An insanely good year for music. To recap:

1. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
2. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
3. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
   • All of these are good enough that I’m still not really sure I have them in the right order.
4. Devin Davis – Lonely People of the World, Unite
5. Cloud Cult – Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus
6. The Decemberists – Picaresque
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – s/t
8. The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
9. The Joggers – With a Cape and Cane
10. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
11. Oranger – New Comes and Goes
12. Hockey Night – Keep Guessin’
13. Rogue Wave – Descending Like Vultures
14. Amusement Parks on Fire – s/t
15. Broken Social Scene - s/t
16. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
17. Portastatic – Bright Ideas
18. Patrick Wolf – Wind in the Wires
19. Mice Parade – Bem Vinda Vontade
20. Bell Orchestre – Recording a Tape the Color of Light
21. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
22. The Rosebuds – Birds Make Good Neighbors
23. Black Lipstick – Sincerely, Black Lipstick
24. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
25. Nine Inch Nails – With_Teeth
26. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
27. Bright Eyes – Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
28. Explosions in the Sky – The Rescue
29. The National – Alligator

Ok, that’s a crazy list. Spoon and Sleater-Kinney should be quite a bit higher, Cloud Cult and Oranger should be a little lower, but overall, I like the order and it’s incredibly strong all the way through. A good year.