This was a fantastic year for music. k now read or whatever.



10. Oneohtrix Point Never's Returnal

The first track on this album is likely to scare the crap out of you. It scared the crap out of me my first couple of listens. It sounds like the harshest noise Oneohtrix (we're on a first name basis) could find but once you let it earthquake through your brain a few times it reveals itself as something you can pretty much unpretentiously call beautiful. The rest of the album is psychedelic-y electronic ambiance. I think this album sounds like molecules…

Rules: Put your playlist on shuffle and write down the first 25 songs you get…

1. American Football- Stay Home
2. Sonic Youth- Youth Against Fascism
3. Black Flag- What I See
4. Meat Puppets- Climbing
5. Ghostface Killah- Saturday Night
6. David Bowie- Andy Warhol
7. Raekwon- New Wu
8. Bjork- Headphones
9. Smashing Pumpkins- Silverfuck
10. Mos Def- Hip Hop
11. XTC- Summer Cauldron
12. A Tribe Called Quest- Everything is Fair
13. James Brown- It's a Man's Man's Man's World
14. The Hold Steady- Multitude of Casualties
15. UGK- Tell Me How Ya Feel
16. Emiliana Torrini-…

I meant to put this up a lot sooner but I didn't.

5. Bill Callahan’s Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

If you like gorgeous music here's your fix, junkie. This is a great album, nothing like a (smog) album (that's what he used to go, and suck, by). I hate the last song though and it's like 8 minutes long (it contradicts the whole album, damnit). Oh and my theory on how Bill was able to make an album this good: he used to be dating THE Joanna Newsom. Now he's not. And this is an…

1. For Emma, Forever Ago- Bon Iver (I'm counting it as coming out this year)
2. Nouns- No Age
3. The Airing Of Grievances- Titus Andronicus
4. Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust- Sigur Ros
5. Hercules and Love Affair- Hercules and Love Affair
6. Tha Carter III- Lil Wayne
7. At Mount Zoomer- Wolf Parade
8. Lie Down in the Light- Bonnie "Prince" Billy
9. Alegranza!- El Guincho
10. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend

Most overrated album of the year- Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes. I mean, it's OK…

Most disappointing-
Stay Positive- the Hold Steady. Though they are one…