*favorite, with a very slight edge given to originality.
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20) The Dodos – Time to Die
19) Various Artists – Dark Was the Night
18) Passion Pit – Manners
17) Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
16) Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
15) Ramona Falls – Intuit
14) Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
13) The xx – xx
12) Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
11) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
10) Dan Deacon – Bromst
9) The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
8) Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
7) St Vincent - Actor
6) Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind
5) Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca*
4) The Antlers - Hospice*
3) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix*
2) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest*
1) Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
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*Almost put it at #1.
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Favorites of 2008.
Favorites of 2007.
would like to know in what realm antlers>prjktrz.
also wheres real estatetoro y moi. or cass mcbros or dead weather, or YYYz.. I want to go on the record and say I hate ‘girlz’. Girlz<wavves
Toro y Moi’s album comes out in 2010, and everyone else got a mention (except YYYs, whom admittedly I always forget to listen to via skepticism about SPIN-core).
Yes The Antlers probably aren’t better than The Dirty Projectors, but Hospice might be more of an album than Bitte Orca. That said I can think of arguments for putting any of my top five at #1.
And yes, Girls are overrated. At least I didn’t put them at #3:
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/1-pitchfork-highest-rated/2009/1