Hello,
In the spirit of Journalistic Douchebaggery, I’m providing my top 10 albums, EPs, and songs of the year! I have included streaming audio for everything I was able to find a source for.
Normally, I think that end-of-year lists are kind of a bad idea – everybody’s choices are pretty similar, and most of them are front-loaded to the last two months of the year anyways because our memories are pretty short when it comes to this stuff. But given how easy lala.com makes it to just stream stuff out, I figure it’s an easy way to recommend some stuff I really liked.
There were a few things I heard very recently that probably would have made the list if I had heard them a few months ago, like Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone and Animal Collective’s Fall Be Kind EP, but I don’t want my impulsive nature to corrupt the purely analytical experience of making an arbitrary list of some stuff I liked.
I am going to hide all the streaming audio below the fold: please click through to hear full samples of like 20-some albums and tracks and stuff.