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1. Clogs - Kapsburger
2. Parliament - Red Hot Mama
3. James Yorkston and The Athletes - Tender to the Blues
4. Michelle - Three Little Maids
5. Magnetic Fields - The One You Really Love
6. Unknown - Harp
7. Archie Bronson Outfit - Dart For My Sweetheart
8. Bright Eyes - The First Day of My Life
9. Thom Yorke - Black Swan
10. John Martyn - May You Never

Most of them in Glasgow...

Pavement - Barrowlands
Camera Obscura - QMU - TITP - ABC - Indian Summer - Mono - Connect - Barrowlands
Belle and Sebastian - Arches - Barrowlands - Usher Hall - SECC - ABC - Botanic Gardens - Glastonbury - Royal Concert Hall - Castlemilk Community Centre
Frightened Rabbit - TITP - Captain's Rest x 2 - Connect - The Goat - The Arches - King Tuts - Barfly
The Twilight Sad - King Tuts x 4 - ABC x 2 - Mono - TITP - Nice & Sleazys
David Bowie - SECC
King Creosote - ABC - ABC2 - SECC - Arches - Mono - Garage
The Delgados - Royal Concert Hall
Herman Düne - Mono - King Tuts - Oran Mor (Stanley Brinks - Henry's Cellar Bar - Mono)
The Velvet Underground----- (Lou Reed - Playhouse)
Radiohead - Glasgow Green x 2 - Virgin Festival - Blackpool Empress Ballroom - Glastonbury - Aberdeen Exhibition Centre - Meadowbank Stadium
The White Stripes - Glastonbury - SECC - Academy x 2
Okkervil River - Nice N Sleazy - Oran Mor
Idlewild - Liquid Rooms - Byblos - Indian Summer -SECC - King Tuts x 5 - Nice n Sleazy
Stephen Malkmus - King Tuts - Liquid Room - QMU - Oran Mor - Connect,
The Decemberists -----
The Shins - Barrowlands
Neil Young -----
Malcolm Middleton - Mono - Classic Grand - Oran Mor
Grandaddy - QMU - TITP - Glastonbury
Lou Reed - Playhouse
Sebadoh - The Classic Grand
James Yorkston and The Athletes - Classic Grand - ABC2 - The Goat - ABC - Arches
Nick Drake -----
The Clash -----
The Raconteurs - ABC - Academy - Corn Exchange - TITP
Mercury Rev - Barrowlands - Connect
Sons and Daughters - ABC x 2 - Connect - TITP - Grand Old Opry - SECC - QMU
Neutral Milk Hotel -----
Zoey Van Goey - Barfly - King Tuts - Captain's Rest - Stereo x 2 - Brel - Art School
Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan - ABC x 2
Voxtrot - The Admiral
Lou Barlow - CCA - King Tuts - Nice n Sleazy x 2
The Strokes - Academy - TITP
Emma Pollock - Stereo - The Goat - ABC2 - Indian Summer - Mono
The Mountain Goats -----
Interpol - TITP
Pulp - Glasgow Green
Scott Walker -----
Kings of Leon - Glastonbury - SECC - TITP
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Barrowlands - TITP - Indian Summer
The Beatles ----- (Paul McCartney - Glastonbury & Anfield)
Franz Ferdinand - Subclub - QMU - Mono - Barrowlands - Academy - Princes Street Gardens - SECC - TITP
Tapes 'n Tapes - Nice n Sleazy - Liquid Room - Indian Summer - Stereo
Conor Oberst - Connect
Jarvis - ABC - Connect - Picture House
The Rolling Stones - Hampden
Primal Scream - Barrowlands - Academy - SECC - TITP - QMU - ABC2 - Connect - Glastonbury
Loney, Dear - Indian Summer - Stereo
The Doors -----
Low -----
Super Furry Animals - Barrowlands, Connect
The Kinks ----- (Ray Davies - Royal Concert Hall)
Islands - Captain's Rest
Giant Drag - Barfly, TITP
Pixies - SECC - TITP
Bright Eyes - TITP
Cold War Kids - QMU - TITP - Barrowlands
The Libertines - King Tuts - Barrowlands x 2 - TITP
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Academy x 2 - Indian Summer - TITP
Correcto - Fairfield Club
Band of Horses - T in the Park
The Coral - Garage - Barrowlands - Academy x 2 - TITP
Johnny Cash -----
The Enemy - Men .Arena
Silver Jews -----
Arcade Fire - TITP
R.E.M. - Loch Lomond
Wire -----
Pelle Carlberg -----
Eels TITP
Säkert! -----
Babyshambles - Academy - SECC - Barrowlands x 4 - Greenock
The Fall Ferry - QMU - Connect
Taken by Trees Mono

