i get lazier every year.

Here’s my top 25 albums of the year list:
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling

Q-Tip - The Renaissance

Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust

Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Samuel Jackson Five - Goodbye Melody Mountain

Russian Circles - Station

Torche - Meanderthal

Talkdemonic - Eyes at Half Mast

Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You

Black Milk - Tronic

Fuck Button - Street Horrrsing

No Age - Nouns

Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader

Fucked Up - Chemistry of Common Life

Notwist - The Devil, You + Me

Pyramids - Through the Hourglass

Bellafea - Calvacade

Portishead - Third

Apse - Eras

High Places - High Places

Loma Prieta - Last City

Cool Kids - The Bake Sale

Panther - 14kt God

Mount Eerie - Black Wooden Ceiling

Gregor Samsa - Rest

These albums were close but didn’t make the cut for one reason or another:
Alias - Resurgam
Ascent of Everest - How Lonely Sits the City
Ef - I Am Responsible
Lil Wayne - The Carter III
Growing - Lateral
Hauschka - Ferndorf
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Maps & Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain
Off Minor - Some Blood
Why? - Alopecia
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
Sinaloa - Oceans of Islands
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
The Catalyst - Mariana’s Trench
Faraquet - Anthology
Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You


Those last three didn’t even come out this year; they’re re-issues and such. They’re just that good. Unfortunately I made a rule for myself and I must abide by it. I almost broke it for that Microphones re-issue, though.