Almost ‘Best of The Year’ time. In the running are:<\/p>\n
A Hawk and a Hacksaw – The Way the Wind Blows
\nA.C. Newman – Souvenir of Canada – EP
\nBeck – The Information
\nCalexico – Garden Ruin
\nCasper & the Cookies – The Optimist’s Club
\nColin Meloy – Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins
\nEels with Strings – Live At Town Hall
\nElf Power – Back To The Web
\nErynn Marshall – Calico
\nFaun Fables – The Transit Rider
\nGrandaddy – Just Like The Fambly Cat
\nGrant-Lee Phillips – nineteeneighties
\nHidden Cameras – Awoo
\nJoanna Newsom – Ys
\nJolie Holland – Springtime Can Kill You
\nKing Biscuit Time – Black Gold
\nMayor McCa – Cue Are Es Tea You
\nPeter Stampfel – The Jig Is Up
\nRobyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – Ol\u00c3\u00a9! Tarantula
\nSufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas – Volume V: Peace
\nSufjan Stevens – The Avalanche – Outtakes And Extras From The Illinois Album
\nThe Be Good Tanyas – Hello Love
\nThe Decemberists – The Crane Wife
\nThe Essex Green – Cannibal Sea
\nThe Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
\nThe Handsome Family – Last Days of Wonder
\nThe Instruments – Cast A Half Shadow
\nThe Sadies – In Concert Vol. 1
\nThe Wailin’ Jennys – Firecracker
\nThom Yorke – The Eraser
\nThomas Dolby – The Sole Inhabitant
\nWendy Arrowsmith – Crying Out
\nYo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMiraculously, all of them fit on my iPod Nano, so they’ll be in heavy rotation over the next week or so while I decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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