Patrick Gage Kelley

My Top Ten Albums of the Year:

10. Armchair Apocrypha – Andrew Bird
9. Infinity on High – Fall Out Boy
8. The Reminder – Feist
7. Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
6. The Magic Position – Patrick Wolf
5. † – Justice
4. Mirrored – Battles
3. Volta – Bjork
2. In Rainbows – Radiohead
1. Boxer – The National

And that is the top ten. Questions, Comments, Complaints?

Things that maybe should have made the list but forgot to: Low, Drums & Guns; Interpol, Our Love To Admire; LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver; Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Is Is (not even an album! just an ep); The Tough Alliance, A New Chance; Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City; St. Vincent, Marry Me; The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America; Kings of Leon, Because of the Times; The Field, From Here We Go Sublime; and St. Vincent, Marry Me; Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight.

Albums that I was just sort of disappointed in: The Shins’, Wincing the Night Away; Rufus Wainwright, Release The Stars; Wilco, Sky Blue Sky; and Jens Lekman, Night Falls Over Kortedala.

Albums that I guess I was supposed to love but can’t stand: Amy Winehouse, Back to Black; Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (actually I can stand this, I just think it is really boring and I guess I am supposed to love it); and M.I.A. Kala – which I mostly can’t tolerate at all.

Summary of Noise

I decided that Regina Spektor is really good, especially the album Soviet Kitsch, that I do like The Academy Is… and I don’t know why I didn’t listen to them before, that The National is one of my favorite bands ever, that good electronic music is too hard to find – but maybe getting easier, that music festivals like Austin City Limits are a really good idea (and value for people who like lots of music), and that Patrick Wolf is going to keep getting better.