The Rest of My List of the Year’s Best Albums

The Felice Brothers
Yonder Is the Clock

The Fiery Furnaces
I’m Going Away
Take Me Round Again

The Flaming Lips
Embryonic

Florence and the Machine
Lungs

Franz Ferdinand
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Fruit Bats
The Ruminant Band

Girls
Album

Gomez
A New Tide

Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest

Handsome Furs
Face Control

Harlem Shakes
Technicolor Health

Heartless Bastards
The Mountain

Hockey
Mind Chaos

The Horrors
Primary Colours

Hoots and Hellmoutha
The Holy Open Secret

Iggy Pop
Preliminaires

Imogen Heap
Ellipse

Ingrid Michaelson
Everybody

Iron and Wine
Around the Well

Islands
Vapours

Japandroids
Post-Nothing

Jarvis Cocker
Further Complications

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Jay Reatard
Watch Me Fall

Jet
Shaka Rock

The Juan MacLean
The Future Will Come

Kasabian
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

K’NAAN
Troubadour

Langhorne Slim
Be Set Free

Liam Finn
Champagne In Seashells

Loney, Dear
Dear John

M. Ward
Hold Time

Mastodon
Crack the Skye

The Mars Volta
Octahedron

Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything to Nothing

Mat Kearney
City of Black & White

Matisyahu
Light

Matt and Kim
Grand

Metric
Fantasies

Micachu and the Shapes
Jewellery

Modest Mouse
No One’s First and You’re Next

Morrissey
Years of Refusal

The Mountain Goats
The Life Of The World To Come

Monsters of Folk
Monsters of Folk

MSTRKRFT
Fist of God

Muse
The Resistance

Mute Math
Armistice

Neil Young
Fork in the Road

Neko Case
Middle Cyclone

Noah and the Whale
The First Days of Spring

Noisettes
Wild Young Hearts

Os Mutantes
Haih Or Amortecedor

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Passion Pit
Manners

Pearl Jam
Backspacer

Pete Yorn
Back and Fourth

Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson
Break Up

Peter, Bjorn and John
Living Thing

Phish
Joy

Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

PJ Harvey and John Parish
A Woman a Man Walked By

Portugal. the Man
The Satanic Satanist

Polvo
In Prism

The Prodigy
Invaders Must Die

The Raveonettes
In and Out of Control

Regina Spektor
Far

Riceboy Sleeps
Riceboy Sleeps

Robert Pollard
The Crawling Distance

Röyksopp
Junior

Ryan Bingham
Roadhouse Sun

Sara Watkins
Sara Watkins

Sonic Youth
The Eternal

The Sounds
Crossing the Rubicon

St. Vincent
Actor

Stars of Track and Field
A Time For Lions

Street Sweeper Social Club
Street Sweeper Social Club

Superdrag
Industry Giants

The Swell Season
Strict Joy

Tegan and Sara
Sainthood

Todd Snider
The Excitement Plan

The Tragically Hip
We Are the Same

Umphrey’s McGee
Mantis

Van Morrison
Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl

The Von Bondies
Love, Hate and Then There’s You

White Lies
To Lose My Life

White Rabbits
It’s Frightening

Why?
Eskimo Snow

Wilco
Wilco (the Album)

Will Hoge
The Wreckage

William Elliott Whitmore
Animals in the Dark

Wolfmother
Cosmic Egg

Wye Oak
The Knot

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It’s Blitz

Yim Yames
Tribute To

Yo La Tengo
Popular Songs

Yusuf
Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)