So, it’s that time of year, when everybody and their sister has a list of their favorite releases of the year. They’re numbered merely by impressionistic preference, how much I liked them, how often, and/or obsessively, I played them. 10 is merely the starting point for the album I enjoyed the most. (It’s not a 10 as in perfection, though FOTL’s “Travels…” is definitely one of my faves for this decade.) The other numbers are an approximation of enjoyment in relation to others.

10
Future of the Left – Travels With Myself And Another

9.6
Metric – Fantasies
Soulsavers – Broken

9.4
The Raveonettes – In and Out of Control
Regina Spektor – Far
The Broken Family Band – Please and Thank You
Lightning Dust – Infinite Light

9.2
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
The Thermals – Now We Can See
The Antlers – Hospice

9.0
Girls – Album
Heartless Bastards – Mountain
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – ST

8.8
Bats for Lashes – Two Suns
Clem Snide – Hungry Bird
Justin Townes Earle – Midnight at the Movies
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw
Eels – Hombre Lobo
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love

8.5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Its Blitz
Marissa Nadler – Little Hells
P.O.S. – Never Better
Artic Monkeys – Humbug
PPP – Abundance
The Veils – Sun Gangs
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

8.2
Handsome Furs – Face Control
DOOM – Born Like This
Strand of Oaks – Leave Ruin
Elvis Perkins – Elvis Perkins In Dearland
The Dead Weather – Horehound
Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day

7.5-8.0
Fires of Rome – You Kingdom You
John Doe & the Sadies – Country Club
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Tegan & Sara – Sainthood
Dan Deacon – Bromst