This is actually a long strecth, let's see will I remember everything.
These are not in anyind of order. like leviathan I listened maybe week and a half ago, as well as No Age, and Bohren I listened today, just to give an example.

Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Once actually a long time ago.

Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
Slowly getting there

Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
There already

Haram - Drescher
Still as good.

Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
Yes yes.

Fear Falls Burning - Frenzy Of The Absolute
passes

James Yorkston - The Year Of The Leopard
I really like this.

James Yorkston - When the Haars rolls in
Once, more listen throughs, probably not as good as YotL

Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood
I don't know why I like this, but Apparently I do

Gnaw Their Tongues - The Genocidal Deliverance 7"
This stuff is scary

Tides - From Silence
Once..

Deathspell Omega - Fas
After four five listen throughs this starts to open...

Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
Still the easiest to get in, probably best also.

Capsule - Blue
Couple of times once again

Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline
How I waited for so long to get this. Magnificent!

Mouth of the Architect/Kenoma - Split
MOA many times, Kenoma two

Mouth of the Architect - Sleepwalk Powder
I've been listening this so much more than Kenoma side. This song is awesome!

Lou Barlow - Emoh
Once, more listen yes, I think I have to, but not right now.

Nadja - Radiance of Shadows
Greatness

Nadja - Truth Becomes Death
Greatness

Nadja - Touched
Greatness

Helms Alee - Night Terror
many many times. I like it.

Bohren und Der Club Of Gore - Dolores
Yeah, specially for lazt (sunday) mornings

Jesu - Conqueror
Once, nice pop

September Malevolence - After this darkness, there's a next
A lot, over and over again. Great Great Great!!!!!!!

Tone - Alhambra 7"
Actually the b-side is so much better

Scott Walker - The Drift
This still amazes me

Hangedup - Clatter for Control
Once too

No Age - Nouns
Maybe once

Here it is, the new Battle Of The Albums. This time records from 2008 will fight for honor.

The rules of this stage:
256 albums
32 groups with 8 albums each
you vote for 2 out of 8 in each group
in each group the 2 first proceed to the next phase
when it's undecided who should proceed, there'll be an extra poll
voting until Sunday the 25th January


If you like this one, just join this group.


Have fun with it:

