Happy New Year everyone!
As usual, too much music and too little time.  But I managed to whittle
it down to the following items that I enjoyed throughout the year.

1.	The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind (Dead Oceans)(I bought both CD
& Vinyl!)
2.	Cliff Hillis - The Long Now (Tallboy) (great show in NYC!)
3.	Pugwash - Eleven Modern Antiquities (1969)
4.	IKE - Where to Begin (self released)
5.	Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil Beethoven)
6.	Sloan - Parallel Play (Yep Roc)(on vinyl)
7.	The Bridges - Limits of the Sky (Verve Forecast) (produced by
Matthew Sweet)
8.	Greg Pope - Popmonster (Octoberville)
9.	The Major Labels - Aquavia (self released)
10.	The Break & Repair Method - Milk the Bee (Bluhammock)
11.	Rick Springfield - Venus in Overdrive (New Door)
12.	Kelly Jones - SheBANG! (Good Morning Monster)
13.	The Crayons - What's Wrong with You (Near)(produced by the
Churchills)
14.	Little Jackie - The Stoop (S Curve) (I love Imani Coppola!)
15.	Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)(on vinyl)
16.	Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal (Back Porch)(on vinyl)
17.	Luke Jackson - ...And Then Some (Popsicle)
18.	Carrie Rodriguez - She Ain't Me (Back Porch)
19.	She & Him - Volume One (Merge)(on vinyl)
20.	Spiraling - Time Travel Made Easy (Dancing Pawn)

And just to make it interesting, I bought a bunch of vinyl this year, so
here's my top 15 VINYL (first five made the Top 20 above)
	6.  Mates of State - Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)
7.	Duffy - Rockferry (Mercury)
8.	TV on the Radio - Dear Science (DGC)
9.	Shelby Lynne - Just a Little (Lost Highway)
10.	Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
11.	Jim Boggia - Misadventures in Stereo (vinyl is
MONO!)(Bluhammock)
12.	Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing (Polyvinyl)
13.	Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
14.	Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
15.	Rosebuds - Like Life (Merge)

And finally I wanted to add a top 5 EP just so I could mention Scott
Simons new EP (he used to be in The Argument and recorded one of my
favorite CDs of all time - Recess Serenade)
1.	Scott Simons - The Start of Something (Rostrum)
2.	Mike Previti - Lights (self released?)
3.	Scot Sax - While She Was Working (self released)
4.	Janelle Monae - Metropolis (Bad Boy)
5.	Lykke Li - Little Bit (LL Recordings)

Looking forward to another year of too much music & not enough time!
Pop on!
John