I have never been one for lists at the end of each year. However, sitting here and realizing just how challenging it is, we, S and I, have decided to give it a whirl. The following are a list of our top 55 albums of the last year, in no particular order. Why 55 you may ask? Who knows!* = Go Buy Right Now! Some are available for free so you might as well pick them up.
- The Wooden Birds - Magnolia
- Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
- Homelife - Exotic Interlude
- *Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
- Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
- *The Generationals - Con Law
- Eels - The MySpace Transmissions
- DJ Zebra - Bootstock
- Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
- *Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty
- Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
- Tap Tap - On My Way
- *Scott H. Biram - Something's Wrong/Lost Forever
- *Roadside Graves - My Son's Home
- Pomegranates - Everybody, Come Outside!
- Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
- Kings Of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
- *Eau Claire Memorial Jazz I, Featuring Justin Vernon - A Decade With Duke
- *Joe Pug - In The Meantime EP
- *The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right
- *Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
- *The Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours
- *Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
- *Chris Smither - Time stands still
- Chris Garneau - El Radio
- Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
- Brakes - Touchdown
- Bowerbirds - Upper Air
- Bombadil - Tarpits And Canyonlands
- BLK JKS - After Robots
- *Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer EP
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
- Bill Frisell - Disfarmer
- Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
- The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
- *The American Analog Set - Hard to Find: Singles and Unreleased 2000-2005
- A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
- Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
- Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
- Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
- Chet - Chelsea Silver, Please Come Home
- Caledonia - We Are America
- *Ola Podrida - Belly of the Lion
- Japandroids - Post-Nothing
- Huck Notari - Very Long Dream
- The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
- Molina & Johnson - Molina & Johnson
- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Summer Of Fear
- *Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
- Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
- Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
- Magic Wands - Magic Love & Dreams - EP
- Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
- Loch Lomond - Trumpets For Paper Children
- *Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free
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