Group 1
¡Forward, Russia! - Life Processes
Akimbo - Jersey Shoes
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger
H2O - Nothing To Prove
Russian Circles - Station
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Modern Life
Deichkind - Arbeit nervt
Group 2
Anberlin - New Surrender
The Kooks - Konk
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
American Music Club - The Golden Age
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come Easy Go
Lambchop - OH (ohio)
Group 3
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - The Cross Of My Calling
The Walkmen - You & Me
Woven Hand - Ten Stones
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
Anathema - Hindsight
36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Group 4
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces
Why? - Alopecia
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
The Caesars - Strawberry Weed
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
Group 5
Herman Dune - Next Year In Zion
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
The Hellacopters - Heads Off!
Pete Philly & Perquisite - Mystery Repeats
Deerhunter - Microcastle
The Dodos - Visiter
Aimee Mann - @#%&! Smilers
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Group 6
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Blackmail - Tempo Tempo
The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
Everlast - Love, War And The Ghost Of Whitey Ford
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
HORSE the band - A Natural Death
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Disturbed - Indestructible
Group 7
Sons and Daughters - This Gift
Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
Beck - Modern Guilt
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
Cat Power - Jukebox
Juana Molina - un dia
Rosenstolz - Die Suche geht weiter
Group 8
Fear My Thoughts - Isolation
Deadlock - Manifesto
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Donots - Coma Chameleon
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
Adele - 19
Group 9
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
A.Armada - Anam Cara
Donovan Frankenreiter - Pass it Around
Jolie Holland - The Living And The Dead
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Tindersticks - Tindersticks
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Group 10
September Malevolence - After This Darkness, There Is A Next
Misery Speaks - Catalogue Of Carnage
Eaten by Sheiks - Bold
Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
Santogold - Santogold
Portishead - Third
Group 11
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
Kettcar - Sylt
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
Group 12
Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
Leech - The Stolen View
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
Klee - Berge versetzen
Murder by Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
Misery Index - Traitors
Feeder - Silent Cry
Group 13
The Haunted - Verses
Heaven Shall Burn - ICONOCLAST
31 Knots - Worried Well
Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun
PeterLicht - melancholie und gesellschaft
AC/DC - Black Ice
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Group 14
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Seperation
Al Green - Lay It Down
Emil Bulls - The Black Path
Pennywise - Reason To Believe
The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
Group 15
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Tomte - Heureka
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Attack In Black - Marriage
Sigur Rós - Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Fall Out Boy - Folie À Deux
Disco Ensemble - Magic Recoveries
Group 16
Die Toten Hosen - In aller Stille
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
emirsian - Yelq
Duffy - Rockferry
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Randy Newman - Harps And Angels
Group 17
Soulfly - Conquer
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Metronomy - Nights Out
I Am Kloot - Play Moolah Rouge
Able Baker Fox - Voices
Funeral For A Friend - Memory And Humanity
Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
Polarkreis 18 - The Colour Of Snow
Group 18
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Ellen Alien - Sool
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static
Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Have Another Ball!
High Places - High Places
The Fratellis - Here We Stand
Group 19
John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
UNKLE - End Titles... Stories For Film
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
Farin Urlaub - Die Wahrheit Übers Lügen
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Group 20
Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Jackson Browne - The Time Conqueror
Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Audrey - The Fierce and the Longing
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Torche - Meanderthal
Group 21
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
The Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Trivium - Shogun
Gregor Samsa - Rest
WE - Tension & Release
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Group 22
Beehover - Heavy Zooo
Nada Surf - Lucky
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice
Ry Cooder - I, Flathead
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
The Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather
Travis - Ode To J. Smith
From First to Last - From First To Last
Group 23
Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt
Madsen - Frieden im Krieg
Tilly and the Wall - O
John Hiatt - Same Old Man
Gonzales - Soft Power
Klimt 1918 - In Case We'll Never Meet Again
Weezer - The Red Album
Motörhead - Motörizer
Group 24
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
dEUS - Vantage Point
+/- - Xs on Your Eyes
Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life
Group 25
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
Damiera - Quiet Mouth Loud Hands
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
Neva Dinova - You May Already Be Dreaming
Slut - StillNo1
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore & Superstition
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Group 26
The Roots - Rising Down
Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy of The Soul
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
The Futureheads - This Is Not the World
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Bloc Party - Intimacy
The Indelicates - American Demo
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Group 27
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV: Air & Earth
Thomas D - Kennzeichen D
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets
Scars on Broadway - Scars On Broadway
Al Stewart - Sparks Of The Ancient
Unearth - The March
Group 28
The Bronx - III
Tricky - Knowle West Boy
A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven Lonelier Than God
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Caspian - The Four Trees
Group 29
Elvis Costello - Momofuku
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In
Backyard Babies - Backyard Babies
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Anna Ternheim - Leaving On A Mayday
Grace Jones - Hurricane
MIA. - Willkommen im Club
Group 30
Albert Hammond Jr. - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Killers - Day and Age
Opeth - Watershed
Sport - Unter Den Wolken
Constantines - Constantines
Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
Foals - Antidotes
Group 31
The Kills - Midnight Boom
The Subways - All or Nothing
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Sugarplum Fairy - The Wild One
CSS - Donkey
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
The Rascals - Rascalize
Group 32
Little Joy - Little Joy
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Hot Club de Paris - Live at Dead Lake
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Nickelback - The Dark Horse
Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean And The Sun

