Top 5 Albums (had to be submitted super-early for AllAccess, but I pretty much standby them…maybe add The Hives tied at #5!)
1Jimmy Fallon – Blow Your Pants Off
2First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
3Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
4Sinead O’Connor – How About I Be Me (and you be you)?
5Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound – s/t
Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
Cat Power – Sun
Chairlift – Something
Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
Cody ChesnuTT – Landing on a Hundred
David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
Dinosaur Jr. – I Bet On Sky
Dr. John – Locked Down
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Frankie Rose – Interstellar
The Hives – Lex Hives
Jessie Baylin – Little Spark
John Fullbright - From the Ground Up
Kopecky Family Band – Kids Raising Kids
Lee Fields & the Expressions – Faithful Man
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
OFF! – s/t
Polica – Give You The Ghost
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Grifter’s Hymnal
School of 7 Bells – Ghostory
Sera Cahoone – Deer Creek Canyon
The Shins – Port of Morrow
Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves
Torche – Harmonicraft
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EPs
Azure Ray – As Above So Below
Daughter – The Wild Youth is the better of 2 EPs they released in March
Dum Dum Girls
MS MR
Wild Belle
