My top 15 records of the year, in an undisclosed order, each with representative video:
Les Blanks – In Country
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Panda Bear – Tomboy
tUnEyArDs – whokill
Yuck – Yuck
Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania
Wye Oak – Civilian
Moon Duo – Mazes
The Men – Leave Home
Hella – Tripper
Computer Magic – Electric Fences EP
Belong – Common Era
Black Angels – Phosgene Nightmare EP
Forma – S/T
Wild Flag – Wild Flag
Honorable Mention:
Sons & Daughters – Mirror Mirror
The Ettes – Wicked Will
Widowspeak – S/T
Pure X – Pleasure
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Com Truise – Galactic Melt
Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure
Ladytron – Gravity the Seducer
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pines
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Ducktails – Arcade Dynamics
Raveonettes – Evil Seeds
Blackout Beach – Fuck Death
Listen to all these videos in Yourtube Playlist form.
How did I leave out Bill Callahan’s Apocalypse? I do not know.