Would love to see your list — let the comments stream begin!
Oh, if you see something you’d like, click on the artist’s name/title. Consider it my holiday gift to you.
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
Tyondai Braxton – Central Market
Sun O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
Pierre Yves Macé – Passagenweg
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
TwinSisterMoon – The Hollow Mountain
I also loved:
Babe, Terror – Weekend
Kreng – l’autopsie phénoménale de dieu
Blackbird Raum – Swidden
Ödland – The Caterpillar
Little Gold – On the Knife
Shugo Tokumaru – Rum Hee
Jackie-O Motherfucker – Ballads of the Revolution
Benedict Drew – A Folding Table
wonderful, varied list, chris–i’m going to grab all of those i don’t have, thank you a lot. i couldn’t get into that yacht album. i’m very excited to revisit some records i overlooked this year, especially hospice, ballads of the revolution, reservoir, and the hollow mountain.
some stuff i hope gets recognized on year-end lists:
bill callahan’s sometimes i wish i were an eagle
at swim two birds’s before you left
tiny viper’s life on earth
built to spill’s there is no enemy
early day miners’s treatment
I’m not familiar with any of those albums except for the BTS. Must go search them out now. Thanks!
Built to Spill’s album is spectacular. One day I’ll write an essay about them.
And I had no idea there was a band named after O’Brien’s masterpiece. Seems worth checking out for that alone.
Holy shit. How do you find time to establish 20 favorite albums in a year? It seems to me this represents a huge amount of listening time.
Yeah…I guess I spend a good deal of time listening to music while I’m doing other stuff. Plus, I come across a lot of strange/beautiful tunes while doing research for bright stupid confetti.
i rely on friends to make me mp3 cds. i’m usually about 2-4 behind the indie scene. maybe further behind. anyone want to make me a cd? my non-hipness would be indebted…
Good call on Fanfarlo. I read some mixed critic reviews, but I thought it was really great.
hell yeah