Doing these lists are always an exercise in frustration because it is a moving target. I am very subjective about this and this compiled list would look different on any given day. I know there is a lot more great music either on the bottom of this list or in my collection but not listed at all because I haven't listened to them enough. So much wonderful music takes time and repeated listens to reveal greatness. There is also a lot of music I saw on various end of the year lists that I've acquired recently that will be in high rotation over the coming months and years.
Albums that are compilations, anthologies and reissues are in another list.
So here is the list which really starts out with a nice mellow groove until DIIV and then especially the craziness of Goat.
- Father John Misty - Fear Fun
- Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
- First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
- Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker and Yim Yames - New Multitudes
- DIIV - Oshin
- Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold
- Goat - World Music
- Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
- Field Report - Field Report
- Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship
- Cat Power - Sun
- Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
- Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
- Exitmusic - Passage
- Calexico - Algiers
- Grizzly Bear - Shields
- Tame Impala - Lonerism
- Beach House - Bloom
- Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben
- Bob Dylan - Temptest
- Alejandro Escovedo - Big Station
- Grimes - Visions
- Shovel & Rope - O' Be Joyful
- Islands - A Sleep and A Forgetting
- Lower Dens - Nootropics
- Plants and Aninals - The End Of That
- The Stray Birds - The Stray Birds
- The Swans - Seer
- Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellen
- Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
- Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
- Dr. John - Locked Down
- Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
- Marissa Nadler - The Sister
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
- Pinback - Information Retrieved
- Black Prairie - A Tear In The Eye Is A Wound In The Heart
- Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden
- Gary Clark Jr. - Black and Blu
- Shawn Colvin - All Fall Down
- Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
- Dwight Yoakim - 3 Pears
- Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
- Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
- Bro. Stephen - Baptist Girls
- Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
- Jack White - Blunderbuss
- Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
- Giant Sand - Tucson
- Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
- Laura Gibson - La Grande
- Damien Jurado - Maraqopo
- The Lumineers - The Lumineers
- Bob Mould - Silver Age
- Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
- The Shins - Port of Morrow
- Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables
- Various Artists - The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond
- 2:54 - 2:54
- Allah Las - Allah Las
- Joseph Arthur - Redemption City
- The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
- Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
- Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland
- Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
- Paul Brill - Breezy
- Sera Cahoone - Deer Creek Canyon
- Callers - Reviver
- Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
- Ry Cooder - Election Special
- Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
- Daphni - Jiaolong
- The dBs - Falling Off The Sky
- Iris Dement - Sing The Delta
- Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
- The Dreaming Spires - Brothers in Brooklyn
- Justin Townes Earle - Nothings Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
- Evening Hymns - Spectral Dusk
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
- Grand Duchy - Let The People Speak
- Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
- Heartless Bastards - Arrow
- The Helio Sequence - Negotiations
- John Hiatt - Mystic Pinball
- Kelly Hogan - I Like To Keep Myself In Pain
- Hundred Waters - Hundred Waters
- Jamey Johnson - Livin' For A Song
- Lambchop - Mr. M
- Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
- Bettye Levette - Thankful n' Thoughtful
- Cate Le Bon - Cyrk
- Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
- Jeff Lynne - Longwave
- Maps & Atlases - Beware and Be Grateful
- Rhett Miller - The Dreamer
- Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale - Buddy & Jim
- Mmoss - Only Children
- Oberhofer - Time Capsules II
- Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
- Opossum - Electric Hawaii
- Peaking Lights - Lucifer
- Chuck Prophet - Temple Beautiful
- Joe Pug - The Great Depiser
- Screaming Females - Ugly
- Sea Wolf - Old World Romance
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here
- Shearwater - Animal Joy
- Sigur Ros - Valtari
- Chris Smither - Hundred Dollar Valentine
- Spirtualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
- Angus Stone - Broken Brights
- Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves
- Tindersticks - The Something Rain
- M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion
- Wild Nothing - Nocturne
- Winterpills - All My Lovely Goners
- Wood - Bend Beyond
- Neil Young - Americana
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