Except for the top two, not in any particular order - yet. The year’s best albums:
Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
Jessie Ware – Devotion
Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t
Rick Ross – Rich Forever
Dwight Yoakam – 3 Pears
Dawn Richard – Armor On
Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.a.a.d. city
Angel Haze – Reservations
Jerrod Niemann – Free the Music
Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
Leonard Cohen – Old Ways
Kellie Pickler – 100 Proof
Imperial Teen – Feel the Sound
The Men – Open Yr Heart
Saint Etienne – Words and Music
Bob Dylan – Tempest
Usher – Looking 4 Myself (RCA)
Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
Four Tet – Pink
Beach House – Bloom (Sub Pop)
Hot Chip – In Our Heads
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel (Epic)
Lambchop – Mr. M
Sinead O’Connor – How About I Be Me (And You Be You)
Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game
