20 favorite albums of 2014! Woohoo!

20. Future Islands- Singles
19. Ryan Adams- S/T
18. Real Estate- Atlas
17. How To Dress Well- What is This Heart?
16. The Antlers- The Familiars
15. TV On The Radio- Seeds
14. Andy Stott- Faith in Strangers
13. Tobacco- Ultima II Massage
12. Aphex Twin- Syro
11. Parquet Courts/Parkey Quartz- Sunbathing Animal/Content Nausea. Both

10. Run The Jewels -RTJ2. Fuck yes, that is all.

9. Tweedy- Sukierae. Ignore the easy jokes about this album being, very literally, dad rock, and…

In 2013, it seemed I always had a favorite band's new album to look forward to, and I was constantly discovering great new listens. This was my favorite year since 2010, and I have no choice but to expand my list to 25 this year.

25. Atoms for Peace- Amok
24. Sigur Ros- Kveikur
23. Washed Out- Paracosm
22. Fuzz- Fuzz
21. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Push the Sky Away
20. Thee Oh Sees- Floating Coffin
19. Ducktails- The Flower Lane
18. Yo La Tengo- Fade
17. James Blake-…

There was just no way I could limit myself to 10 this year (thanks Spotify). Lots of great albums across all genres, but I had alot of trouble settling on a number one, a problem I've never had in previous years.

20. Actress
19. Neil Young
18. Hot Chip
17. Burial
16. Lotus Plaza
15. Sea and Cake
14. Flying Lotus
13. Grizzly Bear
12. Passion Pit
11. Japandroids

10. The Walkmen - Heaven. This band was a great discovery for me this year, and this came out at the perfect time of year (late Spring-early Summer). This album…

While I wouldn't say 2011 resembled the fire hose of star power (well at least in the Pitchfork-land I find myself living in) of 2010, there was, yet again, a never ending stream of great music being released all over the genre map. Sometimes I want to cry when I hear people bemoan the decline of the music industry, as it is an unequivocal fact that music is being pushed to more and more glorious heights with each and every year. My music listening habits have changed profoundly with each passing year (I'm now a devout convert of Google music…

2010 was, without a doubt, the best year of new music I have ever experienced. Just an astonishing amount of quality music released across all genres, especially from established bands and artists at the peak of their powers (as well as a few great debuts, Local Natives and Twin Shadow come to mind). I had to go to great pains to limit this list to 10, but here they are…

1. Caribou- Swim
Love this just as much today as the first day I heard it. I remember thinking this is what “Person Pitch” would sound like mashed with “Sound…

Amazing year for music (I should just stop saying that, what year isn't really…). Here were my favorites-

10. Calvin Harris- Ready for the Weekend- Really not a very strong album start to finish, but has some impossibly fun and catchy party anthems.

9. Lil Wayne- No Ceilings- Nothing fancy, just another solid mixtape from Wheezy. Ridiculous character.

8. XX- XX- Great delicate minimalist indie pop release. Perfect late night headphone music.

7. Slayer- World Painted Blood- Gut-churningly heavy. Sometimes when I listen to Slayer, I wonder how I can justify to listening to any other…

Ahhhh yes. I feel like this is my obligation, not only because I've thrown two together in the past, but it's also nice to be able to conveniently look back and automatically pair a year's memories with a certain set of albums. Doing this now with the past two years, I've found egregious errors and omissions, but yet I'm still glad I did them. With that said, I announce my TOP 10 2008:

(feel bad leaving out deerhunter, mmj, mgmt, gnarles barkley, nin-slip). But these are better

10. Ryan adams- Cardinology- Had a hard time picking the last one…

Great year for music, better then 06 no doubt.

10. Queens of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris. Everything these guys touch is gold. Not as great as Lullabies, this really is QOTSA at their technical best. This band needs to keep making cds.

9. Kanye West- Graduation. I'd feel bad leaving this off the list considering how much this cd was on, especially come party time. Very entertaining cd.

8. Nine Inch Nails- Year Zero. Classic NIN. Has some great great songs on it, pretty cool theme, great marketing. Quintessential Trent.

7. Panda Bear- Person Pitch.…

I thought this was a pretty good year musically. Overall, I'd rank these as my top 10 cds of the year

10. Pearl Jam- Pearl Jam. Best Pearl Jam cd in a long time. Straight up old school PJ rock. Very strong release

9. Easy Star All Stars- Radiodread. I felt their DSOTM cover was overrated, but I think this came out very well. OK Computer is probably my favorite CD of all time, so I had very high expectations for this. The majority of the tracks sound great reggae-ized (especially Airbag).

8. Beck- The Information. Another…