top ten fever

End of the year means time for lists. Here's our own picks, the albums that have been keeping us warm the last twelve months:

Joe's top ten (in alphabetical order):
-Ryan Adams, Cardinology
-Breeders, Mountain Battles
-Bye Bye Blackbirds, Houses and Homes
-Miller Carr & The Shalants, Passage Through Wilderness vol. 2 (pictured)
-Dead Child, Attack
-Deerhunter, Microcastle
-Kings of Leon, Only By The Night
-The Oh Sees, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
-Racebannon, Acid or Blood
-Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Roll With You

Mike's top ten (ranked):
1. Marnie Stern, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That...
2. The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
3. Department of Eagles, In Ear Park
4. Blitzen Trapper, Furr
5. Brightblack Morning Light, Motion to Rejoin
6. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, We Brave Bee Stings and All
7. Future of the Left, Curses
8. Miller Carr & the Shalants, Passage Through Wilderness vol. 2 (still pictured)
9. Glasvegas, Glasvegas
10. Why?, Alopecia

Best compilation of the year (by far): The Move, Anthology 1966-1972