Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Vinay Kini's 2013 Year End List

ALBUMS:
Disclosure – Settle
Drake – Nothing Was the Same
Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Danny Brown – Old
Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe

SONGS:
Burial – truant
A$AP Rocky – goldie
Pissed Jeans – romanticize me
Autre Ne Veut – play by play
DJ Koze feat. Apparat – nices wolkchen
Kurt Vile – wakin on a pretty day
Big K.R.I.T. – multi til the sun die
Daft Punk – instant crush
Classixx – a stranger love
A$AP Ferg – Shabba
Jon Hopkins – open eye signal
Kanye West feat. Chief Keef – hold my liquor
Sky Ferreira – nobody asked me (if I was okay)
Savages – she will
Run the Jewels – DDFH
Disclosure feat. Aluna George – white noise
Fuck Buttons – brainfreeze
The National – demons
Chance the Rapper – everybody’s something
Forest Swords – irby tremor
Earl Sweatshirt feat. Frank Ocean – sunday
Chvrches – recover
Parquet Courts – donuts only
Drake – worst behavior
Drake – hold on, we’re going home
The Field – they won’t see me
Danny Brown feat. Purity Ring – 25 bucks
DARKSIDE – heart
DJ Rashad – feelin
Pusha T – sweet serenade
Blood Orange – you’re not good enough
Migos - versace    

Saturday, December 21, 2013

D. Lucas Landis' Best of 2013

Albums:
1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. Kanye West - Yeezus
4. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
5. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
6. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
7. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
8. Classixx - Hanging Gardens
9. Volcano Choir - Repave
10. Mumford & Sons - Babel

Honorable Mentions:
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Savages - Silence Yourself


Songs of the Year (in no particular order) :
"Closer" - Tegan and Sara
"I'll Be Around" - Yo La Tengo
"Rough Sleeper" - Burial
"Ceilings" - Local Natives
"Waking Dream" - Bleeding Rainbow
"Ingenue" - Atoms for Peace
"In the City" - Caveman
"Diane Young" - Vampire Weekend
"Doin' Right" - Daft Punk (feat. Panda Bear)
"Blood On The Leaves" - Kanye West
"Oblivion" - M83 (feat. Susanne Sundor)
"Maze Fancier" - Floating Coffin
"Falling" - Haim
"Copy of A" - Nine Inch Nails
"Roar" - Katy Perry
"The Mother We Share" - Chvrches
"Locked Out of Heaven" - Bruno Mars
"Picasso Baby" - Jay-Z
"Royals" - Lorde
"24 Hours" - Sky Ferreira
"Side A (Old)" - Danny Brown
"The Air Between" - John Lemke
"It All Feels Right" - Washed Out
"Sentients" - Fuck Buttons
"Graceless" - The National
"Peace of Mind" - Mikal Cronin
"Life Round Here" - James Blake
"Mirrors" - Justin Timberlake
"Wakin on A Pretty Day" - Kurt Vile
"Hopeless Wanderer" - Mumford and Sons



Saturday, December 14, 2013

Michael Freed's 2013 Year End List

Kurt Vile - Walking on a Pretty Daze
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Phosphorescent - Muchacho 
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Volcano Choir - Repave
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get ...
Foxygen - We are the 21 Century Ambassadors ...
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Queens of the Stone Age -- . . . Like Clockwork 

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Matt Wiens 2013 Year End List

• Reflektor – Arcade Fire
• Muchacho – Phosphorescent
• Caveman – Caveman
• Days Are Gone – Haim
• Modern Vampires Of The City – Vampire Weekend
• Repave – Volcano Choir
• Walkin On A Pretty Daze – Kurt Vile
• Trouble Will Find Me – The National
• Hummingbird – Local Natives

• Monomania – Deerhunter

Monday, December 09, 2013

Jonathan Stutzman 2013

Low | The Invisible Way
Yo La Tengo | Fade
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories
The Field | Cupid's Head
The Shout Out Louds | Optica
Califone | Stitches
John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts
CHVRCHES | The Bones of What You Believe

