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BEST
LP (2011): Battles, Gloss Drop; honorable mention - Braids, Native Speaker
LPs (pre-2011): The Low Anthem, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (2009) / What the Crow Brings (2007); MGMT, Congratulations (2010); Maps and Atlases, Perch Patchwork (2010); The Format, Dog Problems (2006); Ólöf Arnalds, Við Og Við (2007)
EP (2011): Between the Buried and Me, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
EPs (pre-2011): Dirty Projectors + Björk, Mount Wittenberg Orca (2010); MGMT, Metanoia EP (2008)
Followup album: Marnie Stern, Marnie Stern
Band started listening to: The Low Anthem
Live show: The Low Anthem, Copenhagen 3/22; close second - Yuck, Copenhagen 3/3
IN NUMBERS: MOST LISTENS
Album: Maps and Atlases, Perch Patchwork - 32 times
Band: The Low Anthem - 553 plays
Song: Joanna Newsom, “Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes” (Live at the Bottletree) - 61 plays
IN RETROSPECT
Surprises: How consistent Between the Buried and Me manages to be; how much I like Björk; how good a busy college band can be
Questions: Does Skrillex make me want to dance or take two advil? Why does Battles still clog albums with filler tracks?
Thankful for: my portapros (didn’t have speakers while I was abroad/spent most of the year on public transportation)
Concerns: I need to stop listening to Joanna Newsom so much
On the whole: 2010 was better to me, but mostly because I was too busy to download music in 2011
To 2012!