1-10
Estelle - American Boy
Kelley Polar - Rosenband
Erykah Badu - Telephone
School of Seven Bells - Sempiternal/Amaranth
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
Portishead - The Rip
Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight
Emiliana Torrini - Bleeder
British Sea Power - No Lucifer

11-20
Vampire Weekend - Bryn
Camille - The Monk
Goldfrapp - A&E
Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
Santogold/Diplo - Get it Up (Radioclit Remix) feat. M.I.A and Gorilla Joe
Antony & The Johnsons - Another World
Emiliana Torrini - Beggar's Prayer
Frida Hyvönen - Oh Shanghai
Cyndi Lauper - Echo
Juana Molina - ¿Quién? (Suite)

21-30
Adele - Hometown Glory
Those Dancing Days - Hitten
Elbow - Weather To Fly
Eliza Carthy - Hug You Like A Mountain
Al Green - Lay It Down feat. Anthony Hamilton
The Ting Tings - Great DJ
Duffy - Mercy
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - Here Comes My Ship
Al Green - Take Your Time feat. Corinne Bailey Rae
Sam Sparro - Black & Gold

31-40
Camille - Kfir
Al Green - You've Got The Love I Need feat. Anthony Hamilton
Juana Molina - Un Día
Justine Electra - Blues & Reds
Mayra Andrade - Lua
School of Seven Bells - Prince of Peace
The Presets - Yippiyo-Ay
Toumani Diabaté - Kaounding Cissko
James Yorkston - Beryl's Jig
Monade - Etoile

41-50
Natacha Atlas - La Vida Callada
Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Nicole Atkins - Brooklyn's On Fire!
Operator Please - Just A Song About Ping Pong
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Back Burner
Ladytron - Kletva
Lykke Li - Complaint Department
Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum

51-60
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat
Goldfrapp - Clowns
Emiliana Torrini - Birds
Duffy - Rockferry
School of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise
Portishead - Machine Gun
Rye Rye - Shake It To The Ground
Beck - Gamma Ray
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning
Buraka Som Sistema - Kalemba (Wegue Wegue) feat Pongo Love

61-70
Goldfrapp - Monster Love
The Presets - Talk Like That
Lykke Li - Little Bit
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Elbow - One Day Like This
Erykah Badu - Honey
akiko kiyama - The Innocent
The Breeders - Overglazed
Stereolab - Valley Hi!
Foals - The French Open

71-80
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
Roots Manuva - Do Nah Bodda Mi
Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof
of Montreal - Gallery Piece
Kelley Polar - A Dream in Three Parts (on themes by Enesco)
School of Seven Bells - Wired For Light
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Frida Hyvönen - Birds
Obi Best - Swedish Boy

81-90
Amadou & Mariam - Djama
Hot Chip - Don't Dance
N.E.R.D - Love Bomb
Janet Jackson - Rock With U
Little Boots - Meddle
Jazmine Sullivan - Lions, Tigers and Bears
Kanye West - Paranoid Feat. Kid Cudi
Nitin Sawhney - Bring It Home (feat. Imogen Heap)
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Ooo Wee
Tricky - Puppy Toy

91-100
Santogold - L.E.S Artistes
Leila - Mettle
Kelley Polar - Chrysanthemum
T.I. - Swagga Like Us feat. Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Kanye West
Black Mountain - Stormy High
Allá - Una Dia Otra Noche
Buraka Som Sistema - Aqui para Voces (feat. Deize Tigrona)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Trouble
Aeroplane - Whispers (Original Mix) feat. Kathy Diamond
Shelby Lynne - The Look Of Love

Efterklang - Springer
Ok, they get better later, but not bad.

Machinefabriek - Marijn
Er.... I don't know what I expected. I don't know what I got

No Age - Nouns
I bought this album just because of Teen Creeps, which is bloody brilliant. Specially the vocal "melody".

Slint - Spiderland
Yeah, I've had Tweez for ages, no this too.

white darkness - Nothing
Uh... dark..

Gnaw Their Tongues - The Genocidal Deliverance 7"
..tricky one... but I think I like it

Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood
..same here... Not the easiest stuff but there is something there

The Desert Sessions - Vol. 3 & 4
Ah, Josh has taken all the good songs to QOTSA

The Desert Sessions - Vol. 1 & 2

Aidan Baker - Letters
Good good

HEADPHONES - Headphones
If you think you've been redeemed...

Death - Human
This is so good

James Yorkston - The Year Of The Leopard
I saw, probably, his new ano also on 2x10" tried to find it today without luck

Haram - Drescher
Still brilliant

Marzuraan - Solid Wood
This is really fucking good. It's hard to say why, probabl because the songs/riffs are killers.

[01] The Tallest Man on Earth
"shallow graves" (gravitation)


[02] Lesser González Alvarez
"why is bear billowing?" (carpark)


[03] Mount Eerie
"lost wisdom" (p.w. elverum & sun)


[04] Paavoharju
"laulu laakson kukista" (fonal)


[05] Peter and the Wolf
"mellow owl" (whiskey & apples)


[06] Fire On Fire
"the orchard" (young god)


[07] Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"lie down in the light" (drag city)


[08] Herman Düne
"next year in zion" (source etc.)


[09] Langhorne Slim
"self-titled lp" (kemado)


[10] Micah Blue Smaldone
"the red river" (north east indie)


[11] Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month
"self-titled lp" (soft abuse)


[12] Woods Family Creeps
"self-titled lp" (time-lag)


[13] Arthur Russell
"love is overtaking me" (drag city)


[14] Castanets
"city of refuge" (ashmattic kitty)


[15] Shoreline
"time well spent" (willkommen)


[16] Neil Halstead
"oh! mighty engine" (brushfire)


[17] HMS Ginafore & King Creosote
"love + hate = hate" (fence)


[18] Vetiver
"thing of the past" (gnomonsong)



[19] James Jackson Toth
"waiting in vain" (rykodisk)


[20] Elephant Micah
"exiled magicians" (third uncle)


[21] micah p. hinson and the red empire orchestra
"self-titled lp" (full time hobby)


[22] Misophone
"be glad you are only human" (kning disk)


[23] Beatbeat Whisper
"wonder continental" (digital cloud)


[24] Benoît Pioulard
"temper" (kranky)


[25] Man Man
"rabbit habits" (anti-)


[26] Joose Keskitalo
"joose keskitalo ja kolmas maailmanpalo" (helmi levyt)


[27] Damien Jurado
"caught in the trees" (secretly canadian)


[28] Amanaz
"africa '75" (shadoks)


[29] James Yorkston
"when the haar rolls in" (domino)


[30] Stanley Brinks
"dank u" (b.y. records)

more to come...

1. Balmorhea - Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl)
2. July Skies - The Weather Clock (Make Mine Music)
3. Small Town Boredom - Autumn Might Have Hope (Trome)
4. Gus Black - Today Is Not The Day... To F#@k With Gus Black (Cheap Lullaby)
5. Micah P. Hinson - And The Red Empire Orchestra (Full Time Hobby)
6. James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In (Domino)
7. Gregor Samsa - Rest (The Kora)
8. Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers (Kranky)
9. Matt Elliott - Howling Songs (Ici D'ailleurs)
10. Cocoanut Groove - Madeleine Street (Fridlyst)
11. Adrian Crowley - Long Distance Swimmer (Tin Angel)
12. The Sleeping Years - We're Becoming Islands One By One (Talitres)
13. Lotte Kestner - China Mountain (Self Released)
14. Peter Broderick - Float (Type)
15. Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
16. Tex la Homa - Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea (Acuarela)
17. Benoît Pioulard - Temper (Kranky)
18. Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)
19. Sigur Rós - Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (Emi)
20. Helios - Caesura (Type)
21. Scott Matthew - Scott Matthew (Glitterhouse)
22. Neil Halstead - Oh, Mighty Engine (Brushfire)
23. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road (Glitterhouse)
24. Boduf Songs - How Shadows Chase The Balance (Kranky)
25. Takahiro Kido - Fleursy Music (Plop)
26. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Beggars Banquet)
27. Bubblegum Lemonade - Doubleplusgood (Matinée)
28. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia (4AD)
29. Daniel Martin Moore - Stray Age (Sub Pop)
30. Jacaszek - Treny (Miasmah)
31. Au Revoir Borealis - Dark Enough For Stars (Utter East)
32. Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (Lidar)
33. Ed Laurie - Meanwhile In The Park (Dangerbird)
34. Bird By Snow - Songbread_Another Ocean (Gnome Life)
35. Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Darla)
36. Renfro - Mathematics (Meltwater)
37. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (Wall Of Sound)
38. Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (Kranky)
39. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
40. The Softone - These Days Are Blue (Awful Bliss)
41. Okie Rosette - Leap Second (Monotreme)
42. Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch)
43. The Accidental - There Were Wolves (Full Time Hobby)
44. Heidi Elva - Ships And Trees (Vitamin)
45. Glorytellers - Glorytellers (Southern)
46. The Declining Winter - Goodbye Minnesota (Rusted Rail)
47. Retribution Gospel Choir - Retribution Gospel Choir (Caldo Verde)
48. Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath The Trees (Make Mine Music)
49. Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees (Secretly Canadian)
50. The Accident That Led Me To The World - The Island Gospel (Nobody's Favorite)
51. Lorna - Writing Down Things To Say (Words On Music)
52. Auburn Lull - Begin Civil Twilight (Darla)
53. David Hurn - The Beautiful Trustful Future (Fire)
54. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (Fat Cat)
55. Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (Young And Lost Club)
56. Ilya E. Monosov - Seven Lucky Plays, Or How To Fix Songs For A Broken Heart (Language Of Stone)
57. Televise - Secret Valentine (Distant Noise)
58. Tears Run Rings - Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never (Clairecords)
59. Band in Box - This Fiction (Stereo Test Kit)
60. Tamas Wells - Two Years In April (Lirico)
61. Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (The Militia Group)
62. Anoice - Out Of Season (Ricco)
63. Elephant Micah - Exiled Magicians (Third Uncle)
64. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
65. Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures (Gaarden)
66. The Burning Hell - Happy Birthday (Weewerk)
67. the static silence - Found (Distant Noise)
68. John Shannon - American Mystic (Obliq Sound)
69. Celestial - Crystal Heights (Lavender)
70. con_cetta - Micro (Moteer)
71. Secret Shine - All Of The Stars (Clairecords)
72. Shoreline - Time Well Spent (Willkommen)
73. Mia Doi Todd - Gea (City Zen)
74. The Chapin Sisters - Lake Bottom (Plain)
75. The New Year - The New Year (Touch & Go)
76. The Lucksmiths - First Frost (Matinée)
77. Chandeen - Teenage Poetry (Kalinkaland)
78. Ef - I Am Responsible (And The Sound)
79. The Battle of Land and Sea - The Battle Of Land And Sea (Notenuf)
80. Portishead - Third (Universal)
81. bobby & blumm - Everybody Loves (Morr)
82. Right Away, Great Captain! - Eventually Home (Favorite Gentlemen)
83. Immune - Not Until Morning (Eglantine)
84. Marconi Union - A Lost Connection (Mu Transmissions)
85. Our Broken Garden - When Your Blackening Shows (Bella Union)
86. Pelle Carlberg - The Lilac Time (Labrador)
87. Simon Breed - The Smitten King Laments (Re-Action)
88. A Weather - Cove (Own)
89. Absent Without Leave - Postcards From Nowhere (Distant Noise)
90. Sam Amidon - All Is Well (Bedroom Community)
91. Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go (K)
92. Thousand & Bramier - Go Typhoon! (Arbouse)
93. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light (Domino)
94. Horse Feathers - House With No Home (Kill Rock Stars)
95. Dark Captain Light Captain - Miracle Kicker (Lo Recordings)
96. Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One To Another (Symbolic Interaction)
97. Ass - My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went (Headspin)
98. yellow6 - When The Leaves Fall Like Snow (Make Mine Music)
99. Ida - Lovers Prayers (Polyvinyl)
100. Detektivbyrån - Wermland (Danarkia)

* links on album titles lead to reviews i wrote about them (unfortunately they're all in italian)
** these are only 100 of about 900 albums I listened from this year, so a low position in this list doesn't mean low appreciation.