3 Five star bonafide truly great albums destined to be regarded as absolute classics by a lot of folk in the years to come
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
7 flirting with future classic status
Elbow, the Seldom Seen Kid
The Jimmy Cake, Spectre & Crown
Sigur Rós : Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
Portishead, Third
Jape, Ritual
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt 1: 4th World War
5 consistently excellent albums
Lykke Li, Youth Novels
Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazarus! Dig!
Laura Marling, Alas I Cannot Swim
Martha Wainwright, I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
2 Quality albums
Cat Power, Jukebox
The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
7 intermittently excellent efforts
Santogold, Santogold
Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
Beck, Modern Guilt
The Dodos, Visiter
Gemma Hayes, The Hollow of the Morning
My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
7 good, solid but not amazing albums
Coldplay, Viva La Vida
R.E.M., Accelerate
Foals, Antidotes
The Breeders, Mountain Battles
Tapes’n’Tapes, Walk it Off
The Roots, Rising Down,
Vetiver, A Thing of the Past
2 comments:
Laura Marling: oh so good.
Bon Iver: Amazing
Raconteurs: 'Carolina Drama' is the song of the year.
Great picks here Alan.
hi ronan, yup was delighted to see Marling added to the Electric Picnic line up the other week. Add that to getting my hands on tickets for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver today, the gig future is lookin rosy!
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