Sunday, January 06, 2013

2012 Amber Friesen Year-End Lists

ok i'm 9 months pregnant and seem to be incapable of the qualitative analysis required to make a true top-10 list. instead i'll just list a few favourites from 2012 in no particular order:

albums:
- alt-J - An Awesome Wave
- Of Monsters & Men - My Head is an Animal
- Metric - Synthetica
- Policia - Give You the Ghost
- Beach House - Bloom
- The Jezebels - Prisoner
- Chromatics - Kill for Love

songs:
- "Taro" and "Dissolve Me" by alt-J were the 2 undoubted favourites. I also really liked "George Square Thatcher Death Party" by Mogwai, "Picking up the Pieces" by Paloma Faith, and "Ungirthed" by Purity Ring

Thursday, January 03, 2013

2012 P. Michael Freed Year-End Lists


2012: A Few Favorites
 
A lot of rock.  Order is mostly arbitrary.  Favorite track noted on some. 
 
Divine Fits, A Thing Called Divine Fits (Shivers)
Jack White, Blunderbuss (Sixteen Saltines)
Japandroids, Celebration Rock (The House That Heaven Built)
Tame Impala, Lonerism
Grizzly Bear, Shields (Yet Again)
Cloud Nothings, Attack on Memory (Stay Useless)
Beach House, Bloom (Wild)
Justin Townes Earle, Nothing's Going to Change . . . (Down on the Lower East Side)
Father John Misty, Fear Fun
The Shins, Port of Morrow (It's Only Life)

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

2012 Megan Ramer Year-End Lists



The Lumineers | The Lumineers | “Ho Hey”
Sufjan Stevens | Silver and Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5 | “Christmas In The Room”
Beach House | Bloom | “Myth”
Mumford & Sons | Babel | “I Will Wait”
Of Monsters and Men | My Head Is an Animal | “Dirty Paws”
Sinead O’Connor | How About I Be Me (and you be you)? | “4th and Vine”
Black Prairie | A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart | “How Do You Ruin Me?”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | The Heist | “Same Love”

Most blared single on my car radio
fun. | “We Are Young”

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

2012 Rick Sieber Year-End Lists

TOP 10 ALBUMS

  1. Don’t Be A Stranger - Mark Eitzel
  2. Plumb - Field Music
  3. Sweet Heart Sweet Light - Spiritualized
  4. Spooky Action From a Distance - Lotus Plaza
  5. Lonerism - Tame Impala
  6. Port of Morrow - The Shins
  7. Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors
  8. Electric Cable - Lightships
  9. Long Slow Dance - The Fresh & Onlys
  10. Mr. M - Lambchop

TOP 40 TRACKS

  1. “Jet Out of the Tundra” - Lotus Plaza
  2. “We All Have to Find Our Own Way Out” - Mark Eitzel
  3. “Under the Westway” - Blur
  4. “Gone Tomorrow” - Lambchop
  5. “We Take Care of Our Own” - Bruce Springsteen
  6. “Hey Jane” - Spiritualized
  7. “The Descent” - Bob Mould
  8. “Silver & Gold” - Lightships
  9. “Good Kid” - Kendrick Lamar
  10. “I Believe in Action” - Here We Go Magic
  11. “Fire Alarm” - The Fresh & Onlys
  12. “Think About Me” - The New Pornographers
  13. “Oh Mercy” - Mark Eitzel
  14. “Offspring Are Blank” - Dirty Projectors
  15. “Bait and Switch” - The Shins
  16. “So Long You Pretty Thing” - Spiritualized
  17. “The Nu Temptations” - Redd Kross
  18. “A New Town” - Field Music
  19. “Apocalypse Dreams” - Tame Impala
  20. “Untitled” - Killer Mike (featuring Scar)
  21. “Call Me Maybe” - Carly Rae Jepsen
  22. “White Galactic One” - Lotus Plaza
  23. “4th & Vine” - Sinead O’Connor
  24. “My Valentine” - Paul McCartney
  25. “Narrow Way” - Bob Dylan
  26. “Wild” - Beach House
  27. “No Way Down” - The Shins
  28. “Who’ll Pay the Bills” - Field Music