Hysterical, self-released 21. Apparat: Ash/Black Veil, The Devil's Walk on Mute
1. Mates of State: Maracas, Mountaintops on Barsuk 2. Howling Bells: The Loudest Engine, The Loudest Engine on Cooking Vinyl 3. Argyle Johansen: Percocet Blues, Inner Demo(n)s EP, self-released 4. The Golden Seals: The Year Things Fell Apart, Increase the Sweetness on Zunior 5. Girls: Vomit, Father, Son, Holy Ghost on True Panther 6. Regina: Jos Et Sä Soita, Soita Mulle on Friendly Fire 7. Cuckoo Chaos: Just Ride It, Woman EP on Lefse Records 8. Lotus: The Surf, Lotus on SCI Fidelity 9. Toro Y Moi: Saturday Love, Freaking Out EP on Carpark 10. Ladytron: White Elephant, Gravity the Seducer on Nettwerk 11. Wild Flag: Romance, Wild Flag on Merge Records 12. Milagres: Glowing Mouth, Glowing Mouth on Kill Rock Stars 13. St. Vincent: Surgeon, Strange Mercy on 4AD 14. Shimmering Stars: I'm Gonna Try, Violent Hearts on Hardly Art 15. Neon Indian: Fallout, Era Extraña on Static Tongues 16. The Front Bottoms: Maps, The Front Bottoms on Bar/None 17. The Handcuffs: Miss You on Tuesday, Waiting for the Robot on OOFL Records 18. Gabriel Miller Phillips: Star-Crossed, One for the Crow, self-released 19. Memoryhouse: Modern, Normal, The Years EP on Sub Pop 20. Peter Wolf Crier: Right Away, Garden of Arms on Jagjaguwar 21. Wooden Shjips: Lazy Bones, West on Thrill Jockey
1. Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks: Senator, Mirror Traffic on Matador 2. Braid: The Right Time, Closer to Closed EP on Polyvinyl Records 3. Hercules and Love Affair: Painted Eyes, Blue Songs on Moshi Moshi 4. Cabin Dogs: Twilight, Midnight Trail, self-released 5. I Break Horses: Hearts, Hearts on Bella Union 6. Luke Temple: Ophelia, Don't Act Like You Don't Care on Western Vinyl 7. The Moor: Warm Winter, The Moor on Dilettante 8. Hotel Lights: Falling Down, Girl Graffiti on Bar/None 9. Balam Acab: Oh Why, Wander / Wonder on Tri Angle Records 10. Ganglians: Jungle, Still Living on Lefse Records 11. Big Eyes: Pretend to Care, Hard Life on Don Giovanni 12. The Chocolate Horse: Escape All Responsibility, Beasts on Stable Records 13. Zee Avi: Small Window, Ghostbird on Universal 14. Active Child: Hanging On, You Are All I See on Vagrant 15. Mirror Mirror: Interiors, Interiors on RVNG Intl. 16. Male Bonding: Bones, Endless Now on Sub Pop 17. The Lions: Groove (Scene #1), Iconoclastic Motion Picture Soundtrack /Pub Songs and Sing-a-Longs, self-released 18. Case Studies: The Eagle, or the Serpent, The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night on Sacred Bones 19. Stephin Merritt: Forever and a Day, Obscurities on Merge 20. Devon Williams: Your Sympathy, Euphoria on Slumberland 21. Vieo Abiungo: Treading Water, And the World Is Still Yawning on Lost Tribe
1. Boston Spaceships: Christmas Girl, Let It Beard on Guided By Voices, Inc. 2. The War on Drugs: Baby Missiles, Slave Ambient on Secretly Canadian 3. Prophets & Kings: Die to Rest, Prophets & Kings, self-released 4. Armand Margjeka: Momma, Margo-Margo, self-released 5. Sleeping Bag: Slime, Sleeping Bag on Joyful Noise 6. Fool's Gold: Street Clothes, Leave No Trace on IAMSOUND 7. Fruit Bats: Tangie and Ray, Tripper on Sub Pop 8. The Great Book of John: Let Me Slide, The Great Book of John on Communicating Vessels 9. Jim Ward: Broken Songs, Quiet In the Valley, On the Shores The End Begins & The Electric Six on Tembloroso Recordings 10. Letting Up Despite Great Faults: Teenage Tide, Paper Crush EP on Old Flame Records 11. Mister Heavenly: Pineapple Girl, Out of Love on Sub Pop 12. Gold Leaves: The Ornament, The Ornament on Hardly Art 13. Blood Orange: Sutphin Boulevard, Coastal Grooves on Domino 14. Mode Moderne: Real Goths, Real Goths 7" on Light Organ 15. Collections of Colonies of Bees: Lawn, Giving on Hometapes 16. Teen Daze: The Harvest, A Silent Planet EP on Waaga
