Every new year, my oldest friend and I exchange best of year music lists. This is based purely on how much we’ve enjoyed stuff, no attempts to be cool or comprehensive (well, OK, I do try to listen to everything, must have heard over a hundred new albums this year, some of which have yet to sink in). The positions freeze at midnight so maybe I’ve put Kanye too low and the Eels should have slipped in rather than The Fall, but it’s too late to change. Here’s my top twenty.<\/p>\n
1\u00a0 The National – High Violet<\/strong><\/p>\n 2\u00a0 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs<\/p>\n 3\u00a0 John Grant \u2013 Queen Of Denmark<\/p>\n 4\u00a0 Spoon \u2013 Transference<\/p>\n 5\u00a0 Vampire Weekend \u2013 Contra<\/p>\n 6\u00a0 Robyn – Body Talk<\/p>\n 7\u00a0 Drive By Truckers \u2013 The Big To-Do<\/p>\n 8\u00a0 Steve Mason \u2013 Boys Outside<\/p>\n 9\u00a0 Band Of Horses – Infinite Arms<\/p>\n 10 Teenage Fanclub \u2013 Shadows<\/p>\n 11 Rumer \u2013 Seasons of My Soul<\/p>\n 12 Scissors Sisters \u2013 Night Work<\/p>\n 13 Goldfrapp \u2013 Head First<\/p>\n 14 Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can<\/p>\n 15 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 17 Tindersticks \u2013 Falling Down A Mountain<\/p>\n 18 Janelle Mon\u00e1e – The ArchAndroid<\/p>\n 19 The Hold Steady \u2013 Heaven Is Whenever<\/p>\n 20 The Fall \u2013 Your Future, Our Clutter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every new year, my oldest friend and I exchange best of year music lists. This is based purely on how much we’ve enjoyed stuff, no attempts to be cool or comprehensive (well, OK, I do try to listen to everything, must have heard over a hundred new albums this year, some of which have yet to sink in). The positions freeze at midnight so maybe I’ve put Kanye too low and the Eels should have slipped in rather than The Fall, but it’s too late to change. Here’s my top twenty. 1\u00a0 The National – High Violet 2\u00a0 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs 3\u00a0 John Grant \u2013 Queen Of Denmark 4\u00a0 Spoon \u2013 Transference 5\u00a0 Vampire Weekend \u2013 Contra 6\u00a0 Robyn – Body Talk 7\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n16 Lloyd Cole – Broken Record<\/p>\n