Top 25 Albums of 2012

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2012 starts and ends with Frank Ocean. Channel Orange is an album that I will play until the day I die. It’s beauty - naked and fragile at times yet full bodied and confident in others - is unlike any other album to compare to in the past decade. Ocean’s falsetto on “Thinkin Bout You” wails in sincerity. His epic “Pyramids” runs a wild gamut of funk, R&B, hip-hop, and electronic elements. I always find it an amazing accomplishment to have a song that’s over 6 minutes (this being 9:53) that I can listen to constantly. 

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Top 100 Songs of 2012

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1. Jack White – Weep Themselves To Sleep

2. Tennis – My Better Self

3. Geographer – Kites

4. Delta Spirit – Tear It Up

5. Frank Ocean – Lost

6. Peace – 1998 (Delicious)

7. Kendrick Lamar – m.A.A.d city

8. Santigold – Disparate Youth

9. Jack White – Sixteen Saltines

10. Schoolboy Q – There He Go

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Top 15 Albums of 2011

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1. U.S. Royalty - Mirrors
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blued
3. Real Estate - Days
4. Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
6. The Antlers - Burst Apart
7. Friendly Fires - Pala
8. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
9. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
10. White Denim - D
11. Incubus - If Not Now, When?
12. Atlas Sound - Parallax
13. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
14. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
15. Wilco - The Whole Love

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Top 15 Albums of 2010

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1. Local Natives - Guerilla Manor
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
4. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Young the Giant - Young the Giant
7. Beach House - Teen Dream
8. Gary Clark Jr. - Gary Clark Jr.
9. Best Coast - Crazy for You
10. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
11. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
12. The National - High Violet
13. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
14. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
15. Robyn - Body Talk

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Top 15 Albums of 2009

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1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Passion Pit - Manners
3. The xx - xx
4. Grizzly Bears - Veckatimest
5. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
6. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
7. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
8. STRFKR - Jupiter
9. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
10. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
11. The Antlers - Hospice
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
13. Discovery - LP
14. Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
15. John Mayer - Battle Studies

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Top 15 Albums of 2008

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1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. John Mayer - Where the Light Is (Live)
6. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
7. Justice - Cross
8. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
9. Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound
10. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
11. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death to All His Friends
12. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
13. Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
14. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
15. Deerhunter - Microcastle

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