1. Cuckoo Chaos: Jesus Flag American Fish, Jesus Flag American Fish 7" on Lefse Records 2. EDM: Stereo/Video, Night People on Western Vinyl 3. Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs: Alone in this Together, Alone in this Together on Local 638 Records 4. Meredith Bragg: Birds of North America, Nest on The Kora Records 5. Roadside Graves: Love Me More, We Can Take Care of Ourselves on Autumn Tone 6. Strong Killings: Annals of Animals, Strong Killings on Don't Stop Believin' 7. Umpire: Green Light District, Now We're Active on Hidden Shoal Recordings 8. Sun Airway: Wild Palms, Wild Palms 7" on Dead Oceans 9. Washed Out: You and I, Within and Without on Sub Pop/Weird World 10. Debbie Neigher: Evergreens, Debbie Neigher, self-released 11. Fair Ohs: Summer Lake, Everything Is Dancing on Lefse Records 12. Soft Metals: Psychic Driving, Soft Metals on Captured Tracks 13 .Little Horn: Bridges Break, Twelve on Whale Heart Records 14. Release the Sunbird: Always Like the Son, Come Back to Us on Brushfire Records 15. Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground: World's Entire, Introducing Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground on Suburban Records 16. Inc.: Swear, 3 EP on 4AD
1. The Fruit Tree Foundation: I Forgot the Fall, First Edition on Chemikal Underground
2. Celestial Shore: Place Aux Dames, Place Aux Dames 7" on Double Denim Records
3. Quiet Lights: Engine Down, The Big Fear EP on Old Flame Records
4. Blithe Field: Crushing, Two Hearted on Waaga Records
5. Memory Tapes: Today Is Our Life, Player Piano on Carpark/Something in Construction
6. Crystal Antlers: Two-Way Mirror, Crystal Antlers on Recreation LTD
7. Handsome Furs: What About Us, Sound Kapital on Sub Pop
8. The Express: Nobody Knows, The Express, self-released
9. Circuit des Yeux: 3311, Portrait on De Stijl
10. Superhumanoids: Mikelah, Mikelah 7" on White Iris
11. Eleanor Friedberger: My Mistakes, Last Summer on Merge Records
12. Pure X: Twisted Mirror, Pleasure on Acéphale
13. Gardens & Villa: Black Hills, Gardens & Villa on Secretly Canadian
14. Bon Iver: Calgary, Bon Iver on 4AD
15. Youth Lagoon: Cannons, The Year of Hibernation on Juno Beach Records
16. Clams Casino: Gorilla, Rainforest EP on Tri Angle
1. Liam Finn: The Struggle, FOMO on Yep Roc
2. Bearstronaut: Roger Was a Dancer, Satisfied Violence, self-released
3. Bobby: Sore Spores, Bobby on Partisan Records
4. Vetiver: Can't You Tell, The Errant Charm on Sub Pop
5. JEFF The Brotherhood: Diamond Way, We Are the Champions on Infinity Cat Records
6. Junior Boys: EP, It's All True on Domino
7. Niki and the Dove: The Fox, The Fox single on Sub Pop
8. Thee Oh Sees: I Need Seed, Castlemania on In The Red
9. Brice Randall Bickford: Songstress, Brice Randall Bickford on Trekky Records
10. Paleo: Holly Would, Fruit of the Spirit on Partisan Records
11. YACHT: Dystopia, Shangri-La on DFA Records
12. Painted Palms: All of Us, Canopy on Secretly Canadian
13. John Gold: Baby, It's Your Life, A Flower In Your Head on Vagrant Records
