{Favorite Albums of the Year}
Here are my Favorite Albums of the Year, in no particular order...
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter (Key tracks: "For Your Lover Give Some Time", "Open Up Your Door")
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus (Key tracks: "Lasso", "Lisztomania")
Devendra Banhart - What We Will Be (Key tracks: "16th and Valencia Roxy Music", "Baby")
Lucero - 1372 Overton Park (Key tracks: "Smoke", "The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo")
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Key tracks: "Little Lion Man", "Winter Winds")
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (Key tracks: "The Sweetest Thing", "French Navy")
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper (Key tracks: "Only If You Run", "Games For Days")
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Key tracks: "Cannibal Resource", "Stillness is the Move")
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Key tracks: "Deadbeat Summer", "Terminally Chill")
Girls - S/T (Key tracks: "Lust For Life", "Laura")
Passion Pit - Manners (Key tracks: "Little Secrets", "The Reeling")
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young (Key tracks: "11th Dimension", "Out Of The Blue")
The XX - S/T (Key tracks: "VCR", "Islands")
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Key tracks: "Two Weeks", "Cheerleader")
Foreign Born- Person To Person (Key tracks: "Early Warnings", "Vacationing People")
The Raveonettes In and Out Of Control (Key tracks: "The Last Dance", "Suicide")
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (Key tracks: "Black Swan", "Idiot Heart")
Junior Boys- Begone Dull Care (Key tracks: "Parallel Lines", "In The Morning")
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz! (Key tracks: "Soft Shock", "Zero")
The Sandwitches- How To Make Ambient Sadcke (Key track: "Back to the Sea")
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - S/T (Key tracks: "Contender, "Everything With You")
Metric -Fantasies (Key track: "Twilight Galaxy", "Help, I'm Alive")
The Soft Pack - The Muslims (Key tracks: "Nightlife", "Answer To Yourself")
Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (Key track: "Your Easy Lovin", "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out")
Thao Nguyen & The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better, Learn Faster (Key track: "Know Better, Learn Faster", "When We Swam")
Chico Sonido - S/T (Key track: "Antes Que Nadie")
An Horse - S/T (Key tracks: "Camp Out", "Postcards")
The Veils - A Strange Arrangement (Key track: "Sit Down By The Fire", "Sun Gangs")
Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard - One Fast Move or I'm Gone (Key tracks: "One Fast Move or I'm Gone", "These Roads Don't Move")
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (Key tracks: "My Girls", "Daily Routine")
Mew - No More Stories (Key tracks: "Introducing Palace Players", "Beach")
