Someday This Will Be a Real Something

Until then, please enjoy these lists of my favorite albums and songs of the year so far:

ALBUMS

1. Theophilus London – This Charming Mixtape
2. DOOM – Born Like This.
3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
5. Dan Deacon – Bromst
6. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
7. NOMO – Invisible Cities
8. Finale – A Pipe Dream and a Promise
9. DJ Quik & Kurupt – BlaQKout
10. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
11. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
12. Wu-Tang Clan – Chamber Music
13. Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound – When Sweet Sleep Returned
14. UGK – UGK 4 Life
15. Filastine – Dirty Bomb
16. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
17. Ryan Leslie
18. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas II
19. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
20. Diego Bernal – For Corners
21. Wale & 9th Wonder – Back to the Feature
22. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
23. Afrobutt – Wonderbutt
24. Micachu & the Shapes – Jewellery
25. Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
26. Tanya Morgan – Brooklynati
27. Dark Was the Night
28. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
29. De La Soul – Are You In?
30. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

SONGS

1. Gui Boratto – “No Turning Back”
2. Theophilus London – “Cold Pillow”
3. Ryan Leslie – “Gibberish”
4. Das Racist – “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)”
5. Dirty Projectors – “Stillness is the Move”
6. Free Energy – “Dream City”
7. DJ Quik & Kurupt – “9x Outta 10”
8. Dyme Def – “Get Off Me”
9. DJ Kaos – “Love the Nite Away (Tiedye Remix)”
10. Crystal Antlers – “Andrew”
11. Beyoncé – “Single Ladies (Siik Remix)”
12. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – “War”
13. Teengirl Fantasy – “Portofino”
14. House of House – “Rushing to Paradise (Walkin’ These Streets)”
15. Franz Nicolay – “Quiet Where I Lie”
16. Quite Nyce & Radar Ellis – “Love Is”
17. Chin Chin – “Go There With You”
18. The Hold Steady – “Atlantic City”
19. Memory Tapes – “Bicycle”
20. Lee Fields & the Expressions – “Ladies”
21. Dan Deacon – “Snookered”
22. Junior Boys – “Hazel”
23. Roy Davis Jr. – “I Had a Vision (Feat. Erin Martin) (The Juan MacLean Remix)”
24. Beirut – “My Wife, Lost in the Wild”
25. Neko Case – “People Got a Lotta Nerve”
26. Raekwon – “The New Wu (Feat. Ghostface & Method Man)”
27. The Whitest Boy Alive – “The Island”
28. Yeasayer – “Tightrope”
29. The Streets – “Blinded By the Lights (Nero Remix)”
30. Amerie – “Tell Me U Love Me”

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