14. Marissa Nadler: The Sun Always Reminds Me of You, Marissa Nadler on Box of Cedar
15. The Chain Gang of 1974: Undercover, Wayward Fire on Modern Art
16. Cassettes Won't Listen: The Echoes, EVINSPACEY on Daylight Curfew
1. The Rosebuds: Woods, Loud Planes Fly Low on Merge Records
2. Seapony: Blue Star, Go With Me on Hardly Art
3. Idiot Glee: Let's Get Down Together, Paddywhack on Moshi Moshi
4. Mini Mansions: Kiddie Hypnogogia, Mini Mansions on Rekords Rekords/Domino
5. My Morning Jacket: Circuital, Circuital on ATO
6. Kids on a Crime Spree: Sweet Tooth, We Love You So Bad EP on Slumberland
7. EMA: Milkman, Past Life Martyred Saints on Souterrain Transmissions
8. Minus the Bear: Hold Me Down, Hold Me Down EP, self released
9. Mike Bloom: Til It's Over, King of Circles on Little Record Company
10. Night Moves: Horses, Colored Emotions on Afternoon Records
11. The Black Lips: Modern Art, Arabia Mountain on Vice Records
12. The Poison Control Center:Torpedoes on Tuesday, Stranger Ballet on Afternoon Records
13. Ford & Lopatin: Emergency Room, Channel Pressure on Software
14. The Ladybug Transistor: Clutching Stems, Clutching Stems on Merge Records
15. Fucked Up: The Other Shoe, David Comes to Life on Matador
16. Holy Other: Touch, With U EP on Tri Angle
1. Gold-Bears: Record Store, Are You Falling In Love? on Slumberland 2. Man Man: Life Fantastic, Life Fantastic on Anti Records 3. The Wilderness of Manitoba: Orono Park, When You Left the Fire on TinyOgre 4. Boy Friend: D'Arrest, Lovedropper 7" on Hell, Yes! 5. 13 & God: Old Age, Own Your Ghost on Anticon 6. White Denim: Drug, D on Downtown 7. Gang Gang Dance: Mindkilla, Eye Contact on 4AD 8. Cloud Control: Meditation Song #2 (Why, Oh Why), Bliss Release on Infectious Music 9. Amor de Días: Bunhill Fields, Street of the Love of Days on Merge 10. This Will Destroy You: Black Dunes, Tunnel Blanket on Suicide Squeeze 11. The Elected: Babyface, Bury Me In My Rings on Vagrant 12. Le Butcherettes: I'm Getting Sick of You, Sin Sin Sin on Rodriguez Lopez Productions 13. Thurston Moore: Benediction, Demolished Thoughts on Matador 14. Other Lives: Dustbowl III, Tamer Animals on White Iris Records 15. Art Brut: Lost Weekend, Brilliant! Tragic! on Cooking Vinyl 16. Mist: Twin Lanes, House on Spectrum Spools
1. The Sea and Cake: Up on the North Shore, The Moonlight Butterfly on Thrill Jockey 2. Help Stamp Out Loneliness: Record Shop, Help Stamp Out Loneliness on What It's At Is Where You Are 3. Pechenga: Gitaro, Helt Borte on Smalltown Supersound 4. Here We Go Magic: Hands in the Sky, The JanuaryEP on Secretly Canadian 5. Matt Pond PA: Love to Get Used, Spring Fools EP on Altitude 6. Okkervil River: Wake and Be Fine, I Am Very Far on Jagjaguwar 7. Phil Cook & His Feat: Hungry Mother Blues, Hungry Mother Blues on Trekky Records 8. Priestbird: Diamonds, Beachcombers on Benzod 9. Vandervelde: More Than You Can Feel, More Than You Can Feel single on Secretly Canadian 10. Love Inks: Blackeye, E.S.P. on Cityslang 11. Carl Barât: This Is the Song, Death Fires Burn at Night EP, self-released 12. Thao & Mirah: Eleven (feat. tUnE-yArDs), Thao & Mirah on Kill Rock Stars 13. Architecture in Helsinki: Contact High, Moment Bends on Cooperative/Downtown/Modular 14. Pulseprogramming: First They Fire, Charade Is Gold on Audraglint 15. The Donkeys: Don't Know Who We Are, Born With Stripes on Dead Oceans 16. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues, Helplessness Blues on Sub Pop 17. The People's Temple: Sons of Stone, Sons of Stone on Hozac Records
