These are the albums that I’ve enjoyed most so far this year (in no particular order).
- Sam Phillips – Don’t Do Anything
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
- Loudon Wainwright III – Recovery
- Bob Dylan – Tell Tale Signs, The Bootleg Series vol. 8
- Portishead – Third
- Cat Power – Jukebox
- Lizz Wright – The Orchard
- Allison Moorer – Mockingbird
- Son Lux – At War With Walls and Mazes
- Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Baby 81
- Marco Benevento – Invisible Baby
- Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
- Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant (EP)
- David Byrne and Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
- T-Bone Burnett – Tooth of Crime
- Sigur Rós – Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
- DeVotchKa – A Mad and Faithful Telling
- Aimee Mann – @#%&*! Smilers
- Woven Hand – Ten Stones
- The Welcome Wagon – Welcome to The Welcome Wagon