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i'm excessively bored so i'm going to list my top albums of the year.
not necessarily ones that came out this year, but ones that i acquired this year.

and they're in order that i think of them.

1. Stars: Set Yourself on Fire
**** out of 5
recommended download: your ex-lover is dead

2. Sigur Ros: Takk
***** out of 5
recommended download: hoppipolla

3. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cold Roses
*** out of 5
recommended download: how do you keep love alive?

4. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Jacksonville City Nights
*** out of 5
recommended download: dear john (with norah jones...makes me cry)

5. Feist: Let it Die
**** out of 5.
recommended download: let it die

6. Stellastarr*: Harmonies for the Haunted
***1/2 out of 5
recommended download: lost in time

7. metric: live it out
*** out of 5
recommended download: monster hospital

8. black rebel motorcycle club: howl
**** out of 5.
recommended download: ain't no easy way

9. bloc party: silent alarm (normal and remixed)
**** out of 5
recommended download: this modern love (either version)

10. death cab for cutie: plans
**** out of 5
recommended download: marching bands of manhattan (though summer skin makes me want to cry)

11. m.i.a.: arular
*** out of 5
recommended download: galang

12. interpol: antics
**** out of 5
recommended download: public pervert

13. death from above 1979: romance, bloody romance (remix album)
*** out of 5
recommended download: romantic rights (erol alkan remix)

14. arcade fire: funeral
**** out of 5
recommended download: wake up

15. copeland: in motion
*** out of 5
recommended download: love is a fast song

16. mae: the everglow
*** out of 5
recommended download: anything (that's the song name)

17. bright eyes: digital ash in a digital urn
*** out of 5
recommended download: easy/lucky/free

18. straylight run: s/t
**1/2 out of 5 (winner of biggest disappointment of the year award)
recommended download: existentialism on prom night

19. rilo kiley: more adventurous
***1/2 out of 5
recommended download: does he love you?

20. sufjan stevens: welcome to michigan, the great lakes state
*** out of 5
recommended download: flint (for the unemployed and underpaid)