1. An Horse: Tracks and Trains, Walls on Mom and Pop Music 2. tUnE-yArDs: Bizness, w h o k i l l on 4AD 3. Sonny and The Sunsets: I Wanna Do It, Hit After Hit on Fat Possum 4. Julian Lynch: Terra, Terra on Underwater Peoples 5. Laura Stevenson and the Cans: Master of Art, Sit Resist on Don Giovani 6. Eternal Summers: Prisoner, Prisoner EP on Kanine/Forest Family Records 7. Jeniferever: To the Beat of Our Own Blood, Silesia on Monotreme 8. Family: Let It Rain, FAM002, self-released 9. David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights: Diamond Mine, Left by Soft on Merge Records 10. I'm From Barcelona: Get In Line, Forever Today on Mute Records 11. Lil Daggers: Slave Exchange, Lil Daggers on Livid Records 12. Helvetia: Arise, Pt. 1, On the Lam on The Static Cult 13. James Pants: Darlin', James Pants on Stones Throw 14. The Fresh and Onlys: Do You Believe in Destiny, Secret Walls EP on Sacred Bones 15. A Lull: Water & Beasts, Confetti on Mush Records/Something In Construction 16. TV on the Radio: Caffeinated Consciousness, Nine Types of Light on Interscope
1. The Feelies: Should Be Gone, Here Before on Bar/None 2. Family Portrait: Other Side, Family Portrait on Underwater Peoples 3. Gunnar Bjerk: Back Then, Back Then single on DFA 4. Alexander: Truth, Alexander on Rough Trade 5. By Surprise: Realometer, Mountain Smashers on Topshelf Records 6. We All Have Hooks for Hands: Girls, Girls EP on Afternoon Records 7. Vivian Girls: I Heard You Say, Share the Joy on Polyvinyl Records 8. Alela Diane: To Begin, Alela Diane & Wild Divine on Rough Trade 9. Bill Callahan: Baby's Breath, Apocalypse on Drag City 10. Scattered Trees: Love and Leave, Sympathy on Roll Call Records 11. Maritime: Paraphernalia, Human Hearts on Dangerbird Records 12. The Raveonettes: Forget That You're Young, Raven in the Grave on Vice Records 13. Panda Bear: Last Night at the Jetty, Tomboy on Paw Tracks 14. Little Scream: The Heron and the Fox, The Golden Record on Secretly Canadian 15. Cold Cave: The Great Pan Is Dead, Cherish the Light Years on Matador 16. Project Jenny, Project Jan: Nadine, Home Sweet Home, self-released
1. The Strokes*: Under Cover of Darkness, Angles on RCA 2. Obits*:You Gotta Lose, Moody, Standard and Poor on Sub Pop 3. Coma Cinema: Whatevering, Blue Suicide on Wonderbeard Tapes/Fork & Spoon 4. Spectre Folk: The Blackest Medicine, The Blackest Medicine Vol. II EP on Woodsist 5. Parts & Labor*: Constant Future, Constant Future on Jagjaguwar 6. Craft Spells*: You Should Close the Door, Idle Labor on Captured Tracks 7. Adventure*: Feels Like Heaven, Lesser Known on Carpark 8. Parenthetical Girls: The Pornographer, Privilege Pt. III: Mend and Make Do on Slender Means Society 9. Dirty Beaches*: Lord Knows Best, Badlands on Zoo Music 10. Peter Bjorn and John: Breaker Breaker, Gimme Some on Cooking Vinyl/Zoom 11. Moon Duo*: Mazes, Mazes on Sacred Bones 12. Generationals*: Greenleaf, Actor-Caster on Park the Van 13. Seapony: Dreaming, Dreaming 7" on Hardly Art 14. The Mountain Goats: Damn These Vampires, All Eternals Deck on Merge 15. Memphis: I Want the Lights on After Dark, Here Comes a City on Arts & Crafts 16. DyE: Fantasy, TAKI 138 on Tigersushi
