The highlight of my year:
 Favorite albums
Favorite songs (no order)
The xx– Angels
Japandroids-Â The House That Heaven Built (Younger Us may be a better song, but as anybody who has been following Japandroids for more than five months know, that song was originally released on their No Singles series.)
Sun Kil Moon– The Moderately Talented Yet Attractive Young Woman vs the Exceptionally Talented Yet Not So Attractive Middle Aged Man
Cloud Nothings– Stay Useless
Phil Phillips/Mumford and Sons/The Lumineers/Of Monsters and Men– Home/I Will Wait/Ho Hey/Little Talks
Dusted– (Into the) Atmosphere
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti– Baby
King Tuff– Bad Things
The Tallest Man on Earth– 1904