No More Content - On Holiday

The regular updates will stop now, please enjoy this self-indulgent list of favourite albums from this year, with occasional notes.

1. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
3. Diplo and Santogold - Top Ranking
4. Ratatat - LP3
5. Why? - Alopecia
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
7. The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
8. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
9. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
10. Tapes n' Tapes - Walk It Off
11. The Yah Mos Def - Excuse Me This Is The Yah Mos Def
early beastie boys style philly low-fi hip hop

12. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
13. Daedelus - Love To Make Music To
14. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
15. Ghislain Poirier - No Ground Under
•Ninja Tune •Electro •Hip-hop •riddims •Beats

16. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
17. Portishead - Third
18. Albert Hammond Jr. - Como Te Llama
Strokes frontman solo album, kickass guitar work.

19. Evil Nine - They Live!
20. Clinic - Do It!
Clinic sounding very Clinic; vintage keyboards, plucky guitars and warbling vocals.

21. Oxford Collapse - Bits
Super-sized garage rockers on Sub Pop.

22. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
23. Mindless Self Indulgence - if
24. Puppetmastaz - The Takeover
Rapping puppets from Germany who rhyme in English over filthy dirty electro beats.

25. T.I. - Paper Trail
26. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
27. The Bug - London Zoo
28. Santogold - Santogold
29. Cazals - What Of Our Future
30. Weezer - Weezer (red album)
The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived may be our generations Bohemian Rhapsody.

31. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
32. The Mystery Jets - 21
33. Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit - Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are the Very Best
34. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
35. Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
36. Bun B - Ill Trill
37. Son Lux - At War With Walls and Mazes
38. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
39. Psapp - The Camel's Back
40. Fonda 500 - Je M’appelle Stereo
Casio Heavy Electro/Folk/Fuzz Pop (riyl Apples in Stereo, Super Furry Animals)

41. The Presets - Apocalypso
42. Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
Genre - Psychadelic 80s Garage Rock Similar Artists - The Seeds, The Hollies, CREAM

43. Moby - Last Night
Enjoyable concept album from techno master

44. 88-Keys - The Death Of Adam
45. Tape - Luminarium
46. Beck - Modern Guilt
47. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
48. The Cure - 4:13 Dream
49. Islands - Arm's Way
50. Shearwater - Rook

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