Aaron Vanimere
Albums:
Arcade Fire, Suburbs
The National, High Violet
Jamey Johnson, The Guitar Song
Titus Andronicus, The Monitor
Perfume Genius, Learning
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Wolf Parade, EXPO 86
LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
Dillinger Escape Plan, Option Paralysis
Patty Griffin, Downtown Church
Songs:
The National, Runaway
Arcade Fire, Suburban War
The Walkmen, Stranded
Kanye West, Runaway
Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone
Patty Griffin, Coming Home To Me
Sufjan Stevens, Want To Be Well
Titus Andronicus, A More Perfect Union
Justin Townes Earle, Rogers Park
Drive-By Truckers, The Flying Wallendas
Heather Wallace
Albums:
Arcade Fire, Suburbs
The National, High Violet
Guster, Easy Wonderful
Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown by Kings of Leon
The Black Keys, Brothers
Vampire Weekend, Contra
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beat The Devil’s Tattoo
Broken Bells, Broken Bells
Ra Ra Riot, The Orchard
Minus The Bear, Omni
Songs:
The National, Bloodbuzz Ohio
Arcade Fire, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) and We Used to Wait
Guster, Architects and Engineers
U2, Mercy
Ra Ra Riot, Boy
Mumford and Sons, Awaken My Soul
U2, Every Breaking Wave (unreleased)
Sandra Sperounes
My favourite albums are posted here.
Songs:
The National, Conversation 16
Arcade Fire, Rococo
Die Antwoord, Evil Boy
Fanshaw, Strong Hips
Yeasayer, O.N.E.
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
What, no Janelle Monae???
Yes-yes. Janelle Monae. It was a great year for music and unfortunately you can’t have everybody on your list
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I will say Monae had the best late night performance-of the year-on Letterman. She was absolutely smoking!!!!
Janelle Monae, yes…The ArchAndroid was up higher on my list…but it was SO hard to only pick 10 albums, there were so many amazing albums that we talked about at #yegmusicclub and her name came up so many times.
I know we all struggled to get that list under 10…most of us could have produced a top 25.