Albums of the Year...

[3-LockBox]

Loved the Elbow and Bon Iver, but I still say Shearwater's Rook pales in comparison to their Palo Santo ('06).

I've picked up Black Keys and put it down again so many times. I should bite the bullet and get it - I've heard it once.

My list includes the Bon Iver and Elbow, as well as (in no particular order) Nick Cave's Dig Lazarus Dig, Land Of Talk-Some Are Lakes and Throw Me The Statue-Moonbeams, Old '97s-Blame It On Gravity, Kings Of Leon-Only By The Night and TV On The Radio-Dear Science. For something completely different, try Kingfisher Sky's Hallway Of Dreams or Marillion's Happiness Is The Road*.

Honorable mention goes to Ray Davies for putting out a great slice of Americana called Working Man's Cafe.

*I need to add that the Marillion album I listen to is a condensed version I made myself, from their double CD album, which I found to be overly long as is, but great whittled down to 10 or 11 songs at 57 minutes.

[Davey]

I still say Shearwater's Rook pales in comparison to their Palo Santo ('06).

Wrong, striated caracara breath! But I will agree that Palo Santo is a sweet record.

My list includes ... Throw Me The Statue-Moonbeams

Hey yo, I agree again, now this is getting kinda scary. That TMTS record has been spinning around the block at my house a bunch lately. Very cool, even if it does remind me of a bunch of other indie rock favorites moreso than something new. I kinda like the cover too ...
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