1. Dum Dum Girls*: He Gets Me High, He Gets Me High EP on Sub Pop 2. Papercuts*: Do You Really Wanna Know, Fading Parade on Sub Pop 3. That Ghost: To Like You, Songs Out Here on Twosyllable 4. J Mascis*: Is It Done, Several Shades of Why on Sub Pop 5. The Dodos*: Don't Stop, No Color on Frenchkiss Records 6. Forbidden Friends: Tiny Hands, Tiny Hands 7" on Kill Rock Stars 7. Beach Fossils*: Calyer, What a Pleasure EP on Captured Tracks 8. Wolf People: Silbury Sands, Silbury Sands 7" on Jagjaguwar 9. Wye Oak*: Civilian, Civilian on City Slang 10. Those Dancing Days*: Fuckarias, Daydreams and Nightmares on Wichita Recordings 11. R.E.M.: Discoverer, Collapse Into Now on Warner Brothers 12. Kurt Vile*: Jesus Fever, Smoke Ring for My Halo on Matador 13. Apollo Brown: Time Passed Autumn, Clouds on Mello Music Group 14. Alameda: New Leaf, Seasons/Spectres on False Migration Records 15. The Rural Alberta Advantage*: Stamp, Departing on Saddle Creek/Paper Bag 16. Dam Mantle*: Movement, First Wave on Wichita Recordings
1. The Dears: Blood, Degeneration Street on Dangerbird Records 2. Chain and The Gang: Not Good Enough, Music's Not For Everyone on K Records 3. Echo Lake: Sunday Evening, Young Silence on No Pain in Pop 4. Malachai: Rainbows, Return to the Ugly Side on Domino Records 5. The Luyas: Too Beautiful to Work, Too Beautiful to Work on Dead Oceans 6. Toro Y Moi: Still Sound, Underneath the Pine on Carpark 7. The Cave Singers: Swim Club, No Witch on Jagjaguwar 8. The Caribbean: Mr. Let's Find Out, Discontinued Perfume on Hometapes 9. The Low Anthem: Ghost Woman Blues, Smart Flesh on Nonesuch 10. Bright Eyes: Shell Games, The People's Key on Saddle Creek 11. Tim Cohen: Don't Give Up, Magic Trick on Captured Tracks 12. Danielson: Grow Up, The Best of Gloucester County on Sounds Familyre 13. Banjo or Freakout: Go Ahead, Banjo or Freakout on Rare Book Room/Memphis Industries 14. Sister Crayon: I'm Still the Same Person, Bellow on Manimal Vinyl 15. The Twilight Singers: On the Corner, Dynamite Steps on Sub Pop 16. Yuck: Rubber, Yuck on Fat Possum
1. Telekenesis: Car Crash, 12 Desperate Straight Lines on Merge Records 2. Junk Culture: Summer Friends, Summer Friends on Illegal Art 3. East River Pipe: Cold Ground, We Live in Rented Rooms on Merge 4. James Blake: The Wilhelm Scream, James Blake on A&M/Atlast 5. La Sera: Devil Hearts Grow Gold, La Sera on Hardly Art 6. Young Magic: You With Air, You With Air 7" on Carpark Records 7. Akron/Family: So It Goes, Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT on Dead Oceans 8.Papercuts: Do What You Will, Do What You Will 7" on Sub Pop 9. Lost in the Trees: Tall Trees, Time Taunts Me on Trekky Records 10. USF: Point Break II, Jamaica Plain EP on Highfives and Handshakes 11. Mogwai: San Pedro, Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will on Sub Pop/Rock Action 12. The Babies: Run Me Over, The Babies on Shrimper 13. The Forms: Fire to the Ground, Derealization on Threespheres/Ernest Jenning Record Co. 14. Young Galaxy: Peripheral Visionaries, Shapeshifting on Paper Bag Records 15. Lifeguards: Paradise Is Not So Bad, Waving at the Astronauts on Serious Business Records/Ernest Jenning Record Co. 16. Win Win: Releaserpm (ft. Lizzie Bougatsos), Win Win on Vice Records
