Year-end Top Ten

I really resent top ten lists. I'd rather make a list that included non-chart releases from the year, like a "top ten records you discovered this year". Don't you think such a list would be more inclusive? Anyway, Justin asked me to submit my top ten to CMJ, so I was forced to come up with a more typical list. In it, I tried to represent the indiepop community, the North American Pacific coast, and Victoria. Here it is, unordered as requested by CMJ:

• Magnetic Fields/Distortion/Nonesuch
• Endless Bummer/No Beach Out of Reach/Self-released
• No Kids/Come Into My House/Tomlab
• Mirah/The Old Days Feeling/Modern Radio
• Various/The Second Old Life Compilation/Old Life
• Primal Scream/Beautiful Future/WEA Int'l
• The Manhattan Love Suicides/Burnt Out Landscapes/Magic Marker
• Vivian Girls/Vivian Girls/In the Red
• Women/Women/Flemish Eye
• White Lung/Magazine/Deranged

Unlike my playlists, this top ten list goes ARTIST/ALBUM/LABEL.

*Honourable mentions:
Cause Co-Motion/ It's Time
Karl Blau/ Nature's Got Away and That's How I Got to Memphis 7"
Crystal Stilts/ Alight of Night
Young Lions/ the Blue Dot stuff
Almonds, Cohen/ Ontario (on Stereo!)
The Lucksmiths/ First Frost