Purity Ring - Shrines

8.8

eerie, dark, corporal, devotion, cauldron music

Standouts:

"Belispeak"

"Ungirthed"

"Saltkin"

Animal Collective - ODDSAC

8.3

frightful, bestial, drenched, boggy, musique concrète

Standouts:

"Fried Camp"

"Tantrum Barb"

"What Happened?"

Passion Pit - Gossamer

9.5

self-loathing, distraught twentysomethings, pop parody, iridescent, resilient hope

Standouts:

"It's Not My Fault, I'm Happy"

"Cry Like a Ghost"

"Hideaway"

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

9.6

spooky, bizarre, fantastical, freak show, rejuvenating

Standouts:

"Fireworks"

"Chores"

"For Reverend Green"

Wavves - King of the Beach

9.2

dazed, depression, self-deprecating, Wall of Sound, sha la la la

Standouts:

"Mickey Mouse"

"Baseball Cards"

"Take On the World"

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

8.1

malls, American West, expansion, divinity, mediocrity

Standouts:

"Teeth Like God's Shoeshine"

"Styrofoam Boats/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright"

"Polar Opposites"

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

9.5

retrospective, powerlessness, disappointment, comfort, weather

Standouts:

"Simple Twist of Fate"

"Idiot Wind"

"Shelter from the Storm"

The Postal Service - Give Up

9.7

soulmates, bedroom, twentysomething love, being there, shimmery

Standouts:

"Such Great Heights"

"The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"

"We Will Become Silhouettes"

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

9.9

idyllic, echoes, breezy, sentient, poetic

Standouts:
"The Past and Pending"
"New Slang"
"One by One All Day"