As usual this time of year, I throw out a list of albums that I have listened to from this year. This gives you all an idea of what I have been listening to in preparation for my end of the year list, and an opportunity for you to add albums that you think I should check out before making my best of list. In general, I think this year has been a pretty down year, but there are some stand outs. Here is the list, alphabetical by artist.
- Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
- Autolux - Transit Transit
- Beach House - Teen Dream
- Bear McCreary - Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Original Television Soundtrack
- Best Coast - Crazy For You
- Bonobo - Black Sands
- Broken Bells - Broken Bells
- BT - These Hopeful Machines
- Caribou - Swim
- Christian Scott - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
- Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
- Deftones - Diamond Eyes
- Delorean - Subiza
- Dinosaur Feathers - Fantasy Memorial
- Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
- Four Tet - There Is Love in You
- Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
- Gotan Project - Tango 3.0
- Hans Zimmer - Inception
- Hot Chip - One Life Stand
- j.c. wilson - Thought Music
- jj - nº 3
- Jónsi - Go
- Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
- Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork
- Max Richter - Infra
- Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead
- Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
- Pavement - Quarantine The Past
- Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
- Ratatat - LP4
- RxRy - RxRy
- Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
- Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP
- Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
- Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
- The Black Keys - Brothers
- The Get Up Kids - Simple Science
- The National - High Violet
- Toro Y Moi - Causers Of This
- Vampire Weekend - Contra
- Various Artists - Brownswood Electric
- Various Artists - Chopin 200 Years: The Greatest Collection
- Various Artists - The Palm Sampler
- Yeasayer - Odd Blood