I believe I located the DMCA problem - It seems the Arctic Monkeys track is only available from their website. Anyways - I strongly encourage you to support the artists and buy their albums!
The first quarter of the year is over and it has been a good year in music so far. There have a been a few standout albums that I really go back to again and again:
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
James Blake - James Blake
P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
Destroyer - Kaputt
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Bright Eyes - The People's Key
Still absorbing the Generationals and Wye Oak and looking forward to TV On Radio, The Vaccines, Raveonettes, and Low. Radiohead was a little disappointing (by that I mean it didn't change my life), but with every listen I like it more, same with the Yuck album. So below is a great mix of early favorites for the year, although I picked some tracks simply because they were available. I personally like Dear Avery best off The Decemberists album and can't pick a favorite on P.J. Harvey or Destroyer. Please tell me what I left off or screwed up below in the comments section and while you are at it, sign up and follow me.
My top 28 in no particular order, just how I thought they sounded nice:
1.Juliana Barwick -
Prizewinning (Alias Pail Remix) from the album The Magic Place
2. P.J. Harvey -
Last Living Rose from the album Let England Shake
3. Bright Eyes -
Shell Game from the album The People's Key
4. TV On the Radio -
Caffeinated Consciousness from soon to be released album Nine Types of Light
5. Cloud Nothings -
Understand At All from the album Cloud Nothings
6. Say Hi -
Dots On a Map from the album Um, Uh Oh
7. The Decemberists -
Calamity Song from the album The King Is Dead
8. Akron/Family -
So It Goes from the album S/T II:The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
9. Radiohead -
Codex from the album The King of Limbs
10. Daughter -
Run from Demo album
11. James Blake -
The Wilhelm Scream from the album James Blake
12. Lykke Li -
I Follow Rivers from album of same name
13. Cults -
Go Outside from soon to be released album
14. Smith Westerns -
All Die Young from Dye It Blonde
15. Generationals -
Ten-Twenty-Ten from Actor-Castor
16. Broken Bells -
Meyrin Fields from Meyrin Fields EP
17. Cut Copy -
Take Me Over from Zonoscope
18. Tennis -
Take Me Somewhere from the album Cape Dory
19. Braids -
Lemonade from the album Native Speaker
20. Wye Oak -
Civilian from the album Civilian
21. Destroyer -
Song For America from the album Kaputt
22. Bill Callahan -
Baby's Breath from soon to be released album Apocalypse
23. Ducktails -
Killin The Vibe from the album Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
24. Tapes 'n Tapes -
Badaboom from Outside
25.
Arctic Monkeys - Brick By Brick from soon top be released album
26. Yuck -
Rubber from the album Yuck
27. Okkervil River -
The Mermaid from soon to be released album
28. James Vincent McMorrow -
If I Had A Boat from the album Early In the Morning
Well enjoy the tunes - keep coming back and don't forget to watch LCD Soundsystem on Pitchfork this Saturday!
