Due to personal qualms with quantifying anything, my list is just in alphabetical order (plus one honorable mention thrown in the mix.)
Oh, hello.
Alela Diane - to be still.
Beautiful all around. Best Live performance of the past year at the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
Bill Callahan- sometimes I wish we were an eagle.
Engulfing (SMOG LIKE) soliloquizing vocals.
Dirty Projectors - bitte orca.
Vocal acrobatics.
Heartless Bastards – the mountain.
Confident folk-blues. All things good.
Kurt Vile - childish prodigy.
Lo-fi Philly boy.
Le Loup – family.
Atmospheric with a title the permeates throughout the lyrics.
Phoenix – wolfgang amadeus phoenix.
Any album that allows me to shake my hair throughout its entirety is okay in my books.
Raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx 2.
Shit IS bulletproof, Raekwon.
Real Estate - real estate
I like when music can be equated to a season and this album feels like summertime.
Rural Alberta Advantage - hometowns.
Stripped indie emotionalism. Also, the band members are unnaturally adorable/positive.
XX - xx
Straight to the point.
