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here are some of my personal favorites from this year... i didn't feel like listing them in a particular order, but no age and deerhunter were my top 2. the rest are randomly listed

no age - nouns

deerhunter - microcastle/weird era cont.

evangelicals - the evening descends

crystal castles - crystal castles

bon iver - for emma, forever ago

abe vigoda - skeleton

high places - high places

times new viking - rip it off

deerhoof - offend maggie

gang gang dance - saint dymphna

lil wayne - tha carter III

why? - alopecia

atlas sound - let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel