5-1

5) The National - Boxer













4) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga













3) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala














2) Calvin Harris - I Created Disco














1) Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Somebody take a closer look at my numbers. I'm totally losing it-- they're wiggity wack.

1-5 go up after I figure it out.

10-6

10) Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings













9) Los Campesinos - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP

I've been waiting for this for maybe a year and a half.











8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP












7) Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

I liked this more after seeing him live-- the hopping, hair-massaging couple, all the bandannas ever sold in Philadelphia, and that small patch of pubic hair peeking out over Devendra's pants. What's not to love, I guess?








6) Daft Punk - Alive 2007

15-11

15) The New Pornographers - Challengers

Bloomington >> Greencastle:
good driving music










14) Caribou - Andorra













13) The Honeydrips - Here Comes the Future

Greencastle>>Bloomington:
good driving music








12) Yelle - À cause des garçons

You'd have to be out of your god-damned mind not to love this. Karen O plus Pipettes? Maybe?
(Charm meets edge)









11) M.I.A. - Kala

20-16

20) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam













19) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky













18) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver














17) The Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics


Do you think this is too gimmicky?











16) Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

25-21

I just don't have much to say this year. Sometimes I just like things and don't care to analyze why, you get me?


25) Gruff Rhys - Candylion

It seems like this got a week of blog-buzz and then fell off the face of the earth. Cute, fun enough to listen to, etc.









24) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

At some point this year, Michael mentioned that with every album, oM moves farther and farther away from him (or something. Sorry I didn't mentally catalog that one better, d00). I'm inclined to agree, but I can't lie-- I still really like this album, except for "Faberge Falls for Shuggie" and "Labyrinthian Pomp," which I've disliked from the start, despite efforts to warm up to them.
Sometimes you're jazzed up on whatever-it-is and writing paper after paper and you're listening to this through headphones while nobody else has any idea why you're acting so god-damned victorious. Unreal.


23) Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil

To be heard at 2 a.m. in a dimly-lit studio. Which decade am I even living in?










22) The Silver Seas - High Society

Poppy (but not very poppy), coherent, in tune, great driving music for a sunny day.

Favorite tracks: "The Country Life," "Catch Yer Own Train"








21) Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade

I'm mostly terribly in love with this.