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[Mitchell]

No mentions of Wilco or Maxïmo Park or any other records that weren't released in Jan, Feb or March.

In alphabetical order;

A Weekend In The City
All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Candylion
Friend Oppprtunity
Myths of The Near Future
Octopus
Sound Of Silver
The Good, The Bad and The Queen
The Magic Postion
Tones Of Town

Go!

[Saskadelphia]

Right now, Jesu and LCD are neck and neck for my fave so far...the rest in alphabetical order:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Jesu - Conqueror
!!! - Myth Takes
Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere
Clutch - Frome Beale Street to Oblivion
Dalek - Abandoned Language
The End - Elementary
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Hacride - Amoeba
Wold - Screech Owl

[Montana]

1. The Search 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

[Melted Cheese]

in numerical order... roughly... oh shit I can't use 'Beyond', huh? Eh...

Some with a chance to be on this list at year's end...

Person Pitch
Armchair Apocrypha
Sound of Silver

And some other pretty good discs that I haven't listened to in a little while but I recall being enjoyable...

Wincing the Night Away
Friend and Foe
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Some Loud Thunder
Friend Opportunity
Neon Bible

Right now, Jesu and LCD are neck and neck for my fave so far...the rest in alphabetical order:

... Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere ...

Plz describe this album in 5 words or less (or more) such that I will know whether I will like it or not. Thx.

[Saskadelphia]

Right now, Jesu and LCD are neck and neck for my fave so far...the rest in alphabetical order:

... Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere ...

Plz describe this album in 5 words or less (or more) such that I will know whether I will like it or not. Thx.

1. More
2. eclectic
3. than
4. Folkloric
5. Feel.

[Montana]

Person Pitch

This one might make my list. It's growing on me, and is one of the few adventurous records I have heard so far this year.

[throughsilver]

01. Shining - Grindstone

That is all.

[Melted Cheese]

Person Pitch

This one might make my list. It's growing on me, and is one of the few adventurous records I have heard so far this year.

You will warm to its brilliance. EVERYONE will warm to its brilliance. It's brilliant, goddammit! Like it or die.

[Bruegel]

Distance - My Demons
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Grinderman - st
Kieran Hebden & Steven Reid – Tounges
Euros Childs – Bore Da
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
Radicalfashion - Odori
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Pole - Steingarten
Deerhunter - Cryptograms

I've listened to Boris's Rainbow, Black Elk's debut and Bill Callahan's Woke on a Whaleheart as much as anything else this year but I think they all fall foul of Mitchell's draconian release date restrictions. An Ethereal Oracle owns too but Im not sure when that came out. I’ve bought a fuck-load of ep's and 12"s so far this year so Ive been neglecting LP's a bit.

[Asher Ford]

In order: 1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 2. !!! - Myth Takes 3. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 4. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity 5. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank 6. The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear 7. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha 8. Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water 9. Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower 10. Lucinda Williams - West The bottom half of that is very light/folkie isn't it? Also, my real numbers 3, 4, and 5 all come out in the next 15 days, so this list will be pretty different very soon.

[vurt]

01. Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
02. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
03. Pole - Steingarten
04. The Good, the Bad and the Queen

Kalabrese's Rumpelzirkus will definitely make that list once it's released on CD.

[RabbiSchmoiley]

Harsh, Mitchell... because of your reign of terror, I cannot include such luminaries as Feist and the Sea and Cake in this list. However, I can tell you that I love Of Montreal's "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" so much that it would take a pretty much flawless album to dethrone it by the end of the year. The rest of my top ten, in alphabetical order by artist: Apples in Stereo - "New Magnetic Wonder" Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible" Bloc Party - "A Weekend in the City" Broken West - "I Can't Go on, I'll Go on" Explosions in the Sky - "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" The Good, The Bad, and The Queen - s/t Gruff Rhys - "Candylion" Low - "Drums and Guns" The Shins - "Wincing the Night Away"

[Mitchell]

It's hard enough to keep track of three awesome months so far, don't want to feel I've really been left behind.

[MARDY FISH HEAD]

• 01 Shining – Grindstone
• 02 Cocorosie – The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
• 03 Roll Deep – Rules and Regulations
• 04 Battles – Mirrored
• 05 RJD2 – The Third Hand
• 06 Lusine – Podgelism
• 07 Low – Drums and Guns
• 08 Tujiko Noriko – Solo
• 09 Una Corda – The Proper Position for Floating E.P.
• 10 Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love Of Shared Disasters

[Artem]

1. Prodigy - Return of the Mac 2. Gabriel Ananda - Bambusbeats

[Bobzilla]

In rough order…

Field Music – Tones of Town
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
Pantha du Prince – This Bliss
Patty Griffin – Children Running Through
Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Deerhunter – Cryptograms
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Menomena – Friend and Foe
!!! – Myth Takes

Worthy of mention:
Bracken, The Shins, Studio, The Bees, The Good The Bad and the Queen, Eleni Mendell, Low, The Aliens, Modest Mouse, The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, A Sunny Day In Glasgow

Up and coming:
Feist, The Rosebuds, Voxtrot

This year is off to a great start.

[falling and laughing]

no leaks: panda bear lcd good, bad, queen field klaxons sally shapiro deerhunter studio patrick wolf arcade fire

[Woodland Runner]

Best of the best so far: 1. Bracken - We Know About the Need 2. Radicalfashion - Odori 3. Panda Bear - Person Pitch 4. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 5. Radical Face - Ghost 6. Eluvium - Copia 7. Pantha du Prince - This Bliss 8. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement Of the Decline 9. Deerhunter - Cryptograms 10. Gareth S. Brown - Iron Henry notes: - this list is sans leaks - i still gotta check out that El-P record, but based on the few tracks i've heard, it might make the big list - the Battles album will be up there, when it is officially released - there are many albums i'm eagering awaiting, some biggies (Radiohead) and some that will most likely fly under the radar (Shapes and Sizes). either way, this list will likely look completely different a couple months from now.

[DrJimmy]

1. Arcade Fire 2. LCD Soundsystem 3. Besnard Lakes 4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 5. Deerhunter

[Rob Gordon]

In no particular order.... Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Modest Mouse - We Were Dead... Amy Winehouse - Back To Black The Shins - Wincing The Night Away Panda Bear - Person Pitch Ted Leo - Living With The Living Stephen Marley - Mind Control Patty Griffin - Children Running Through Lucinda Williams - West LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver