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Seth brought me on board this year and pays me the big bucks because, unlike some of the other Buzz writers, I have the impeccable music taste that brings in all the awesome people here. Just kidding. I’ll just pretend that at least some of you like the stuff I listen to. Or at least pretend, please? I just need some validation. You know, low self esteem and such.
10. Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger
I became a Ryan Adams whore this year. I started wearing western cut shirts and considered getting a pair of boots. And also going on a cocaine binge. Heartbreaker and Love Is Hell are better but it was such a monumentally Adams year that I had to include it.
9. Explosions In The Sky – All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
I’m a sucker for post-rock. I would consider this their second best album, but it had its moments for sure. It didn’t hurt that I saw them twice in the past year. Great live show.
8. !!! – Myth Takes
I saw these guys at Coachella and they stole the show. Ask any of my friends and they’ll tell you I hate dancing, but Heart Of Hearts makes me want to get my groove on and look like a fool. But I won’t. Only Blake actually does that.
7. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
So maybe my list has a lot to do with who I saw live this year. Don’t care. Moving on. Wincing the Night Away impressed me; Mercer and company messed with their formula just enough that people wouldn’t get sick of the same album all over again, but not so much that they wouldn’t drive anybody away.
6. Interpol – Our Love To Admire
Saw these guys live too. Pioneer to the Falls and The Lighthouse convinced me that they weren’t playing the same song over and over on all their records. But it was just enough to hook me in and get me to learn to enjoy the rest of it.
5. Ion Dissonance – Minus The Herd
It’s like Dillinger Escape Plan with tuned down guitars. And yet somehow not quite like Meshuggah in doing so. And I think their lyrics are actually halfway intelligent. He quotes Nietzsche at one point or something. But don’t quote me on that.
4. A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea
I’m in love with Alison Sudol. Seriously. She can sing, she can play piano and she is gorgeous. I follow her Twitter and check her Myspace page for updates. Nobody tell her though, okay? I don’t think that would be a good idea.
3. Justice – †
It’s like Daft Punk, but without feeling like so much of a guilty pleasure. I’m not sure how. More dirty rock vibe. Not so blantantly techno.
2. Radiohead – In Rainbows
I don’t think I need to say anything about this one. I’ve been a die-hard Radiohead fan for years, so any new release is bound to end up on my year-end list.
1. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Yay, I’m cliché too! And I don’t care. I think I listened to this album a thousand times this year. And I wrote the writeup for the overall list so I don’t feel like coming up with something else to say because I’m lazy.
Honorable mention (because I had a top 20 in the first place and I need all the indie cred I can get):
Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin
Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
Daft Punk – Alive 2007
Eluvium – Copia
Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
M.I.A. – Kala
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
The Snake The Cross The Crown – Cotton Teeth
Josh you’ve made no friends.
Josh=Froam’s most famous member. Hi Josh! Great list Josh! See you!
i’m not really sure what following someone’s twitter means, but i’m not clicking on the link.
good list.
seth i need my check, and back tax money from 2003 to 2005
Long live the Froams! (I have trouble remembering froamers’ real names… remind me who you are. :()
Josh!
Obviously you just bite my taste, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t awesome just the same.
Embraceends. Hello sir!
You know I only read this for
“The Snake The Cross The Crown – Cotton Teeth”
JK… I
That was followed by a “heart you Josh, happy new year”.
they call me thom young
best list.
the shins was a great pick, it is a great album
Eluvium: YES.
Thank God, finally someone in this whole indie music scene with enough sense to at least honorably mention The Snake The Cross The Crown. I love that album!
Word. It might have made it higher on the list if I hadn’t realized how good it was until a few weeks ago.
Bright Eyes should have been on the top ten.
josh,
i really enjoyed your top 10 list…although imo the new radiohead blows. thanks for including ryan adams
what about brandi carlile “the story” or the new josh rouse cd?
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