{Favorite Albums of the Year}
These are my twenty five Favorite Albums of the Year...
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms (Key tracks: "Factory", "Laredo")
Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame (Key tracks: "Stranger", "Shadow People")
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (Key tracks: "Futile Devices", "I Walked")
Julieta Venegas - Otra Cosa (Key tracks: "Amores Platónicos", "Bien o Mal")
Best Coast - Crazy For You (Key tracks: "Crazy For You", "When the Sun Don't Shine")
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Key tracks: "The Suburbs", "Modern Man")
Wild Nothing - Gemini (Key tracks: "Live in Dreams", "Bored Games")
The Black Keys - Brothers (Key tracks: "Next Girl", "Tighten Up")
Rocky Votolato - True Devotion (Key tracks: "Lucky Clover Coin", "Red River")
Beach House - Teen Dream (Key tracks: "Silver Soul", "Take Care")
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Key tracks: "Devil in a New Dress", "Runaway")
Alex Anwandter - Odisea (Key tracks: "Casa Latina", "Cabros")
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor (Key tracks: "Airplanes", "Sun Hands")
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Key tracks: "American Slang", "The Queen of Lower Chelsea")
Jonsi- Go (Key tracks: "Go Do", "Boy Lilikoi")
Drake Thank Me Later (Key tracks: "Fireworks", "The Resistance")
Perfume Genius - Learning (Key tracks: "Learning", "Mr. Peterson")
Joanna Newsom- Have One On Me (Key tracks: "Easy", "81")
The Walkmen- Lisbon (Key tracks: "Juveniles", "Angela Surf City")
Tallest Man on Earth- The Wild Hunt (Key track: "Burden of Tomorrow", "Troubles Will Be Gone")
Foals - Total Life Forever (Key tracks: "Blue Blood", "Miami")
Shout Out Louds -Work (Key track: "1999", "Fall Hard")
El Guincho - Pop Negro (Key tracks: "Bombay", "Ghetto Facil")
Jeremy Messersmith -The Reluctant Graveyard (Key track: "A Girl, A Boy, and a Graveyard", "Toussaint Grey, First in Life and Death")
Drums of Death - Generation Hexed (Key tracks: "Won't Be Long", "Science & Reason")
Here's thirty five more (damn me for only having one set of ears) noteworthy releases that you should run out and buy, if haven't done so already...
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
The National - High Violet
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Vampire Weekend - Contra
The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Harlem - Hippies
Darkstar - North
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
Sade - Soldier of Love
Javiera Mena - Mena
Badly Drawn Boy - It's Not What I Am Thinking
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
Cotton Jones - Tall Hours in the Glowstream
Wolf People - Tidings
Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP
Scissor Sisters - Night Work
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Toro y Moi - Causers of This
Junip - Fields
The Radio Dept - Clinging To A Scheme
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windsill
Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
Atmosphere - To All My Friends, Bloody Makes The Blade Holy
Chromeo - Business Casual
Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
Manuel Garcia - S/T
Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
Gepe - Audiovision
Josh Ritter - So Runs The World
Audio Bullys - Higher Than The Eiffel
Abe Vigoda - Crush