- Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Vivian Girls, Everything Goes Wrong
- Atlas Sound, Logos
- Dan Deacon, Bromst
- HEALTH, Get Color
- Sonic Youth, The Eternal
- Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
- Mount Eerie, Wind's Poem
- The Flaming Lips, Embryonic
- Bibio, Ambivalence Avenue
- Various, 5 Years of Hyperdub
- Polvo, In Prism
...but then the Flaming Lips came along with their fantastic cover of "Dark Side of the Moon" and it sort of reshuffled my thinking; I've been listening to it a lot and it's kind of messing me up. Before this year I didn't even like the Flaming Lips or "Dark Side of the Moon," so I'm thinking it must be pretty good, right? I dunno... let's just call it No. 12a for now.
Of course, if the new Spoon album came out today instead of three weeks from now, I would probably have to shuffle my list some more, at least based on the first two songs from it. But that's probably not going to happen. I think.
