20) Nicholas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
19) Danny Brown - XXX
18) Atlas Sound - Parallax
17) Clams Casino - Instrumentals
16) Kurt Vile - Smoke Rings for My Halo
15) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14) Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
13) EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
12) James Blake - James Blake
11) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
10) The Weeknd - House of Balloons
9) Real Estate - Days
8) Drake - Take Care
7) Tune-Yards - Whokill
6) Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
5) Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2) Destroyer - Kaputt
1) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
There was a time I used to visit Pitchfork religiously every couple of days, to keep up on what's hot in indy music. That was several years ago. Now, the website has become a pale copy of what it used to be. Pitchfork lists are very predictable too. They have the indy darlings (Real Estate, Kurt Vile, Atlas Sound), the flavour of the week (in this case, the mopey, folky indy rock that's infesting college radio lately, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes), the "we're so hip, we have music no one has ever heard before" (Clams Casino) and the inexplicable mainstream hip-hop albums (Drake). I think this list underscores how poor music this year was. I think only PJ Harveym, Tune-Yards and St. Vincent have enough artistic merit to mention in a Top 20 this year, at least from this list.
My Top 10 is coming in exactly one week.
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