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I just wrapped up my AotY list, and decided to look through my lists from past years for shits and giggles.
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Came across something I posted in here in 2009, I'm inspired to do the same for this year! It was arbitrary number of songs I listened to most this year.

1. Session 606 – Infidel Musk(You Are)
2. Session 606 - Deadpan
3. Athletics - V
4. Session 606 - Repo Assassins
5. Session 606 - The Celebration of Nothing At All (bonus track)
6. O'Brother - Ascension
7. Moving Mountains – Tired Tiger
8. O'Brother - Oh, Charitable Thief
9. Glassjaw – Vanilla Poltergeist Snake
10. Athletics - I Am Withdrawal
10. Joyce Manor – Constant Headache
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Session 606 • Rise Against •The Killing Tree • Athletics • Loud? • 3 • Velta • Hidden Hospitals • Terrible Things • Thursday • Moving Mountains • MC Lars • Every Time I Die • Refused • Glassjaw • AM to AM • Claudio Sanchez • Cage • Flash Fire • HRVRD (Harvard) • ††† (Crosses) • Night Verses • Flannel Channel • Emily Long • DriftDivision • Dead Unicorn • Fucktard • K.Flay • Brick + Mortar • A Great Big Pile Of Leaves • Life As Lions • Coheed and Cambria • Weerd Science • Mours • Stellar Young (The City Never Sleeps) • A Scream For The Memory • Hudson Hank • The Dear Hunter • Time Travels • The Grape And The Grain • Nightmares For A Week • Anadivine • Nightmare Of You • The Rookie Lot • Southtowne Lanes • Shark Bait • Rookie Town • Dikembe • Old Gray • Loyal Wife • Texas Is the Reason • Happy Body Slow Brain •…

Single Artist
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A Loss For Words - The Kids Can't Lose

Agent - Awake In Their World 7"

Balance and Composure - Only Boundaries
Balance and Composure - Separation
Balance and Composure - Acoustic 7"

Basement - Songs About The Weather 7"

Circa Survive - The Inuit Sessions
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise - ltd edition
Circa Survive - Violent Waves

Citizen - Young States 7"

Crime In Stereo - Is Dead
Crime In Stereo - Selective Wreckage

Daggermouth - Turf Wars
Daggermouth - Stallone

Defeater - Travels
Defeater - Lost Ground 2x7"
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights

Fireworks - Adventure, Nostalgia, and Robbery 7"
Fireworks - All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion
Fireworks - Bonfires 7" x4
Fireworks - Gospel
Fireworks - We Are Everywhere
Fireworks - Acoustic flexi 7"

Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
Four Year Strong - Rise or Die Trying

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I get to see balance and composure in april yeahh!!!!!Balance and Composure

04/05/2009 - Enslaved
04/05/2009 - Opeth
16/07/2009 - Joel Plaskett
31/12/2009 - Joel Plaskett Emergency (2)
23/03/2010 - Will Currie & The Country French
23/03/2010 - Thrush Hermit
26/03/2010 - All Night Long
26/03/2010 - Thrush Hermit (2)
27/03/2010 - Attack in Black
27/03/2010 - Thrush Hermit (3)
27/04/2010 - Modern Superstitions
27/04/2010 - Sloan
22/10/2010 - Signs of Chaos
22/10/2010 - Insides Out
22/10/2010 - Necronomicon
22/10/2010 - Unexpect
09/11/2010 - Kayo Dot
04/12/2010 - Blood Ceremony
04/12/2010 - Revelation
04/12/2010 - Cauchemar
04/12/2010 - Pagan Altar
22/01/2011 - Fight Amp
22/01/2011 - Rosetta
22/01/2011 - Kylesa
12/03/2011 - Condemned
12/03/2011 - Empyrean Plague
12/03/2011 - The Agonist
16/03/2011 - Ben Gunning
16/03/2011 - Peter Elkas
22/03/2011 - Cellos
22/03/2011 - KEN mode
18/05/2011 - The Isosceles Project
18/05/2011 - Life In Vacuum
18/05/2011 - Ace Kinkaid
27/05/2011 - Native
27/05/2011 - Defeater
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January 21 - Music Hall Of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
Into It. Over It.
Ace Enders
Chris Conley

January 28 - The Mill at Trinity College - Hartford, CT
Tigers Jaw
End of a Year
Baby Grand
The Guru
New Year's Revolution

February 4 - The Stood - Purchase, NY
Tigers Jaw
Balance and Composure
Hostage Calm
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

February 26 - The Space - Hamden, CT
Pianos Become the Teeth
Xerxes
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
The Saddest Landscape
Wess Meets West

March 11 - The Heirloom Arts Theatre - Danbury, CT
Transit
Into It. Over It.
Suns
Wolves At Bay

March 18 - The Space - Hamden, CT
The Saddest Landscape
Loma Prieta
Birds in Row
My Fictions

April 8 - The Handsome Woman - Willimantic, CT
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
Dads
Spraynard
Timeshares
The Reptilian
Run, Forever
Glocca Morra

April 18 - The Space - Hamden, CT
Into It. Over It.
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Top 5 EPs
1. Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy
2. The Sheds - Self/Doubt
3. Daytrader - Last Days Of Rome
4. Silversun Pickups - Seasick
5. Make Do and Mend - Part and Parcel

Top 15 Albums
1. Transit - Listen & Forgive
2. Stray From The Path - Rising Sun
3. Balance and Composure - Separation
4. Animals as Leaders - Weightless
5. The Wonder Years - Suburbia: I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing
6. TesseracT - One
7. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
8. Uneven Structure - Februus
9. vildhjarta - Masstaden
10. Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride
11. A Loss For Words - No Sanctuary
12. Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge
13. O'Brother - Garden Window
14. Textures - Dualism
15. Outrun The Sunlight - The Return Of Inertia

It was really hard to narrow it down to ten albums so I decided to include my 15 must have albums, then tried to order them. Basically, these albums were either highly anticipated and delivered (AL4W, SFTP), I obsessed over them a lot in a small period of time (Vildhjarta…

1. The Men - Leave Home

2. Death Grips - Exmilitary

3. Antediluvian - Through The Cervix Of Hawwah

4. Total Control- Henge Beat

5. The UV Race - Homo

6. Royal Headache - S/T LP

7. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream

8. Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania

9. Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread

10. Bastard Noise - Skulldozer

11. Wormrot - Dirge

12. Danny Brown - XXX

13. Mammoth Grinder/Hatred Surge Split

14. The Manix - Neighborhood Wildlife

15. Tenement - Napalm Dream

16. Iceage - New Brigade

17. Wiccans - Skullduggery

18. Omegas - Blasts Of Lunacy

19. Balance and Composure - Separation

20. Ritual Necromancy- Oath Of The Abyss

21. Pygmy Lush - Old Friends

22. Night Birds- The Other Side Of Darkness

23. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations

24. Naked On The Vague- Twelve Dark Noons

25. HTRK - Work (Work, Work)

26. Mitochondrion - Parasignosis

27. KEN mode - Venerable

28. Juicy J - Blue Dream & Lean

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