What's your favorite album released so far this year?

[Skinner]

It's either

or

But I probably shouldn't kid myself and just admit that the Dredg album wins, they always win because they are my favorite band.

 

[ganglord in ny]

Dark Was the Night

 

[Sharron Needles]

Besides YOR, the YYY's 'It's Blitz!' would be my fave.

 

[battersea]

The Antlers ' Hospice'

 

[Nats1977]

Andrew Bird,
Grizzly Bear &
Broken Records

So far...

 

[Ben Budd]

Thus far -

The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

 

[snowfallsoon]

The Antlers ' Hospice'

FINALLY someone else loves this one!

 

[battersea]

FINALLY someone else loves this one!

Oh yes.I saw them 3 times this earlier this month and they are back in the UK and also some European dates in November.

 

[Anaesthesine]

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

One of the few albums I can think of that gets even better on the 1000th listen.

 

[libby]

I'm loving the new Frank Turner album

 

[MyDoppelganger]

I quite liked The Mars Volta's Octahedron. It pales in comparison to their other work, but it's still a damn fine album.

I also love, love, love Beirut's March of the Zapotec/Holland. The Realpeople/Holland disc is fantastic.

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

One of the few albums I can think of that gets even better on the 1000th listen.

Am I the only one that isn't really a fan of The Crying Light?
I Am A Bird Now is one of my favourite albums ever, but The Crying Light had no emotional resonance with me, unfortunately.

 

[Anaesthesine]

^^

I'm one of the few people who didn't really like I Am a Bird Now - it did nothing for me (although it is one of the greatest album covers of all time). I liked Antony, but I thought he was terribly overrated.

The Crying Light, on the other hand, really speaks to me in the most powerful, intimate way.

I guess that's the wonder of it all.

 

[snowfallsoon]

^^

I'm one of the few people who didn't really like I Am a Bird Now - it did nothing for me (although it is one of the greatest album covers of all time). I liked Antony, but I thought he was terribly overrated.

The Crying Light, on the other hand, really speaks to me in the most powerful, intimate way.

I guess that's the wonder of it all.

I really love both of them...

 

[ganglord in ny]

The Dark was the Night compilation is tops for me this year

 

[Have-A-Go Merchant]

The Horrors - Primary Colours
Peaches - I Feel Cream
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Depeche Mode - The Sound Of The Universe
Desire - II

 

[fuckfrankie]

also:

Former Ghosts-Fleurs
Cold Cave-Love Comes Close

 

[erik_eriksson]

Taken by Trees
Peter Doherty
Emma the Great
The Bear Quartet

 

[I am a Ghost]

 

[ItalianCousin]

Editors - In this light and on this evening
U2 - No line on the horizon
Depeche Mode - Sound of the Universe

I'm sorry to say, but I'm not really in love with Moz releases this year ..

As regards reissues a particolar mention IMO for Durutti Column Four Factory Records

 

[therightone]