Best Albums Of The Year Lists

[SteveO]

Japandroids - Celebration Rock...I love this album from this Canadian duo ...I reviewed this on MD ! and Cloud Nothings did nothing for me ...that's the only two I listened to in Indie Rock on this list this year !

I reviewed Anathema's Weather Systems and I am pleased it's at the top for prog rock !..one of the best albums I have heard in years !

The Canadian album should have Neil Young and Crazy Horse in there with Psychedelic Pill !!!!!! Glad to see Americana there ,,,, Kathleen Edwards is much better live ! and Whitehorse should be rated much higher IMHO !

The new Rush album didn't do much for me...same old same old !

I'll start this off with charts from a site called popmatters
At this point they have 5 different charts of different genres
Some sites specify a genre, others don't
But let's not get into the whole genre thing.
Just look at 'em, and comment if you wish.

Popmatters


Indie-Rock
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1) Chromatics - Kill For Love
2) Swans - The Seer
3) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
4) Metz - Metz
5) Beach House - Bloom
6) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
7) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
8) Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distnce
9) DIIV - Oshin
10) Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery


Indie-Pop
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1) Allo Darlin'
2) Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer
3) Smittems - Believe Me
4) Tennis - Young And Hold
5) Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
6) One Happy Island - The Purpose Of The Surface
7) Jon DeRosa - A Wolf In Preacher's Clothes
8) Literature - Square Of Opposition
9) School - Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything
10) HighWater Marks - Pretending To Be Loud


Pop-Punk
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1) Yellowcard - Southern Air
2) Such Gold - Misadventures
3) Motion City Soundtrack - Go
4) Early November - In Currents
5) Go Radio - Close The Distance
6) All Time Low - Don't Panic
7) MXPX - Plans Within Plans
8) Pentimento - Pentimento
9) Sparks The Rescue - Sparks The Rescue
10) I Call Fives - I Call Fives


Prog-Rock (Metal)
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1) Anathema - Weather Systems
2) Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
3) Rush - Clockwork Angels
4) Baroness - Yellow & Green
5) Astra - The Black Chord
6) Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
7) Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
8) Beardfish - The Void
9) Ihsahn - Eremita
10) Pepe Deluxe - Queen Of The Wave


Canadian Albums
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1) Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
2) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
3) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Dont Bend! Ascend!
4) Luyas - Animator
5) Metz - Metz
6) Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues
7) Slakadeliqs - The Other Side Of Tomorrow
8) Whitehorse - The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
9) Daphni - Jiaolong
10) A Tribe Called Red - A Tribe Called Red