John Mayer still hasn’t released Battle Studies and Rickie Lee Jones hasn’t released Balm for Gilead, and there are a few other releases still to come out this year, but here’s a quick list at some of the 10 best CDs of the year.
1. Dawes – North Hills
2. Portugal the Man – The Satanic Satanist
3. David Berkeley -Strange Light
4. Bad Veins - Bad Veins
5. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
6. Rocco DeLuca and the Burden – Mercy
7. The Low Anthem – Oh My God Charlie Darwin
8. Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
9. Maxwell – BLACKSummers’night
10. Sea Wolf – White Water, White Bloom
Honorable Mention: Animal Collective Merriwether Post Pavilion, Meaghan Smith The Crickets Orchestra, Will Hoge The Wreckage, Derek Webb Stockholm Syndrome, Stars of Track and Field A Time for Lions, Passion Pit – Manners, The Avett Brothers I And Love And You, Imogen Heap Ellipse, Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King, Bronze Radio Return Old Time Speaker, Metavari Be One of Us and Hear No Noise, Civil Twilight Civil Twilight, Wheat White Ink Black Ink, David Moore My Lover My Stranger, Eels Hombre Lobo, The Working Title Bone Island, Pilot Speed Wooden Bones, The Veils Sun Gangs, James Maddock Sunrise on Avenue C, Danny Ross One Way, Kevin Devine Brothers Blood, David Bazan Curse Your Branches.
More to come at a later date.
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[...] Strange Light, which I predicted would be the album of the year in May of last year, ended up third on this list and for good reason. The Brian Deck (Iron and Wine, Counting Crows) produced disc was a [...]
» Listen to David Berkeley added these pithy words on May 16 10 at 4:52 pmPhil added these pithy words on Nov 04 09 at 2:00 pmIt occurs to me that I’m completely out of the loop on new music: I’ve heard exactly zero of albums you mention in the entire post.
I’ve been meaning to pick up the new David Rawlings disc, and the Avett Bros, too, but haven’t yet…
Greg added these pithy words on Nov 04 09 at 4:31 pmThe new Avett Brothers is awesome. That should probably insert itself into the Top 10 at some point, I just haven’t given it enough listens to say it deserves that. The new Justin Townes Earle disc is awesome too. As for Rawlings, had no idea he was releasing new stuff. Get out from under your rock! The music world needs you!