1. The Cloud Nothings: Understand at All, The Cloud Nothings on Wichita Recordings 2. Chikita Violenta: All I Need's a Little More, Tre3s on Arts and Crafts Records 3. John Vanderslice: Sea Salt, White Wilderness on Dead Oceans 4. Ancient Kids: Crystal Family, Odd City, self-released (http://ancientkids.tumblr.com/) 5. Woodsman: Serfer, Rare Forms on Lefse 6. Apex Manor: Under the Gun, The Year of Magical Drinking on Merge Records 7. Bag Raiders: Shooting Stars, Bag Raiders on Modular 8. Destroyer: Chinatown, Kaputt on Merge Records 9. Papercranes: Synapses, Let's Make Babies in the Woods on Manimal Records 10. Iron and Wine: Tree by the River, Kiss Each Other Clean on Warner Brothers 11. Big Eyes: Why Can't I, Why Can't I single on Don Giovanni 12. Sic Alps: Do You Want to Give $$?, Napa Asylum on Drag City 13. Craft Spells: After the Moment, After the Moment single on Captured Tracks 14. Lia Ices: Daphne, Grown Unknown on Jagjaguwar 15. Talib Kweli: Cold Rain, Gutter Rainbows on Talibra/Duck Down Records 16. When Saints Go Machine: Fail Forever, Fail Forever EP on !K7
1. Broken Records: A Darkness Rises Up, Let Me Come Home on 4AD 2. Minks: Funeral Song, By the Hedge on Captured Tracks 3. Tennis: Take Me Somewhere, Cape Dory on Fat Possum 4. Daniel Martin Moore: Dark Road, In the Cool of the Day on Sub Pop 5. Braids: Plath Heart, Native Speaker on Kanine/Flemish Eye 6. The Decemberists: Down by the Water, The King Is Dead on Capitol Records 7. Tape Deck Mountain: P.I., Secret Serf EP on Lefse Records 8. Fergus & Geronimo: Powerful Lovin', Unlearn on Hardly Art 9. White Fence: Lilian (Won't You Play Drums?), Is Growing Faith on Woodsist 10. British Sea Power: Living Is So Easy, Valhalla Dancehall on Rough Trade 11. Wire: Two Minutes, Red Barked Tree on Pink Flag
1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The One, Heart in Your Heartache 7" on Fortuna Pop 2. Air Waves: Knockout, Dungeon Dots on Underwater Peoples 3. Birthmark: Fossil Record, Shaking Hands on Hidden Agenda 4. Sonny & The Sandwitches: Throw My Ashes from This Pier When I Die, Sonny & The Sandwitches EP on Endless Nest 5. Lonely Galaxy: Bible Truth Depot, EP2 EP on Transparent Records 6. Surf City: Kudos, Kudos on Fire Records 7. Butterflies: Goodbye (Like a Stranger), Residual Child on Trekky Records 8. Banjo or Freakout: 105, 105 singleon Rare Book Room/Memphis Industries 9. Liz Janes: I Don't Believe, Say Goodbye on Asthmatic Kitty 10. Foxes in Fiction: School Night, Alberto EP Orchid Tapes 11. Unknown Mortal Orchestra: How Can U Luv Me, Unknown Mortal Orchestra EP on The Sounds of Sweet Nothing 12. Phone Tag: Let It Go, Look and Feel on American Sequences 13. Dent May: Holiday Face, http://dentmay.com/ 14. Keep Shelly in Athens: Fokionos Negri Street, In Love With Dusk EP on Forest Family 15. Los Campesinos!: Kindle a Flame in Her Heart, http://www.loscampesinos.com/ 16. Dntel: After Parties, After Parties1 EP on Sup Pop
1. Yuck: Georgia, Georgia single on Fat Possum Records 2. Club 8: Closer Now, Closer Now single on Labrador 3. Faun Fables: Parade, Light of a Vaster Dark on Drag City 4. Wolf Gang: Lions in Cages, Lions in Cages single on Atlantic 5. The Dead Trees: Back to L.A., Back to L.A. 7" on White Iris Records 6. La Sera: Never Come Around, Never Come Around 7" on Hardly Art 7. Spectrals: Chip a Tooth (Spoil a Smile), Spectrals Extended Play EP on Underwater Peoples 8. Bikini: A Cheerleader, RIP JDS EP on Lefse Records 9. Twin Shadow: Slow, Forget on 4AD 10. Stereolab: Sun Demon, Not Music on Drag City
Andrew McNair lives in Seattle. Aside from producing the OnlineRock podcast and writing record reviews, he spends his days helping people fix their broken internets at a local internet service provider.
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