Yeah, so what if this is two months late? Better late than never, right? This list comes after a year of obsessively searching the internet for great new bands. I tried to spotlight some of those magical albums that were inexplicably overlooked by most of the music community. However, I'm done ranking these albums. Unlike other years there's no clear winner here and every single one of these bands deserve to be at least checked out on MySpace. So what are you waiting for - start looking, reading and clicking!

The Snake the Cross the Crown
Cotton Teeth
an album packed with moving, emotional rock buildups with a hint of country

myspace: myspace.com/snakecrosscrown

from the album: Cakewalk

The Akron Family
Love is Simple

the family has finally embraced the pleasantness of their sound and it’s nothing short of beautiful

Wintersleep
Welcome to the Night Sky
third great album from this amazing straightforward canadian rock band that no one knows about. nuff said

The Apples in Stereo
Magnetic Wonder
more of what they’ve already proved their good at - psychedelic power pop - but different enough to still be great

Au
Au
sounds like established neo-folkster Animal Collective and Adem, with a little bit of bold newness, or new boldness?

Efterklang
Parades
great sophomore effort in not falling into the repetitive trap - amazing experimental danes

Hoots and Hellmouth
Hoots and Hellmouth
kickass roots and bluegrass from philly with lots of energy, emotion and beards

Erik Enocksson
Farväl Falkenberg
incredible and dreamy experimental folk soundtrack to a movie i’ll probably never see

Thinguma*jigsaw
Awake in White Chapel
delightfully insane twangy folk that isn’t afraid to use the saw as an instrument. certainly one of a kind…

Studio
Yearbook 1

something close and comparable to the decent experimentations of the books, yet far from a blatant copy

Life on Earth!

Look! There is Life on Earth!
swedish psychedelic rock at it’s finest, with lots of pop elements thrown in to surely satisfy

Kim Hiorthoy
My Last Day
very neat electronica with several unexpectedly refreshing melodies filling the album

Jonquil
Lions
fun and charming folky, experimental debut from oxford - this guy isn’t afraid to take chances and he definitely succeeds

Lovekevins
Vs. the Snow
consistently great casiotone indie pop, even moreso than suburban kids with biblical names

Boy Eats Drum Machine
Two Ghosts
portland turntabalism that ends up sounding a lot like menomena, but sort of better than their 2007 release

Pepe Deluxe
Spare Time Machine
brilliant “psychedelic electronica” that’s truly ecclectic and surprisingly awesome in every way

The Octopus Project
Hello, Avalanche
easily best live act of the year with their electro-rock-crazy-attack music…their album is the next best thing

The Shocking Pinks
Shocking Pinks

new zealanders experimenting with different types of alternative and punk rocks very well

Radical Fashion

Odori
japanese minimalism that’s both listenable and captivating

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