Mal ein Versuch, das Jahr in eine besternte Liste zu verpacken:
*****
Arizona Amp And Alternator – s/t
Nine Horses – Snow Borne Sorrow (mein Album des Jahres)
****1/2
Ryan Adams – Cold Roses
Aesop Rock – Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives
Antony & The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
Vic Chesnutt – Ghetto Bells
Roisin Murphy – Ruby Blue
Archer Prewitt – Wilderness
M. Ward – Transistor Radio
****
Animal Collective – Feels (mit Tendenz zur ****1/2)
Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
Vashti Bunyan – Lookaftering
Dälek – Absence
The Earlies – These Were The Earlies
Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
Hood – Outside Closer
Iron & Wine – Woman King
Stephen Malkmus – Face The Truth
Sam Prekop – Who’s Your New Professor
Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise
***1/2
13 & God – s/t
Akron/Family – s/t
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Lou Barlow – Emoh
Calexico/Iron &Wine – In The Reins
Caribou – The Milk Of Human Kindness
Currituck Co. – Sleepwalks In The Garden Of The Deadroom
The Decemberists – Picaresque
Ben Folds – Songs For Silverman
Bright Eyes – Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
The Herbaliser – Take London
Hobotalk – Notes On Sunset
Malcolm Middleton – Into The Woods
The National – Alligator
Public Enemy – New Whirl Odor
Josh Rouse – Nashville
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Außer Konkurrenz:
Wilco – Kicking Television *****
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall *****
Enttäuschungen:
Jaga Jazzist – What we must ** (nach den letzten beiden sehr schönen Alben für mich ein wirklicher Rückschritt, nichts von der vertrackten Verspieltheit, dafür stellenweise ziemlich pompös)
The Wingdale Community Singers – s/t ** (das langweiligste, was ich bisher von David Grubbs gehört habe)