TPO is about more than space disco and coke rap. Here is some more year-end best of.
Ten favorite tracks this year:
1. Joanna Newsom - Emily
2. Great Lake Swimmers - Song for the Angels
3. Grizzly Bear - Knife
4. Band of Horses - The Funeral
5. Evangelicals - My Headache
6. Sunset Rubdown - A Day In the Graveyard II
7. Destroyer - Rubies
8. The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow - (Var.)
9. Junior Boys - In The Morning
10. Growing - Cumulusless
Five best Canadian rock records:
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Swan Lake - Beast Moans
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Five best Gypsy Folk/Rock records:
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
DeVotchKa - Curse Your Little Heart
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
Espers - Espers II (more minstrel than gypsy, really)
Five big fuckups:
88.5 WXPN's format was changed to "acoustic dork shit only."
My Morning Jacket played the unacceptable douchebag venue The Electric Factory.
The Decemberists fussed after they got buried by Chris Ott.
"Top Back (Remix)", that's some monumentally bad rap.
Comets On Fire were self-consciously metal as fuck, and it sucked.
Honorable Mention:
Brightback Morning Light, Prins Thomas, Psychic Ills, Calexico, The Knife, Frog Eyes, Islands, Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound, Yo La Tengo, M. Ward, Liars, Akon's "I Wanna Fuck You"
Best Youtube videos:
Let's Paint TV
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