Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Ebullient!
Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
Undeniably legit, and I don’t usually like him
Beirut – March of the Zapotec/Realpeople Holland
Realpeople Holland is the best electronic music I’ve heard in ages
Bowerbirds – Upper Air
Folk with a pop sensibility that doesn’t de-folk it
El Perro Del Mar – Love is Not Pop
Cheesy but brilliant or brilliant but cheesy?
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Frosty
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Instant classic
Little Gold – On the Knife
Sad hooky country-inflected lo-fi
Mt. Eerie – Wind’s Poem
Heavy and gentle
Skygreen Leopards – Gorgeous Johnny
Meticulously lazy
Woods – Songs of Shame
Yay home recording